+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: Book Notes: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

  1. Link to Post #1
    United States Unsubscribed
    Join Date
    24th September 2014
    Location
    Appalachia
    Posts
    2,551
    Thanks
    9,947
    Thanked 13,078 times in 2,355 posts

    Default Book Notes: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

    Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified:
    Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

    These are notes I took from the book Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past (2011, edited by Michael Pye & Kirsten Dalley) that summarize some of the most interesting material, in a "cliff notes" version. This is a book of individual contributions from numerous authors.




    “Archaeological Scandals” – Frank Joseph

    200-lb. Sandstone with medieval Swedish runic script found on the top & one side, explaining that “Eight Götalanders and twenty-two Norwegians on [this] reclaiming/acquisition journey far west from Vinland,” in Solem, Minnesota. It explained that at this spot, after returning from a day's journey North, the men discovered ten (of their own?) dead & bloody. It then continued, “Ave Maria. Save from evil.” It was dated 1362. It also said that 10 men kept their ships, 14 days' journey away. The script matches 14th century tombstone engravings from the island of Götland, off the coast of Sweden, including a “dotted R” rune that was not discovered by modern scholars until 1935 (the stone was discovered in 1898), & testing showed it was approx. 500 years old.

    Another anomalous stone carving was found near the mouth of Bat Creek in Tennessee on Feb. 14th, 1889, ~40 mi. south of Knoxville. The inscription was found in a Native American burial mound dated to around 100 AD, along with copper bracelets (zinc-copper alloy commonly used in the Roman Empire from ~45 BC to ~200 AD), & consisted of a paleo-Hebrew inscription of the word “Judea” (“LYHWD”) with characters also dating back to the 2nd century, approx. 70-135 AD. The burial mound itself, one of three at the site, was 28 ft. across, 5 ft. high, & contained 9 human skeletons. Wood fragments found with it were carbon-dated in 1988 to between 32 and 769 AD.

    A baked clay tablet with cuneiform characters, app. a receipt for a sacrificial lamb to celebrate the promotion of “Enmahgalanna” to a priestess of the Moon god Nanna, was found along with other symbolic items in the medicine bag of Chief Joseph of a band of Nez Perce natives upon his surrender to U.S. cavalry on Oct. 5th, 1877. The tablet was ~1” square, & the script was of an ancient Mid-East culture, the Sumerians, dating back to approx. 2042 BC. Chief Joseph explained that the item had been passed on for many generations from white ancestors who had arrived in ancient times & taught his people many things.

    A 1978 recreation of an ancient Sumerian reed boat proved sea-worthy enough to last at least 5 months on ocean voyages from the Persian Gulf to Pakistan, & the Red Sea.

    Another Sumerian tablet was found in Lexington, Georgia near “ancient stone projectile points,” & the tablet was connected to Ur-Nammuk, Iraq, around the year 2040 BC.

    Yet another record of a Sumerian tablet found in Georgia, by a Mrs. Joe Hearn, near the Chattahoochee River in NW Georgia, contained a cuneiform receipt of the sale of sheep & goats, app. transported overseas to America, identifying the 37th or 38th year of the reign of King Sulgi of Ur, ~2040 BC. The sheep & goats appeared to be for ritual sacrifice to the Sun god Utu & the goddess Lama Lugal. This king's reign (properly 2029 BC-1982 BC) represents what is possibly the peak of Sumerian international commerce, & the king is known for his expansionist policies, & would be the most likely to have reached GA.

    Another Sumerian cuneiform tablet was discovered among ancient Native American arrowheads, ~2 ft. below ground, in Quaker City, Ohio, in 1978. It made references, in ancient cuneiform, to the elevation of the ruler Karzida, ~2030 BC.

    A fired ceramic bowl was dug up near the pre-Incan ruins of Tiahuanaco, Peru, & contained both ancient Sumerian cuneiform on the inner rim, & an unknown script. It also depicted animals & anthropomorphic figures. This bowl was discovered in 1959, & in Dec. 2001 a 350-lb., 5-ft. tall & 2-ft. wide statue was discovered nearby, of a man in a loin cloth, also with ancient Sumerian cuneiform along the back. A translation of either has app. not been completed.

    Similarities between ancient Sumerian & Peruvians: belief in a twin-peaked mountain where the Sun rested at night: “Mashu” in Sumerian & “Machu Picchu” to the Incans; “Great lord” in Sumerian, “Enki,” is also the meaning of “Inca”; both built step-pyramids of sun-dried brick.

    Discovery of ancient burial mounds on the island of Shemya in the Aleutian Semichi chain containing skulls measuring 22-24 in. from base to crown, app. from the Incan/Pharaonic practice of elongating skulls to display royalty, in 1942. There were “hundreds” of skulls, also featuring surgical holes.

    G. E. Kincaid's discovery of an ancient “barracks” with edged weapons, shields, breastplates, tools & ornaments in a cavern system in the Grand Canyon, as well as app. shrine with a Buddha-like statue, walls adorned with hieroglyphic script, in 1908. The Smithsonian dispatched S. A. Jordan with a team that carted out loads of artifacts & sealed the cave with an iron gate.

    A Harvard-sponsored archaeological project in the mid-1970's in Hueyatlaco, Mexico (~70 mi. SE of Mexico City) found evidence of man-made fire that was dated back about a quarter of a million years. All fossils & artifacts recovered at the site were promptly seized by the Mexican gov.'t, & a Mexican member of the team banned from any further field work.

    Yates, Donald N. “Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in the Cherokee”: The DNA of people of the Hills of Galilee, in Israel, 2000 years ago, is related to “pure-blooded” Cherokee Native Americans.



    “Paradises Lost” – Oberon Zell


    Up until ~10,500 years ago, much of the Earth's water was trapped in miles-thick sheets of ice, & sea levels were hundreds of feet lower than today. This is believed to have been the case for ~59,000 years, known as the Würm Glaciation.

    Humans tend to build cities at the mouths of rivers, meaning any such cities present during the Würm Glaciation would most likely now be under hundreds of feet of water and/or silt deposits.

    Eden: Genesis 2:10-14 describes a river flowing into Eden that, farther inland, divided into 4 headwaters: the rivers Pishon, Gihon, Tigris & Euphrates. The last two are known by those same names today. The Pishon was probably now-dry ravines that run toward the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia, known as Wadi Rimah & Wadi Batin, & the Gihon may be the Karun River from Iran that was diverted in 1765 into the Haffar Channel, which was dug in 986. The Biblical Eden would then have been where these rivers joined before entering the gulf, & may now be submerged if older than 4000 BC, which seems to be around when water levels stopped rising from melting glaciers.

    Dilmun: A land of paradise described in the Sumerian epic “Enki and Ninhursag,” also mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh, & may have been on the Saudi coast of the Persian Gulf, a large portion of which was also submerged, app. between 6000 & 4000 BC.

    “The Deluge”: The oldest account of the biblical flood may be the “Eridu Genesis” surviving on fragments of cuneiform tablets dated to ~1600 BC, the first Babylonian dynasty, or a ~1700 BC Akkadian epic named after the protagonist Atrahasis. In the latter, the flood is described as lasting 7 days. In the Biblical account it rained for “forty days and forty nights,” & the waters rose for 150 days. King Gilgamesh of Uruk is believed to have reigned around 2700 BC, when this flood was already an old legend. At Atrahasis' home city of Ubara-Tutu, modern-day Tell Fara, Iraq, flood deposits from an ancient event were radiocarbon dated to ~2900 BC, which fits with histories of Sumerian kings. Evidence of this flood was found as far north as Kish, exactly the city where the Atrahasis epic describes the kings arriving from heaven to re-establish rule.

    William Ryan & Walter Pitman of Columbia University have proposed the explanation that the flooding was caused around 5600 BC by ten cubic miles of water per day (~200x the volume of Niagara Falls) pouring from the Mediterranean into the previously-isolated Black Sea through the Bosporus, raising it hundreds of feet, connecting it to saltwater oceans & submerging ~60,000 sq. mi. of farmland. The replacement of freshwater molluscs in the Black Sea (dating to 15,500-7640 years ago) with saltwater molluscs (6820-2800 years old) supports this, but it may just be another example of world-wide rises in sea level that ended around 4000 BC, & that were a distinct event from the sudden inundation in Mesopotamia that the ~2900 BC dating implies. However, Eden & Dilmun may have already been submerged from rising sea levels before the later flood.

    Bruce Masse of Los Alamos has suggested an impact of a ~3-mile-wide celestial body off the coast of Madagascar between 3000 & 2800 BC, creating the 18-mile-diameter crater called Burcle Crater, 12,500 ft. below the surface. Masse believes it would have created a 600-ft. tsunami, spawned superhurricanes on the other side of the Earth, caused global darkness, & killed ~80% of the global population. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim saw a pillar of black smoke on the horizon before the sky went dark for a week, & then a cyclone flooded the land. A Chinese flood myth dates to the reign of Empress Nu Wa, ca. 2807 BC (May 10th, according to astronomical cross-checking).

    Doggerland: Another ancient land now submerged, consisting of the continental shelf extending between/under Ireland, Great Britain, & mainland Europe, made it possible to walk from Ireland to Germany or Sweden. The exposed land was approx. the same area as modern Great Britain, mostly from the English Channel, north to the North Sea & east beyond Denmark. Artifacts have already been dredged from the North Sea, proving ancient habitation. The area is believed to have been submerged around 6200 BC, at least partially as a result of the Storegga Landslide off the coast of Norway.

    Lemuria: Another landmass submerged after the last ice age, in the regions of India & especially the continental shelf around Indonesia. The name “Lemuria” was coined by Philip Sclater in 1864 to explain how lemurs had spread throughout a number of geographically isolated (ie islands separated by expanses of water) places. Some attribute ancient activities around Mt. Shasta in California to the Lemurians.

    Mu: A landmass hypothesized to exist in the Pacific Ocean (no submerged shelves are known to exist there) to explain cultural similarities between widely-scattered people, such as the Hawaiians, Easter Islanders, etc.

    Atlantis: Made famous by Plato & widely debated. Supposedly it passed to Plato from his great-grandfather, who got the story from the Greek statesman Solon (638-558 BC), who got it from Egyptian priests. Two of many possibilities are the Azores Plateau now submerged under the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred miles west of Portugal & comparable in area to France (above water ~10,500 years ago), & the island of Thera in the Mediterranean, which was also larger in ancient times & was app. destroyed by a volcanic eruption around 1628 BC & which the Egyptians would have known about because of the size of the blast.

    Ancient South America: Much of Western South America was app. covered by a huge “inland sea,” & remains of cultures in the area have been dated back to ~12,000 years ago. In addition to the Sumerian cuneiform mentioned in the previous article, papyrus reeds grow in profusion around Lake Titicaca – the only place in the world they grow wild besides Egypt, & the S.A. locals still make boats from them as the ancient Egyptians did.



    “Atlantis: The Lost Walhalla” – Philip Coppens


    The Belgian historian Marcel Mestdagh has published work showing a pattern to the Viking invasion of NW Europe between the 8th & 11th centuries: after initial skirmishes had landed, large land armies were formed, first in England, then in France, that roamed ancient megalithic sites that fell along concentric circles of roads, based around Nottingham in England & Sens in France. The only town the Vikings did not take by attack was Sens, which was taken with a passive ~6 month siege. These towns were both focal points of arrangements of megalithic structures that were constructed by an unknown ancient people. The Vikings had a legend of a lost home island called Walhalla, similar to the Celts, who called their lost island Avalon, & the Portuguese, who called theirs Antilia. The Dutch word for island, “eiland,” literally means “eggland,” ie “egg-shaped land,” & the region surrounding Sens to this day is known as the Île-de-France, literally the “Island of France.” Sens was also the stronghold of the ancient Celtic tribe “Senones” (“elders”), & when the Romans invaded, Caesar made it his HQ.

    The most striking thing about Sens is the network of roads & canals of pre-historic origin, in concentric rings around it, along which also lie all number of the major surrounding cities: Paris, Orléans, Meax, Châtillon-sur-Seine (Oval I), Vernon, Vendôme, Blois, Bourges, Château-Chinon (Oval II), Amiens, Rouen, Alençon, le Mans, Château-du-Loir, Tours, Châteauroux, Moulins, Chalon-sur-Saône, Dole, Metz (Oval III), le Havre, Caen, Angers, Saumur, Vichy, Mâcon, Trier, Dinant, and Escautpont (Oval IV). The inner oval has a circumference of ~400 mi., & the outer of ~1,106 mi.

    This network of ancient megalithic roads, canals & monuments match Plato's description of Atlantis: the “island” of Atlantis was 3,000 stadia (333 miles), while the center oval around Sens (ie, the Île-de-France region) can be precisely inscribed inside a diamond with sides of 333 mi. each. Like Atlantis, the entire network within the 4 ovals is situated between mountains (the Alps) & the sea, & also on flat land between the two. Plato described Atlantis as 222 miles from the sea – the precise distance between the diamond's southern point & the Mediterranean. Plato described 10 kingdoms of Atlantis, & within this ancient network, ancient Celtic tribes were known to mark their separate territories with megalithic stone monuments/markers, & many towns in the area have a word for “marker” in their names to this day (ie “Marc-” or “Merc-”). Another Greek philosopher, Proclus, made a reference to the middle kingdom of Atlantis being 1000 stadia (~111 mi.), which is the width of the central oval. Also within the central oval is a town named Avalon, matching the Celtic legend.

    Megalithic structures in Britain, Ireland & Brittany are found to have made use of a common use of measure. The megalithic sites of Stonehenge & Avebury are also connected by an oval road that forms a similar network to the one in France, but smaller in scale (this oval measures 1/10th of oval II in France). It is also app. that the ancient builders were able to locate the geographic center of Britain.

    The author contends that, being untouched by Roman conquests, the Viking culture still kept enough knowledge of its heritage to allow the Vikings to navigate the ancient megalithic sites in Britain & France, somehow knowing precisely where they were looking & possibly able to still interpret the ancient stone markers on the system of roads.

    Wim Zitman has noticed mathematical similarities between the Atlantean dimensions & the star Sirius, which was also sacred to the Egyptians.

    A collection of ancient towns deriving their names from the word “Eleusis” was found by Xavier Guichard in the 1930's to form a pattern aligning with solstices & equinoxes of ~12,000 years ago. These places span Poland, Spain, Egypt, & Greece, but are primarily in France. A lack of sites named from “Eleusis” in Britain makes sense with this time frame, since Britain would have been largely covered in ice at this time.

    The author suggests that the original civilization in these areas dates to ~12,000 years ago, but after some app. disaster, was replaced with succeeding peoples, including what may have been the creators of the concentric megalithic network between ~4500 & 1200 BC.



    “Temples, Creator-Gods, and the Transfiguration of the Soul” – Freddy Silva


    Ancient Egyptians considered Pharaoh Menes their first purely human ruler, ca. 3100 BC. The Egyptian “Building Texts” refer to an even earlier period they called the “Occasion of the First Time,” when the land was ruled by “Neteru” (“creator-gods”) until a global deluge ended their reign. These texts also mention that the “Ahau” (“gods who stand up”) were 9 cubits (15 feet) tall.

    Jacob Roggeveen, of the western explorers to first discover Easter Island, described two distinct races living there at the time : the “short ears” (normal humans) & “long ears,” who he recorded as “averaging 12 feet in height.” The natives believed that the “long ears” were descendants of what they called the “masters of specialized knowledge,” who built the megalithic monuments on Easter Island using “mana,” apparently a form of psychic energy. These giant men were still on the island in 1722, according to Roggeveen. According to the natives, “by words of mouths” the statues were moved into place.

    There are at least 175 ancient global flood myths. Alexander Tollman of Australia has compared several of these myths that refer to “seven burning suns” coming down & striking the Earth before the flood came. Further comparison to ancient meteor impact sites yielded a date for these events ca. 10,000 BC, & in 2008 a group of Danish scientists settled on the year of 9703 BC, approximately the date given by Plato for the sinking of Atlantis. At this time ash/soot was hurled into the atmosphere in massive amounts & amounts of carbon-14 were increased.

    According to various cultures (Egypt, India, the Andes), after this catastrophe, seven sages/ “shining ones”/etc.3 Came down to oversee the rebuilding process. According to the Andeans, who called these people the Huari, they were white-skinned, bearded giants. Many of the ancient sites attributed to them are used as spiritual initiation sites to this day.

    Many mountains considered sacred by ancient cultures can be grouped into 3's to form right/isosceles/equilateral triangles to high degrees of accuracy. Ex: Mt. Kailas, hill of Gabbar, & Maa Sharda (form right triangle to within 1° of error, & all associated with Shiva); Avebury, England, Kealkill, Ireland, & Machrie Moor in Scotland (form equilateral triangle).

    The same rites, & ancient megalithic sites in general, tend to be geomagnetic hot spots and/or exhibit geomagnetic anomalies. This may be related to a desired effect upon the human body, ie to induce a trance or etc.

    The Egyptian temple at Saqqara, for ex., contains alternating geomagnetic fields aligned with the geometry of the temple itself so as to interact with the human body upon approach to the temple. Such sites were considered by the ancients to be gateways to the heavens & a means for humans to reach “paradise,” etc.

    Sacred geometry was applied at these sites, often making use of multiples/divisors & harmonics of numbers relating to the pentagram, golden ratio, tetrahedron & sphere, & the angle of 32.72 (or 33) degrees.



    “Our Sonic Past” – Marie D. Jones & Larry Flaxman


    Swedish civil engineer Henry Kjelson writes of the account of a Dr. Jarl who saw Tibetans move stones using musical instruments, & being able to precisely place them this way. Another account, of an Austrian-filmmaker named “Linauer” in Tibet in the 1930's, similarly recounts musical instruments & some type of screen that reflected the sounds to move large stones.

    Ancient sites being able to amplify or reverberate sounds within them in various ways.



    “Oppenheimer's Iron Thunderbolt” – Micah A. Hanks


    Mention in the Mahabharata of an ancient weapon, a “blazing shaft” of “smokeless flame” that later blots out the Sun & causes survivors' hair & nails to fall out. It's also described as making food inedible & reducing two ancient races to ash.

    Flying craft known as “vimanas” in the Vedas that are described as having engines in iron enclosures that utilized vortices of liquid mercury for propulsion.

    Evidence in ancient coral deposits of higher amounts of radioactive uranium in the atmosphere, along with metal particles indicating ancient mining & smelting activities.

    Evidence of Great Lakes region in the US being subjected to an ancient atomic blast, generally attributed to a pulse from an ancient supernova or etc. Firestone, Richard B. & William Topping. “Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times.”

    Excavations at the Mohenjo-Daro3 site in the Indus River Valley in Pakistan reveal a buried city, similar to Pompeii, with badly burned people lying dead in the streets. Also bricks melted on one side, facing an epicenter of melted sand at the center. Everything within the 150-ft. Epicenter was “crystallized, fused or melted.” This happened “more than” 3000 years ago. The site was still radioactive [at the time of excavation].



    “From the Pyramids to the Pentagon” – Nick Redfern


    A man named George Wellington Van Tassel in August 1953, near Yucca Valley, California, claimed to have been woken up in the middle of the night by an extraterrestrial that gave him a tour of its “scout” spacecraft, told Van Tassel of mankind's history, & warned against nuclear annihilation. He later claimed to have met with other ETs as well, including “Numa of Uni; Ah-Ming of Tarr; Rondolla of the Fourth Density; and Zolton, the Highest Authority in the Sector System of Vela.” Van Tassel began giving public lectures regarding these experiences, gathering as many as 12,000 people or more at the height of his popularity in the 1950's. He gave alternative accounts of biblical stories, as being in relation to ancient ET encounters with humans. For example, he said ancient animals with body temperatures of 105 degrees died after the last ice age & were replaced with modern animals by ETs, & that this was behind the story of every animal of the Earth being loaded into Noah's Ark to survive the flood. He also said that Adam was not a man but a race introduced by ET s that was all-male. They then began mating with women of a more primitive race of men, resulting in the fall. Van Tassel said he was told that after this happened, the “space people” would no longer land, but continued to watch over mankind because of their involvement in his creation. He said these “space people” were also responsible for the 10 Commandments, Mary & Jesus, & also Native American legends about corn & potatoes being given from a flaming canoe. The FBI kept surveillance of Van Tassel in the 1950's.

    Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mas'udi (“the Herodotus of the Arabs”) wrote in the 10th century of an Arabic legend implying the Pyramids were built using levitation technology.

    An expert on Djinn lore, Philip Imbrogno, claimed to have learned of a covert US attempt to use Djinn as a weapon in Arabia in 1995.



    “Race, Interrupted” – Scott Alan Roberts


    The author suggests that the scene in the Garden of Eden in Genesis may have been symbolic of the creation of a dual bloodline of mankind, one of which had been intermingled with the face of the “serpent,” & that Cain & Abel, if not historical facts, were symbolic of the Adamic & “serpent” bloodlines. Note is made of all the language in the original Hebrew that is consistent with sexual innuendos. Note is also made of the app. fact that when Cain was cast out of Eden & went East, 1) he was afraid of someone finding him & killing him as he wandered (who else was there but Adam & Eve?), & 2) he found a wife after going East, despite no mention of a daughter by Adam & Eve. Jehovah is also described as having his presence in Eden in particular, since when Cain leaves to go East, he is “out from the LORD's presence.” Enoch was the son of Cain & his wife.

    The Hebrew word for the serpent is “nachash” (pronounced 'naw-kawsh'), meaning “magician, enchanter; a spellbinder; to illuminate, shine.” One interpretation is “a shining being with the power to enchant.”



    “Clash of the Giants” – Pat Chouinard


    Giants from Hindu, Greek & Norse mythologies are compared. In the Hindu “Vishnu Purana” & “Mahabharata” they are the Daitya & associated with water & a sunken city; in Greek, the Gigantes & the Titans, both of whom made war on the Olympian gods (& the Titans were defeated by the Olympians only with the help of Heracles); in Norse mythology, there are the children of Thrud, descended from the front giant Ymir, & the children of Bor, including the Aesir. The Norse giants engaged in protracted battle that ended when the death of Ymir, who was killed by Odin, Vili, & Ve, who are Aesir, caused a global flood.

    Gigantopithecus: an ancient race of giants known to scientists, standing around 9½ ft. tall.

    Biblical references: Job 25:5-6; Genesis 6:4; “Nephilim” from the Hebrew verb “nafol,” meaning “to fall”; the Book of Enoch & a portion of it known as the “Book of Giants”; the Rephaim, first appearing in Genesis 14:5, who were defeated in an expedition that ultimately conquered Sodom & Gomorrah, in Genesis 14:10; Deuteronomy 3:11; II Samuel 21:20; Samuel 7:1-4; 1 Chronicles 20:3-8.

    The Paiute tribe of modern-day Nevada tell of the Si-Te-Cah: giant, red-haired Caucasians who inhabited their lands before they arrived there. Skeletons in the dry Humboldt lake bed near Lovelock, NV, 2 mummified giants, one 8½ ft. tall, the other 10 ft. tall.

    Magellan, Francis Drake, De Soto & Commodore Byron all reported coming across living giants in N.A. Magellan found a red-haired giant near the harbor of San Julian, Mexico, ~10 ft. with a “voice like a bull.”



    “The AB Intervention Hypothesis” – Paul Von Ward


    Deuteronomy 10:17, “For Yahweh...is God of the Elohim.” [If "God" and "Elohim" are the same thing, why this particular wording?]

    B-type blood [is believed to have] appeared ~11,500 BC, & is most concentrated near Turkey & Mesopotamia.

    “Ethopic Book of Enoch and Genesis,” 1:26.



    “The Micmac and the Picts” – Steven Sora


    Similarities & other coincidences regarding the natives of North America & the Picts of Scotland:
    • A Frenchman (Lescarbot) in 1606 described the language of the Micmac of present-day Canada as “half-Basque.”
    • DNA of N.A. natives of the same region (haploid group “X”) are also related to the Basque region between France & Spain.
    • Sir Walter Raleigh called the Algonquin speakers in Virginia “Picts.”
    • Scots called the Picts “wee dark men.”
    • The Micmac & Picts both tattooed themselves in blue.
    • The Picts kept northern Britain unconquered by the Romans, who feared them. The Picts fought nude & covered in blue paint. They eventually ran the Romans out of Britain, but their culture & language were later assimilated by Christian culture & the Scots-Gaelic language.
    • The Pict language largely remains unknown to this day, though it shows similarities to the Algonquin group of languages, for ex. the Algonquin “wigwam” & the Pictish “weegamme.” Also, Gaelic shows some similarities with Algonquin: Algonquin “monad” (mountain) & Gaelic “monadh” (mountain); “nock” (hill) & “cnoc”; “merrimack” (deep fishing) & “merriomack” (of great depth).
    • The writer Gildas, in 570 AD, claimed the Picts originally came from another land across the ocean.
      Micmac & Picts were both matriarchal. The Picts were the only matriarchal society on the British Isles.
    • Micmac & Picts were both organized into clans.
    • Micmac clans used decorated loincloths to distinguish themselves from each other; the Picts wore what became kilts [integrated into Scottish culture].
    • Both elected their spiritual & tribal leaders, & chieftains were determined by women.
    • Both wore feathered headdresses, & were known for ceremonial dances.

    There are at least a handful of historical incidences of foreign people matching Native American description arriving in various places in Europe by boat in pre-Columbian times.



    “A Symbolic Landscape” – Thomas G. Brophy


    Ceremonial sites in the Egyptian desert dating from ~12,000 to ~6,000 years ago, when the area was not an arid desert, marking solstices & movements of certain stars, ie Sirius and/or Orion's Belt.



    “The Time Machines” – Erich von Däniken


    The Great Pyramid is aligned with the cardinal directions, lies at the center of Earth's land masses, is aligned in a perfect 3:4:5 Pythagorean triangle with the other pyramids, acts as a sundial, measures 365.342 Egyptian cubits (the number of days in a solar year) on each side at the base, & is the same distance from the North Pole as from the center of the Earth.

  2. Link to Post #2
    Canada Avalon Member sunflower's Avatar
    Join Date
    16th March 2010
    Posts
    538
    Thanks
    11,965
    Thanked 1,310 times in 322 posts

    Default Re: Book Notes: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

    Thanks for this. I appreciated reading your notes. When I read some of this information originally I tended to get lost in the details. Brief summaries help to connect the pieces.

  3. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to sunflower For This Post:

    A Voice from the Mountains (17th November 2014), Lefty Dave (17th November 2014)

  4. Link to Post #3
    United States Unsubscribed
    Join Date
    24th September 2014
    Location
    Appalachia
    Posts
    2,551
    Thanks
    9,947
    Thanked 13,078 times in 2,355 posts

    Default Re: Book Notes: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

    My problem is that I can't remember these details unless I write them down somewhere. When I write them down, just between two books I can already find lots of complementary information, so it's nice to compare different information from different sources and see how and where they line up.

    Since I already had these typed I figured I could post them without too much more work, and maybe someone could get some use out of them and save themselves from having to read a whole book.

  5. Link to Post #4
    Ireland Avalon Member Snoweagle's Avatar
    Join Date
    8th July 2010
    Location
    Devon, UK
    Age
    68
    Posts
    1,128
    Thanks
    20,645
    Thanked 4,632 times in 1,021 posts

    Default Re: Book Notes: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

    These have to be the most awesome collection of reference notes assimilated into one page I have seen in a long time.


    These are notes I took from the book Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past (2011, edited by Michael Pye & Kirsten Dalley) that summarize some of the most interesting material, in a "cliff notes" version. This is a book of individual contributions from numerous authors.


    We assume you recommend the quality of reading and research to be continued. Think you came to right place. Thanks, great recommendation:-)

  6. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Snoweagle For This Post:

    A Voice from the Mountains (17th November 2014), sunflower (17th November 2014)

  7. Link to Post #5
    United States Avalon Member
    Join Date
    21st July 2016
    Location
    Pensacola, FL
    Posts
    150
    Thanks
    369
    Thanked 1,099 times in 144 posts

    Default Re: Book Notes: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

    Video - The Nephilim In The Ohio Valley! - Anunnaki/Human "Hybrids" in Ancient North American Indian Tribes!
    With part of Glenn Beck's broadcast - starting a 3:40 minute point.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPX6qg4zZRI&spfreload=5

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPX6qg4zZRI

    26:32

    * * *
    This is the Gleen Beck TV Show about this..
    Glen Beck Exposes Smithsonian Institutes Ancient American Coverup

    Published on Feb 19, 2014
    Glen Beck analyzes identical mathematics, sacred geometry and writings between the ancient Middle East and the Ohio mound builders. Confirms the Amorite migration theories proposed in "The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgzSHRC8AgQ

    9:44

  8. The Following User Says Thank You to Perdido For This Post:

    A Voice from the Mountains (23rd July 2017)

  9. Link to Post #6
    United States Unsubscribed
    Join Date
    24th September 2014
    Location
    Appalachia
    Posts
    2,551
    Thanks
    9,947
    Thanked 13,078 times in 2,355 posts

    Default Re: Book Notes: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past

    Interesting. Beck is just regurgitating other peoples' work but it's interesting that he is now going after this angle. I guess "they" realize the lid is coming off anyway and they may as well try to handle the way it comes off.

    Btw I have continued investigating all of this stuff in the OP in much more detail since I first read this book and took these notes, probably 4 years or so ago. I've got the Smithsonian's authoritative volume for the Northeast region, some 800 pages in an encyclopedia volume, part of an unfinished set of some 30 authoritative volumes on various subjects. Going through this volume's evidence and comparing it with other evidence and Fomenko's work on chronology is revealing a big picture that I'm going to flesh out in more detail elsewhere.

+ Reply to Thread

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts