A single day will see the burial of mankind, all that the long forbearance of fortune has produced, all that has been brought to eminence, all that is well-known and all that is beautiful; mighty thrones, great nations -- all will sink into one abyss, all will be toppled in one hour.
Sibylline Oracles
No more will treacherous gold and silver be nor earthly wealth, nor toilsome servitude, but one fast friendship and one mode of life will be with the glad people, and all things will common be, and equal light of life.
Sibylline Oracles
CHAPTER 5
I guess I jumped the gun when I said that there are many proofs of a worldwide flood. It has been pointed out to me that there are worldwide proofs of many floods. There is physical evidence as well as mythology. In my opinion, some of those many flood legends might corroborate the occurrence of a massive volatile crustal upheaval. Putting these legends on a time line to see if they match up with a single time is difficult. Indeed, the many failed attempts to do so have had the opposite result--many believe the inability of these legends to line up with a single date is evidence they refer to many floods.
Personally I don't trust the recorded dates themselves. I only have to look at the Old Testament and consider the claim that people lived for hundreds of years to allow myself to seriously question the accuracy of any and all dates recorded in antiquity. Therefore I do not try to date legends. I assume the great flood legends refer to the time of the Ice Age when I believe there was a world cataclysm. Although the destruction is wide spread, it is not complete. The existence of many flood legends also confirms to me there were many survivors around the world.
In North America, even in the twentieth century, I think it's natural to address world flood accounts from the perspectives of the religions that have influenced our society--Islam, Christianity and Judaism. However, the birthplaces of these religions are in very close proximity on another continent. It would be unfair to allow these three religions to speak for the whole world.
Islam can trace its origins to around five hundred AD; Christianity to around one hundred AD; and Judaism--it's sketchy--but to around fifteen hundred BC. The Gilgamesh Epic, is a great flood legend that emanates from the same area--actually Mesopotamia--it's the earliest recording found so far from this region and was written five thousand years ago. I consider the big three religions as splinter groups from the cultures that predate their origins in the same area, thus explaining the many similarities in their doctrines. Basically what I'm saying is that their similarities do not validate each other if they've evolved from a single origin.
The Mesopotamian account written in cuneiform is recognizably the story of Noah, or I should say the story of Noah is definitely a rewrite of the story of Utanapishtim. Over a two-thousand-year period, virtually the same story names Utanapishtim, Zuisdra, Atrahasis and Noah as the deluge hero.
As I explained earlier, the older account is more palatable for me, as is the version in the Koran. The cuneiform version tells us that only the beasts of the field (herb-or grass-eating animals) were loaded on the Ark. Also that the many craftsmen who participated in building the Ark were present on the voyage. There were other similarities: divine intervention guided the hero to build a big boat, the ship was sealed with pitch and a bird was released.
Regarding the bird, I do prefer versions that say the bird didn't return and that was the sign land was near by. The dove returning with an olive branch sounds like an embellishment to me. It makes more sense that a bird would return only when there was no other place to land.
While researching the oldest edition, I noticed that the story spoke of a divinely inspired individual surviving what was thought of as the wrath of God. The authors didn't mention that those on the Ark's manifest were the sole survivors of the world flood. I theorize the defensive posture was developed as a result of religious competition thousands of years later.
By recognizing that religion is consistent, yet evolving, I might find truth not by committing my faith to one religion or by limiting my research to these religions from the same geographical area, but rather by looking for similarities from a variety of religions from around the world. I decided to broaden my search. Would the legends of other continents describe a great flood and therefore bolster the idea that a worldwide cataclysm might indeed have taken place?
My desk was piled high with books of legend and myth from each continent. For a month I perused book after book. Looking for what I considered pertinent world flood and creation myths, I expanded my search to include creation myths because primitive cultures may have misconstrued and recorded the cataclysm as the time of creation. Finding themselves alone and isolated, it's possible pockets of pole shift survivors began counting time from that point. I didn't meet with much success so I returned all of the books from the public library and went to the National Library where I found a reference book called Encyclopaedia of World Mythology by Anthony S. Mercatante that recorded almost all of the following legends.
Now let's skirt the planet, touching down on each continent to listen to the rest of humanity. These legends reach back to a time before cultures conquered and influenced the captives’ beliefs. Some of these legends relate to my theory in obvious ways; other legends make a less obvious connection, yet could pertain to a cataclysmic disaster. You can judge for yourself whether any or all of these legends are relevant.
The Haida, natives of British Columbia, have a creation story that shows people climbing out of a clam. It's not clear but one might interpret the clam as a refuge from water and, when it was safe, people emerged. It is noteworthy to mention that it was a raven that coaxed them from their hiding place since the hardy raven appears in several legends.
The Hopi, natives of the USA and possibly Atlantis (some interpret their flying turtle shell legend as an escape from Atlantis during the cataclysm; others believe they migrated from Lake Titicaca in South America) believe cataclysms are part of the earth's life cycle. Their legends remember a time when the sun failed to rise. It seems the fox had tied a thong around the Sun's legs. It was a rabbit (seen flying through the sky) that went looking for the sun, found him and chewed the thong loose. However, the Sun was confused by all of this and came up in the wrong place; a confusion lasting 'til this very day. The Hopi are expecting another cataclysm soon. To me the only sound reason for the sun to rise in a different place is a pole shift. I like to pat myself on the back for recognizing earth's development has recurring cataclysmic cycles. But Hopi medicine people have handed down this knowledge for millennia.
The Araucanian Indians of Chile worship a god they credit with having raised the mountains so people and animals could escape a great flood. They say the good gods raised two mountains while demons or an evil god raised the waters to cover the earth.
A creation myth from Guatemala comes from Mayan mythology. A god named Huakan ruled over a planet of water. While flying over the waters, he uttered the word earth and land slowly rose from the water. Ixchel is the Mayan goddess who presides over floods, rainbows, pregnancy and weaving. Flood legends and rainbows seem to go hand in hand. I have read references in doctrines that talk about a time when it didn't rain and the atmosphere was filled with mist. I wonder if these hint at a time when the oceans spilled onto molten rock through rips in the crust and the atmosphere filled with steam, forming many rainbows around the world. As I said previously, steam would be useful in lessening the atmospheric effects of a pole shift.
In Siberian mythology, the Soyots tell of Kezer-tshingis-Kaira-Khan saving his family on a raft. The Altaics tell a story of Nama, who built an Ark, saving his family and others from the flood. After death Nama was renamed Jaik-Khan (flood prince) and became an intermediary between God and man.
From Finland and Northwest Russia comes a folk song about the Golden Age (a time of plenty) where the starry sky spins around the Pole Star. The North Star is directly overhead at this latitude and is referred to as the nail of the north. In the song, the mill is disturbed. The earth's pillar is pulled out of its peg and a new one, a new age must be constructed. This sounds a lot like a pole shift to me. I've heard many references of the stars falling from the sky on "millennium-minded doomsday" shows on the TV. "Stars falling from the sky" would be the visual effect when looking into the night sky as the crust rolled thirty degrees of latitude away from where it began. I would have loved to quote some of these sources but I never did find any in writing, except excerpts from biblical prophecy, which aren't legends, so we'll get to those later. I should add that because of precession a pole star is only good for a couple thousand years and could explain the reason for this song. But I think that such a lingering loss of a pole star would be almost unnoticed by the passing generations and this song is more likely the result of a much quicker shift.
From Orinoco and Guiana comes a myth about a great flood. Sigu, son of the God Makonaima, saved some animals by sealing them in a cave and others by putting them high in a tree. The tree was so high survivors dropped huge seeds and listened for the splash or a thud to hear if the waters had subsided.
In Hindu mythology, Vaivaswata was warned by a fish to construct a ship; he was the sole survivor of the flood. After praying for a woman, he received one with whom he begat offspring.
Huarochiri Warachiri, on the western side of the Corillera of Peru have a flood legend where survivors came down from the mountains when it was safe.
In Toltec mythology, Quetzalcoatl made Chalchiutlcue ruler over the sun; during her reign, the earth was flooded and all humans were drowned except those changed into fishes.
One of the most ancient deities in Egyptian mythology is Tem. According to one myth, Tem was responsible for a primeval flood that covered the entire earth and destroyed all mankind except those in Tem's boat.
An Australian aboriginal legend tells of a giant toad drinking all the water from the lakes and rivers and causing a drought. When the toad was finally made to laugh, the water was released and caused a great flood.
From Africa, legends tell of people and animals being saved from a great flood by climbing high into the mountains.
From China comes the legend of Nu Gua and the hole in the sky. The God of water, Kung Kung, fails at his attempt to overthrow Nu Gua. As he tries to escape her wrath and seek revenge, he sets off an avalanche of the Imperfect Mountain, which topples the pillars that support the sky. As the sky collapses, a hole appears and the sun disappears as the earth's axis is tilted. Nu Gua finds a stone of the right color and size to plug the hole. Again, this is undoubtedly the description of a pole shift.
A Polynesian myth says the Earth Mother, Papatuanuku, and the Sky God, Ranginui, had a falling-out. The Storm God, Tawhiri-Matea, and the Rain God, Ua-Roa, send a deluge to cover Papatuanuku's body. Papatuanuku is determined to save her children (humans), so she slowly raises her body from the waters and forms the Polynesian Islands.
By separating the wheat from the chafe and subjecting the wheat to my perspective, I interpret a clear message. At some point in time, the earth's waters made a hell of an impression on the people of this planet, so much so that cultures around the world are still talking about the incident today. We can rely on the 'experts' dating techniques that separate these happenings. Or we can assume that most of these great flood stories are talking about one very wild event.
Throughout my research I've been utterly amazed by how many implied facts were, in reality, simply someone's best guess. Of course these are 'expert' best guesses but still guesses. In court cases we can hear the sworn contradicting testimonies made by 'expert' witnesses for the crown and defence. When guessing about one thing provides the basis for a guess on something else, we become endangered by the domino effect.
It has been said about my book, "Much of the book assumes a knowledge I have, but have noted missing among almost everyone else." This reminds me of something John Bradshaw said about the state of social development specifically regarding the lessons or morals or examples set within families. He said, "It is possible for a whole flock of geese to be flying in the wrong direction for a period of time." Basically he's saying that for a time it's possible that a whole culture can teach its children the wrong lessons. I have witnessed a lot of distressed people currently receiving help through recovery programs--this new way of living that encourages emotional expression, the purging of secrets that are poisonous to our bodies and souls, all of which empowers individuals to pursue their inner yearnings rather than conform. So I must agree with Bradshaw that the direction society travelled since at least the middle ages was a wrong direction.
This is pertinent to my position, because I think scientific theories have followed a wrong direction. These theories also presume a knowledge missing in almost everyone else. Isn't that what theories are all about? Scientists have had a lot more time to bring people around to their way of thinking along with the luxury of telling the education system what to teach. Among the birds of the feather I flock with I often hear this hierarchy referred to as they, as in 'they say ...' The 'theys' are definitely populous. Me, I'm just a little guy who's gotta start somewhere. If I come across as bold--forgive me: what I am sharing with you genuinely concerns me.
As I've said time and again, I do not believe that all the different cultures sprang from one sole clan of pole shift survivors. I've heard a claim by one organization that a First Nations North American cave drawing that depicts someone saving people and animals on a raft is a crude ancient recollection of the Noah's Ark story and that this picture is proof that Noah was the only survivor and all humanity descended from his family. The inference this organization is making is that the legend of Noah is validated all the way over in the Americas. I'd say that's hogwash! I all but know there were many groups of survivors located around the planet.
I do not believe the water rose evenly around the earth's surface to submerge the tallest mountains. I believe ground water exuded from the crust, torrential rains or condensing steam added to the depth, and that tsunamis caused the greatest depths, albeit in passing. I think people survived in boats, rafts, arks and by being on safe land. When we look at places like Madagascar and Australia, we see some pretty primitive-looking animals, some that look like the missing link to extinct species (I do not include the Galapagos Islands in this example list because I think that amphibians and some reptiles are natural-born pole shift survivors). Somewhere in the dynamics of the raging water there would be rip-tides, gravitational effects, friction and inertia limitations that don't allow the water to rise up evenly or pick up and gallop all of the way around the world. Therefore, I conclude that some areas of the planet were safer than others.
Given the likelihood of earthquakes, I'd be leery about crawling into a cave; references to caves might be embellishments of the legends where survivors climbed mountains, (or references to man-made concrete bunkers which several groups around the world are choosing as their bid to survive the up and coming troubles). Around the world there were many pockets of survivors isolated from one another. Their cultures evolved separately for many generations. I believe many, if not all, of these legends are likely talking about a pole shift.
This research confirmed it; finding a great flood legend from every continent tells me there may very well have been a world flood. We must not confuse ignorance with stupidity. We know knowledge was limited when we realize that as recently as five hundred years ago the status quo believed the world was flat. Regardless of this misconception, the human intellect has not evolved all that much in the last five hundred years. Looking back at some of the achievements of mankind dating back thousands of years there is evidence that we have learned only recently what was once known a long time ago. Therefore, I believe that the achievable intellectual level of humankind has remained unchanged for many thousands of years.
I'm certain the people who witnessed these water-born catastrophes knew the difference between a localized flood and what could unmistakably be called a huge flood. For me, it's not a coincidence that legends from so many cultures talk specifically of a huge flood and not about a huge local flood. When these legends are assumed to be talking about the same event, I think pole-shift survivors have left clear messages of a cataclysmic world change in their spiritual teachings. The message is as clear as I have learned to expect.
Common sense told me that, if there had been a world flood, there would be legends found around the world. Why are these messages found in spiritual teachings? It seems to me even atheists will find themselves, in the face of a crisis, asking the Higher Power for a little help. On TV interviews in the aftermath of a crisis we often hear the survivors "thanking God" even those who perhaps are among the non-believers.
Indeed, even religions recognize the vulnerability of people after a crisis. They see the opportunity in deflated human ego states as a time to send in their recruiting predators. There is a time during an aftermath that people call into question their rational reality; with the right seeds planted at this time, new converts are acquired more easily than when dealing with people who's ego is still intact (developing without interruption). I've "witnessed" a particularly annoying religious organization circling like buzzards around funerals. Looking to prey on (not to pray for) devastated family members. I've heard the leaders of organized religious relief groups interviewed on TV talking about going to disaster areas to give out food as a secondary goal to the priority of spreading their words of God. I think their priorities are mixed up. Feeding those people is the most spiritual thing they could do; attaching a price tag to the gift moves it into an intellectual coup.
I believe it is perfectly natural that these legends are found preserved in the religions of the world. Could it possibly be just a coincidence that so many cultures around the world tell their children that something really wild happened in their ancestors' history when it did not!
I must repeat my message; I consider pole shifting to be a natural phenomenon. Something as hot as the earth's core cannot be encased in a crust, which does not burst once in awhile. Many religions credit an angry God for the recorded cataclysms--this is a simplification of the mechanics that some simply didn't understand. Others seem to have understood the axis tilted and recorded it that way.
Who knows the extent of God's role in all of this? The answers offered from among a flurry of hands would represent what groups or individuals choose to believe or were conditioned to believe. The truth is no one knows for sure; the answer lies in the Unknown-Unknown. I believe there is an entity, yet I cannot claim to understand what it's made of or what motivates it or whether it is capable of any emotion other than love. When I refer to God as an "it", it may offend some people. Personally, I find it offensive when people genderize the entity: it implies they know something about God that I don't know, and I know they don't. The point I'm getting to is that it is no longer necessary to lay the responsibility for a world cataclysm on the shoulders of an entity. We have returned to a state of knowledge where we can understand it is a natural event and we can survive this thing of nature.
There will be another world flood, then, in time, another, and so on until the earth's core is cold. Where does God fit into all of this? I don't know and neither does anyone else. And, I'll tell ya the truth, I'm not interested in hearing anyone's theory on the matter because I know the question is currently unanswerable and think the time is short. All of my energy is best put toward working with nature to survive this natural event. There will also be those times of cataclysm when huge meteors collide with the earth. Our earth is constantly changing and so is the universe.
I feel a sense of freedom when I surrender to this reality because it is up to me, an individual, to prepare for what I believe will happen. I am free of what is expected of me by others. I am a non-conformist. I have chosen to follow my intuition and forget about the non-believers.
I will build my boat and ignore the hecklers. The way I see it, for the planet's sake, not all of us or our technology is meant to survive. For those who must credit God with the wisdom within nature, I'd say, look at periodic cataclysm as the wisest plan ever; because humanity unchecked is to the planet as flesh-eating disease is to humans: we both will kill our host at our own expense.
There are a couple of guys bringing new insights to the great pyramids of Egypt. The three we are most familiar with are Cheops, Khufu and Souphies. There were many pyramids built before and after these three that have long since crumbled. There is something special about these most famous three; somehow the techniques used to build them were not used in subsequent pyramids. From a close scrutiny of these three pyramids, some amazing facts have been uncovered.
I will give you a glimpse of them but for more detail you can read The Orion Mystery by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert. First off, it was discovered that Cheops is a mathematical communication; the dimensions of earth's hemispheres were known at the time the blueprints were drawn. In other words, if we cut the globe in half at the equator, then scale up the projected pyramid (the outer layer and top forty feet are missing), we will find the four corners of its base will touch four points on the equator and the projected top point will touch a pole.
Is this an accident? I think not. I think it's a message. The simple message might be that there was once a civilization that possessed knowledge we have just acquired in recent history. When attempting to communicate with the people of future millennia, mathematics will be deciphered more easily than an extinct language. I don't usually think of math as a language, but in this example I hear people from the past communicating.
For years, the significance of the way those three pyramids were laid out has baffled Egyptologists. One night, while looking up into the sky, one of these guys recognized the layout of the pyramids as the belt of Orion in the Orion constellation (the fact that this was overlooked by Egyptologists for centuries is mind-boggling to me). Given Orion was one of the most favoured deities of the Egyptians, the significance of the observation could have ended there.
But no. These guys are very inquisitive and realized there may be more to the communication. They looked at the way their earthbound Orion's belt was laid up against the Nile River. They speculated the Nile might represent the Milky Way, which created another question. Was there a time when Orion's belt and the Milky Way appeared in the night sky the way it appears in the sands of Egypt?
By using a computer, they were able to reverse the earth's wobbling spin to see how the constellation appeared in the sky from Egypt's vantage point throughout history. They spun the views of precession backwards to a little over thirteen thousand years ago and they found a match. We can consider the match a coincidence or assume the plans for these pyramids were drawn at a time shortly after the last Ice Age. Marking the time shortly after the Ice Age as a time when knowledge was high is significant.
As you can guess, I love this theory. The math and architecture used while building the pyramids would tax the building techniques of today. With all of that skill and know-how, I don't believe the ratio of the pyramid fits so exactly into a hemisphere by accident or that, by coincidence, there was a point in time shortly after the Ice Age when the Nile and pyramids matched an ancient astrological configuration. I was pleasantly surprised to realize plans for the pyramids may have been drawn shortly after the last Ice Age and, more exactly, after what I think was a pole shift.
These apparent coincidences unite to form what could be a message from one ancient advanced culture to the next advanced culture they knew would evolve and understand. We must allow more time for those two archaeological detectives to use their perspective and unlock more knowledge left to us from these ancestors. I'd bet my bottom dollar there is a lot more to be understood from these mysterious buildings.
The timing of these buildings was purposeful and critical to delivering the message. Egyptologists tell us those pyramids were built 3500 years ago. If this is so, I am convinced their race had the ability to draft a set of plans and then postpone the building of those plans for several thousand years for the buildings to exist at a time when they could be understood.
However, there is a possibility the Egyptologists are wrong. There is a simple explanation as to how they could be wrong. They get their date because they know when the Pharaoh whose name is plastered all over the tomb reigned and credit him as the builder. However, new knowledge reveals that whole Egyptian cities were resurfaced to credit the city's creation to a different Pharaoh. Essentially, Pharaohs steal the credit for building things because they believe what they create in life they get to keep in death. By resurfacing the city and plastering their name all over everything, they thought they could fool the Gods into letting them keep the city. It is not too farfetched to think the writings in the great pyramids were rewritten.
In this very current theory that is still developing the pyramids may have been built eleven thousand five hundred years ago. I consider the dating of events and artefacts within antiquity to be fallible and best taken with a grain of salt. This theory becomes credible when comparing the construction techniques used in building the pyramids with identical techniques used at Teawehnoco.
Teawehnoco is in South America and is one of the ancient monolithic structures built around the world. Monolithic structures are those that use huge stones, stones that weigh as much as two diesel locomotives. In many cases, these stones were quarried many miles away from the building site, which adds to the mystery of how ancient people accomplished these immense tasks. We see this type of construction in the pyramids, Teawenoco, Stonehenge, Mayan temples, Easter Island and more.
The similarities between the pyramids and Teawenoco defy the logic of the currently accepted chronological placement of world events. When we compare the construction techniques of these two sites, it seems the architects were classmates at the same university (at some point in this book I'm going to have to stop calling coincidence a coincidence).
The first striking similarity is the use of 'L'-cut stones on the corners of these buildings. Another is the technique of cutting and joining the stones in a way that the tip of a needle cannot be inserted in the joints. To hold stones together, 'I's were cut across side-by-side stones; liquid metal was poured into the 'I's and left to solidify forming a metal staple, adding strength to the buildings. Not only are these engineering decisions ingenious, they are identical in both buildings.
Teawenoco was built around twelve thousand five hundred years ago. In the carvings of the buildings we also see that the headdress of these two societies half a planet away from each other was almost identical. Hello! Is common sense screaming to be heard here?
These two cultures were smelting metal thousands of years before we credit humanity with this knowledge. We know these two cultures developed separately from one another. We can listen to those who would have us believe extra-terrestrials visited these civilizations, or we can assume these people survived a cataclysm that separated their original civilization. I'm not saying that extra-terrestrials didn't visit--I just don't know that they did. I'm simply using William of Occam's Razor to cut to what is easier for me to believe. (William of Occam's Razor basically states: when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is better. Scientists use this a lot). "Can we talk?" Can I hazard a guess that they were possibly separate pockets of survivors from the time of Atlantis?