The ruins at Great Zimbabwe are the most
extensive in sub-Saharan Africa, and arguably the most emotive. The name
'Zimbabwe' probably comes from the Shona phrase Ziimba dza Mabwe1, meaning
'Houses of Stone'. 30km south-west of Masvingo2 in Zimbabwe3, the ruins sit on a
1000m plateau, at the base of some low granite hills on otherwise open plains,
with few trees. For generations, these cyclopean stone walls were considered one
of the great unsolved mysteries of the world; who could have built these ruins
when no surrounding people was capable of more than mud huts? Why could such a
people not have dominated the local Shona tribespeople and built more such
cities? Where had their advanced civilisation gone by the time Europeans reached
the area in the 1800s? Nowadays, we have satisfactory - and often surprisingly
obvious - answers to all these questions, though there are mysteries yet on the
plains.
The Ruins: There are three main
sections, the Hill Complex (also known as the Acropolis or Hill Town), the
Valley Ruins and the Walled Town (or Great Enclosure). The Valley Ruins are now
almost invisible, as they are the remains of mud-brick (daga) buildings between
the other two sections. A purpose-built version of a local village is thankfully
well concealed from view at the rear, offering fortune-telling and tribal
dancing during the high season. It does, however, give an impression of what the
Valley ruins must once have looked like, with conical thatched roofs slope
almost to the ground. The Hill Complex is largely built into the rocky hillside,
with walls and floors carved into the rock in some places and built on top of it
in others. Guides will enthusiastically point out to visitors areas where the
acoustics would allow public speeches to be made, and caves that act as
loudspeakers to allow voices to be projected over the surrounding countryside.
However exciting these stories may be to tourists, it should be remembered that
they owe more to the imaginations of the guides than to local tradition or
archaeology...
The ancient Egyptians had many advanced
scientific technologies, with much being found in picture form and in
three-dimensional models throughout Egypt. Themes reflecting scientific
knowledge and achievement can be found throughout the world in various ancient
civilizations. These teachings seemed to center on electromagnetic energies.
Scenes depict scientists of that timeline able to work in fields of alchemy,
biology, chemistry, dentistry, anesthesiology, air flight, and the
electromagnetic energies of the Great Pyramid among other sacred sites - how
that link together and to the sacred geometry that forms our universe. Much of
the interpretation is left to those in our timeline to decipher. Rare squared
form of tet, at left. The heavy animal may be a ancient symbol for heavy
electrons; the squaring may be an ancient way of referring to water. The tet
might employ magneto hydrodynamic principles like ancient Egyptian and modern
transportation technology, but it may employ it in obtaining energy from certain
materials as well.
The study of science and medicine were closely
linked to religion as seen in many of the ancient rituals. The "pouring" and
"anointing" we see in so many Egyptian works is the application of
electromagnetic forces and not the application of actual fluids. Much of this
was linked with 'magic' of some sort - as many unexplained things did occur.
These were often considered miracles. This image implies that something poured
into the planet could cause spontaneous growth. The "pouring of water or an
offering" and the outlandish angles at which it is being done tends to make it
one of countless scenes reinforcing the idea that such scenes are instead
showing the migration or transmission of electromagnetic forces. Every sacred
symbol - linked to the gods - had a scientific as well as an esoteric purpose.
The cathode-ray tube or "Crookes' tube" like object depicted in scenes from the
temple of Hathor at Dendera may depict a relativistic source of these heavy
electrons - which could drastically expedite the magical processes which involve
these particular tubes...
Sanskrit texts are filled
with references to gods who fought battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped
with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times.
Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles in the sky
using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more
enlightened times. For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads:
"The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by
the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will ....
that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky."
".. and the King [Rama] got in,
and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher
atmosphere." In the Mahabharatra, an ancient Indian poem of enormous
length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring
twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable
gold mine of information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their
differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of
deploying. Apart from 'blazing missiles', the poem records the use of other
deadly weapons. 'Indra's Dart' operated via a circular 'reflector'. When
switched on, it produced a 'shaft of light' which, when focused on any target,
immediately 'consumed it with its power'. In one particular exchange, the hero,
Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky, when Salva's Vimana, the
Saubha is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off
a special weapon: 'I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out
sound'. Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of factly, in
the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the
Vrishis. The narrative records: "Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana
hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile
charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and
fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor...
Is
it really possible that the Ancient Indians had the capacity to deploy
devastating nuclear weapons against their enemies? Moreover is it really
possible, as many Ufologists claim, that awesomely powerful nuclear weapons were
actually given to the ancient Indian warriors by extraterrestrials, highly
advanced spacemen from other planets? well passages from ancient Indian national
epics certainly Appear to be evidence of such astonishing claims.
It is in ancient Indian epic poems such as such
The Mahabarata and The Ramayana that we can read what appear to be references to
an otherwise relatively primitive people having the capacity to wield highly
destructive nuclear weapons. Not surprisingly it is as a direct consequence of
such compelling passages that many Ufologists like Erich Von Daniken and W. R.
Drake (See for I.E. According to The Evidence – Souvenir, 1977 and Gods &
Spacemen In The Ancient East - Sphere, 1976 ), have argued that the highly
advanced capacity to use (and misuse) nuclear weaponry must have being handed
down to these ancient people by the Gods or, in other words, highly-advanced
extra-terrestrial spacemen. How else, these proponents of ancient astronauts
say, could such an ancient people manage to develop the extremely advanced
technological status necessary to make such complex and destructive weaponry
that could ‘scorch the universe’ and make ‘inauspicious winds’ blow? Surely even
the crude but ultimately terribly destructive nuclear device dropped on
Hiroshima demanded an highly advanced science to develop and deliver it, they
say. Reading through the various passages of The Ramayana and The Mahabarata
with an eye to references of destructive nuclear type weapons certainly does
lend itself to believing such claims, too. The evidence does appear to be highly
compelling. For instance on p.383 of the Drona Parva we come across the
following lines which certainly could be construed as evidence of the loathsome
effects of detonating a nuclear weapon of some sorts...
The Dogan people of west of Africa
have a detailed knowledge of the universe that is astonishingly accurate. was it
as they claim, passed on by Ancient astronauts? Like many African tribes, the
Dogon people of the Republic of Mali have a shadowed past. They settled on the
Bandiagara Plateau, where they now live, some time between the 13th and 16th
centuries. For most of the year, their homeland - 300 miles (500 km) south of
Timbuktu - is a desolate, arid, rocky terrain of cliffs and gorges, dotted with
small villages built from mud and straw. Although most anthropologists would
class them as 'primitive', the two million people who make up the Dogon and
surrounding tribes would not agree with this epithet. Nor do they deserve it,
except in the sense that their way of life has changed little over the
centuries. Indifferent though they are to Western technology, their philosophy
and religion is both rich and complex. Outsiders who have lived with them, and
learned to accept the simplicity of their lives, speak of them as a happy,
fulfilled people whose attitude to the essential values of life dates back
millennia.
Visitors From Sirius:
The Dogon do, however, make one astounding
claim; that they were originally taught and 'civilised' by creatures from outer
space - specifically, from the star system Sirius, 8.7 light years away. And
they back up this claim with what seems to be extraordinarily detailed knowledge
of astronomy for such a 'primitive' and isolated tribe. Notably, they know that
Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, has a companion star, invisible to the
naked eye, which is small, dense, and extremely heavy. This is perfectly
accurate. But its existence was not even suspected by Western astronomers until
the middle of the 19th century; and it was not described in detail until the
1920s, nor photographed (so dim is this star, known as Sirius B) until 1970.
This curious astronomical fact forms the central tenet of Dogon mythology. It is
enshrined in their most secret rituals. portrayed in sand drawings, built into
their sacred architecture, and can be seen in carvings and patterns woven into
their blankets - designs almost certainly dating back hundreds, if not thousands
of years.
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After enduring howls in the night and creaking staircases for the past three years, an Italian family is preparing to sue the previous owners of their house for not telling them it was haunted.Gaetano Bastianelli, 57, and his wife Stefania paid €120,000 (£94,000) for the modern home in the Umbrian town of Spoleto in 2005 - encouraged by the fact that all the furniture and fittings were left by the owners, right down to the coffee cups. "We considered it the deal of the century," said Mr Bastiane... Read More
Anthony North: On 14 April 1912, the luxury liner, Titanic, went down on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg. In 1898 Morgan Robertson had written a novel, futility, in which a similar ship had met a similar fate. Just a few years before the disaster, journalist W T Stead warned of a coming tragedy here because of a lack of lifeboats. Consequently, when Titanic sailed, many of the passengers and crew were too frightened to turn up. Self-fulfilling prophecy: Perhaps the owners of the Titan... Read More
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Ian O"Neil: On the march 24th, a story hit the web from Brazil asking for help identifying a mysterious-looking sphere found in farmland. The black, shiny object appeared to be wrapped in fibrous material and it was hot to the touch. Immediately thoughts of extra-terrestrial origin came to mind… Today, several news sources covered the discovery of a mysterious spherical object found in the Australian outback last year. The farmer who made the discovery has only just started to make enquiries int... Read More
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The ruins at Great Zimbabwe are the most
extensive in sub-Saharan Africa, and arguably the most emotive. The name
'Zimbabwe' probably comes from the Shona phrase Ziimba dza Mabwe1, meaning
'Houses of Stone'. 30km south-west of Masvingo2 in Zimbabwe3, the ruins sit on a
1000m plateau, at the base of some low granite hills on otherwise open plains,
with few trees. For generations, these cyclopean stone walls were considered one
of the great unsolved mysteries of the world; who could have built these ruins
when no surrounding people was capable of more than mud huts? Why could such a
people not have dominated the local Shona tribespeople and built more such
cities? Where had their advanced civilisation gone by the time Europeans reached
the area in the 1800s? Nowadays, we have satisfactory - and often surprisingly
obvious - answers to all these questions, though there are mysteries yet on the
plains.
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Colin Mulligan
The Dogan people of west of Africa
have a detailed knowledge of the universe that is astonishingly accurate. was it
as they claim, passed on by Ancient astronauts? Like many African tribes, the
Dogon people of the Republic of Mali have a shadowed past. They settled on the
Bandiagara Plateau, where they now live, some time between the 13th and 16th
centuries. For most of the year, their homeland - 300 miles (500 km) south of
Timbuktu - is a desolate, arid, rocky terrain of cliffs and gorges, dotted with
small villages built from mud and straw. Although most anthropologists would
class them as 'primitive', the two million people who make up the Dogon and
surrounding tribes would not agree with this epithet. Nor do they deserve it,
except in the sense that their way of life has changed little over the
centuries. Indifferent though they are to Western technology, their philosophy
and religion is both rich and complex. Outsiders who have lived with them, and
learned to accept the simplicity of their lives, speak of them as a happy,
fulfilled people whose attitude to the essential values of life dates back
millennia. 
