Shark Tale

Musings on the Vesica Piscis

Published on January 4, 2005 By geser nart In Religion

The Origin of Man
Archaeologists have uncovered startling new evidence leading to the controversial conclusion that Atlantis is not a myth.
Could we modern Earthlings be the descendants of Ancient Astronauts ?

Where Have We Been?

This Olmec Head (right) is thought to be over 3000 years old. The man's features are clearly African, but this giant 8 foot tall stone statue was found in the jungles of Mexico - and is but one of 17 so far discovered, in varrying stages of erosion from millennia in the deep jungle.

One imagines, in any century, it is to be considered a high honor for someone to take the time to carve your likeness in anything even approaching the size of a volkswagon - thus, they were leaders, or heroes; certainly revered figures. Before Rome or Greece, or even the pharaohs of Egypt, there was a civilization, a dominant culture in Mexico from the Pacific to the Yucatan - and the people who posed for the Olmec Heads are known to have written in symbols almost identical to that of the Nubian, Kush, Vai and Mande tribes of West Africa.

While his helment looks like something right out of the Bronze Age, on closer inspection, doesn't appear to have been made of metal at all - it could very well have been leather, or any form of cloth attributed to the time. Could it be simply a hat, or even a religious costume? The thing is, each Olmec Head is of a different person - with slightly different features, and slightly different hats.

While this may seem to have nothing to do with aliens, or even a particularly advanced ancient civilization, it is stunning proof that people from Africa set out across the Mid Atlantic and settled in the Americas. Given that, one has to understand what an incredible feat it was for the time - and how impressed the locals must have been.

There was certainly trade between the two continents of Africa and South America: Egyptian mummies were recently forensically found to have traces of cocoa and tobacco (perhaps as medicines, shortly before their deaths) plants that were originally indigenous to the Americas. But this is not the only connection: ancient Egyptian boats are exactly like what Peruvian natives weave today, out of reeds, to venture out onto Lake Titicaca - shaped just slightly more like a crescent moon than a canoe, or a classic dragon headed Viking vessel - and just so happens to be the perfect shape for a relatively small ship to handle an ocean's waves.

We've all heard stories of the Vikings settling in Iceland, Greenland, and as far as Eastern Canada - legends have those expeditions drifting further inland, and assimilating into the population. Even in mainstream science, it is becoming more and more accepted today, that Columbus did not discover America - it was more of a validation of its existence to the political dominance of the day. There is even a legend of a Chinese expedition across the Pacific - which landed in California, and set out north, east and south from there - the southern band having settled among the Aztec and Inca, eventually assimilating into their societies, bringing with them the same circular calendar, the same dragonesque lizard gods; even the same styles of clothing.

Perhaps the one reason why these expeditions are reduced to legends, and even myths, may be because they either failed to thrive; or were for whatever reason either unable or unwilling to return. The Olmecs are said to have arrived in Mexico by twelve roads through the sea, (referring to twelve seperate expeditions, out from West Africa) and settled in a variety of places, even as far south as Guatemala - where they are credited with dividing the early Maya culture in half, via language. Cultures were forced to adapt or perish. Battles were won and lost - fought, and even avoided - and we will likely never know any of their particulars. We can only gaze in awe and wonder at what they've left behind.

Cities Under the Stars
In the 16th Century, when Cortez arrived in America, the dominant culture of Mexico City was the Great Aztec Nation. Expecting primitive natives, and hoping for El Dorado, he found instead Teotihuacan (below left). Stumbling upon an entirely new civilization - with such imposing landmarks as the Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid of the Moon and Avenue of the Dead - what must he have thought this civilization capable of? Whatever his thoughts, he easily conquered its people and looted all of its gold.

Outnumbering Cortez nearly 100 to 1, Montezuma had no reason to contemplate extinction. But the fall of the Aztecs - whose bloody religious rituals looked exactly like devil worship to the equally superstitious pre-renaissance Christians - goes down in history as by far the most stunning slaughter of all time. Palaces were looted, libraries raided, temples burned - every last golden trinket was melted down, and uncountled priceless jade statuettes were smashed - very few ancient historical records escaped destruction. But it almost goes without saying that a civilization like the Aztec (based on little of their own invention beyond bloody human sacrifice) is probably fairly incapable of designing, much less constructing, the massive pyramid cities which we associate with them today.

Just being in the presence of such monuments seems to conjur up the spirits of our ancestors. But nothing we know of our past, firsthand, can account for the vast number and precision of the alignments incorporated within. Stepped pyramids representing every planet in our solar system, each laid out as accurate as we could manage today; were not possibly built by a people who did not possess the wheel, and whose major pastime was mass Human sacrifice. It is important to remember that Uranus and Neptune were not discovered until well after the Aztec empire was a distant memory - and Pluto, in the early 20th Century, several centuries after the Aztecs put their violent marks on the grand pyramids of Mexico; and likely millennia after they were originally constructed.

Looking harder at the symmetry and mathematics permeating every angle of these sites, it is becoming more widely accepted today, in mainstream science, that the Aztecs had nothing to do with their original construction. Overlooking any Meso American site, especially Teotihuacan, it is hard to not come away with a sense of standing in the playground of giants - and that is very likely how these ancient peoples felt, when they stumbled upon the scene themselves; and as much is sifted from their legends, surviving to this day, in the people of Mexico. As for the Mayan culture, the word "Maya" means, simply, "old ones" - just as "Anasazi," from the Four Corners area of the American Southwest, means "ancient aliens." Could it be that the Anasazi were assimilated Asians, who eventually migrated south to Mexico?

Mexico City claims the record for longest inhabited city, through its association with and proximity to Teotihuacan - predating Rome, Athens, Baghdad, and many other top contenders; if we only knew by what phoenomenal margin. The pyramids of Teotihuacan are aligned to the planets and stars - as they appeared in the sky during the age of Leo, circa 10,500 BC, the exact same era as the Pyramids of Giza are equally, amazingly, aligned - and in such a way that we would scarcely be capable of today. But why would we want to? We have no need of architectual reminders that there are giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, and how many moons they have; but yet there are pyramids corresponding to every planet, spaced out in perfect proportions - with even a tiny monument for Pluto, way off in the mountains. If any of us are interested, we can look it up in a book, or turn on the Discovery Channel. It is perhaps to our credit, in this great age of mass communication, that we are able to make connections across fields of science that previously had no interest in each other - and this collaboration may be the key to rediscovering our ancient heritage on this planet.

Piecing it all together: this amazing civilization, only recently emerging from the mists of time, was certainly maritime based. We have no reason to believe their territory did not span the entire world. They knew the measurements of the Earth, and the stars of the sky, as well as we do today - but not just for planting, or religious ceremonies; they didn't stop there. These are far more accurate than is necessarry for mere agriculture, even in hostile climates. Precision accuracy is required, however, to navigate the high seas; perhaps to sail to all the places of the world that they had settled, or colonized - and some of them, on precice points of global alignment, are now many meters underwater: Yoniguni off the coast of Japan; Pohnpei and Easter Island in the South Pacific; Bimini Island in the Bahamas; the Azores; Nazca; Machu Picchu; Tiahuanaco; Stonehenge; Angkor Wot; the phoenominal Pyramids of Egypt, Mexico and China; and many others: all are sites which are arranged at specific regular intervals around the globe, and aligned to each other in familiar patterns that are curiously known to the ancients as Sacred Geometry. Even their architecture could not possibly have been constructed or conceived by primitive people. Each of them, in their own way, tells us their time, their Age, was 13,000 years ago - when Mankind was not supposed to have had much technology beyond fire and stone spears; no wheel, no writing, certainly no mathematics or astronomy. But here all of these sites are. What are we to make of them? Clearly, history has to be rewritten.

What Is Going On?
Shakespeare said it best: there is more to Heaven and Earth than is dreamt of in our feeble imaginings. Established scientists typically only remain established, and in good favor, if they abandon all scientific thought which drew them to the profession in the first place; instead maintaining a closed mind towards everything except exactly what they're looking for - and only what their previous well thought out calculations have said must exist. But that's not science - that's verification, or record keeping. Therefore, it takes imagination to accept what we've been told all our lives could not possibly be true.

Only in the West do most people seriously believe that ghosts do not exist - and everyone else in the world is considered superstitious, primitive and inferior from that perspective. Most cultures worldwide have a long standing tradition of reverence toward their ancestors. But because they do not come when we call them, or appear to everybody on our slightest whim, there has yet to be any serious invention to detect the presence of those who have crossed over to the other side - or has there?

Today, parapsychologists are armed to the teeth with an assortment of gadgets designed to detect very slight and sudden temperature, humidity, and other atmospheric changes - and even exotic forms of radiation, to detect the presence of what may be disembodied souls. Ghost voices have been recorded on tape - entirely audible and discernable when played back at amazingly slow speeds. Kirlian photography, which captures auras, or the soul energy of individuals, is over a century old - and has been tested under every imaginable condition, and found to be remarkably reliable.

If such things can possibly be measured, then there must be much more to our reality than the simple three dimensional world we are able to perceive. Few primitive people were thinking along these lines, or on these terms, but the legends survive. Ghosts and Goblins, Vampires and Werewolves, Witches and Trolls, Elves and Sprites, Angels and Demons - and everyone's heard of the Boogey Man.

But if we have learned anything on our path to adulthood, it is to put things of childhood behind us - and perhaps the first thing of childhood to be cast off: is our gullibility. We have let our parents tell us there is no such thing as ghosts, because they wanted us to go to sleep, so we could get up and go to school the next morning. But there are more documented hauntings around the world in the last 30 years, than hit songs in the same period - and even at over six billion living humans currently on planet Earth, the dead surely must outnumber the living - unless, of course, you believe in reincarnation.

Some believe that the purpose of life is to rescue souls from Hell. Others hold that life is a filter, or test - straining out those souls that are unworthy of eternity, or further evolution. These New Age beliefs have their roots in the most ancient of philosophies from all over the world. Like the Naturalists and Surrealists in the world of art, Realists can be considered more political philosophers, tracing their roots back to the likes of Plato and Socrates - compared to the Existentialists of the 20th Century.

Christian Mythology derives much from Judaism in the Middle East and Paganism in Europe. Satan, for example, was never an evil figure in the Bible; just an ordinary angel in a particularly interesting story - but his image comes from Pan, a Pagan god of dance and wine and fertility; and many other things the "powers that be" very much wanted to demonize, or wanted to make as little of as possible. Even Mother Mary comes from The Goddess, and was only for political reasons placed prominently in early Catholicism. There were many such political decisions, affecting the belief system of millions of followers over the centuries - having nothing to do with the original context. In this vein, religions can be seen as living things - much like languanges, or the law. They change, or evolve, depending on the sensibilities of the people - and sometimes not fast enough.

In our modern era, people are familiar with technology - and are starting to recognize many of the images depicted in ancient religious texts, previously attributed to God or his Heavenly Messengers. The stories of Ezekiel and Abraham read like modern UFO encounters - and there are countless other examples. Angels ascending into the clouds, via fiery circular craft, and speaking directly into people's minds are not uncommon details.

Perhaps the concept of magic is much older than religion. Certainly lightning must have seemed very impressive and relatively unexplainable to early man. In historic times, for the most part, people who even claimed to be able to do such amazing things themselves, were often executed for heresy, or blasphemy, by the same religion which introduced these concepts - yet held them as the sole property of a divine creator, or his many evil enemies of temptation and deceit. While the burning of witches is attributed mostly to the Dark Ages, many areas of the Third World still summarily execute people who are rumored to exhibit special powers - areas where people are the most superstitious, and religions are most extreme. Ironically, it is often the least advanced, or most desperate of societies who tend to develop these abilities; something Communist Russia took very seriously during the Cold War - but even the CIA had an ongoing program, which still continues to this day.

As the Hippie Generation experimented with mind-altering drugs - from Magic Mushrooms to LSD - Extra-Sensory Perception, or ESP, became a household term; and secret government projects were busy delving into the deepest inner reaches of the human mind - drugs played a big part in the development phase; the famous Acid Tests being just the tip of the iceberg. Capable of far more than mere precognition, telekinesis, or even levitation; Psionic Agents practice out of body travel and Remote Viewing. However, in the realm of public opinion, any presumed benefit of natural "recreational" drugs has been cast aside; their sources dismissed as mere hallucinogens. Meanwhile, much more addictive and destructive drugs like cocaine, crack, heroin and ecstasy flood the street market.

While the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius may be thought by some to be long passed, gone the way of tie-dye shirts and psychedelic music; many astrologers place it anywhere from the mid 1980s to the early 2020s. This particular era, in which we currently live, seems to be the focus of many prophecies: centered around worldwide cultural changes; global wars with millions dead; and major, devastating, record breaking earthquakes and floods, which have recently been connected to extreme lunar activity, especially eclipses. The Maya accurately calculated eclipses millions of years in advance; a feat considered beyond the mathematical capability of any ancient people - nevertheless, they managed to intricately define Earth's history as a series of several vast ages, or Suns. Transitions between Maya Suns are always violent, the last one prominently featuring the Great Flood. The Fifth Sun is scheduled to begin with a total solar eclipse on December 23, 2012.

Modern science would like to dismiss all predictions of this sort as New Age nonsense, pop psychology or even random chance. But during the Renaissance Era, all physicians were required to be heavily schooled in Astrology. One such contemporary professional was Nostradamus, who is most famous for his prevailing work of prophecy, The Centuries - but was also schooled in many ancient and secret teachings (which brought onto him some degree of political oppression in later life). He even developed a quasi-cure/treatment for the Black Plague - made from a secret and curious assortment of local herbs, including rose petals. Despite the mindset of the day, he made a point to wash thoroughly after contact with his patients - a practice that likely saved his life on numerous occasions.

It is the arrogance of science, that we know all we need to know; that we are at the pinnacle of civilization and technology; that there is nothing within our comprehension that we haven't grasped, or rightly dismissed as folly; that is perhaps our greatest downfall. The presumption is that fields of science are completely independent from each other. But many ancient cultures, especially Chinese and Native American, take for granted that everything in the universe is interconnected. If this were true, then it is but a tiny stretch of the imagination that the Earth itself is alive - a concept considered to be a natural fact, by every civilization except the modern West.

It is hard to argue technology points with a people who invented space travel. Even the ball point pen is a marvel of modern times - but it is a collection of engineering ideas, which stand on each other's shoulders. During the oil boom of the early 20th Century, many Native Americans became instantly wealthy. They built fabulous mansions filled with every high brow trinket imaginable - but they preferred to sleep outside, on the ground, in teepees. As it turned out, the teepees really were better living quarters - with, among other things, a more efficient use of heat. Their ancestors had lived on the plains and prairies for millennia - one can safely say the science was perfected.

According to Native Americans, human beings were long ago divided into four parts, corresponding to the four elements: the red people, bound to the land; the white people, possessing fire; the yellow people, guardians of the wind; and the black people, masters of water. According to Cherokee legend, now is the time when the four elements are being brought together as one, and we will soon enter the age of the Human Being and finally become all of which we are capable. Imagine a single peaceful civilization on this planet that is master of both magic and technology.

Ley lines are subtle yet strong rays of natural energy, intersecting at various points on the surface of the Earth, called Nodes - on which, curiously enough, are nearly every imaginable ancient sacred site yet discovered. In Europe, almost all sacred sites were built over by Catholic Churches, Castles and charming villages. Those who study Ley Lines report strange and bizarre happenings in and around these special locations. Many crop circles also appear within walking distance of Ley Lines and their Nodes.

Many ancient European sites are also aligned to each other on regular lines of latitude and longitude - but corresponding to a 366° circle, coincidentally the number of days in a leap year Salt Lines run throughout Europe, and as far as anyone has yet been able to tell, surely span the entire globe. There is evidence in Africa of the Knights Templar expeditions, seeking King Solomon's Mines and the Holy Grail. The temples they left behind are on Salt Lines as well - as are many modern institutions, including Washington DC. It can't be a coincidence. The chances that all of these significant buildings were accidentally erected at regular intervals around the globe are astronomical.

One favorite explanation, the fairly obvious, is that there are politically powerful Secret Societies who are not only in charge of major world governments, but are also in possession of a vast, ancient, secret knowledge - the very same that is brought down to the level of foolishness via ridicule at every emergence. A great many historical events would explain themselves, and connections would be made, if such a civilization as Atlantis existed, and their wisdom and technology was not lost after all; but instead closely guarded by a select group of people that has since become corrupt, sometime in the last 13,000 years.

One of the reasons why Atlantis is supposed to have been destroyed is that they became too powerful for their own good. Easily passed off as merely a morality tale by students of Plato: the citizens became placid, politicians became corrupt and greedy and a magnificent power source went horribly astray. The heart of Atlantis is said to have sunk beneath the sea and many think these power sources still exist, in aberrant states, in many locations around the globe where strange unexplainable occurrences persist. The most famous of these is, of course, the Bermuda Triangle - but there are many others. The Great Lakes, the Hawaiian Islands, the Great Barrier Reef all have similar zones of death and mystery. Perhaps soon we will develop the technology, and understanding, to unravel all these mysteries - and if we are lucky, we may one day have as many strange and wonderful things around us.

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