Our Cosmic Ancestors (27 page)

Besides, the Basques have a blood type and Rh factor combination that is extremely rare and can be found only along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in people speaking the strange dialects. The same blood types are found in Egyptian and Inca mummies. That could explain why the Incas and the pharaohs married between brothers and sisters - in order to preserve the rare blood that was not of this world, so it seems, because no other humans have it in such pure form.

In 1952 two British scientists analyzed the blood of five Inca mummies discovered at Cuzco and lent to the British Museum in London. One showed a blood group with an Rh factor that no one had seen anywhere in this world before. Another mummy had a blood group that was very rare among other American Indians. Unfortunately, the experiments cannot be repeated because all five mummies were destroyed when a water pipe burst in the basement of the British Museum. But it does look as if both the Egyptians and the Basques on one side of the Atlantic, and the Incas on the other, had blood that was different from that of the people living next to them. Was that the blood of the inhabitants of the sunken continent of Atlantis?

Another mystery is the similarity of customs on both sides of the Atlantic. Sumerians and Egyptians used the same art of mummification
that was practiced by the Mayas and the Incas. They did this out of their belief in either a life after death or reincarnation, and they constructed pyramids to preserve and protect the departed. Now we have scientific proof that somehow the shape of the pyramid preserves and sterilizes organic matter, an effect that can be observed even in small pyramid-shaped containers made of plastic or cardboard. On both sides of the Atlantic, pyramids were also constructed in ancient times as astronomical observatories, but that, probably, was not the primary reason for building them.

Above all, the similarity between each of these cultures is demonstrated by the way they did their astronomical calculations and by the systems of measurement they developed. Obviously, they all observed the same stars and planets. Yet the fact that they made the calculations in exactly the same way and that from among so many other possible combinations in the movements of the celestial bodies, they chose the very same conjunctions of the same planets, is more than striking. It just could not have happened unless the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Aztecs, and the Mayas had either evolved from one central civilization, or were in constant contact with each other. If there was a common centre, it had to be a land in between the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the sunken continent of Atlantis.

Another equally striking similarity was the Sun worship of the Egyptians and the Mayas, both of whom believed that their kings were sons of the Sun god, even though the Egyptians, being more civilized, did not practice human sacrifice. Since the Egyptians did not colonize the Mayas or vice versa, the only logical explanation is that both cultures developed from a Sun cult in a land of common origin, probably an island in the Atlantic.

Finally, on both sides of the Atlantic we find identical huge stone block edifices, built of cut pieces so heavy that even our present-day equipment could not move them. If anyone doubts this, let him remember what happened only a few years ago, when an international task force helped save the gigantic Abu Simbel statues before completion of the Aswan Dam in Egypt. The statues had to be cut into pieces for lifting and transportation.

On the west side of the Atlantic, similar huge blocks were used at Cuzco and Tiahuanaco and also at the newly discovered underwater constructions near Bimini. On the east side we have the pyramids of Egypt and the gigantic stone slabs of Baalbek in Lebanon, a temple of totally unknown origin. The ruins of Baalbek, at an altitude of 3,800 feet, stand on a platform built of enormous stone blocks weighing more than 800 tons each. None of today's machines could move these megaliths or even lift them. Such blocks must have been put into place either by giants or by beings of a civilization that knew the secrets of levitation and antigravity.

Three giant blocks from Baalbek now serve as the base of a Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter. The largest of these blocks measures 21 by 4 by 4m exactly; the two others are each 19.50 by 4 by 4m. Together all three represent 60 m in length and 960 cu m in volume.
These exact measurements make it nearly impossible to believe that the ancients who built Baalbek didn't know our metric system.
Evidently they did not use our standard metre, but a cubit of 500 mm and a foot of 333 mm which is exactly the same. For them, the length of one latitude degree was equal to 222,222 cubits and one minute of latitude measured 5,555 feet. The same foot of 333 mm, also called Carolingian foot, was used by Emperor Charlemagne for the construction of his cathedral at Aix La Chapelle in AD 798.

For the constructors of this ancient site, the polar circumference of our globe was 80 million cubits, or 120 million ft; and these units of length seem to have common ground with Sakkara, where metric dimensions were discovered and even a double metre standard was found engraved on a wall. The huge stones of Baalbek were cut out from bedrock 400 m away from the edifice and the quarry was set at a much lower level than the building site. It is there that another unfinished block was found, measuring 21.33 by 4.66 by 4.33 m; obviously, a block that would eventually have been cut to the exact size of 21 by 4 by 4 m, like the largest stone of the temple foundation. We will probably never know what caused the constructors of Baalbek to leave suddenly without finishing what they had begun, just as the statue carvers of Easter Island did, probably at the same time and for the same reason.

There is another group of stones that is probably related to the catastrophe of Atlantis. These are the megalithic monuments found only near the shores of the Atlantic in Europe and North Africa in the areas where people still speak the strange dialects. This is another confirmation of the theory that they all came from the same race of Atlanteans, at one time spoke the same language, practiced the same Sun cult, and constructed very similar megalithic monuments, at one time in the past.

It appears now that as a group of refugees survived the sinking of the continent and landed first on the West African coast, a majority of them moved north and reached first Morocco, then Spain, Portugal, France, and finally the British Isles. Others went around Africa to Ceylon and the occidental part of India, where they constructed more than 2,000 rnegaliths. Some went farther on and reached Tibet, which explains how the authors of the Tibetan bible knew with such certainty the date of the great disaster of Atlantis and all the other precise details.

A very interesting book was published some time ago by Glyn Daniel that registers the distribution of megalithic monuments all over the world and tells us that an enormous dolmen with a stone table weighing 600 tons stands in eastern Korea; so it seems that refugees from the sunken Atlantis even got as far as that.

Until recently the general opinion was that the megalithic monuments of Europe were no more than about 3,000 years old, so nobody associated them with Atlantis that disappeared 12,000 years ago. But now, when we have the first proofs that Atlantis really existed, we also have discoveries indicating that some of the dolmens and menhirs are at least 10,000 years old or older. Colin Renfrew threw out all the old traditions and came up with a book proving that the megaliths of France, Spain, and Wales are much older than the tombs of Myceneae, the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, or even the pyramids of Egypt.

In other words, our civilization was not born in the Middle East, to be brought north into Europe. Just the opposite - it started in Western Europe and went down southeast towards Greece, Crete, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and western India.

Some who do not believe that Atlantis really existed might ask how come no artifacts have ever been found from the lost continent that could have been brought to Europe or the Mediterranean basin before the destruction of Atlantis. I have wondered about this question myself and I think that I have found an answer. No material except solid rock, which is not easily transported, and maybe solid gold, can last for 12,000 years. Most other materials oxidize and turn to dust. it is quite possible that some objects that fill our museums as unidentified primitive art and pagan idols are indeed remnants of Atlantis. The pure gold tablets in the museum of Cuenca are one example of such possibility. So were the many hieroglyph-covered gold statues and tablets that the Spanish conquistadors melted into ingots, destroying forever the great archaeological value of these relics. Much of the evidence we now seek may have been destroyed centuries ago.

Luckily, however, there is one object, the only one that I know, that in my opinion comes from Atlantis. It is unique at this moment and the only one of its kind in the whole world. It is the ceramic disc of Phaistos, thousands of years old, discovered by Sir Arthur Evans in the 1890's in the southern part of Crete under a thick layer of volcanic ashes. This ceramic disc, about twenty centimetres in diameter, is covered on both sides with hieroglyphs that no one so far has been able to decipher.

The characters are displayed in a spiral form, starting in the centre and turning anticlockwise. The signs are clustered in groups of one to seven, separated by a stroke. These strokes, as well as the spiral line that encloses the characters, are engraved. The signs themselves have been impressed in the soft clay with a stamp or a seal. Judging by the fine detail of these seals, they must have been made of metal; and so immediately one is reminded of the mysterious gold tablet of Cuenca with its fifty-six hieroglyphs struck in the soft gold before it solidified, in order not to alter the standard weight.

Thirty of the undeciphered sign groups on the Phaistos disc are on one side, thirty-one on the other, which could suggest that it is a calendar based on alternating thirty- and thirty-one-day months, coming into phase every four years with the solar year. The cycle of such a calendar would be 1,461 days or twenty-seven months of thirty days each and twenty-one months of thirty-one days each. The hieroglyphs for each day could represent either the name of the day or what had to be done that day. Some scientists even think the disk may have been a navigational table. But so far no one has been smart enough to decipher and explain its use and significance. Neither can I, despite my conviction that this artifact comes from Atlantis and is proof of that continent's existence, as are the stone pavements found under water near Bimini.
The discovery near Bimini, in the Bahamas, incidentally, occurred just as predicted by the famous American seer Edgar Cayce, who in 1923 said that a temple of Atlantis would be found underwater near Bimini in 1968. Even for someone who is no adept of occult sciences, it is difficult to abstain from the belief that indeed Cayce must have had some contact with extraterrestrials who knew exactly where the vestiges of Atlantis were to be found, and who may therefore some day give us
all
the Information about the sunken continent and its lost civilization.

EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS

Early in 1961, Otto Struve, the director of the National Science Foundation's radio astronomy observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia, and Frank Drake, his assistant, initiated Project Ozma to search for radio signals from outer space, in order to determine if there were other civilizations in space trying to contact us. No one was prepared for what was going to happen, even those who had worked so long and so hard to finally get the authorization to perform the experiment.

There are several stars located at a reasonable distance from the Earth, only a few light-years away, suspected of having a planetary system comparable to ours. For some reason, it was decided that the most favorable of these stars at that time was the star Tau Ceti, in the constellation of Cetus, the Whale, which is located close to the celestial equator and next to the constellation of Aries, the Ram.

The huge parabolic antenna of the observatory was aimed in the direction of Tau Ceti. The mechanism of compensation for the rotation of the Earth was set in motion; then the receiver, maser amplifier, and recorder were turned on. The only thing left to be done was to wait, but those attending the experiment did not have to wait too long.

Almost immediately, the needle of the recorder began indicating strong signals which, for any specialist in space communications, could mean nothing but a coded message from an intelligent correspondent on a planet orbiting Tau Ceti. The signals lasted for about two minutes, then stopped, leaving those attending stupefied and unable to say a word. Finally, the whole thing was classified `secret' and that was the end of Project Ozma; it had lasted little more than two minutes.

However, there was a general feeling in the scientific circles of that time that a message from outer space had been received and deciphered but that, for some reason, it was decided that it could riot be disclosed to the public. Since then a new Project Ozma has been initiated, but by military personnel this time.

The second case of communications with a space civilization, which was reported in
Paris-Match,
21 April, 1973, occurred in the Soviet Union. Two Russian specialists in space communications, Vsevolod Troitsky, director of the Radiophysics Research Institute of Gorki, and Nicola' Kardashev, director of the Space Research Institute in Moscow, were absolutely convinced that they had received radio signals from an extraterrestrial civilization.

They initiated their space listening program in 1970, with four radio frequency receiving stations located far apart from each other. This allowed them, by comparing the signals received, to eliminate terrestrial interferences and keep only the space signals, those that were identical from the four receiving stations. These signals from outer space whose duration varied from two to ten minutes, were repeated at regular intervals, following a regular pattern. For these scientists this indicated, without any doubt, that they had an artificial origin and that they were transmitted by intelligent beings whose culture was at least as advanced as ours.