Tunguska Event may have been caused by a comet

Today I came across an article published on June 25th, 2009 that may explain what really did happen in the Tunguska region of Russia in 1908 (I mentioned the Tunguska event in my article titled "Fire, Brimstone, and Bombs Oh My!"). The evidence comes from a space shuttle's exhaust plume that resembled the effects of a comet. According to the article posted on Sciencedaily.com:

The research, accepted for publication (June 24, 2009) by the journal Geophysical Research Letters, published by the American Geophysical Union, connects the two events by what followed each about a day later: brilliant, night-visible clouds, or noctilucent clouds, that are made up of ice particles and only form at very high altitudes and in extremely cold temperatures.

"It's almost like putting together a 100-year-old murder mystery," said Michael Kelley, the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Cornell who led the research team. "The evidence is pretty strong that the Earth was hit by a comet in 1908." Previous speculation had ranged from comets to meteors.

The researchers contend that the massive amount of water vapor spewed into the atmosphere by the comet's icy nucleus was caught up in swirling eddies with tremendous energy by a process called two-dimensional turbulence, which explains why the noctilucent clouds formed a day later many thousands of miles away.

Read the rest of the article here. I still wonder though....nobody saw this? I would think if a comet was hurtling towards the Earth that someone would have seen it. I understand that observational equipment wasn't as good back then and that the area where the event occurred was unpopulated, but, considering the Earth rotates, I thought it would have been visible by someone in a populated area looking at the sky shortly before it hit.

Random Tidbits of Information

I decided to just post some random tidbits of information from the various notes I've taken over the years today. I've added some of my own comments to some of them.

-The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Eww...

-It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is ’shake’ and the 46th word from the last word is ’spear’.

-"Psyche" is the Greek word for "soul".

-Many old buildings in Cairo are actually built using old limestone blocks that once covered

the Great Pyramid.

The Giza pyramids used to have another layer of casing stones over the stones currently visible. In ancient times, the pyramids would have been much shinier than they are today.

-At the bottom of Mt. Rushmore is a 'hall of records' with the Constitution and a history of the U.S. It's purpose is to provide future generations with what its purpose is. The idea came from us not knowing the purpose of the Sphinx.

Its been claimed there is a hall of records or a tomb under the Sphinx and there is evidence of there being a cavity beneath it. But if anything was ever found under it, its been kept a secret. The alleged entrance to the chamber underneath the Sphinx had concrete poured down in it 1926, so I guess they don't want anyone going down anymore.

-'Amazon' actually means 'without a breast'.

Supposedly it was easier to shoot a bow that way.

-"Poltergeist" is German for "noisy spirit".

-Alexander the Great ordered his soldiers be clean shaven, so enemies in battle couldn't grab their beards.

-There are over 600 flood myths worldwide.

It's amazing to me that scientists can still dismiss the idea that there was a Great Flood in the distant past when people all over the world have told stories about it. And were talking about different peoples and cultures that had never met each other telling similar stories. I'm afraid science is just way to closed minded.

-Until 1869 when the Eiffel Tower was built, the Great Pyramid was the tallest building in the world.

Yep...the Great Pyramid is one amazing structure. Here are some other interesting statistics about it:

• We know from geometry that there is a universal relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference. The height of the Pyramid's apex is 5,812.98 inches, and each side is 9,131 inches from corner to corner (in a straight line). If the circumference of the Pyramid is divided by twice its height (the diameter of a circle is twice the radius), the result is 3.14159, which just happens to be pi. Incredibly, this calculation is accurate to six digits.
• Each of the Pyramid's four walls, when measured as a straight line, are 9,131 inches, for a total of 36,524 inches. At first glance, this number may not seem significant, but move the decimal point over and you get 365.24. Modern science has shown us that the exact length of the solar year is 365.24 days.
• It consists of more than 2 million stones.
• It is built at the center of gravity of the Earth's continents.

Nazi Muslims

Jihad is nothing new to the Islamic world. Since its beginning, there have been Muslims fighting wars in the name of Allah. In fact, the English word "assassin" is derived from a Muslim sect in the middle ages known for infiltrating their enemies and remaining undercover until it was necessary to kill a targeted individual. But that isn't to say they were all warlike. There were periods of peace in various locales and many Muslims were also known to be respectable, pious, and generous individuals. Muslims weren't the only ones carrying out wars either. The Catholic crusader period during the middle ages is probably more well known that any ancient or medieval Muslim wars. In fact, under Muslim control the Holy land was arguably more peaceful than it was under Catholic control. Christians and Jews still lived in Palestine during Muslim rule. The Muslim rulers of Palestine were generally very lenient in allowing Christians and Jews to worship at sacred sites around the Holy Land too. Even today, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is locked and unlocked everyday by two Muslim families who have apparently been entrusted with that duty for around 800 years. After the crusader period when Catholic forces withdrew from the Holy Land, the Knights Hospitaller (who were a Catholic military force that had protected pilgrims visiting the Holy Land during Catholic occupation) occupied the island of Rhodes. They battled Muslim piracy in the Mediterranean and, I guess depending on your point of view, could be considered pirates themselves (at least to the Muslims). The armies of Sultan Sulieman the Magnificent eventually laid siege to Rhodes and ultimately defeated the Knights Hospitaller. But he actually spared their lives and even let the Knights borrow ships to return to Europe on! I doubt the Muslim extremists of today would have done anything like that!

Modern Islamic terrorism can be traced to Islamic doctrines, but it isn't entirely rooted in Islamic doctrines. It may not even be rooted in the Middle East. The extremist movements of today can be traced (at least in part) to Nazi Germany. During the 1930's, Hitler struck up an alliance with the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini. Despite the mufti not being a Germanic Aryan, Hitler held the mufti in high esteem. . .mainly because they had the same goals - extermination of the Jews and the destruction of Western democracies.

Husseini was a vehement anti-Semite and made several trips to Bosnia where he recruited Muslims for a special Waffen SS company known as the "Hanjar troopers". They slaughtered Bosnian Jews and burned Christian churches and villages. The only condition Husseini set for his help was that after the war, the Jewish population in Palestine be liquidated. A condition Hitler and the SS would have probably been delighted to assist with had they won the war.

The mufti inspecting Bosnian SS troops.

Chief of the SS Heinrich Himmler inspecting Bosnian SS troops. 

Husseini and his recruits weren't the only Muslims that embraced Nazism though. There were Nazi emulators in Syria and Egypt too. Hitler's Mein Kampf was a popular book in the Arab world and is still a popular book among many Palestinian Arabs today. After the war, Gamal Abdul Nasser, a member of a Nazi emulator group called Young Egypt, led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and, just as Hitler did after he took power, banned all other political parties.

Nazi Germany may have lost the war, but its contribution to Muslim extremism didn't dissipate. Yasser Arafat regarded Husseini as a hero. Terrorists groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas still have Nazi ideals. The modern extremists have the same goals as the Nazi's. . . exterminating Jews and destroying Western democracy. The creation of modern Israel in 1948 only served to increase their hatred of the West. Its creation established a Western democracy of Jews in the Holy Land. Not only was this what the Muslims were fighting against, it forced many of the Muslims living in the Holy Land to have to move from their homes and villages. This only increased their hatred of Jews and the West, and to this day they still adhere to Nazi ideology to achieve their goals. You can learn more about the connection between Nazism and Islamic extremism in this short video on YouTube.

Pictures of Hamas and Hezbollah troops performing the Nazi salute.

Palestinians performing the Nazi salute.

And although not directly related to the topic of this article, I thought I would point out that the Nazi salute may have originated in America. The arm extended straight out was an early way of saluting the American flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. There was no standardized way of doing it, but prior to World War II, people would raise their right hand to their forehead and perform the standard military salute at beginning of reciting the Pledge, and then at the words "to my flag", extend their arm straight out. This was actually known as the Roman salute, but there's no evidence the Romans ever saluted in this manner (the idea of it being a Roman salute is most likely another example of Victorian era historians romanticizing details of ancient history).

American school children saluting the American flag.

The Nazi's may have adapted that type of salute on the belief that it was a Roman salute (they also used the eagle as a national symbol, which is known to have been a Roman symbol). It's usually said Hitler adapted it from the Italians, but it's not impossible that he may have adapted it from the Americans. The Eugenics movement in Britain and America was one of Hitler's inspirations for genocide, so its not impossible that his salute was inspired by the American Pledge of Allegiance salute.

More on 2012

Yesterday I watched a recording of an episode of Decoding the Past, a History Channel documentary series, and the topic was 2012 prophecies. It brought to light several other prophecies regarding 2012 that I was unfamiliar with, or had forgotten about when I wrote my original post on the subject here. It seems that seers worldwide have predicted that something will happen in 2012...and many of them seem disastrous. Besides the famous Mayan calendar prophecy, the program also highlights prophecies by the Chinese fortune telling method known as the I Ching, the prophecies of the Sibyl of Cumae (a Roman oracle), the prophecies of Merlin (the historical figure that the Merlin of King Arthur fame is based on), the predictions of the web bot project (a computer program originally designed to predict the future of stocks), as well as other Native American prophecies. The I Ching was designed for personal fortune telling, but during the 80's and 90's, a man named Terrence McKenna adapted it into a timeline beginning from around 4000 years ago when it was first created, and ending on...you guessed it...2012. The other prophets/oracles mentioned in the program were mentioned not just because of their doomsday predictions, but also because of their remarkable accuracy in earlier predictions. For instance, the web bot project predicted the anthrax attacks in 2001, the east coast power outage of 2003, earthquakes and water rising in 2004 and 300,000 people dying (the big tsunami), and the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The web bot predicted escalating disasters and/or warfare from around 2009 up to a peak point in 2012. The Sibyl predicted the invasion of Italy by Hannibal 700 years before it occurred and predicted his ultimate defeat. She predicted the rise of the Emperor Constantine by name 800 years before he was born. She also predicted the birth of a child that would change the world that Christians interpreted to be Jesus. Despite being a pagan oracle of Apollo, her image is painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling because of her prophecy interpreted as the birth of Jesus. She predicted the generation that began around 2000 AD would be the last. So while she didn't specify 2012, she did specify the generation living during that time would be the last. She predicted earthquakes, wars, and fire from the heavens that would burn many cities and leave black ashes filling the sky.

According to astrologers and astronomers, the Sun, the Earth, and the center of the galaxy are going to line up in 2012. It seems that this event is the basis for the December 21st, 2012 date. If it was just the Mayan calendar that predicted this, I wouldn't think much of it. For one, it would seem to me to be just another specific, yet unique point in time. But considering there are so many other prophecies about it around the world, I find the subject more interesting. As it turns out, the Mayan prophecies aren't even the oldest. One popular theory on what will happen is a pole shift, where the north and south poles of the Earth reverse. Doing so suddenly would cause massive destruction. I got to thinking about it, and I began to wonder if moving past the Sun and the massive black hole at the center of the galaxy would cause the magnetism of the planet to reverse. Much like how opposites attract. What if in our current position with the north pole being north and the south pole being south reverse once we move past the center point in December 2012? Think of taking two magnets and putting them together. If you put the norths near each other they repel each other. But if you move one around to the other side and put the north towards the south, they will pull themselves together. In the case of the planetary poles though, the planet wouldn't suddenly repel away or move towards the Sun or galactic center, it would simply be forced to flip its magnetic poles in order to maintain its normal orbit. The planet would then presumably begin to spin backwards too, much like Venus currently does now (Venus' poles are currently reversed). I think the planet's poles flipping and the Earth suddenly starting to spin backwards would certainly explain all the predicted earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and any other sort of natural disaster chaos.

What's interesting to me though is how many different prophecies there are about this time period from ancient cultures around the world. I considered the idea that the planetary alignment predicted for December 2012 has shown up in different cultures simply because all that is necessary is an understanding of astronomy or astrology. If you know that, then you can calculate where a heavenly body will be at any given point in time. So in other words, maybe various cultures simply pointed out that unique position of the Earth and Sun at that point in time. And people that had never met each other were able to point out the same event simply because it's true and they knew how to calculate it. Maybe all the doomsday predictions are just modern fantasies attached to that unique date. But, not all of the prophecies are based on astrological calculations. The Sibyl for instance saw visions and uttered her prophecies while she was in a trance. Her prediction of a doomsday time wasn't attached to a specific date either, but it was predicted for a time period during which the 2012 date would occur. If nothing else, it will be interesting to see what does or doesn't happen in 2012.

To view the full program, click here.

One Big Royal Family

I've known for a long time that groups like the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers have permeated both sides of American politics since at least the 1970s. Regardless of who gets elected to the White House, the President or some of his appointed cabinet members have either been members of the Trilateral Commission or have attended Bilderberg meetings. Foreign policy seems to be dictated by these groups regardless of who's in office. And this isn't even taking into consideration Congressmen or Supreme Court Justices who have been members or politicians that are members of the Council on Foreign Relations (another major globalization group that was formed in 1921, long before the Trilateral Commission or Bilderbergers). But, that isn't what's on my mind today. Today, what groups politicians belong too aren't whats on my mind, but what family's they belong too. It seems a lot of them are related.

I found out years ago that Colin Powell is related to the Bush family. They are both descended from British royalty. The common ancestor in their family tree is King Edward I of England (1239-1307). But it doesn't end there. I've also heard that the Bush family is related to the Roosevelt family. Both the Bush family and Cheney family are related to Obama. Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are both descended from Mareen and Susannah Duvall, who were 17th century immigrants from France. Bush and Obama are linked from a 17th century Massachusetts couple, Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole. So Dick and Barack are 8th cousins, and George and Barack are 10th cousins once removed. George Bush and John Kerry don't just share membership in the secret society known as Skull and Bones, but also share common ancestry dating back to the 1600s. George Bush and John Kerry are also related to Hugh Hefner. Sarah Palin is related to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Princess Diana is also related to Sarah Palin and the Bush family. But its not just limited to presidents. Apparently Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie are distant cousins, and Brad Pitt and Obama are distant cousins also! Here are some other relatives:

-John McCain is related to Laura Bush

-Hillary Clinton is related to Jack Kerouac, Celine Dion, Alanis Morrisette, and Camilla Parker-Bowles (current wife of Prince Charles of England)

-Obama is not only related to both President Bush's, but also Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, and James Madison.

Here are the news clips about the relatives:

So it seems all these famous people are somehow related to each other and to British royalty. But then again, if you try hard enough I guess you'll find out that were all related somehow. I'm wondering who has enough free time to figure out all these people are related though.

Update (August 11, 2012):  An article posted on the Daily Mail's website states that 42 out of 43 US presidents are descended from King John of England, who is known for signing the Magna Carta.  Read the article here.

Fire, Brimstone, and Bombs Oh My!

Last night I was watching a documentary on the National Geographic channel that was trying to figure out what caused green glass to form way out in the Sahara in Egypt. The scientists knew that intense heat causes sand to fuse into glass, but they weren't sure what could have caused so much heat on such a massive scale in ancient Egypt. They compared it to the mysterious Tunguska event of 1908, where 80 million trees were knocked over in an area covering about 830 square miles by some sort of shockwave. It's unknown what caused the shockwave, but a couple of the most popular theories are an asteroid exploding about 3-5 miles above the surface, or a small comet vaporizing in the atmosphere. Other theories include anti-matter reaction of some sort, a UFO crash, or an experiment gone wrong (or right?). Another interesting thing about the Tunguska event is that glowing skies were observed throughout Europe for several nights after the event. The explosion is estimated to have been 1000 times stronger the atom bomb that exploded at Hiroshima. Whatever it was...it was powerful.

But anyways, back to the green glass in Egypt. The scientists interviewed in the documentary seemed to have been fans of the exploding asteroid over Tunguska theory and attributed the green glass in the Sahara to an exploding asteroid too. There is no crater at either location, so if it was an asteroid, it had to have exploded in the air. Although the asteroid theory seems to be a plausible answer, I don't feel it answers all the questions. For one, I would think even if it exploded in the air, there would be some traces of it remaining to be found somewhere. And what caused it to explode? Typically asteroids just burn up in the atmosphere....so what kind of composition would an asteroid have to have to actually explode on a scale much greater than the atom bomb at Hiroshima?

The green glass is what I really found to be interesting though. Finding ancient green glass (the research into the source of the glass was inspired by green glass found in a piece of jewelry from King Tut's tomb) in Egypt reminded me of another place where green glass was found...except it wasn't formed in ancient times. It was created in New Mexico in 1945. It was created by the test of the first atomic bomb. The heat emitted from it was so intense, it fused the sand together into green glass. The glass covered an area around 600 yards wide. Interestingly though, the Egyptian glass covers an area thousands of times larger. All of this reminded me of an excerpt from a poem I had heard before:

"...a single projectile
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour...
a perpendicular explosion
with its billowing smoke clouds...
...the cloud of smoke
rising after its first explosion
formed into expanding round circles
like the opening of giant parasols...

..it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
...The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognisable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.

After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected...
...to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment."

Although that sounds like a description of a nuclear explosion, its actually supposed to be a description of an event that occurred during an Indian war variously dated to have occurred from around 2800 years ago to around 8000 years ago, depending on who you ask. Those verses are said to come from the Hindu epic the Mahabharata (I've never actually read the Mahabharata myself though), which is one of the longest epics ever written...much longer than some of the more famous epics like the Illiad and the Odyssey. But, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the lead scientists on the Manhattan Project (that built the first atomic bomb), must have read it or at least read part of it, because he quoted it once when describing how he felt after the first atomic bomb was tested. He said:

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

When the ancient towns of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in India were excavated, they were found to have come to a sudden and abrupt end. Many of the skeletons found there were said to be holding hands and unburied, indicating the demise of the towns and their people seemingly came instantly...possibly by some type of blast. I've often heard that the skeletons found in these locations were radioactive, by I haven't been able to find what I would consider to be a good source to corroborate those claims. If you do a google search for the topic, most the sources for radioactive skeletons that come up are websites claiming alien involvement or advanced people from Atlantis or something like that....so you have to wonder if those claims aren't just the claims of somebody's overactive imagination that have gotten repeated over and over. While I think Atlantis probably did exist, I don't think its people were dropping nukes in India. But Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa aren't the only places in India that supposedly had some sort of radioactive blast. I remembered an article I had saved years ago that had originally been printed in the World Island Review in 1992. The article described construction being halted on a housing development in an area that supposedly still had high levels of radiation. The validity of the article may be questionable, but I figured I would mention it anyways.

But Hindu epics and claims of radioactive skeletons aren't the only evidence of powerful explosions in the ancient past. In the book of Genesis in the Bible, we have the tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God destroyed these cities by raining fire and brimstone down on them. It's uncertain where the exact location of Sodom and Gomorrah was - they would have been in ruins already when Genesis was written - but the most likely locations are the ruins of what is now known as Bab Edh-Drah and Numeira. They were "cities of the plain" and seem to match the description we have of Sodom and Gomorrah...all the way down to their demise. The two ruined cities seemed to have met their fate at the same time. They had collapsed walls, walls tilted at 50 degree angles, debris, and skeletons that weren't buried. So whatever the fate of the two cities was, it seemed to have come instantly. Typically, the sudden destruction of a city can be attributed to an earthquake or volcanic eruption, but this doesn't appear to be the case with these cities. For one, there is no volcano in the area, so it certainly wasn't a volcanic eruption. The possibility of an earthquake can't necessarily be ruled out entirely, but the evidence doesn't necessarily indicate an earthquake either. There is evidence of incineration though. So the evidence seems to suggest that the cities may very well have had fire and brimstone rained down on them. It should also be pointed out that it is a very salty area...and in the Genesis story, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt during the destruction of the cities.

While I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility of aliens being involved in ancient warfare that may have included massive explosions, I doubt that that is the case. I doubt the theory that it was Atlanteans even more. But what can't be denied is that heat intense enough to fuse sand into glass has occurred in the ancient past. We also know that a shockwave that leveled trees over an 830 mile radius occurred many years before an atomic bomb was ever built. And ancient texts have described events that sound like explosions from high in the air. So while man made nuclear bombs may not have come on the scene until the mid twentieth century...its apparent that some type of massive explosions had already happened long before the modern man made ones occurred..

The Mystery of Building Coral Castle

When I reread my posting the other day about the Forgotten Knowledge of Egypt, I was surprised that I never mentioned Coral Castle in that article. Coral Castle is a place most people probably haven't heard of, but it is listed among the National Register of Historic Places. The name is somewhat deceptive - its not really a castle in the traditional sense of the word. It does have a two story stone "tower", but it's mostly a series of megalithic monuments including a sun dial, a fountain, an obelisk, large stone rocking chairs, a "throne" and much more. One of the main attractions is a nine ton revolving gate simply called the "Rock Gate". It was set in such a way that even a small child could tap the nine ton gate with a single finger and set it in motion. Some of the blocks used in the monuments weighed as much as 30 tons. So what is the big deal about all of that? It was built by a single man weighing only 100 pounds at five feet tall without modern lifting equipment.

Edward Leedskalnin was a Latvian immigrant to America in the early part of the 20th century and had little formal education. He began building the Coral Castle complex in 1920. He built the monuments behind walls mostly at night with lanterns to maintain his privacy. He was never seen unloading the trucks either. In 1936, someone planned to build a subdivision near the "castle" so he decided to move...and moved all of the monuments himself. A truck was used to move them from one location to the other of course, but he proceeded to rebuild the whole thing again in the new location!

Although no one watched him build the "castle", it is known that he didn't use cranes or heavy machinery. He just used simple tools he made himself from an auto junkyard in addition to simple wooden tripods he probably made himself. The wooden tripods alone wouldn't have been strong enough to lift all the blocks and didn't appear to be tall enough to raise the obelisk. Leedskalnin also wrote a booklet about his thoughts on magnetism, and it is thought that he may have used some sort of special knowledge of magnetism to build the monuments. One story says some curious neighbors saw him levitate the blocks. Another story states that some teenagers spying on him claimed to see him floating the blocks through the air somehow. Other theories suggest he may have had some kind of special knowledge of harmonics, and/or knew how to utilize some sort of "earth energy". He never revealed his secret though, so no one really knows how he did it.

Here is one of the few photos taken inside the "castle"

walls during the construction. You can see two, possibly

three tripods in it (I think that might be one behind the tower).

Whenever people asked how he built the "castle" he would just say that he "understood the laws of weight and leverage well". So how was such a small man able to accomplish such a feat? Back in the 1980s, the famous Rock Gate fell off its bearing and finally stopped working. In 1986, it took seven guys and a 20 ton crane two weeks to repair it. It had only taken Leedskalnin five days to build it by himself without a crane! I think this is a prime example of how the Egyptians could have easily built monuments such as the Pyramids without modern technology and with less effort and manpower than it is traditionally thought they must have used. They wouldn't have even needed help from aliens! Leedskalnin himself stated, “I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!”

The point here is that large buildings and monuments can be built without heavy machinery and without hard labor. While we may not know how the Egyptians did it and Leedskalnin may have kept his mouth shut about the secrets, people have seen it can be done. Leedskalnin disagreed with modern science and claimed that scientists were wrong. He said that "nature was simple". And I suppose actions speak louder than words. Science certainly doesn't have all the answers and its answers aren't always correct either. Science hasn't provided us with a way for one man to build large stone buildings and monuments alone without heavy machinery...it took an uneducated Latvian immigrant to prove it could be done.

The Sun Stages of Kemet

This post is kind of an addendum to the last post, but I decided to just make a new post instead of editing the old one. Anyways, I mentioned something about the Egyptian Sun stages in the previous post, but couldn't find the video of the lecture talking about it again. While I was recovering files from a corrupted hard drive of mine, I finally found it. The five stages of the Sun represent a daily cycle, levels of consciousness, and time periods. Here they are:

1. KHEPER = "The Dawn" - This is represented by the scarab beetle. It represents innocence and the first step to enlightenment. It also represents the morning in the daily cycle.

2. RA = "The Stubborn" - This is represented by ram and represents adolescence . This is representative of noon in the daily cycle.

3. OON = "The Wise" - This is represented by a mature man and represents a mature and wise consciousness. It is representative of the afternoon on the daily cycle.

4. ATEN = "The Wiser" - This represents enlightenment. It represents the twilight on the daily cycle.

5. AMUN = "The Hidden" - This is a period of darkness and is dominated by greed and fear. It is of course representative of the night time. According to the lecturer (Stephen Mehler), this is the period of time we are in now.

Another thing he said though is the people of Kemet (the ancient Egyptian name for Egypt, "Egypt" is the Greek name) viewed time as a cycle...and not with a beginning or ending. Those five cycles are just cycles that repeat themselves over and over. He didn't say much about when these time periods occured during the past (I don't think he really knew for sure) because the people of ancient Kemet (he described himself as a "Kemetologist" and not an "Egyptologist" by the way) weren't concerned with specific dates. He did say the current period, Amun, had been going on for about 5000 years though. He said soon we would be starting back over on the Kheper period, which I suppose means that things that have long been hidden from us would soon be revealed (again). He didn't state any specific date for this though (or if he did, he said it later in the lecture, I didn't watch the whole thing again).

The lecture actually wasn't quite as interesting as I thought I remembered it to be. For some reason I thought I remembered him attaching more specific time periods to the different Sun stages which is what I was going to tie in to the last post. But nevertheless, that was what he had to say about it.

2012 - Doomsday, Great Awakening, or a big nothing?

People have attempted to predict the end of the world hundreds of times. Here is a website that lists 220 different instances someone predicted the end of the world. There may be more than what made that list too. So I guess it's not surprising that many people have a hard time taking end times predictions seriously when "wolf" has been cried so many times before. The last time a lot of people got in a frenzy over a doomsday scenario was the year 2000 and Y2K. Even the mainstream media chimed in on that one. It was kind of a double whammy too, some thought that because it was (approximately) 2000 years after the birth of Christ, that he would be coming back (which wouldn't have been a bad thing anyways). And a lot of people thought that the whole Y2K computer issue was going to be a major problem regardless of whether or not they thought Jesus was coming back. The whole thing was pretty silly though. People had plenty of time to prepare for any potential computer problems. And Jesus could appear at any time...trying to predict a date for that is pointless...and He even told us that no one knows the time of his return, not even the angels or Himself (Matthew 24:35-36)! So what could the big deal about 2012 be? What do a bunch of ancient Mayans running around sacrificing animals and humans and being uncivilized know about the end of the world?

The Mayan Calendar seems to be the most precise (from what I've heard it is slightly more accurate than our own calendar) but similar predictions have been attributed to other cultures. Some have attributed a similar prediction to the ancient Egyptians. I had a recording of a lecture a guy was giving on some of the really ancient traditions of ancient Egypt including a bit about various solar cycles (there were five if I remember correctly) and he went on an interesting spill about what their significance was and what time periods the cycles took place during...with the current one coming to an end soon. Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate the video again so I could rewatch it, so I can't really elaborate any further than that. And I couldn't even find a reference to it on the internet either. Nevertheless, the Mayans seemed to have calendar making down to an almost exact science. They seemed to be able to understand different periods of solar activity, which seem to work like clockwork. For instance, the sun goes through what is called a sunspot cycle every 11 years. I'm certainly no expert on solar science, but basically what occurs is the sun goes through a period of minimal and maximum sunspot activity ultimately resulting in a pole reversal. Yes, just as planets have a north and south pole, so to does the sun. But the sun's poles reverse, south goes north, and north goes south. Planetary poles can reverse too, though it seems to be a rare occurence. Currently, Venus is the only planet that is upside down so to speak, meaning the south pole is north and the north pole is south (because it spins backwards in relation to the other planets of the solar system). But before we go any further, here is a news clip from Fox News with a physicist explaining upcoming solar storms we are going to be experiencing around...2012:

But the thing is, 11 year cycles aren't the only cycles the sun goes through. But the one coming up in 2012 is apparently a bigger one than normal not just because of some scientific data but because of another longer cycle that is coming up too. I'm not going to pretend like I understand all the different sun cycles and try to corelate them with all the different moments of interest in the Mayan calendar, but I do understand that the sun effects a lot of things in a lot of ways. For one, it is what is really causing global warming - not carbon emissions. The carbon emissions global warming theory is a myth put forward by faulty scientific models and probably by scientists that enjoy all the funding it gets them. And by guys like Al Gore that want to institute a silly global carbon tax. Are our factories causing the other planets in the solar system to warm too? Is it our SUVs that are causing ice to melt on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? Here is a documentary about that (its not short though, its around 40 minutes long):




Long story short, the sun is a tremendous ball of magnetic energy. Theres positive energy and theres negative energy. It moves and the earth moves. Different positions in different periods of time result in differences in what and how much energy is hitting us. And besides the heat, the magnetic effects cause problems too. It can effect communications, and it can effect us. A lot of people don't realize how much our own "body clocks" go by the sun. Female ovulation cycles are effected by it too. Our bodies are also comprised of a bio-magnetic energy field (aura, soul, ka, spirit...whatever you want to call it), and changes in the suns magnetic field can not only effect the earths geo-magnetic field, but can potentially effect our own bio-magnetic energy fields. The energy it provides is crucial to our existence in so many ways. So it should come as no surprise that fluxuations in that energy can potentially cause changes in us and/or our environment. For anyone interested in learning more about various solar cycles, here is a video I found by Maurice Cotterell. The quality isn't that good because it's just a recording of him giving a lecture in a dark room with an overhead projector...but it's watchable. The video is around 93 minutes long and he goes from point to point rather quickly, so you'd need to watch it when you have plenty of free time and can be alert. He is what some may describe as a "fringe" scientist (he's been featured on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory), but he is well educated which gives him credibility. Here is the remainder of the lecture (the whole lecture is about three hours total).

I have also heard some claims recently that the Earth's vibration (known as Schumann resonance) - which is normally around 7.8 hz - has been increasing since the 1980s. Some websites I've looked at have disputed this though, so it may not be true. But if it were true, then that be another interesting clue to look at. If the vibrations of the earth are increasing, then it would seem that that would effect our own vibrations (the bio-magnetic energy field, spirit, soul, whatever you want to call it) within ourselves. Truthfully, I don't know much about the science behind schumann resonance and only became familiar with it recently, but for anyone that may even have a passing interest on the 2012 subject, it may be an interesting topic to look into more.

So what is going to happen around 2012? Communication systems knocked out? Possibly. A great awakening? Maybe. The end of the world? Probably not. But it's possible it may be the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine).

Discovering America...again and again

Almost everyone knows about Columbus' voyage to America and many people now know that Leif Ericson discovered it nearly 500 years before Columbus. But, evidence suggests there were others before them. Maybe way before them.

There is evidence of the Phoenicians in Brazil as far back as the 7th century BC. They even left an inscription saying they had come from Sidon and that commerce had cast them on that "distant shore". The Phoenicians are one of the best known sailing civilizations who were known to have sailed past the tip of Africa. The Greek historian Diodorus even wrote about Phoenicians finding a great island beyond the "Pillars of Hercules" (Straits of Gibraltar). They may have been caught in a storm during the voyage and thrown off course and ended up in America. Or, its possible they may have been intentionally looking for a new place to trade with. Contrary to popular belief, people didn't think the world was flat in ancient times. That was a myth started by Washington Irving in his biography of Christopher Columbus when he erroneously stated that Columbus was trying to convince people the world was round. He was actually just trying to convince them that it was thinner - they already knew it was round. His theory was it was quicker to sail West to go East...but he was wrong, because he underestimated how wide the Earth was...and didn't realize there was another big continent in his way. With that in mind, it could be that the Phoenicians were aware of the possibilities of finding other lands and were purposely looking for a new trading outpost.

But it doesn't end there. The ancient chinese have stories of a land called "Fusang", which is thought to have been the west coast of the Americas, probably around Mexico. And it is perhaps more than just stories too. During the 5th century AD, a group of Buddhist monks sought the paradise of Fusang and eventually found it. According to a Readers Digest book I have called The World's Last Mysteries, they found a cultivated people with "system of writing, but they have no fortresses or walled cities". What is more interesting is the fact that in Mexico, terracotta sculptures of faces that have distinctive Chinese, Phoenecian, and even African facial features have been found. If the people of ancient America had never seen these people, how could they have possibly known what they look like?

And its not necessarily just the stories of Phoenecians and Chinese either. The ancient natives of America also have stories of the "gods" visiting. One example is the story of the Aztec "god" Quetzalcoatl. As the story goes, Quetzalcoatl sailed away on a raft vowing to return some day. Five hundred years later when the Spanish conquistadors arrived, the Aztecs thought this was the return of Quetzalcoatl because they had been expecting "bearded white men dressed in different colors and on their heads round coverings". According to one theory though, the original Quetzalcoatl may have been a viking known as Ullman from the 10th century AD. The theory is supported due to the finding of germanic runes and a rock carving of a bearded figured with what appeared to be Viking ships on a carved cross.

Another curiosity is in the United States at a placed called Mystery Hill in New Hampshire which consists of stone structures that don't match the architecture or style of the natives. It actually appears to be Celtic in origin and archaeologists even found tablets alluding to the Celtic God Bel and the Canaanite God Baal. In addition to that, there are various stone chambers around the New England countryside that appear to be Irish/Celtic in origin and may date to as far back as the 8th century AD.

Here are a few other mysteries (which might be hoaxes or possibly have better explanations):

• In Heavener, OK in 1976, an ancient coin that appeared to be Syrian in origin was found with a depiction of Emperor Nero on it. (It may be possible a modern traveller carrying an ancient coin could have dropped it though)
• In 1968, Manfred Metcalf came across a stone in Georgia that had inscriptions similar to the ancient writing from Crete called Linear A and B.
• A rock outcropping in Colorado that had inscriptions written in Consainne Ogam, an ancient Celtic form of writing.
• A painting found in the Roman city Pompeii that includes a pineapple and a specific species of squash - both native to the Americas.
• Egyptian statuettes were found in Acajutla, Mexico in 1914.
• According to a 1909 article in the Phoenix Gazette, an Egyptian tomb was uncovered in Arizona by the Smithsonian...although the Smithsonian denies any knowledge of this.

That last one seems pretty far fetched, but I was reminded of another incident where Egyptian heiroglyphs were found in Australia. Many have said (not surprisingly) that it was a hoax, but what I find interesting about the Australian case, is that fossils of Kangaroos and other marsupials were allegedly found at the Siwa Oasis in Egypt. Another thing I found interesting is that the Atakapa Native American tribe language has some similarities to ancient Egyptian. I've also heard the Hopi tribe bears some similiarities to ancient Sumerians.

While some of these may be far fetched, there is enough evidence to suggest Europeans and Asians had traveled to America prior to Leif Ericson. And it really isn't that far fetched. I don't doubt that Phoenicians could have sailed to the Americas. The evidence of sculptures with facial features of Asians, Africans, and Europeans seems to indicate travelers from other continents visited the Americas in the ancient past. It's also possible some travelers to the Americas didn't return to their original homes, thus meaning their stories didn't make it back home either. If their stories weren't told, then the stories couldn't have been passed down over time. So the idea of visitors to America in the ancient past isn't to far fetched.