Current Theories on The Search For Our Forgotten Past

CURRENT THEORIES ON OUR FORGOTTEN PAST

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As the reader will have seen from the previous pages, this site is mainly concerned with the time period around 3,100 – 2,600 B.C. It appears that there existed a group of people, similar in many facets of culture, building design and technique, represented by the Sumerians, the dynastic Egyptians, as well as some cultures of South America. Thus there must at one time have been a civilisation that united these scattered sub-cultures, a great civilisation that gave birth, through violent and tumultuous means, to these now strewn remnants. These peoples that lived in this epoch, 3,100 – 2,600 B.C., must have been the survivors of a more ancient civilisation, a civilisation that was forced to break apart and migrate around the globe. It must remain clear however, that this is in no way connected to Plato’s Atlantis. Sceptical as it may appear, evidence pointing to the existence of Atlantis as Plato described it is limited to the point where one must question whether the dialogues written by Plato were truth, or mere whimsical fantasies. Though this is another topic entirely.

The peoples that erected monuments such as Stonehenge appear to have been the first people to arrive on the shores of Britain from this ancient civilisation. This site has been dated to around 3,100 B.C. Hence this monument is amazingly well constructed, and shows workmanship unsurpassed in modern times. It is probable that the survivors of this prior ancient civilisation were few when compared to the population on their former homelands, and that on these new lands they no longer functioned as a coherent, integrated culture, the binding force of such civilised bodies as government and occupational structuring having been left behind, leaving these survivors to quite literally fend for

GREAT BRITAIN

Remnants of this civilisation spread all across the globe, and the question remains; where was the location of this most ancient of civilisations? The myths surrounding influxes of people around the 3,100 B.C. mark speak of arrival from the Atlantic Ocean. The Tuatha Dé Dannan, for example, are reputed to have arrived by boat on the southwest shores of present-day Ireland. This indicates that they migrated from the south, moving northwards.

Another migration pattern shows movement across the Atlantic from the east into the Yucatan Peninsula, and much of the east coast of Central and South America. This gives the indication that the origination of these survivors stem from the area in front of or within the Straits of Heracules, now known as the Straits of Gibraltar.

It is archaeological fact that there are well over 200 sunken cities known within the waters of the Mediterranean. From megalithic ruins uncovered within the bounds of the Mediterranean Oceans’ coastlines, such as those of Hagar Qim, on the island of Malta, it can be surmised that there once existed a highly evolved civilisation existing around the Mediterranean Ocean. Though due to the fact that many of these cities are presently under water, and due to the fact that there is evidence of megalithic ruins of having been underwater for long periods, it can be further surmised that at some point in time the Mediterranean was once a fertile valley, and not an Ocean at all. Esoteric sources indicate that the Nile River came out of Africa as it does today, though instead of dispensing into the Mediterranean Sea via the Nile Delta in northern Egypt, it continued into the valley, turning westward to flow into the deepest part of the valley, creating a large lake, and then flowed out between Malta and Sicily, south of Sardinia into the Atlantic Ocean through the Straits of Heracules.

At some point in time, a cataclysmic upheaval occurred, inundating the Mediterranean with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, effectively destroying the local culture, forcing the survivors to higher ground, and driving them to relocate not only further up the rising banks of the new Ocean filling the fertile valley that was their homelands, but also further around the globe, such as Ancient Britain. Hence the arrival of the Tuatha Dé Dannan. The idea of an inundated Mediterranean Valley is not a novel one; it is well-supported, and has been outlined by New Scientist, as can be seen here http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/disaster/vanished.jsp, although the dating of the inundation that destroyed this Mediterranean-based civilisation is rather vague. This also sheds light on why, soon after the arrival of the Tuatha Dé in Ireland, they then migrated south and east into Assyria. They were most probably searching for remnants of their drowned homelands, now buried beneath many millions of gigatons of Atlantic Ocean water. After discovering this, they kept moving across Europe, in an anti-clockwise direction around the top through Scandinavia, and then into Scotland and “The Northern Isles”, perhaps in search of other survivors that had fled north across the land from the rising oceanic inundation. Note that this migration obviously did not include the full cohort of Tuathan survivors. Many stayed to forge the lands and cultures that still survive today. It was a fragment of the full contingent of Tuathans, nostalgic and deeply saddened by the loss of their drowned homelands, that began their fruitless search.

It is a simple step to conclude that the Egyptian civilisation, along with the Minoan and Mycenaean in Crete and Greece are remnants of this ancient culture. Henceforth this destroyed civilisation will be referred to as the Osirian Civilisation. The survivors also moved into the lands of Egypt, and were responsible for the erection of the Sphinx, which may well have originally been the body of a canine, and the head of a great God. This would have been the precursor of the Egyptian deity Anubis, who had the body of a man, and the head of a canine. It was only in later times that the body was assumed to be leoline, as it was thought to face the precessional rising of the constellation Leo during the time it was erected. The head was also later re-carved to resemble the head of a dynastic Pharaoh, possibly the great Khufu, who was also attributed as having erected the Great Pyramid. The original date that this enigmatic edifice was carved remains a mystery. There is strong evidence that places it as being contemporary with the Great Pyramid. There is also geological evidence to place it at around 10,000 B.C. The final answer, however, eludes humanity to this day.

It should be noted here that this Osirian Culture should in no way be associated or affiliated with Plato's Atlantis. These people not only have homelands located in a completely separate vicinity as described by Plato's works, but exist on a timescale far removed from his mythical civilisation, known as Atlantis.

While the great works of the 4th Dynasty Egyptians is a contentious topic, it must be incorporated into the overall chronology. The Great Pyramid was attributed by orthodox history to the Pharaoh Khufu during the 4th Dynasty, around 2,600 B.C., and quite possibly this is entirely true. The chief architect was the high priest Imhotep, and this individual was such a renowned and accomplished master builder simply because he was privy to the ancient wisdom and building secrets left behind by the Osirian Civilisation. The knowledge was venerated by the priesthood, and as such not only was it too important to ever be written down, but it was too important for the common man, or even the pharaoh to have access to. Hence the reason there has – as yet – been no discovery by archaeology in regards to this ancient technology.

After the Great Pyramid was erected, there must have been a plague, or some other small disaster to have struck the priesthood, because the knowledge was erased in part, and has been lost to man ever since in this region. Hence we can see in Dynastic Egypt a slow and steady regression of building technology through time. In fact, many of the pyramids of later dynasties have since crumbled, and are now pathetic piles of dust and rubble.

The people of the Osirian Culture were master builders, and designed their structures to be earthquake-proof. Though this mastery of building techniques was not enough to save their homelands. The question remains; why earthquake-proof? Surely, in a region that is relatively geologically stable, earthquake should not be their main concern? Volcanic activity, lava threats, these are plausible threats to this civilisation. So why focus on earthquakes?

There are many sites that do not fit into the time scale proposed here, and this is enigmatic in the least. We are left with many sites on the continent of present-day South America that by far predate even the established culture from which these survivors originated. They were held as ancient beyond reckoning by the Osirian culture of the Mediterranean during the time of their cultural peak. Perhaps this, then, was not the only civilisation currently lost to mans’ memories. Keeping in mind the fact that the Osirian Culture focused on earthquake-proof building design, perhaps this Mediterranean-based culture stemmed from an as yet unidentified source, one that surely must be located in an area geologically dissimilar to the Mediterranean lands of the Osirians.

Avebury,dated to around 2,600 B.C., began development less than five hundred years after work at Stonehenge was undertaken. Avebury most obviously was developed by later generations of the survivors of the lost civilisation, perhaps in a desperate and final attempt to encapsulate the knowledge of their forefathers. The new blood of the land, having heard the stories of the ancient stone-working technologies and incredible technological feats of their forebears, and with edifices such as Stonehenge as a working example, were attempting to recreate the architectural capacity of their ancestors.

Though development at Avebury was focused on the stars, in other sites the emphasis was on the alignments of the Sun, and the timing of the year. As part of their spiritual beliefs, Newgrange was a burial site for the last of the High Kings from this destroyed civilisation, and was designed such that the rising sun of the winter solstice would strike the three-chambered crypt, through the roof-box, the incredibly well-designed arpeture above the southern entrance to the three-chambered crypt, enabling the transition of the souls of the deceased to make their final transition, either to the astral plains, or for rebirth; both are open for speculation. Newgrange was built around 3,100 B.C., and thus is not only a

The Tuatha Dé Dannan, who came to the Irish lands, bringing with them the last of the High Kings of their lost race, appear to represent the highest echelon of people that survived the cataclysm that tore apart this ancient race. This is evident in that the myths that surround these people refer to them as a tall, regal, powerful people, worthy of note, and great respect. The bloodline still exists today, and can be seen in the peoples of Ireland and the surrounding lands carrying the allele associated with the blue eye trait. This was the major distinction of regality for this lost race. Many had other distinguishing features, such as red or blond hair, and fair skin. Much of these defining characteristics have been lost or diluted

The two sites, not two kilometres apart, known as Stenness and Brodgar, are known to have strong energy connotations. Perhaps they were set up by another group again, a group that represented the spiritualistic side of this lost race. Perhaps, then, these were the spiritual leaders of this lost race, and came to these lands in search of new energy hubs. Hence the isolation from the other groups, Perhaps, as these two sites have a female

It is thought that the settlement of Skara Brae was constructed by a group that was wrecked on the shores of this inhospitable coast, and thus was forced to stay. The reasons that they didn’t leave are not so much based on the fact that they didn’t, but more that they couldn’t. The Orkney’s are a separate island system from mainland northern Scotland, and have very little in the way of large vegetation. Thus, although in the past the mainland was a relatively vast forest, further to the north, deeper into the extreme cold of the Arctic, on the Orkneys, wood of any decent size would have

The sites surrounding Carnac, the magnetic centre of Brittany, were developed around 3,000 B.C., and thus could be concluded that it was a result of the first generation of survivors. These massive stones were aligned for astronomical measurement purposes, but there were more stones than can be accounted for in this vein, and thus another reason, presently unknown, must account for this. Such a tremendous outpouring of physical and mental effort required to align these many thousands of stones, many far from meagre in size, must have a reason beyond the reasons given, such as for religious purposes.

THE ORIGINAL CULTURE

From esoteric sources it has been indicated that there once existed an advanced culture that was the source of the surviving exodites represented by the peoples that developed sites such as Skara Brae. This culture was responsible for the development of many sites whose purpose eludes orthodox historians at present. Thus many of these have been attributed to later civilisations. A good example of this is Baalbek.

The purpose for the structures of Baalbek remain unknown, and like many other sites, is thought to be some sort of temple, for religious purposes. It is held by orthodoxy that the Roman Empire was responsible for this site, and in part this is true. But they only built upon existing structures; they were not responsible for the original sites themselves.

Likewise with Mesopotamia, pre-dynastic Egypt seems to have evolved relatively overnight. Not only that, but it appears that many of the ancient Egyptian cities now lie, almost completely intact, beneath the waters of the Mediterranean Ocean. The city of Herakleion is a classic example. Perhaps the Egyptian Civilisation was once part of this lost civilisation. This may account for curiosities in the Egyptian Chronology, such as the age of the Sphinx, which appears to be far older than the Egyptian Civilisation, and also seems to be covered in patterns that can only be attributed to water erosion. Remember that it hasn’t rained in Egypt for, at a conservative estimate, around the last 9,000 years.

The advanced culture that existed in Mesopotamia was born from the ashes of this lost culture. Hence the Mesopotamian culture appeared fully developed at its inception. The ideas of currency, agriculture, and strategic city planning were fully instituted when this civilisation was born. This is only possible if they were drawing on knowledge from a more ancient source. The period from 3,100 - 3,000 B.C. was known to the Mesopotamians as Jemdet Nasr, which roughly translates to "Dark Times", or Dark Age".

THE LOCATION OF THE LOST HOMELANDS

It took many years of hard work and relative trial and error in scrounging an existence in this new land for these Osirian survivors. Though they managed, and laid the foundations for what has now become one of the greatest civilisations known to mainstream history. These original survivors from this water-fuelled cataclysm were also responsible for constructing the city of Macchu Picchu, high in the Andes, possibly from fear of another unstoppable tide inundating their new lands.

The Original Mayans were the leftovers of the survivors from the Osirian Culture. For reasons unknown, the true origins of this race were not passed on to the next generations. Thus at present it is virtually unknown the origins of the Mayan peoples. Though this may ba a rash assumption. For the Mayans at the time of the Spanish conquests had ancient texts, and upon their arrival the conquistadors, in their Catholic religious fervour, decided that because these ancient writings were not of Christian origin, they were works of the Devil, and as such, they were all collected and destroyed by fire. The Popol Vuh is a surviving example of these works. Due to the Catholic fervour, little to no true knowledge of the history of this ancient race has survived to date. All that remains are a few texts and stories, collected by the Friar Diago De Landa, initially one of the most fervent destroyers of this ancient knowledge, but later converted to local historian, and thus spent much of his time writing down the stories from the most ancient sages of the lands. Sadly, his works are some of the only written myths that current-day mythologists have to work from.

It is a verifiable fact that the Mayan civilisation was an advanced nation, having a complex society and trade system well-integrated into everyday life. What is not well known, however, is that much of the technology they possessed, such as their calendar, and the building techniques employed, were inherited technologies from the ancient Osirian civilisation. These technologies were revered by the highest of the priests, and were thus not permitted to be privy to the general population, in a similar fashion to the system of veneration employed by Dynastic Egypt's priesthood.

This inherited technology gave these people the capacity to be brilliant astronomers and mathematicians, and also made it easily possible to live in agrarian harmony with their surroundings. They built canals and hydroponic garden cities throughout the Yucatan Peninsula.

These technologies were employed in the building of such sites as Uaxactun, near Tikal.

It appears that the design of this site is not unique in the world; on the slopes of Mount Lawu, near Surakarta in Central Java, Indonesia lies the Temple of Sukuh, a magnificent step pyramid complete with stone stelae that match any of those found in the jungles of Central America. This pyramid is virtually identical to the pyramids found at Uaxactun. One must wonder how this could be.

One must also wonder how it was that the historians of the Osirian Culture – long forgotten by the time that the priests of the Mayan civilisations became the holders of the technological knowledge – knew of the existence of this New World.

The reason that the historians of the Osirian Culture knew of the existence of the great landmass to the west, known as the Americas is that in the far distant past, even then, during the Osirians’ time, there existed a great and powerful nation that, for reasons as yet unknown, was destroyed in a similar manner as the Osirian Culture. This great civilisation left behind great edifices and monuments, lying now as a testament to their prowess in building, stoneworking and mathematics.

It was this culture that was concerned with developing their edifices to be earthquake-proof. This could be due to their proximity to the Pacific Ring of Fire. The building techniques revolved around megalithic blocks of stone, and had taken on a polygonal aspect, incorporated as a further effort to render these structures unaffected by the ravages of earthquakes. Examples of this sort of polygonal style can be seen most notably at Sacsayhuaman. This would explain the Osirian Culture's inherent technological capacity for buildings that incorporate earth-quake-proof design. They were not concerned with earthquakes, but had inherited their building technology from this more ancient civilisation, based on the edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire, who WERE concerned with earthquakes.

Due to the high regard for the future generations and the high values placed on communal growth, most homes and communal buildings from this more ancient culture were built from megalithic blocks, built to last not mere hundreds, but thousands of years. Cuzco, for example, the remnants of an ancient city in Peru, even today has many of the original walls incorporated in modern-day homes and buildings. The Spanish structures, relatively modern architecture, are crumbling alongside structures ancient beyond reckoning, that are still performing their original function in housing the communities of the area.

The ancient site known as Puma Punku, residing high in the Altiplano of Bolivia, exemplifies the idea that these lands were once thriving port cities. Around 1,500 metres from the famous ruins of Tiahuanaco, these ruins are massive megalithic blocks tossed about like toy building blocks at the hands of a toddler. This raises obvious questions, regarding the kind of cataclysmic event capable of producing such tumultuous scattering. Here lies the type of construction developed after many, many millennia with the intention to withstand massive upheaval, yet these blocks, weighing easily 150 tons each, lie scattered and ripped from their foundations by an as yet unknown force.

A canal that at one time resided at sea-level can now be found at nearly 4,000 metres above the present-day sea-level in the Andes Mountain range. Many ocean fossils can be found near Lake Titicaca. In addition, the only known type of fresh-water sea horse inhabit the lake.

It seems that the South American continent was rather suddenly and brutally thrust upwards in a geological upheaval unknown and inconceivable to modern-day mankind. So what transpired to cause such massive geological upheaval? More importantly, what were the effects on the rest of the globe during this upheaval?

More to follow….

LANDS OF GREATER ANTIQUITY?

WESTWARD DESERTION

Some of the survivors of the great cataclysm that destroyed the Osirians migrated westwards, to arrive at the Americas, then proceeded to spread throughout this strange new land. Among the first requirements upon this new land, within this new climate and under the new stars, was to set up an accurate calendar to chart the movements of the Sun, Moon and Stars, so as to accurately coordinate such important events as the planting season, and harvesting season. These became vitally important, as after the destruction of their previous civilisation, there was no longer the infrastructure to support differing classes. Thus everyone needed to become a farmer in the beginning on this new land.

THE ORIGINAL MAYANS

THE ORIGINAL CIVILISATION?

Updated 24th October 2003.

The arrival of the Tuatha De Dannan on their new lands, cold and unfamiliar

It has been shown that the Tuatha Dé, after initially arriving in present-day Ireland, moved south and east, into Assyria, and kept moving across Europe, settling first in Scandinavia, and later in Alba (Scotland) and "The Northern Isles". This summation is in part due to the prevalence of surviving myths and genetic remnants. This theory of migration to some extent may be true, but it is more likely that survivors of this lost civilisation were already in existence in these places, such as Assyria. Surely the Tuatha Dé had some knowledge of their existence, and perhaps this is the reason for this migration; to meet with their ancient cousins, or perhaps in search of their lost homelands. More on this most ancient of quests later.

The resting place of the first to the New Lands

The builders of Newgrange have a strong mythical affiliation with the Tuatha Dé Dannan, and it was here that the last of the ancient rulers from the old lands were supposedly interred. Now known as the High Kings of Tara, these were the last of the true noblemen from the lost civilisation. Though it is plainly obvious that this complex development was not just a crypt. The way in which it was constructed gives pause to that notion. Thus the connection between the interrment of their most revered leaders, and the Solar alignment of the monument is a highly debated topic.

The cataclysmic inundation of the Osirian Cultures' Original Homelands

It is apparent that the highly educated – the historians, the mathematicians, and a strong contingent of builders – these people all moved westwards across the Atlantic Ocean to this New World. Now the reasoning behind this move westwards becomesapparent when we notice that it was the historians that were among this group of survivors. More on this later.

Once an accurate calendar was set up, it was marked on the calendar the first day in their New World, in the first year on this New World. The first year on their calendar correlated with the year 3,114 B.C. on our Gregorian calendar. This calendar has become well known, named after the culture that developed it; the Mayans.

themselves. As such, the need to erect these megalithic structures diminished in favour of the more necessary skills required to sustain life; hunting, trapping, learning the new foods of this new land. Hence the knowledge required to erect these monuments was slowly but steadily forgotten. The memory of the past was rapidly becoming a dim figment of its former glory, lost in the haze of time.

through time. But the one distinguishable characteristic is the blue eyes. Those with this characteristic are sure to be some sort of descendant from these noble, regal, and authoritative people.

They set up these massive stones through sheerwill, and by utilising the meager remnants of the ancient stone-working technologies; those technologies employed in the beginning of this ancient culture’s time on this new and harsh land, used to develop the first of the megalithic sites, such as Stonehenge, and thus brought with the first of those to arrive on these new lands. It is a simple and small step to surmise that they erected and aligned these ancient stones according to the information passed down to them not only by their forefathers, but also by those elders that still survived, capable of recalling the stories of their own fathers, so as to align them with the stars, such that the wisdom imparted them by the last of the wise men would not be forever forgotten.

contemporary of Stonehenge, but must also have been developed by the first generation of the survivors of the lost civilisation, the sons and daughters of those few that escaped the old lands, survivors of the greatest tragedy known in history.

been greatly limited, to the point where the inhabitants simply couldn’tfind enough to build a new ocean-going vessel in order to continue their exodus. The settlement is typical of this sort of scenario, as can be seen in the fact that the first building was the Workshop, and from there the inhabitants lived during the construction of the additional apartments. Were they not stranded here, they would not have all lived out of the one apartment. This site appears as a real-life ancient Swiss Family Robinson-type scenario, only on a much more inhospitable site.

As was mentioned earlier, glyphs resembling Egyptian Hieroglyphs were found at this settlement. It becomes obvious that were these people survivors from a far more widespread civilisation, then it would seem rather obvious that they would share some similarities with other cultures. Perhaps the rudimentary form of writing – or perhaps artistry – seen at Skara Brae stems from the same source as those of Ancient Egypt. Either Egypt was the original source, or their writing stems from a far more ancient source. It could be that the culture of Egypt was an off-shoot from this now lost mother culture.

and a male energy connotation respectively, the people that developed the sites had discovered – or even rediscovered, one never knows – an area something akin to electrical positive and negative energy flows. Thus the sites are close together, and have quite opposite polarities. This is all mere speculation however.

These people set up not only these two sites, but also Maes Howe, a few kilometres to the south, to time the sunset of the winter solstice. As with many other sites mentioned, the stone-working skills are of an extremely high calibre. Not only that, but the techniques employed, such as the complete lack of binding mortar for the massive stone slabs, appear to be strikingly similar to those employed in South America, many thousands of kilometres away, across vast expanses of ocean. In addition, the design of this tunnel mound is such that the rays of the sun at the sunset of the winter solstice shine down the main passage to illuminate the far wall, and this wall is marked to describe the height of these sun rays. This is

incredibly reminiscent of the roofbox design at Newgrange in Ireland, though here it is thelight of the setting sun, whereas at Newgrange it is the rising sun that illuminated the internal structure. Not only this, but at the setting of the winter solstice sun, the rays first pass over the Barnhouse stone – some 800 metres away – which would require immense precision in architecture, and would be an essentially unattainable task to achieve without a mathematical understanding exceeding basic mathematics.

Not only that, but the current theory is that the site was developed incrementally, with succeeding generations adding to the alignments over many centuries. The enigma thus expands when one considers that to develop this massive site was not simply the priority of one man, or one generation, but by many, many men, spanning many, many generations. The stone used for this site, similar to all the sites mentioned within these pages, is typically granite or diorite, which are among the most dense, and hence the heaviest, and hardest, stone materials known to man. The question, again, that this raises, is why? Why build using the heaviest, most cumbersome materials at hand, when other materials, such as sandstone, or limestone, are far easier not only to shape, but to transport and fit into place? Perhaps the real question is, what characteristic is contained within these particular stones that gives them such a special place in the minds of the ancient peoples?

The crux of the issue here is best summed up using Stonehenge as an example. All the sites mentioned within these pages have the dense, massive blocks to link them all together, in a physical sense. So to continue with the example, as the reader will have already seen, the Bluestones used at Stonehenge were originally quarried in the Prescelly Mountains of South Wales over a hundred and sixty kilometres away. Many theories have been put forward as to how they were transported from Wales to Wiltshire, though none have addressed the reasoning for using stone from such a relatively vast distance, throwing a considerable amount of complexity into what should have been a straight-forward task, for there is no lack of good quality stone on the Salisbury Plain. Obviously the bluestones possess some quality, which makes their presence essential to the ultimate purpose of Stonehenge. So the question arises; What was the purpose of this enigmatic stone circle, and what property is contained within the Bluestones, that would necessitate their transport over such a monumental distance?