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h, Osiria! Ancient
enemy of Atlantis,
saviour of Europe
and Africa, and all
who dwelt
between the
pillars! Once the fertile
breadbasket of the world, now
sunken beneath thousands of
feet of saltwater in the same
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Beauty in
David Hatcher Childress has popularized the theory that the the Beast
Mediterranean Basin was once the site of a vast, fertile region Wendy
that formed the heart of what some esoteric literature refers to Carlos
as "the Osirian Empire", an empire that was destroyed by the Tastes like
same Great Flood that destroyed Atlantis and the rest of the chocolate, smells like
antediluvian world. The megalithic remains of this once gasoline — perfect
powerful empire now lay scattered all across the listening while reading
Mediterranean, with numerous megalithic structures remaining our articles on ancient
not only on islands and on its shorelines, but also deep under Osiria! (Clips courtesy
its waters — over 200 underwater structures, according to Amazon.com)
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Childress. These structures were called megalithic, literally, Incantation
"big stones", due to the fact that the blocks used in their Beauty in the Beast
construction were of a huge size relative to building blocks that Poem for Bali
have been used during recorded history — so huge and so Just Imaginings
heavy, in fact, that modern engineers today still do not know That's Just It
how they were moved and set into place so precisely. The
origin of these megalithic structures as yet remains a mystery, as they appear to date back
from a time in mankind's distant past that has been all but forgotten. As Childress
explains,
The Osirian Civilization, according to esoteric tradition, was an advanced
civilization contemporary with Atlantis. In the world of about 15,000 years ago,
there were a number of highly developed and sophisticated civilizations on our
planet, each said to have a high degree of technology. Among these fabled
civilizations was Atlantis, while another highly developed civilization existed in
India. This civilization is often called the Rama Empire. What is theorized is a
past quite different from that which we have learned in school. It is a past with
magnificent cities, ancient roads and trade routes, busy ports and adventurous
traders and mariners. Much of the ancient world was civilized, and such areas of
the world as ancient India, China, Peru, Mexico and Osiris were thriving
commercial centers with many important cities. Many of these cities are
permanently lost forever, but others have been or will be discovered! It is said
that at the time of Atlantis and Rama, the Mediterranean was a large and fertile
valley, rather than a sea as it is today. The Nile River came out of Africa, as it
does today, and was called the River Styx. However, instead of flowing into the
Mediterranean Sea at the Nile Delta in northern Egypt, it continued into the
valley, and then turned westward to flow into a series of lakes, to the south of
Crete. The river flowed out between Malta and Sicily, south of Sardinia and then
into the Atlantic at Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules). This huge, fertile valley,
along with the Sahara (then a vast, fertile plain), was known in ancient times as
the Osirian Civilization.2
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The namesake and founder of the Osirian Empire was the Egyptian
god Osiris. In the Egyptian pantheon, Osiris was the son of the
gods Nut, goddess of the sky, and Geb, god of Earth. Osiris was
married to Isis, with whom he fathered the falcon-headed god
Horus. Osiris was also brother to Nepthys, Egyptian goddess of the
dead, and Set, Egyptian god of chaos and disorder.
The name "Osiris" has an interesting history. The name as we
know it today is actually a Greek corruption of the Egyptian word
"Asar", or "Usar", which can mean "the Strength of the Eye", or
"He Who Sees the Throne". These translations are based upon the
fact that the hieroglyphic name for Osiris includes a throne and an
eye, as well as the hieroglyph for "god", though there are at least
158 known versions of the name.3 Osiris was an unusual god with
a mysterious origin, the exact meaning of his name also being a
source of controversy: "From the hieroglyphic texts of all periods
of the dynastic history of Egypt we learn that the god of the dead,
par excellence, was the god whom the Egyptians called by a name
which was commonly known to us as 'Osiris'. The oldest and simplest form of the name
is written by means of two hieroglyphics, the first of which represents a 'throne' and the
other an 'eye', but the exact meaning attached to the combination of the two pictures by
those who first used them to express the name of the god, and the signification of the
name in the minds of those who invented it cannot be said."4
Osiris was at one time one of the most popular gods of the entire Mediterranean region,
as he was seen as a great "civilizer" of mankind. In the myths, Osiris brought mankind
knowledge and technology that allowed the barbaric early peoples to develop civilization.
Moreover, the fact that he was believed to have "conquered death" made his story popular
first among ruling aristocracies, and later among people of all classes, as they too wished
to be resurrected, and live forever. As McDevitt explains,
The oldest religious texts refer to Osiris as the
great god of the dead, and throughout these texts
it is assumed that the reader will understand that
he once possessed human form and lived on
earth. As the first son of Geb, the original king of
Egypt, Osiris inherited the throne when Geb
abdicated. At this time the Egyptians were
barbarous cannibals and uncivilized. Osiris saw
this and was greatly disturbed. Therefore, he
went out among the people and taught them what
to eat, the art of agriculture, how to worship the
gods, and gave them laws. Thoth helped him in
many ways by inventing the arts and sciences and
giving names to things. Osiris was Egypt's
greatest king who ruled through kindness and
persuasion. Having civilized Egypt, Osiris A fragment of hieroglyphic writing
traveled to other lands, leaving Isis as his regent, showing a variation of the name of Osiris.
For the ancient Egyptians, the main
to teach other peoples what he taught the purpose for writing was not decorative,
Egyptians. During Osiris' absence, Isis was and it was not originally intended for
troubled with Seth's plotting to acquire both her literary or commercial use. Its most
and the throne of Egypt. Shortly after Osiris' important function was to provide a
return to Egypt, in the twenty-eighth year of his means by which certain concepts or
reign, on the seventeenth day of the month of events could be brought into existence.
Hathor (late September or November), Seth and The Egyptians believed that if something
were committed to writing it could be
72 conspirators murdered him. They then threw repeatedly 'made to happen' by means of
the coffin in which he was murdered into the magic. Osiris' hieroglyph, the eye over
Nile, with his divine body still inside. Isis, with the throne, usually accompanied by the
the help of her sister Nephthys, and Anubis and "god" hieroglyph to indicate deity, is
Thoth, magically located Osiris' body. Upon portrayed here with a plant instead,
learning the his brother's body was found, Seth indicating Osiris in his fertility aspect.
went to it and tore it into fourteen pieces and Image and text from "The Cosmetic
Hieroglyph" by Jeremy Lemmon.
scattered them throughout Egypt. Isis once again
found every part of his body, save his phallus (it had been eaten by the
now-cursed Nile fish). She magically re-assembled Osiris and resurrected him
long enough to be impregnated by him so that she could give birth to the new
king Horus.5
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pieces of the ancient puzzle, starting with Malta — home of the oldest megalithic
structures in the world.
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population of archaeological artifacts, it stands to reason that it was the most important
religious and political center of its time.
I say religious and political, as religion and politics at that time were not separated. In our
ancient past, the gods of the state were also the rulers of the state, and their priesthoods
ruled their lands for them. Also, as numerous ancient cart tracks all over the island attest,
Malta was probably also the economic capitol of Osiria, as the majority of the massive
amounts of produce brought in for sacrifices to the goddess were sold back to the
populace at a profit. Moreover, the priestesses likely had to christen ("Isen"?) new
children, as well as perform marriages and funerals and other social functions typically
performed by religious leaders in society, making ancient Malta the social capitol as well.
Thus, antediluvian Malta was likely the religious, social, economic and political center of
the Osirian Empire.
Our search for the 14 lost pieces of Osiris
starts, then, on Malta. But where on Malta?
There are numerous archaeological sites all
over the island. However, the largest and
probably best-known ruins are those of
Hagar Qim, which are also the best
preserved. Hagar Qim, lit., "erect stones",
is made up of several chambers, including
an "oracle room", and several altars. It was
there that nineteenth-century archaeologists
found the now famous "fat lady" statues, an
ancient fertility figure more commonly
known as "the Venus of Malta". Based
The "fat lady" or "Venus of Malta" came in many
upon this and other discoveries about the
forms, all grossly obese, indicating a person of religious nature of the monument, it is
immense proportions. Some have argued that the fat believed that Malta lay at the center of an
lady is actually an androgynous being, pointing out that ancient matriarchal civilization that
there are no specific sexual characteristics, whereas worshipped a mother goddess.
others point out examples of the fat lady where sexual
characteristics are present. Still others believe that the
Hagar Qim and the other structures were in
fat lady was meant to represent the fertile, abundant
fact temples where this mother goddess —
earth, and sexual identity was not an issue. However,
who was essentially an embodiment of the
most tend towards the idea that the "fat lady" sat at the
fertility of the land — was worshipped.
center of an ancient matriarchal culture, and was the
Moreover, the still-visible ruts of the
progenitor of the concept of what we now call "Mother
Earth". numerous ancient tracks created by
Image from The OTS Foundation. countless carts criss-cross the entire island,
some of which are nearly two feet deep.
The quantity of tracks on the island makes it clear that the temples once lay at the center
of a vast agrarian empire — much larger than the current island of Malta. The numerous
cart ruts point to massive amounts of produce being carted into the area from surrounding
regions, which makes sense as the temple in ancient times was, besides being the center
of religious belief, also the center of commerce. Interestingly, the tracks do not end at the
edge of the cliffs that overlook Malta's many beaches, but continue on for some distance
into the surrounding ocean, proving that, at the time when Malta's temples were in use,
the sea level was significantly lower — or, as we have seen, non-existent in this region.
Though Hagar Qim is perhaps the most
famous and well-preserved of the
monuments, the oldest and largest may
actually be Ggantija on the nearby island of
Gozo. Ggantija, lit., "belonging to the
giants", was so named by the Maltese
because they believed the huge, megalithic
stones used to build the monument could
only have been lifted by giants. Some of
the walls are as much as 18 feet tall, and
very thick, and contain niches and shrines
which make it clear that Ggantija, like
The Gigantija Temple, seen from above. Gigantija was
Hagar Qim was also once a temple. so named as the legends surrounding the temple said
Interestingly, the Maltese do have a that the stones were so huge, the walls so high, and the
tradition of giants on the islands, complex so massive, it could only have been built by
particularly Gozo. One story, "The Giantess giants. Note the curved walls, imitating the ample
of Qala", talks about a giant woman who curves of the "fat lady".
lived on the island of Gozo who was able Image from The OTS Foundation.
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to lift and carry around very heavy rocks. The story appears to describe how some of the
monuments were built, though the story might simply be a fabrication created by
imaginative islanders to explain the giant "fat lady" statues and the huge rocks that are
literally all over the island. However, as we saw in this issue's story on Giants, giants
were considered a historical reality not only by the Bible, but numerous other related
traditions. If so, the stories about giants building these ancient structures might be true.
These ancient master masons may have left their mark all over the ancient world, and
Osiris may have been the greatest of these ancient "mighty men" of old.
This ancient, peaceful culture, however, met a sudden and violent end, as evidenced by
the fact that many of these massive stones have been uprooted and thrown dozens of feet
— a feat that would have required forces of incredible magnitude. This was caused by the
Great Flood mentioned in the Bible and numerous related legends all over the world,
including ancient Athens. Let us look now upon Plato's account of ancient Athens, and its
role in the antediluvian "war to end all wars" that raged right up to the time that the
waters of the Great Flood covered the entire Earth.
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disappeared by reason of the destruction of those who received the tradition, and
the lapse of ages.14
The gods of the Athenians were Hephaestus, the god of fire, crafts, and the forge, and
Athena, goddess of war, as well as of the city, handicrafts, and agriculture. There are
interesting parallels between the myths of the Greeks and the myths of the Egyptians,
particularly the myth of Osiris. Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris was, like Hephaestus,
born with stunted legs. Other interesting Greek/Egyptian religous parallel exists between
the birth of Athena and the birth of the Egyptian gods Shu and Tefnut, where all were
born directly from a male god, Athena from Zeus and Shu and Tefnut from Ptah, no
woman being involved in the birth of either. Could this be support for the opinion that the
god/goddess of Malta was actually androgynous, a self-completed human being —
capable of self-reproduction — that some have argued was the true deity of Malta and, by
extension, ancient Osiria? Athena, her virginity being one of her prime attributes,
displays both male and female characteristics, which may point to the fact that ancient
Osiria was not only matriarchal in nature, but androgynous.
Athens, according to the Egyptian priests was once a much larger area, but was greatly
reduced down to its present size by a series of inundations, some of which might have
occurred in historic times.
Concerning the country the Egyptian priests said what is not only probable but
manifestly true, that the boundaries were in those days fixed by the Isthmus, and
that in the direction of the continent they extended as far as the heights of
Cithaeron and Parnes; the boundary line came down in the direction of the sea,
having the district of Oropus on the right, and with the river Asopus as the limit
on the left. The land was the best in the world, and was therefore able in those
days to support a vast army, raised from the surrounding people. Even the
remnant of Attica which now exists may compare with any region in the world
for the variety and excellence of its fruits and the suitableness of its pastures to
every sort of animal, which proves what I am saying; but in those days the
country was fair as now and yielded far more abundant produce. How shall I
establish my words? and what part of it can be truly called a remnant of the land
that then was? The whole country is only a long promontory extending far into
the sea away from the rest of the continent, while the surrounding basin of the
sea is everywhere deep in the neighbourhood of the shore. Many great deluges
have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years
which have elapsed since the time of which I am speaking; and during all this
time and through so many changes, there has never been any considerable
accumulation of the soil coming down from the mountains, as in other places,
but the earth has fallen away all round and sunk out of sight. The consequence
is, that in comparison of what then was, there are remaining only the bones of
the wasted body, as they may be called, as in the case of small islands, all the
richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton of
the land being left. But in the primitive state of the country, its mountains were
high hills covered with soil, and the plains, as they are termed by us, of Phelleus
were full of rich earth, and there was abundance of wood in the mountains.15
This vast, rich, fertile plain had not been supported by solid rock, so when the floods
came, the land was washed away, and only that land that lay upon solid bedrock and
mountainous areas was kept from sliding into the sea. The Egyptian priest recalled the
fact that several major deluges had taken place before and since the Great Flood came
9,000 years previously, as well as other cataclysms of mysterious origin, all of which
collectively had kept the Athenians continually struggling to survive.
There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of
many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and
water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which
even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios,
having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive
them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was
himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really
signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and
a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals;
at such times those who live upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are
more liable to destruction than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore.
And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and
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preserves us. When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of
water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on
the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers
into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither then nor at any other time, does the
water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come
up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most
ancient. The fact is, that wherever the extremity of winter frost or of summer
does not prevent, mankind exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes in lesser
numbers. And whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any
other region of which we are informed-if there were any actions noble or great
or in any other way remarkable, they have all been written down by us of old,
and are preserved in our temples. Whereas just when you and other nations are
beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life,
after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring
down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education;
and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what
happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves.16
Before the Great Flood, however, the Athenians were known to be the best fighters in the
world, having proven themselves in combat against the mighty Atlantean armies that had
threatened to enslave Europe, Africa, Asia, and "all who dwelt between the pillars":
As for those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon,
they are no better than the tales of children. In the first place you remember a
single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the next place, you do
not know that there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of
men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a
small seed or remnant of them which survived. And this was unknown to you,
because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no
written word. For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge of all, when
the city which now is Athens was first in war and in every way the best
governed of all cities, is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to have
had the fairest constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of
heaven.17
As was recounted in the Bible, just before the Great Flood, Earth was "filled with
violence", meaning the entire Earth was at war. As we saw in Part II of our Atlantis
series, and in Part I of Giants in the Earth, the Nephilim giants of old were engaging in a
massive world war with each other to see who would rule the world. Since both the
Atlanteans and the Athenians were specially bred by gods who had "come down from
heaven" in order to rule over the men in their appointed districts, and both Atlas and
Athena were warlike deities, giving their peoples gifts of technology and teaching them
how to make war, it stands to reason that these two peoples would inevitably come into
conflict with each other. Also likely is the fact that the Atlanteans and the Athenians had
been genetically modified by their respective deities so that they would be more effective
in war, which meant they were made larger, stronger, and fiercer — giants. In the case of
the giants of Athens/Osiria, it would appear that at least some were androgynous in
nature, as is evidenced by Athena and the "Venus of Malta", both of whom were gigantic
in stature. This was a war of annihilation, a war to see who would rule the world, forever:
Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But
one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell
of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of
Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out
of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there
was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of
Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the
way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite
continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the
Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is
a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless
continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire
which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the
continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya
within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as
Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow
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our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then,
Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength,
among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was
the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled
to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated
and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not
yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the
pillars. But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a
single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the
earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the
sea.18
The Athenians had successfully repelled the Atlantean assault upon Osiria, though the
rest of their allies who had lived in the region — the proto-Egyptians and the rest of the
antediluvian peoples — had failed them. Escaping enslavement to the Atlanteans,
however, they were destroyed by a massive flood that had breached the pillars and
flooded the entire Mediterranean basin, and possibly more. All that remains today is a
relative handful of megalithic remains, with more under the surface, waiting to be found
by the next generation of intrepid explorers.
The search for the ancient Osirian Empire — and for the 14 lost pieces of Osiris — starts
on the island of Malta. Long a favorite tourist destination for Europeans, Malta is fast
becoming a world-class premiere tourist destination not only for its megalithic
architecture, but for its other historic features, such as the Templar castles and other
remnants of the age of chivalry, as well as its top-flight restaurants, entertainment, and
accomodations. Ancient secrets may lie waiting to be uncovered, both above ground and
below water (though only experienced divers should attempt any underwater
archaeology). For more information on your Malta vacation, contact VisitMalta.com.
Become a part of the legend! Send us your tales of your search for the 14 lost pieces of
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1
David Hatcher Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean
(Stelle, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996), 30.
2
Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean, 27.
3
April McDevitt, "OSIRIS (Asar, Wesir, Ausar, Unnefer)" (Ancient Egypt: The
Mythology: http://www.egyptianmyths.net). The word "Egyptian" is actually also a Greek
corruption — the Egyptians actually referred to themselves as being from the land of
"Khemet". This is confirmed by the Bible, as this name is very similar to the name of
Ham, son of Noah, from whom the Egyptians were said to have descended.
4
TourEgypt.net, "Osiris, Asar" (TourEgypt.net: http://www.touregypt.net).
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5
April McDevitt, "OSIRIS (Asar, Wesir, Ausar, Unnefer)" (Ancient Egypt: The
Mythology: http://www.egyptianmyths.net).
6
McDevitt, "The Story of Isis and Osiris" (Ancient Egypt: The Mythology:
http://www.egyptianmyths.net).
7
Mike Ward and Chris Ward, "Osiris" (University of Colorado: Social Science Data Lab:
http://sobek.colorado.edu/LAB/GODS/index.html).
8
Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean, 29.
9
Samuel W. Matthews, "This Changing Earth", National Geographic Vol. 143, No. 1,
(January 1973): 20-21. Cf. also Kenneth J. Hsu, The Mediterranean Was a Desert: A
Voyage of the Glomar Challenger (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983).
10
Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean, 205.
11
Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean, 205.
12
Graham Hancock, Underworld (New York: Crown Publishers, 2002), 20.
13
Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean, 206.
14
Plato, "Critias: Page 2", (The Active Mind: http://www.activemind.com).
15
Plato, "Critias: Page 3", (The Active Mind: http://www.activemind.com).
16
Plato, "Timaeus: Page 2", (The Active Mind: http://www.activemind.com).
17
Plato, "Timaeus: Page 2", (The Active Mind: http://www.activemind.com).
18
Plato, "Timaeus: Page 2", (The Active Mind: http://www.activemind.com).
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the shape of the world. Hancock, steeped in the ancient flood myths that speak of early
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And the greatest symbol of the Riddle of the Sphinx", a legend that has been passed down to us
ancient mystery that is Egypt is the through the Greek play Oedipus Tyrannus. In the play, the Sphinx is
Great Sphinx, perhaps the most described as a menace, lying in wait to capture unsuspecting travelers
commonly known symbol of in Egypt. Once she caught them, if they were unable to answer her
ancient Egypt on Earth. Still she riddle, she devoured them.
lies recumbent, silently guarding
the Giza necropolis, an ever-present reminder of Egypt's hidden past and the mysteries that
still lie buried beneath its haunted sands. Ever desirous to divulge her secrets to a world not
yet prepared, she lies chastely waiting for the one who holds the key to her heart of darkness.
Osiris, both the man and the myth, was not born until after the
Great Flood had destroyed the civilization that now bears his Raiders of
name. As we have seen, the worship of Osiris was at one time so the Lost
widespread throughout the ancient Mediterranean world that some Ark
have taken to referring to the ancient, pre-Flood Mediterranean
region as "Osiria". For want of the correct name, which has been John
lost to history, we have opted to retain the name Osiria for this Williams
ancient civilization that once stretched from southern Europe to The perfect music with
North Africa, from ancient Canaan to the Pillars of Hercules. which to explore
Childress explains this fantastic lost civilization of the ancient Egypt. (Clips
Mediterranean in his classic Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient courtesy
Europe & the Mediterranean, Amazon.com)
The Raiders March
The Osirian Civilization, according to esoteric tradition, was Main Title: South
an advanced civilization contemporary with Atlantis. In the America
world of about 15,000 years ago, there were a number of In The Idol's Temple
highly developed and sophisticated civilizations on our Flight From Peru
planet, each said to have a high degree of technology.... It is Journey To Nepal
said that at the time of Atlantis and Rama, the Mediterranean
was a large and fertile valley, rather than a sea as it is today....
This huge, fertile valley, along with the Sahara (then a vast fertile plain), was known
in ancient times as the Osirian civilization. The Osirian civilization could also be
called "Pre-Dynastic Egypt," the ancient Egypt that built the Sphinx and
pre-Egyptian megaliths such as the Osirion at Abydos. In this outline of ancient
history, it was the Osirian Empire that was invaded by Atlantis, and devastating
wars raged throughout the world toward the end of the period of Atlantis' warlike
imperial expansion.1
As we saw in Part I, Osiria was not a true empire, but a collection of allied peoples who had
once lived in the regions in and around the Mediterranean basin for many thousands of years
until they had been destroyed by the Great Flood. The Great Flood, besides destroying the
Osirian peoples and burying the majority of their remains, had also filled in the basin,
creating what is now known as the Mediterranean Sea. The archaeological heritage left
behind by these antediluvian peoples takes the form of massive, megalithic structures, the
term "megalithic" referring to the incredible size of the stones that they had used to construct
their temples, palaces and pyramids. It is these unique structures by which the antediluvian
Osirians can be distinguished from their descendants in the region, who built on a much
smaller scale with brick and stone of a size miniscule by comparison with the massive
monoliths that had been used to construct the world before the Flood.
The Osirian peoples, among whom the antediluvian ancestors of the Athenian Greeks had
been foremost, had been attacked shortly before the Flood by the Atlanteans, who had had
designs on creating a global Atlantean Empire. Of all of the Osirian peoples, all but the
Athenians had fled in terror of the Atlantean onslaught, who then stood alone against the
armored fist of the massed Atlantean naval and groud forces. However, instead of fleeing in
terror as had the rest of their Osirian allies, antediluvian Athens had "shone forth, in the
excellence of her virtue and strength" and had defeated the Atlanteans, driving them from the
Mediterranean region and freeing "all who dwelt within the pillars" from the Atlantean yoke.
But then, in a single day and night, both Athens and Atlantis disappeared beneath the waves
in an event that is generally believed to be the same as that described in the Bible as the Great
Flood of Noah.
One of the Osirian peoples who had been allied with the antediluvian Athenians were the
antediluvian Egyptians. Like ancient Athens, Egypt also had a history that preceded the Great
Flood and, also like ancient Athens, it had its share of megalithic structures left over from the
world before the Flood. In fact, not only does Egypt have a significant amount of anomalous
megalithic structures scattered around the Nile Valley, some of these structures remain today
as some of the most famous archaeological relics on Earth. All have been classified by
mainstream science as the work of pharaohs during the dynastic period, despite the fact that
the art and architecture of these megalithic structures is completely different from that of
classical Egyptian architecture.
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having one's face on the Sphinx was likely the most coveted prize of all. Thus, not only the
geologic evidence, but also the aesthetic and cultural evidence leans strongly towards the
conclusion that the current head of the Sphinx has probably been recarved at least once since
its original creation.
Technically, the Sphinx is not a megalithic structure, as it had originally been carved as a
single sculpture from a massive rock outcropping as opposed to having been built out of
large, fitted stones as is typical of megalithic architecture. However, we know for a fact that
the stone that was cut out from around the Sphinx while it was being carved was later used to
build what is commonly known as the "Sphinx Temple", a massive, megalithic temple
complex that sits right in front of the paws of the Sphinx. As we have seen in our study of the
megalithic structures of Malta, the megalithic style of architecture used in the Maltese
temples was apparently typical of that used in the world before the Flood. This conclusion
was based largely on the fact that those temples show strong evidence of having been literally
knocked over by one or more massive tsunami, huge tidal waves that had deluged the entire
Mediterranean basin at some point in the distant past in an event that we have determined
was most likely part of the Great Flood of Noah. So, the megalithic style of architecture to be
found in Malta, Egypt and elsewhere may well be indicative that the structures that were built
using the megalithic style are in fact archaeological remnants of the world before the Flood.
In conclusion, between the water erosion to be found on and around the Sphinx, the apparent
recarving of the head of the Sphinx due to extreme levels of erosion over many thousands of
years, and the fact that the materials cut out from around the Sphinx were used as building
materials for a temple whose architectural style greatly predates that of Egypt's dynastic
period, the evidence appears to strongly suggest that the Sphinx may indeed be much older
than currently believed — possibly old enough to be an archaeological remnant of the world
before the Flood.
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Once again, like the Sphinx and the Sphinx Temple, the Valley Temple stands as mute
testament to a world far older than the one currently recognized by orthodox Egyptology. At
200+ tons, these stones could not have possibly been raised up to 40 feet in the air by any
technology known to be available to the dynastic Egyptians, and even today we would be
sorely pressed to lift just one of them. The clean, simple, unadorned style of the Valley
Temple's megalithic architecture is also distinctly different from that of Egypt's historic
period, which was always sophisticated and ornate. Yet, orthodox Egyptology continues to
attribute this temple to Khafre based solely on the fact that a statue of Khafre had been found
in the temple buried upside down in a pit. Yet, pharaohs placing statues of themselves in
temples that were built well before their time was a common practice in Egypt, usually
accompanied by a renovation or expansion of the temple complex. So, the discovery of
Khafre's statue could well indicate that he merely renovated the existing temple, rather than
building it.
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Some believe that the Great Pyramid lay at the heart of the civilization of the antediluvian
Egyptians not as an object of worship and veneration, but as the central piece of a gigantic
power plant — the "Giza Power Plant" — that generated electricity and other forms of power
that were used not only for communications and power generation for peaceful use, but also
as a weapon of terrible destruction. As such, the antediluvian Egyptians were in possession of
a technology that, until the twentieth century, far exceeded our own.
ELECTRICITY
The most illuminating evidence of Egyptian knowledge
of electricity comes from the Temple of Hathor in
Denderah, Egypt in the form of a mysterious relief that
appears to depict what could only be a massive lightbulb
(above). Electrical engineers have studied the design and
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One of the uses of the Great Pyramid was to serve as a giant radio station to send
messages all over the earth. Kinnaman claimed that there was a passageway off of
the secret entrance they found in the south-east corner of the Great Pyramid that led
to a spiral staircase that took them down over 1,000 feet into the limestone bedrock.
There, in a large room lying on a stone table, was a giant quartz crystal ground
convex that was 30 feet in every direction (long, high, thick, etc.). This giant crystal
with thousands of prisms inserted in it was the source of the radio transmission.6
Interestingly, early radio sets used crystal radio technology, before vacuum tubes, solid-state
transistors and other methods were developed during a long history of development. If the
antediluvian Egyptians had discovered radio, it stands to reason that television was not far
behind.
TELEVISION
Of all of the visionaries and seers who claim to have seen
visions of the world before the Flood, Edgar Cayce, famous
seer and mystic, stands head and shoulders above all. Cayce
claimed to see through the eyes of his subjects into their past
lives, many of whom apparently had had past lives in Atlantis.
And in many of these visions, Cayce described television as
one of the technologies that was a part of the antediluvian
world:
In city of Peos in Atlantis — among people who gained
understanding of application of nightside of life or
negative influences in the Earth's spheres, of those who
gave much understanding to the manner of sound, voice
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and picture and such to peoples of that period.... In Poseidia the entity dwelt among
those that had charge of the storage of the motivative forces from the great crystals
that so condensed the lights, the forms of the activities, as to guide the ships in the
sea and in the air and in conveniences of the body as television and recording
voice.7
So not only did the antediluvian Egyptians (and Atlanteans) have radio, they also had
television. Moreover, according to Cayce, they were able to transmit both radio, television
and even power to various craft through the airwaves. Apparently it had to do with the same
crystal technology that was used for radio transmission. So, in effect, the Great Pyramid was
not only a huge power plant, but it was also a gigantic radio/TV broadcast tower.
NUCLEAR POWER
Though evidence of nuclear power — specifically,
nuclear weapons — is not directly evidenced in Egyptian
myths and artifacts, evidence of ancient nuclear war does
exist in southwestern Egypt, in the form of a vast desert
of fused glass. Childress explains,
One of the strangest mysteries of ancient Egypt is
that of the great glass sheets that were only
discovered in 1932. In December of that year, P. Libyan Desert glass, or "LDG", can be
Clayton, a surveyor for the Egyptian Geological found covering hundreds of square miles
Survey, was driving among the dunes of the Great of the Libyan Desert in southwestern
Sand Sea near the Saad Plateau in the virtually Egypt. LDG was used to fashion a glass
scarab that was found on the breast of
uninhabited area just north of the southwestern
Tutankhamen (below). The glass is
corner of Egypt, when he heard his tires crunch on extremely pure, and could only be formed
something that wasn't sand. It turned out to be large by a blast of extreme heat, which could
pieces of marvelously clear yellow-green glass. In only generated by either a meteorite that
fact, this wasn't just any ordinary glass, but ultra-pure exploded just above the desert, or a
glass that was an astonishing 98% silica. Clayton nuclear weapon, though the evidence
wasn't the first person to come across this field of appears to clearly point to the latter.
Childress also suggests that the glass
glass, as various "prehistoric" hunters and nomads might also be the result of an even more
had obviously also found the now-famous Libyan powerful energy weapon, currently
Desert Glass or LDG. The glass had been used in the unknown, but possessed by the
past to make knives and other sharp-edged tools as antediluvian Egyptians. Images from
well as other objects. A carved scarab of LDG was Egyptologists' Electronic Forum
even found in Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb, indicating
that the glass was sometimes used for jewelry. An
article in the British science magazine New Scientist
(July 10, 1999) by Giles Wright entitled, "The Riddle
of the Sands," says that LDG is the purest natural
silica glass ever found. Over a thousand tons of it are
strewn across hundreds of kilometers of bleak desert.
Some of the chunks weigh 26 kilograms, but most
LDG exists in smaller, angular pieces looking like
shards left when a giant green bottle was smashed by
colossal forces.8
There can only be two possibilities for the green glass
desert in southwestern Egypt: one, a meteorite exploded
over the desert in a Tunguska-like event or, two, there
was a nuclear explosion in the desert, either as the result
of an attack, or because the desert was used as a testing
range like our Alamagordo Desert in New Mexico, the
result of which was also sand being fused into green glass. Ancient nuclear war has been
considered as the answer to some of the more puzzling anomalies to be found around the
globe, including references in the Mahabharata to a mighty weapon that sounds exactly like a
nuclear missile:
Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana hurled a
single projectile charged with the power of the
Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and
flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with all its
splendor. 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
unrecognizable. Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke
without apparent cause, and the birds turned white.
If the radiance of a thousand suns ...After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected... ...to
Were to burst at once into the sky escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in
That would be like the splendor of the
streams to wash themselves and their equipment.9
Mighty one...
I am become Death,
The destroyer of worlds.
Interestingly, there are persistent reports of an ancient city
— from the Bhagavad-Gita in India that is covered in a layer of radioactive ash that
shows evidence of an atomic blast that occurred
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somewhere between 10,000-6000 b.c., which fits into the timeline that we have determined
for the last world war of the antediluvian world, and of the Flood that wiped them out for
good.10
A third possibility has been suggested by Childress that the fused green glass was as a result
of a previously unknown energy weapon of which the antediluvian Egyptians had the
mastery.
Now that it is safe to dismiss academic Egyptology's assessment of the age of the Great
Pyramid, the door is open to other theories. And there have been numerous theories, to the
pyramid as part of a treasure map to the pyramid as a water pump. And though the treasure
map theory is excellent, perhaps the best Great Pyramid-specific theory so far is Christopher
Dunn's "power plant" theory. This theory, combined with the complementary research of
Joseph Farrell and my own deductions, is as follows: the Great Pyramid of Giza utilized a
combination of hydrogen, tectonic "earth" energy, solar energy, lunar energy and quartz
crystal in various forms to synergize an immense amount of energy that was essentially the
central "power plant" of antediluvian Egypt.
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A: The "King's Chamber": Hydrogen, sound energy, and solar/lunar energy was collected here and amplified by
crystals.
A1 & A2: Solar energy & lunar energy (reflected solar, microwave and other types of energy from space)
collected through these shafts. The northern and southern faces were originally shaped like satellite dishes, with
collectors to collect and transmit the energy into the King's Chamber via the shafts.
B: The "Queen's Chamber": Hydrogen produced here by mixing zinc chloride and hydrochloric acid
B1: Hydrated zinc chloride is piped in from the outside through the shaft into the Queen's Chamber
B2: Hydrochloric acid is piped in from the outside through the shaft into the Queen's Chamber
B3 & B4: It is possible that the zinc chloride and hydrochloric acid was piped in from the outside, but no
external opening has been found. A subterranean chamber in or beneath the pyramid may eventually be found that
supplied these or other chemicals for the reaction.
C: The "Subterranean Chamber": A lesser resonating chamber that produces the bass and sub-bass notes
D: The "Grand Gallery": The primary resonating chamber, produces the midrange and high notes that, along with
the bass from the Subterranean Chamber, creates an F-Sharp chord that is channeled into the King's Chamber
E: The "Ascending Passage": Contains granite "plugs" (E1) that serve as sonic dampers to prevent runaway
vibration
F: The "Well Shaft": Bass notes from Subterranean Chamber travel through here to Grand Gallery
G: The "Descending Passage": Access tunnel to the mechanism
For further explanation, read on.
EARTH ENERGY
The first and most important part of the process is the tapping of earth's limitless supply of
seismic energy, which creates the majority of the power plant's power. The Great Pyramid, as
many researchers have discovered, was built with a degree of architectural precision that is
unmatched even today. The perfectly squared base, oriented perfectly towards the four
cardinal directions, is the aspect of the building that is perhaps the most commented-upon
feature of the pyramid. What is less well known is the fact that the pyramid is not perfectly
flat on the bottom, as one might expect. Instead, it is built upon an outcropping of limestone,
the first few courses of stone built around the mound and later covering over it. This is
important, as we shall see.
Dunn believes that the Great Pyramid was designed to be what is called a "coupled
oscillator" with the Earth. A coupled oscillator is a device that is designed to allow the
vibratory energy of one vibrating object to be picked up by a connected object so as to
transfer the vibratory energy from the first object to the second object — in this case, from
the Earth to the Great Pyramid. This is why the pyramid was not built upon a flat surface, but
incorporates part of the Earth into its superstructure — the earth is effectively "coupled" with
the Great Pyramid, allowing Earth's natural tectonic vibrations to easily pass into the
pyramid. As Dunn explains, "Covering a large land area, the Great Pyramid is, in fact, in
harmonic resonance with the vibration of the Earth — a structure that could act as an
acoustical horn for collecting, channeling, and/or focusing terrestrial vibration."12 And there
are other aspects of the pyramid's construction that help make it an extremely efficient
coupled oscillator. For one, the Great Pyramid integrates into its design the concept of pi,
where the height of the pyramid is the same as the ratio between the radius of a circle and its
circumference. Just as 2 x pi x the radius of a circle = its circumference, so too 2 x pi x the
height of the pyramid = its circumference. As such, like the Earth, (and all spheres) the Great
Pyramid integrates into its structure the concept of pi, which helps it resonate with Earth's
energy. Other aspects include the relative placement of the pyramid in the approximate center
of Earth's land masses, its placement at precisely at 30 degrees north latitude, and many other
interesting facts and figures that lend great weight to Dunn's theory too numerous to get into
here.
The process of powering up the Giza Power Plant begins in the Subterranean Chamber (C),
which was dug deep in the limestone bedrock beneath the pyramid. When the Subterranean
Chamber was first discovered, the Egyptologists, caught in their "burial chamber" mindset,
assumed that the rough-hewn, seemingly "unfinished" chamber had been abandoned by the
Egyptians who decided instead to bury Pharaoh Khufu in a chamber higher up in the
superstructure of the pyramid. However, if we look at the Subterranean Chamber as part of a
larger resonating chamber intended to convert seismic energy into acoustic energy, its
meaning and usage becomes clear.
The Subterranean chamber is a fairly small chamber that has two interesting features: "the
Pit", and "The Dead-End Passage". The Pit is a twelve-foot deep pit (dug into deeper in 1837
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by Howard Vyse, who was searching for a hidden chamber beneath it) that is just inside the
entryway to the Subterranean Chamber, and the Dead-End Passage, a 2.5-foot square,
53-foot-long horizontal passage hewn into the living rock in the south side of the
Subterranean Chamber. Outside of the "resonating chamber" paradigm the existence of these
chambers makes no sense. However, if one looks at these chambers from the scientific
perspective, with the idea that they had been created for a specific purpose, it becomes clear
that these chambers had been created as a means of converting seismic energy to sound.
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Motivated by the theory that the Grand Gallery had been The so-called "Grand Gallery" of the
built with an acoustical use in mind, Dunn set about Great Pyramid, as viewed from the top.
testing its acoustical properties. Predictably, acoustic The Grand Gallery was actually a massive
acoustical resonating chamber that was
experiments undertaken by Dunn and his colleagues filled with 27 vertical rows of Helmholtz
showed that Grand Gallery was indeed an acoustical resonators, that converted seismic energy
resonating chamber that was specifically designed to into sound. Note the corbelled walls that
reflect all sound that was emitted anywhere in the Great narrow as they approach the ceiling, each
Pyramid — including the Subterranean Subwoofer — of which corresponded to a note in the
into the King's Chamber. The tiles on the ceiling, as well scale. Also, if you look carefully, you can
as the missing tiles on the floor, all acted to bounce sound see the slots along the side ramps that the
resonator trees were installed into. The
back towards the King's Chamber. acoustical signature of the Grand Gallery
or, more accurately, the "Grand
Dunn also theorized that the Grand Gallery, like the Resonator", was designed so that all of the
Subterranean Chamber, had been designed as a massive sound created in the Grand Resonator —
sound generator. Analysis of the Grand Gallery revealed or anywhere in the pyramid, such as the
ramps running along where the walls met the floor on Subterranean Subwoofer — was directed
both sides which had matching pairs of slots on either into the "King's Chamber". Image from
side, spaced at regular intervals, 27 in all. To explain how Guardian's Egypt
the Grand Gallery might also might have been used to generate sound, Dunn hypothesized
that there had been 27 vertical racks, which he called "resonator assemblies", that stretched
all the way to the ceiling. Each of these racks held 7 rows of what are now called Helmholtz
resonators, which are basically hollowed-out spheres that, when vibrated, emit sound of
certain frequency that varies depending upon their size and shape. Dunn explains,
To extrapolate further we
could say that each resonator
assembly that was installed in
the Grand Gallery was
equipped with several
Helmholtz-type resonators that
were tuned to different
harmonic frequencies. In a
series of harmonic steps, each
resonator in the series
responded at a higher
frequency than the previous
one. In a manner similar to the
King's Chamber's response to
energy inputs — its creation of
an F-Sharp chord — these
resonators raised the
A "Helmholtz Resonator" (top right) is basically any hollowed-out frequency of the vibrations
object with a thin neck protruding from one side out of which sound coming from the Earth. To
can travel. Sound is produced when the resonator is vibrated, either increase the resonators'
directly or sympathetically with a nearby resonator of the same frequency, the ancient
resonant frequency. The resonator can be tuned based upon the size of
the object, the width and length of the neck, and so forth. Dunn
scientists would have made the
believes that the Grand Gallery, henceforth referred to as the "Grand dimensions smaller, and
Resonator" (D), was once filled with 27 racks of these types of correspondingly reduced the
resonators, 7 rows per rack, each row tuned to emit one note on a distance between the two walls
7-note scale. All together, with the Grand Resonator providing the adjacent to each resonator. In
high and midrange notes, and the Subterranean Subwoofer providing fact, the walls of the Grand
the the bass and sub-bass notes, the pyramid was one giant speaker Gallery actually step upward
that "sang" one massive chord in F-minor. This chord was then
directed into the King's Chamber where it was converted in
seven times in their height and
piezoelectric energy. Images adapted from The Giza Power Plant and most probably the resonators'
SciScape.org supports reached almost to the
ceiling. At their base, the
resonators were anchored in
the ramp slots. Not surprisingly, there is additional evidence in the Grand Gallery to
support this premise, especially in a design feature of the gallery that is seldom
given much thought. This is a groove, or slot, cut along the length of the second
layer of the corbelled wall. This groove suggests the resonators were held in place
inside the Grand Gallery and positioned, or keyed, into the structure by first being
installed into the ramp slots and then held in a vertical position with "shot" pins in
the groove. Once the resonator assemblies were positioned and locked into place,
the angle of the slot effectively prevented them from moving.14
According to Dunn's theory, each of these racks, 27 in all, held 7 rows of Helmholtz
Resonators, each of which emitted a tone equivalent to one step in the Egyptian musical
scale. Though no one knows for sure what the Egyptian scale was, Dunn believes that the
sound generated by the Subterranean Subwoofer and the Grand Resonator combined together
played what we would now call an F-Sharp chord. Dunn arrived at this conclusion based on
the fact that sound experiments proved that the King's Chamber — and indeed the entire
Great Pyramid — is tuned to the F-Sharp chord. Dunn elaborates,
Subsequent experiments conducted by Tom Danley in the King's Chamber of the
Great Pyramid and in the chambers above the King's Chamber suggest that the
pyramid was constructed with a sonic purpose. Danley identifies four resonant
frequencies, or notes, that are enhanced by the structure of the pyramid, and by the
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materials used in its construction. The notes from an F Sharp chord, which
according to ancient Egyptian texts [are] the harmonic of our planet. Moreover,
Danley's tests show these frequencies are present in the King's Chamber even when
no sounds are produced. They are there in frequencies that range from 16 Hertz
down to 1/2 Hertz, well below the range of human hearing. According to Danley,
these vibrations are caused by the wind blowing across the ends of the so-called
shafts — in the same way as sounds are created when one blows across the top of a
bottle. Included in the program is a meeting with a Native American maker of
sacred flutes from Oregon. His flutes which are made to serenade Mother Earth, are
tuned to the key of F Sharp!15
Based upon Dunn's research, then, it appears that the "earth power" that was used to power
the Giza Power Plant came in the form of seismic energy that was converted to sound
through highly sophisticated architectural and musical means. This sound was carefully tuned
so as to generate an F-Sharp chord, which, acoustically concentrated in the King's Chamber,
caused the granite walls, floor, ceiling and sarcophagus in the King's Chamber to resonate.
The quartz crystals that make up 50% of the structure of granite resonate at certain
frequencies, and when they resonate they generate a form of electricity called
piezoelectricity, so when the pyramid was in full swing, the entire King's Chamber must have
contained a tremendous amount of electrical energy, ready to be put to use.
HYDROGEN
The second element that Dunn proposes was necessary for the Giza Power Plant was
hydrogen. He believes that the two shafts (B1 & B2) that lead to the so-called "Queen's
Chamber" (B) were once used to feed hydrated zinc chloride and hydrochloric acid into the
Queen's Chamber in order to provoke a chemical reaction that would result in the creation of
pure hydrogen. He came to this conclusion due to the fact that the entire Queen's Chamber —
walls, ceiling and floor, as well as the passageway that led to it — had been and still is
covered in 1/2 inch of a salty material that is a combination of calcium carbonate (limestone),
sodium chlorite (salt) and calcium sulfate (gypsum).
Some have speculated that this salty substance was a leftover from the Great Flood, which
would have indeed flooded the Great Pyramid for a time if the tsunami had reached that far.
However, they forget that the rest of the pyramid is salt-free, which negates that possibility.
In fact, the only possible way that the walls, ceiling and floor of the Queen's Chamber could
have been covered was if the salt had been deposited as a result of hot hydrogen reacting
with the limestone walls. There is no other possible way, as the salty residue on the limestone
walls could only have occurred as a result of a unique chemical reaction that can only be
caused by hot hydrogen gas reacting with limestone. But by what means were the zinc
chloride and hydrochloric acid piped into the Queen's Chamber and mixed? The answer is in
fact very simple: the mysterious shafts that were found by the stonemason Wayneman Dixon
in 1872. Dixon, when searching the walls of the Queen's Chamber for clues leading to other
secret tunnels or chambers, chanced upon a couple of thin slits in the northern and southern
walls of the Queen's Chamber. He set at the slits with hammer and chisel, and found that they
were slits in a thin covering for two long shafts that were approximately 7" square and went
far into the body of the pyramid.
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CRYSTAL ENERGY
Though to this point I agree with Dunn's ideas
almost without reservation, it is at this point
where his theories and mine diverge as to how
the energy takes its final form. As we have
seen, the interior of the King's Chamber, or
"Power Center", was filled with hydrogen and
a deafening level of noise in the form of an
F-Sharp chord, which vibrated the granite of
the room and of the "sarcophagus", creating a
powerful piezoelectric charge that energized
the hydrogen and primed the room for the
introduction of microwave energy in order to
The interior of the King's Chamber, or "Power Center". form a MASER. The microwave energy was
According to Dunn's theory, microwave energy was piped in from the outside through the northern
piped into the Power Center and through the shaft, the opening of which can be seen on the
"sarcophagus", which acted as a granite "lens" which
right, above the rock. It then passed, according
focused the energy into a beam that mixed with the
energized hydrogen to form a MASER. The MASER
to Dunn's theory, through the "sarcophagus",
then passed through the other side of the lens and into that was actually just a granite "lens" that was
the southern shaft, which led to the outside where the used to focus the microwave energy into a
MASER was redirected to practical use. Our thesis, beam that mixed with the energized hydrogen
however, is that the energy was passed into a crystal that to form a MASER. The MASER then passed
then radiated energy outward, in function much like a through the other side of the lens and into the
Tesla Tower, but still one step away from becoming
southern shaft, which led to the outside where
fully functional. Image from Guardian's Egypt
the MASER was redirected to practical use.
I differ here with Dunn on a couple of different points. First, I believe that both the northern
and southern shafts were used to collect solar and lunar energy (as discussed previously),
both of which fed into the Power Center, rather than energy entering one shaft and leaving
another. Second, I believe that, instead of a MASER, the Power Center instead contained
some kind of object that absorbed and transformed the enormous amounts of energy in the
Power Center into a non-linear form that could be easily transmitted through the any medium
with little or no attenuation whatsoever — like a Tesla Tower. This object was likely a large,
specially designed quartz crystal or, as some have theorized, a device similar in size and
function to the Ark of the Covenant that contained crystals. Fueling the latter theory is the
fact that the Ark as described in the Book of Exodus would have fit nearly perfectly inside
the granite sarcophagus. Moreover, Jewish tradition makes it clear that the two tablets of the
Ten Commandments had been made of sapphire, a blue, transparent form of corundum that is
crystalline in structure. — Barring some new revelation, we will assume that this is indeed
the answer — that inside the granite sarcophagus inside the Great Pyramid was once an
antediluvian version of the Ark of the Covenant.
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How could the Giza Power Plant be turned into a "Death Star"? Let us first examine its
normal functioning before we turn to any potential destructive applications. Once the Power
Center had been powered up and working properly, the energy needed somewhere to go.
Thus, the antediluvian Egyptians engineered the
Power Center to have several levels of Super
Directional Amplifiers (A4) above it that would both
amplify and direct the energy upwards, towards the
summit of the pyramid. There, the energy would hit
the Transmitter, which was essentially a huge crystal
or collection of crystals similar in function to the Ark
but on a much larger scale, and with one major
difference. On its lofty perch it could broadcast radio,
television and/or power for hundreds of miles in any
direction for use in any application. Not
coincidentally, this is exactly how Cayce described the
way it was done in the antediluvian world — using the "The Transmitter" that once sat at the top of the
pyramid. The energy from the Power Center
mysterious "firestone" that could also broadcast radio, was amplified and aimed by the Super
television and power through any medium: Directional Amplifiers (A4) upwards towards
the peak of the pyramid, on which sat the
About the firestone — the entity's activities then Transmitter. The Transmitter was likely
made such applications as dealt both with the composed of one or more huge crystals, or
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constructive as well as destructive forces in that perhaps another, much larger Ark-like
period. It would be well that there be given apparatus. The intervening limestone acted as a
something of a description of this so that it may non-conductive element between the highly
be understood better.... [The firestone was housed] charged Power Center and Transmitter, so the
entire mass of the pyramid itself was (and is)
in the center of a building which would today be basically a huge Ark, greatly amplifying the
said to be lined with nonconductive stone.... The power of the antediluvian Ark by hundreds or
building above the stone was oval; or a dome thousands of times. This power could then be
wherein there could be ... a portion for rolling broadcast through the huge Transmitter, which
back, so that the activity of the stars — the could be used to broadcast radio, television,
concentration of energies that emanate from electric power or, if it fell into the wrong hands,
death.
bodies that are on fire themselves, along with
elements that are found and not found in the
Earth's atmosphere. The concentration through the prisms or glass (as it acted upon
the instruments that were connected with the various modes of travel through
induction methods which made much the [same] character of control as would in the
present day be termed remote control through radio vibrations or directions; though
the kind of force impelled from the stone acted upon the motivating forces in the
crafts themselves. The building was constructed so that when the dome was rolled
back there might be little or no hindrance in the direct application of power to
various crafts that were to be impelled through space — whether within the radius
of vision or whether directed under water or under other elements, or through other
elements.... These, then, were impelled by the concentration of rays from the stone
which was centered in the middle of the power station, or powerhouse (as would be
the term in the present).19
As we have seen, the Transmitter was isolated from the Power Center by a large amount of
non-conductive stone, just as the firestone was. Moreover, the heavenly bodies were also
used in the Giza Power Plant to generate power, as had the firestone. More importantly,
Cayce describes that the energy that the firestone created, using, basically, energized quartz
crystals, could be used for not only radio and television transmission, but also for power
generation though any medium, at any distance. (Interestingly, this was essentially Nicola
Tesla's goal also, before his mysterious death in 1943.) In sum, the Great Pyramid was
essentially a gigantic Tesla Tower, which radiated energy for general use throughout its
radius of effect, and also functioned as a communications receiver and transmitter.
Left: Tesla's behemoth tower, to be used for trans-Atlantic wireless communications and the
demonstration of wireless power transmission, erected in 1901 at Wardenclyffe (now Shoreham) on Long
Island.
Center: The hieroglyph for the Egyptian god Horus, which is simply the all-seeing eye over a throne.
The plant to the right was a later addition by the strange, superstitious religion of the dynastic Egyptians.
Right: The eye of Sauron — yet more evidence that J.R.R. Tolkien was a genius.
Sauron image from The Art of the Return of the King
Unfortunately, the inevitable came, and the Great Pyramid was misused as a weapon of mass
destruction. Regarding its usage as a "Death Star", Cayce painted a picture of dreadful awe
and fear of what he called "the terrible mighty crystal" which, in the world before the Flood,
had been use to cause great destruction:
In Atlantean land at time of development of electrical forces that dealt with
transportation of craft from place to place, photographing at a distance, reading
inscriptions through walls even at a distance, overcoming gravity itself, preparation
of the crystal, the terrible mighty crystal, much of this brought destruction.... Before
the second destruction when there was the dividing of the islands, when the
temptations were begun in activities of Sons of Belial and children of Law of One.
Entity among those that interpreted the messages received through the crystals and
the fires that were to be the eternal fires of nature.20
As we saw in Part III in our series on Atlantis, the sons of Belial had destroyed most of
Atlantis in a series of cataclysms that they had brought on themselves in their attempts to
conquer the world. Though Cayce's description of how they had managed to sink the islands
of Atlantis by their own actions is not clear, in the context of the Giza Death Star paradigm
we can begin to see how this might have been accomplished. Essentially the sons of Belial
had greatly ramped up the amount of power that could be output through the various power
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plants around the world by setting off explosions underground — nuclear explosions. As a
result, the power output of the power plants such as the one at Giza were, for a short time,
hugely increased as the seismic energy released by the nuclear weapon violently shook the
pyramid. Unfortunately for the sons of Belial, these explosions also set off massive seismic
disturbances which had the effect of sinking the island on which they were situated.
In his follow-up to The Giza Power Plant, The Giza Death Star, Joseph Farrell describes how
the Great Pyramid had been turned into a terrible weapon in the wars that preceded the Great
Flood:
From the sands of Egypt to the Indian subcontinent to the vitrified fortifications of
northern Scotland, there are anomalous evidences that point not only to an enormous
catastrophe that once beset the earth, but to a global war fought with weapons of
mass destruction that may have triggered it. These anomalies form the scenery in
which to view the workings and deployment of the Giza Death Star. They constitute
compelling corroborative evidence that the Great Pyramid may once have been one
of the weapons, perhaps the "Great Weapon" and "Great Affliction," whose
deployment wrought such destruction and initiated such disasters.21
Farrell believes that not only was the Great Pyramid an integral part of the antediluvian war,
it may have actually been the cause of the war. The existence of the pyramid and its immense
potential for destruction must have presented such a threat to rival nations that they risked
total destruction in order to neutralize it. And, if Farrell is right about its true potential for
destruction, they were right to fear it. "My hypothesis [is] that the nuclear energy of the
hydrogen plasma in the Great Pyramid was coupled to a superluminal "pilot wave" along
with acoustic and electromagnetic energy and guided via harmonic interferometry to a target.
The result ... would be an enormous thermonuclear and nuclear reaction in the target,
regardless of the elements which composed the target.22
In short, the Giza Death Star was the ultimate weapon. Using the other two pyramids of the
Giza complex to "aim" the energy, the antediluvian Egyptians could literally cause a nuclear
explosion anywhere on Earth. Moreover, assuming that the weapon was indeed scalar in
nature, as Tesla's experiments were, the energy would not travel line of sight, like a missile to
a target, but would simply appear at the target instantaneously, causing a nuclear explosion,
with no warning, and no possible defense — truly the ultimate weapon. If this is true, then it
is no wonder that excavation in the Great Pyramid has been so severely restricted in recent
years — it may well be that the Great Pyramid is the most powerful weapon ever made, of a
technology that, if it fell into the wrong hands, could tip the balance of power so radically in
favor of those who controlled it, that they could easily rule the world.
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Egyptology will accept the megalithic temples and structures such as the Great Pyramid for
what they are — relics of the the world before the Flood — instead of what they want them
to be. Until that time, we must continue searching on our own for the dream that was
antediluvian Egypt.
Part I: The Athenian Empire | Part III: Nimrod Hunting | Part IV: The Beast from the Sea
The Land of Osiris | The Antediluvian Egyptians | The Giza Power Plant
The Giza Death Star | A Canticle for Osiris
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1
David Hatcher Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean
(Stelle, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996), 27.
2
Mysteries of Egypt, "The Valley Temple" (Mysteries of Egypt: http://www.ancient-
mysteries.com).
3
Gary Fletcher, "The Osireion" (Ancient Civilizations - Tracing the Past:
http://www.users.bigpond.com/MSN/gary_fletcher/).
4
David Hatcher Childress, Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
(Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2000), 11-12.
5
Christopher Dunn, The Giza Power Plant (Rochester, VT: Bear & Company), 232.
6
Stephen Mehler, The Land of Osiris (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press), 161.
7
Edgar Evans Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis (New York: Warner Books, 1968), 85-86.
8
Childress, Technology of the Gods, 213-214.
9
James Hartman, "Flying Aircraft and Nuclear War and Other Strange Occurences of the
Past " (Internet Text Archive: http://www.sacred-texts.com).
10
James Hartman, "Ancient City Found In India Irradiated By Nuclear Blast 8,000 Years
Ago..." (Rense.com: http://www.rense.com).
11
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, The Message of the Sphinx (New York: Crown
Publishers, 1996), 101-104.
12
Dunn, The Giza Power Plant, 144.
13
Dunn, The Giza Power Plant, 144-145.
14
Dunn, The Giza Power Plant, 166.
15
Dunn, The Giza Power Plant, 139-140.
16
Dunn, The Giza Power Plant, 179.
17
John DeSalvo, "A Picture Tour of the Great Pyramid of Giza" (Great Pyramid of Giza
Research Association: http://www.gizapyramid.com).
18
Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, 74.
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19
Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, 88-89.
20
Cayce, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, 87.
21
Joseph P. Farrell, The Giza Death Star (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2001),
19.
22
Farrell, The Giza Death Star, 23.
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
The Book of the Dead is a collection of writings that were placed in tombs
as a means of guiding the ancient Egyptian soul on its journey to the
afterlife. The Papyrus of Ani, which is reproduced here, is one of the most
important and beautiful of the surviving papyri. Damage in the 19th
century seriously confused its sequencing and the relationship between text
and illustrations. Here for the first time the scroll is presented in its proper
sequence and in its entirety. The English text is placed immediately
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faithful to the originals in all their glowing color. A critical purchase for
any serious collection of materials on ancient Egypt.
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The Art of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings)
Gary Russell, Peter Jackson
Rating:
With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy
drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed
research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the
visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The
Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from
sketch to special effect and features 600 images, most appearing nowhere
else. This fully authorized book includes pencil sketches by Alan Lee and John Howe,
costume designes by Ngila Dickson, magnificent full-color paintings by Jeremy Bennett, and
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prop designs, concepts, sculptures and digital artwork from Weta Workshop and Weta
Digital. From Minas Tirith to Mount Doom, from the Army of the Dead to Shelob the
monstrous spider, all the spectacular landscapes, characters and creatures are covered in
stunning detail, including concepts that did not make it into the final film. To accompany this
wealth of imagery, detailed and informative commentaries appear by all the featured artists
and designers, together with a special afterword by Peter Jackson. Their personal thoughts
and explanations offer unique and fascinating insight into how The Return of the King was
brought to life. An artistic journey begun in 1997 reaches its glorious conclusion within these
pages, giving the reader a unique chance to witness the creative process that led to one of the
most spectacular movies of all time. (Review by Amazon.com)
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nightmare landscapes and a crazed carnival calliope with a haunting theme that sounds like a
lament for the end of the world. Beauty in the Beast is an essential recording of both modern
composition and synthesis--Carlos should plug into this circuit again.
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Passion: Sources
Peter Gabriel/Realworld Music
Rating:
This excellent CD is a compilation of much of the source recordings that Peter
Gabriel used for Passion (above). A must-have for lovers of world music,
especially African and Middle-Eastern music.
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the Viking Mission which took the images of the infamous face and pyramids on Mars did
not reach Mars until 1976, a year after this episode aired.... (Review by Mysterious World)
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Pi
(1998)
Rating:
Patterns exist everywhere: in nature, in science, in religion, in business. Max
Cohen (played hauntingly by Sean Gullette) is a mathematician searching for
these patterns in everything. Yet, he's not the only one, and everyone from Wall
Street investors, looking to break the market, to Hasidic Jews, searching for the
216-digit number that reveals the true name of God, are trying to get their hands on Max.
This dark, low-budget film was shot in black and white by director Darren Aronofsky. With
eerie music, voice-overs, and overt symbolism enhancing the somber mood, Aronofsky has
created a disturbing look at the world. Max is deeply paranoid, holed up in his apartment
with his computer Euclid, obsessively studying chaos theory. Blinding headaches and
hallucinogenic visions only feed his paranoia as he attempts to remain aloof from the world,
venturing out only to meet his mentor, Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), who for some
mysterious reason feels Max should take a break from his research. This movie is complex--
occasionally too complex--but the psychological drama and the loose sci-fi elements make
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this a worthwhile, albeit consuming, watch. Pi won the Director's Award at the 1998
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Chariots of
Fire
After the Great Flood, the descendants of Shem, Ham and [Remastered]
Japheth spread out and multiplied over the face of the Vangelis
Earth as described in the Table of Nations (q.v.). The Digitally
remastered reissue of
Table of Nations is essentially a simple listing of their
descendants, with one exception: Nimrod, a descendant of this Academy Award-
winning score. Uplifting
Cush, the son of Noah, who rose head and shoulders
above the rest to be the first great dictator of the music for perilous times.
(Clips courtesy
post-Flood world:
Amazon.com)
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Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a Five Circles
mighty warrior on the earth. Abraham's Theme
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is Eric's Theme
why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before 100 Metres
the LORD."
10
The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon,
Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.
11
From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,
Calah
12
and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
(Gen. 10:8-12), NIV.
This passage, though seemingly short, is in fact surprisingly long in context, being
given an unusually large treatment in the otherwise extremely concise listing of the
descendants of Noah. This has led many to believe that this man was considered to be
truly exceptional not only in his time, but for many thousands of years afterwards, to
the point where his ascent to power may have been a paradigmatic event of such
magnitude that it had altered the course of human history forever. Moreover, some
believe that one like Nimrod may rise again at the time of the end in a final attempt to
conquer the world, so the identification of this mysterious character of the past may be
critical to understanding our future and, possibly, our present.
8
Cush was the father of Nimrod,
who grew to be a mighty warrior
on the earth.
Scholars have long debated on this
issue, particularly as to Nimrod's
ancestry. King Nimrod ruled over the
land of Mesopotamia, which was
inhabited primarily by Semites,
whereas the rest of Ham's offspring,
including Cush, lived in Canaan,
Egypt, North Africa and what is now
southern Saudi Arabia. Perhaps
instructive to this point is the
etymology of his name. "Nimrod",
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He was a mighty hunter before the
LORD; that is why it is said, "Like
Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the
LORD."
Nimrod's marching orders from his
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The first centers of his
kingdom were Babylon,
Erech, Akkad and
Calneh, in Shinar.
Nimrod began his
campaigns of conquest
from his base in
Mesopotamia, where he
had apparently first begun
his quest to uncover the
world from before the
Flood. Though the
locations of Babylon amd
Erech (Uruk, modern
Warka) are both well
known, having been
U.S. Embassador to Iraq Paul Bremer gazes in awe upon a golden rediscovered over a
crown that had once been worn by ancient Babylonian royalty. The century ago, Akkad,
crown, along with numerous other irreplaceable treasures, had been though well attested in
recovered from looters and restored to its place in the Iraq ancient literature, has yet
International Museum. Click here to view a comprehensive slideshow to be found. Shinar and
of the recovery, and of Bremer's visit to view the priceless artifacts. Calneh are even more
difficult to identify,
having no clear cognates either in archaeology or ancient literature.
Though there has been some debate5, Shinar is generally believed to be a variant
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However, though the culture is referred to as the "Uruk Culture", Kish was most likely
the first of the cities to be resettled by Nimrod's people, as it is there that the Sumerian
King List says that kingship was again brought down from heaven. Moreover, the first
known writing comes from the city of Kish around 3500 b.c., which is important as the
skill of writing was one of the gifts the fallen angels had given mankind that had led to
their destruction by the Flood.8 Finally, the Bible also describes "Kush" or "Kish" as
the "origin" of Nimrod. Thus, as Kish is described in the Sumerian King List as the
place where kingship had come down from heaven again after the Flood, where writing
first originated, and where the Bible places the origin of Nimrod, Kish ca. 3500 b.c. is
the most likely setting for the rise of the mysterious Nimrod.
Economic documents that date to around 3200 b.c. show that Uruk rose in power as a
rival to Kish, however, and indeed the Sumerian King List clearly states that though
Kish was indeed where kingship had come down from heaven, that city was later
abandoned first in favor of the city of Uruk and, still later, to Ur.
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According to the King Lists, the first dynasty after the Great Flood (recorded
in the Gilgamesh Epic) was the 1st Dynasty of Kish. The last two kings,
Enmebaragesi and his son Agga, are the first rulers attested in contemporary
inscriptions. According to the King List, “kingship” (namlugal) then passed to
the 1st Dynasty of Uruk, which included Enmerkar, Lugalbanda, and
Gilgamesh, heroes of epic tradition, and finally to the 1st Dynasty of Ur.
Epigraphic evidence, however, shows that these dynasties (and a dynasty at
Mari) were all contemporary and date to c. 2700–2600 B.C.E. Many rulers
known from contemporary inscriptions are not found in the King Lists.9
Clearly, there have been many potential Nimrods in the history of Mesopotamia, so we
will need to analyze the biblical and related data further in order to narrow down the
list and find the true Nimrod. The Bible mentions that the beginning of Nimrod's
kingdom was Babylon, Uruk, and Akkad, information which provides parameters of
time that may help us determine the true identity of Nimrod. Akkad, for example, is
believed to have been built by Sargon I ("the Great") who reigned between 2371–2316.
If Akkad indeed did not exist before that time, then Nimrod could only be Sargon, or
some later king. However, the Akkadians as an ethnic entity existed as far back as 3500
b.c., so the city of Akkad was more likely rebuilt by Sargon, rather than founded. The
time in which Babylon was founded is unknown, but it was in existence during the time
of Sargon as well. We know this as Sargon's daughter, Enheduanna, priestess of the
moon god in Ur, had written songs in praise of the temples of Babylonia during the
time of Sargon, ca. 2350 b.c. Uruk, of course, was in existence at least as early as 3500
b.c., so we can date Nimrod back at least as far back as that time as well.
11
From that land he went to
Assyria, where he built Nineveh,
Rehoboth Ir, Calah
12
and Resen, which is between
Nineveh and Calah; that is the
great city.
Unfortunately, though it has
uncovered some interesting
information, our analysis of verse 10
has not added any information that
narrows the field of inquiry into the
true identity of Nimrod. Fortunately,
verses 11-12 supply more
information. After he had conquered
and consolidated Sumer, Nimrod then
turned his eyes northward to Akkad.
"The Golden Helmet of King Mes-Kalam-Dug". Some
date this helmet to 2450 b.c., but others, such as Wooley,
Though it is not explicity stated, in
date it back as far as 3500 b.c. This was one of the order to have the ability to construct
irreplaceable treasures that had been recovered from cities in Akkad (later Assyria),
looters and restored to its place in the Iraq International Nimrod would have to have
Museum. Click here to view a comprehensive slideshow conquered that region first.
of the recovery. Therefore, Nimrod did not simply
travel to the region as a benevolent
architect — he came as a conquering king, taking over and becoming absolute dictator
of both Sumer and Akkad.
Having conquered and controlled all of Sumer and Akkad, Nimrod then embarked
upon an ambitious building program. Not satisfied with merely rebuilding the past, he
wanted to determine the future, and make a name for himself in the process. Perhaps
that is why Moses did not give his true name, and left his fame purposely obscure —
by naming him by name, and giving a more thorough explanation of his feats, Moses
would have aided this wicked would-be dictator in his goal of making his name last
forever in history.
Unfortunately, the material in verses 11-12 is as obscure as those in verse 10, if not
more so. Not only are some of the place names obscure, it is debatable whether or not
Nimrod is even being spoken of in these verses. Some believe that the verb yatsa, "to
go forth", is actually the name of "Assur", one of the sons of Shem, which is why the
KJV differs here. This makes some sense, as the Assyrians were indeed the
descendants of Asshur. However, in context, it is clear that Nimrod is implied,
particularly since the Nimrod passage is inserted into the list of the descendants of
Ham, and not the list of the descendants of Shem.
After he had conquered and consolidated Akkad with Sumer, Nimrod embarked upon
an ambitious building program. The cities he built are typically enumerated as
"Nineveh", "Rehoboth Ir", "Calah" and "Resen".
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Nineveh:
Nineveh is easily identified,
having been one of the greatest
cities of the ancient world.
Nineveh had been settled as
early as 6000 b.c., and had been
continuously inhabited as late as
the 16th century.
Rehoboth-Ir:
Rehoboth-Ir is another city
The Masqah Gate of Nineveh. Formerly Assyria, whose origin (or even existence)
Nineveh is now located in northern Iraq. Nineveh once a remains an "open" question.
vast, sprawling center of commerce that extended for Hamilton explains,
miles and encompassed several cities.
Rehoboth-Ir is not
identifiable. Heb. rehobot means "open space" and ir means "city".
Comparison may be made with Assyrian rebit ali, "open spaces in a
city, unbuilt area", and specifically with rebit Ninua, "unbuilt areas of
Nineveh". Is the reference here to peripheral sections of the city of
Nineveh rather than to a separate city? Rehoboth may be taken as an
adjective in the plural construct bound to a noun in the (collective)
singular, to express a superlative. The meaning of Rehoboth-Ir is then
"the widest city", in reference to Nineveh.... Possibly it was part of
the sprawling urban complex around Nineveh.10
Rehoboth-Ir is most likely meant to be used adjectivally, describing how very
large, wide and open Nineveh was. Nineveh was indeed a huge, cosmopolitan
city and a major center of commerce and industry for the region. One gets the
idea from this and other passages in the Bible — such as the description in
Jonah that Nineveh was so huge, that it took three days to pass through the
city (Jonah 3:3) — that Nineveh was an extremely spread-out, "open" area
which was packed full of traders, merchants and businessmen from all over
the world. So the addition of the adjective "Rehoboth-Ir" is totally appropriate,
as Nineveh was indeed an exceptional city of the ancient world.
Calah:
Calah is to be identified with the Assyrian city of Kalhu, or modern Nimrud.11
Calah/Nimrud is located just a few miles southeast of Nineveh, and was likely
part of a larger trading region centered at Nineveh. The meaning of the name
is obscure, but it may have been meant to be the Akkadian/Assyrian
equivalent of Babylon in the north, as the name can also be translated as
"Holy Gate" or "Gateway of God": "The name of one of the great cities of
Nimrod.... The meaning of the name is unknown, but if a Sumerian etymology
be accepted, some such signification as "Holy Gate" (Ka-lah) or the like — a
parallel to Ka-dingira = Bab-ili, "Gate of God" — might be regarded as
possible".12 Calah may have been Nimrod's attempt to create his own Babylon
in the north, to equate himself with the giants of the antediluvian world who
had created Babylon.
Resen:
Resen is another difficult city to locate. Some have suggested that there was a
misspelling in the Hebrew text, where the Hebrew letter "d" was replaced by
the very similar Hebrew letter "r", turning "Desen" into "Resen" As such,
commentators have suggested that it refers to "Dur-Sharrukin, the
administrative city founded by Sargon II, halfway between Nineveh and
Kalhu to the north."13 Another possibility is Res-eni, "fountainhead." "The
only town so named in the inscriptions is one of 18 mentioned by Sennacherib
in the Bavian inscription as places from which he dug canals connecting with
the river Khosr — in fact, it was one of the sources of Nineveh's water supply.
It probably lay too far North, however, to be the city here intended."14 These
explanations are weak, and solutions can be found without amending the text.
The best explanation is probably the ruins at Selamiyeh, once known as
"Larissa".
As the Biblical text requires a site lying between Nineveh and Calah
(Kouyunjik and Nimroud), it is generally thought to be represented
by the ruins at Selamiyeh, about 3 miles North of the latter city. It is
noteworthy that Xenophon (Anab. iii.4) mentions a "great" city
called Larissa as occupying this position, and Bochart has suggested
that it is the same place. He supposes that when the inhabitants were
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asked to what city the ruins belonged, they answered la Resen, "to
Resen," which was reproduced by the Greeks as Larissa. Xenophon
describes its walls as being 25 ft. wide, 100 ft. high, and 2 parasangs
in circuit. Except for the stone plinth 20 ft. high, they were of brick.
He speaks of a stone-built pyramid near the city — possibly the
temple-tower at Nimroud.15
Resen also was once a substantial city, the third of a triad of cities that made up the
larger trading network composed of Niveveh, Calah and Resen. All together, the three
cities that Nimrod built in Akkad/Assyria appear to have formed a vast trading area, a
"greater Nineveh", which no doubt was the center of trade of the ancient world.
Moreover, their construction may have been meant to mirror the three major cities of
Sumer, Babylon, Uruk and Akkad, that Nimrod had inherited from his spiritual
ancestors, the giants from the world before the Flood. Nimrod, attempting to recreate
that lost world, spared no expense in the attempt, motivated by pride to make a name
for himself that would live forever. Though he has long since passed from the world
stage, his great city of Nineveh outlasted Akkad and even Assyria, being inhabited well
into the Moslem period and almost into modern times. Moreover, with the freeing of
Iraq, the ancient lands of Sumer and Akkad are free once more to become great centers
of commerce. Interestingly, our translation of Genesis 10:11-12, where Nineveh and its
surrounds are seen as forming "the great city", may be a clue to a similar role for this
region in the end-times.
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another account, when Nimrod was eighteen years old, war broke out between
the Hamites, his kinsmen, and the Japhethites. The latter were at first
victorious, but Nimrod, at the head of a small army of Cushites, attacked and
defeated them, after which he was made king over all the people on earth,
appointing Terah his minister. It was then, elated by so much glory, that
Nimrod changed his behavior toward YHWH and became the most flagrant
idolater. When informed of Abraham's birth he requested Terah to sell him the
new-born child in order that he might kill it (see Jew. Encyc. i. 86a, s.v.
"Abraham in Rabbinical Literature"). Terah hid Abraham and in his stead
brought to Nimrod the child of a slave, which Nimrod dashed to pieces ("Sefer
ha-Yashar," l.c.).17
Generally speaking, despite attempts of commentators to give his image a degree of
humanity, for the most part Nimrod was described in the rabbinical and legendary
material to be the very paragon of arrogance, self-righteousness and rebellion against
God. Josephus weighs in on the subject thusly: "Now it was Nimrod who excited them
to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah,
a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God,
as if it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own
courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into
tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them
into a constant dependence on his power...."18
We have heard about how Nimrod encouraged men to rebel against God, but now we
understand why — so that Nimrod could rule over mankind in the place of God.
Nimrod's encouragement of man to rebel against God was not in their best interests,
only in his own. Putting himself in the place of God, he made an idol out of himself,
cursing God and disobeying his laws, even those that had God had given to his
ancestors. Coveting the land of Shinar, he stole it from those to whom it had been
given, and murdered those who opposed him. He then taught men to do the same, to
abandon marriage in favor of adultery, and lying in favor of truth, so as to maximize
their ability to pursue personal power and glory. He then spoke out against God and his
divine laws, giving his subjects unbridled freedom and the ability to pursue happiness
and self satisfaction. Afterwards, after this philosophy had — predictably — led to
anarchy, Nimrod then enslaved the morally weakened and divided peoples, replacing
the fear of God with the fear of himself. This "divide and conquer" approach was to be
the hallmark of his rule and that of his descendants from that time onward, even unto
the time of the end.
Though we have examined the legendary material for additional clues as to the true
identity of Nimrod, and have concluded that Nimrod's method of rebellion from God
and establishment of his rule over Earth was through the total abandonment of God's
times and laws, we have yet to determine exactly who in history was the infamous
Nimrod. And the candidates are numerous, though a few tower above the rest:
Two prominent theories are now held in regard to Nimrod's identity: one,
adopted by G. Smith and Jeremias, is that Nimrod is to be identified with the
Babylonian hero Izdubar or Gishdubar (Gilgamesh); the second, that of
Sayce,Pinches, and others, identifies Nimrod with Marduk, the Babylonian
Mercury. The former identification is based on the fact that Izdubar is
represented in the Babylonian epos as a mighty hunter, always accompanied
by four dogs, and as the founder of the first great kingdom in Asia. Moreover,
instead of "Izdubar"—the correct reading of which had not yet been
determined—Jeremias saw the possibility of reading "Namra Udu" (shining
light), a reading which would have made the identification with Nimrod
almost certain. Those who identify Nimrod with Marduk, however, object that
the name of Izdubar must be read, as is now generally conceded, "Gilgamesh,"
and that the signs which constitute the name of Marduk, who also is
represented as a hunter, are read phonetically "Amar Ud"; and ideographically
they may be read "Namr Ud"—in Hebrew "Nimrod." The difficulty of
reconciling the Biblical Nimrod, the son of Cush, with Marduk, the son of Ea,
may be overcome by interpreting the Biblical words as meaning that Nimrod
was a descendant of Cush. Two other theories may be mentioned: one is that
Nimrod represents the constellation of Orion; the other is that Nimrod stands
for a tribe, not an individual.19
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Moreover, like Nimrod, Ninurta was known for his organization and
civilization of Mesopotamia, including the creation of the Sumerian water
system, which formed the basis of their agricultural system and, thus, their
economy. And though he was not explicitly credited for building it, the city of
Calah, mentioned in the Bible as having been built by Nimrod, was a major
cult center for Ninurta. And since Calah is an Assyrian city, Ninurta can be
seen as having moved from Sumer north to Assyria, as Nimrod had done.
Ninurta, then, is an excellent candidate for the mysterious Nimrod, as
"Nimrod (Ninurta) is the archetype of the Babylonian deity, a symbol of
Mesopotamian civilization."22
Marduk:
Another Mesopotamian deity popular in
its time was the god Marduk. Marduk
was also known for destroying the
dragon Tiamat and her brood of
monsters in the Babylonian Creation
Epic, also known as Enuma Elish. In
this same epic, Marduk is depicted as
having built the city of Babylon making
him, unlike Ninurta, a true builder of
cities. Marduk worship, like that of
Ninurta, also moved north into Assyria,
so that parallel is present as well.
Moreover, "the signs which constitute
the name of Marduk, who also is
represented as a hunter, are read
phonetically "Amar Ud"; and
ideographically they may be read 'Namr
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The actual date for the founding of the city of Uruk was likely around 3500 b.c., a date
which archaeologists have fixed with a fair amount of certainty. It was during this time
that "the Uruk Culture" arose in Mesopotamia, setting a high water mark of intellectual
and cultural achievement that all the civilizations to follow in the region for thousands
of years would look back to as the "golden age" of Sumer. It was in Uruk, ca. 2700 b.c.
where Gilgamesh ruled as both priest and king, being both a wise ruler and an
understander of mysteries:
He who has seen everything, I will make known to the lands.
I will teach about him who experienced all things,
Anu granted him the totality of knowledge of all.
He saw the Secret, discovered the Hidden,
he brought information of the time before the Flood.
He went on a distant journey, pushing himself to exhaustion,
but then was brought to peace.
He carved on a stone stela all of his toils,
and built the wall of Uruk-Haven,
the wall of the sacred Eanna Temple, the holy sanctuary.
Look at its wall which gleams like copper,
inspect its inner wall, the likes of which no one can equal!
Take hold of the threshold stone — it dates from ancient times!
Go close to the Eanna Temple, the residence of Ishtar,
such as no later king or man ever equaled!
Go up on the wall of Uruk and walk around,
examine its foundation, inspect its brickwork thoroughly.
Is not even the core of the brick structure made of kiln-fired brick,
and did not the Seven Sages themselves lay out its plans?
One league city, one league palm gardens, one league lowlands, the open area
of the Ishtar Temple,
three leagues and the open area of Uruk it (the wall) encloses.
Find the copper tablet box,
open its lock of bronze,
undo the fastening of its secret opening.
Take and read out from the lapis lazuli tablet
how Gilgamesh went through every hardship.
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been credited with. These cities were reserved for our next candidate: Sargon the Great,
King of Sumer and Akkad.
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apparently feeling that it was necessary to take steps to strengthen his legitimacy. This
would make sense, as not only had he usurped the previous king of Sumer, he was not
even Sumerian, instead being of Akkadian lineage. Also, by keeping the appellation
"King of Kish" throughout his reign, he further helped legitimize his accession to the
throne, as Kish, as we have seen, was the place where kingship had been brought down
from heaven after the Flood.
Where the Sargon solution fails, however, is the description of Nimrod's building of the
cities of Nineveh, Resen, and Calah in Assyria. Though Sargon did indeed conquer and
control that entire region, there is no description anywhere that he built these cities, one
of which, Nineveh, had been inhabited well before his time, at least as far back as 6000
b.c. He was also nowhere described as "a mighty hunter", being instead more of a
sophisticated politician and imperialist, focused on hunting for personal power rather
than for men or animals. So, whereas Sargon is the best solution for a human king,
there are still some questions that need to be answered before we can make a final
judgment regarding the true identity of the mysterious Nimrod.
Amraphel, King of Shinar:
Amraphel was the name of the king of Babylon
during the time of Abraham, ca. 2000 b.c.
Scholars generally believe him to be
Hammurabi. Amraphel, according to the text,
was part of a coalition of kings that had been put
together by one Chedorlaomer, king of Elam,
who at that time apparently held suzerainty over
Babylon. As we discussed in Part I of our
"Giants in the Earth" series, these kings banded
together in order to defeat the Amorite giants of
Canaan, who had failed to pay tribute to
Chedorlaomer.
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Chedorlaomer, who involved him in the war with the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah, with whom he was defeated by Abraham ("Sefer ha-Yashar," l.c.;
comp. Gen. xiv. 1-17).30
2100-2000 b.c. is a good time for the building of the tower, as it was during that time
that a disaster had struck Sumer, destroying the old order forever, as described in the
"Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur."31 However, Amraphel is not a good
candidate for Nimrod, as he not only never founded any cities to our knowledge, but
only had nominal control over Babylon as Chedorlaomer's vassal. Nevertheless, a great
deal of speculation on the identity of Nimrod involves Amraphel. Interestingly,
according to the Midrash, Nimrod had originally been warned of the birth of a man
who would defeat him by the appearance of a special star in heaven. As a result, he
murdered all the newborns, and forbade marriage, and men had to abstain from sexual
relations with women for a long time, to make sure that no babies were born during the
time of the star's appearance. Abraham's father Terah managed to impregnate his wife
anyway, and Abraham, according to the legend, was raised in secret. This pattern of
destruction of newborn babies who might be a threat to the established order is one of
the recurring themes in the Bible.
Tikulti-Ninurta I:
Another historical king that has been bandied about as a potential Nimrod is Tikulti-
Ninurta I, king of Assyria ca. 1246-1206. His name bearing the divine name of Ninurta,
the great hunter/warrior god of Sumer, Tikulti-Ninurta actions and speech are definitely
that of an arrogant king with a will to power. Speiser explains,
The high point of Tukulti-Ninurta's long and eventful reign (ca. 1246-1206)
was unquestionably his conquest of Babylon. The Kassite ruler of this great
traditional centre was carried off to Ashshur, as was also the statue of the
national god Marduk. The victor could now add to his other titles that of
"King of Sumer and Akkad". It was the first time in history that an Assyrian
held sway over all of Babylonia. Such an achievement was not to be repeated
until five centuries later, under Tiglath-Pileser III. Small wonder, therefore,
that these two awesome milestones came to loom large in the minds of
Mesopotamians and were highlighted as late as Hellenistic times.32
Assisting Tikulti-Ninurta's claim to Nimrod fame are the facts that he was of the
Cassite tribe (who may have descended from Cush, as had Nimrod), the fact that he
was a mighty warrior, and the fact that he was a great builder of cities in Assyria.
However, Tikulti-Ninurta did not start his kingdom in Sumer, as had Nimrod, but in
Assyria, later adding Sumer to his domain. Moreover, he did not build Nineveh to be
sure, merely maintaining it.
Ninus:
Ninus, also known as Shamshi-Adad, King of Assyria, ruled around ca. 800 b.c. He
was the eponymous founder of Nineveh, and as such is suggested by some as the true
Nimrod. However, Ninus could only have renamed Nineveh, as that great city had been
occupied for thousands of years previous to his reign. Ninus came onto the world stage
far too late in the game, was not known throughout the ancient world as "a mighty
hunter" or "mighty warrior", and did not begin his kingdom in Shinar. However, he
may have been an important link in a chain that has lasted for millennia, a chain of
rulers whose secret may lead us to the true nature of the mysterious Nimrod.
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Orion was a titan, a giant literally four times the size of a normal man, according to
some accounts. He was also a mighty hunter who was able to manifest supernatural
powers, and was famous all over the ancient world, including Mesopotamia. Regarding
his constellation, Bullinger explains, that Orion "is so pictured in the ancient Denderah
Zodiac, where we see a man coming forth pointing to the three bright stars (Rigel,
Bellatrix, and Betelguez) as his. His name is given as Ha-ga-t, which means this is he
who triumphs. The hieroglyphic characters below read Oar. Orion was anciently
spelled Oarion, from the Hebrew root [or] which means light. So that Orion means
coming forth as light. The ancient Akkadian was Ur-ana, the light of heaven.35 This
description fits well with one of the translations of the name "Gilgamesh" — Namra
Udu, "shining light", which is where the name "Nimrod" may have derived. It may also
be instructive to note that the names of Uruk and Ur, two of the major cities of
Mesopotamia over which Nimrod ruled, also contain the word ur, "light", as part of
their names.
Some also have pointed out that Ninurta, of the ancient hunter gods, had also been
associated with the constellation of Orion, as well as the star Sirius, which they saw as
either his bow, or an arrow. van der Toorn explains,
The god's role as a hunter has been corroborated by his association with the
star called "arrow" (Sumerian KAK.SI.SA, Akkadian sukudu), i.e., Sirius. The
identification of Ninurta with Sirius, the principal star of Canis maior
(referred to as "Bow" by the Mesopotamians), may have facilitated the
identification of Nimrod with Orion in late antiquity. In Greek mythology,
Sirius is known as the dog of Orion, a legendary giant and hunter ... a
conflation of traditions could have resulted in the idea that Orion instead of
Sirius was the heavenly counterpart of Ninurta/Nimrod. In this connection it is
interesting to note that in Syriac Orion is named gabbar, "hero".36
So, not only was Orion a mighty hunter, he was also a gibbor, or mighty warrior.
Moreover, the constellation is arranged in the sky in such a way that it appears to be
opposing the onrushing bull, the constellation of Taurus. The bull Taurus may be
symbolic of God, whom Orion, like Nimrod, opposed and fought against. Thus, the
true identity of Nimrod may have been written in the stars all along, where Orion,
mighty hunter "before" the Lord could be translated as "in front of", "opposing", or
"against" in the sense that Orion is opposing God, rather than somehow working for
him. In the same way, the term "antichrist" can mean either "in place of Christ" or
"against Christ" — one meaning is merely questionable, whereas the other is clearly
more sinister. And since the Hebrew etymology of the word "Nimrod" is actually "we
shall rebel", then the sinister "Mighty hunter against the Lord" should become the
accepted translation.
Now that we have established that Orion fulfills the description of both "mighty
warrior" and "mighty hunter against the Lord", the question remains, how can a
constellation begin his kingdom in Shinar, or build cities in Assyria? The key to
understanding how Orion answers the Nimrod puzzle so completely is the fact that
though Orion did not actually build the cities, those who did rule Shinar and who had
built Assyria all worshiped and were inspired by the divine constellation of Orion. And
though they had used different names for the constellation, such as Ninurta and
Marduk, Orion being a later Greek appelation for the same constellation, in their minds
the same constellation ruled the heavens above and the Earth beneath. In that way,
though there were many different earthly "Nimrods" who had hunted and warred and
built, there was but one heavenly Nimrod that ruled the heaven and Earth, unchanging,
for thousands of years.
And there is a fair amount of evidence to support this, in the form of architecture, as
was originally discussed in Part IV of our The Riddle of the Sphinx series. There, we
discovered that large buildings, pyramids, and even entire cities may have built in order
to give glory to the divine Orion/Nimrod:
One of the prime factors for believing that all of the most ancient megalithic sites
around the Mediterranean were built (or rebuilt) by one man, Nimrod, is their
consistent relationships with the stars, particularly the constellation of Orion. We have
already seen in part three of our "Riddle of the Sphinx" series that the pyramids were
built and laid out in such a way as to duplicate the stars of the constellation of Orion.
Another link to Orion exists, however, in the city of Edessa, in what is now
southeastern Turkey, in the same region as described in the Bible as being where
Nimrod built his major cities. The oldest known name of Edessa was actually Ourhoi
(Syriac), Ourhai (Armenian), or Er Roha (Arabic)37, which is very close to our modern
"Orion". Furthermore, the name of the province of Edessa was originally called
Orrheone. Adrian Gilbert explains in Magi: The Quest for a Secret Tradition, "Given
that there is strong evidence there was an Orion cult at Edessa, the similarity between
the words Orrheonis and Orionis is such as to suggest that it was from here that the
Greek Orion cult had its origins."38
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Flood, and then began expanding outwards in their attempt to rebuild and recivilize the
Earth as it had been. Osiris is at the right place, at the right time, and of the right
lineage to be the fabled Nimrod of old. And forever after, his great exploits were
remembered by the ancient Mesopotamians in their myths and legends, and in the stars.
It appears that we are at the end of the chase, and have captured the legendary Nimrod.
Osiris, the namesake of this series, was the great civilizer of mankind in and around the
Mediterranean region that had been drowned by the Flood. And though it appears that
his attempt to rebuild the world before the Flood failed, the great empires of the ancient
world fading away and being forgotten, now covered over by a thick and nearly
impenetrable layer of Islam, it would be premature to say that Osiris has failed in his
attempt to recreate the world before the Flood. The answer to the identity of Nimrod
does not lay entirely in the personage of Osiris, or in the constellation of Orion, which
remembers him. The third leg in the triune identity of Nimrod is the legacy of kings
that he left behind him — kings that claimed that the royal blood of Nimrod flowed in
their veins, giving them the divine right of rulership over mankind. And this line of
kings may not be broken; some believe that one of this line may arise in the end to
reconquer the land of Shinar, in a quest to conquer the world and restore the world to
the way it had been before the Flood, when semi-divine kings ruled over a world
enslaved. At that time a Nimrod will arise and believe himself to be wise — but in the
end, he will be shown to be only a prince of fools.
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King Nimrod | Who Was Nimrod? | Nimrod Hunting
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1
A. Leo Oppenheim, trans, "The Sumerian King List" in James B. Pritchard, ed.,
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974), 265-266.
2
J.B. Tannehill, Naamah and Nimrod: A Defense of the Faith of our Fathers
(Columbus, OH: The New Franklin Printing Co., 1916), 314.
3
Richard S. Hess, David Toshio Tsumura, eds., "I Studied Inscriptions from Before the
Flood": Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11
(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, Dec. 1994).
4
Tannehill, Naamah and Nimrod, 86-87.
5
P. Ant. Deimel, "Shumer = Shinar" Biblica 2 (1921), 71-74.
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6
A.S. Yahuda, "Calneh in Shinar" Journal of Biblical Literature 65 (1946), 325-327.
7
K. van der Toorn and P.W. van der Horst, "Nimrod before and after the Bible"
Harvard Theological Review 83:1 (1990), 1-2.
8
"Book 2: Parables (Chap. 69)" in The Book of Enoch, translated from the Ethiopian
by R.H. Charles. (Academy for Ancient Texts: http://www.ancienttexts.org).
9
"The Sumerians and the Akkadians" in The Encyclopedia of World History, ed. Peter
N. Stearns (Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com).
10
Victor P. Hamilton, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament: The
Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Dec. 1994), 339-340.
11
Gordon J. Wenham, Word Biblical Commentary: Genesis 1-15 (Waco, TX: Word,
1987), 224.
12
"Calah" in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. James Orr
(Studylight.org: http://www.studylight.org).
13
van der Toorn, "Nimrod before and after the Bible", 6.
14
"Resen" in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. James Orr
(Studylight.org: http://www.studylight.org).
15
"Resen" in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. James Orr
(Studylight.org: http://www.studylight.org).
16
Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn, Wilhelm Bacher, "Nimrod" in The Jewish
Encyclopedia, ed. James Orr (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com).
17
Hirsch, Seligsohn, Bacher, "Nimrod" in The Jewish Encyclopedia.
18
"Nimrod (king)" (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia: http://www.wikipedia.org).
19
Hirsch, Seligsohn, Bacher, "Nimrod" in The Jewish Encyclopedia.
20
van der Toorn, "Nimrod before and after the Bible", 6.
21
van der Toorn, "Nimrod before and after the Bible", 10-11.
22
van der Toorn, "Nimrod before and after the Bible", 15.
23
Hirsch, Seligsohn, Bacher, "Nimrod" in The Jewish Encyclopedia.
24
van der Toorn, "Nimrod before and after the Bible", 10.
25
Oppenheim, "The Sumerian King List", 265-266.
26
Hirsch, Seligsohn, Bacher, "The Epic of Gilgamesh" (Academy for Ancient Texts:
http://www.ancienttexts.org).
27
George Smith, The Chaldean Account of Genesis (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1986), 184, 191.
28
Robert A. Guisepi and F. Roy Williams, "The Legend of Sargon" (The International
History Project: http://ragz-international.com).
29
Yigal Levin, "Nimrod the Mighty, King of Kish, King of Sumer and Akkad" Vetus
Testamentum 52:3 (2002), 360.
30
Hirsch, Seligsohn, Bacher, "Nimrod" in The Jewish Encyclopedia.
31
Samuel Noah Kramer, trans, "Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur" in James B.
Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with
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32
E. A. Speiser, "In Search of Nimrod" Eretz Israel 5 (1958), 34.
33
E.W. Bullinger, The Witness of the Stars (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1967), 9-10.
34
"Orion" (Mythology Guide: http://www.online-mythology.com).
35
Bullinger, The Witness of the Stars, 125.
36
van der Toorn, "Nimrod before and after the Bible", 11.
37
S. Vailhe, "Edessa" in The Catholic Encyclopedia Online (The Catholic
Encyclopedia Online: www.newadvent.org/cathen/).
38
Adrian Gilbert, Magi: The Quest for a Secret Tradition (London: Bloomsbury
Publishing Plc, 1996), 209.
39
Gilbert, Magi: The Quest for a Secret Tradition, 207.
40
"THE MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY: Bloodline of Jesus or Synagogue of Satan?"
(Watch Unto Prayer: http://watch.pair.com).
41
John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
(Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1993), 1.
42
David Hatcher Childress, Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of Africa & Arabia
(Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1997), 25-26.
M E S O P O T A M I A:
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
The Birth Of Civilization
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Art of the First Cities
Bible History Resources: Ancient Near East Resources
Fairfield University: Architectural Marvels of Ancient Mesopotamia
University of Texas: Images of the Ancient World
Routledge: Maps of Ancient Mesopotamia
K.C. Hanson: Photo Gallery of Ancient Mesopotamia
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B A B Y L O N:
Encyclopedia of the Orient: Babylon
Gateways to Babylon
BibleWorld: Babylon
Iraq GenWeb Official Website
The Threat to World Heritage in Iraq
Mojo's Website: Central Iraq - near Babylon and Kerbala
Barnabas Fund
A K K A D / A S S Y R I A:
The Ziggurat of Assur
Nimrud
Dabar.org: Assyria
Birs Nimrud - The Hill of Nimrod
UC Oriential Institute: Borsippa (Birs Nimrud)
The British Museum: Nimrud
Bible Tutor: Places: Assyria
Assyrian American Association of Modesto, California
D E I T I E S & D E M I G O D S:
About.com: Ancient/Classical History
Marduk:
Wikipedia: Marduk
Gateways to Babylon: Marduk
Gateways to Babylon: Tiamat
Ziggurat of Marduk (Tower of Babel)
Esagila (Temple of Marduk)
The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ version 1.9html
Nimrod, Mars and the Marduk Connection
Gilgamesh:
The International History Project: Gilgamesh
WSU World Civilizations: Gilgamesh
Cylinder Seal depicting the Epic of Gilgamish
Academy for Ancient Texts: The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Musical Interpretation
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Musical Interpretation (Purchase)
Osiris:
EgyptianMyths.net: Osiris
University of Colorado: Osiris
EgyptianMyths.net: The Story of Isis and Osiris
TourEgypt.net: Osiris, Asar
Ohio State University: Osiris
Orion:
Nimrod as Constellation of Orion
Wikipedia: Orion (mythology)
The Mythology of the Constellations: Orion, the Hunter
Mythology Guide: Orion
Theoi Project: Orion
Orion (the Constellation)
Lexiline: Sumerian Sky Map of Nineveh
The Celestial Sphinx, a Sumerian Cylinder-seal and the Place of Purification
Shamshi-Adad:
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
T R A V E L:
Visiting Mesopotamia - Iraq, the cradle of civilization
Picture Iraq
Bet-Nahrain, Inc.
The Virtual Babel Encyclopedia
Photoseek: Nemrut Mountain
To My Turkey: Nemrut Dagi (Mt. Nimrod)
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Ancient Iraq
Georges Roux
Rating:
Until the middle of the nineteenth century there was little evidence of the
great civilizations that flourished for over three thousand years between
the Tigris and the Euphrates, apart from a few allusions in the Bible.
Almost every trace of the arts, sciences and literature of the Sumerians,
Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians was obliterated, hidden under thousands of
artificial mounds or tells representing ancient cities. Over the last hundred of years,
however, archaeologists of various origins have sought to uncover the monuments and
texts that reveal the history and civilization of the region known as Mesopotamia, most
of which corresponds to the territory of modern Iraq. In the last three decades, perhaps
no other country has been so extensively explored by archaeologists from all over the
world and by the Iraqis themselves, while new texts have been published and older
texts retranslated or reinterpreted by international teams of Sumerologists and
Assyriologists. Newly revised and now in its third edition, Ancient Iraq covers the
political, cultural and socio-economic history of Mesopotamia from the days of
prehistory to the Christian era and somewhat beyond. Dr. Roux describes for the
general public and students the empires that have successively arisen and collapsed in
Mesopotamia as well as the institutions, religions, sciences and daily life of its
inhabitants. That so vast a subject makes such absorbing reading is due not only to the
inevitable fascination of the past but also to the light, yet exact, touch of a talented
historian. (From the back cover)
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that has been guiding civilization for at least five thousand years, since
the time the pyramids were built. At times persecuted, at other times
enjoying the patronage of kings and noblemen, these masters were, and
perhaps still are, the custodians of a a secret initiatory tradition.
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NightWatch (1989)
Terence Dickinson
Dickinson, a renowned writer and former
planetarium astronomer teaches you all the basics to
start gazing, including: key facts of stargazing
equipment (binoculars and telescopes), 24 seasonal
star charts, "the universe in eleven steps", chapters
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seem only to be concerned about personal power, privilege, and social status. Lost
Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean is a fascinating read, and a
good addition to the Lost Cities series. It should make a great traveling companion for
anyone traveling in the Mediterranean region, as well as a great read for the armchair
archaeologist, or just someone who enjoys ancient history and mysteries.
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Chariots of Fire
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Vangelis
Rating:
One of the most memorable soundtracks of all time, Vangelis's Academy
Award-winning Chariots of Fire is such a landmark, it's become the stuff of parody
whenever someone wants to punch a hole through sloppy sentimentality. But just go
back to this 1981 film to relive a perfect marriage of image and music. Vangelis
captures the heroism, grandeur, and pain of this racing drama, from the opulent main
"Titles" theme with its echoing snare drum and piano cadences to the electronically
abstract setting of Sir Charles H.H. Parry's choral work, "Jerusalem." Vangelis's score
hangs suspended between orchestral lushness and electronic mood, sweetness tempered
by the underlying psychological themes of the film. Often forgotten on this album is
the extemporaneous title suite that, in the days of LPs, took up the second side of the
album. Here, Vangelis explores some of the film's music cues at length, weaving them
into a minor keyboard symphony.
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Sometimes these temp tracks become the score (as in "2001"), but more often they
serve as a template for the film's eventual scorer. That said, we'll boldly climb out on a
limb and opine that director Ridley Scott was listening to a whole lot of Holst's The
Planets as he was cobbling together his modern gladiator epic. Credit Hans Zimmer for
taking "Mars, the Bringer of War" and hammering its familiar harmonic and rhythmic
Sturm und Drang into something serviceably fresh; cohort Lisa Gerrard generally
handles the more ethereal, atmospheric passages. As epic in scope as its thematic
inspiration (and with enough occasional nods to "authenticity" to make it work), this is
nonetheless a work of often surprising nuances, and one that recasts the traditional
heroic orchestral score in deliciously dark and ominous tones. Warning: repeated
listening may inspire the invasion of neighboring countries.
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power of God's wrath with Noah and the Flood… an the testament of faith in the
account of Abraham and Isaac. Shot on location in the Holy Land, this incredible
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h, Assyria! The rod
of mine anger! The
staff in your hand is
my indignation!"
Thus spake God
through the prophet
Isaiah, who prophesied that the LORD
would raise up the Assyrians to smite
the Israelites, who by that time ( 734 BC
) had slidden into apostasy and forgotten
God. And smite them they did, carrying
away the northern ten tribes of Israel
into captivity. And so great did God's
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royalty, similar to but preceding the more commonly known cartouche in usage.
Narmer's serekh is unusual in that it contains not a heroic lion or a fierce falcon, but a
seemingly benign catfish surmounting a chisel. It is from this catfish and chisel that we
derive Narmer's name — in ancient Egyptian, the word for "catfish" was nar, and the
word for "chisel" was mer. Unfortunately, we do not know for sure if he was referred to
as "Narmer", or if these symbols were meant only to describe his character and
background — his "fame" rather than his name. Much speculation has been offered as to
the meaning of these hieroglyphs, but until now little light has been shed on these
enigmatic symbols.
Narmer's serekh is built of two towering "throne" hieroglyphs that are facing each other,
enclosing and symbolically limiting the power of the catfish that is bound in between
these two pillars in a sort of "prison". The "catfish" is not sitting idly, however — it
appears that it is attempting to remove itself from its prison, with the aid of a chisel that
is set against what appears to be a sort of "black gate" connecting the two towers. More
than just a symbol of building, then, whether of cities or of nations, this chisel is a tool
that the "catfish" appears to be using in an attempt to escape its ancient bonds, and
become, if you will, a "free" mason.
The catfish is also an interesting symbol in that it is a bottom-feeding fish that lives at
the bottom of the sea. Could it be that during his tutelage in his early years in Egypt that
Moses had heard the story of the rise and rule of Narmer, a story that he cleverly alluded
to when he wrote about how the "serpent" had been cursed to crawl in and eat dust
forever? ( Gen. 3:14-15 ). Moreover, the fact that this type of fish lives at the bottom of
the sea may be a subtle allusion to the fact that Narmer believed that he was of divine
parentage, descended from the ancient giant kings from the world before the Flood who
now lay buried under sea, silt and sediment. The abyssal trenches at the bottom of the
oceans were indeed believed to be one of the holding places of the fallen angels who had
rebelled against God in the world before the Flood, where they were entrapped and
imprisoned in "chains of darkness" until the day of judgment. ( 2 Peter 2:4-5; Jude
1:5-6; Rev. 9:13-15 )2
In sum, then, these symbols may indicate that Narmer believed himself to be the
reincarnation of one of the ancient fallen angels from the world before the Flood, one
who had returned to break through the ancient barriers erected by God to keep him in
check and begin the process of rebuilding the world as it had been before the Flood.
This great, warrior, conqueror, and builder of cities was most likely the conqueror who
became known in Mesopotamia as "Nimrod", indicating that Narmer may have
conquered not only upper Egypt, but also large parts of the ancient Near East in his
quest to rebuild the world as it had been before the Flood.
Interestingly, the name of Narmer's son, Menes means, literally, "gaming board".3 As
such, it may well be that the rise of Narmer was the first move in a grand strategy, or
"great game" devised by the fallen angels in a bid to return the world to the way it had
been before the Flood, where semi-divine kings ruled over a world enslaved. Menes and
his descendants were thus successive genetic "steps" in this global game of "genetic
chess", with the eventual goal of enslaving the nations under a one-world government
run by a group of semi-divine rulers sometime in what was then in the distant future.
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Oannes, then can be equated with Osiris of the Egyptians, Dagon (the fish god) of the
Philistines, Ea of the Mesopotamians, and Neptune and Poseidon of the Greek and
Roman myths. Each of these gods (or is it one sea god with many names) also had a
hand in the creation of man, and in his continuing development, getting involved at
certain points in order to influence the path on which mankind walked over time.
Moreover, as we saw in Part IV of our series on Atlantis, Poseidon had actually mated
with a human woman to create a race of giants that had ruled over this legendary isle. If
Oannes were Poseidon returned, then it is most likely that this "beast from the sea" had
returned to recreate the race of the giants that had ruled the world before the Flood — a
race of semi-divine kings who would eventually attempt to conquer and rule the entire
Earth. And the first major step in recreating the world as it had been before the Flood,
where a handful of giants ruled over a world enslaved, was Pharaoh Narmer, the
legendary "Nimrod", who was part of a special line of "Fisher Kings" whose eventual
goal was the conquest and enslavement of the entire world.
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The "beast from the sea" is of course a world empire dominated by seven great nations,
or "heads" who are controlled by the descendants of Osiris, the original "beast from the
sea". It is the endgame of his "great game" that he had started thousands of years before
with the goal of freeing himself from his ancient bonds and placing himself as ruler over
the entire Earth. And for a time, times, and half a time, Azazel's master plan will
succeed.
Then, after many centuries, the ring allowed itself to be found again. While fishing, a
hobbit named Deagol was pulled into the water by a particularly large fish, and was
forced to relinquish his pole after being dragged all the way down to the bottom. There,
he saw the ring in the muck, and grabbed it immediately, bringing it back to the surface.
The ring then proceeded to tempt Deagol's "friend" Smeagol into stealing it away from
him. Sorely tempted by the ring, Smeagol ended up murdering Deagol and taking the
ring for himself. The ring then proceeded to turn Smeagol into a worthless, bottom-
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feeding wretch, empowering his dark side at the expense of his normally cheerful
disposition. Smeagol eventually left the world of life and light all together, opting
instead to live in darkness in caves deep beneath the mountains. There he stayed alive by
dining on his favorite food — catfish.
Eventually, the ring caused itself to pass out of Smeagol's hands (who is now named
"Gollum"), into the hands of another Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. Interestingly, Bilbo
was in the midst of a quest to recover a treasure from the hands of a great red dragon
when he found the ring. Over the next several decades, the ring began to tempt Bilbo as
it had Smeagol, but Bilbo was a much stronger and better person than Smeagol had
been, so he was able to resist its powers. Eventually, however, he too began to succumb
to the power of the ring, and was forced to give it to his nephew, Frodo Baggins.
It was then determined by a council of wise elders
that this magic ring was in fact the One Ring that
had once belonged to Sauron. It had also been
discovered that Sauron had recently begun to reform
his power in Middle-Earth and had begun to rebuild
his armies in his old territory of Mordor, where he
now appeared as a great, flaming eye at the top of a
tall tower. The ring, it seems, had kept him from
dying completely, as his life force was still linked to
it, and it to him. It was further determined that the
ring was too powerful and too evil for anyone to The Great Eye of Sauron, from the
wield, as it would eventually corrupt them — Sauron movie, The Lord of the Rings: The
had poured too much of his wickedness and malice Fellowship of the Ring. This is the form
into the ring to make it usable. Finally, it was found that Sauron took during the Third Age, as
out that Sauron's spirit, long dormant, was slowly his body had been destroyed at the end of
reviving, and he had begun to look for the One Ring the Second Age. Note that the eye is
between two pillars.
again so that he could regain his former strength.
And if he was able to find it, he would regain his
former strength and become powerful enough to defeat all the armies of Middle-Earth
— which had become weakened since the last war — and cover all of Middle-Earth in a
second darkness.
It was therefore decided that the ring had to be destroyed. And the only place that the
ring could be destroyed was in the fires of Mount Doom — the volcano in which it had
been forged. From this came the quest to destroy the ring that forms the basis of the
storyline of The Lord of the Rings (hereafter, "LOTR").
Before now, understanding what I am terming "The
Lord of the Rings Cipher" was impossible. The
connection between Osiris, Pharaoah Narmer,
Nimrod, the Great Pyramid, the fallen angels, a dark
lord, a powerful ring, two towers, and a catfish of all
things, sounds ridiculous outside of the context of
our series on ancient Osiria. However, as we have
discovered in this series, much has been hidden that
is now being revealed, and Tolkien, who is
considered to be one of the great minds of the
twentieth century, may have been an even greater
genius than even his most fervent acolytes have
previously imagined.
Tolkien wrote LOTR not as simple entertainment,
nor as an allegory of World War II (though he
doubtless drew upon the terror of Hitler in his
A reproduction of Sauron as he appeared development of the character of Sauron, and of the
in the Second Age, as portrayed in the blitz in his description of the Nazgul). Tolkien wrote
movie, The Lord of the Rings: The LOTR as a warning of what was about to come upon
Fellowship of the Ring. Note the upraised
the Earth. The dark lord, his ring of power, the great,
mace.
flaming eye atop his towering throne, all were to
come to pass in the not-to-distant future, as the great
game of Azazel and the other fallen angels drew near to its end.
Sauron is, of course, Azazel, the fallen angel, also known generically as Satan (lit., "the
enemy") in the Bible. His "One Ring" is his own will to power, and the lesser rings are
his creation of a race of hybrid humans that are designed to be more easily controlled by
him. These "ringwraiths" are under his direct control, and Azazel and the other fallen
angels have used them and their descendants to slowly take control of the world behind
the scenes, chipping away at the old order established by God from within. Interestingly,
Sauron also used the same technique of quietly undermining and dividing his opponents
over long periods of time before attacking.
The defeat of Sauron at the end of the Second Age of Middle-Earth is cognate to the
defeat of the fallen angels at the end of the age before the Flood. (Interestingly, as we
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have seen, the Hopi Indians of the Desert Southwest also believe that the Earth is
presently in its Fourth Age, and that the previous, Third Age had been destroyed by a
Flood.) Tolkien's emphasis on the fact that the ring was buried in the muck at the bottom
of a body of water is also cognate to the fact that the ancient world and the fallen angels
had also been buried beneath water. Moreover, the recovery of the ring was closely
associated with fish, in this case the catching of a fish that dragged the hobbit Deagol
down to the depths of the water.
Left: Tesla's behemoth tower, to be used for trans-Atlantic wireless communications and the
demonstration of wireless power transmission, erected in 1901 at Wardenclyffe (now Shoreham) on Long
Island.
Center: The hieroglyph for the Egyptian god Horus, which is simply the all-seeing eye over a throne.
The plant to the right was a later addition by the strange, superstitious religion of the dynastic Egyptians.
Right: The eye of Sauron — yet more evidence that J.R.R. Tolkien was a genius.
Sauron image from The Art of the Return of the King
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So when you see standing in the holy place "the abomination that causes
desolation," spoken of through the prophet Daniel — let the reader understand
— then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ( Matt. 24:15-16 )
The term "abomination that causes desolation" literally means a profane, foreign object
that is placed in a holy place where it does not belong, and the result of its inappropriate
placement results in great destruction. In this case, it refers to an extemely profane
object being placed in the Third Temple in Jerusalem, which has yet to be rebuilt. No
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one knows what that object is, but our analysis may lend us some clues as to what that
object might be.
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Marie Parsons, "King Catfish, also called Narmer" (Tour Egypt:
http://www.touregypt.net).
2
The exact location of the prison the fallen angels had been thrown into by the
archangels as punishment for corrupting the antediluvian world is unclear, though the
sea floor could well be one of the places where they were cast down and buried. See The
Legend of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World for more background information, Giants
in the Earth: Giants of the Ancient Near East for more information on the reappearance
of the giants in the world after the Flood, and Ah, Osiria!: The Athenian Empire for
more information specifically about the giant Osiris.
3
Parsons, "King Catfish, also called Narmer".
4
Bruce Magnotti, "Oannes.com: The Origins of Our Civilization" (OANNES - The
Origins of Western Civilization: http://oannes.com/).
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Laurence Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail (Gloucester, MA: Fair Winds Press,
1996), 150.
Orion:
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Wikipedia: Orion (mythology)
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Lexiline: Sumerian Sky Map of Nineveh
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But where did this mysterious race of giants come from? Among those that believe in
the existence of these ancient aberrations, there have been several explanations:
HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT:
Giants are a race of unusually tall people that came into being as a result of
healthy living conditions and good nutrition. Homo sapiens today, for
example, is taller than he has been for many centuries, if not thousands of
years, due largely to good nutrition and dramatic improvements in living
conditions worldwide;
SELECTIVE BREEDING:
Giants are the result of selective breeding over time to create a "worker class"
from within the larger population. These larger, stronger people were intended
to be used as warriors, heavy laborers, and in other positions that require great
size and strength. This practice has been employed in various times and places
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in recorded history for this very same reason. This unusual size may have
been supplemented by the consumption of hormonal or steroidal supplements,
as has been done in modern times;
DIVINE INTERVENTION:
Giants are the result of interbreeding between humans and fallen angels, with
the intent of creating a "master race". This master race, some believe, was
intended to rule over the earth and over homo sapiens, eventually supplanting
homo sapiens entirely.
Though the first two solutions are reasonable — and may also be part of the equation
— by far the most commonly reported origin of the giants of old was that they were
born of divine parentage. As we saw in Part II of our Atlantis series, many of the
ancient texts of mankind tell of a time when divine beings came down to earth and,
tempted by the beauty of human women, took wives from among them and sired
offspring that grew to be gigantic in stature. As Larkin & Teale explain in their classic
popular work on the subject, Giants,
Giants varied in size, but were certainly beyond classification by human
standards both in terms of size and power. For example, the Book of Enoch
relates that angels sent by God to guard the earth were seduced by the beauty
of terrestrial women who subsequently gave birth to demoniacal sons 3,000
cubits [approx. 4,500 feet] high. Later, ancient historians tell us, Og, the King
of Bashan, who lived three thousand years, escaped the Flood by wading only
knee-deep beside the Ark. He was able to roast a freshly caught fish by
holding it up to the sun. Upon his death, one of his bones was used as a bridge
to span a river. Attempting to destroy an Israelite camp, mighty Og ripped up
a mountain six miles long at its base and bore it on his head on the trek
towards the camp. Fortunately Moses, a comparative sprat merely ten cubits
tall, jumped high into the air to strike Og on his forty-five foot high ankle with
a ten-cubit long axe, thus felling and ultimately slaying his foe.1
Although the Jewish legendary material regarding the huge size of Og and Moses are
clearly midrashic in nature, the Bible makes no bones about the existence of giants in
the ancient world, both in the antediluvian world and afterwards. As Moses said in
Genesis 6:4, "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also afterwards". Giants
have plagued Earth since the very earliest times, and the earliest known records of
giants in the Earth come from the land of the Bible: the ancient Near East.
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As was discussed at length in Part III of our Atlantis series, the origins of man do
not appear to be as clear-cut as some might want to believe. It is easy to say that Adam
was the first human being, created by God, from whom the rest of mankind originated,
and that's that — end of story. However, though no one disputes that God created
Adam, the first homo sapiens, there is some dispute as to whether or not homo sapiens
was in fact the first type of human on this planet. Significant evidence of the existence
of a race before Adam, a "pre-Adamic
race", exists both in religious and
historical texts and in the fossil record.
In fact, numerous forms of proto-human
have been discovered, including such
notables as homo neanderthalis and
homo erectus, each showing a small
improvement over the previous form.
And each of these races of proto humans
appeared suddenly in the fossil record,
almost as if they had been manufactured.
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Michael and the loyal angels defeating "the
dragon" Satan and the rebel angels and casting
them down from heaven to Earth. Image from
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The "intermarriage" between these fallen angels and the giants continued on unabated
thoughout the antediluvian period. Without having given any thought to the
consequences such actions might have on YHWH's well-ordered Creation, the fallen
angels continued to visit and genetically modify their horrid creations, making
improvements in their physical and mental capabilities as well as giving them
knowledge and gifts of technology that they could use in their quest to rule the world.
These "gifts" included such skills as the ability to develop tools and weapons, read the
signs and seasons in the stars, distill medicines from plants, and even use cosmetics to
enhance beauty. However, instead of improving the lot of mankind, the fallen angels'
worthless gifts of technology actually had the effect of making things worse. As it is
described in the Book of Enoch,
And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and
breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of
working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the
beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all coloring
tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication,
and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught
enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments,
Baraqijal taught astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge
of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and
Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry
went up to heaven.... (1 Enoch 8:1-4)8
The effect of giving mankind technology and methods of manipulating matter, what we
now know as "the sciences", merely allowed the wicked giants of old greater ability to
further disrupt the shalom of YHWH's formerly well-ordered cosmos. Moreover, the
inherent danger of the intermarriage between the human and the divine is that it would
result in the creation of a "master race" of super beings with a practically limitless
lifespan and superior capabilities that could be used to conquer not only Earth, but
possibly even heaven itself. As van Gemeren explains,
The perverted nature of man's thoughts (6:5) may be inferred from (6:3).
Being under God's judgment since the Fall, man made an attempt to
circumvent God's plan by being enticed to the Satanic scheme of
intermarriage with demonic beings with the hope of ultimate prolongation of
life. The resultant super-race, produced by the intermarriage of 'the sons of
God' and the daughters of men, is in God's judgment still basar ('characterized
by flesh', verse 3). Hence it is also observed that the super-race of the
nephilim-gibborim was characterized as belonging to the Earth. To crush the
attempt of introducing man into the realms of the divine, God sovereignly and
justly judged man to death in the Flood.9
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their Satanic fathers. As Stephen Quayle explains Titanomachy. Though Zeus and co.
in his seminal work, Genesis 6 Giants, overthrew the titans, the titaness Gaia
gave birth to the giants in order to take
The Nephilim that were produced by the revenge. The giants made war on Zeus
angel/mankind marriage were much different and the heavenly gods in a battle known
from either of their parents. This, too, went as the gigantomachy, in which the giants
were utterly defeated. The Nephilim
against God's plan for the Earth in which each giants of the Bible may have attempted to
animal and human being was to reproduce overthrow heaven as well. Image from
"after its own kind". [Genesis 1:24] This is Greek Mythology Link: Giants
perhaps the best demonstration that the parents
of these creatures were not simply descendants of Cain and Seth. Had they
been, they would have produced human offspring, rather than the Nephilim.
The Nephilim were more than simply large beings or giants in the way giants
are normally thought of today. When the Greek Septuagint was created, the
Hebrew word Nephilim was translated into Greek as gegenes. This is the same
word used in Greek mythology for the "Titans", creatures created through the
interbreeding of the Greek gods and human beings. The English words
"genes" and "genetics" are built around the same root word as gegenes; genea
meaning "breed" or "kind". Thus, the choice of this word again suggests a
genetic component to the creation of these giants.10
Though Quayle appears to promote the idea that the Nephilim were actually formed by
combining the DNA of the fallen angels and human women, since angels are spirit and
thus do not have DNA, we hold to the thesis that the Nephilim were genetically
manufactured beings created from the genetic material of various pre-existing animal
species. Thus, to fit them into our scientific paradigm, we should officially term the
Nephilim as a subclass of homo artificialis: homo artificialis nephili.
Thus, the fallen angels did not personally interbreed with the daughters of men, but
used their godlike intellect to delve into the secrets of YHWH's Creation and
manipulate it to their own purposes. And the key to creating or recreating man, as we
have (re)discovered in the twentieth century, is the human genome — DNA. Quayle
points out that the Greek antecedent of the word "giants" is the word gegenes, from
which was derived the Greek word gigantes (Genesis 6:4, LXX), from which we in
turn derive the English word "giant". Moreover, gegenes, besides being the root of the
word "giant", is also the root of the words "genes", "genetics", "geneology", and so
forth. Thus, the concept of genetic manipulation was "spliced in" to the ancient
conception of giants. Quayle's extensive research on the subject also has unearthed
some frightening scientific statistics:
While modern ethics has prevented scientists from pursuing eugenics (the
creation of more perfect "supermen" by modifying human genetic
components), it is completely possible that modifications in human genetic
components might create a very different being from human DNA. A hint of
what might result from such a modification was seen in April 1997, when
scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore revealed that they had
discovered a gene in mice which they called growth/differentiation factor-8
(GDF-8). When mice cells were altered genetically to delete this gene, the
creatures that were conceived from these altered eggs grew enormous
muscles, becoming "super mice" for all practical purposes. The scientists
wrote in the science journal Nature, "We disrupted the GDF-8 gene by gene
targeting in mice. [Mice lacking the gene] are significantly larger than
wild-type animals and show a large and widespread increase in skeletal
muscle mass. Individual muscles of mutant animals weigh two to three times
more than those of wild-type animals." Now notice that this again goes well
beyond what would be seen if the animals were simply given a growth
hormone. These animals, with the GDF-8 gene, were not only stronger, they
were two to three times larger. In other words, the super mice were stronger
and considerably larger than their natural brothers and sisters having an
unaltered genetic makeup. Imagine a human being so altered, who is stronger
and two or three times larger than an average person, and you'll see the
modern equivalent of the ancient giants, the "mighty men" of the biblical
accounts.11
Quayle also points out that the giants did not suffer from a hormonal imbalance,
commonly known today as "gigantism", as those who suffer from gigantism usually
suffer from a number of debilitative diseases that make movement for them difficult
and painful. This is quite different from the powerful, proportionally built, athletically
superb warriors portrayed in the Bible and other ancient texts. So, according to Quayle,
there is definitive proof that genetic manipulation can in fact result in the development
of a gigantic version of a particular species — in this case, mice. But can the same
thing be done with humans? We may know soon.
The rabbinic literature also confirms that the Nephilim were indeed a giant, wicked
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species of early mankind that had existed before the Flood, and also afterward, during
the time of Moses. Newman explains,
Regarding the "Nephilim", the rabbis apparently used Num 13:33, where the
term is associated with the Anakim at the time of the Exodus. With this hint
and the aid of Deut. 2:10-11, 20-21, they obtained five other names for the
Nephilim by which to describe them using etymological word-play. Two of
these are rather supernatural sounding: "Gibborim: ... the marrow of each
one's thigh bone was eighteen cubits long"; "Anakim: ... their necks reached
the globe of the sun." The term "Nephilim" is understood as teaching that
"they hurled (haphilu) the world down, themselves fell (nephelu) from the
world, and filled the world with abortions (nephilim) through their
immorality.12
As Newman points out, several subclasses of Nephilim appear to have existed before
the Flood, and also afterwards. One of those that existed before the Flood were the
"Gibborim", the "mighty men of old".
The intermarriage between the semi-divine Nephilim, the Cainites and, eventually even
the Sethites led to the near-extinction of the pure Adamic line of homo sapiens, where
all but a few living on Earth near the end of the antediluvian period were actually this
mixed-breed of Gibborim. As DeLoach explains in his classic, Giants: A Reference
Guide from History, the Bible, and Recorded Legend,
Right down to the first day of the deluge, the fallen angels in evolved human
flesh, whom Moses called "the Nephilim", kept on marrying the comely
daughters descended from Adam. These unlawful unions, having grown
exceedingly common, now posed the gravest threat to God's plan for the
redemption of His people. The situation was this: by absolute necessity, the
Almighty Angel of the Lord who promised to come and redeem the fallen
Adamic family had to be born from pure stock. But over the centuries the two
races had so completely integrated that Nephilim blood now "polluted"
virtually all Adam's offspring. In Noah's time, the condition reached the crisis
stage, as commentator H.B. Pratt explains, "There are, for example, those who
suppose here, just as in the case of the wife of Cain, that there were two
distinct races of men in the world, the Adamic and the Pre-Adamic — a race
perhaps half bestial; the mixture of which two races caused the moral
desolations that are mentioned; and that when the Hebrew text says ... that
'Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations', [it means] that he was of
pure stock and uncontaminated."14
Though the mixed-breed Gibborim were superior in most every way to homo sapiens,
superior ability breeds superior ambition.15 A world full of Alexanders, Hitlers, and
Genghis Khans, all of whom were physically superior to Arnold Schwartzenegger,
intellectually superior to Albert Einstein, and more Machiavellian than Machiavelli,
will not stay peaceful for long. The intermarriage between the Nephilim, the Cainites
and, eventually even the Sethites led to an extreme condition of lawlessness and
ungodliness in the world which YHWH found intolerable. DeLoach continues,
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The shalom peaceful balance of the Garden of Eden was destroyed by the tyrannical
and warlike methods employed by the Nephilim. Instead of wealth earned by honest
toil, the Nephilim, and their horrid children, the Gibborim, plundered the wealth of
others and heaped it up in vast hordes for the purposes of conspicuous consumption,
gorging while others starved. Despising hard work and God's institution of marriage
life, the Gibborim sought only for temporary pleasures, achieving their goals through
merciless murder, plunder and rapine. Instead of loving their neighbors and working
together with them for the common good, they instead sought to enslave them if they
were of use to them, or destroy them if they were not. In these ways, the Nephilim
echoed in their Godless actions their divine parents' rejection of YHWH's ordinances.
As Kline explains, "Within this succession of the bene elohim, the marriage ordinance
was desecrated and the extension of dominion was sought by violence rather than
through godly labor".16 The Gibborim created no wealth, and added no value to the
natural equation. They were simply giant parasites living off of the work of others, and
off of nature itself. Moreover, by taking any wives they chose from both artificialis and
sapiens, creating vast harems of women that bore only their children, they reduced the
ability of Godly men — whose presence was beneficial to Earth — to procreate and
continue. In this way the Gibborim multiplied like a virus at the expense of the host:
wasting resources, killing off healthy cells, and spreading poisons all over the face of
Earth. In the end, using their techniques of murder, plunder, and rapine, homo
artificialis systematically subverted and destroyed homo sapiens.
Though on the face of it it might seem that homo artificialis had won the genetic "arms
race" and thus proved themselves the superior species, had the Gibborim won and
wiped out homo sapiens forever, they would have eventually disappeared as well.
Without homo sapiens to exploit, they would have quickly turned on and destroyed
each other, destroying all life on Earth in the process. Their need to dominate and
destroy came out of the essential emptiness of their souls, which they sought in vain to
fill with earthly pleasures. However, the more they stole, the emptier their souls
became, and they had to conquer and plunder more and more to fill the emptiness
inside them until all life on Earth was in peril of being destroyed. And even if they had
conquered the whole world, they still would have lost their souls. Clines aptly
describes this hyperaggressive tendency of the Gibborim as "an insane acceleration of
the Fall; it is self-affirmation to the point of destruction."17 Without the stable,
productive presence of homo sapiens, the Gibborim would have had no one to plunder
and enslave. Without the preservative, "salt and light" influence of God's people, the
Gibborim would have flown into a frenzy of conquest and destruction (which, just
before the Flood, is exactly what they did). Thus, by systematically eliminating homo
sapiens, homo artificialis guaranteed its own extinction — proving that it was, in fact,
inferior.
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wandering stars, for whom blackest A representation of a black hole in the process of
darkness has been reserved forever." devouring a star. The black hole is a tiny singularity
perhaps no larger than the size of a grapefruit, the
(Jude 1:12-13) remnant of a burned out star whose gravity was so great
that it collapsed in on itself. Now, it continues its
The main reason homo artificialis failed existence devouring other stars, making a spectacular
and had to be destroyed was that it was show at the expense of destroying something useful. The
out of balance with its environment. The light you see here is the remains of a star that the black
hole is devouring, swirling around the powerful gravity
appetites of the giants were so immense of the black hole that sits at the center, giving the
that in order to feed themselves and illusion that the black hole is giving off light, whereas it
satisfy their lusts they were forced to actually devouring it. All in all, the black hole is a fitting
conquer and plunder others, and in the metaphor for the fallen angels and their worthless
offspring, the Nephilim.
process they destroyed the people and Image from NASA's Starchild page.
infrastructure required to create these Click here to view the video.
resources. Moreover, they paid no
attention to their environment, cutting
down whole forests, exhausting Earth's natural resources, and polluting the lakes,
rivers, and even the genes of men and animals in order to accomplish their pointless
goal of dominating Earth. But of what use is Earth if, in the process of conquering it,
you have destroyed it? In contrast, homo sapiens had been created to fit into the Earthly
environment, to reap and sow according to the seasons, to acquire wealth through hard
work, and not plunder — to maintain a harmonious balance with nature, taking only as
much as he needed, and returning the rest. Had Adam and his progeny continued on
with this strategy, the entire Earth would have eventually been turned into an Edenic
paradise. However, by rejecting YHWH and His shalom strategy of gradually
reproducing and slowly but surely subduing Earth, instead being tempted into
following the vainglorious conquest strategy taught by the Nephilim, Adam and Eve
also became subject to the same natural laws that the Nephilim had broken. By going
for the short term gains brought by the methods used by the Nephilim, mankind upset
the delicate balance with Earth that was necessary to be truly successful over the long
term. As a result, mankind was punished by the very Earth that they had set out to
conquer, as Earth rebalanced itself, and vomited them out — with the Flood. (Cf.
Leviticus 18:24-28) As Hendel explains,
Gen 6:1-4 presents a mixing of categories — of gods and mortals — and the
procreation of a hybrid category of demigods which it is in the nature of the
myth to suppress. Mary Douglas has pointed out the preoccupation of ancient
Israelite thought with the suppression of anomaly in dietary laws and in the
laws of kinship. These "purity laws", as she calls them, serve to keep "distinct
the categories of creation." The same tendency is at work in Genesis 6:1-4.
The sexual mingling of the sons of God and the daughters of men creates an
imbalance and a confusion in the cosmic order. The birth of the demigods
threatens the fabric of the cosmos.... The natural conclusion of Gen 6:1-4,
according to the logic of the myth, is the deluge — the destruction of
humanity and the concomitant annihilation of the disorder. The cosmic
imbalance is resolved by a great destruction, out of which a new order
arises.18
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the battles, YHWH had won the war. The army of unalterable law.
Fulfilling the prophecy of Genesis 3:15,
the heel of the man had been bruised, George Meredith (1829-1909)
but the head of the serpent had been
crushed. Image adapted from
"Fall of Day", by William Rimmer
As world war raged across the planet, from the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston.
the Nephilim masters and their
Gibborim armies fighting the final battles against each other to decide who would
finally rule Earth, Noah obeyed YHWH and shut the doors on the antediluvian world.
Soon thereafter, the world that was, died. However, though the Flood wiped out all of
the Nephilim and Gibborim, their progenitors — the fallen angels who cannot die —
watched and waited for the time when they could start the next phase of the great
genetic war again.
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13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger
in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them
four hundred years; 14And also that nation [Egypt], whom they shall serve,
will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15And
thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again [back to the land of
Canaan]: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17And it came to pass,
that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and
a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18In the same day the LORD
made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land,
from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates (Genesis
15:13-18)
But why did YHWH plan to destroy the Canaanites and give their land to Abraham's
descendants? Because the fallen angels were once again at work on Earth, using the
Canaanites to breed a whole new generation of Nephilim and Gibborim giants. And the
fallen angels, like YHWH, also had their own special representative — Amor, a
descendant of Canaan. Amor, the father of the "Amorites", became the most wicked of
all, the line though whom the fallen angels had begun recreating the dreaded Nephilim
in the land of Canaan. Thus, while YHWH was breeding men of the line of Shem that
were more and more righteous, the fallen angels were breeding men of the line of Ham
that were more and more wicked — just as they had before the Flood. For this reason
YHWH forbad Abraham to tarry in Canaan, instead planning for his descendants to
sojourn in Egypt for 400 years. This allowed the "iniquity of the Amorites" to come to
its full, rotten ripeness while Abraham's descendants grew strong and numerous in a
safer, healthier environment away from Canaan.
The fallen angels were busily at work creating all new armies of wicked giants that
they would once again use to try to conquer the world. And though their extreme moral
decline was only in its infant stages during the time of Abraham, it was just a matter of
time until this "iniquity of the Amorites" would come to the full.
Phase three of the war between YHWH and the rebels, which began soon after Noah
and his family left the ark, ca. 10,000 b.c., did not come to fruition until the time of
Abraham, ca. 2000 b.c. Though some commentators believe that Nimrod, one of the
descendants of Ham, (Gen. 10:8-12) was a giant, giants do not make a significant
appearance in the Bible again until Genesis 14, during the time of Abraham's sojourn
in Canaan. Genesis 14 describes a major regional conflict between the king of Elam
and five of his vassals who lived in the land of Canaan, a war in which Abraham
played a small part. Chedorlaomer, the king of Elam, had gathered together three of his
allies and gone to war with this confederation of five Canaanite kings who had refused
to pay tribute any longer:
1
And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of
Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 2That these
made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah,
Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela,
which is Zoar. 3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
the salt sea. 4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
year they rebelled. 5And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the
kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and
the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 6And the Horites in
their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 7And they
returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country
of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar. 8And
there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of
Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and
they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; 9With Chedorlaomer the
king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar,
and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. 10And the vale of Siddim was
full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there;
and they that remained fled to the mountain. 11And they took all the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. (Genesis
14:1-11)
Though the theme of the passage is a familiar one, war, some of the participants in that
war were not. Though the war was initially supposed to be against the five kings of
Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar, instead of taking these kings head-on,
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the Elamites and their allies instead began their attack far to the northeast, in the region
of Bashan, and then worked their way down the east side of the Jordan, systematically
destroying a heretofore unknown group of peoples called the Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim,
and Horim. They then turned to attack the Amalekites and Amorites, finally heading
towards their initial target, the five kings of the five cities of the plain in southern
Canaan. Hamilton explains,
The names of other peoples whom the Elamites and their allies subdued —
Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim, Horim, Amalekites, Amorites — would indicate that
the uprising of the five southern kinglets was but one part of a massive effort
to resist continued Mesopotamian control in Transjordan. The invading kings
repress such attempted revolts in grandiose and unmitigated style. Nobody can
stand before them, even though the defeated Rephaim, Zuzim, and Emim are
themselves imposing threats, people of giant stature. (Deut. 2:10-12, 20-23)20
Sweeping down the The distribution of Rephaim and Gibborim-type giant subclasses in
valley, his army quickly Canaan, ca. 2000 b.c. Though the distribution of the various giant
classes and exact territorial limits are unknown, general areas of
laid siege to Ashteroth inhabitation can be derived from Genesis 14 and Deuteronomy 2-3.
Karnaim. This chief city The Rephaim dominated most of south, central and northern Palestine,
of the Rephaim lay in the but the Zuzim dominated the region south of the Rephaim capitol
district of Bashan, about Ashteroth Karnaim, with the Emim east of the Dead Sea and the
Horim south of the Emim and east of the Vale of Siddim. Moses also
six miles northwest of mentions the "Avvim" that were centered around Gaza, southwest of
Edrei. These giants Palestine, but there is no record of an Elamite attack on the Avvim.
worshipped Astarte, the Chedorlaomer first attacked Ashteroth-Karnaim, the stronghold of the
goddess of the crested Rephaim, then proceeded to defeat the Zuzim at Ham, the Emim at
Shaveh-Kiriathaim, and the Horim in their mountain strongholds
moon. They were greatly scattered throughout Seir. They then subdued the Amalekites just
decimated. Continuing south of Palestine, defeated the Amorite armies in Hazazon-Tamar,
along what the ancients and destroyed the confederation of the five kings of Sodom,
called the King's Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar at the Vale of Siddim, south of
the Dead Sea. Having thus subdued the entire country, the Elamites
Highway, a trade route then plundered all of the five cities in succession, taking away a very
that ran the entire length large amount of booty.
of the Trans-jordanian Click here to view a larger image.
plateau to the Gulf of Aqabah, Chedorlaomer and his confederate kings next
fell upon the enormous Zamzummim people of Ham. Some archaeologists
identify this city with modern Ham, which is located in eastern Gilead, about
four miles south of Irbid. After this, the kings from Elam and Mesopotamia
attacked and cut off the terrible Emim giants at nearby Shaveh Kiriathaim.
These people, described as "great and many and tall", occupied the land that
the Moabites later took.22
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The mysterious Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim and Horim were, in fact, giants. Giants were
again on Earth in the time of Abraham, and YHWH was waging war upon them once
more, using the Elamites — like Abraham, descendants of Shem — to destroy them.
These mysterious giant races are described in much more detail than the Nephilim and
Gibborim of the antediluvian world were, and are even given race-specific names, as
follows:
The relevant data are the following: the occurrence of 1) rephaim, meaning
the shades of the dead; the occurrence of 2) rephaim, referring to a gigantic
race which inhabited parts of Palestine and Jordan before Israelite times;
references to yelidiy ha-raphah (with variants) who are usually understood as
descendants of Raphah, who would be the ancestor of the Rephaim; a
geographical name, "Valley of the Rephaim;" personal names containing the
element rapha or raphah,. In addition to the above, there are related matters
which might be relevant: references to the Anaqim who, like Rephaim, were
thought to be a prehistoric race of gigantic stature; appearing only twice are
the Emim, apparently a special designation for the Rephaim of the territory
later occupied by the Moabites; similarly the Zamzummim are the Rephaim of
the Ammonite area; finally, the word Nephilim is also used for the giants of
old.23
In the Ras Shamra texts found in the Canaanite city-state of Ugarit, the Rephaim are
described as being simultaneously divine beings, human beings, cultic functionaries of
the Amorite god Ba'al, mighty warriors, riders of chariots, and healers, or "ones who
are healed". Some scholars also believe that that they were part of an aristocracy. The
Amorites, who worshiped the god Ba'al, also believed that Ba'al was gigantic in stature:
"Ba'lu the Saviour, was extremely tall. An Ugaritic myth tells us that when another god
tried to sit on the throne of Ba'lu 'his feet did not reach the foot-stool, his head did not
reach the top of the back.'"24
Ba'al was the Amorite/Canaanite war, storm and fertility god, whom they believed
made his presence known in, among other things, the yearly rains that came and made
the fields bring forth their bounty each year. When the rains ended at the end of the
rainy season, it was thought that Ba'al had died and gone down to the underworld, not
to return again until the rainy season in the following year. During the intervening time,
he remained in the underworld, among the spirits of the dead. The Rephaim were
believed by the Amorites to be Ba'als acolytes, accompanying him both in the storm
and into his journey into the underworld after the rains ceased. As a result, "since these
minor deities follow Ba'al in his descent to the underworld, they later became identified
with the shades of the dead, as in Biblical Hebrew and in Phoenician."25 L'Heureux
points out that, since greater gods in the Canaanite pantheon are described with the
singular term rapha, then the term rephaim most likely refers to an assembly of lesser
gods. This concept compares favorably with the Hebrew conception of elohim which
most believe is meant to indicate an assembly of divine beings, or angels, in contrast to
the singular El, which is used exclusively of YHWH, the head of the divine assembly.
In short, Rapha is to rephaim as El is to elohim.26
However, unlike the heavenly deities of the court of YHWH, the court of Ba'al is
instead an assembly of underworld deities, what the Israelites would have considered
demonic spirits, or fallen angels. The Amorites worshiped these underworld deities as
the departed spirits of their ancestors, and their funerary rituals were also acts of
worship that included such activities as extreme drunkenness, riotous acts, cannibalism
and worse.27 The spirits of the dead that were most worshiped were those of ancient
kings and heroes: "within the framework of the Baalistic cult sacrificial meals with the
spirits of the dead took place ... the ghosts are called metim "dead" or shedim "genii".
One of the more interesting features of the text is that the rephaim seem to be a special
class of spirits: kings, heroes, warriors, rulers."28 Concerning the meaning of rapha and
how it fits into the concept of underworld deity, Gray believes that the basic meaning
of rapha is "to heal" or, more likely, to be healed.29 However, since it has to do with
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the dead rephaim, and since these dead rephaim are, along with Ba'al, resurrected at the
beginning of each rainy season, I suggest that the Rephaim are not merely healed but,
along with Ba'al, resurrected, and the fertility of the land resurrected with them. Thus
the basic concept behind the word rephaim is "those who have been resurrected".
The rephaim deities of the Ugaritic texts, then, were seen as the resurrected spirits of
ancient warrior kings. But resurrected into what? And how does this apply to the
Rephaim giants? The Rephaim were seen by the Amorites as both divine and human,
as human incarnations of the divine rephaim, just as the Amorite king was considered
to be the incarnation of their state god, Ba'al.30 These "Rephaim of Earth" were
believed to be the earthly incarnations of the divine (or fallen) Rephaim of the
underworld. Moreover, since these were the spirits of ancient warriors, kings and
heroes from ancient times, it was probable, since the Rephaim giants were specifically
noted by Moses as being the return of the antediluvian Nephilim, that the Rephaim
were in fact the reincarnations of the demonic spirits of the Nephilim giants who had
been destroyed in the Flood. Thus, inherent in the very name "Rephaim" was the
confirmation that the Rephaim were indeed the return of the Nephilim. As such, we
have given them their own scientific classification to identify the Rephaim as the next
generation that succeeded the Nephilim breed of giants: homo artificialis rephi.
In sum, then, according to the Bible and related texts, the Rephaim were a giant,
human/divine hybrid race that formed an aristocratic warrior class known for their use
of chariots in battle, a "master race" of giant warrior-kings that were worshiped as the
reincarnated spirits of the giant antediluvian god-kings, the Nephilim.31 They served
the Amorite king who was considered the incarnation of the Amorite high god Ba'al,
who was also gigantic in stature, probably larger than the rest. This king likely ruled
from Ashteroth-Karnaim, in the region of Bashan, in northeastern Canaan. These giant
god-kings ruled over a mass of homo sapiens, whom the fallen angels were
systematically altering into another class of Gibborim "storm troopers" in order to,
once again, attempt to exterminate the "inferior" homo sapiens and rule the world.
These Gibborim even had specific names: the Zuzim, the Emim, the Horim, and the
Avvim.
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"awesome ones" (Wenham)38 "dreadful ones" (DeLoach) and "Terrors" (Graves and
Patai).
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At this time, many Rephaim and some Horim, Avvim and Anakim giants
occupied the hill country of northern Canaan, while the Anakim completely
dominated the south. The spies must therefore have seen these frightening
fellows every place they went. But in their later report to Moses they
mentioned only the Anakim giants — apparently because they struck more
terror in them than all the rest. For ferociousness and daring, the Anakim set
the standard. Against them, in fact, all the other giants were measured. Moses
himself confirmed their superiority when he wrote in his book this famous
proverbial saying: "Who can stand against the sons of Anak?" [Deut. 9:2]41
The Anakim had their power base in Kiriath-Arba (later called Hebron), located in the
mountains of what would later become southern Judea, about twenty miles south of
Jerusalem. Kiriath-Arba was named after Arba, the father of Anak. (Joshua 15:13)42
There, the sons of Anak, Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, ruled over both the Anakim
and non-Gibborim Canaanitish peoples that lived in the area. Rabbinical tradition has a
fair amount to say about the sons of Anak:
According to rabbinical tradition (Gen. R. xxvi.), the Anakim are of the same
Titanic race as the Rephaim, Nefilim, Gibborim, Zamzummim, and Emim.
The name (as though containing the element 'anak = neck) is explained in the
Midrash (Gen. R. xxvi.) as indicating that they wore "neck-chains heaped
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upon neck-chains," or, as if from the verb "to press," "force," that they seized
the solar disk and cried, "Send us rain," or that "they squeezed their heads into
the sun" (Sotah 344b; see Rashi on Yoma, 10a). Of the three sons of Anak
who filled the spies with awe and fear by their gigantic stature, Ahiman,
Sheshai and Talmai (Num. xii. 22-33), the first is represented in Num. R. xvi.
and Tan., Shelah, 7, ed. Buber, 11, as challenging passers-by, saying: "Whose
brother will fight with me?" (a play upon "Ahiman" = brother of whom); the
second stood there stolid as a block of marble (a play upon shesh = marble),
and the third made deep furrows (a play upon telamim = furrows) in the soil
with every step.43
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Moses to lead the Israelites to attack the remnant of the Rephaim giants on the east of
the Jordan River first, leaving the Rephaim and Anakim west of the Jordan to Joshua.
And of these Rephaim, two were most famous: Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites.
Sihon was a famous Rephaim giant that ruled over the Amorites east of the Jordan river
during the time of Moses. Though it is not specifically stated, it appears likely that the
Amorites had, by that time, been genetically modified and interbred into yet another
Gibborim class of giant that, like the Anakim, was used by the Rephaim as
stormtroopers for their inhuman armies. If so, "the iniquity of the Amorites" had
literally come to the full, as the Amorites themselves had been completely converted
into Gibborim-type homo sapiens / homo artificialis hybrid giants through
interbreeding with the Rephaim.
By the time of Moses, Sihon and the Amorite Gibborim had driven the Ammonites
south into the hills, taking their territory from the River Jabbok in the north as far as the
River Arnon in the south. There, Sihon ruled over the Amorites from Heshbon, and his
brother, Og, ruled over the Amorites of the north, in Bashan.45 "Over these
Transjordanian Amorites reigned two giant kings, Sihon and Og. Moses refers to them
as remnants of the Rephaim. Og later became the most famous of the two, because of
his great bedstead. But from what records we have, Sihon appears to have been the
most powerful and probably posed the greatest threat to the advancing Hebrews' plan
of attack."46
Sihon and Og were widely respected and feared, and well-protected, both physically
and spiritually, so YHWH took no chances with them. To ensure the victory, He sent
Moses himself against them in the preliminary assault against the giants of Canaan that
would set up the rest of the conquest of Canaan. As DeLoach explains,
In their day, Sihon and Og commanded wide respect as great and mighty
monarchs. Although Sihon is not described in scripture as a giant, as Og was,
other sources definitely place him among the Rephaim. Rabbinical literature,
for instance identifies him as Og's brother. The ancient rabbis likewise list
both kings as grandsons of Shemjazai [aka, Semjaza], a fallen angel (Niddah
61a), who evidently was of the Nephilim. Sihon, they further write, resembled
Og in stature and bravery (Midrash, Agadah, Hukkat, ed. Buber, p. 130a).
These old writings also identify him with Arad the Canaanite (Numbers 21:1),
who was called Sihon because he resembled the foals in the desert for
swiftness. Accordingly, the rabbis sometimes referred to him as "the
Canaanite", claiming that he was overlord of that land and had over there
many vassal kings who paid him tribute.47
Being the grandsons of Semjaza himself, Sihon and Og could not have been moved
unless a more powerful angel — most likely Michael the archangel — fought against
them and removed their powerful protection in preparation for the Israelite conquest.
Michael does indeed fight against the fallen angels, as is evidenced by Daniel 10:13
and related references. Michael is also the angelic patron of Israel (Daniel 12:1), and is
thus most likely the angel that YHWH sent before Israel to drive out the Canaanites,
confuse them, and manipulate them and their environment to the point where they were
weak and easily conquered:
20
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring
thee into the place which I have prepared. 21Beware of him, and obey his
voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my
name is in him. 22But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto
thine adversaries. 23For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in
unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. 27I will send my fear before
thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make
all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. 28And I will send hornets before
thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from
before thee. 29I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the
land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. 30By
little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased,
and inherit the land. 31And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto
the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver
the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before
thee. (Exodus 23:20-23, 27-31)
Besides Michael and the angels engendering superstitious fear and terror into the giant
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population, reducing their morale and thus their fighting effectiveness, commentators
believe the reference to "hornets" means that massive swarms of hornets invaded the
tall, strongly fortified castles of the giants, driving the giants out into the open where
they were much more vulnerable. The text seems to promote the idea that nature itself
was fighting against the giants who, like the Nephilim and Gibborim of the
antediluvian world, were out of balance with nature. As a result, the land was
"vomiting them out", driving them out and destroying them little by little to the point
where they were ripe for conquest. (Lev. 18:24-28)
Finally, by playing on Sihon's pride, Michael manipulated him into a position where his
weakened, confused, fearful and demoralized armies were all in one place, out in the
open, where the armies of Israel could finish them off all at once:
21
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22Let
me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the
vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by
the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23And Sihon would not
suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people
together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to
Jahaz, and fought against Israel. 24And Israel smote him with the edge of the
sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children
of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 25And Israel
took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in
Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. 26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon
the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab,
and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. 32And Moses sent to
spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites
that were there. (Numbers 21:21-26, 32)
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headed by Jair and Nobath of both the Anakim giants and the normal-sized Amorites. Joshua then
the tribe of Benjamin, to began to clear out northern Canaan, fighting another decisive battle at
Hazor before razing it, and then clearing out the remainder of the
destroy him. The two armies Rephaim in the north and their allies. The remainder of the cleanup
met at Edrei, the second was left to the 12 tribes after the death of Joshua.
largest city in Sihon's Click here to view a larger image.
kingdom:48 "And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. And the
LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all
his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people,
until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land." (Num. 21:21-35)
Like Sihon, Og was swiftly done away with, his confused, demoralized armies no
match for the Spirit-filled holy warriors of YHWH. Ironically, Og, though generally
considered to have been less powerful than Sihon, took on a legendary, at times almost
comical character in the many Jewish legends that grew up around him. One story has
Og surviving the Flood by hanging on to the ark, swearing servitude to Noah in return
for food. The legends also place Og at many pivotal points in Israel's history, including
a celebration for Isaac, and Jacob's blessing of Pharaoh. During the battle of Edrei,
another legend tells, "Og sat on the city wall, his legs, which were eighteen ells (27
feet) long, reaching down to the ground."49 The picture that emerges of Og is not so
much that of a mindless savage, but that of a highly intelligent and sophisticated
individual who was possessed of a dark side. At times almost godlike in his speech and
manners, Og was simultaneously utterly ruthless in his ambition to conquer the world,
treating mankind as mere chattel to fill his torture chambers for his amusement, or to be
used as fuel for the furnaces of his war machine. Extreme schizophrenia, alternating
between glorious beauty and diabolical evil, appears to have been typical of giantkind.
DeLoach explains the quality of the man:
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None of the Israelites had the courage to face Goliath, except one David, son of Jesse
— a mere boy. Already had the Israelites forgotten to rely on YHWH's angels to fight
for them, instead relying on sword and shield — the gifts of Azazel, the fallen angel —
to help them fight their pointless wars for power and glory. Armed only with light
weapons and faith in YHWH, the Israelites of Joshua's day had conquered not by
might, nor by power, but by the Spirit, letting go and letting God. But by the time of
David, that apparently had been forgotten, and the Israelites had taken on the ways of
the Canaanites. David, however, understood the way YHWH worked and, spurning
sword and shield, took his simple goat hair sling, and slew empty Goliath, whom
neither sword nor shield could protect from Michael's hand:
38
And Saul armed David with his armour, and
he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he
armed him with a coat of mail. 39And David
girded his sword upon his armour, and he
assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And
David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for
I have not proved them. And David put them off
him. 40And he took his staff in his hand, and
chose him five smooth stones out of the brook,
and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had,
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Despite the power of the sling at close But neither Israel nor David had seen the last of
range, David wisely decided to behead the giants. In Goliath's hometown of Gath there
Goliath with his own sword to make sure, lived others, at least four of whom were also
and to clearly prove to the Philistines that warriors. They were the sons of Rapha [i.e.,
their arrogant champion was indeed dead.
remnants of the Rephaim]. The scriptures
identify one of these as Goliath's brother, and
some scholars think all were his brothers. Their names, as we have them, were
Lahmi, his brother, who was equally huge and bore a spear just as massive;
Ishbi-benob, whose armor vied in weight with Goliath's; Sippai, whose
enormous height and size were the wonder of all; and besides these, one,
unnamed, who had six fingers and six toes on each hand and foot. These
giants probably descended from either the Anakim or Rephaim who fled to the
five Philistine cities in Joshua's day.53
Though Goliath had several brothers, these too were dispatched by David's own
"Gibborim", his "mighty men" whom he named after the giants whom they slew out the
land — much in the way today's sports teams name themselves after historical and
mythical characters. As DeLoach explains,
After David was anointed king, he reigned the next seven years at Hebron. It
was probably during these years, or soon after he transferred his capitol to
Jerusalem, that Benaiah, one of his thirty mighty men, did the exploits that
won him renown. These included Benaiah's killing of two mighty Ariels, or,
as the King James Version describes them, "two lion-like men" from Moab;
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his going down into a pit on a snowy day to fight a lion; and his delivering the
deathblow to an Egyptian giant. The big Egyptian that Benaiah fought wielded
a spear as large as a weaver's beam, while Benaiah was armed only with a
club. But, in the sparring, Benaiah snatched from this giant his own spear and
dispatched him with it.54
Later in his life, David, ironically, nearly met his fate at the hands of another giant,
Ishbi-benob, who came upon David who was tired from battle. As a result, David's men
made him swear that he would never go out to battle again, lest he quench the light of
Israel. (2 Sam. 21:17) After that nearly fatal encounter, David left the rest of the giant
fighting to his mighty men:
Later on, having heard the Philistines had gathered around the city of Gob,
near Gezer, David sent an army against them. In the ensuing battle, Sibbecai
the Hushathite slew the giant Sippai. According to Josephus, Sibbecai that day
slew several others who "bragged they were the posterity of the giants, and
vaunted themselves highly on that account." In another skirmish with these
people at Gob, Elhanan felled Lahmi in single combat and put the rest to
flight. Lastly, in an Israelite attack on Gath, the boastful giant with six fingers
on each hand and six toes on each foot came out and taunted Israel. Jonathan,
son of Shimeah, David's nephew, accepted his challenge to single combat and
killed him. After this, the Philistines no more made war against Israel.55
Having finally wiped out the remnant of the giants, the land was at rest for many
decades of the reigns of David and his son, Solomon. This was the end of Phase 5 of
YHWH's war against the giants. Solomon, literally, "peace", is the same word as the
Hebrew shalom, the same shalom of the garden of Eden that YHWH had intended to
use Israel to restore in the land of Canaan. This shalom was now restored, in part,
under the reign of Solomon — literally, shelomo, "man of peace". However, as did
Adam in the garden, Solomon too fell into idolatry, and began to worship the gods of
the nations and practice their sinful ways, leading the entire nation into sin. As a result,
the shalom was lost, and Israel was first divided by civil war, and then destroyed
altogether in invasions very similar to those that Chedorlaomer had visited upon the
Rephaim during Abraham's time. Just as Moses had predicted, the land vomited them
out, just as it had vomited out the giants, and a fierce people from the north came and
took them into captivity.
Phase 6 of YHWH's war against the giants did not begin for nearly 1,000 years, when
Christ was born. The fulfillment of many thousands of years of genetic warfare, Jesus
was born a pure descendant of Adam, untainted through countless generations, through
Noah, Abraham, Israel, Judah, David and, finally, Mary. However, though Jesus has
since ascended, Phase 6 of YHWH's war against the giants is still unfinished. Who
knows if somewhere, in secret, another "master race" of giants is being bred for world
conquest? Rumours of encounters with "aliens" who come down from heaven, and vast
breeding farms of hybrid "super soldiers" has set talk radio, the Internet, and related
media abuzz for years. Who knows? Perhaps the consummation of Phase 6 of YHWH's
genetic war against the giants is at hand, when once again Michael and the heavenly
host will do battle with the giants in the Earth.
There were giants in the Earth in those days ... and also afterwards.
Here are some links to help you get you started on your journey. Proceed with caution:
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1
David Larkin and Sarah Teale, Giants (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979), 16.
2
Cf. Leviticus 19:19: "Keep my decrees. Do not mate different kinds of animals. Do
not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds
of material." This legislation appears to specifically forbid the kind of meddling with
God's Creation that the fallen angels were famous for.
3
Ronald S. Hendel, "When the Sons of God Cavorted with the Daughters of Men",
Bible Review Summer 1987, 9-10. Cf. also our discussion on the fallen angels in Part
II of our series on legendary Atlantis.
4
Ronald K. Brown, editor, The Book of Enoch (San Antonio, TX: The Guadalupe
Baptist Theological Seminary Press, 2000), 6.
5
David L. Petersen, "Genesis 6:1-4, Yahweh and the Organization of the Cosmos"
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 13 (1979), 47.
6
Gerald Cooke, "The Son(s) of (the) God(s)" Zeitschrift fur die Altestamentliche
Wissenschaft 76 (1964), 22.
7
David J.A. Clines, "The Significance of the 'Sons of God' Episode (Genesis 6:1-4) in
the Context of the 'Primeval History' (Genesis 1-11)" Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament 13 (1979), 33-34.
8
Brown, The Book of Enoch, 6-7.
9
William A. van Gemeren, "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4 (An Example of
Evangelical Demythologization?" Westminster Theological Journal 43 (1987), 347.
9
Leroy Birney, "An Exegetical Study of Genesis 6:1-4" Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society (Winter 1970), 51.
10
Stephen Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants (Bozeman, MT: End Time Thunder Publishers,
2002), 128.
11
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 129.
12
Robert C. Newman, "The Ancient Exegesis of Genesis 6:2, 4" Grace Theological
Journal 5.1 (1984), 26-27.
13
Newman, "The Ancient Exegesis of Genesis 6:2, 4", 16.
14
Charles DeLoach, "Giants and the Flood", in Giants: A Reference Guide from
History, the Bible, and Recorded Legend (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
1995), 105-106.
15
Marc Daniels, "Space Seed", Star Trek Episode #24 (1966).
15
DeLoach, "Giants and the Flood", 106.
16
Meredith G. Kline, "Divine Kingship and Genesis 6:1-4" Westminster Theological
Journal 24 (1962), 200.
17
Clines, "The Significance of the sons of God Episode", 37.
18
Ronald S. Hendel, "Of Demigods and the Deluge: Toward an Interpretation of
Genesis 6:1-4" Journal of Biblical Literature 106/1 (1987), 23.
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19
Douglas A. Elwell, YHWH against the Ba'als of Canaan: Contextualing the Old
Testament (Wheaton College: Wheaton College Graduate School, 1993), 3-4.
20
Victor P. Hamilton, The New International Commentary on the New Testament: The
Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), 402.
21
DeLoach, "Abraham and the Giants", 6.
22
DeLoach, "Abraham and the Giants", 7-8.
23
Conrad E. L'Heureux, Rank among the Canaanite Gods: El, Ba'al and the
Rephaim (Harvard Semitic Monographs 21) (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979),
111-112.
24
Johannes C. de Moor, "Rapiuma — Rephaim" Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft 88 (1976), 330.
25
Conrad L'Heureux, "The Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim" Harvard Theological
Review 67 (1974), 265.
26
L'Heureux, "The Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim", 268-269.
27
Marvin H. Pope, "The Cult of the Dead at Ugarit", in Ugarit in Retrospect (Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1981), 159-179.
28
de Moor, "Rapiuma — Rephaim", 333.
29
John Gray, "The Rephaim" Palestine Exploration Quarterly 84 (1949), 134.
30
L'Heureux, "The Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim", 270-271.
31
L'Heureux, "The Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim", 271-272.
32
Pope, "The Cult of the Dead at Ugarit", 170.
33
L'Heureux, Rank among the Canaanite Gods, 115.
34
Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis (New York:
Doubleday, 1964), 106.
35
DeLoach, "Abraham and the Giants", 6.
36
Pope, "The Cult of the Dead at Ugarit", 159.
37
"zamzummims", in The Beet Foundation.
38
Gordon J. Wenham, Word Biblical Commentary: Genesis 1-15 (Waco, TX: Word
Books, 1987), 311.
39
"Horim", in Smith's Bible Dictionary (StudyLight.org: http://www.studylight.org)
40
"Avvim; Avites", in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
(StudyLight.org: http://www.studylight.org)
41
DeLoach, "Canaan's Anakim", 45-46.
42
"Anakim", in Easton's Bible Dictionary (StudyLight.org:
http://www.studylight.org)
43
"Anakim", in The Jewish Encyclopedia (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com)
44
DeLoach, "Canaan's Anakim", 45-47.
45
"Sihon", in The Jewish Encyclopedia (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com)
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46
DeLoach, "Sihon's and Og's Overthrow", 262.
47
DeLoach, "Sihon's and Og's Overthrow", 263.
48
For more on the territories of Sihon and Og and the traditions behind them, see J.R.
Bartlett, "Sihon and Og, Kings of the Amorites" Vetus Testamentum 20 (1970),
257-277.
49
"Og", in The Jewish Encyclopedia (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com)
50
DeLoach, "Sihon's and Og's Overthrow", 266-267.
51
L'Heureux, Rank among the Canaanite Gods, 115.
52
de Moor, "Rapiuma — Rephaim", 323-345.
53
DeLoach, "David vs Goliath", 77.
54
DeLoach, "David vs Goliath", 77-78.
55
DeLoach, "David vs Goliath", 78.
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Giants
David Larkin, Julek Heller (Illustrator)
Rating:
Giants is a classic popular reference work on the subject of giants in
myth and history, and is also an enjoyable read on its own. Filled
with lavish, cleverly rendered illustrations, it makes an excellent
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Genesis 6 Giants
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Genesis 6 Giants provides a good, solid overview of giants in
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other sources on giants. Quayle also adds his own insights into the
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Rank among the Canaanite Gods: El, Ba'al and the Rephaim
(Harvard Semitic Monographs 21)
Conrad E. L'Heureux
Rating:
The excellent monograph by a leader in the field of Levantine studies
provides scholars with an excellent resource for understanding the
intricacies of Canaanite religion, specifically that of the city-state of
Ugarit. L'Heureux provides us with a comprehensive review and analysis of all of the
scholarship to that date (1974) on the Canaanite gods and the mysterious rephaim. The
quantity and quality of the analysis provided in this monograph makes it a must-have
for any serious researcher into Levantine studies. (Review by Mysterious World)
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this leaves us wishing the filmmakers had dug deeper into Howard's unusual
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hough the ancient Near East is the place
where most believe the giants of old
originated, the Americas — particularly
North America — also have a history rich
with myths and legends of ancient giant
inhabitants that had once dominated the
fruited plain. Moreover, the Native American
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back to the 1700s. Says Vine in this understanding: "Some of these old county
and regional history books contain real gems because the people were not
subjected to a rigid indoctrination about evolution and were astonished about
what they found and honestly reported it." The title pages of the early county
and pioneer history books often included phrases like "CAREFULLY
WRITTEN AND COMPILED" and "LEST WE FORGET." Some time before
archaeology came to subscribe the general public to its view of prehistory —
generations prior to Darwin's troublesome theory — the pioneers thought that
some of the earthworks were as ancient as could be concurrent with human
habitation in America. Some among the early settlers exercised their pens
assured that the earthworks were not built by the direct ancestry of the native
people living in the historical period, but rather were constructed in a more
remote era encompassing a different social order. They compared the "Mound
Builders," with the "Indians," clearly discerning the former as belonging to an
earlier time — possessing a different fate or destiny from the latter.1
These reports — which took place centuries before Darwinism and its baleful offspring
poisoned the well of true scientific inquiry into the true history of humanity — seem
unbelievable to readers today, "enlightened" as they are as to the party line view of
history. The truth about America's ancient history, however, is somewhat different than
the highly sanitized, politically correct view ladled out like so much gruel by
academics today, as is evidenced only by a mere handful of historical reports from one
area of the country alone — the Ohio Valley:
Evidence for the occupation of this region
before the appearance of the red man and the
white race is to be found in almost every part of
[Marion] county, as well as through the
northwest generally. In removing the gravel
bluffs, which are numerous and deep, for the
construction and repair of roads, and in
excavating cellars, hundreds of human
skeletons, some of them of giant form, have
been found. A citizen of Marion County
estimates that there were about as many human
skeletons in the knolls of Marion County as
there are white inhabitants at present!
— The History of Marion County, Ohio The title pages of the early county and
pioneer history books often included
phrases like "CAREFULLY WRITTEN
Mastodonic remains are occasionally AND COMPILED" and "LEST WE
unearthed, and, from time to time, discoveries FORGET", partly because some of the
of the remains of Indian settlements are things written therein were so fantastic.
indicated by the appearance of gigantic Image and text adapted from Serpent
skeletons, with the high cheek bones, powerful Mound Mysteries.
jaws and massive frames peculiar of the red
man, who left these as the only record with which to form a clew to the
history of past ages.
— The History of Brown County, Ohio
Three skeletons were found at the mouth of the Paw Paw Creek many years
later, while Nim (Nimrod) Satterfield was justice of the peace. Jim Dean and
some men were digging for a bridge foundation and found these bones at the
lower end of the old buffalo wallow. She thought it was Dr. Kidwell, of
Fairmont, who examined them and said they were very old, perhaps thousands
of years old. She said that when the skeletons were exposed to the weather for
a few days, their bones turned black and began to crumble, that Squire
Satterfield had them buried in the Joliffe graveyard (Rivesville). All these
skeletons, she said, were measured, and found to be about eight feet long.
— Now and Long Ago: A History of the Marion County Area 2
Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and even the twentieth century, amateur
excavators routinely found giant skeletons in mounds and caves from the upper
northeast to the southeast, the Midwest, and scattered throughout North America.
Discoveries of giant skeletons appear to have been concentrated around the Ohio
Valley, however, the area that is now known for its numerous mound structures. The
Ohio Valley, as we have seen, was the epicenter of Native American life for many
thousands of years during the Archaic and Woodland periods of ancient American
history. It was here, according to the original eyewitness accounts, that numerous giant
skeletons and countless irreplaceable artifacts were discovered by intrepid settlers
interested in discovering the true history of the New World. However, though many of
these giant skeletons simply mouldered away into the soil days or even hours after they
were exposed to the elements, many other giant skeletons, some with strands of blond
or red hair still clinging tenaciously to their skulls, were covered up, spirited away or
destroyed as part of an ongoing "holocaust" of America's true history.
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Mengele is one of the most infamous of all the Nazis, having earned the nickname
"The Angel of Death" at Auschwitz as he had been the selector who had decided who
lived and who died. Although he is now considered to be one of history's greatest
monsters, before his actions in the war he was considered to be an intelligent,
well-educated man from a well-to-do family, who studied physical anthropology and
genetics in college. He ended up working with von Verschuer at the Frankfurt
University Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. His research focused on
the shape of the front of the jaw and how it varied amongst racial groups, and also cleft
palates, a congenital birth defect where the skull is slightly divided at the roof of the
mouth, leaving a gap, or "cleft". From there he proceeded to focus obsessively on
twins, apparently in the context of trying to understand the bipolar nature of the
development of the human body — specifically, how the two halves of the human skull
fuse together. Unfortunately, the times brought out the true wicked character of the
man, and he decided that the situation at Auschwitz was ideal for experimentation on
twins. One twin who survived the ordeal recalls the experience:
Of all the aspects of Mengele’s character which are of interest, his research on
twins is the focus of the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. organization. Beginning in 1944,
twins were selected and placed in special barracks.... It is believed that
Mengele had worked with twins under Verschuer at the University of
Frankfurt. Auschwitz offered Mengele unlimited number of specimens where
twins could be studied at random. According to Dr. Miklos Nyiszli in
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, twins provided the perfect
experimental specimens. One could serve as a control while the other endured
the experiments. It was well known in the camp that when a twin went to the
infirmary, (s)he never returned and that the other twin disappeared too....
Twins in the experiments describe three days of what must have been
psychological examination and three days of laboratory experiments. "Three
times a week we were marched to Auschwitz to a big brick building, sort of
like a big gymnasium. They would keep us there for about six or eight hours
at a time — most of the days..... We would have to sit naked in the large room
where we first entered, and people in white jackets would observe us and
write down notes. They also would study every part of our bodies. They
would photograph, measure our heads and arms and bodies, and compare the
measurements of one twin to another. The process seemed to go on and on."
The laboratory experiments were described by Kor as follows: "Most of the
time, they would take blood from one arm, and they gave us shots in the
other." Experiments did not end with the death of the twins. Dissection of the
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had at one time reached a high level of technological sophistication, or some sort of
higher power had interfered with humanity some time in the past, tinkering with the
human genome and reproductive process in order to create a breed of giant man that
best suited their needs. It is our thesis, as elucidated in Giants in the Earth Part I, that
it was the latter, though no doubt these "higher powers" also gave technology to
mankind so that they could help these powers in achieving their goals. And what were
these goals? As we saw in Part I, they were apparently world domination through the
extermination of God's own homo sapiens in favor of a "superior" form of man — a
"master race" of giants.
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Many scholars argued that the Aryans originated in the Inner Asian Steppes,
from which they migrated both west into Europe and south into Afghanistan,
Iran and parts of India around 1800 BC. The spread of the Aryans was
supposed to explain how it came to pass that Indo-European languages
became so widespread throughout Europe and Asia. It was thought, moreover,
that the Aryans came as conquerors, displacing earlier peoples, in most of the
places where the languages were spoken. They were able to conquer so much
territory because their nomadic lifestyle, their use of the horse and wheeled
vehicles such as chariots gave them a drastic military advantage.19
When people familiar with sci-fi/fantasy films hear the name "the Kurgan", they think
of the villain from the popular cult classic film, Highlander. However, though the
character of the Kurgan is fictional, the Kurgan race from which the character was
drawn was not. The Kurgans were a real people who lived in the steppes of Russia
between 5000-2000 b.c., thereafter apparently migrating from that region to settle
practically every part of the world. The Kurgan are believed by some to be the
prototypical Indo-European or "Aryan" race, conquering as far east as Mongolia, as far
west as Britain, as far north as Russia, and as far south as southern Canaan. Evidence
suggests that they may have also made it as far as the South Pacific, and even to the
Americas.
"The Kurgan" from the movie, Highlander. In the film, The Kurgans were correctly portrayed as an ancient,
barbaric people from the steppes of Russia who, for amusement, had tossed children into pits with hungry
dogs to fight for meat. Ramirez, one of the other "immortals" in the film, described the giant "Kurgan"
character as such: "He is the perfect warrior. He cares about nothing or no-one. He is completely evil." Image
from Highlander
The Kurgan were a very ancient people, who had been around for thousands of years
by the time of the Israelite invasion (ca. 1200 b.c.). The Kurgan, and the Indo-Aryans
in general, were a warlike, semi-nomadic race that, according to the Aryan Invasion
theory had, around 2000 b.c. and afterwards, begun to aggressively expand outwards
from their base in central Asia. As a result, fragments of their religion, language and
culture can be found all over the world.
The Kurgan people were an Indo-European culture existing during the fifth,
fourth, and third millennia b.c.; they lived in northern Europe, from Russia
across Germany, and various authorities have mounted a case for them being
THE proto-Indo-European culture, from which all Indo-European cultures
descend. Other researchers think it likely that later-day Kurgans were the "Sea
People" who laid waste to the Holy Land around 1200 b.c. — traveling south
along the Mediterranean in ships, with their women following them in wagons
along the shore. The word kurgan means barrow or grave in Slavic and
Turkic; Kurgan culture is characterized by pit-graves or barrows, a particular
method of burial. They are also called the Pit-grave people, or Barrow people.
The earliest Kurgan sites are in the Ukraine and southern Russia, from which
they spread by about 2000 b.c. to Europe, crossing the Dnieper River.
Wherever Kurgan culture spread, it was marked by common elements unlike
those of the surrounding Bronze-Age cultures.20
The Kurgans were quite
literally the original
Caucasians, having
originated from the area
around the Caucasus from
which the term has derived.
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RED OCHRE: The Kurgan were known for using clay tinged red with iron
oxide (rust) to cover the gravesite and body of the dead. This substance,
generally referred to as "red ochre", has also been found in many North
American burials, leading to the general designation of "red ochre people"
being used commonly in North American archaeology. This was particularly
true of the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland, who not only covered their
dead and various funerary objects with this substance, but they also covered
their own living bodies with a mixture of red ochre and oil to protect
themselves from the cold in the winter and mosquitoes in the summer. The
Beothuk, as we have seen, also have genetic traits that are indisputably
Caucasian.
GAMBLING: The Kurgan were known for their use of sheep's knuckles, or
astragali, for both divination and gaming. Cannibalistic giants in Native
American legends would often gamble with humans in order to see who
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Though the giant size of the Kurgan has not been proven, their identification with the
Amorites, who were tall in stature, is probable. Moreover, the Caucasian Kurgan had
blonde or red hair, as did the giants of the Americas, and also used red ochre in their
burials, a practice that was also common in the Americas. Linguistic similarities
between Indo-European and Native American languages are also highly indicative of
Kurgan influence in the Americas. Complex mound burials, of course, are the very
namesake of the Kurgan, and are extremely common in North America. Gambling of
course is fairly common worldwide, but also seems to be an uniquely Kurgan-
American obsession.
All together, we have explored a number of fantastic scenarios which would, on their
face, seem dubious at best. The idea that giants existed at all in the ancient world seems
unlikely enough. Add to that the idea of an "advanced civilization", or even "fallen
angels" coming down and breeding giants, the idea seems to drift well into the realm of
fantasy. Yet evidence of giants in the ancient world is clearly corroborated by not only
the Bible, but also the ancient traditions of nearly all peoples on Earth. Moreover, the
more pedestrian archaeological evidence left behind by the Aryan Kurgans, such as the
complex burial mound structures, red ochre burials, linguistic evidence and related
information finds ready cognates in North American archaeology. This evidence alone
forms a strong case that the Indo-Europeans may have colonized as far as the
Americas. Add to that the numerous accounts of giants that came from "the other side
of the Ocean" in the histories of the Native Americans, and you have a combination of
evidence that is weighty indeed.
America's ancient
past was in many
ways vastly
different than the
picture painted by
mainstream
science. Though
most, if not all of
what the textbooks
say about ancient
America is
historically correct,
the problem lies
not with what they
do say, but with
what they do not. A depiction of a North American giant, based upon Native American legends. Native
Though Americans believed that the first peoples to inhabit Earth were a race of gigantic
"mainstream" Indians. These giants did not respect the Great Spirit, committing crimes against
scholarship insists both man and nature, so the Great Spirit sent a Great Flood to destroy them. Image
that giants are from Julek Heller's Giants.
figments of our imagination, the myths and legends of the Native Americans tell a
different tale:
A tribe of North American Indians believes that the first human beings on the
Earth were a race of gigantic Indians — so large that even the mighty buffalo
was dwarfed by their size. Such a giant Indian could lift a full-grown buffalo
bull from the ground and throw it over his shoulder, carrying it back to his
encampment effortlessly. A yearling to him was so small he would simply
hang it from his belt as a hunter today might do with his rabbit. These giant
forebears had no fear of any superior power, had no notion of a life after death
and did not believe in Ti-ra'-wa, the all powerful one who watches over the
destiny of man. So the giants did as they pleased with no regard for the
consequences. Finally, when the deeds they perpetrated had reached
unacceptable proportions, Ti-ra'-wa resolved to punish the big men. He caused
the waters of the rivers, lakes and seas to rise up until they were level with the
land. The ground became soft and the heavy giants sank down into the mud
and were drowned. Even today massive bones are still found in remoter areas
of North America.24
This description of the destruction of the giants of North America fits very closely with
the Hebrew conception of how the giants were destroyed by the Flood, as evidenced
by the Bible and related texts. Also like the Israelites, Native American legends tell
how their ancestors had also fought and destroyed remnants of these fearsome warriors
when they had migrated to North America. Like the Elamites and Israelites of the
ancient Near East, whom YHWH had sent to destroy the giant Rephaim and Anakim
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of that region, the ancient ancestors of our modern Native Americans, under the
guidance of the "Great Spirit", had defeated the wicked, abhorrent giants of the
Americas. As a result of their victories, they were given the lands that the giants had
formerly inhabited, just as the "Great Spirit" had done with the Israelites.
DNA analysis on Native Americans began in the 1980s, but with rapid
technological improvements, research intensified in the early 1990s. Several
teams of genetics researchers at prominent American universities have been
conducting numerous studies. Although results from early studies showed the
expected Siberian-Asia ancestry of the majority of modern Native American
tribes, things took an unexpected turn in 1997. At that point it was found that
a small percentage of modern Native Americans have an unusual type of DNA
then known to exist only in a few locations in Europe and the Middle East.
Subsequent research indicated that the European DNA was not the result of
genetic mixing after Columbus. In addition, the same DNA was later found in
the bone of an ancient American burial confirming that people carrying this
unique DNA had entered America in ancient times. However, in July 2001,
this unique gene was also found in a small tribe living in the northern Gobi
Desert area. The DNA research initially seemed to promise solid proof of not
only where the ancient Americans came from, but also when they came.25
In 1997, a European-type strain of mitochondrial DNA was found in 3 percent of the
Native American population. This strain, known as "Haplogroup X" differs from the
Siberian, Japanese and Polynesian strains, known as groups A, B, C and D, that
dominate the Native American genome. Haplogroup X can be further subdivided into
two "subhaplogroups": "X1", and "X2". X1 is primarily found in northern and
northeastern Europe, whereas X2 is found in the Near East, Central Asia, the Caucasus,
Siberia and — you guessed it — North America. As such, the belief that Europeans
had visited the Americas in ancient times has been confirmed beyond a shadow of a
doubt. And the "genetic footprints" that they left behind clearly point to a place of
origin in Central Asia and the Caucacus — the ancient homeland of the Kurgan.
We have now confirmed, via DNA evidence, that the Indo-Aryans had indeed invaded
the Americas in ancient times — possibly several times in several different waves
stretching over a period of thousands of years, beginning as early as 9000 b.c., by some
estimates. Moreover, the existence of two different strains of Haplogroup X, X1 which
traveled west from the Caucasus, and X2 which traveled east, implies that two different
tribes of Kurgan may have reached the Americas — X1 from the east via Greenland,
and X2 from the west via the Bering Straits. Is there evidence in Native American
myths and legends of two invading peoples coming from both east and west in ancient
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The small extended-family group above represents "Red Paint People" displaced about 9,000 years ago
from the Atlantic coastal plain into familiar New England landscapes. They set up the oldest navigational
guides along these coasts with their standing-stones, and carved tools of stone, bone and ivory into
stunningly life-like images of killer whales and other creatures---works that rival (and even resemble!) the
craftsmanship of ancient Europe at this time. Red ochre, or iron oxide, they used for purposes both spiritual
and practical — as an honorific in burials and sites, and as protection from sun and insects. Image from
AncientGreece-EarlyAmerica.com.
Save perhaps the account of the giants being destroyed by the Flood, the oldest account
of giants living in the Americas can be found in the traditions of the Chippewa
(Minnesota), Sandusky and Tawa tribes (both of Ohio). These traditions tell of a race
of black-bearded giants that had first conquered and ruled North America, but had been
conquered themselves by another race of red-bearded giants:
In this connection I would say that Mr. Jonathan Brooks, now living in town,
stated to me, that his father, Benjamin Brooks, who lived with the Indians
fourteen years, and was well-acquainted with their language and traditions,
told him and others that it was a tradition of the Indians that the first tribe
occupying this whole country, was a black-bearded race, very large in size,
and subsequently a red bearded race or tribe came and killed or drove off all
the black beards, as they called them.
— The Firelands Pioneer (1858)26
Beards are only found in European, Middle-Eastern, and some African peoples, but
only very rarely in Asiatic peoples, which make up the majority of the Native
American genome. Despite this, Native Americans believe that not one, but two types
of bearded peoples had at one time occupied the Americas. And not only were they
bearded, they were giants as well. They also say that the black-bearded race that had
once occupied the Americas had been driven off by a red-bearded race of giants. Could
this have been a fateful meeting between This red-headed
the two divisions of the ancient Kurgans, mummy was one of
one defined genetically as Haplogroup X1, many found in the
and the other defined as Haplogroup X2? Takla Makan desert
As we have seen, the X1 group of in central Asia, in
the far northwestern
Indo-Aryans had migrated north and west, corner of China.
settling central, northern, and western Though many
Europe, whereas X2 had migrated through mummies have had
the Takla Makan desert, along the old Silk typical Asian
Road (where blonde and red-headed features, this and
mummies 3,000-4,000 years old have many more
recently been discovered), through displayed distinctly
European features.
Mongolia, Siberia, and finally through This ancient beauty
Alaska into North America, where they forms a link to a
conquered and eventually integrated with part of humanity's
the Native Asiatic peoples. The X1 group ancient past that
of Kurgan then likely migrated from had previously been
Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia to North forgotten. Image
America via Iceland and Greenland, just as from NOVA Online.
the Vikings would do thousands of years later. When the X1 "red-bearded" group
invaded North America and met the X2 "black-bearded" group who had long since
assimilated with the native Asiatics, the more "pure-blooded" Aryan red-bearded giants
likely did not recognize them as distant relatives and instead attacked and destroyed the
black-bearded giants, leaving only a small remnant of them behind. Interestingly, as we
have seen, when the Vikings had sailed from Greenland to Newfoundland around 1000
a.d., they had found native peoples with light skin and dark hair called the Beothuks,
some of which had blonde hair. Could these Indo-European remnants have been the last
of the "red-bearded" peoples that had invaded and destroyed the black-bearded race,
later becoming assimilated with the more numerous Asiatics?
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A pattern seems to be
emerging of a series of waves
of migration and conquest
that originate from central
Asia — specifically, two
primary waves of conquest
that circled around the world,
east and west, meeting in
North America where the two
bands of Indo-Aryans, one
This image is of an occult ceremony wherein the Nazis were
now with dark hair due
attempting to reenergize the ancient Aryan gods in order to gain the largely to intermarriage with
power to defeat their enemies and conquer the world. Each Asiatics, and one still
stormtrooper held a torch and walked in a circular procession, literally relatively pure "Aryan",
bringing to life the ancient sunwheel, or "black sun" that was the routinely meet and battle for
swastika. However, this "black sun", instead of bringing light and life, supremacy over the
like a black hole conquers and devours all it touches. As we have Americas. If this is true, this
seen, Hitler was not the first Caucasian to use the swastika as a
symbol of conquest, as seen by its presence in North America related
would make it clear that the
to the Aryan Invasions. Image from Black Sun: The Mythological red-bearded giants were the
Background of National Socialism. X1 group of Indo-Europeans,
invading North America from
the east, from Europe,
whereas the black-bearded giants were likely the X2 group of Indo-Europeans that had
invaded North America from the west, from Asia.
Could this repeating pattern of conquest be a cycle of history that is just now beginning
to be understood? The Norse myths tell of an ancient war between the Aesir and
Vanir, two groups of divinities that were gigantic in stature — could the enmity
between the Aesir and the Vanir been an echo of an ancient civil war amongst the
Indo-Europeans that sent one group east, and the other west, which created the different
X1 and X2 Indo-European haplogroups? If so, this ancient, recurring political division
in central Asia might explain the mysterious references in the Bible to Gog and
Magog, two kings who come from central Asia and attempt to conquer the world in the
end times. In fact, the Bible prophecies that Gog and Magog will attempt to conquer
the world not once, but twice: during the tribulation period, as described in Ezekiel 38,
and again after the 1,000 years of messianic rule, as described in Revelation 20.
Perhaps not by accident, the name "Gog" sounds much like the name "Og", one of two
giant Rephaim who once ruled over the Amorites in Canaan. Also very telling is the
fact that the ancient Indo-Europeans also worshiped a pair of twin gods, two
conquering kings who were associated with white horses that correspond closely with
the gods Castor and Pollux of the Roman myths. This sort of "schizophrenic rule"
between two great divisions of the Indo-Europeans — led by two charismatic leaders
— seems to be normative in the history of the Indo-Europeans, a fact that neatly ties in
with our previous study of the Nazi fascination with twins, as well as their tendency
towards violence and schizophrenic behavior.
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The giving of technology to man, as we have seen, caused a great imbalance in man
and nature that had to be reconciled with a Flood that destroyed all life on earth, save
those kept safe on the ark. As it is described in the Book of Enoch,
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Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great
One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of
Lamech, 2and said to him: Go to Noah and tell
him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to
him the end that is approaching: that the whole
earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about
to come 3upon the whole earth, and will
destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him
that he may escape 4and his seed may be
preserved for all the generations of the world.
As part of his punishment, Zeus chained
And again the Lord said to Raphael: Bind Prometheus to the Caucasus mountains,
Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the where he remains to this day. Part of the
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darkness: and make an opening in the desert, myth describes how an eagle swoops
which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And down and eats his liver every day, the
place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and liver regenerating during the night so it
can be eaten afresh each day. What might
cover him with darkness, and let him abide this act symbolize? Send your thoughts to
there for ever, and cover his face that he may publisher@mysteriousworld.com.
6,7 Image from Encyclopedia Mythica.
not see light. And on the day of the great
judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth which the angels
have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the
plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret
things that the 8Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the
whole earth has been corrupted 9through the works that were taught by
Azazel: to him ascribe all sin. And to Gabriel said the Lord: Proceed against
the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and
destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from
amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other
that they may destroy each other in 10battle.28
According to the Book of Enoch, Azazel/Prometheus had not only given men the gift of
technology, he had also meddled with their genetic structures to create the giants, "the
children of the Watchers", as a "master race" of unbeatable warriors that he intended to
use to conquer the world. "The Watchers" were those angels who had been directed by
God to oversee God's creation, but had instead meddled with it so as to turn it to their
own advantage, thus becoming rebel, or "fallen" angels. Along with Azazel fell another
powerful angel, "Semjaza", with whom it appears he shared the rule, at least, to a
certain extent. It may be that Azazel and Semjaza actually struggle with each other for
who actually has control, a conflict that is responsible for the ancient and recurrent
division among the Indo-European races. This would explain the consistent appearance
of "twin" rulers of the Indo-Europeans throughout history, the most recent being Hitler
and Stalin. Were Hitler and Stalin the return of Azazel and Semjaza? The Book of
Enoch says that both of these fallen angels were buried and placed in chains until the
end times, when they will be released one last time to wreak havoc on the Earth. Was
World War II just a warmup for the main event?
If Azazel and Semjaza were indeed both
imprisoned under the Caucasus, it would explain a
great deal. These wicked beings had attempted to
create a master race of giants in the world before
the Flood, and had been punished and imprisoned
for doing so. However, they still attempt to recreate
the world the way it was before the Flood, creating
armies of giants to conquer it, but are now limited
by their imprisonment so that their attempts, though
powerful, consistently fail. Now they remain
chained "between the pillars", awaiting their day of
release, the "pillars" being Mount Elburz, a
twin-peaked mountain located in the Caucasus, also
known as ubera aquilonas, or "the Breasts of the
North". In the Alexandrian legend of Gog and
Magog mentioned previously, Alexander had
magically moved those mountains together and
built an adamantite gate between them to keep Gog
and Magog and their hordes from invading south
In The Two Towers, the character
into the civilized lands, a gate that will be opened in
Saruman was seduced by the dark side
the end times to let Azazel and Semjaza, aka "Gog and turned his abilities towards evil. This
and Magog", to conquer the world. evil took the form of abandoning nature
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After Azazel and Semjaza were imprisoned, God and instead embracing industrialization,
then decreed that their progeny, the giants, who the most horrid aspect of which was the
genetic manipulation of orcs (homo
were poisoning and destroying the whole of God's
neanderthalis) and other primitive forms
Creation, were to be destroyed in a Flood. of mankind (homo erectus, Cro-magnon)
However, before He sent the Flood to destroy the to create a larger, stronger form of hybrid
giants and cleanse Earth from their poison and footsoldier (homo artificialis) that he
corruption, He had sent the archangel Gabriel to set intended to use to destroy the human race
the giants against each other so that they would (homo sapiens). Interestingly, if one were
destroy each other in a massive civil war. This civil to interpolate the map of Middle Earth
war was likely a world war, as was discussed in our over a map of Europe, Saruman's tower
would be in Central Europe, and
series on legendary Atlantis, where we had Sauron's tower would be in the
theorized that the giants had built the mighty Caucasus. It may be that Tolkien intended
empires of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean, Osiria in Saruman and Sauron to be symbolic of
what is now the Mediterranean Sea, Rama, which is Hitler and Stalin, possibly even Gog and
now sunken off the coast of India, and other areas Magog, two towering wills ready to
of the world. These various empires had, according unleash their genetically modified armies
on the Earth. Image from Lord of the
to esoteric tradition, gone to war with each other in Rings.net.
the time right before the Flood, giants fighting
against giants. The giants apparently fought against
and destroyed each other on every continent until the Great Flood came and wiped
them, the poisons their weapons created, and the corruptions they had wrought off the
face of the earth.
However, as we saw in Part I, this was not the end of the giants. Immediately after the
Flood had subsided, Azazel, Semjaza and the other rebel angels began recreating the
giants of old, manipulating the human genome to increase their size and strength, and
giving them improved war technology in order to conquer and enslave the "inferior"
homo sapiens that God had created and saved from the Flood. Ever since the Flood,
attempt after attempt to raise an army of giants and conquer the world has been
undertaken, each time using the Indo-Europeans as their primary resource of
manpower. Each attempt has failed, however, the giants gradually being worn down
and outcompeted for resources by the more numerous and more efficient homo sapiens.
However, though these attempts to conquer the world have all failed, they have left
mighty, jack-booted footprints all over the world, including the myths and legends of
the Americas. And along with these genetic and linguistic footprints, the ancient
Indo-Aryans left the symbol of Azazel: the swastika.
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stomachs of Giants contain ice, their heads contain wampum, which is to say,
sea shells.29
The giants were clearly understood by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians as having
come from across the sea, from the arctic lands of Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia.
This was their home, the home of what we now know to be the X1 haplogroup of
Indo-Aryan giants who had conquered their way all the way from the Caucasus to the
fjords of Norway and beyond, all the way to Iceland, Greenland, and finally to North
America. The interesting reference to "removing their hearts" may be a reference to the
heartless brutality that the giants displayed, killing and pillaging indiscriminately, and
even devouring their captives. The reference to wrapping their hearts in feathers and
hiding them on a platform may be an oblique reference to the practice of human
sacrifice that was practiced in Central and South America until only a few centuries
ago, a practice that may have been taught to them by the wicked giants. The "platform"
probably refers to the massive pyramids atop which the sacrifices were performed,
where the hearts of the victims were removed and sacrificed to the sun god. It may be
that in the process of sacrificing their hearts to the sun god, the hearts had been
wrapped in feathers and then burned. It may be also that human sacrifice had been
carried on in North America at such centers as Aztalan and Cahokia, that also have
platform mounds, though there is no evidence of human sacrifice in North America
known to date.
A young hero named, essentially, "risk-taker", challenged the giants and forced them to
vomit up the ice from their stomachs, the "ice" likely being an Indian metaphor for
being cold and remorseless — what we would call "cold-hearted". Thus rid of the "ice"
in their hearts, they saw that what they were doing was wrong, and stopped eating
humans. However, their heads were still full of wampum, that is to say, sea shells,
which were the unit of currency on the sea coast. Therefore, the concept of their heads
being "full of wampum" meant that they still were greedy, and continued plundering
and pillaging. Interestingly, the idea of the giants being cold and empty inside, needing
to fill the void with material pleasures and wicked activity fits in very well with the
concept of giants arrived at in Part I.
Not only are the Giants by nature man eaters, as their Hotcâk name
Wángerútcge reveals, but male Giants are as tall as trees, four times the height
of a man. On the other hand, Giant women, who are particularly noted for
their beauty, are about the same size as humans. Despite the hostility and
dietary proclivities of Giants, humans are part Giant themselves. Once humans
were smaller and rather uniform in size. In ancient times men took Giant
women as brides, and over time the admixture of the two bloods produced a
race of variable heights such as we are today. Particularly large humans
merely take after their Giant ancestors. Some large human men are thought to
be reincarnations of Giant Spirits, usually of the Good Giant tribe, judging by
their benevolence. One cannibal Giantess, some call "Pretty Woman," had
hair said to be, variously, red, orange, or yellow. Despite her superior skill in
lacrosse, her life was spared by the victorious good spirits, and she was
adopted into human society.30
The giants were naturally cannibalistic and, in the Ho-Chunk legends, over 20 feet tall.
Interestingly the story also explains about how many Indian tribes, all of whom were
apparently black-haired, were already part giant. However, the invading blonde and
red-haired giants were much taller, indicating perhaps that they were purer "Aryan",
and had not intermarried with smaller races. Along these lines, the reason given for
why some Indians are taller than others is because they had made treaties and
intermarried with previous waves of invading giants, effectively neutralizing them, and
in the process creating a race of taller, stronger Asiatic Native Americans. This must
have been the fate of the X2 group of giants that had invaded from Asia: they had
eventually intermarried with the Asiatics, with the net result that, when the X1 group of
Kurgans had invaded North America from Europe, they found it being ruled by a race
of dark-haired, large men, 7-8 feet tall, rather than blonde and red-haired giants ranging
in height from up to 12 feet tall or taller. Interesting details about the conflicts between
the native, dark-haired, tall hybrid giant Indians and the invading red- and blonde-
haired "purer" giants have also been retained in the story of "Pretty Woman".
Interestingly, even this newer, more aggressive breed of giants invading from Europe
eventually ended up interbreeding with the native black-haired Asiatics.
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Similarly, as we have seen, with the Adena began the era of mound building in the
Ohio Valley. This makes sense, as it is most likely that the Adena were in fact the last
stages of a Kurgan invasion, the original Kurgans having been assimilated by several
generations of Asiatics until the Adena, who were no longer giants but merely tall,
spent the last of the fury of the original Kurgan invasion with one final conquest: the
Ohio Valley. If they were indeed the last leg of a Kurgan invasion, it is likely that they
would have retained some of the practices of their Kurgan forebears. This of course,
would explain the moundbuilding, as the Kurgan had been the moundbuilders par
excellence from ancient times. Thus, it is likely that the Adena were a Kurgan/Asiatic
hybrid giant race, of the same pedigree that had been destroyed in times past by
invading European giants.
One of the more enigmatic references to giants in the legends of the Native Americans
was a legend of the Tuscarora of a giant people named the "Ronnongwetowanca".
These people once had ruled over the Ohio Valley for some time prior to 1000 b.c.,
ruling over what was described by the Native American storytellers as "a considerable
habitation". As Hamilton explains,
David Cusick, a Tuscarora by birth, writes in 1825 that among the legends of
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the people of the ancient stock, there was a powerful tribe called
Ronnongwetowanca. They were giants, and had a "considerable habitation."
He says that when the Great Spirit made the people, some of them became
giants. The giants were said to have had a "silly" mode of attack, waiting until
their intended victim was not expecting anything. After a time, and having
endured the outrages of these giants, it is said that the people banded together,
and through the final force of about 800 warriors, successfully annihilated the
abhorrent Ronnongwetowanca. After that, it was said that there were no giants
anywhere. This was supposed to have happened around 2,500 winters before
Columbus discovered America, i.e., around 1000 B.C.E. — the time that the
Adena seem to have arrived in the Ohio Valley.32
As Hamilton alludes, the Ronnongwetowanca were likely wiped out by the invading
Adena, who had made their first appearance in the Ohio Valley region around that time.
Though the Adena were also tall and robust, they were not true "giants", as we have
seen, at least not like the Ronnongwetowanca. Another peculiarity of the giants may be
seen here as well: they tended to behave in a bizaare and deceptive, or "silly" manner,
in order to confuse their opponents, perhaps to give them a false sense of security.
Based on this, one might surmise that these giants may have feigned peace treaties with
potential rivals in order to gain the advantage of surprise over them, and wipe them out
with little resistance. This may have been what Hamilton refers to as "the outrages of
the giants", and may have been one of the main reasons for how they had taken the rule
over the Ohio Valley: their Machiavellian techniques, as well as their large size, gave
them an edge that was difficult to overcome.
Few details are known about the Ronnongwetowanca, so we cannot determine whether
these giants were red-bearded or black-bearded, if indeed they had beards at all. Nor
can we fit them into our Asiatic/European giants paradigm, as we could the Adena so,
for now anyway, they remain one of the ancient unsolved mysteries of America's giant
past. Some certain information can be derived from this bit of information from the
Tuscarora elders, however: the Ronnongwetowanca were believed to have been the last
of the giants in North America.
Another enigmatic fragment of North America's giant history can be found in the
legend of the Alleghans. The Alleghans, who gave their name to the Allegheny
Mountains, were a very tall and strong people who once dominated the eastern United
States. It was also believed by some that they were the oldest tribe in North America.
The oldest tribe of the United States, of which there is a distinct tradition,
were the Alleghans. The term is perpetuated in the principal chain of
mountains traversing the country. This tribe, at an antique period, had the seat
of their power in the Ohio valley and its confluent streams, which were the
sites of their numerous towns and villages. They appear originally to have
borne the name of Alli, or Alleg, and hence the names of Talligewi and
Allegewi. By adding to the radical of this word the particle hany or ghany,
meaning river, they described the principal scene of their residence namely,
the Allegheny, or River of the Alleghans, now called Ohio. The word Ohio is
of Iroquois origin, and of a far later period; having been bestowed by them
after their conquest of the country, in alliance with the Lenapees, or ancient
Delawares. (Phi. Trans.) The term was applied to the entire river, from its
confluence with the Mississippi, to its origin in the broad spurs of the
Alleghanies, in New York and Pennsylvania; and the designation, to its
sources, is still continued in use by that people. From the traditions of the
Lenapees, given to the Moravian missionaries, while the lamp of their
traditional history still threw out its flickering but enlivening flames, the
Alleghans had been a strong and mighty people, capable of great exertions
and doing wonders.33
The story of the Alleghans come from the Lenni Lenape, whose descendants are better
known today as the Delaware. The Lenni Lenape, a tribe of normal height and build,
had originally migrated from the west, at the bidding of the "Great Spirit". At the river
crossing of the Mississippi, they had met up with another people known as the
Mengwe, with whom they became allied. Then, in a manner very similar to the way in
which the Israelites had approached the land of Canaan, the Lenni Lenape sent out
scouts to "spy out the land"
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Though there are only a few stories about major tribes of giants in Native American
lore, other unusual giant stories do occur from time to time in the histories of the
various Native American tribes. Even after the destruction of the major tribes of giants
in the Ohio Valley, giants occasionally visited the Native Americans, and even left
positive impressions on their lesser hosts, as one native storyteller relates:
James Wafford, of the western Cherokee, who was born in Georgia in 1806,
says that his grandmother, who must have been born about the middle of the
last century, told him that she had heard from the old people that long before
her time a party of giants had once come to visit the Cherokee. They were
nearly twice as tall as common men, and had their eyes set slanting in their
heads, so that the Cherokee called them Tsunil´ kalu´, "the Slant-eyed people,"
because they looked like the giant hunter Tsul´ kalu´. They said that these
giants lived far away in the direction in which the sun goes down. The
Cherokee received them as friends, and they stayed some time, and then
returned to their home in the west....37
Interestingly, their namesake, Tsul 'Kalu, which means "slanting eyes", was also a war
and thunder god. The Cherokee religion also has a pair of twins that they called the
"Thunder-boys". This is very similar to the Indo-Europeans, whose primary deities
were war and thunder gods. Also, as we have seen, twins figured prominently in their
pantheon of gods as well, as they also did in Central and South America.
Rumors and reports of giants in Central and South America are no less numerous than
those of North America. However, though there are seemingly endless lists of
archaeological and historical reports of both living giants and giant remains throughout
the Americas, we will focus on the most prominent of these giant sightings for this
work, and direct the reader to the list of resources at the end of this article for further
research on the voluminous amount of archaeological and historical evidence for the
existence of giants in the Americas.
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It is not known whether or not the Indo-Aryan Kurgans penetrated as far south as
Central and South America. The genetic testing taken on North American Indians was
not performed on the natives of the Central and South American nations, so genetic
evidence of a Kurgan invasion south of the present United States is not currently
available. However, the ancients did not respect modern boundaries, roaming and
conquering at will throughout the Americas, so we could, and should, expect to find
giants all the way down to the very southern tip of Argentina. And, in fact, we do.
The "Tsunil Kalu" that had visited the Cherokee in ancient times had come from a land
far in the west. The Cherokee had lived in the American southeast in ancient times, so
the Tsunil Kalu likely came from the American southwest. The southwest, as we have
seen, was one of the places that the Na-Dene language, a derivative of Dene-Caucasian,
is still spoken today. This forms a linguistic link between central Asia and North
America, and thus helps prove our Kurgan Invasion theory, because Central Asia is
where the Dene-Causasian family of languages comes from. America's desert
southwest is a contiguous region that reaches well into
Mexico, so it is likely that the Tsunil Kalu were either
from or related to other giants who lived in Mexico.
However, since we do not have genetic evidence from
south of the border, we must look to the histories of the
early explorers and from the Native Central Americans
themselves to find clues as to whether or not giants
indeed inhabited Central America. Fortunately, there is a
great deal of historical — and archaeological — evidence
that clearly indicates that Central America once hosted
substantial populations of giants.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo was one of the chief chroniclers of the conquest of Mexico by
the Spaniards. He spent his first years in the Americas as a soldier helping to conquer
Mexico, and in the process, he learned a great deal about the history of the area,
particularly about the Aztecs.
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The Aztecs myths and legends still tell the story of Caucasian giants who visited them
from the east via boats. The Aztecs also believed that Quetzalcoatl, one of the "white
giants", had left behind a royal lineage of Caucasian/Mexican descent. This was also
true of the Maya, who believed that their kings were half god and half human, and were
occasionally pictured with six fingers and six toes. Six fingers and toes, as we have
seen, was one of the hallmarks of the giants. Interestingly, like the Kurgans, the Maya
also worshiped twin gods, called Hunapu and Xbalanque.43
The Maya were the cultural predecessors of the Aztecs in the region, and the Aztecs
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received much of their beliefs and traditions from the Maya, (as well as other cultures
such as the Toltecs). They may have also intermarried to some extent. The Maya may
have been visited, or even conquered by the same race of "red-bearded" Indo-European
giants that had conquered North America in the ancient past, the existence of a dynasty
of six-digited rulers and the worship of twin deities being the only remaining evidence
of that ancient conquest.
Ecuador, which occupies the farthest western coast of South America, has perhaps
some of the most terrifying tales of the most wicked giants. As Quayle explains,
At first the Spaniards thought that the natives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, were
fabricating a tale concerning a tribe of giants who once invaded their land and
terrified them for some years. But they spoke so convincingly about such a
time that, in 1543, Juan de Olmos, lieutenant governor of Port Viejo, finally
ordered excavations be made in the valley at the place where the natives
claimed these giants were destroyed by fire from heaven. In the his account of
these archaeological diggings, Zarate reported that Olmos' party "...found such
large ribs and other bones that, if the skulls had not appeared at the same time,
it would not have been credible they were of human persons.... Teeth then
found were sent to different parts of Peru; they were three fingers broad and
four in length." They also found marks from thunderbolts in the rocks there,
giving further credibility to the story the natives told.44
In very ancient times, a tribe of giants had invaded South America along the western
coastline as far as Ecuador. According to the legend, these giants were so wicked that
they had actually been destroyed by fire from heaven. This of course, as we saw in
Part I, was the same fate of the giants of Sodom, and for the same reasons, as we shall
see.
"The natives tell, from what they
heard through their forefathers, who
heard and had it from far back, that
there came by sea in rafts of reeds
after the manner of large boats,
some men who were so tall that
from the knee down they were as
big as the full length of an ordinary
fair-sized man, and the limbs were
in proportion to their bodies, so
misshapen that it was monstrous to
look at their heads, as large as they
were, and with the hair that came A giant skull from the Gold Museum in Lima, Peru.
down to the shoulders. The eyes The shape of the skull would explain the description of
they give to understand were of the the "misshapen" heads of the giants given by the
size of small plates. They affirm that Ecuadorian natives.
Image from Light 1998
they had no beards and that some
were clad in skins of animals, while others came as nature made them, and
there were no women along.... These tall men or giants ... ate and wasted all
the food they could find in the land, for each one of them consumed more than
fifty of the natives of the country, and as the supply was not sufficient for
them, they killed much fish in the sea by means of their nets and contrivances
which, it stands to reason, they must have had."45
If the legend is to be believed, these giants appear to have been close to 20 feet tall.
Moreover, their proportions were huge and their appearance gruesome to behold, as if
they had stepped out of a horror film. Not handsome as the giants of Europe were said
to be, these giants were fearsome to behold, their glaring eyes and massive, misshapen
heads causing fear and revulsion in all who saw them. Interestingly, just as the giants of
the ancient Near East were described, they wasted resources, consuming mass
quantities and giving no thought to conservation of resources to enable their continued
usage. Little more than giant human parasites, these foul creatures were a menace to
society, and to themselves, fouling and destroying everything they touched.
"The natives abhorred them, for they killed their women in making use of
them, and the men they killed for other reasons. The Indians did not feel
strong enough to kill these new people that had come to take their country and
domain, although great meetings were held to confer about it; but they dared
not attack them. After a few years, the giants still being in the country, and
having no women, and those of the Indians not suiting their great size, or
because it may have been by advice and inducement of the demon, they
resorted to the unnatural vice of sodomy, which they committed openly in
public, with no fear of God and little shame of themselves." Cieza then wrote
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that, according to the account handed down by the natives, an angel in a mass
of fire descended from heaven and killed the giants.46
This conquest model was probably normative for the Kurgan giants. Traveling along
the shoreline in shallow-draft boats gave them easy access to any part of the coast,
allowing them to move quickly and strike hard without having to fight their way
through the land. Normally the womenfolk would follow the men on land in
horse-drawn carts, perhaps with the intent of appearing to be traders rather than
conquerors, but this time the women had not been able to follow. As a result, those
giants that were not destroyed by the angel died out or were assimilated into the local
populations, but not without first doing terrific damage to the natives and their
environment.
During the 1970s, one Dr. James Yost had made substantial efforts to learn more about
these mysterious people and their unknown origins. In the process, Yost found some
facts about the Waorani that were disturbing:
Unravelling the secrets of Waorani culture, Jim
made some amazing discoveries. He found that
the Waorani had maintained the highest levels
of homicide ever recorded in the annals of
human history. Fully fifty per cent of all deaths
in the preceding five generations had been the
result of homicide as the Waorani engaged in a
continuous and deadly internal vendetta,
pursued mostly at night, in spearing raids. No
death, it seemed, whatever the cause, went
unavenged. Furthermore, the Waorani were
even reputed to kill by spearing any, although
only a few instances have been proven, of their
old people who no longer had the means to
support themselves; and they practised
infanticide, either strangling unwanted or
malformed babies with vines, or burying them
alive.49 Waorani males with six fingers on their
hands and six toes on their feet.
The Waorani, though extremely violent, also Images from WAORANI: The Saga of
exhibited superior genetics, being some of the Ecuador's Secret People: A Historical
healthiest people in the world: "Medically, the Perspective
Waorani turned out to be something of an enigma: they had no trace of cancer; no
cardiovascular disease; no high blood pressure; no allergies; and none of the known
diseases familiar to us."50 Not only were they physically superior in many ways, some
even had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot — characteristics, as we
have seen, of the giants. It would appear that the giants of old that had invaded
Ecuador, as described previously, had integrated with the native Asiatic population,
creating a hybrid race of people that were in many ways physically superior — and
extremely violent.
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Though the Incan empire had only been around for a few centuries before they were
destroyed by the Spanish under Pizarro, the Inca are the best known culture of South
America. And in that short space of time, they created cultural and architectural
achievements that were nothing short of astounding.
Between 1200 and 1535 AD, the Inca
population lived in the part of South America
extending from the Equator to the Pacific coast
of Chile. The beginning of the Inca rule started
with the conquest of the Moche Culture in Peru.
The Inca were warriors with a strong and
powerful army. Because of the fierceness of
their army and their hierarchical organization,
they became the largest Native American
society. The height of their reign in the 15th
century came to a brutal end in 1535 when the
Spanish conquistadors took over their territory.
Their cities and fortresses were mostly built on
highlands and on the steep slopes of the Andes
Mountains. The architecture of the Inca cities
still amazes and puzzles most scientists. Stone
steps lead up to the top of the cities, which
consist of stone houses and religious buildings.
The blocks of stones weigh several tons and
they are fit together so tightly that not even a Machu Picchu, located in the Andes
Mountains in Peru, northwest of Cuzco.
razor blade can fit through them.51
The Inca cities such as Machu Picchu were so massively built and the megalithic stones
so large, some of them weighing hundreds of tons, that only giants could have built
them. And displayed in the Gold Museum in Lima, Peru, are in fact the ancient giant
skulls of rulers, proving that giants did indeed walk the earth, at least in Peru. Glenn
Kimball also describes a tour he was given of a collector's private museum wherein
were displayed 9-10 foot-tall Incan mummies wearing clothing made of spun gold:
Nine-and-a-half feet tall is large for a
human mummy, especially when it is found
among today's diminutive Peruvians,
whose average stature is just five feet.
Understandably, professional
anthropologists find tales of ancient giants
amusing, but nothing more. Physical
evidence may nonetheless exist to
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and initiate repairs as well as build up their food Prehistory and Ethnography at the
stores. Weeks and months passed uneventfully until Uttermost End of the Earth.
one day Magellan and his crew saw something quite
unusual. As Magellan's chronicler explains in his Journals,
We had been two whole months in this harbor without sighting anyone when
one day (quite without warning) we saw on the shore a huge giant, who was
naked, and who danced, leaped and sang, all the while throwing sand and dust
on his head. Our Captain ordered one of the crew to walk towards him, telling
this man also to dance, leap and sing as a sign of friendship. This he did, and
led the giant to a place by the shore where the Captain was waiting. And when
the giant saw us, he marveled and was afraid, and pointed to the sky believing
we came from heaven. He was so tall that even the largest of us came only to
midway between his waist and his shoulder; yet withall he was well
proportioned. He had a large face, painted round with red; his eyes were
ringed with yellow and in the middle of his cheeks were painted two hearts.
He had hardly any hair on his head, what little he had being painted white.54
The name of this tribe of Indians was the Tehuelches, but initially Magellan named
them "Patagonians", after the Spanish word patagon, or "big feet". This was because
their feet were unusually large even for their size. They also wore musical rattles
around their waists, so when they danced, they gave off a tremendous musical noise,
which they danced to like madmen. Dancing and capering, laughing and throwing dust
up over their heads, with their fancy, musical costumes, big feet, and oddly painted
faces, the Patagonians must have looked like clowns to the Spanish explorers. And not
only were they like clowns, they also had enormous appetites, able to eat at one sitting
enough biscuits to feed 20 Spaniards. Though the existence of the Patagonian giants is
now doubted by most mainstream scholarship, their existence was not doubted by the
explorers and people of the time, who often went out of their way to see a Patagonian
giant.
Like North America, Central and South America were full of giants, from the equator
all the way down to the horn of South America. These giants were gradually killed off
or outcompeted for resources by the smaller but more numerous Asiatics, the remnants
of these giant tribes eventually intermarrying with them, creating a breed of taller
Central and South American Indians. Some of these natives were aristocracies like
those found in Europe and Asia, being taller, fairer of skin, and often having red or
blonde hair, clearly linking them to Europe. Moreover, the histories of Central and
South America make it clear that giants had once ruled over North, Central and South
America.
Having initially embarked on a simple survey of the evidence pointing towards the
existence of giants in the Americas in ancient times, we have instead gone a giant step
further and developed a radical new theory about the origins and history of humanity
not only in the Americas, but throughout the world. The basis of this theory has been
formed on significant evidence of a major migration of a warlike people that took place
during the second millennium b.c. This migration started in Central Asia, and the
peoples who undertook the migration were called the Kurgans. These Kurgans were
very large in stature, ranging from 7-9 feet tall, some of them being gigantic, reaching
up to 12 feet tall or taller. The symbol of the Kurgans was the swastika, which was a
symbol of the sun, the four winds and, above all, conquest, which they undertook on all
fronts — north, south, east and west. Their conquests north and south were limited in
success, but their eastern and western campaigns were highly successful, both reaching
all the way to the Americas. When they had met in the Americas, however, they made
war on each other, the western front overcoming those who had gone east. Eventually,
through wars and assimilation with the smaller local inhabitants, both the northern,
southern, eastern and western campaigns of Kurgan giants finally petered out. Having
been gradually worn down and absorbed by the smaller but more numerous homo
sapiens, both the blonde, Caucasian giants and the smaller, dark-haired homo sapiens
intermarried, the end result of the war of the giants being a larger, stronger homo
sapiens, many of whom now have lighter skin, blonde, and even red hair. Linkage was
also made with the giants of the ancient Near East, and additional evidence added to
our theory about how the giants originally had been created by "higher powers" as a
means through which they could conquer the world. Further speculation was added
about how World War II may have been started by these fallen angels trying yet again
to recreate the ancient giants of old and conquer the world, and how future world wars
may be started with the same goals in mind.
Now, as a result of the victory of lowly homo sapiens over the giants, only their giant
footsteps in history remain in the form of their history, religion, language and culture,
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all of which are still remembered by the inhabitants of the Americas — memories that
were still relatively fresh by the time that the first Christian explorers came to the New
World. Moreover, discoveries of giant bones by these explorers, discoveries that have
taken place as recently as the twentieth century, continue to prove that giants did
indeed walk the Americas. The question lies now in the hands of the academic
establishment. Will they continue to willfully neglect the genetic, linguistic, cultural,
archaeological and historical evidence, maintaining the failed Isolationist paradigm in
the face of overwhelming evidence, or will they risk the reprisal of Mammon by
stepping out and revealing the evidence of America's true history that has lain buried in
obscurity for over a century? Is it truly science if one willingly covers up evidence that
only contradicts one's cherished beliefs? Have academics been reduced to the level of
having to cover up the truth in order to save their careers?
One has to wonder if the theories one hears about sinister forces working behind the
scenes are indeed true, forces that wish to control us by covering up vital information
about our true history. Increasingly more and more people are coming to the conclusion
that we are being held in bondage to a false history, but are afraid to speak out lest we
be chastised for political incorrectness, crippled by social sanctions, or worse. Yet,
these questions need to be answered before we can truly know who we are and why we
are here. We may even find that the quest to find these answers may lead us to the
conclusion that our history has all been part of a "great game" — a "game" or, more
accurately, "war", that has been controlling the destiny of mankind since its beginning.
However, this war is fought primarily with neither weapons, words, nor even ideas, but
with genetics, where man himself is the weapon, and the hearts of men, the battlefield.
There were giants in the Earth in those days ... and also afterwards.
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1
Ross Hamilton, "Holocaust of Giants: The Great Smithsonian Cover-up" (Serpent
Mound Mysteries: http://greatserpentmound.org).
2
Hamilton, "Holocaust of Giants".
3
"The History of the Smithsonian" (Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonian.org).
4
Hamilton, "Holocaust of Giants".
5
Patrick Cooke, "A Giant Cover-up: The Smithsonian Giants" (The Bible UFO
Connection: http://www.bibleufo.com).
6
Venice Florida dot com, "Sharks' Teeth General Info" (Venice Florida! dot com:
http://www.veniceflorida.com).
7
Mary Sutherland, "Was There a Race of People that Had Horns?" (BUFO Radio:
http://www.burlingtonnews.net).
8
Steve Quayle, "Accounts of Giants in North America: Ohio Giants" (The Q Files:
http://www.stevequayle.com).
9
Richard L. Dieterle, "Giants or Man Eaters (Wâ´gerútcge)" (The Encyclopedia of
Hotcâk (Winnebago) Mythology: http://hotcakencyclopedia.com).
10
The Thunderbirds were primarily benificent spirits, but apparently some of them had
turned bad. For more information on the native American Thunderbird myth, see our
popular article, "The Fabulous Thunderbird".
11
Dieterle, "Giants or Man Eaters (Wâ´gerútcge).
12
Claessen, D., A de Roos and L. Persson, "Giant cannibals emerge from
size-structured population dynamics [Abstract]" (Allen Press Abstracts:
http://abstracts.allenpress.com).
13
George Noory and Steve Quayle, "Dead Scientists" (Coast to Coast A.M.:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com, Broadcast Date: 11/27/2003).
14
Edwin Black, "Hitler made eugenics famous, but he took it from United States"
(JTA: Global News Service of the Jewish People: http://www.jta.org).
15
Black, "Hitler made eugenics famous, but he took it from United States".
16
C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Web Museum, "Mengele" (C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Web Museum:
http://www.candles-museum.com).
17
NationMaster.com, "Aryan" (NationMaster.com: http://www.nationmaster.com).
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18
Sarah Boxer, "Move afoot to detoxify ancient, once-benign swastika symbol"
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com).
19
NationMaster.com, "Aryan Race" (NationMaster.com:
http://www.nationmaster.com).
20
University of Calgary, "Kurgan Culture" (University of Calgary:
http://www.ucalgary.ca).
21
Koenraad Elst, "Where Did the Kurgans Come From?" in Update on the Aryan
Invasion Update (South Asia Books: 1999).
22
Free Papers, "The Aboriginal People of Newfoundland" (Free Papers:
http://www.freepapers.net).
23
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2000), 135, 158, 169.
24
David Larkin and Julek Heller, Giants (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985), 40-41.
The Indian tribe referred to here is likely the Pawnee.
25
Greg Little, John Van Auken and Lora Little, Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce's
Forgotten Record of Ancient America (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985), 60.
26
Hamilton, "Holocaust of Giants".
27
University of Calgary, "The Legend of Gog and Magog" (University of Calgary:
http://www.ucalgary.ca).
28
Academy for Ancient Texts, "The Book of Enoch: Book 1: Watchers" (Academy
for Ancient Texts: http://www.ancienttexts.org).
29
Dieterle, "Giants or Man Eaters (Wâ´gerútcge)". Interestingly, there is a legend of
the Thunderbird where the home of the Thunderbirds lies beyond two great, magical
mountain peaks that open and close together like a gate, similar to that described in the
Alexandrian myth of Gog and Magog. Could the Thunderbird myth have been a
remnant of the ancient Indo-European beliefs that remained as a fragment of Native
American tradition?
30
Dieterle, "Giants or Man Eaters (Wâ´gerútcge)".
31
Robert Silverberg, The Mound Builders (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1968),
194-195.
32
Ross Hamilton, "A Tradition of Giants" (Serpent Mound Mysteries:
http://greatserpentmound.org).
33
Steve Quayle, "A Tradition of Giants and Ancient North American Warfare,
Part 2" (The Q Files: http://www.stevequayle.com).
34
Quayle, "A Tradition of Giants and Ancient North American Warfare, Part 2".
35
Quayle, "A Tradition of Giants and Ancient North American Warfare, Part 2".
36
Steve McNatten, "Who Were the Si-Te-Cah?" (Runestone.org:
http://www.runestone.org).
37
Mary Sutherland, "Giants of Ohio and the Mound Builders" (BUFO Radio:
http://www.burlingtonnews.net).
38
Steve Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants (Bozeman, MT: End Time Thunder Publishers,
2002), 197.
39
Glenn Welker, "The Aztecs/Mexicas" (Indians.org: http://www.indians.org/).
40
USCD, "Quetzalcoatl the Myth" (University of California, San Diego:
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41
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 205-206.
42
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 272-273.
43
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 200-201.
44
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 284.
45
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 284-285.
46
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 285.
47
Adrian Warren, "WAORANI The Saga of Ecuador's Secret People: A Historical
Perspective", page 2 (The Last Refuge: http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk).
48
Warren, "WAORANI The Saga of Ecuador's Secret People", page 5.
49
Warren, "WAORANI The Saga of Ecuador's Secret People", page 7.
50
Warren, "WAORANI The Saga of Ecuador's Secret People", page 7.
51
MSU EMuseum, "Inca" (Minnesota State University EMuseum:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/).
52
Steve Quayle, "Giants of the Royal Incas" (The Q Files:
http://www.stevequayle.com).
53
Mary Sutherland, "Red Headed Mummies PERU" (BUFO Radio:
http://www.burlingtonnews.net).
54
Quayle, Genesis 6 Giants, 291-292.
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Giants
David Larkin, Julek Heller (Illustrator)
Rating:
Giants is a classic popular reference work on the subject of giants in
myth and history, and is also an enjoyable read on its own. Filled
with lavish, cleverly rendered illustrations, it makes an excellent
general reference book and even a good coffee table book. (Review
by Mysterious World)
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Genesis 6 Giants
Stephen Quayle
Rating:
Genesis 6 Giants provides a good, solid overview of giants in
religion, myth and history, and also serves as a good reference for
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other sources on giants. Quayle also adds his own insights into the
mix, providing some interesting and thought-provoking reading. He
also offers several other books on related topics on his website,
http://www.stevequayle.com. (Review by Mysterious World)
Click here to buy this book.
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of
the Twins of Auschwitz
Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel (Contributor)
Rating:
A horrifying yet spellbinding account. Although Mengele was a mediocre
doctor, he was encouraged in his pursuit of "genetic research" to create a
"master Aryan race" with the concentration camp at Auschwitz providing
an ample supply of specimens for his unscientific, poorly documented experiments.
Twins were his fixation, and this book interviews some of the estimated 100 survivors
from an initial sample of 3000 young people. The fascination of this book is that it
follows the lives of both Mengele and the twins in their readjustment to life away from
the camps. This gripping tale is extremely readable and well documented, offering
another facet to the human tragedy of the Holocaust. (Review by Amazon.com)
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Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform
"scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who
became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" — Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was
named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as
physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the
crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli
survived to give this horrifying and sobering account. Auschwitz was one of the first
books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public.
Although much has since been written about the Holocaust, this eyewitness account
remains, as the New York Review of Books said in 1987, "the best brief account of the
Auschwitz experience available." Of Bruno Bettelheim's famous foreword Neal
Ascherson has written, "Its eloquence and outrage must guarantee it a permanent place
in Jewish historiography." (From the back cover)
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aborigines who still cluttered up the place and impeded settlement. Mr.
Silverberg describes, with gleeful and copious quotation, the nineteenth-century
literature of speculation which attributed these monuments to Phoenicians, stray
Vikings, the lost tribes of Israel, refugees from Atlantis, an extinct race of giants, and
Welshmen. The book, which is charmingly written, ends with a history of the
archaeological work which gave the mounds back to the Indians." (Review by The
Atlantic Monthly)
Click here to buy this book.
Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific
Fact
Vine DeLoria
Though Deloria has a broad academic brief — he teaches history, law,
religious studies and political science at the University of Colorado —
here he ventures into a new area, attacking the way scientists have created
"a largely fictional scenario describing prehistoric North America" and
suggesting that Indian lore may offer better explanations. Given Deloria's not-so-
temperate tone — "Christianity has been the curse of all cultures into which it has
intruded" — it is hard to judge all his arguments. He finds flaws in scientific accounts
of how Indians once traversed the Bering Strait land bridge; he also reports that
geological evidence suggests an earlier Indian presence and notes that no tribal creation
stories reflect such a migration. Similarly, he criticizes scientists who argue that Indians
killed off North American megafauna of the Pleistocene era. Deloria's fiercely argued
study sometimes overwhelms as a narrative, but his charges should provoke more
evaluation, as well as examination of the consonance of science and Indian tradition.
(Review by Amazon.com)
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Costner's nouveau western, Dances with Wolves, is nothing short of a modern classic
by a film scoring master. Utilizing Wagnerian structure, Barry's three main themes
recur in magisterial symphonic form. The memorable "John Dunbar" theme alone has
become an almost subconscious part of modern life, utilized as Muzak and underscore
for public events great and small. Barry's skills as an arranger color his themes in
subtly shifting orchestral hues, giving even the most repeated melodic passages new
emotional weight. Barry's rich music is living proof that the art of orchestral film
scoring is still alive and surprisingly vital in the '90s. (Review by Amazon.com)
Click here to buy this CD.
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Twins
(1988)
Rating:
DeVito and Schwarzenegger as fraternal twin brothers? Hey, why not?
This delightful 1988 comedy by Ivan Reitman — about genetically
designed twin siblings who discover each other at the age of 35 — works
out just fine, thanks largely to great chemistry between the two stars.
Despite a certain amount of rough action and tension, the film really gets a lift from the
palpable innocence Reitman develops, and the female costars (Chloe Webb and Kelly
Preston) bring some interesting texture of their own. This is a film that walked the
tightrope of a high concept and completely succeeded. To see how easy it is to stumble
in a similar situation, check out DeVito and Schwarzenegger in Reitman's Junior. The
DVD release has a full-screen presentation, optional French and Spanish soundtracks,
optional Spanish subtitles. (Review by Amazon.com)
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Ireland
- The
Giant's
Causeway
Size: 13 in x 38 in
Rating:
The world-famous Giant's Causeway, located on the northern coast of Ireland. The
causeway, a mass of hexagonal columns created by rapidly cooling volcanic basalt, the
causeway has been a prominent part of Irish myth and legend for thousands of years.
(Review by Mysterious World)
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fter the drowning of Atlantis and the antediluvian world, there was a dark and
unknown period in our ancient history, during which time the sons of Noah had
spread across and repopulated the face of the Earth. The giants of the
antediluvian world had been defeated but not destroyed forever as their fathers,
the fallen angels, are spirits that cannot be destroyed. Thus, near the end of this
ancient dark age, which lasted from approximately 10,000-4000 b.c., the
mystery of iniquity began its horrid work upon the Earth once more as the
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fallen angels began once again to recreate the antediluvian race of giants. Just as they
had done in the world before the Flood, the fallen angels were attempting once again
to undermine God's will for mankind by destroying homo sapiens man, replacing him
with a "superior" form of man — the giant homo artificialis.
Genesis chapter 10 contains a very interesting and controversial list of the descendants
of Noah called "The Table of Nations". In this listing, all of the early descendants of
Noah through his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth are listed, with little commentary on
the fate of the nations that they had sired. Thus, it has been the duty of scholarship to
piece together and maintain the puzzle of our ancient past — of who migrated where,
when, and why. Of special interest to our present study is an understanding of the
lineage of Japheth. Japheth had seven sons — two of which, Gomer and Javan, were
deemed important enough to have their sons listed as well. Though many have debated
the identity of the many nations that sprang forth from Japheth (and still do), here is a
comprehensive listing of all of Japheth's listed progeny and the nations that they are
most likely to have sired:
One possible arrangement of the descendants of Japheth as they initially dispersed after the Flood, according
to Genesis 10:1-5. Some researchers believe that Meshech and Tubal, two of the sons of Japheth, migrated
north over thousands of years into modern Russia and Siberia, their names remembered in the names of the
cities of "Moscow", capitol of Russia, and "Tobolsk", a major city of the Siberian region east of Moscow.
The classic reference in Ezekiel 38-39 to the war of Gog and Magog in the end times refers to another son
of Japheth, "Magog", as well as a mysterious character, "Gog", who originates from "the land of Magog".
Most scholars believe is southeastern Russia, the descendants of Magog being renamed the "Scythians" by
the Greeks. Ezekiel prophesied that a confederation of the descendants of Japheth, primarily the descendants
of Magog, Meshech and Tubal, would band together to attack the nation of Israel at a future date when a
remnant of Israel had been called back from the nations to reinhabit the land of Canaan. Though the
prophecy that a remnant of Judah would someday be called back from the nations has been fulfilled, the
attack of Gog, Magog, Meshech, Tubal and several other descendants of Japheth upon the restored land of
Israel is yet future.
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Madai: Madai is the word used by the OT to designate the Medes, a people
who inhabited the territory between the upper Tigris River and the Caspian
Sea ( 2 Ki. 17:6; 18:11; Isa. 13:17; 21:2). They were formidable opponents
for the Assyrians in the 9th and 8th centuries b.c. Subsequently (late 6th
century b.c.) they became partners with the Persians.
Javan: Javan is to be connected with the Hellenic tribal name Ionia, which
refers to the western coast of Asia Minor and the Aegean area. Later on (by
the Hellenistic period) Javan refers to all Greece. Javanites are merchants
trading with the Phoenicians of Tyre (Ezek. 27:13) and with Philistines (Joel
3:6).
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Tubal: Tubal may be connected with the Tabali, who were located in eastern
Anatolia.
Tiras: Tiras is to be linked with the Turasha of Egyptian texts, that is, the
Tyrrhennians, or later, the Etruscans of Italy.
That the names given throughout chapter 10 are not exhaustive is borne out by
verse 5, which refers to the islands of the nations, unidentifiable but perhaps
transoceanic areas.1
Gomer: The sons of Gomer became known as the "Gomarians", also known
as the "Cimmerians". The Gomarians had headed north and west in ancient
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times, fighting with the descendants of Magog, who had forced them
westward, starting a blood feud that continues to this day. The Gomarians
entered and settled Europe through what is now Germany and Austria, some
of the vowels in their tribal name shortened to become the "Germans".
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Tubal: Though Tubal appears to have started out in Asia Minor, like Gomer
and Magog's descendants, the descendants of Tubal appear to have had a
wanderlust that led them far to the north. Ezekiel describes Meschech and
Tubal as being far to the north of Israel, and hostile to it, which would place
them in modern Russia. Tubal's name is likely remembered in the city of
Tobolsk, a major city in Siberia, in eastern Russia.
Tiras: The World Book Encyclopedia explains that "The people of Thrace
were savage Indo-Europeans, who liked warfare and looting. Tiras was
worshipped by his descendants as Thuras, or Thor, the god of thunder."10 As
such, the sons of Tiras may have later migrated north to become part of the
Scandinavian peoples. They are otherwise alternately associated with the
Tyrrenians, Etruscans and Thracians, so at least some of the descendants of
Tiras likely became the Italians.
Thus set, the fortunes of the sons of Japheth played out over thousands of years.
Though most were relatively sedentary and civilized, their natural aggressions
channeled through productive work and trade, two of the elder sons of Japheth, Gomer
and Magog, would start a civil war within the Japhethite family that would drive the
destiny of both Europe and Asia for thousands of years.
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The only other mention of Gog and Magog in the Bible occurs in Revelation 20:7-10,
where Gog and Magog are described less as distinct people groups than as points on
the compass: "When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison
and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth — Gog and
Magog — to gather them for battle." Here, Gog and Magog are clearly identified with
all the nations on Earth and, more important to our study, to the four directions.
A third extrabiblical but very intriguing reference comes from an ancient legend of Gog
and Magog which has circulated widely throughout the ancient Near East and central
Asia, which goes as such:
Alexander the Great, while conquering the world, came eventually to the
Caucasus Mountains where Prometheus the Titan had been chained long
before. Here, the Macedonians discovered the evil hordes of Gog and Magog
laying waste to the peaceable tribes around them. The country of these wicked
raiders lay beyond two great mountains named Ubera Aquilonias, the Breasts
of the North. Alexander, calling upon the power of God, moved the mountains
together and forged gates of iron and brass to seal the narrow way. These
Caspian Gates were further strengthened with a magic metal called asiceton,
which was proof against fire and steel; steel shattered upon asiceton, and
whatever fires which touched it were instantaneously quenched. And further,
Alexander built a mighty wall spanning the entire Caucasus range, closing off
the civilized south from the forces of darkness. This wall became known as
the Caucasus Wall. But at the end of time, the gates will open and the wall
break down, and Gog and Magog will burst forth to destroy the world.11
Gog and Magog have for millennia been considered the ultimate source of evil, the
enemies of religion and civilization, and have been particularly closely associated with
the battle of Armageddon. But why? They are only mentioned twice in the Bible, the
first time only vaguely associated with the battle of Armageddon, and the second time
only in passing, as if a footnote, in a time long after the battle of Armageddon has
taken place. Yet, "for some reason, 'Gog and Magog' became a nation or nations, with a
life of their own, separate from their Biblical source. They passed into the romantic
legends of Alexander the Great, which have been rife in Asia since the time of
Alexander himself. They appear in the Koran, which has its own version of the Gog
and Magog story; from these sources, they spread into common currency and become
part of the Old World's travel myths — fables which spread among educated men,
during those centuries when most of the earth was still terra incognita."12 These ancient
legends consistently identified Gog and Magog as the agents of ultimate evil, whose
final appearance heralded the end of this age and the beginning of the Messianic age.
As we have seen, the symbol of the ancient Kurgans and later Japhethite peoples was
the swastika, or "sun wheel", which is basically a representation of the four directions,
or "the four winds" — the four corners of the Earth. Thus, it is possible that the writer
of Revelation, when he paralleled the "four corners of the Earth" with Gog and Magog,
was making a clever allusion to the ancient symbol of the swastika, symbolically
linking it to Gog and Magog in order to impart to the reader the idea that the
descendants of Gog and Magog will spread to the four corners of the Earth again, just
as they had done in ancient times. However, though we can begin to see that Gog and
Magog are clearly associated with world conquest, and with the cardinal directions, we
still need some more information to determine how the equation of world conquest, the
four directions, and the destiny of the sons of Japheth will lead us to the identity of the
mysterious "Gog".
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worship Azazel and Semjaza respectively, Gomer following Azazel and Magog
following Semjaza. In return, Gomer and Magog's descendants began to be specially
bred and equipped by these demons into giant warriors with advanced weapons
including swords, armor, shields, chariots, and other tools. These weapons, along with
the understanding of how to use them, allowed the Gomerians and Magogians to
conquer all before them. DeLoach explains,
In these lands, watered by large rivers and described by Strabo as the most
agreeable and fruitful parts of all Asia, Gomer's descendants apparently came
in contact with the surviving Nephilim and began intermarrying with them.
For certain, it was here that the exceptionally tall Gomerians developed into a
fierce, warlike people and even fought among themselves over the land.
Although these civil wars occurred in the most obscure times, ancient
historians have been able to piece together some of what happened. Pezron
summarizes what they found, in these words: "This people in process of time
increasing to a vast multitude could not always live in repose and tranquility;
the seeds of dissentions and jealousies began to spring up amongst
themselves: Amid these factions and difficult commmotions, those who
proved the weakest either in number or strength, were expelled by the other,
and forced to seek for a retreat in the neighboring countries; so that passing
over those vast mountains, which are to the south of Margiana, they entered
into a country then in possession of the Medes, who were known by the name
of Arii. Those fugitives fixed themselves either by force or consent in this
country they had made their way to, which was surrounded by high
mountains: And as they were a people that had been driven out of their native
country, they were called Parthians; the same signifying as much as persons
separated from others, exiles or banished people; and it was from this name,
which is very ancient, and sticks to them this day, that that province was
called Parthia, where these fugitives fixed their habitation.... As for the name
Parthians, which the Gomarians gave to those they drove away from among
them, it comes, Pezron tells us, from the word Parthu, "which to this very day
in the Celtic signifies to divide or separate." These exiled Parthians, out of
spite, also stuck a derisive name on their victorious Gomarian cousins. Seeing
that they could not otherwise take revenge on them except by abusive
language [the original "Parting Shot"], they called those giants who drove
them off their own land Sacae. In the Celtic, Sacae denotes a thief, robber, or
the like.13
Though the descendants of Gog and Magog were being carefully bred and trained by
Azazel and Semjaza, it appears that Azazel and Semjaza may not always see eye to eye
on how to go about doing things. In fact, it is highly likely that the two are in conflict
with each other on who will rule the world, and how it will be ruled. Assuming that the
activities of these demons can be measured by observing patterns in history, it may be
that Azazel prefers a more direct, linear approach, whereas Semjaza prefers a more
indirect, circular approach, both in their general worldviews and in their approaches to
warfare and weapons design in particular. This is true because, for as long as records
have been kept, the western approach to life and war has been based upon logic,
reason, rationalism and linear thought, as typified by Greek philosophy. By contrast,
the eastern approach to life and war has been based more upon intuition, introspection
and circular "logic", as typified by Eastern philosophy.
Since time immemorial, a great divide has existed between the eastern and western
worldviews, with no apparent reason as to why. Our new theoretical "Gog and
Magog" paradigm suggests that the differences between eastern and western
worldviews are spiritual in nature, where each hemisphere of Earth is ruled over by a
spiritual "prince" whose activities are made manifest in the patterns of thought and
living to be found in each hemisphere. According to this theory, the "Prince of the
West" employs logic and reason, as typified by the Greek philosophers Plato and
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Aristotle, where the individual is emphasized over the group. Conversely, the
"Prince of the East" employs intuitive and non-linear methods, as typified by
Buddhism and Hinduism, religions which tend to denigrate the individual in favor
of the group. This theory, though at odds with our modern, scientific worldview,
would have been completely acceptable in the minds of the ancients, who believed
that the Earth was indeed ruled over by a hierarchy of fallen angels. Paul himself
even wrote this very thing in Ephesians 6:4, and their struggles are clearly
elucidated in the Daniel 10, where a "Prince of Greece" (western prince) and a
Prince of Persia (eastern prince) are clearly identified. It is our theory that these are
the same demon princes, called Azazel and Semjaza in the Book of Enoch, that were
placed in chains in darkness just before the Flood, as described in 2 Peter 2:4 and
Jude 1:6. Also, these two demons, like Gog and Magog, will be released at the end
of days to wreak havoc upon the world one last time.
The difference in the philosophies of these two demons, according to our theory,
caused a division between the two descendants of Japheth, a division that resulted in
one group, the Gomerians, migrating west, whereas the other group, the Magogians,
remained in the east to become the Parthians — "ones who were divided off" and
related peoples. The Gomerians, who forever after were at war with the Magogian
Parthians were eventually driven out of the east by the Parthians and their descendants
to populate eastern and central Europe, becoming the Germans, Austrians, and related
peoples. Their descendants, the Celts, continued to conquer westward throughout
Europe, the British Isles, Ireland, Scandinavia and, as we saw in Part II, all the way to
the Americas.
Gog and Magog — the paradigm of history. According to our theoretical West/East
paradigm, the descendants of Japheth divided up into two main groups: those who
migrated west and followed philosophies of rationalism and logical reasoning, and
those who traveled east and followed philosophies of intuition and circular
reasoning. These two diametrically opposed philosophies led to diametrically
opposed lifestyles and methods of warfare, as typified by the Gomerian (Kurgan)
horseman who attacks directly with a sword on horseback, and the Magogian
(Parthian) horseman who uses an evasive, passive/aggressive, circular form of
attack/defense with the bow. It is interesting to note that, though the Book of
Revelation does not specifically mention Gog and Magog in relation to the battle of
Armageddon, the first horseman is described as riding on a white horse with a bow,
like the archetypal Magogian warrior, whereas the second horseman is depicted as
riding on a red horse with a sword, like the archetypal Gogian (Gomerian) warrior.
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world was not only conceptually divided into four directions, but also into two
hemispheres: the West and the East, as it is today. The only difference between now
and then is the terminology.
Estimated area of control of Magog, son of Japheth. Magog apparently controlled the area now known as
Central Asia, comprised of the current countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and
Tadjikistan. Magog did not stay within his divinely mandated boundary, however, his descendants known
throughout the ancient world as pillagers and plunderers. It is likely that the modern "Indo-Aryans" of
northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India are the descendants of Magogian invaders or their allies.
Magog also spread into China and northwards, being in control of the Silk Road for thousands of years, and
leaving behind numerous tall, Caucasian mummies clad in tartans very similar to that worn by the Celts of
Europe. Eventually, the descendants of Magog, the Scythians, gradually wore down and drove Gog (the
Gomerians) out of the Caucasus and the steppelands of southern Russia and the Ukraine, forcing them into
Europe to become the Celts of Europe.
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Though the sons of Madai were relatively sedentary and civilized, the sons of Magog
were not. And the most famous of these sons of Magog were the Scythians, who
continued to roam the steppe unchallenged even during the time of the mighty Persian
empire. The Scythians were unlike the Asiatic Mongols who would dominate the
region centuries later, however, being instead a giant, Caucasian race of horse archers,
whose average height may have been well over 7 feet. They and their descendants, the
Parthians, would militarily dominate the region for centuries.
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and for rulership, these blonde titans carved a bloody path through the ancient world in
a vain attempt to slake the interminable thirst of their fallen masters chained in the
Caucasus. Giant in size and in thirst for conquest, the giants of Asia invaded and
conquered all that their eyes beheld, wreaking great slaughter and exterminating entire
cultures in their vain quest to conquer the world. Theertha explains,
More than 4,000 years ago, the Aryas are believed to have come and settled
down in the region of the Punjab from their original home in middle Asia.
Historians get their information about these ancient settlers, or rather invaders,
from the Rig-Veda which proves beyond doubt that the people who composed
those songs had developed a comparatively high civilization. But adventurers
who leave their homes for distant countries are not generally the best men of
the community, but the lower classes with more physical stamina and animal
courage than cultural attainments. The earliest Aryan invaders were no
exception to this rule. They were bold, hardy, unscrupulous, superstitious, and
even cruel adventurers who were ready to use their powerful right arm against
all those who opposed them and to take by force whatever they wanted in the
new land to which they came. It is quite certain that they did not come with a
mission, with a sense of their superior culture and a holy desire to civilize the
barbarians. Even when they found that many inhabitants of India were less
advanced in civilization than themselves, they hardly ever showed any desire
to raise them to their own level or to impart to them their refinements. On the
contrary their attitude was characterized by haughty exclusiveness and, cruel
contempt for the aborigines until they came into contact with a people as
civilized as themselves in the Gangetic valley and began to mingle freely with
them. The Aryas were essentially a race of warriors. They were lured by the
natural wealth and beauty of the country from one place to another and
steadily extended their migrations overcoming and sometimes mercilessly
extirpating the aborigines who opposed their march, until they were able to
settle down in peace and develop powerful kingdoms in the Gangetic valley.17
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Mahabharatan Aryan
Invasion (900-800 BC):
The Fourth Aryan Invasion
occurred in 2 parts: First, the
Digvijay Aryan invasions that
led to the subjugation of all of
India to the Aryan yoke. The
revolt by the non-Aryans and
mixed races led to the terrible
Mahabharatan War between
the Aryan Pandavas on one
side and the mixed race
Indo-Aryan Migration into India, c. 1750 B.C. This Kauravas and black aboriginals
map shows the general route taken by the Indo-Aryans on the other. The Aryan victory
who migrated into India beginning around 1750 B.C. enabled them to invade & settle
They were nomadic warriors who came from the in the Ganges valley and
Plateau of Iran and moved through the Hindu Kush confirmed Aryan dominance.
Mountains into the Indus Valley and beyond to the The genocides of this war
Ganges Valley. With them they brought bronze
weapons, horses, and chariots.
permanently changed the racial
composition of India. These
conflicts were some of the most terrible recorded.
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This occurred under the Maharashtrian Chalukyas, and is also known as the
Second Maharasthrian Aryan Invasion. During these wars, Pulkesin II (610 -
642) conquered several Dravidian peoples, and invaded Tamil Nadu. Finally,
after severe persecution of Dravidians, a wave of revolt by the Dravidian
Shaivite Lingayats destroyed Aryan Chalukya rule.
India's history, then, was basically a litany of invasions by a people who, though
civilized, behaved like barbarians. It is interesting to note that the invading
Indo-Europeans, though they considered the natives to be inferior, for a time still took
wives of whomever they wished, much like the giants of the antediluvian world had
done. And though the blonde giant invaders of millennia past are no longer to be found
in India, their legacy still lives on in the occasional exceptionally tall Indian boy, and
the shimmering blue-green eyes of Bollywood starlets.
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unknown civilization once thrived in along the Tarim river in the midst of the vast
Takla Makan. This civilization once may have been vast, spanning the central Asian
region, but only that part of it that spanned the Takla Makan is now remembered, due
to the incredible preservative properties of its salty sands that preserved enough of this
ancient civilization to bring it to remembrance. The Takla Makan mummies, also
known as the "Urumchi Mummies", are currently on display in the Provincial Museum
of Ürümchi.
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ranging in weights of from 5.5 to 16.5 kg. Such huge 'megatools' could only
have been made and used by hominids of immense stature and strength. I
afterwards learnt of local Aboriginal traditions of a race of giant men and
women, the 'Jogungs', who stood twice the height of a normal human, and
who once roamed central western New South Wales. In the years ahead I
recovered further 'megatools' at other locations around Bathurst, while other
have also been recovered at sites in northern New south Wales and central
Queensland. The most recent megatool is a monstrous 'chopper' made of
basalt, it weighs 20 kg, having been found by me near Nundle, south-east of
Tamworth, in the New England district of northern New South Wales. It is the
largest and heaviest megatool I
have so far discovered. The
former tribespeople of this region
believed in a race of giant
man-like beings called
"Wolumbin", that roamed the
earth in the long-ago 'dreamtime'.
But who were these giant
toolmakers? Massive fossilised
jaws and teeth, dating back
500,000 years have been
excavated by archaeologists in
Java and China, which
anthropologists have named
Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, Giant stone adze made of basalt, found in New South
the "Giant Java Man", a race of Wales, Australia. As the head alone weighs over 20
hominids of around three metres pounds, his tool is far to large to be of any practical use
to anyone less than twice the size (and several times
height, and of immense strength, stronger) than the typical homo sapiens. Image from
weighing around several hundred Mysterious Australia.
kilograms.20
Interestingly, Gilroy points out that fossilized jawbones found in New South Wales,
Australia match closely fossils of Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, the so called "Java
Man" believed to have lived in Java and China over half a million years ago. In fact,
according to Gilroy, aboriginal traditions state that a race of light-skinned people,
among whom were mingled giants, actually lived in Australia before the ancestors of
the aboriginals had arrived.
Aboriginal traditions include references to a white-skinned race which
inhabited Australia before them. They also know of a race of giants. During
the 1960's I uncovered a culture of giant-sized stone implements in the New
South Wales central west. They included hand-axes, clubs, knives, adzes and
other tools ranging in weights of from 5 and a half kilograms to 16 and a half
kilograms. Such huge "Megatools" could only have been made and used by
beings of immense stature and strength. These implements are reminiscent of
others found in Java, where Meganthropus, the "giant Java Man", lived during
the last ice-age at least 500,000 years ago, whose huge fossil jaws and teeth
suggest creatures of immense weight, who stood up to three times the height
of modern man. Did Meganthropus or a close relative of him once roam
Australia? Giant-sized man-like fossil footprints, preserved in mudstone, have
turned up all over Australia. They include examples found near Kempsey in
northern New South Wales up to 50 cm in length by 37 cm width across the
toes; and as much as 60 cm length by 25 cm or more in width.21
Interestingly, just as it was in ancient Canaan, there may have been in Australia's very
ancient past a race of tall, light-skinned people among whom roamed giants anywhere
from twelve to eighteen feet tall. Moreover, the linkage between Chinese and
Australian giant skeletal remains may indeed mean that the sons of Magog mave have
reached even unto the shores of Australia in ancient times.
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Based upon the ethnographic descriptions, it appears that New Zealand had been
visited by a number of different peoples in ancient times. Mineral rich New Zealand,
like Australia, would have been a desirable trade destination, and some believe that it
may actually have been visited by such seafaring peoples as the Phoenicians the
Egyptians, or even the Israelites during the time of Solomon. Perhaps most interesting
to our present study is the description of a tall, red-haired, round-faced people with
"hooded eyes". That is a good description of how the offspring of Caucasian giants and
Asiatics would look. The giants had intermarried with the mainland Chinese whom
they had conquered, and their offspring had apparently continued their forefathers'
conquests on into the South Pacific.
Not surprisingly, based upon our analysis in Giants of the Americas, both Australia
and New Zealand are busy covering up their giant past, even destroying precious truth
in order to "protect" us from it. Doutre explains,
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endeavors.23
Once again, it becomes clear that there is an ongoing, purposeful attempt to cover up
the "mistakes" of the past, to protect us from a truth that some believe that we cannot
handle. The facts are clear, however, that an ancient race of Caucasian giants had
emanated from the Caucasus in ancient times and had conquered all of Asia, island
hopped through the South Pacific, and eventually ended up in the Americas. These
giant, blond sons of Magog and related peoples had spread out from Central Asia in
ancient times in several waves of conquest, leaving giant religious, cultural, and
archaeological footprints all over Asia. And though the rage of these demigods crashed
like tsunami upon the shores of mankind, wreaking great death and destruction
wherever their massive feet tread, they wore down but never destroyed meek homo
sapiens who, in the end, inherited the Earth.
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1
Adapted from Victor P. Hamilton, The New International Commentary on the Old
Testament: The Book of Genesis Chapters 1-17 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990),
332-334.
2
Smith's Bible Dictionary, "Ashkenaz" (Search Works: http://www.reference-
guides.com/smiths_bible_dictionary/).
3
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, "Riphath" (Bible Tools:
http://bibletools.org).
4
Marcus Jastrow, "Ashkenaz" (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com).
5
Silkroad Foundation, "The Scythians" (Silkroad Foundation: http://www.silk-
road.com).
6
Richard Gottheil, "Media" (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com).
7
Richard Gottheil, "Javan" (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com).
8
Harold Hunt and Russell Grigg , "The sixteen Grandsons of Noah" (Answers in
Genesis: http://www.answersingenesis.org).
9
WebBible Encyclopedia, "Meshech" (JewishEncyclopedia.com:
http://christiananswers.net).
10
Harold Hunt and Russell Grigg , "The sixteen Grandsons of Noah" (Answers in
Genesis: http://www.answersingenesis.org).
11
Sylvia Volk, ed., "The Legend of Gog and Magog" (Page of Myths:
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Myths.htm).
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12
Volk, "The Legend of Gog and Magog".
13
Charles DeLoach, Giants: A Reference Guide from History, the Bible and
Recorded Legend (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1995), 131-132.
14
Dr. Oric Basirov, "The Origin of the Pre-Iranian Peoples" (Circle of Ancient
Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of
London: http://home.btconnect.com/CAIS/).
15
Basirov, "The Origin of the Pre-Iranian Peoples".
16
"A Roman Description of the Parthians or Later Persians from Justin's History
of the World" (Sam Houston State University: http://www.shsu.edu/).
17
Swami Dharma Theertha, "The Aryas, the Aborigines and the Indians" (Dalitstan
Organization: http://www.dalitstan.org/).
18
Prof. Uthaya Naidu, "The Bible of Aryan Invasions" (Dalitstan Organization:
http://www.dalitstan.org/).
19
DeLoach, Giants, 63-64.
20
Rex Gilroy, "Giants of the Dreamtime" (Mysterious Australia:
http://www.internetezy.com.au/~mj129/).
21
Rex Gilroy, "Australia The Cradle Of Civilisation" (Mysterious Australia:
http://www.internetezy.com.au/~mj129/).
22
Martin Doutre, Ancient Celtic New Zealand (Auckland, New Zealand: De Danaan
Publishers, 1999), 55.
23
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God was displeased with the meddling of the fallen angels and the wicked and violent
behaviors of their giant offspring, so He created His own form of mankind to replace
them that was designed specifically to be in balance with His Creation. This new form
of mankind, homo sapiens, was not meant to be either warlike or sexually promiscuous
like the giants that the fallen angels had created. Homo sapiens, Adam and Eve, were
intended to live simply off of the fruit of the land, relying solely on God for their daily
needs. In this way, the more efficient homo sapiens would outlast the wicked giants,
and inherit the Earth after the self-destructive giants eventually destroyed themselves.
However, the giants successfully tempted Adam and Eve to
interbreed with them in order to become "great" like they
were, abandoning God's mandate to rely on Him alone and
instead following the wicked and warlike ways of the giants
that were out of balance with God's Creation. As a result of
eating the "fruit" of the Tree of Knowledge — a metaphor for
interbreeding with the wicked giants — the pure genetic seed
of homo sapiens was compromised, and Eve gave birth to Cain
— a human/giant hybrid. In this way, the symbolic meaning of
the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge mentioned in
Genesis 3 becomes clear: both "trees" were symbolic of two
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Fortunately Adam and Eve were still genetically pure themselves, so they were able to
give birth to other sons, including Abel whom Cain slew, and later Seth, through whom
the pure line of homo sapiens would manifest. The seed of Seth and the seed of Cain
then battled for dominion over Earth until the seed of Cain, which had systematically
assimilated or destroyed the seed of Seth, was itself destroyed by the Great Flood, the
remnant of the seed of Seth being saved by God from destruction in the ark.
After the Flood had destroyed the first generation of wicked giants, mankind was given
a second chance. For a time, mankind followed God's mandate, but eventually the sons
of Japheth, the son of Noah, were tempted by the fallen angels once again. The fallen
angels used the sons of Japheth as breeding vessels to start breeding a race of giants
once again as they had in the world before the Flood, and these giants soon began to
make war on both their neighbors and each other. As a result, the wickedness of the
giants was once again growing even more rapidly than it had in the world before the
Flood, so God slowed their progress by sending the Elamites and their allies to
slaughter the giants. This occurred around the time of Abraham, ca. 2000 b.c.
Though their wholesale slaughter had slowed down the progress of the giant
infestation, the giants of the ancient Near East had not been completely driven out until
the Israelites conquered the land of Canaan and exterminated most of the remnant of
the wicked giants, the rest finally being destroyed by King David and his mighty men.
Israel finally had driven the giants out of the land of Canaan, but the next generation of
giants had not yet been totally defeated, as the original generation of Caucasian giants
had conquered not only south into the land of Canaan, but in all four directions: north,
south, east, and west.
As Noah's sons spread out and multiplied over the face of the
Earth, as described in Genesis 10, the sons of Japheth migrated
north from Mt. Ararat (where the ark had landed), and up
through the Caucasus, where Azazel and Semjaza had been
imprisoned. It is believed that Azazel, Semjaza and possibly
some other wicked angels that had brought destruction to the
world before the Flood then began to tempt the sons of Japheth
into abandoning God and instead following their false
teachings. The sons of Japheth, particularly the sons of Gomer
and Magog (Gog and Magog) agreed, and as their "reward" for
selling their souls their descendants were genetically
manipulated to be much larger and stronger, and were given
the secrets of forging metal and developing technologies of
war that would help them defeat their enemies. In short, the Prometheus stealing "fire"
corruption of the human race by the fallen angels had started from heaven and giving it
once again, this time in the Caucasus. to mankind. Fire here is
used as a metaphor for
This next generation of giants was from the line of Japheth, technology. Prometheus, a
specifically from the descendants of Gomer and Magog, the titan in the Greek myths,
two eldest sons of Japheth, whom the fallen angels had used as was chained to the
the genetic basis for their giant breeding program. Gomer's Caucasus mountains as
punishment for giving
descendants, the Gomerians (aka the "Cimmerians") later came
mankind gifts of
into conflict with the descendants of Magog, who later became technology. Prometheus is
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known as the "Scythians". The Scythians eventually drove the likely the Greek equivalent
Cimmerians west into Central and Eastern Europe, where they of Azazel, the "Satan" of
became the "Germans", as they are known to this day. Some of the ancient Hebrews.
the descendants of Gomer and that of his brethren then continued migrating westward,
eventually populating all of Europe. Some of the descendants of Magog, meanwhile,
continued migrating eastward, populating Central Asia, China, and India, later
migrating across the sea to conquer Australia and New Zealand. Both the descendants
of Gomer (Gog) and Magog continued migrating westward and eastward respectively
until they finally met up in the Americas, and control of the Americas has regularly
changed hands between Gog and Magog ever since.
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Pezron, who traced the Gomarian giants' early entrance into the European
provinces, discovered that they came by two routes. The Cimbrians entered
from the north. These people ... were better known unto the Greeks by the
name of Cimmerians.... I have clearly enough proved that these last were
called Sacae, while they continued in the Upper Asia, and I have shewn there
were two sorts of them, viz. the more civilized Sacae, who coalesced into
societies in Bactriana and the adjacent countries, and the vagrant and wild
Sacae, who were known by the name "Nomades".... While the Cimbri
followed this northern route into Europe, their gigantic cousins, the Gomarian
Sacae, advanced along the southern route. Having filled Hircania, Margiana,
and Bactriana, these giants soon irrupted into greater Armenia. They
afterwards invaded Syria, settled colonies as far as Arabia, and became
neighbors of the Chaldeans. Yet, for all these expansions, many Gomerians
remained unsatisfied. "This nation", explains Pezron, "besides that it was
naturally inclined
to war, was
moreover, as it
hath always been,
of a roving, uneasy
and ambitious
nature. And
therefore the
people resolved to
make their way yet
farther, and to enter
into the provinces
of western Asia,
called "Asia the A representation of the route of the "Aryan Invasion", ca. 2000 b.c.
Lesser." In the first The Aryan Invasion Theory posits that a mass migration of peoples
wave of this took place during the third millennium b.c. and afterwards, moving out
from the Caucasus and conquering towards the four winds. One or
expansion, they more waves of Aryan peoples migrated out of the Caucasus region in
overran Central Asia, one half parting from the main body and moving east
Cappadocia and into Persia, India, and parts unknown to the east (the Magogians),
Pontus. Strabo, a whereas the remaining half (the Gomerians) continued northward and
native of that westward to settle Europe. A different group of Gomerians, the
country, reports "Gomerian Sacae", had proceeded due west through Asia minor
instead to conquer southern Europe. Other Gomerians likely invaded
that many of these
south into Canaan, where they were known as the "Amorites", the
Sacae afterward giants that the Israelites drove out and destroyed by the time of King
settled around the David, ca. 1000 b.c. Image from Armenian Highland.
southern shores of
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Starting during the late third millennium and continuing on and off throughout the
second millennium b.c., the southern Cimmerians, as well as having penetrated and
conquered deep into Canaan, may have conquered possibly as far as Egypt, where they
were known as the Hyksos ("Shepherd Kings"). The Gomerians and related peoples
may also have been the "Sea Peoples" that had invaded Canaan, Egypt and North
Africa some time later, during the 12th century BC. Or, perhaps, the sea peoples had
been conquered and displaced by the Cimmerians, the invasions of the sea peoples
being motivated by their need to seek out new lands in which to live.
In either case, the primary conquering thrust of the Cimmerians was to the west,
through Asia Minor and into southern Europe. This "southern front", according to
DeLoach, was led by a
powerful giant named
"Acmon", who was
worshiped by his subjects as
a god. "The first historians
also left evidence that the
Gomerian giants who
followed Acmon into Asia
Minor worshipped him and
probably his brother Doeas
as gods. Both in Cappadocia
and Phrygia, woods and
groves were consecrated to
this prince, as to a god or
hero."2 DeLoach further The "Aryan Invasion" theory illustrated. The western thrust of the
argues that these giants were southern Cimmerians also included incursions south into Canaan, and
possibly as far south as Egypt. Their primary western thrust, however,
probably worshiped as gods penetrated as far as Spain and across to western Africa in the
by the early Greeks, just as southwest, and eventually all of southern Europe. Meanwhile, their
the Magogians who had northern cousins penetrate Europe from the northeast and conquered
conquered the Indians were Russia, Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the British Isles. Image from
also worshiped as gods by Archaeology and Language : The Puzzle of Indo-European
the native populace whom Origins.
they had conquered:
After the Sacae entered into Upper Phrygia, they began calling themselves
"Titans" and gave Acmon the title of Most High. The Phoenician historian
Sanchoniathon confirms that this prince was addressed as the Most High, or
Elion in the Phoenician tongue, and Altissimus in the Greek.... After his death,
however, Acmon's people still reckoned him "among the Number of the
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Gods", and his children continued to offer sacrifices and oblations to him. He
was succeeded in all his dominions by his giant son Uranus, who by the Titans
was also worshiped as a god. And so it happened that when the Greeks of
ancient times came under the dominance of the Titans, they enthusiastically
embraced the giants' religious beliefs and also bowed themselves down to
Uranus, worshiping him as a Man of Heaven.... From this single family of
giant Gomarian princes came "those who have passed for the greatest and
ancientest gods of the heathen world".3
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
( Isaiah 14:12-15 )
Acmon actually believed himself to be God, the "Most High". Acmon's son Uranus,
("Man of Heaven"), was remembered forever after in Greek myth as one of the elder
gods of the Greek race, as was Uranus' son Saturn. Saturn's son Zeus then defeated his
father and took over the kingship, forming the Greek pantheon which was kept sacred
from then on by both the Greeks and later the Romans, who merely renamed the Greek
gods, giving them Romanized names. This "war of the gods", Zeus, Ares, Athena, and
so forth against the original group of "titans" including Zeus' father Saturn, later
became mythologized so that both the titans and their rebellious offsping, the followers
of Zeus, were elevated to the status of godhood. However, though these characters were
no doubt extraordinarily tall, powerful, intelligent, and sophisticated, they were never
gods, only mortal giants that had been elevated by the superstitious Greeks and
Romans to the level of deity. DeLoach explains,
When the Titans of some other provinces learned that Jupiter had dethroned
Saturn, and was determined to take over the empire, they formed a
confederacy against him. In the ensuing battle, however, Jupiter "ruined the
forces of his enemies". Defeated, the Titans retired into Spain and were joined
there by Saturn, who came over from Italy. [Jupiter] fought his enemies all in
a body, and obtained a complete victory.... The war that Jupiter made against
his father occurred some years before the death of Abraham [ca. 1900 BC].
According to the poets and historians, it lasted ten years.... This was the end
and fortune of him whom profane historians looked upon to be the origin of
the gods, and, as it were, the source of their heathen deities ... they had no
knowledge of any god before Saturn.4
So, not only did the giants believe themselves to be superior, they actually believed
themselves to be gods, as or even more powerful than God Himself. Thus they set
themselves up as god-kings over the populations they had conquered, just as the
Nephilim and Gibborim had done in the world before the Flood. And with this next
generation of Rephaim giants after the Flood came many of the evils that have beset
the world ever since.
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Sacae.... It is very likely the Cimbrians, Cimmerians or Celtic people came from
them."6
The northern Cimmerians conquered and settled the best lands of central, northern, and
northwestern Europe, and probably up into Scandinavia and possibly as far as the
British Isles and Ireland. There, they supplanted the native, normal-sized, typical homo
sapiens peoples, and set up ruling dynasties over them. Meanwhile the southern
Cimmerians led by Acmon conquered Asia Minor, some staying behind to become the
Galatians, the rest continuing on into southern Europe, through Greece where they
were worshiped as gods, to northern Italy, west into southern France and down into
Spain where they settled and integrated with the native populations as did their cousins
to the north. Also like their northern cousins, they probably made it as far as Britain
and Ireland, which would explain some of the numerous invasions and conflicts to be
found in Irish history. It was here then, in central and western Europe, that the giant
descendants of Gog, the Celts, had made their stand.
A map of the Celtic world. The Cimmerians invaded Europe both from the northeast and the southeast, the
northern Cimmerians becoming the Germani (Germans) and the Belgae (Belgians), whereas the southern
Cimmerians became the Galatians in Turkey, the Helvetii and Boii in northern Italy and Switzerland, and
the Gauls (French) in France. Later movements of the Cimmerians, and possibly some Scythian immigrants
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accounted for the Catuvellani of England and the Gaels of Ireland and later Scotland. Click here for a
larger map.
Map adapted from The Celts by John Davies.
Modern historians often fail to mention this, but the Celts were indeed giants, adult
males typically ranging in height from 6-8 feet tall, with "supergiant" Og-type giants
among them as tall as 12 feet or more. Because of their great size and strength, they
easily conquered and formed ruling dynasties over the existing peoples that they had
found living in Europe. Just as in the world before the Flood, these resurrected
Nephilim giants, the Rephaim of the Bible, conquered, enslaved, and sometimes even
ate the aboriginal inhabitants that they met in Europe. People forget (sometimes on
purpose), but there have indeed been giants in the Earth in relatively recent times, the
greatest of which were the Celts.
Many historians confirm the great height of these wandering Celts. The
ancient Greek historian Pausanias, for example, called them the world's tallest
people. Gerhard Herm, his modern counterpart, agrees. He describes them as
"blond giants" who struck terror into the hearts of every foe, even in the
mightiest of the mighty Rome, which they fought several ferocious wars with
and which they once captured, sacked, and burned to the ground. Of course,
not all Celts were giants. The average-sized ones probably towered no more
than a foot above ordinary men. But their ranks also contained substantial
numbers who rose to a gigantic stature. At the utmost divergence from the
mean, some Celts even stood to a colossal height, perhaps as tall or taller than
the nine-foot-nine Goliath, or even Og, who required a bed over thirteen feet
long. Such behemoths, when they first put their ships ashore on Europe's
seacoasts, no doubt startled the aborigines. Doing as they did in Asia and Asia
Minor, the invading Celts first robbed these lesser mortals, then chased them
off the best lands. As they multiplied and required even more territory, they
crowded still others out. This fast-expanding nation, according to Strabo,
eventually grew to some sixty different tribes — each with its own name. In
Upper Asia, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor, these plunderers were known as
the Gomarian Sacae. But once they settled in Europe, the decided to shed their
derisive name, which means "robbers", and began calling themselves the
Celtae (pronounced "Kelti"), which denotes "potent and valiant men". The
Greeks, however, understood them to say Galatai, while their Roman
neighbors heard their name as Galli. The aborigines of France, meanwhile
called them Gauls. These slightly different pronunciations of course caused
different spellings, as the Celtic scholar Henri Hubert explains: "The word
which was written down as Keltos in Spain and the neighborhood of
Marseilles sounded differently in the ears of the Greeks of the Balkan
Peninsula, who wrote it down Galates. But it was the same name.8
The Cimmerians were almost certainly the ancestors of or related to the giants
mentioned in the Bible, even calling themselves "mighty men", which in the Hebrew
translates to Gibborim. The Cimmerians were of the same type of wicked and corrupt
"mighty men" that had descended from the Nephilim in the world before the Flood,
who had returned to spread chaos and destruction across the face of the Earth once
more. Sihon and Og and their Gibborim cohorts were probably related to the
Cimmerians who later invaded Europe. It's not impossible that the Cimmerians who
invaded Europe were the same giants that had been defeated by the Israelites in
Canaan and driven out of the ancient Near East. One of the primary evidences for this
is the numerous similarities between the Celts and the giants of the Bible, both in size,
ethnicity, and cultural customs:
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The plundering Celts and Gauls, who initially met only token opposition moving
northwest through Greece, soon came into conflict with the powerful Roman Empire.
One subgroup of the Celts, the Senones, actually attacked and managed to sack Rome
around 387 b.c. Facing off for the first time against 30,000 screaming Goliaths, enraged
by grave insults done them by Roman envoys, the Romans were terrified and ran as
soon as their lines broke at the Battle of Allia:
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whole country round seemed filled with their exceedingly loud war cries,
accompanied by the unceasing blare of innumerable giant boar-headed war
trumpeters and horn blowers.10
Unnerved by the great size and boldness of their opponents, and thwarted by a superior
tactical move on the battlefield, the Romans fled in terror and Rome itself was nearly
defeated. Only by bribing the giants with a "bushel" of gold (approx. 1,000 pounds)
were the Romans able to save the city against the Senones and live to fight another day.
And that day did come, at the Battle of Telamon, where two legions defeated an army
of 70,000 giants. After that day, the giants would forever be on the defense against the
mighty Roman legions.
It was against the Germanic giants that the Romans had the most difficulty. The
Romans thought that after having dealt with the Gauls, things couldn't possibly get
worse. However, "there was, of course, something worse: the Cimbri and the Tuetones,
of the Germani, the most Celtic of the Celts. During Caesar's later campaign againt
Arovistus, some of his men asked some Gauls at Besancon — who were themselves of
great stature — about the Germans. 'They described the Germans', Caesar writes,
'mentioning their enormous physique, their unbelievable valor, and extraordinary
military training. The Gauls said that often when they had encountered the Germans
they had not been able to endure even the expression on their faces or the glare of their
eyes.' Plutarch also portrays them as possessing 'invincible strength and courage: in
battle they attack with the force and speed of five and no one can withstand them.'"12
Rome's first real challenge against the Germani came when some 300,000 Cimbri had
crossed the Danube and had started migrating southward looking for new lands to
possess. Even the giant Gauls were afraid of these Germani, and asked for Roman
protection from their hyperaggressive cousins. The first few armies the Romans sent to
check their advance were annihilated, and Rome itself was saved only when the
Germani decided to head west to find greener pastures in Spain. The desperate Romans
then sent for one of their greatest generals, Gaius Marius, who whipped the legions into
shape and successfully defeated the Tuetone and Ambrone tribes, even capturing their
giant King Tuetobokh, who towered above even the Roman spears. The terrible Cimbri
still remained however, but Marius had a plan.
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But the seed of the giants was not destroyed completely. Deep in the depths of the
heavily forested strongholds of Europe, the giants began to regroup, and form secretive
alliances bound by blood and marriage. Over time, slowly and subtly, the old ways of
the giants returned, as they used stealth, secrecy and subversion to slowly take control
of the thrones of Europe. And one of the first and boldest of these giants was the
infamous Roman emperor, Maximinus Thrax.
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Maximinus, like all giants, believed himself to be superior to all, including the gods.
However, when things had turned against him, his true, beastly nature emerged.
Magnifying himself above even the gods of Rome, he attempted to turn the entire
economy of Rome towards war, turning Rome itself into a war machine, to the
exclusion of all else. Magnifying himself in his own heart, Maximinus attempted to
make war against all mankind, and even the gods themselves, but in the end he was
cast down and destroyed by his own arrogance — the fate of all giants past, present and
future.
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Those who profess the Aryan theory hold that the Celtic race, particularly its
Germanic branch, is vastly superior to all others. 'Only white peoples,
especially the Celtic, possess true courage, love of liberty and the other
passions and virtues which distinguish great souls,' proclaimed the German
historian Christoph Meiners (1745-1810). Meiners is generally regarded as a
founder of this racial theory. Julien-Joseph Virey (1775-1846), a disciple of
Meiners, asks: "What would our world be without the Europeans? Powerful
nations, a proud and and indomitable race, immortal geniuses in the arts and
the sciences, a happy civilization. The European, called by his high destiny to
rule the world, which he knows how to illumine with his intelligence and
subdue with his courage, is the highest expression of man and at the head of
the human race. The others, wretched horde of barbarians, are, so to say, no
more than its embryo." In other words, the true Aryans see themselves as
"supermen", and they regard "all the other species of men (for there are four
or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites." All these peoples
who are not light of skin and blond they classify as "subhumans". Where did
such an idea come from? In its earliest written form, the Aryan concept
predates both Meiners and Virey. The historian S.H. Steinberg traced it back
to the humanistic historiographers who lived during the reign of the Holy
Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1493-1519). "It was these forefathers of our
contemporary journalists who supplied the copy for Maximilian's anti-French
propaganda," he writes. "The French and, in fact, every other nation were, so
they argued, inferior to the Germans because of the latter's pride of place in
the pedigree of the Western nations: had they not for ancestors the Cimbri who
made Rome tremble?... Were the Germans of Maximilian not the sons and
heirs of the Lombards who gave their name to Upper Italy, the Franks who
established their rule over Gaul, the Angles and Saxons who made themselves
masters of Britain? 19
With Emperor Maximilian came the beginning of the revival of the old Aryan race
myth that had been propagated by the Gomerian giants in ancient times. Despite the
fact that the Gomerian Celts, Gauls, Germani, and numerous other tribes of the giant
descendants of Gomer had been soundly defeated by the homo sapiens Romans, they
still held doggedly to the belief that they were superior to all other forms of mankind.
This belief has survived even into modern times until it came to fruition again in the
20th century, in Hitler's Germany, where Hitler once again attempted to revive the
ancient herrenvolk, or "master race" of the Germani.
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do," he replied, "is to assist Nature and shorten the road to be followed! It is
Nature herself who must create for you a new species. Up till now the breeder
has only rarely succeeded in developing mutations in animals — that is to say,
creating himself new characteristics." "The new man is living amongst us
now! He is here!" exclaimed Hitler, triumphantly. "Isn't that enough for you? I
will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He is intrepid and cruel. I was
afraid of him." "In uttering these words," added Rauschning, "Hitler was
trembling in a kind of ecstasy." It was Rauschning, too, who related the
following strange episode, about which Dr. Achille Delmas, a specialist in
applied psychology, questioned him in vain: It is true that in a case like this
psychology does not apply: "A person close to Hitler told me that he wakes up
in the night screaming and in convulsions. He calls for help, and appears to be
half paralysed. He is seized with a panic that makes him tremble until the bed
shakes. He utters confused and unintelligible sounds, gasping, as if on the
point of suffocation. The same person described to me one of these fits, with
details that I would refuse to believe had I not complete confidence in my
informant. Hitler was standing up in his
room, swaying and looking all round him
as if he were lost. 'It's he, it's he,' he
groaned, 'he's come for me!' His lips were
white; he was sweating profusely.
Suddenly he uttered a string of
meaningless figures, then words and scraps
of sentences. It was terrifying. He used
strange expressions strung together in
bizarre disorder. Then he relapsed again
into silence, but his lips still continued to
move. He was then given a friction and
something to drink. Then suddenly he
screamed: 'There! there! Over in the
Azazel, the "Ubermensch", current
comer! He is there!' — all the time spiritual ruler of the West, and nominally
stamping with his feet and shouting. To of the entire world. Not someone you
quieten him he was assured that nothing want to wake up to.
extraordinary had happened, and finally he
gradually calmed down. After that he slept for a long time and became normal
again...."21
This strange episode clearly shows that Hitler was obsessed if not actually possessed
by a powerful demon, which was most likely Azazel, the powerful kosmokrator demon
that rules over the entire Earth. As we saw in Part II of our series on legendary
Atlantis (which Hitler also believed in, by the way), Azazel is one of the two most
powerful of the fallen angels who ruled the world before the Flood. These two had led
the world into rebellion against God, and had created the giants to destroy the
descendants of Adam. As a result, the God destroyed the giants with a Flood, and
Azazel and Semjaza were punished by being imprisoned in the deep parts of the Earth,
which we have theorized to be somewhere in the region of the Caucasus. These two
powerful fallen angels, Azazel and Semjaza, though now their power is limited, still try
to recreate the world before the Flood, and the giants they had created to conquer it. We
further believe that Semjaza had taken control of the ancient Magogians and had used
them to conquer the East, whereas Azazel had taken control of the Gomerians and had
used them to conquer the West — repeating the pattern that they had originally initiated
in the world before the Flood, a pattern of gross mismanagement that had led to the
eventual destruction of the antediluvian world.
Though these two powerful fallen angels are united in their opposition to God, it is
important to note that these two demons only cooperate with each other out of
necessity. It is most likely that they in fact struggle with God, but also with each for
dominion over the Earth. Though they are united in their rebellion against God, as the
ultimate self-centered individuals that they are, they also want to control each other,
and the entire world, alone. It is this struggle between these two powerful arch demons,
as well as struggles between the lesser demons under their sway, that has led to almost
all the wars throughout our history. As such, we can see the patterns of the activities of
these demons by tracking their "footsteps" throughout history, bloody footprints that
have manifested themselved in the wars and conflicts of the human race. And the larger
the war, the higher the level of conflict in the chain of demonic command, "world
wars" being waged by the demon princes Azazel and Semjaza themselves.
As such, the leaders of the nations that wage world wars are most likely controlled by
the kosmacrator (lit., "world ruling") demons that have initiated the wars in the first
place. As we saw in Part II, both Hitler and Stalin led very much parallel lives, where
both were involved in the secret societies and the occult, and both had invited demonic
powers to control them in order to gain worldly power for themselves. And they were
not disappointed, as it is likely that Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the most
powerful demons of all, who used these men to fight out the greatest world war the
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world has ever seen (in known history). Since Hitler was effectively in charge of the
West, he must, therefore, have been possessed by Azazel, the demon prince of the
West. Conversely Stalin, who effectively ruled over the East, must have been possessed
by Semjaza, the demon prince of the East.22 Thus, World War II was essentially only
the latest installment in the struggle between these two powerful demons over rulership
of the Earth.
So it was that, as with all the giant invasions, the Gomerians were eventually worn
down and bred out of existence, defeated in the relentless genetic arms race by sheer
numbers. Now a combination of Japhethite and Semitic peoples (as well as some
Hamitic), the European race as it is known today lived for thousands of years in a
well-balanced and civil society, whose cultural achievements rival any that the world
has ever seen. Even today, in post-Christian Europe, the old institutions and
worldviews that were founded in the Christian era still keep European society from
descending back into barbarism, despite their best attempts to remove Christendom and
its institutions and replace it with sterile, futile socialism. However, whether their
socialism is the aggressive national socialism of Hitler, or the passive, "democratic"
socialism of 21st-century Europe, both will fail equally badly, and leave the Europeans
wondering why they had enjoyed so many years of success, only to fail in the end.
Having rejected God, all but exterminated His people in the past, and persecuting them
in the present, Europe will once again fail to learn from history and look for a
scapegoat for their failure. And once again, the Jews and their allies will be blamed for
the failure of their fallen ideologies, and once again Azazel will move the peoples of
Europe to exterminate his ancient enemy.
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The next great war of Gog and Magog, as described in Ezekiel 38-39, where Gog and Magog and the Arab
peoples band together in order to create a "final solution" for the Jews. The "white horseman" (let the reader
understand) represents the forces of the Western Alliance, which will be made up of the U.S., Great Britain,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and a number of other countries. "Gog" represents the forces of
Europe, including France, Germany and other far left-wing socialist European countries. Europe may or not
participate militarily, but they will almost certainly participate economically. "Magog" represents the forces
of Russia and the Central Asian republics. From the south and west will come the remnant of the Arab and
Islamic nations who are capable of competently waging war, including Egypt, Libya and the Sudan in the
south, and Syria and possibly Turkey from the west. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the lesser emirates
will not get involved militarily. These forces of "Gog and Magog", or "the Eastern Axis", will be utterly
destroyed, most likely by theater nuclear weapons, as conventional warfare against such a massive force
would be impractical. This destruction will be condoned by God himself, described in Ezekiel as "fire from
heaven".
This time, however, the persecution of the Jews will be instigated not only by Azazel,
but also by Semjaza, who will also agitate his people to attempt to exterminate the Jews
in concert with Azazel. Semjaza hates the people of God as much as does Azazel, as
proven by the many pogroms Russian and Central Asian Jews and even some
Christians have had to endure at the hands of the Russians and their allies. Once again,
probably very soon Azazel, who rules over Gog, will join forces with Semjaza, who
rules over Magog in a final attempt to destroy the Jews, as it is written in the Book of
Ezekiel:
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The phrase, "Gog of the land of Magog" is interesting, as it implies that Gog and
Magog, hereditary enemies, will be as one in a huge war that will involve most of
Europe and Asia. Current trends in geopolitics appear to support this likelihood, as the
socialist Germans and the unmitigated Gauls invoke more and more anti-Western
rhetoric, and continue to align themselves with a resurgent Communist Russia. This
may be what Ezekiel meant by "Gog of the land of Magog" — the leaders of Europe,
though located in the hereditary lands of Gog, are politically Communist, and in this
way they are "of the land of Magog". God will take this group of Communist and
Socialist nations and "turn them around", pointing them back at their point of origin in
the Middle East, from where Gomer and Magog had originally emigrated over 10,000
years ago. But this return will not be for peace, but for war, as the warlike tendencies of
these people once again come to the fore, and they ally themselves with Iran, Syria,
Turkey, Egypt, Libya, and the Sudan in one last attempt to destroy Israel.
This vast mongrel horde will have but one objective — to destroy the Jews once and
for all, and anyone who is allied with them. It is important to note that this prophecy
can only take place after AD 1948, as the land of Israel, "a land that has been recovered
from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel"
had ceased to exist after the Romans had sacked Jerusalem in AD 70. Scattered among
the nations for close to 1,900 years, only in the last 50 years or so has the prophecy of
Ezekiel been able to be fulfilled. Moreover, interestingly, a "wall" or "fence" has just
recently been created by the Israelis in order to keep out Palestinian terrorists. In fact, it
is a major point of contention that has been holding up the Middle East peace process.
However, with Arafat dead, and with the Middle East peace process in the balance, the
Israelis will trade that fence for peace, and Ezekiel's prophecy that Israel will become
"a land of unwalled villages" will be fulfilled.
In summary, this "Eastern Axis" will seek to despoil and destroy Israel, with the intent
of ridding themselves of their ancient enemies and enriching themselves in the process.
Unfortunately for them, Israel is not only quite capable of defending itself, but as part
of the Western Alliance, it will be part of a military force that is far superior to that of
Gog and Magog. Seeking to overwhelm the Western Alliance with sheer numbers, the
Eastern Axis will be met with nuclear counterforce, "torrents of rain, hailstones and
burning sulfur", and almost all of the invading force will be annihilated. In this way
will the giants Gog and Magog, the ancient enemies of God, meet their doom.
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heaven and given to mankind. And though the giants are now diminished in stature,
their intelligence and ambition are still limitless, and their hunger for power,
unquenchable. It may be here, in America, that the giants in the Earth will make their
last stand, and from here, conquer the entire world.
Though Europe and Russia have had warlike pasts, by far the most militarily powerful
country the post-diluvian world has ever seen is the United States. With our wonder
weapons, the likes of which have not been seen since the drowning of the antediluvian
world, America is quite capable of taking on the entire world right now. Such super-
advanced technology could only have come from Azazel, the fallen angel who
instructed mankind in how to make advanced weapons of war in the world before the
Flood, weapons that led to wars that polluted Earth so badly that the Flood was
necessary simply to keep it habitable. It may well be that Azazel has abandoned Europe
and instead chosen America as the means through which he will attempt to conquer the
world. This may be the true meaning of the phrase, "Gog of the land of Magog" — all
of Europe and Central Asia are currently under the control of Semjaza. However, it is
becoming increasingly clear that Azazel intends to use the United States to finally
defeat Semjaza and his associates, and conquer not only Europe and Russia, but also
the Middle East, Asia and, for a time, even the entire world.
As we saw in The Grand Canyon Part II, there is a Hopi prophecy that, at the end of
the Fourth Age, Masaw, the caretaker of the Earth will be given control of the Earth.
This will be necessary as mankind will have once again abandoned the laws of the
Creator, and will have fallen into anarchy, requiring a firm hand in order to restore the
balance. Masaw's throne in the Hopi myth was, of course, in the Desert Southwest
region of America, the Hopi "center of the universe", from whence he will rise again
near the end of the Fourth Age. It may well be that Masaw is the same kosmokrator
demon known in the Bible and the Book of Enoch as "Azazel", the prince of this world.
If so, the Desert Southwest, or the American West in general, may be the seat of the
next great world empire, an empire unlike all the rest that have come before.
There were giants in the Earth in those days ... and also afterwards.
Part I: Giants of the Ancient Near East | Part II: Giants of the Americas
Part III: Giants of Asia
Gog, Prince of the West | Giants of Europe | The Coming War of Gog and Magog
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1
Charles DeLoach, "Giants Who Became Gods", in Giants: A Reference Guide from
History, the Bible, and Recorded Legend (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
1995), 110-112.
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2
DeLoach, "Giants Who Became Gods", 112.
3
DeLoach, "Giants Who Became Gods", 113-114.
4
DeLoach, "Giants Who Became Gods", 118-119.
5
Vassil Karloukovski, "The Cimmerians" (Great Bulgaria:
http://members.tripod.com/great-bulgaria/).
6
DeLoach, "Gomarian Giants", 133.
7
DeLoach, "Celtic Giants", 53.
8
DeLoach, "Celtic Giants", 54-55.
9
DeLoach, "Celtic Giants", 56-57.
10
DeLoach, "Rome vs. Senone Giants", 249-251.
11
DeLoach, "German Giants' Annihilation", 96.
12
DeLoach, "German Giants' Annihilation", 96-97.
13
DeLoach, "German Giants' Annihilation", 101-102.
14
DeLoach, "Maximinus", 186.
15
DeLoach, "Maximinus", 190.
16
Robin Chew, "Charlemagne: King of the Franks and Emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire" (Lucidcafe: http://www.lucidcafe.com).
17
DeLoach, "Charlemagne", 62.
18
DeLoach, "Maximilian", 183.
19
DeLoach, "Maximilian", 180-181.
20
"Adolf Hitler und die Ubermensch von der Golden Dawn" (Forumer:
http://forumer.com).
21
"Adolf Hitler und die Ubermensch von der Golden Dawn".
22
cf. Mysterious World, "Giants of the Americas" (Mysterious World:
http://mysteriousworld.com). This ancient conflict between Semjaza and Azazel is
also alluded to in Daniel 10:12-20.
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Giants
David Larkin, Julek Heller (Illustrator)
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Giants is a classic popular reference work on the subject of giants in
myth and history, and is also an enjoyable read on its own. Filled
with lavish, cleverly rendered illustrations, it makes an excellent
general reference book and even a good coffee table book. (Review
by Mysterious World)
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Genesis 6 Giants
Stephen Quayle
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Genesis 6 Giants provides a good, solid overview of giants in
religion, myth and history, and also serves as a good reference for
other sources on giants. Quayle also adds his own insights into the
mix, providing some interesting and thought-provoking reading. He
also offers several other books on related topics on his website,
http://www.stevequayle.com. (Review by Mysterious World)
Click here to buy this book.
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Amazon.com)
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The Celts
John Davies
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This is an account of the Celtic peoples exploring the cultural,
archaeological and historical evidence for their origins,
development and heritage. From their heyday to their defeat by
the Romans, from their adoption of Christianity to the
flourishing of the Celtic church. The span of this exploration
extends from prehistoric Europe to near-obliteration to a new
self-assertion as we enter a new millennium.
(Review by Amazon.co.uk)
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questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues
seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result,
largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and
persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were
spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been
assumed. There was, in particular, no "coming of the Celts", but rather a parallel
development of Celtic-speaking peoples in much the same areas in which they are
found today. (Review by Amazon.com)
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intertwined to affect the lives of millions in the first half of this century. One would
expect Bullock to know Hitler, but his grasp of Stalin and his times is also impressive.
In chapters alternately dealing with Hitler and then Stalin, Bullock analyzes how each
man achieved and then used power for his own twisted goals. It is chilling to realize
that both men rose within legitimate institutions, each "playing the game" by the
established rules. Hitler's evil empire collapsed with his death, Stalin's would live on to
haunt the Soviet Union for decades. Essential for anyone seeking to understand the
history of the West in this century. (Review by Library Journal)
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Though originally written for the film "Rabbit-Proof Fence", set in aboriginal
Australia, the primeval and mysterious passions of this aborigine-inspired music brings
to mind the idea of a ancient race whose time has passed. While the booming electro-
tribal rhythms of previous Gabriel work come instantly into play, there's a sense of
spacious mystery that's perfectly emblematic of the story's Australian outback setting.
Gabriel's penchant for dense aural construction gives way to an ambient soundscape
punctuated by Aboriginal percussion, didgeridoo, and bird song, and occasionally
washed over by lolling tides of synth and samples. It's an atmosphere that, like the
Aboriginal world it evokes, is nearly devoid of traditional melody, but one infused with
a gripping, almost subliminal power. (Review by Mysterious World)
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Apocalypse Now
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(1979)
Rating:
In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim
and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of
Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On
location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project
threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came
one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing
Joseph Conrad's classic story "Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War,
following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to
find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a
state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving
wartime action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film's awesome visceral
impact is the number of sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally
burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of
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Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks lovingly of "the smell of napalm in the
morning." Like Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius
cast into a pit of hell and emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppola's obsession
(effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by
Coppola's wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the result is a film
for the ages. (Review by Amazon.com)
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the Grand Canyon named after ancient Egyptian, Greek, Hindu,
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The Grand Canyon has played host to numerous groups of Suite
various peoples over thousands of years. Native Americans, Ferde
Spanish Conquistadores, monks, friars, fur trappers, Grofe
mountain men and traders. Then, western civilization began Perfect listening
to creep into the region during the 19th century as wave after while reading our
wave of expeditions motivated by greed, high adventure or articles on the Grand
simply the pioneer spirit each began to unlock the mystery of Canyon! (Courtesy
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became a national monument, and with that national seal of Sunrise
approval, it became the crown jewel of American tourism, a Painted Desert
title it holds to this day. But even with the missionary zeal On The Trail
that the early explorers exhibited, the Grand Canyon still had Sunset
not been completely mapped until 19711
The canyon was first occupied by bands
of wandering hunter-gatherers, early Native Americans who left
little in the way of material remains save small votive animal figurines made of bent
twigs. These forerunners of modern Native Americans hunted and fished the canyon
and surrounding region as early as 2000 b.c. or earlier. Not much is known of this
mysterious people, or even if they truly were the progenitors of the modern Native
American peoples of the southwest.
The first coherent culture to occupy the valley were the Anasazi, who
entered the region around 500 a.d., hunting small game as well as
raising such crops as corn and squash for their livelihood. By around 1000 a.d., their
culture had advanced to the point where they had begun to develop their own
distinctive pottery style, advanced agricultural methods, and a unique form of dwelling
known as the "pueblo". Though the Anasazi have
long since passed into history, they continue to be a
source of reverent fear for other Native American
peoples of the four corners area, many of whom to
this day fear to touch the old Anasazi dwellings or
anything that belonged to the Anasazi, as tradition
holds that anyone who disturbs their artifacts will be
terribly cursed.
The Cohonina shared the South Rim area with the Kayenta Anasazi,
living in and around the Kaibab National Forest just south of the
canyon, leading a semi-agrarian lifestyle in pit-style and stone houses, traces of which
still remain today.2 Both peoples dominated the area until around 1150, when a
prolonged drought necessitated a mass exodus from the area. The Hopi Indians, who
live east of the Kaibab forest, are likely the descendants of those Anasazi and Cohonina
who remained in the region.
Around 1300 a.d. the Cerbat peoples began to repopulate the region,
migrating to the South Rim area from the deserts of the lower
Colorado River. They lived primarily in rock shelters and brush wickiups on the
Coconino Plateau and the tributary canyons. The Cerbat were the ancestors of the later
Hualapai and Havasupai peoples, who still inhabit the western end of the canyon
today.3 Around this same time, the ancestors of the modern-day southern Paiute,
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apparently unafraid of ancient curses, moved into the old Anasazi ruins in the Grand
Canyon's north rim and tributary canyons.
When Coronado reached the Southern Rim of the Grand Canyon however, he was
disappointed to find not cities of gold, but the simple clay huts of the Cerbat and the
scattered descendants of the Anasazi and Coconino. After some fruitless skirmishes
with the local natives, and intimidated by the enormous canyon, Coronado crossed the
Grand Canyon off his list of areas worthy of further exploration.
Two hundred years after Coronado and the conquistadores had
come and gone, Franciscan friars began to penetrate the area, this
time to spread the Gospel of Christianity. The first to visit the Grand Canyon region
was Father Francisco Tomas Garces, who visited the Havasupai Indians. The name
"Havasu" means "blue water", and "pai" means "people", so the Havasupai are "the
people of the blue water". The blue water refers to the striking blue color of the water
in the Havasu Canyon, which branches south from the western end of the Grand
Canyon into the Coconino Plateau (see map). The water is such a striking blue because
the bottom of the creek is covered in very light-colored carbonate and sulfate materials
that reflect the color of the sky back up through the water, making it a brilliant
turquoise blue. A glass of water taken from Havasu Creek is otherwise colorless.5
Father Garces took the Gospel to the
Hopi, but was coldly rebuffed and sent
away. The Havasupai, however,
welcomed him with open arms, and even
though they were not converted, they
still treated Father Garces to a
six-day-long feast. Garces was the first
man to name the Colorado River, calling
it colorado, "red water", after the
bricklike hue of the silt-laden water.
Later that year, two more Franciscan
The Havasu Falls in Havasu Valley, as seen from the fathers, Francisco Atanasia Dominquez
Havasu Falls Overlook. The turquoise blue color of the and Sylvestre Velez de Escalante, set out
water is due to the floor of the creek being covered by to find a route between New Mexico and
chemical compounds that are white in color and reflect California, preaching and proselytizing
the blue sky back up through the water. Image from
along the way.
Creation Safaris.
The first Americans, primarily trappers, traders, and seekers of
fortune, began to trickle into the Grand Canyon region in the early
part of the 19th century. They brought back with them rumors and tall tales of the
mysterious canyon, which began to seep into the American popular consciousness.
After the American victory in the Mexican-American War in 1848, in which America
won the territories now known as Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California from the
Mexicans, the American government sent out surveying parties to map out their newly
won territories. Murfin explains,
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sent surveying parties led by military officers to map the new terrain,
specifically to locate routes for future railroads. The most interesting of these
expeditions, as far as the Grand Canyon is concerned, was led by Lieutenant
Joseph Ives. In 1857, Ives and his party chugged up the Colorado River in a
sternwheeler called Explorer. At Black Canyon, near the spot where the
Hoover Dam now stands, the Explorer struck a surface rock, and Ives had to
abandon the damaged steamer. The party continued overland, into the depths
of the "Big Cañon". While Ives admired the beauty of the place, he was
pessimistic about its usefulness. "The region is, of course, altogether
valueless", he said in his report. "Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be
the last, party of whites to visit this profitless locality."6
The same year Ives was exploring the canyon by
water, one Lieutenant Edward Beale came to survey
the region by land. Beale had been chosen by the War
Department to survey an east-west route just south of
the canyon. Interestingly, Beale had managed to
convince Jefferson Davis, the Secretary of War (and
later, briefly, President of the Confederacy), to
purchase 80 camels from North Africa to help them
travel the rugged desert lands. Unfortunately for
Beale, the Arab drivers, unused to the rugged land,
quit to a man save one named Hadji Ali. Under Ali's
guidance, the camels proved to be quite effective on
just about any terrain, including snow-covered
mountains and jagged lava rock, and carried much
more weight than other pack animals. Unfortunately
the drawbacks of camels — grouchiness, unruliness,
bad smell, and the fact that their smell sent other Hadji Ali, the Arab camel driver recruited
by Lieutenant Beale in 1857 and locally
animals into a panic — made them unsuitable for
remembered as "Hi Jolly", had a
large-scale use, and they were eventually set free, memorial erected in his honor in
later to be hunted down and destroyed before they Quartzsite, Arizona. Image from Out
became a problem. A monument to Hadji Ali, locally West: The Newspaper that Roams.
known as "Hi Jolly", exists to this day in Quartzite,
Arizona.
The last and greatest of the adventures into the Grand Canyon was
the voyage of John Wesley Powell (of Smithsonian fame, op cit.).
Powell's voyage was one purely of adventure. Poorly prepared, this one-armed Civil
War veteran, along with nine men, started their voyage through the Grand Canyon on
the Green River from Green River, Wyoming. Powell's journal is an exciting tale of
swamped boats, raging rapids, dangerous whirlpools, perilous cataracts and even a
raging fire started by their own carelessness that nearly destroyed all of their equipment
— all before their expedition even reached the Colorado River. Of course, the
Colorado, which has the most raging rapids in North America, proved to be the greatest
challenge of all. Yet through all the danger, the men pushed on just to see the wonders
of the canyon, charting as much as possible and naming as much as they could name:
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name that all the other Bright Angels in the neighborhood derive.7
Powell followed up his initial expedition with another expedition in 1871 which was
much more fruitful in terms of scientific analysis, producing a map and scientific
publications. However, though the second voyage was much more productive, the first
voyage has gone down in Grand Canyon history as one of the great adventures of the
American experience. Powell's landmark journey down the Colorado, in the minds of
many, marked the end of the age of the explorers, and the beginning of the age of
tourism.
"Chasm of the Colorado" by Thomas Moran. From the Department of the Interior Museum, Washington,
D.C. Image from National Gallery of Art.
As was the pattern in the Old West, the explorers were followed by the prospectors,
those who were willing to risk death in order to obtain vast fortunes in the still largely
unexplored areas of the Old West. In the 1870s and 1880s, substantial deposits of lead,
zinc, copper and asbestos were discovered in the canyon, and the region was quickly
divvied up amongst the prospectors eager to find their fortunes. Unfortunately for them
— and fortunately for tourism — mining the canyon proved to be economically
unfeasible, as the cost of getting the raw ores out of the canyon was prohibitively
expensive, and as a result, most mining in the canyon was abandoned. However, the
canyon's pristine beauty proved to be its greatest asset, as the tourism industry began to
flourish around the turn of the century.
Around the turn of the century, the sensibility of many Americans toward their
natural heritage began to change. They began to realize that there was a
dimension to the land other than the economic one. Artists like Thomas
Moran and writers like Clarence Dutton and John Van Dyke depicted the
Grand Canyon in terms that had far more to do with aesthetics than with
utility. In response with this shift in attitude, a whole new industry evolved. In
the 1890s, the Bright Angel Trail was completed, enabling tourists to walk or
ride down to the spacious mantle of the Tonto Plateau. J.W. Thurber's
stagecoach route between Flagstaff and the South Rim was made obsolete
when the Santa Fe Railroad constructed a spur from Williams in 1901. Old
miners soon came to see great potential in this new source of gold, and they
built accomodations like Bass Camp and the Grand View Hotel. The Age of
Tourism had begun.8
The first and greatest official PR for the Grand Canyon as the great American tourist
destination came in 1903, when President Theodore Roosevelt, having returned from a
tour of the canyon, described it as "the most impressive piece of scenery I have ever
looked at". Roosevelt was known for his policies of natural conservation and officially
designated the Grand Canyon as a national monument in 1908. After Arizona became a
state in 1912, the process of turning the Grand Canyon into a national park accelerated,
and in 1919 President Woodrow Wilson officially created the Grand Canyon National
Park. President Ford doubled the size of the park, making the entire interior of the
canyon, except for the Indian Reservations, protected national park lands.
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National Park Service map of the Grand Canyon. Click here for a larger version.
The first major step towards making the Grand Canyon accessible to tourists came in
1882 with the completion of the Santa Fe Railroad's cross continental train line that ran
from Flagstaff, Arizona. The elimination of the unpleasant journey by stagecoach and
its replacement by comfortably appointed train cars was to be the most important first
step in the development of Grand Canyon tourism. The first scheduled passenger train
ran from Williams, Arizona on September 17, 1901. The first car, a ten-horsepower
steam-powered machine that ran on gasoline, made it to the South Rim in 1902, but
cars were not routinely used to travel to the canyon until the 1930s, when the car
overtook the train as the preferred mode of transportation. The Grand Canyon railway
suspended operation in 1968, the last run only carrying 3 people. However, in 1990 the
Grand Canyon Railway was put back into service, once again offering a luxurious,
3-hour ride to the canyon to over 75,000 passengers per year.
The first hotel catering to Grand Canyon visitors opened up in 1884. Called the Farlee,
it closed in 1889, to be replaced by the Dripping Springs hotel. In 1890, a tourist camp
was opened called Bass Camp, which was essentially large hotel building with
additional tent houses for those who wished to "rough it" (though the whole setting was
entirely civilized). In 1892 the Grand Canyon Hotel opened up, and in 1896, the Bright
Angel Hotel, named after the Bright Angel stream of the Colorado so named by
Powell. More and more hotels and train rest stops opened up in the years between 1880
and 1910, attracting more and more customers and commanding higher and higher
premiums. One of the more luxurious hotels was named the El Tovar. Rena Zurovsky
in The Grand Canyon describes the El Tovar as a bastion of New York-style luxury in
the middle of the wilderness:
The El Tovar is a rambling structure
built with native boulders and pine
logs from Oregon and decorated with
the rustic elegance of the arts and
crafts movement. The hotel was
designed by Mary Elizabeth Jane
Colter, who gave her unifying vision
to all of the Fred Harvey facilities
built at the canyon. El Tovar opened
up to accomodate two hundred The El Tovar historic hotel, built in 1905, located right
guests. It had a Rendezvous room, on the rim in the historic section of Grand Canyon
decorated with animal heads and Village. El Tovar was named after the Spanish explorer
Indian crafts, and Art Rooms, where Don Pedro de Tovar, who had heard of the canyon from
some paintings and photographs the Hopis and had passed the information on to
Coronado. Image from Grand Canyon Explorer.
commissioned by the Santa Fe
Railroad were offered for sale. The
Norway Dining Room, 89 feet long by 38 feet wide, was served by
well-trained Harvey Girl waitresses and an Italian chef. The hotel boasted a
music room, two roof gardens, a sun parlor, an amusement room, a club room,
and a barber shop. Stables accomodated 125 animals in addition to coaches
and wagons.9
The El Tovar had been opened in 1905 between the end of the Santa Fe railroad and the
rim of the canyon near the Bright Angel Trail, the centerpiece of the tourist facilities
that the Santa Fe Railroad had built to attract more customers. The "Harvey Girls" were
so called due to the fact that the El Tovar — and all of Santa Fe's facilities — was run
by one Fred Harvey, who was known as "The Civilizer of the West", as he had opened
up restaurants, hotels, newsstands and railroad dining cars all over the Southwest. The
Fred Harvey Company would later purchase Bass Camp, and turn Teddy Roosevelt's
camp into Phantom Ranch. Though the Phantom Ranch and El Tovar Hotel are both on
the south side of the canyon, Grand Canyon Lodge and other tourism facilities are also
available on the North Rim of the canyon. Fewer people go to the North Rim, however,
as it is more difficult to access and is closed several months of the year due to wintry
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conditions. As such, the North Rim might be a better destination for some, as more
solitary views and experiences of the canyon might be more accessible.
One can't beat the "boots on the ground" approach to really experience the canyon.
Some hardy adventurers have successfully hiked the entire length of the Grand
Canyon, but most by far stick close to the rim on the main trails, particularly the Bright
Angel and Kaibab trails, as even in this relatively civilized area danger is always the
adventurer's companion. As Zurofsky explains,
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Visiting the Grand Canyon can be a bit of an ordeal if one is not properly prepared.
During the latter half of the twentieth century, and especially during the 80s and 90s,
the Grand Canyon had become increasingly traffic ridden, with long lines and traffic
jams being the norm rather than the exception. Plans that had originally been laid early
in the twentieth century to allow for 1,000,000 visitors per year had been foiled by over
5,000,000 visitors per year by the end of the last millennium. Tourists during the 80s
and 90s may well have spent more time waiting in line to see the canyon than they did
actually seeing it. As a result of this increased traffic congestion, noise, and air
pollution, the Grand Canyon had begun to take on many of the negative characteristics
of the big city tourist destinations that it competed with for the coveted rank of
America's #1 tourist destination.
Recent innovations in the parking and transit systems, however, have greatly improved
the traffic congestion problems. Moreover, with the conversion of the bus fleet to
alternative fuels such as electricity and natural gas, the "fresh air" aspect of the Grand
Canyon experience has been recovered. Efforts to help improve the Grand Canyon
experience are ongoing, and reflect a genuine interest by both local, state and national
government to keep the Grand Canyon experience worthy of its status as a World
Heritage site. Perhaps the best option for those seeking the complete Grand Canyon
experience is to forego the traffic and take the Grand Canyon Railway from nearby
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Williams, Arizona. That, combined with a stay at the Phantom Ranch or the El Tovar,
would be the best bet for recreating the original Grand Canyon experience. For more
information or for a Grand Canyon Trip Planner Package, check out the official Grand
Canyon information website, or consult the links below.
1
Robert Wallace, The Grand Canyon (The American Wilderness/Time-Life Books)
(New York: Little Brown & Company, 1972), 25-26.
2
USDA Forest Service, "Williams History" (USDA Forest Service:
http://www.fs.fed.us).
3
James V. Murfin, ed., The Sierra Clubs Guides to the National Parks: Desert
Southwest (New York: Random House, 1984), 191.
4
Wallace, The Grand Canyon, 20.
5
Wallace, The Grand Canyon, 107.
6
Murfin, The Sierra Clubs Guides to the National Parks: Desert Southwest, 192.
7
Wallace, The Grand Canyon, 26-27.
8
Murfin, The Sierra Clubs Guides to the National Parks: Desert Southwest, 193-194.
9
Rena Zurofsky, "Tourism at the Grand Canyon", in Letitia Burns O'Connor, ed., The
Grand Canyon (Los Angeles: Perpetua Press, 1992), 31.
10
O'Connor, The Grand Canyon, 32.
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The Sierra Club Guides to the National Parks of the Desert Southwest
The Sierra Club
Rating:
Newly revised and updated, this guide offers practical travel information
to the desert Southwest's national parks. Outstanding color photographs,
maps, park facility charts, geological and historical information about each
park, and identification of animals and plants commonly found within the
parks. Our month-long tour of the Desert Southwest was greatly enhanced by this
book. (Review by Amazon.com)
Click here to buy this book.
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First Through Grand Canyon: The Secret Journals & Letters of the 1869
Crew Who Explored the Green & Colorado Rivers
Michael P. Ghiglieri
In May of 1869, eleven men embarked on a journey of exploration and
discovery. 98 days later six of them arrived 1000 miles away after
navigating the Green and Colorado Rivers to the end of Grand Canyon.
The journals and writings of the expedition leader, John Wesley Powell have been
extensively published but here, for the first time, are the newly transcribed, unabridged
journals and letters of some of the other members of the group. Author Ghiglieri has
used his extensive river running experience to introduce the whole group and their
exploits of courage and endurance. (From the book description)
Click here to buy this book.
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Vacation is a sublimely goofy comedy, thanks largely to Chevy Chase in his signature
role of Clark Griswold. The inept but sincere Clark takes misfortune in stride. So what
if they lose all their money when their new car gets wrecked. And it's not too bad when
Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) deposits sour Aunt Edna (Imogene Coca) in their back
seat for a lift to Phoenix. But what really keeps Clark's eyes on the road is a flirtation
with a mysterious blonde (Christie Brinkley) in a red Ferrari. For those along on the
ride, National Lampoon's Vacation, called "fast, funny satire" by The New York Times'
Janet Maslin, is a jolly jaunt. (From the DVD description)
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hearts and minds of the native
peoples of the region is far greater.
In the worldview of the native Americans of the Desert Southwest, the Canyon is a
great and important sacred space that occupies a central place in native cosmologies
throughout the region. Wallace explains,
Long before geologists arrived in the Grand Canyon to examine its rocks and
deduce its origins, the Indians who lived around the Canyon had created their
own explanations for the formation of the spectacular chasm. These ideas,
passed down from generation to generation by tribal medicine men and
storytellers, were expressed as poetic myths.... The Canyon myths are part of
broad cosmologies that enabled the Indians to cope with a harsh and
unpredictable environment making comprehensible the forces that surrounded
their unique world. To the Ute and the Southern Paiute, the Hualapai and
Havasupai, the Hopi and the Navajo, that world and those forces were
inextricably joined. Rocks were not simply rocks; they were supernatural
beings, watching over the tribesmen and guarding
their collective destiny. Water, in this water-starved Closer to
land, had a life of its own. The great river that Far Away
formed the Canyon gorge led to the Indians' Douglas
promised land, and springs had souls, to be placated Spotted
by offerings of peaches, corn and tobacco. The Eagle -
animals that the Indian hunted, the spiders that Evocative Native
inhabited his dwelling, the snakes that slithered American
across his trail, all were his equals — sometimes his contemporary music.
Dii'saad'beh
heroes and sometimes his spiritual mentors.1
Closer to Far Away
The same awe that fills visitors today was the inspiration Brother, Father,
for native Americans to make the Grand Canyon the Warrior, Son
focal point of their myths and legends. Some native House Made of
tribes believe that the Canyon was the result of the Great Dawn Light
Flood that had drowned the previous, wicked world that Dieshu
had forgotten the gods, having turned their minds away
from natural things and towards metal and wheels —
means through which they could conquer and enslave their fellow men. And of all of
the local cosmologies the most famous and oft-quoted is that of the Anasazi, and their
modern-day descendants, the Hopi.
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arranged them into nine universal kingdoms [planets?]: one for Taiowa, the
Creator, one for himself, and seven universes for the life to come. Finishing
this, Sotuknang went to Taiowa and asked, "Is this according to your plan?"
"It is very good," said Taiowa. "Now I want you to do the same thing with the
waters. Place them on the surfaces of these universes so they will be divided
equally among all and each." So Sotuknang gathered from endless space that
which was to be manifest as the waters and placed them on the universes so
that each would be half solid and half water. Going now to Taiowa, he said, "I
want you to see the work I have done and if it pleases you." "It is very good",
said Taiowa. "The next thing now is to put the forces of air into peaceful
movement about all." This Sotuknang did. From endless space he gathered
that which was to be manifest as the airs, made them into great forces, and
arranged them into gentle ordered movements around each universe. Taiowa
was pleased. "You have done a great work according to my plan, Nephew.
You have created the universes and made them manifest in solids, waters, and
winds, and put them in their proper places. But your work is not yet finished.
Now you must create life and its movement to complete the four parts,
Tuwaqachi, of my universal plan.2
Father Taiowa had created and ordered the universe through his son, Sotuknang,
creating Earth's atmosphere, dividing the waters above from the waters below, all
strikingly similar to the Hebrew creation story in Genesis 1. This was "Tokpela", the
First World.
In order to help him carry out Taiowa's orders to "create life and its movement to
complete the four parts of Taiowa's universal plan" — the four "Worlds", or ages of
mankind — Sotuknang decided to create a helper whom he named Kokyangwuti, or
"Spider Woman".
Sotuknang went to the universe wherein was
that to be Tokpela, the First World, and out of
it he created here who was to remain on that
earth and be his helper. Her name was
Kokyangwuti, Spider Woman. When she
awoke to life and received her name, she
asked, "Why am I here?" "Look about you,"
answered Sotuknang. "Here is this earth we
have created. It has shape and substance,
direction and time, a beginning and an end.
But there is no life upon it. We see no joyful
movement. We hear no joyful sound. What is
life without sound and movement? So you
have been given the power to help us create
this life. You have been given the knowledge,
wisdom, and love to bless all the beings you
create. That is why you are here." Following
his instructions, Spider Woman took some
earth, mixed with it some tuchvala (liquid
"Spider Grandmother". The Spider from mouth; saliva), and molded it into two
Woman myth is common through the
beings. Then she covered them with a cape
beliefs of the Native Americans of the
American Southwest. It is believed that made of white substance which was the
all life on earth, including plant, animal, creative wisdom itself, and sang the Creation
and human life, was created by Spider Song over them. When she uncovered them
Woman, who had been delegated that task the two beings, twins, sat up and asked, "Who
by the gods at the very beginning of are we? Why are we here?" To the one on the
Earth's history. Even today, they believe, right Spider Woman said, "You are
she sits at the center of the universe,
acting as the great female force of the
Poqanghoya and you are to help keep this
primeval creation that binds together all world in order when life is put upon it. Go
nations, tribes and families in her web of now around all the world and put your hands
influence, keeping the forces of nature in upon the earth so that it will become fully
balance. Image: "Ancestral Shield" by solidified. This is your duty." Spider Woman
Lauren Raine, MFA. then said to the twin on the left, "You are
www.rainewalker.com. Palongawhoya and you are to help keep this
world in order when life is put upon it. This is your duty now: go about all the
world and send out sound so that it may be heard throughout all the land.
When this is heard you will also be known as 'Echo', for all sound echoes the
Creator".... When they had accomplished their duties, Poqanghoya was sent to
the north pole of the world axis and Palongawhoya to the south pole, where
they were jointly commanded to keep the world properly rotating.... "These
will be your duties in time to come", said Spider Woman. She then created
from the earth trees, bushes, plants, flowers, all kinds of seed-bearers and
nut-bearers to clothe the earth, giving to each a life and name. In the same
manner she created all kinds of birds and animals — molding them out of
earth, covering them with her white-substance cape, and singing over them.
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Some she placed to her right, some to her left, others before and behind her,
indicating how they should spread to all four corners of the earth to live.3
Though Nintu was able to create the men and women, she was not able to give them
life. Instead, one of the gods had to be sacrificed and his blood used to give them life.5
Similarly, the one thing that Spider Woman was not able to give mankind was
intelligence — the ability to speak, move, and act intelligently. She then called upon
Sotuknang, who came and gave each of the four races of mankind their own language,
the power to reproduce and multiply, and the wisdom to respect the differences
between them. And for this, all Sotuknang asked is that they respect the Creator at all
times. "Wisdom, harmony, and respect for the love of the Creator who made you. May
it grow and never be forgotten among you as long as you live."6
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Morning at Nankoweap, a passage along People were pure and happy. So, the First
the Little Colorado River. The Hopi still People kept multiplying and spreading over
visit this area for pilgrimages and to the face of the land and were happy. Although
search for salt to use in religious they were of different colors and spoke
ceremonies. Though rafters and kayakers
different languages, they felt as one and
frequent the area, the ritual areas are
strictly off limits.
understood one another without talking. It was
Tokpela, the "First World", was likely the same with the birds and animals. They all
open and wild like the canyon, which is suckled at the breast of their Mother Earth,
likely part of the attraction and who gave them her milk of grass, seeds, fruit,
fascination it holds for the Hopi. Image and corn, and they all felt as one, people and
from Kayak Place.
animals.7
However, the paradise of Tokpela was not to last forever. As in the Hebrew account, so
in the Hopi account there was a serpent that entered paradise and began to confuse the
people with words and turn them away from Taiowa, the Creator:
But gradually there were those who forgot the commands of Sotuknang and
the Spider Woman to respect their Creator. More and more they used the
vibratory centers of their bodies solely for earthly purposes, forgetting that
their primary purpose was to carry out the plan of Creation. There then came
along Lavaihoya, the Talker. He came in the form of a bird called Mochni
[bird like a mocking bird], and the more he kept talking the more he
convinced them of the differences between them: the difference between
people and animals, and the differences between the people themselves by
reason of the colors of their skins, their speech, and belief in the plan of the
Creator. It was then that animals began to draw away from people.... In the
same way, people began to divide and draw away from one another — those
of different races and languages, then those who remembered the plan of
Creation and those who did not. There came among them a handsome one,
Kato'ya, in the form of a snake with a big head. He led the people still farther
away from one another and their pristine wisdom. They became suspicious of
one another and accused one another wrongfully until they became fierce and
warlike and began to fight one another. All the time Mochni kept talking and
Kato'ya became more beguiling. There was no rest, no peace.8
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the top of the head] will lead you. This inner wisdom will give you the sight to
see a certain cloud, which you will follow by day, and a certain star, which
you will follow by night. Take nothing with you. Your journey will not end
until the cloud stops and the star stops". So all over the world these chosen
people suddenly disappeared from their homes and people and began
following the cloud by day and the star by night. Many other people asked
them where they were going and, when they were told, laughed at them. "We
don't see any cloud or star either!" they said. This was because they had lost
the inner vision of the kopavi on the crown of their head; the door was closed
to them. Still there were a very few who went along anyway because they
believed the people who did see the cloud and the star. This was all right.9
Just like the Star of Bethlehem event in Matthew 2 and the "cloudy pillar" that led the
Israelites out of Egypt, so too the chosen people of Taiowa followed a cloud and a star,
that appear to be one and the same. These were to be the people that were saved from
the destruction of Tokpela, the First World.
When the last ones arrived Sotuknang appeared. "Well, you are all here, you
people I have chosen to save from the destruction of this world. Now come
with me." He led them to a big mound where the Ant People lived, stamped
on the roof, and commanded the Ant People to open up their home. When an
opening was made on top of the anthill, Sotuknang said to the people, "Now
you will enter this Ant kiva, where you will be safe when I destroy the world.
While you are here I want you to learn a lesson from these Ant People. They
are industrious. They gather food in the summer for the winter. They keep
cool when it is hot and warm when it is cool. They live peacefully with one
another. They obey the plan of Creation." So the people went down to live
with the Ant People. When they were all safe and settled Taiowa commanded
Sotuknang to destroy the world. Sotuknang destroyed it by fire because the
Fire Clan had been its leaders He rained fire upon it. He opened up the
volcanoes. Fire came from above and below and all around until the Earth, the
waters, the air, all was one element, fire, and there was nothing left except the
people safe inside the womb of the Earth. This was the end of Tokpela, the
First World.10
Tokpa ("Dark
Midnight"), the
Second World,
had been created
from a world
purified by fire,
so it was
effectively as
good as new. The
chosen people
had lived with the
"Everywhere there are people carrying burdens; cultivating gardens; preparing Ant People,
meals; striking a bargain for some goods from far away; conducting ceremonial
dances; playing games with either sacred or gambling intent, or both; and, in short,
eating their stored
living their daily lives in the metropolis." The Cahokian level of civilization might be food and learning
a good example of the level of sophistication that the people of Topka, the Second their industrious,
World, attained. efficient ways
Image from Cahokia: City of the Sun until the Earth
had cooled sufficiently to reinhabit. Interestingly, Sotuknang instructed the chosen
people to use ants as an example of industriousness and efficient living, instructing
them to "consider the ant", and study its efficient lifeways, just as King Solomon would
do much later in his proverbs (Prov. 6:6-8). During this time, while the people were
living with the ants and learning their ways, Sotuknang purified Earth and changed its
form completely, putting land where the water had been and water where the land had
been, so the wicked world that was would not be remembered in any way. After he had
completed his task, Sotuknang stamped on the roof of the Ant kiva again, and let the
people know that is was safe to come out.
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The people emerged from the Ant kiva and then spread out across the face of the Earth,
in all four directions, all the way to the other side of the world. However, though they
were able to still communicate with each other telepathically, as they had been able to
do in the First World, they still were separated from the animals. Their original close
communion with nature had been shattered forever by their "original sin", never to
return. Thus, instead of living off the land and being at one with nature like the
animals, the people of the Second World built homes, and villages with trails between
them. They created objects of both beauty and utility, and traded them with one
another, all the while singing praises to the Creator, Taiowa. However, once again, all
was not perfect in paradise:
Everything they needed was on this
Second World, but they began to want
more. More and more they traded for
things they didn't need, and the more goods
they got, the more they wanted. This was
very serious. For they did not realize they
were drawing away, step by step, from the
good life given them. They just forgot to
sing joyful praises to the Creator and soon
began to sing praises for the goods they
bartered and stored. Before long it
happened as it had to happen. The people
began to quarrel and fight, and then wars
between villages began. Still there were a
few people in every village who sang the
song of their Creation. But the wicked
people laughed at them until they could
The world axis, the two poles, and the sing it only in their hearts. Even so,
precessional path in which the poles travel over Sotuknang heard it through their centers
time. The Hopi believed that the twin guardians and the centers of the Earth. Suddenly one
of the world who kept the poles from moving, day he appeared before them. "Spider
Poqanghoya and Palongawhoya, had actually
Woman tells me your thread is running out
stepped aside from their duties temporarily at
Spider Woman's command, allowing the Earth to
on this world", he said. "That is too bad.
roll over twice at the end of the Second Age, The Spider Clan was your leader, and you
causing the entire world to be flooded, and then were making good progress until this state
frozen for many generations, possibly centuries. of affairs began. Now my Uncle, Taiowa,
Image from W.B. Yeats and a Vision: Astronomy.and I have decided we must do something
about it. We are going to destroy this
Second World just as soon as we put you people who still have the song in
your hearts in a safe place." So again, as on the First World, Sotuknang called
on the Ant People to open up their underground world for the chosen people.
When they were safely underground, Sotuknang commanded the twins,
Poqanghoya and Palongawhoya, to leave their posts at the north and south
ends of the world's axis, where they were stationed to keep the earth properly
rotating. The twins had hardly abandoned their stations when the world, with
no one to control it, teetered off balance, spun around crazily, then rolled over
twice. Mountains plunged into seas with a great splash, seas and lakes sloshed
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over the land; and as the world spun through cold and lifeless space it froze
into solid ice. This was the end of Tokpa, the Second World.12
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This time the Earth had become corrupt much more quickly, and mankind had become
cleanly divided between those who still remembered the song of Creation, and those
who had forgotten it. During the First and Second Worlds, the corruption had
apparently come more slowly, and the chosen people had time to be evacuated before
their thread had run out. During the Third World, however, the corruption had
happened so quickly and had become so intense that there was a danger that the chosen
people could become corrupted before they could be evacuated to the Ant kivas again.
So, this time Sotuknang told Spider Woman to not wait until their thread ran out, but to
immediately create for the chosen people a means of escaping the Great Flood that
Sotuknang planned to use to destroy the wicked Third World. Spider Woman then
quickly cut down huge, hollow reeds and sealed the people in with white cornmeal
dough to eat. Immediately afterwards, waves higher than mountains rolled in upon the
land, continents broke apart and sank beneath the waves, and great rains fell, working
together to drown the entire wicked Third World, Kuskurza.
They found several islands, many of them beautiful and full of good food to eat, but
none of those islands was the Fourth World they had been promised. Spider Woman
reminded them that if they stayed on one of these pleasant islands, they would become
decadent and fight among themselves again, as had the people of the previous three
worlds. The Fourth World was meant to be harder to live on than the previous three
worlds, so as to help mitigate against that tendency. Instead of relying on human skill,
they were to rely on the inner wisdom to which the needs of the body must take second
place, so that they would not fall again into sin as had the previous three worlds. This
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was part of the Walk of Life, of Taiowa's plan, which the material world had a tendency
to obscure. People who forgot about the Plan got too involved in earthly cares, and this
is what brought about the previous three destructions. So, following the inner wisdom,
they finally stopped trying to find their Place of Emergence, and instead let the inner
wisdom guide them to it.
Not knowing what to do, the people stopped paddling, opened the doors on
top of their heads, and let themselves be guided. Almost immediately the
water smoothed out, and they felt their rafts caught up in a gentle current.
Before long they landed and joyfully jumped out upon a sandy shore. "The
Fourth World!" they cried. "We have reached our Place of Emergence at last!"
Soon all the others arrived and when they were gathered together Sotuknang
appeared before them. "Well, I see you are all here. That is good. This is the
place I have prepared for you. Look now at the way you have come." Looking
to the west and the south, the people could see sticking out of the water the
islands upon which they had rested. "They are the footprints of your journey",
continued Sotuknang, "the tops of the high mountains of the Third World,
which I destroyed. Now watch." As the people watched them, the closest one
sank under the water, then the next, until all were gone, and they could see
only water. "See, I have washed away even the footprints of your Emergence;
the stepping-stones which I left for you. Down on the bottom of the sea lie all
the proud cities, the flying patuwvotas, and the worldly treasures corrupted
with evil, and those people who found no time to sing praises to the Creator
from the tops of their hills. But the day will come, if you preserve the memory
and the meaning of your Emergence, when these stepping-stones will emerge
again to prove the truth you speak." This at last was the end of the Third
World, Kuskurza [an ancient name for which there is no modern meaning].15
When they had arrived, the chosen people were met by the deity of the land, Masaw,
who is the caretaker and guardian of the Americas. Masaw had been appointed the
head caretaker of the Third World, but he had become arrogant and had failed in his
duties to properly manage it. And though it is not specifically stated, this
mismanagement was probably what led to its destruction. As punishment, Taiowa had
made Masaw the deity of death and the Underworld, but Taiowa later relented and
made him the caretaker of the Fourth World. And now, Masaw had been tasked to
instruct the chosen people on how they were to settle in this new Fourth World:
"When the previous parts of the world were pushed underneath the water, this
new land was pushed up in the middle to become the backbone of the Earth.
You are now standing on its atvila [west side slope]. But you have not made
your migrations. You have not yet followed your stars to the place where you
will meet and settle. This you must do before I can become your leader. But if
you go back to evil ways again I will take over the Earth from you, for I am its
caretaker, guardian and protector. To the north you will find cold and ice. That
is the Back Door to this land, and those who may come through this Back
Door will enter without my consent. So go now and claim the land with my
permission." When Masaw disappeared, the people divided into groups and
clans to begin their migrations. "May we meet again!" they all called back to
one another. This is how it all began on this, our present Fourth World. As we
know, its name is Tuwaqachi, "World Complete", its direction north, it color
sikyangpu, yellowish white. Chiefs upon it are the tree kneumapee, juniper;
the bird mongwau, the owl; the animal tohopko, the mountain lion; and the
mixed mineral sikyapala.16
And so, the chosen people were free to populate the Fourth World, once again warned
not to transgress the laws of the Creator, or suffer His wrath. Interestingly, the
punishment for failure to comply with God's laws this time will not be fire, ice, or
flood, but a takeover of Earth by Masaw, who is what we would understand to be an
angel — a fallen angel.17 If life on Earth goes out of balance again, Masaw will appear
and attempt to rebalance it using whatever means he deems necessary, causing great
destruction to all of those who are living outside the Creator's laws at that time.
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Though it is not specific, the text does offer some clues as to where this giant swastika
pattern was centered:
So, the Hopi "Center of the Universe" was indeed in the southwestern United States,
around which the four tribes circled in search of their final destination. First, however,
according to the myth, all the tribes needed to travel from pole to pole, and from coast
to coast, before they could walk the swastika path to their final destination. So, they
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first headed north, following the direction of the Spider Woman. However, instead of
turning back south to find the southern pole and the two coasts, they attempted to travel
through the "back door" of the world, the North Pole, to the other side of the world
where Masaw had specifically forbidden them to go.
In an interesting twist to the story, the tribes were also accompanied in their migration
by two "insect people" that looked like katydids or locusts. On the way, climbing up a
high mountain, they were challenged by an eagle, who had been living on the mountain
since the beginning of the Fourth World. The eagle then challenged their right to live in
the land which he oversees, and tested the two mahus who were leading the people by
first threatening them and then shooting them with arrows. However, the mahus used
their magic flutes to create such sublime
music that their bodies were healed of
their wounds. The eagle, impressed by
their bravery and abilities, gave them
permission to occupy the land, and one
of his feathers which they could use to
communicate with the Creator. And
ever since, the Hopi have used eagle
feathers and flutes to heal the sick. And
to commemorate the locust mahu, when
From left to right: Pictographs indicating Blue Flute,
the people moved in their migrations Gray Flute, and Spirit/kachina. The flute-playing,
they carved pictographs of him playing insect-like mahus who led the clans northward are
his flute all the way from Canada to the favorite characters in Native American folklore,
southern tip of South America. providing warmth, music and entertainment. Image
from The Book of the Hopi,
The tribes then continued on all the way
to the North Pole, which was the "back door" that Masaw had specifically forbidden
them to cross. Spider Woman, however, was the one to disobey this time, and urged the
people to use their powers to clear the way past the snow and ice. However, they were
unable to, and Sotuknang himself appeared and admonished them for their attempt,
saying that had they succeeded in melting their way through the snow and ice, the
Fourth World would have been flooded and wrecked. As a punishment, Sotuknang then
ordained that Spider Woman's thread would run out, and she would not die, but grow
old and ugly. Moreover, her clan, the Spider clan, would from thenceforth bring forth
nothing but evil.
After that, the tribes, now chastened, went back south to continue their journey. They
reached the Colorado River, probably in the region of the Grand Canyon, which forms
a nearly impassible barrier. There, according to the myth, the Spider clan continued
south to their point of origin. This means that the center of the swastika was therefore
south of the Colorado River, and not Denver or even the Four Corners area, both of
which are north of the Colorado. The remaining four clans, the Fire, Blue Flute, Snake
and Sun Clans, then headed east as far as the Atlantic Ocean. Finding the coast, they
then headed west again in obedience to the divine mandate, but tarried on the prairie
for a time. There, the Snake Clan decided they wanted to leave a marker indicating that
they had been there, a mark that modern Hopi believe is what is now known today as
Serpent Mound.
Some contemporary
Hopis believe that the
great Serpent Mound
near [Peebles], Ohio,
may have been
constructed by their
ancestors. The largest
serpent effigy in the
world, it is an earth
embankment nearly
one-fourth of a mile
long, twenty feet wide,
and five feet high,
grown over with grass
Serpent Mound, located in Adams County, Ohio, near the small town of that has prevented it
Peebles. The Serpent Mound has been the subject of a great deal of from erosion....
speculation as to its origins, though the Hopi believe it was simply a
Whatever its origin
trail marker/magical "glyph" intended to both mark the trail they took
and act as a ward against evil in the east. Thus, its Hopi name Tokchi'i may be, a member of
"Guardian of the East". the snake clan
interpreted the meaning
of the Serpent Mound,
according to Hopi tradition, from a photograph and drawing of it. As there
was no rock in the area, the village where the people lived, the burial mounds
nearby, and the Serpent Mound itself were made of plastered mud — chochmo
[mud mound]. The oval mound represents the village. It was placed within the
jaws of the snake to show that it was protected by the snake's power. It's
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extension, sticking out in front, shows that the snake has the power to draw
light. The two small mounds on each side of his head represent his eyes as
well as the circular markings on his body. The great length of his body
indicates that he is the longest snake known to the people. He faces west
because the people were traveling west when they built this mound, although
he is the guardian snake of the east and would continue to protect them until
they reached the wall of mountains separating east from west. His name is
Tokchi'i [Guardian of the East].19
After leaving their mark, the people then passed over the Rocky Mountains, which they
consider to be the "spine" of the continent, along which the twins Poqanghoya and
Palongawhoya send their vibrations. Interestingly, after they passed over the
mountains, they entered the domain of Katoya which, as we have seen, was the serpent
who had beguiled the people of the First World and led them into sin. After reaching
the west coast, they then returned east, led by their star, which then led them in a great
circle over what is now the Four Corners area, stopping in the region now known as
Chaco Canyon. After heading towards the four cardinal directions, they had turned
right, and then right again, again and again in increasingly tight spirals until they had
reached their final destination.
After having walked the great swastika, the history of each of the tribes has had its ups
and downs, searching for their final destination, only a few of the original tribes
actually finding it, one of those being the people generally known as the Anasazi, who
would eventually become known as the Hopi.
Many of the mysteries of the Anasazi have been solved in the last 20 years.
Archaeologists are fascinated by what they've been discovering about what
has been the biggest puzzle of all: How did an entire civilization and culture
just suddenly vanish from the face of the planet about 650 years ago? Before
serious study was given to the disappearance of the Anasazi, this central
mystery had fueled a whole raft of theories, especially among New Age and
UFO groups: The Anasazi had been lifted off in space ships; they had
discovered portals into other dimensions of space and time; or they had
mastered nodal energy centers that are scattered around the whole region. (A
few hundred miles away, in Sedona, Arizona, you can help the local economy
by taking a Jeep tour to conveniently located nodal points just outside of
town!) However, piece by careful piece, a more sobering explanation and
history of the Anasazi has emerged over the years as follows, according to
most experts: The ancestors of the Anasazi came to Angel Canyon at least
10,000 years ago. A thousand years ago, they had become a peaceful farming
society that could turn its attention to studying the stars, building
observatories, creating beautiful art, and spreading their culture across the
Southwest. The Anasazi culture built its capital city at Chaco Canyon in New
Mexico. Society soon became centralized as political/religious leaders
asserted themselves and took control, building roads to outlying colonies and
trade routes to other civilizations, in particular the Toltecs of Mexico. Then,
about 800 years ago, the economy began to collapse. The land had been
overworked and when a drought set in, the leaders at Chaco Canyon became
more tyrannical. The small, still-peaceful communities like those at Angel
Canyon found themselves suddenly victims of the ruling classes. They moved
their homes into caves high in the cliff walls and prepared to defend
themselves. To add to the woes of the Anasazi, there is evidence of bands of
roaming Toltec outlaws invading their small communities, terrorizing the
people, then murdering them and - one of the most shocking recent
discoveries - eating them. Rather than fighting back, the Anasazi people
responded with a mass exodus. Over a period of just a few years, around
1350, they just walked away from the troubles that had beset them. They
abandoned their ancestral lands and migrated south, eventually building a new
culture and religion that we know as the Hopi. (The Hopi reject the name
Anasazi which is a Navajo word meaning "enemy of my ancestors," and
prefer to call them the Hisatsinom, or Old Ones.)20
So, the wandering tribes eventually settled down, after many thousands of years of
wandering and strife, into the places we see them today. Yet, they have not forgotten
their past, as so many people have, and regularly return to their Sipapu, or Place of
Emergence, from where they believe they had emerged from within the Hollow Earth
after having escaped the destructions of the three previous worlds. But where is this
Sipapu? Some place at least one of the entrances into the Hollow Earth in the Grand
Canyon. And, it is rumored, that entrance leads to an ancient "Lost City of the Dead"
wherein can be found mummified giants and ancient technologies from before the
Flood.
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Pueblo histories and religion recognize two kinds of sipapus: The first is the
original sipapu, through which First People entered the current world from the
Third or Lower World (with the flute-playing Locust leading the way).
Different Pueblo groups have different views as to where the original sipapu is
located. Pueblos believe that the dead pass into the spirit world through the
sipapu. Once upon a time, the dead would have been able to reemerge after a
few days and their bodies revived, but Pueblo history says that Coyote
covered the sipapu with a stone, and now only spirits, such as the kachinas,
can pass through sipapu. The second kind of sipapu is a current passage to the
Third World, which can be found as small holes or even more elaborate
structures in kivas. Special bodies of water or even special places in the
landscape are also often considered to be sipapus. These sipapus are the
means of communication with the spirits.22
These sipapu are scattered throughout the Desert Southwest, kept and revered not only
by the Hopi, but also by the Navajo, Havasupai, and other Native American peoples
throughout the Desert Southwest. They are not always physical openings either —
some are believed to be through spiritual "power centers" to be found in lakes, rivers,
and in the rocks and the trees. However, some of these sipapu are quite real. Some have
even been the subject of great speculation as to whether they might lead the way to
spectacular subterranean treasure troves, and ancient tombs and catacombs from the
world before the Flood.
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JORDAN IS ENTHUSED
Remarkable finds indicate ancient people migrated from Orient
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Before going further into the cavern, better facilities for lighting will have to
be installed, for the darkness is dense and quite impenetrable for the average
flashlight.
In order to avoid being lost, wires are being strung from the entrance to all
passageways leading directly to large chambers. How far this cavern extends
no one can guess, but it is now the belief of many that what has already been
explored is merely the "barracks", to use an American term, for the soldiers,
and that far into the under-world will be found the main communal dwellings
of the families.
The perfect ventilation of the cavern, the steady draught that blows through,
indicates that it has another outlet to the surface.
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The main passageway is about 12 feet wide, narrowing to nine feet toward the
farther end. About 57 feet from the entrance, the first side-passages branch off
to the right and left, along which, on both sides, are a number of rooms about
the size of ordinary living rooms of today, though some are 30 by 40 feet
square. These are entered by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by round air
spaces through the walls into the passages. The walls are about three feet six
inches in thickness.
The passages are chiseled or hewn as straight as could be laid out by an
engineer. The ceilings of many of the rooms converge to a center. The
side-passages near the entrance run at a sharp angle from the main hall, but
toward the rear they gradually reach a right angle in direction.
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On all the urns, or walls over doorways, and tablets of stone which were found
by the image are the mysterious hieroglyphics t the key to which the
Smithsonian Institute hopes yet to discover. These writings resemble those on
the rocks about this valley. The engraving on the tables probably has
something to do with the religion of the people. Similar hieroglyphics have
been found in the peninsula of Yucatan, but these are not the same as those
found in the Orient Some believe these cave dwellers built the old canals in
the Salt River Valley. Among the pictorial writings, only two animals are
found. One is of prehistoric type.
Upwards of 50,000 people could have lived in the caverns comfortably. One
theory is that the present Indian tribes found in Arizona are descendants of the
serfs or slaves of the people which inhabited the cave. Undoubtedly a good
many thousands of years before the Christian era, a people lived here which
reached a high stage of civilization. The chronology of human history is full
of gaps. Professor Jordan is much enthused over the discoveries and believes
that the find will prove of incalculable value in archaeological work.
One thing I have not spoken of, may be of interest. There is one chamber of
the passageway to which is not ventilated, and when we approached it a
deadly, snaky smell struck us. Our light would not penetrate the gloom, and
until stronger ones are available we will not know what the chamber contains.
Some say snakes, but other boo-hoo this idea and think it may contain a
deadly gas or chemicals used by the ancients. No sounds are heard, but it
smells snaky just the same. The whole underground installation gives one of
shaky nerves the creeps. The gloom is like a weight on one's shoulders, and
our flashlights and candles only make the darkness blacker. Imagination can
revel in conjectures and ungodly daydreams back through the ages that have
elapsed till the mind reels dizzily in space.
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They sent out a message to the Temple of the Sun, asking the blessing of
peace, good will and rain for people of one heart. That messenger never
returned, but today at the Hopi villages at sundown can be seen the old men of
the tribe out on the housetops gazing toward the sun, looking for the
messenger. When he returns, their lands and ancient dwelling place will be
restored to them. That is the tradition.
Among the engravings of animals in the cave is seen the image of a heart over
the spot where it is located. The legend was learned by W.E. Rollins, the artist,
during a year spent with the Hopi Indians. There are two theories of the origin
of the Egyptians. One is that they came from Asia another that the racial
cradle was in the upper Nile region. Heeren, an Egyptologist, believed in the
Indian origin of the Egyptians. The discoveries in the Grand Canyon may
throw further light on human evolution and prehistoric ages.23
Though the story of "The Lost City of the Dead" is most likely apocryphal, there is no
doubt — as we have seen — that it does indeed fit conceptually into the ancient history
of America's Desert Southwest. A vast, underground city intended to house thousands
of people would indeed fit the requirements for the type of massive facilities that would
have been necessary for the ancient ancestors of the Hopi to survive through the
cataclyms that had destroyed the previous three worlds. Moreover, though it is not
specifically stated, it may be that the mummies that were found in the crypt were
indeed gigantic in stature, which would fit in well with the numerous reports of giant
mummies, skeletons, and other artifacts of Americas ancient giant past.
It is interesting to note the Kincaid story ends with the recitation of an old Hopi myth
— apparently a variation of the myth elucidated in The Book of the Hopi — wherein
the Hopi had originated from an underground cavern system in the Grand Canyon,
instead of having migrated from the west. One could speculate that perhaps the the
Hopi, "the people of the one heart", had been specially bred as a slave race by and for
"the people of the two hearts", and later rebelled and escaped to become the Native
American peoples we know today. And what exactly was meant by "people of the one
heart" and "people of the two hearts"? The people of the one heart are people who are
honest, whereas the people of the two hearts are people who say one thing, but are
thinking another — i.e., liars — those who speak with "forked tongue".
Whereas the ancient race of the two hearts apparently has long since died out, the
people of the one heart remain even today — proving that those who live out of
balance with nature and with each other eventually die out, whereas those who strive to
maintain balance with nature and each other, though it may mean making personal
sacrifices, survive for the long term. Modern man could take a lesson from the Hopi, to
study the lifeways of this ancient people, and perhaps see why their simple society
remains intact, while our modern society, though technologically advanced, is out of
balance and rapidly falling apart.
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"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in
the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky which could
burn the land and boil the oceans."25
If we continue to invite disaster through our failure to follow the Creator's plan by
abandoning our self-destructive lifestyle and returning to the ways that the Creator has
ordained for mankind since the beginning of time, according to the Hopi myths Masaw,
Prince of the Fourth World, will rise up to judge us: "But if you go back to evil ways
again I will take over the Earth from you, for I am its caretaker, guardian and
protector."24 From the Desert Southwest he will arise, even from the gates of hell,
leaving the ancient, twisted cross in his wake to retake the world that we had failed to
balance, with weapons of war that the world has not seen since the end of the Third
Age. But he will too will fail to restore the balance through violence, and he will be
destroyed without hand when the day star arises in our hearts.
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1
Robert Wallace, The Grand Canyon (The American Wilderness/Time-Life Books)
(New York: Little Brown & Company, 1972), 96.
2
Frank Waters, Oswald White Bear Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi (New York:
Penguin Books, 1963), 3-4. The term "universes" here might be better translated as
"planets", to correspond with the nine known planets in our solar system. The
allocation of one of these planets to Taiowa is intriguing, particularly since Pluto is
now known to be not a planet, but an escaped satellite of Neptune.
3
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 4-5. Compare this description of the
creation and duties of Spider Woman to "Lady Wisdom" described in Proverbs 8: "The
LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; I was
appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began. When there were
no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with water; before
the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, before he made
the earth or its fields or any of the dust of the world. I was there when he set the
heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when he
established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, when he
gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he
marked out the foundations of the earth. Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was
filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, rejoicing in his whole
world and delighting in mankind." ( Proverbs 8:22-31, emphasis mine). Apparently the
Hebrew conception of the Creation also included a feminine spirit whom God also had
created in order to delegate the task of creating life on Earth, including mankind. The
feminine aspect is likely symbolic, as spirits do not have gender. Note also the very
close similarity to the Hopi version of the creation the universe by Sotuknang.
4
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 5.
5
Mystica.org: "Nintu" (Mystica.org: http://www.themystica.org). One version of the
creation of mankind, the Babylonian Creation Epic, has Marduk, the newly-crowned
king of the gods, slaying the god Kingu and using his blood to create mankind.
6
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 7.
7
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 11-12.
8
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 12-13.
9
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 13.
10
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 13-14.
11
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 14-15. Note the close similarity to
Revelation 6: "I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The
sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a
strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island
was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the
rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks
of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us
from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the
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great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?'" (Rev. 6:12-17). Though the
"ant people" aren't explicitly mentioned, mankind will seek to go underground once
again to save themselves in the End Times. However, some feel that the Hopi reference
to the "ant people" refers to the so-called "grey aliens", typically referred to as "the
greys" an insectlike alien race that some believe live underground, and have done so
since the beginning. Others go so far as to claim that the military has been working
hand-in-hand with the greys and other "alien races" for decades to prepare for an
"invasion" from outer space, digging massive amounts of tunnels in preparation. For
more on this subject, look here or search here.
12
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 15-16.
13
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 16-17.
14
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 17-18.
15
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 20. Traveling from the west to arrive in
the Desert Southwest, the ancestors of the Hopi must therefore have been island-
hopping across the Pacific Ocean. Other ancient traditions tell of a mysterious
continent known as Lemuria that had once dominated the Pacific before it had been
destroyed by the gods for its wickedness. Could this perhaps have been a memory of
some ancient, cataclysmic event which these two traditions held in common?
16
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 22.
17
For more information on the origin and role of fallen angels on the Earth, read The
Legend of Atlantis Part II: The Antediluvian World, The Legend of Atlantis Part III:
Edgar Cayce's Atlantis, and Giants in the Earth Part I: Giants of the Ancient Near East.
The implication from this passage is that Masaw will be given power over the Earth
and the authority to punish mankind for their sins against the Creator at the end of this
Fourth Age. Masaw is likely cognate to Azazel, the fallen angel described in the Book
of Enoch, and may also be the power behind the Antichrist described in the books of
Daniel and Revelation. This "Antichrist" will be given authority only because of the
greatness of the sins that mankind will commit against the Creator and His Creation at
the end of the Fourth Age, and he will use violence to make the people fulfill God's
laws when they refuse to do it willingly. But he will go too far and incur God's
judgment against himself as well as those on Earth who disobeyed the laws, and will be
destroyed by Sotuknang himself without hand, after the chosen are removed from the
Earth.
18
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 35.
19
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 40-41.
20
Mary Sutherland, "Hopi Legend of Shambhala and the Sacred Mountain Mount
Meru" (Living in the Light: http://www.livinginthelightms.com).
21
Xenophilia, "The Hollow Earth - Strange Beliefs: The Pole Holes & the
Underworld" (Xenophilia: http://www.xenophilia.com).
22
John Kantner, "What is a "Sipapu"?" (Sipapu: The Anasazi Emergence into the
Cyber World: http://sipapu.gsu.edu).
23
Jack Andrews, "Lost City of the Dead in the Grand Canyon" (Lost Civilizations and
Hidden Mysteries: http://www.gci-net.com/users/v/vrartist/).
24
Waters, Fredericks, The Book of the Hopi, 22.
25
John Kantner, "Koyaanisqatsi: Definitions" (Koyaanisqatsi - The Official Site:
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org).
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Lost Cities of North & Central America (The Lost City Series)
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The Sierra Club Guides to the National Parks of the Desert Southwest
The Sierra Club
Rating:
Newly revised and updated, this guide offers practical travel information
to the desert Southwest's national parks. Outstanding color photographs,
maps, park facility charts, geological and historical information about each
park, and identification of animals and plants commonly found within the
parks. Our month-long tour of the Desert Southwest was greatly enhanced by this
book. (Review by Amazon.com)
Click here to buy this book.
First Through Grand Canyon: The Secret Journals & Letters of the 1869
Crew Who Explored the Green & Colorado Rivers
Michael P. Ghiglieri
In May of 1869, eleven men embarked on a journey of exploration and
discovery. 98 days later six of them arrived 1000 miles away after
navigating the Green and Colorado Rivers to the end of Grand Canyon.
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The journals and writings of the expedition leader, John Wesley Powell have been
extensively published but here, for the first time, are the newly transcribed, unabridged
journals and letters of some of the other members of the group. Author Ghiglieri has
used his extensive river running experience to introduce the whole group and their
exploits of courage and endurance. (From the book description)
Click here to buy this book.
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film engenders. Most of the score, however, casts Glass's minimalist themes in
orchestral expanses. Bass strings troll the bottom while flutes draw circles in the air. On
"The Grid," manic keyboards drive into the night, pounding out the cyclical refrains
that are a Glass trademark. When Koyaanisqatsi came out, it seemed opulent with its
orchestral forces, but always at the center were the keyboards, reeds, and voice that are
Glass's characteristic sound. Koyaanisqatsi means "life out of balance," but Glass's
remarkably austere score remains perfectly poised. This newly re-recorded edition adds
nearly 30 minutes to the previous CD release with two previously unissued tracks and
extended versions of "The Grid" and "Prophecies," the two signpost works of the film.
(Review by Amazon.com about the 1998 re-recording of this album)
Click here to buy this CD, or here to buy the 1998 re-recording.
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alienation. But he spends as much time beautifully depicting what various cultures
have lost--cooperative living, a sense of joy in labor, and religious values--as he does
confronting viewers with trains, airliners, coal cars, and loneliness. What had been a
more or less peaceful, slow-moving, spiritually fulfilling rural existence for these
"silent" people (all we hear is music and sound effects) becomes a crowded,
suffocating, accelerating industrial urban hell, from Peru to Pakistan. Reggio frames
Powaqqatsi with a telling image: the Serra Pelada gold mines, where thousands of men,
their clothes and skin imbued with the earth they're moving, carry wet bags up steep
slopes in a Sisyphean effort to provide wealth for their employers. While Glass
juxtaposes his strangely joyful music, which includes the voices of South American
children, a number of these men carry one of their exhausted comrades out of the pit,
his head back and arms outstretched--one more sacrifice to Caesar. Nevertheless,
Reggio, a former member of the Christian Brothers, seems to maintain hope for
renewal. (Review by Amazon.com)
Click here to buy this DVD.
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