Book Notes: Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Science of the Ancients

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Technology of the Gods:
The Incredible Science of the Ancients

These are notes from the book Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Science of the Ancients (from the year 2000, by David Hatcher Childress) in a "cliff notes" version. Often I took notes in incomplete sentences to indicate something quickly without too much elaboration. "App." is short for either "apparent" or "apparently." Notes in brackets are inferred or taken from other sources to complement the information from this book.



Ancient Egyptians synthesizing laurionite & phosgenite (William Corliss, “Science Frontiers” No. 123, May-June 1999; P. Walter, et. al.).

Egyptian word “wdb,” translated as “pure”; “S-wdb”: to make pure; origin of the words “swab” & also “soap.”

Scroll of unknown language found at Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert in 1900. [Probably a reference to what are known as the Dunhuang scrolls or manuscripts, found in the “Library Cave” of the Magao Caves in Dunhuang, at an important religious and cultural crossroads along the Silk Road, located on the site of an ancient kingdom about which relatively little is known. These scrolls were on a variety of subjects and in a variety of languages, and are now scattered throughout the world in various museums. Included amongst them were religious texts from Buddhism, Taoism, Nestorian Christianity, and Judaism, as well as musical notation, writings on everyday living, and legal writings.]

An “Osirian” civilization pre-dating ancient Egypt theorized to exist in the Mediterranean basin, which was then a fertile valley (presumably during the last ice age). The Nile flowed through & would eventually empty into the Atlantic (possibly at the Straits of Gibraltar), matching Edgar Cayce's reading. Would also fit description of ancient Greeks, [which was] already ancient in Plato's day, according to Solon/Plato, & could have existed simultaneous to, & warred with, Atlantis. Associated with Greek legends of ancient, giant “cyclops” race & “cyclopean” construction of huge size.

Stones at Ba'albek weighing up to and/or beyond 1,000 tons each, & one still at quarry half a mile away, weighing up to 2,000 tons. The site mentioned in the Book of Kings in the Bible, & according to ancient Arabic writings was built by a “tribe of giants” at the order of King Nimrod. The site may actually date to 12,000 BC or older.

Coso artifact: app. spark-plug-like artifact, encased in a “geode” that may be either petrified wood or severely oxidized iron, with ceramic & copper components. [This artifact was found near Olancha, California, in February 1961.]

Ancient aluminum belt buckles found in China, though modern aluminum production was only developed in the 1800's & requires electricity (Revue de l'Aluminum, Issue 283, published in 1961). [The Nanjing Belt was discovered in 1952 in the tomb of an ancient Chinese man, whose obituary put his death in 297 AD, who died fighting the Tibetans. It consisted of almost pure aluminum. More can be found at this website: <http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/07/09/the-nanjing-belt/>]

Iron pillar of Delhi, made of solid, pure iron (produced today only by electrolysis), has resisted rust for centuries, manufactured at unknown time.

“Who Shot Rhodesian Man?,” ancient man with app. gunshot wound.

Casper, Wyoming mummy: 14 inches tall, found inside a pocket (or small room) of granite rock, while Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr blasted the through the rock following a large vein of gold. Was X-rayed, estimated at 65 years old at time of death.

Ancient automatons: Legend of Daedalus as reported by Plato; Gerbert d'Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) [Gerbert d'Aurillac, aka Pope Sylvester II, lived from about 946 AD to 1003 and was the first French Pope. He was a scholar, was said to have studied magical arts at various Islamic cities, and to have built a device called the “brazen head” which could answer questions with either a “yes” or “no.” Other figures believed to have owned brazen heads in history include Roger Bacon, Virgil, Albertus Magnus, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Johann Georg Faust, Boethius and Enrique de Villena.]; Albertus Magnus & Thomas Aquinas.

“Tombs of the Genii” in Siberia, now app. lost. [In Travels in the Upper and Lower Amoor by Thomas Witlam Atkinson, one of these monoliths is described with the dimensions of 23.1m by 7.31m by 5.79m, or 75.8 by 24.0 by 19.0 feet, and likely weighing over 2000 tons. It is described as being somewhere near the Kora River Valley in Siberia.]

“Baghdad battery”; electroplating ~2000 years ago; ancient Indian text Agastya Samhita explains battery construction & mentions Mitra-Varuna energy. [Compared to “positive-negative,” and possibly referring to electromagnetism.]

Speculation that the Ark of the Covenant was not manufactured by the Jews, but was removed from Egypt, & that the “nested box” construction associated with the Ark was common to Egypt.

The pyramids at Meroë in the Sudan. [Also called the Nubian Pyramids, these pyramids, more than 200 of them, are located on the eastern bank of the Nile River in the Sudan, near Shendi. Their construction is in many ways comparable to the pyramids at Giza, though they are not as large. Meroë was the capital of the Nepata/ Meroitic kingdom, from about 800 BC to 350 AD. It was famous for its great production of iron and traded with ancient India and China. The characters in its language appear to have been developed directly from simplifications of Egyptian hieroglyphics.]

Alexander the Great's invasion of India was stopped at the Indus River by the appearance of “flying shields” which spooked his elephants. India (ie the various states of the Indian subcontinent) may at that time have been the richest & most civilized part of the world.

App. historical accounts of space travel & trips to the Moon, ie in the Book of Enoch, the Chinese Hou Yih or Chih Chiang Tzu-Yu1 describing a trip to the Moon on a “celestial bird” circa 2309 BC, & the Greek author Lucian in Vera Historia (“True Story”) discusses trips to the far reaches of the universe and other unusual places, such as the insides of whales and the Elysian fields. Also the Babylonian Epic of Etana.

The Indian book Samarangana Sutradhara [a text described as “an encyclopedic work on classical Indian architecture” by Wikipedia, dating to 1000-1055 AD] says that in the distant past, “heavenly beings” came down from the sky, & humans flew through the air in craft. Old Sanskrit writings also tell of Nāgas (serpent gods) “who go on long voyages in the sky.” [According to Wikipedia, the Nāga is either a deity or class of deities taking the form of a very large snake or, specifically, a king cobra, found in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The Mahabharata describes the nagas as having human characteristics, sometimes depicted as evil as sometimes as good in relation to human affairs. The giant “eagle-king” in the Mahabharata, the Garuda, is the arch nemesis of the nagas.]

Babylonian, Arabic & Coptic writings describing ancient people having the ability to move huge masses of stone with sound. The OT story of the walls of Jericho being brought down with sound may be related. [Joshua 6:20.]

The Indian Samara Sutradhara is a text minutely detailing care, use, etc. of vimanas, ie ancient Indian flying machines.

An undeciphered script found on Easter Island has also been found at the ancient Indian sites of Mohenjo-Daro [the city alleged to have been destroyed by a nuclear blast in the ancient past] and Harappa.

The caduceus as originally being a symbol of flight via a mercury-vortex engine. Ancient Indian texts describe mercury engines in vimanas, & the Greek god Mercury (fast messenger of the gods) carried the caduceus. Ed Fouche claimed in 1998 that the US had developed aircraft using mercury-vortex engines, specifically the “TR-3B” developed at S4.

A Dweller on Two Planets – oddity of “fiction” from the late 1800's describing ancient civilizations through past lives, showing cigar-shaped UFOs & referring to (& offering explanation for) real archaeological mysteries, as well as futuristic technologies such as television-like appliances.

Sand fused into green glass (trinitite), as from nuclear blasts, has been uncovered at ancient archaeological sites from around the world, along with fused brick, vitrified forts, etc.

Scotland is home to a number of pre-historic stone fortresses that were vitrified. One prehistoric fortress in Scotland (Maiden Castle) covers 120 acres with a circumference/perimeter of ~1.5 miles, & is estimated to have required 250,000 people to defend. [There are at least four or five sites known as “Maiden Castle” in Britain: one in Durham, England, one in Dorset, England, one in Cheshire, England, one in North Yorkshire, England, and Castellum Puellarum, or “Castle of the Maidens,” an alternative name for Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. All of these sites have been dated back at least to the Iron Age, and were constructed by unknown peoples. At least two of them are currently overgrown with plants and trees and are hardly distinguishable from the surrounding countryside. The name “maiden” is thought to possibly originate from the idea that these forts were “impregnable” or never taken in battle, although their vitrification may attest otherwise. To “vitrify” a substance, such as sand, or in this case, stone, is defined as turning it to glass. Such a process would obviously require a great amount of heat as well as high temperatures.]

The Hittites are first mentioned in Genesis 23 when Abraham acquires from them a burial place for his wife. The Hittites are traditionally believed to have appeared around 1500 BC, but this Biblical episode dates to the time of Abraham, believed to have been 2000-1800 BC. In Numbers 13:29-30 it is stated that the Hittites founded Jerusalem. The wailing wall & temple at Ba'albek both feature massive foundation stones mined & transported by unknown methods, & the Hittites are also associated with jig-saw-like construction using massive polygonal stones, fitted perfectly together, such as what was also found at megalithic sites in the Andes. The implication is that the Hittites, like the Egyptians, were inheritors of older technology & culture from an advanced civilization (Atlantis, “Osiris” [advanced pre-historic civilization hypothesized to exist in the Mediterranean area, when water levels were apparently lower] or “Rama” [ancient India]), & their language was also very similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics. The Hittites also built stone sphinxes.

An architect named Kallinikos provided the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV with a formula for an incendiary material used in naval battles that was crucial to lifting the Arab siege of 674-676 & 715-718, & also defeating the Russians in 941 & 1043. In 716, the incendiary mixture, pumped from a machine on board the Byzantine ships, destroyed nearly all of ~800 Arab ships in combat. The composition of this material was never discovered from the Byzantines.

Ruins of an ancient civilization occupying the Death Valley in California were discovered by Captain Ives William Walker in 1850, & natives in the area were also said to have known of it. The remaining structures showed vitrification. In the Nevada paper Hot Citizen, August 5, 1947, a story was ran of mummies (8-9 ft. tall) discovered in California caverns, along with lots of gold, technological artifacts & app. various preserved animals. [A related story was ran in the August 4, 1947 edition of The San Diego Union.]

According to some tests carried out in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, its parallel granite slabs resonate to the F# chord, which is often said to be the natural resonant frequency of the Earth itself. The coffer of the King's Chamber is said to resonate at 438 Hz, the musical note of 'A.' [The modern frequency assigned to the musical note of 'A' is 440 Hz. Historically, from ancient cultures throughout the world through the classical and romantic periods in western musical history when composers such as Mozart and Beethoven were alive, the note of 'A' was tuned to 432 Hz.] Paul Horn recorded this resonance, & it can be heard at the start of the album Inside the Great Pyramid, Mushroom Records, Inc.

Edgar Cayce giving readings regarding “Atlantean land or Poseidia,” where the “nightside of life” was used as a means for mechanical power & also as a destructive force. Cayce told of an exodus from these ancient lands, including modern-day Yucatan & the Pyrenees, & Egypt, ahead of foretold destruction, & of flying machines equivalent to Ezekiel's vision used at this time. Power channeled through crystals is credited for accidentally causing an energy disturbance that caused the splitting of isles & later of further destruction. Around this time, a division of the people had occurred between “Sons of Belial”1 & “children of the Law of One.” Bimini, off the coast of Florida, is said to be near sunken temples of Atlantis which are now covered in sea slime. Cayce predicted that the first portion of Atlantis would be discovered in 1968 or 1969. The Bimini Wall was discovered in 1968 by Dr. J. Manson Valentine.

[The name “Belial” comes from the Hebrew בליעל, formed from the words “beli-” (“without”) and “ya'al” (“value”). It occurs 27 times in the Masoretic text. Of those 27 times, 15 of them are in the form of the phrase “sons of Belial,” given to mean idolators (Deut. 13:13), the men of Gibeah (Judges 19:22 & 20:13), and the sons of Eli (1 Sam. 2:12), and others. Belial is also the leader of the “Sons of Darkness” in the Dead Sea Scroll text known as The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness. In other parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the “Angel of Light” is defined as God himself, while the “Angel of Darkness” is Belial, and Belial is also described as a “watcher” who contested over Amram, father of Moses, in a dream. The “watchers” are associated with the fallen angels in the Book of Enoch.]

[amor]

And the beat goes on!

[Koyaanisqatsi]

David Childress souns soooo funny when he talks. strange emphasis on his words. i do a great impersonation