The Gold of the Gods (17 page)

 

 

 

THE Uros, who live on reed islands in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, claim that their people is older than that of the Incas, indeed, that they already existed before To Ti Tu, the father of heaven, who created the white men. The Uros swear black and blue that they were not men, for they had black blood and were alive when the earth still lay in darkness.
We are not as other men, for we came from another planet.
The few Uros who are still alive avoid any contact with the rest of the world. Proudly and stubbornly they defend their otherness as the heritage they brought with them from another planet.

 

Dr. Alexander Marshack of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology examined several thousand bones, pieces of ivory and stones that all had the same patterns of dots, zigzags and circles. Up to now it has been said that they were decorations. But Marshack says: “They seem much more likely to be a form of writing which gives information about the phases of the moon and the constellations. The objects examined all date to a period from 10,000 to 30,000 B.C.”

What does this mean? Why did Stone Age men bother about astronomical representations? It is usually claimed that they had their hands full just to procure sufficient nourishment on endless hunting expeditions. Who instructed them in this work? Did someone advise them how to make these observations which were far above their “level”? Were they making notes for an expected visit from the cosmos?

 

IN the Temple of the Frescoes at Tulum, Mexico, archaeologists specializing in Mayan studies (Refield, Landa, Cogulludo, Roys) discovered bee gods—I’m almost ashamed to write it! The literature gives no information about the bee state and its hierarchy, it simply mentions that the “Ah-Muzencab” were large bees, who ruled the others. The relief of the bee god bears not the slightest resemblance to a bee! It shows a being (certainly not a bee) lying on his stomach with arms apart and his forearms apparently supported on something. From his position one would be tempted to say that he was gripping steering controls in his hands. His feet, which are shod, seem to be working pedals. The bee god is surrounded with all lands of technical gadgets that do not fit into any kind of beehive I have ever heard of! Is there anybody who is really prepared to accept this being as a bee god? If the artistically gifted Mayas had wanted, they would have conjured up the archaeologists a bee god which would have been much more convincing than this one.

There is another bee god in the Codex Tro-Cortesianus in Madrid. Once again a hideous creature, with arms apart, is lying on its stomach. On its back there are two classically shaped bombs, with broad bands and a fuse. Undoubtedly someone will say of the Madrid bee god that they are not bombs, but bee’s wings! But when did bee’s wings ever look like bombs? To be quite frank, I find it unintelligible that bee gods looking like technical monsters buzz their way through Mayan literature.

 

SOME years ago Dr. Carl Sagan put forward a proposal for making our neighboring planet Venus inhabitable by having several tons of blue algae (cyanophyceae) blown into the hot Venusian atmosphere from spaceships. Blue algae are so resistant that great heat has no effect on them. They possess the quality of multiplying at a fantastic speed and in enormous quantities and producing really vast amounts of oxygen. Sagan worked on the premise that the oxygen would enrich the Venusian atmosphere and cool down the surface of the planet, so that with the rapid change storms and rain would make the soil fertile. The astrophysicist Sagan seems to be on the right track. The oldest demonstrable remains of forms of life on earth were discovered in 3.5 billion-year-old sedimentary rock in the Transvaal, South Africa. Their stage of development corresponds to that of the blue algae living today! But 3.5 billion years ago there was no kind of organic life on our planet. The paleontologist H. D. Pflug of the University of Giessen assumes that life is older than the earth!

 

One might well ask whether our blue planet was also prepared for future life and settlement by the insufflation of blue algae. And who initiated this process of biological transformation with that land of biological planning?

 

FOR the past five years an American-Iranian team has been excavating at Tepe Yahya, 155 miles south of Kerman. Tepe Yahya was abandoned by its inhabitants about the turn of the era. C. C. and Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky, a husband and wife archaeological team, found a large number of works of art made of bronze containing arsenic that were dated to at least 3500 B.C. The material used in the Bronze Age—between the Neolithic and the Iron Age—was made of copper, tin and lead. Arsenic is found in nature in cobalt or united with other elements in many minerals. It is very hard to imagine how primitive men could have extracted arsenic for making bronze alloys. But if an extension course was held for the ancient bronze founders, we must look for the masters who conducted it.

 

In the collection of the Springensguth family in San Salvador, El Salvador, I saw an old Mayan bowl, on which was shown a Mayan woman with the engine of a flying machine attached  to her back. The figure has a very broad band round her stomach and the engine is fastened to it. A very similar figure decorates a vase in the Turkish Museum, Istanbul. In the American Museum, Madrid, there is a vase attributed to the Nazca culture. The only real difference in the representation on the 6 3/4 inches high and 3 inches wide vase is that this time it exhibits a mother goddess, an astronautess, who has a broad band slung round her stomach. Her shoulders and thighs have two straps round them. The goddess carries the inevitable engine for the flying machine on her back. This reminiscence of one-man flying machines, or rocket belts, seems to have left its traces nearly all over the world.

Professor Ruth Reyna was commissioned by the U.S. space authorities to produce a report which was based on the interpretation of Indian Sanskrit texts. According to Dr. Reyna, the Indians began space flights around 3000 B.C. in order to seek safety on Venus from the threat of a deluge. The Sanskrit texts were translated in the University of the Punjab.

 

THE Chuwashen, a Tartaro-Finnish people in Russia who live on both banks of the Central Volga, still number about 1,500,000. Their everyday speech is an independent branch of Turkish. The Brazilian linguistic scholar Lubomir Zaphyrov, who specializes in Inca studies, has established that some 120 compound Inca words are still used today by the Chuwashen! They are precisely explained by about 170 simple Chuwashen words. Zaphyrov says that most of the words that have been preserved come from Inca mythology. Here are a few examples:

 

Viracocha = The good spirit from space

Kon Tiksi Illa Viracocha = Ruler of highest origin, radiant like lightning, the good spirit from space

Chuvash = God out of the light

 

IN 1972 the Unesco Courier gave an account of sensational finds made by the American archaeologist Manson Valentine and the underwater diver Dimitri Rebikoff immediately off the coasts of the islands of Bimini and Andros in the Bahamas. The came on submarine settlements with walls from 230 to 812 feet long. The buildings, which lay more than 20 feet under water, extended over an area of 38 square miles! There were parallel walls more than 2,000 feet long. The weight of a single 16-foot-long stone was 25 tons. Scholars from the University of Miami assign the settlement a date between 7000 and 10,000 B.C., even though measured by the C-14 method. Thus, according to currently accepted archaeological data, the Pyramids of Gizeh could not have been built nor the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh “experienced” when these underwater buildings were constructed. Rebikoff is convinced that if these discoveries in the Bahamas were thoroughly investigated the reality would far exceed all the fantasy they can inspire today. Some of the foundations go about 250 feet deep!

 

Has Atlantis been located in the Atlantic? I should not be surprised.

 

AT a chemical congress in Los Angeles, Dr. John Lynde Anderson of Chattanooga, Tennessee, explained that his experiments with the radio-active carbon isotope C-14 had produced deviations from the results which should be obtained according to the theory. To make sure he repeated his experiments with different equipment and on hundreds of organic objects, yet even on one and the same object the results were different.

 

Archaeologists still look on the C-14 method as the only canonized process for dating artifacts. How can people be so blind and stubborn?

 

NORTH of Fairbanks, Alaska, and in the Yukon valley, deep-frozen woolly mammoths have been taken from deep in the ground during the last fifteen years when gold was being extracted with high-pressure pumps and excavators. The deep-frozen stomachs contained leaves and grass which the animals had eaten. The young lay next to the old, the babies beside their mothers. Professor Frank C. Hibben, an archaeologist from the University of New Mexico, says: “Such quantities of animals cannot have died all at once in a natural way!” In fact, investigation showed that the animals must have died almost instantaneously and been deep-frozen on the spot, otherwise they would have shown at least minimal signs of decomposition. In addition 1,766 jawbones and 4,838 metatarsal bones belonging to a single species of bison were found near Fairbanks.

 

Who organized this mass big game hunt here? And what cause brought about a change in climate that deep-froze animals that had just been grazing within a few hours?

 

WHEN I rented a car outside the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay on November 8, 1968, to travel south to Kanheri, near the Malabar coast, I was tempted by a tourist attraction. I wanted to see the 87 caves in the rock, also known as “rock temples” in the guidebooks. But when I walked about in the 48-foot-high catacombs, I realized then (before I knew anything about the caves beneath Ecuador and Peru) that these caves blasted out of natural stone, mostly granite, that run to several stories just like houses, must have been used for something quite different from religious ceremonies. One does not have to flee deep underground and sacrifice on altars in caves to gods who are worthy of adoration. No, cave systems like these were made by beings who sought protection from some prodigious threat. Plastic works of art depict the life of Shiva (Sanskrit: the believer) on anthracite-colored walls that are often gleaming and iridescent. Shiva, image of destruction as well as salvation, forms the Indian trinity, the Trimurti, together with Brahman, the power which creates all worlds, and Vishnu, mentioned in the Veda as the “penetrator.” As I traversed the gigantic halls I admired and marveled at the ceilings, which were supported by pillars carved out of solid granite, and their masterly reliefs. Yet again I had to hear that the dating of the building period of these incredible structures is highly controversial, but that scholars of various disciplines assume that they were built by the Jains, representatives of a religion that originated before Buddhism, about 500 B.C. Once more one can only find the reasons for this titanic architectural feat in myths and legends. They tell that the sons of the gods, who were defeated in a war with the Kurus, the oldest people in western India, withdrew into these cave fortresses. Jains means “victors” in Sanskrit. Were those apparently defeated in the war the victors in the end, because they had the sense to withdraw in time to caves prepared in advance? I assume that this was so, for Indian mythology emphasizes that the caves were made in the rock so that people could protect themselves from the terrifying forces which threatened the living from the universe, from heaven.

 

In his book
When the Gods Were Numerous
, Dr. Bernhard Jacobi refers to 150 caves at Junnar on the Deccan plateau, the biggest group in India, to 27 caves at Ajanta and to 33 caves at Ellora.

 

I PUT forward a speculation for which I have given some support in this book.

 

1. In the unknown past a battle took place in the depths of the galaxy between intelligences similar to human beings.

2. The losers in this battle escaped in a spaceship.

3. As they knew the mentality of the victors, they set a “trap,” in that they did not land on the planet that was “ideal” for their existence.

4. The losers chose the planet earth which was just acceptable in comparison with their home planet, but certainly did not offer ideal conditions. For many years the losers continued to wear gas masks in the
new
atmosphere in order to get used to the terrestrial air mixture (hence the helmets, trunks, breathing apparatus, etc., in cave drawings).

5. They burrowed deep into the earth and made the tunnel systems out of fear of their pursuers who were equipped with every kind of technical aid.

6. In order to deceive their opponents completely, they set up on the fifth planet of our solar system (i.e. not the earth) technical stations and transmitters which emitted coded reports.

7. The victors fell into the trap and believed the bluff. They brutally annihilated the fifth planet. It was destroyed by a gigantic explosion, parts of its substance shot through the planetoid belt. (A glance at the map of our solar system shows that there is an “unnatural” gap of 300,000,000 miles between the
present-day
fourth and fifth planets, Mars and Jupiter. But the gap is not empty; hundreds and thousands of small lumps of stone, known collectively as the “planetoid belt,” are tumbling about in it. From time immemorial astronomers have been puzzling to explain how and why a planet can have “exploded” between Mars and Jupiter. I venture to assert that planets do not “explode” by themselves; someone makes them explode!)

8. The victors thought that the losers were destroyed. They withdrew their spaceship to their home planet.

9. Owing to the destruction of the fifth planet the gravitational balance in our solar system was temporarily thrown into confusion. The earth’s axis moved a few degrees out of position. This resulted in tremendous inundations (there are legends of floods and deluges among peoples all over the world).

10. The losers emerged from their magnificently built catacombs and began to create intelligence on earth. Using their knowledge of the molecular biology, the losers created man
in their image
from already existing monkeys (the genetic code, sagas about the creation of man, “God’s” promise to Abraham and others that their descendants would be as numerous as the stars in heaven, etc.).