Enigmas

At the risk of being relegated to the lunatic fringe, and to follow up on yesterday’s posting about the Great Pyramid, I would like to add that there is a vast amount of evidence remaining that this planet held other very advanced civilizations long before we appeared, and that their technology was even farther advanced than ours is today.

An ancient map, dated 1513, was found during the renovations of a palace in Istanbul, Turkey. It is known as the Piri Re’is map, and it is very unusual. What makes it so unusual is the fact that it shows the coastline of the Antarctic when it was free of ice! Recent studies have shown that this would have been between 4,000 and 11,000 years ago! Hmmm’ that predates Columbus by a wide margin. The accuracy of the map has also been confirmed by recent satellite studies that can “see” under the existing ice cap which is about a mile in thickness!

I had the privilege of visiting Stonehenge a few years ago and I must say that it is strange to stand next to these monoliths and wonder, why? What purpose would drive people to undertake such a task? Oh, I know the accepted interpretation of religious and astrological significance, and there probably is some validity there, but there are other features around Stonehenge that have not been explained. How and why did they haul that particular rock from a quarry so distant? The shape of the surrounding ground is what got my attention. Even after all this time, you can still see the remnants of a pronounced berm surrounding the monoliths.

What is not commonly known is that there are other “henges” in the same vicinity as Stonehenge. I have seen another one made of stone with a diameter 10 times larger than Stonehenge, and there is a Woodhenge! All of them have that same ground contour of a berm, surrounding them.

Let’s look at the Great Pyramid. It’s impossible to get into all the enigmas of the pyramid here, but here are a couple to cogitate on. The small access tunnel is only 4.5 or 5 feet high, and not made for a man to walk through, and to make matters worse, it slopes upward at 26 degrees! 15 degrees is a tough walk. After about 155 feet of this, the pathway opens up into the Grand Gallery, a hallway 6’-8” wide and 30’ tall with a slot in the floor 3’-6” wide and 2’ deep! Does this sound like a pathway? I think not.

What about those Nazca Lines. Does it make sense that some aboriginal tribe who probably needed every waking moment just to procure food, would waste time doodling away on the high desert just to satisfy their artistic drives? If you visit this one with Google Earth, take notice of all the faint lines that have almost been erased by time. Many of them running through fissures and foothills.

Then there are the Mayans. A people who had possession of (notice I didn’t say “who invented”) the most accurate and detailed calendar ever devised. Their calendar is so comprehensive it even includes the time period it takes for our solar system (the sun and all our planets) to transmigrate around our galaxy, about 26,000 years!

It makes you wonder about ancient creatures of Greek legend like Centaurs (half man half horse) and the “Fauns” (half goat half man). Is it possible that they might have been real and that some ancient civilization was more advanced with genetic research and cloning than we are now? How about the legend of Atlantis? How about any legend? Are they really legends at all?

I’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg here but if your curiosity has been piqued you can find out more in these books.

“Chariots of the Gods” by Erich Von Daniken
“Fingerprints of the Gods” by Graham Hancock

If you have Google Earth and want to see these things here are the coordinates:

Stonehenge: 51° 10’ 43” N, 1° 49’ 33” W
Great Pyramids: 29° 58’ 45” N, 31° 08’ 09” E
Nazca Lines: 14° 43’ 16” S, 75° 09’ 57” W
Mayan Ruins: 19° 35’ 48” N, 90° 13’ 45” W