Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (11 page)
One of Dona’s most fascinating exhibits was a stone pyramid embedded with precious stones, including one placed near the top. The artifact eerily resembled the “all-seeing eye” atop a pyramid that is imprinted on every dollar bill. But this ancient artifact was found in Ecuador.
Dona’s many quaint and curious artifacts included statues and carvings of prehistoric animals thought to have been extinct long before the advent of humankind, art depicting strange humanoids wearing helmets, replicas of flying machines, and engravings of the planets and stars. Several ancient carvings depict saucer-shaped craft and beings with large slanted eyes identical to modern depictions of alien “grays” as described by persons who claim to have experience of them.
ELONGATED SKULLS AND THE STARCHILD
Evidence from the exhibition of Klaus Dona indicating that nonhumans may have lived on Earth in the past included skulls brought from Central and South America with features that may not be human.
Many such skulls are termed
elongated,
as they extend up and beyond normal human length, similar to the skull of an interdimensional alien depicted in the film
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
. Like so many legends and fables, this film may have contained a modicum of truth.
Archaeologists, operating under the narrow constraints of science, claim a conventional explanation for the misshapen skulls. They say young Inca children’s heads were bound so as to produce the elongated effect. A more far-reaching view is that this was done to emulate their elder creator gods, and it has been noted that the practice was confined to the ruling and religious class.
But this explanation fails to address other issues. Brien Foerster, author of
A Brief History of the Incas
, while studying the Paracas culture in Peru, found one elongated skull with no molar teeth or even sockets for them. The skull also exhibited exceptionally large eye sockets and two small identical holes in the back of the skull which could not be explained by the ancient practice of trepanning. Other skulls exhibited strangeness with the normal three suture lines that connect the parietal, sagittal, and lambda portions of the human skull. Some had only two lines, while others had four, and one skull was completely smooth with no suture lines. Foerster, while remarking on the oddity of the skulls, only hinted that they might represent ancient aliens viewed as gods by the Incas.
Researcher and author Lloyd Pye has been more forthright. Pye has spent countless dollars and many years of his life attempting to determine that his Starchild, a strange and misshapen skull found last century in Mexico, is not of human origin. The skull, dated to about nine hundred years ago, was found in Mexico in the 1930s and subsequently ended up in the hands of Ray and Melanie Young, who asked Pye to head efforts to identify the origin of the skull. In 1999, Pye formed the Starchild Project, an informal group of researchers and scientists, who soon ruled out all known natural deformities and initially found that the skull presented a genetic and physical profile never before seen on Earth. X-rays of the teeth indicated the skull belonged to someone about five or six years old. Yet degradation of the teeth’s enamel indicated the skull was that of an adult. X-rays also revealed natural convolutions of the unusually flattened back of the skull, proving that it had not been cradleboarded, an explanation offered by skeptics. Cradleboarding was a common Native American practice of binding a babe to a board on the mother’s back while moving about.
Pye and his Starchild team have now documented at least twenty-two physical abnormalities on the small skull. Such anomalies, unheard of in any one subject, have been brushed off by conventional scientists as mere deformities. Pye commented:
Mainstream science has consistently failed to explain—or even explain away—any of the Starchild’s anomalies, much less the complex combination that somehow created a functioning being. Why? Because science has collectively agreed to set its BS detector to go off if anything passes by it that is not already understood or does not fit accepted theories. … Peer pressure is crushing relative to subjects deemed “off limits” for serious discussion and analysis. Things like UFO’s, aliens, hominoids (bigfoot, etc.), and cold fusion are “forbidden” because their proof would utterly transform “reality” as it is today. No scientist wants to be on the hot seat when a paradigm overturns, so they work diligently to keep these various genies corked up in bottles of ignorance and intimidation fueled by their “credentialed” ridicule and disdain.
In 1999, Pye asked six laboratories equipped to test ancient DNA to examine the Starchild, but all six demurred, citing the “professional stigma” involved. Finally, DNA tests in 2003 demonstrated that the Starchild’s mother was human but its father was less than 100 percent human, as the nuclear DNA was viable but not recoverable by human testing methods. Further DNA tests on the Starchild languished due to the prohibitive costs.
Early in 2011, a geneticist identified several fragments of the Starchild skull which, while matching human mitochondrial DNA, presented many more nucleotide differences than are normally found among humans. Pye said the new DNA findings indicate that the Starchild skull may well be alien. “Now all that remains is to determine whether alien means foreign to normal human genetics within the framework of that subject as it is currently understood or definitely not from planet Earth … or something in between,” he said.
Such determination came later in 2011. One lab, using newly developed techniques, agreed to test the DNA on the condition that the lab’s name not be made public. The result was astounding. It was reported that “no significant similarity” was found between the Starchild DNA and a genetic database that, though limited, nevertheless contained millions of DNA samples representing thousands of species including humans. This indicated that at least some of the Starchild’s nuclear DNA is not found on Earth.
More striking was a study of the Starchild’s mitochondrial DNA in which was reported a total of ninety-three variations different from human mtDNA. Pye believes this high level of variation could mean that the DNA in different parts of Starchild’s skull could differ even further from normal human DNA.
In early 2012, a fragment of the Starchild’s skull containing a special protein called FOXP2, was shown to exhibit fifty-six variations from the same type of protein in humans. “To put this in perspective, let’s imagine that when alive, the Starchild was indeed some unknown humanoid. No matter how different from humans it might have been, to be in the humanoid family, its FOXP2 gene would have to be in the range of 1 or 2 or at most 3 base pair variations from a normal human. To go past 5 or 10 would put it into another class of species; 20 to 25 would put it in the range of mice and elephants, and dogs and frogs. To have 56 is to put it in another realm, another dimension entirely. It is utterly unique,” said Pye. “This is the real deal,” he added. “We simply lack the funding to complete a DNA study which we hope will prove the Starchild is not human.”
Lack of funds and interest also stopped Zecharia Sitchin from conducting a DNA analysis on the skeleton of Nin Puabi, also called Queen Shubad, a Mesopotamian royal who was buried at Ur about 4,500 years ago and thought to be related to the Anunnaki. The queen’s skeletal remains are still in London’s Natural History Museum. But when Sitchin suggested a DNA study, Margaret Clegg of the museum’s Human Remains Unit replied, “No DNA analysis has ever been conducted on these remains … the museum does not routinely conduct DNA analysis on remains in the collection, and there are no plans to do so in the near future.”
Despite the lack of DNA studies and a seeming lack of desire on the part of archaeological authorities to test the thesis, evidence continues to pile up indicating an extraterrestrial presence in our solar system and on Earth, lending strong support to the ancient legends of long-lost civilizations and extraterrestrial visitations.
T
HE ANCIENT
E
GYPTIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THOUGHT OF AS
being strangely advanced for their time. René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz, a philosopher who studied the temples at modern Luxor (ancient Thebes) for fifteen years, found that the early Egyptians had implemented a mathematical constant called the golden section, or golden ratio. Though the golden ratio was originally attributed to the Greeks, it seems that at Thebes the Egyptians applied it with great complexity and sophistication. The golden ratio is a mathematical ratio between two components such that the larger is the same proportion of the whole as the smaller is of the larger. In art and architecture, it creates an eye-pleasing proportion. Artists, architects, engineers, and others have used it through the years. The fact that ancient Egyptians used it demonstrates knowledge of mathematics long before the Greeks and Pythagoras. What prompted this ancient knowledge and technical prowess?
About fifty miles down the Nile from Thebes, in Abydos, the early capital of dynastic Egypt, sits the New Kingdom temple of Seti I, where the golden ratio was applied. The temple is perhaps the finest built during Egypt’s Nineteenth Dynasty (1298–1197 BC). Behind the temple and far below, an amazing megalithic structure called the Osirion (sometimes spelled Osireion) protrudes into the desert. The structure, with its gigantic posts and lintel stone blocks, looks for all the world like a better-constructed Stonehenge, as its stones are smooth and wonderfully aligned in comparison to the worn and partially collapsed English landmark.
The Osirion was discovered in 1902 by the British team of archaeologist William Flinders Petrie and Egyptologist and anthropologist Margaret Alice Murray. Some conventional Egyptologists argued that the Osirion was just another part of Seti’s temple, but Murray knew better. In a 1903 report, she stated that “we had found a building which has no known counterpart in Egypt.” Because a number of the cartouches of Merneptah, who succeeded Ramses II, were found at the site, one hypothesis offered up was that the Osirion was the pharaoh’s tomb, despite the fact that no funerary materials nor body were found. Murray countered this idea by stating, “There is no tomb even among the Tombs of the Kings that is like it in plan, none having the side chamber leading off the Great Hall. Then, again, no tomb has ever been found attached to a temple; the converse is often the case, I mean a temple attached to a tomb …” Some thought Merneptah had merely taken possession of a structure there long before him.
“The other hypothesis was that this was the building for the special worship of Osiris and the celebration of the Mysteries and this appears to me to be the true explanation, for many reasons,” Murray wrote. “Each reason may not be convincing in itself, but the accumulation of evidence goes to prove the case.” As its name suggests, the Osirion may indeed have been built to worship Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld, death, and rebirth. According to the ancient mythologies, the Egyptian god Osiris had roughly the same description as the Sumerian god Enki.
There are several credible arguments against the Osirion being built by early Egyptians. Virtually all New Kingdom temples are constructed at ground level from stone blocks weighing no more than two tons, and every available space is filled with carving, hieroglyphics, or painted walls. Not so the Osirion. The floor is located forty feet below present ground level, while the stone blocks, often weighing sixty tons or more, were put into place without mortar, and even a piece of paper cannot be slipped between them. And with the exception of a few hieroglyphic images, which obviously appear to have been placed there long after the structure was built, the exquisitely cut stone walls are bare. Geologists have found that the layer of earth above the Osirion gives the structure a minimum age of eighteen thousand years.
It is worthwhile to note that Abydos was the center of the cult of Osiris, the god of death and rebirth. Nearly all researchers agree that the Osirion is dedicated to Osiris. Some researchers have noted that the only two structures found in Egypt that resemble the Osirion are the Sphinx Temple and the Valley Temple, both found beside the Sphinx. The two Sphinx temples also display the same water erosion as the Sphinx itself and therefore must have sat out under heavy rains, which only took place more than ten thousand years ago. Since they are known to have been built from stone removed from the base of the Sphinx during its construction, this would mean their construction took place several thousand years before the arrival of Seti.
Yet another hypothesis is that Seti, in constructing his temple, discovered the Osirion and in deference to the god Osiris, actually turned his uncompleted temple toward the ancient site, thus making it the only temple in Egypt with an L-shaped turn.
It is interesting to note that a pyramidal structure with a flattened top or platform is found at the sacred Mayan site of Chichen Itza in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is called the Ossario. In the center of a temple atop the Ossario is an opening that leads to a cave in which was found skeletons and various ornaments, leading some archaeologists to conjecture that this was the home of the Mayan high priests, a theory that has come under some dispute. Some believe this structure demonstrated some connection to the energy-generating pyramids of Egypt and Sumer.
According to certain researchers, it is at the Osirion at Abydos where the first mention was made of the Djed Pillar or Tet Pillar, known as the Pillar of Osiris. For the Egyptians, the Djed Pillar, depicted as a tall cylindrical object divided by four parallel bars, represented a source of power as well as the backbone of Osiris. Controversy continues over whether the Dejd was merely a representation or a functional device. Several ancient Egyptian reliefs depict men holding what appear to be elongated glass objects attached to a Djed Pillar as though to a power source. Interestingly, on at least one of these reliefs, the men holding the device are outlined with double lines as though to indicate they were being shaken by the power of the Djed.
This object of power also may be a metaphysical symbol. As one website explained, “The Djed is the supreme unifying symbol of all polarities, connecting us to the transcendent reality of the whole, the One. It symbolizes the macro and microcosmic ‘axis.’ As the cosmic axis the Djed is the ‘cylinder,’ the column of light linking the Earth to the pole star.”
Also within the Osirion, a geometric design of multiple evenly spaced and overlapping circles known to those interested in “sacred geometry” as the Flower of Life can be found.
It’s interesting that this same design, a flowerlike circle, can be found in the temples, art, and carvings of cultures all over the world, including Stonehenge, the Masada, China’s Forbidden City, the ancient Bulgarian city of Preslav, Mayan and Incan sites in South America, and even some crop circles.
If the Osirion wasn’t in fact created by Seti and the Djed really contained such incredible power, then it’s possible that an undiscovered yet technologically advanced civilization existed in Egypt long before the rise of the dynasties of the Pharaohs and that the Flower of Life was a common motif.
According to Egyptologist John Anthony West, “The Greeks themselves acknowledged the great fount and source of the wisdom that came later. In other words, civilization has been on a downhill slide since ancient Egypt. In fact, ancient Egypt itself was on a downhill trip from its very beginnings, because, strangely enough, it reached its absolute peak—the height of its prowess and sophistication—fairly early in the Old Kingdom around 2500 B.C. … and pretty much everything thereafter was a lesser accomplishment, even the fabulous temples of the New Kingdom.”
Other ancient structures continue to baffle researchers who dare to look beyond their conventional textbooks.
Thousands of monolithic stones, including pillars, erected near the coast of Brittany in northwestern France prior to the arrival of the Celts attest the skills of Neolithic people living there more than 4,000 years ago. Carnac, as it is called, is regarded by locals as a Neolithic cathedral, and it is considered a sacred site by many. Unnoticed until the seventeenth century, Carnac is composed of more than three thousand stones spread out in multiple rows. One row measures more than five miles in length. During World War II, Carnac was almost obliterated by the Allies, who thought the pillars were a German defense line.
Some of the larger stones weigh more than twenty tons, and their true age is hard to determine. Carnac is a mystery, because no one knows how the builders managed to balance these mighty stones in such shallow ground. After all, ten inches below the present ground level lies impenetrable granite. No one knows for certain why the ancients went to the trouble to construct Carnac, but one man has presented compelling evidence that again such a prehistoric site is connected to the stars.
Howard Crowhurst, a longtime Carnac researcher, determined that the builders of Carnac used sophisticated geometry and mathematics to mark solar and lunar eclipses. The pillars also seem to be designed to match ley lines in that location.
Philip Coppens wrote that Carnac “involved careful alignments to astronomical phenomena, but also played with the energies of the Earth—which is likely one of the reasons why the stones of Carnac were placed on top of a granite surface. Certain energies were harnessed here, but how and why remains a question that can only be answered in the future. What we
can
say is that the site shows that the builders of Carnac—in 4500 B.C.—possessed knowledge with which official archeology refuses to credit them.”
Göbekli Tepe is a hilltop complex of megaliths erected on the highest point of a mountain ridge about five hundred miles from Istanbul in southeastern Turkey. Hunter-gatherers reportedly used the site for religious purposes some twelve thousand years ago during the Neolithic period. Its discovery in 1964 was the most astonishing archaeological find in modern times, and today it is considered the oldest advanced civilization on Earth. Prior to the discovery and dating of Göbekli Tepe, structures in Malta dating back to 3500 BC were considered the most ancient megalithic site known. The complex consists of twenty round structures, most still buried, measuring thirty-three to one hundred feet in diameter. Only four have been excavated to date. Each structure is decorated with massive T-shaped limestone pillars.
The most extraordinary thing about Göbekli Tepe is the fact that the entire complex was buried under sand, not through some natural disaster but intentionally. Much damage has occurred over the centuries due to farming and construction by locals who had no idea of the antiquity of the site. With the discovery of Göbekli Tepe, archaeologists have had to completely revise their timetable of history, as it was not thought possible for Neolithic people using primitive quarrying tools to build such a complex.
Archaeologist Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute, who is in charge of the Göbekli Tepe excavation, believes its creators came from far distant places. The various strata at the site suggest several millennia of work, perhaps reaching back to the Mesolithic period. Considering that only about 5 percent of Göbekli Tepe’s total area has been excavated, Schmidt said the dig might well continue for another fifty years and still “barely scratch the surface.”
British journalist Sean Thomas, who visited the site, noted, “That early Neolithic hunter-gatherers could have built something like Göbekli—is world-changing. Hitherto, it was presumed that agriculture necessarily preceded civilization, and that complex art, society and architecture depended on the reliable food supplies derived from farming. Göbekli Tepe shows that the old hunter-gatherer life, at least in this region of Turkey, was far more advanced than was ever conceived.”
But why would so-called primitive people use so much time and energy to construct something like Göbekli Tepe and then bury it? After finding human bones in portions of the complex, Schmidt opined, “Göbekli Tepe is not a house or a domestic building. Evidence of any domestic use is entirely lacking. No remains of settled human habitation have been found nearby. That leaves one purpose: religion. Göbekli Tepe is the oldest temple in the world. And it isn’t just a temple; I think it is probably a funerary complex.” Schmidt viewed the site as a place of veneration and perhaps communication with supernatural entities or domains.
Schmidt’s interpretation has been challenged in late 2011. In an article published by
Current Anthropology
, archaeologist Ted Banning argued that based on evidence of daily food preparation and flint working, the structures at Göbekli Tepe were living quarters for a large population.
Termed by some the Turkish Stonehenge, the Göbekli Tepe complex predates its more famous British namesake by seven thousand years. Hassan Karabulut, associate curator of the nearby Urfa Museum, has called Göbekli Tepe “one of the most important monuments in the world.” Some have even claimed the site may have been the basis for the Bible’s Garden of Eden. One factor leading to this belief is the number of pillars there covered with elaborate animal figure reliefs. Archaeologists also have found a statue of a human and sculptures of a vulture’s head and a boar. Reptiles and vultures are commonly depicted. Most of these carvings are found on the older pillars.
As in Egypt, the older columns at Göbekli Tepe are oddly more elaborate and finely detailed than the later ones, evincing a deterioration of the culture. After visiting Göbekli Tepe in 2008, Andrew Curry, a reporter for
Smithsonian
magazine, wrote, “Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Göbekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization. … What was so important to these early people that they gathered to build (and bury) the stone rings? The gulf that separates us from Göbekli Tepe’s builders is almost unimaginable. Indeed, though I stood among the looming megaliths eager to take in their meaning, they didn’t speak to me. They were utterly foreign, placed there by people who saw the world in a way I will never comprehend. There are no sources to explain what the symbols might mean. Schmidt agrees, ‘We’re 6,000 years before the invention of writing here.’ ”
