Evidence of the Gods (18 page)

A grave mound with various small bones was discovered at the lower end of the serpent. They were lying on a layer of mica. (
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) Mica is a potassium aluminum hydrosilicate which is found in granite mountains. The substance sparkles in the sun and has both elasticity and tensile strength. Mica can resist temperatures of up to 800 degrees Centigrade and is resistant to all organic acids. The characteristics of mica are very much in demand today because mica is an excellent electrical insulator. It is also resistant against arcing and electrical discharges. Sheets of mica can be separated like turning the pages of a book. (
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) I keep being aggravated by the puzzling parallels between places which are far apart. A thick layer of mica was also discovered in Teotihuacan. The place is 40 kilometers distant from Mexico City. There, only a few meters away from the Avenue of the Dead, an underground chamber was discovered which had been insulated with mica. (
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) All of this was done an unknown time ago—both Tiahuanaco/Mexico and the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio. My question is not why native tribes far apart from one another did the same thing. It happened in rock drawing as well, after all. I am aggravated for another reason: the native inhabitants must have known about the multiple properties of mica. Otherwise, they would neither have used it nor mined it in far-distant granite mountains. This would not have been a simple matter.

The danger when looking for new explanations is that you might actually find them.

I once learned in high school that our ancestors—only recently descended from the apes—vegetated in caves, groomed each other’s fur for lice, hunted mammoth or other animals from time to time, and otherwise chewed on berries and roots. Maybe so. But another group of the Stone Age family behaved in a highly intellectual way. Its mathematic and geometric performance shows that. No doubt about it! I constantly hear scientists demanding facts. They would respond positively to facts. Which scientists? It is really the responsibility of “Paleolithic specialists.” But they can be counted on the fingers of one hand and are, furthermore, geographically fixated. They restrict themselves to a particular area. The framework of their thinking follows evolution. Higher geometry, for example, has no place in the Stone Age. As a wanderer between the sciences, I learned a long time ago that facts are also filtered, that they are bent and squeezed until suddenly everything fits again and we can return to the same old things. However, the monuments from the Stone Age—stone circles, dolmens, menhirs, for example—are found just as much across a range of countries as rock drawings and geoglyphs. It appears there must have been
some kind of prehistoric tourism in which the sages traveled from tribe to tribe and passed on their tidings. In Central America, and this is generally known, the Maya built pyramids and temples in accordance with astronomical principles. In that respect, scholars refer to a “magic imperative” of calendar and astronomy. What was the situation in Europe at a time, furthermore, long
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Central America? What “magic imperative” caused the Stone Age tribes to do the same thing? Who taught them the Pythagorean theorem, the number pi, the pentagram, and other achievements of mental geometry? Why did they all have the idea of aligning their mass graves astronomically and building huge stone or wood circles? The proof of my claims is available. It can be checked, photographed, measured—as demanded by high-flown science. Yet no one is interested. Any documentation just produces a confused shake of the head. What do we prefer? To adjust our thinking or to continue to live with a product that has passed its sell-by date?

In the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France, not far from the town of Carnac with its thousands of menhirs (stone columns), there are two small green islands: Gavrinis and Er Lannic. The tiny island of Er Lannic has the remains of a stone circle, or more precisely a slight oval, of between 58 and 49 meters diameter, consisting of 49 megaliths. Only half of these stones are positioned on land; the other half is submerged by the tides. (
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) In the same location, almost 9 meters deeper, there is a second stone circle consisting of 33 blocks. They can just be recognized at low tide during a calm sea. The two stone rings merge like a figure of eight. The circle under water has a diameter of 65 meters.

Flooding? No, the water has risen. When? About 18,000 years ago. How do we know that?

One September morning in 1985, Monsieur Henri Cosquer, an employee of a diving school in Cassis (east of Marseille, France) dived into the depths off Cape Morgiou. He was not actually looking for anything in particular—other than to admire the wonders of the sea. At a depth of 35 meters, directly next to a small rockslide, Henri Cosquer noticed the entrance to a cave and cautiously swam into it. The diver quickly realized that the cave led to an ascending underwater tunnel. On that morning, Henri Cosquer did not dare to go further. Time was limited; he only had enough oxygen for another half hour. Also, he had neither underwater lights nor a camera with him.

A few weeks later, Henri Cosquer tried again in the same spot. This time his diver friends Marc and Bernhard were with him, and the diving equipment was also more professional than what he had at the first attempt. The men carefully swam through a 40-meter-long corridor and finally reached the surface in an underground lake. Their searchlights illuminated an incredible scene. They recognized two horses on the western wall of a chamber. Bernhard’s searchlight flitted to the ceiling and alighted on a goat drawn in black charcoal. It was covered by a transparent calcite layer. Now the men clambered out of the water, took off their flippers, and checked the air in the subterranean chambers. It was spicy and a little resinous, but could be breathed without difficulty. In the next chamber, even larger than the first one, the light beams skimmed over a whole picture gallery: bison, penguins, cats, antelopes, a seal, and various geometric symbols.