Here’s an excerpt from an intriguing article chronicling the craziness that developed over an object found in the California desert. A ceramic cylinder surrounding a metal screw-like object fired people’s imaginations. It became known as the Coso Artifact with speculation that it could have been a relic of Atlantis or something left by aliens or even an artifact from before The Flood. It turned out to be a spark plug for a Model T or Model A Ford from the 1920s. The author of the article goes on to bemoan the gullibility of people:
The Internet, with its unique ability to elevate bogosity and cheapen fact, is awash with this stuff: video footage of underwater Atlantean “roads” near Bimini; engineering diagrams of Noah’s ark; evidence linking the “face on Mars” to the Pyramids of Giza and the Old Testament.
Archaeology from the dark side
So, which one are you? Are you one of the ones who would have thought that the Coso Artifact was probably an ancient Atlantean relic or are you the type who would assume it had to be something easily explainable by science or common sense?
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Calakmul is the place to visit in the Yucatan if you want to see ancient Mayan ruins undisturbed by hordes of tourists. In addition, most of the structures can still be climbed as described in the following blog post:
Calakmul, lacking either buses or roped-off stairways, is proving to be the largest city of the Late Classic period (A.D. 600-925), when the Maya’s great accomplishments in architecture, astronomy, writing, painting and sculpture peaked. But only the most motivated tourists find their way to this patch of southern Campeche, two hours off the highway between the Yucatan’s two coasts.
Calakmul offers glimpse of ancient Maya history
While filming the Yucatan Travel Movie, we were strongly advised by people receiving my enewsletter that we must visit Calakmul. Unfortunately, we could not fit it into our itinerary. I hope that when we finally can get to Calakmul, it will still be as pristine and undisturbed as described in the above article.
Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman
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Stephen L. Harrison responds to a description of William Hutton‘s Coming Earth Changes by saying:
Mr. Hutton believes that the poles cannot shift more than about 10 degrees, but that the mechanism of pole shift will be able to go units of the crust of the Earth up and down, to the point of causing parts of Atlantis to rise off the East coast and parts of Lemuria, a further “lost continent,” to rise in the Pacific. He refers to evidence from modern geology studies that indicate that both continents once existed.
Coming Earth Changes: Causes and Consequences of the Approaching Pole Shift
That would be pretty exciting – if parts of Atlantis and Lemuria rose again. According to one of Edgar Cayce‘s readings about the location of Atlantis, he said that the East coast of the U.S. once had been the coast of Atlantis. Wouldn’t that be amazing if land appeared off the Atlantic coast!
Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman
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Isn’t it strange that the Maya’s creator god, Itzamna, is also called, “The Bearded One,” especially when you consider that Maya men do not have facial hair? How could the ancient Maya have ever envisioned a man with a beard? I guess it’s another one of those mysteries associated with the ancient Maya. In the Yucatan Travel Movie, I have included images of Itzamna found in ruins both with a beard and without.
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In the Yucatan Travel Movie, a continual thread of Maya mythology runs throughout with information about, carvings in Mayan ruins, and images of Itzamna, the ancient Maya creator god. Although Itzaman is thought of as being a god of the ancient Maya, I also discovered that there continues to be a reverence for him among modern Maya. I heard one woman say that her grandparents used to honor Itzamna.
As founder of Mayan culture, Itzamna refused to have anything to do with wars, violence, or human sacrifices.
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Following, please find an excerpt from a very long, but fascinating article that basically says that there is evidence of an amazing ancient civilization in India, for the most part ignored in favor of ancient Egypt, that predates “The Flood” so most of the evidence of its civilization was destroyed by the cataclysm and that this Vedic civilization could represent a remnant from Atlantis.
Have you read this before? The extent of the earth upheavals around 10,000 B.C.?
Geologists, both mainstream and alternative, agree that the evidence is overwhelming that there was a massive global catastrophe in around 10,000 BC that ended the last Ice Age and altered the face of the planet in almost every way. For the people alive at that time it must have been an experience we can’t imagine. The sea levels rising 300 feet in a week, submerging all beaches and coastal lands, torrential rainstorms measuring in feet instead of inches, worldwide hurricanes, supervolcanic eruptions turning the sky black and blotting out the sun for months. A waterfall as wide as the Bosphorous Strait filling up the Black Sea like a bathtub. The human survivors of this cataclysm would never ever have forgotten it and would most certainly have told their children and grandchildren about it; and those subsequent generations would have passed on the story to their own descendants. This memory endured to the present day to become these folk-legends of the Great Flood etc.
IS VEDIC CIVILIZATION THE REMNANTS OF THE LEGENDARY ATLANTIS
What do you think? Could ancient civilizations in India be remnants of the civilization of Atlantis?
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Here is an abstract previewing a very interesting article theorizing a huge impact off the coast of Antarctic as the cause of the sinking of Atlantis and the tilt of the earth’s axis.
It does remind me of another theory I read about, I think in one of Graham Hancock’s books, that Antarctica is actually Atlantis and that when the earth’s crust moved during a physical pole shift (not magnetic as has happened so many times in the past) that Atlantis ended up at the South Pole and froze over. He gives this explanation for the Piri Reis map showing contours of Antarctica which is presently under a mile-deep ice sheet.
Abstract: Using Google Earth and browsing the geographic appearance of the Earth’s crust starting from the South Pacific Ocean right above Antarctica and traveling over to Drake’s Passage and into the South Atlantic Ocean there seems to be a visual trace that some sort of cosmic collision occurred in that area. (See Figure 1) The impact of the object surfed across the ocean and collided with the bottom of South America where it once connected to Antarctica creating Drake’s Passage opening. This impact also may have had the kinetic energy to break the Earth’s crustal plate and create the fault lines (See Figure 3) in addition to changing Earth’s axial tilt (See Figure 2).[Report and Opinion. 2010;2(2):1-2]. (ISSN: 1553-9873).
COSMIC IMPACT SITE THAT CREATED EARTH’S AXIAL TILT AND FAULT LINES
In an article posted on the Middle Peninsula Fine Arts Association’s blog, I learned that DNA testing in a lab in Cairo paid for by the Discovery Channel has turned up evidence that King Tut had a clubbed foot and probably died from malaria. He also had a condition that restricted blood flow causing his bones to collapse and explaining the 130 wooden sticks and staffs found in his tomb. They were used by the youthful King Tut . . . he died at the age of 19 . . . for support and locomotion.
DNA testing of other mummies showed that one of his mating partners was his sister and that the remains of two stillborn babies in his tomb were his children. The article concludes by saying:
Knowing the secrets of King Tut’s life, lineage and death lends a new perspective to royal life in Ancient Egypt, if you ask Pusch. “At first, he was a specimen in a museum, but now he’s become a person I know intimately,” he said. “His was a painful life and one of suffering. “Not very royal, is it?”
DNA Sheds Light on King Tut’s Life
Archeologists from Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Study are looking for evidence of a city that may have been buried by a tsunami in the south of Spain
The Tartessian civilization, which developed in southern Spain between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and became rich trading gold and silver from local mines, has long been linked by mythologists to the Atlantis legend.
Lost city of Atlantis ‘could be buried in southern Spain’
The dates, if correct, are certainly right since Plato said that Atlantis came to its end around 9,000 B.C. A civilization that flourished between the 11th and 7th centuries B.C. would have been contemporary with Atlantis. And, a city on the coast of southern Spain would have been geographically close to Atlantis, a continent in what is now the Atlantic Ocean.
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While doing research for one of the Special Features, Mayan Gods and a Goddess, accompanying the Yucatan Travel Movie, I came upon this intriguing information: that Izamna was considered a god of the sky.
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