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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Teotokai Andrew, for the generous sharing of his people’s hidden history. Peter Marsh for opening new doors in Polynesia. Jos and Chris at Castle Hill Station for access to the land. Mikeljon Winckel at eLocal Magazine for the images. My friends Irena Stenner, Marilee Marrinan and Wendy Craig for the valuable support. Miguel Angel Vergara for his friendship and invaluable knowledge of the Maya. Edgar Mijita, my excellent guide in the Andes. The librarians I overwork at Library of Congress and Portland Library. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. Regina Meredith for the time. Gaia TV for the exposure. And all you supporters out there. Thankx.

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  1. THE CERTAINTY THAT THINGS ARE MUCH OLDER

  2. LAST MINUTE ON EARTH

  3. THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE GODS

  4. BUILT BEFORE THE FLOOD

  5. BEARDS

  6. POLYNESIAN BLONDES AND ANDEAN REDHEADS

  7. BUILT BEFORE THE FLOOD REDUX

  8. MADE IN EGYPT BEFORE THE FLOOD

  9. THE ITZA, THE KAAN AND THE BALAM

  10. SUDDENLY SUBMERGED

  11. SEVEN TALL SAGES AND OTHER IMMORTALS.

  12. PEOPLE OF THE SERPENT

  13. A MEETING WITH THE LORDS OF ANU

  14. THE MECHANICS OF A COMET

  15. MISSING COASTS

  16. STAR PEOPLE

  17. THE TERRIBLE TAURIDS

  18. ORION THE UBIQUITOUS

  19. THIS UNSHELTERING SKY

  NOTES

  IMAGE CREDITS

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  to those who Watch

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  The three most recent glacial periods are called the Oldest, Older, and Younger Dryas.

  They are named for an eight-petal alpine wildflower.

  The Oldest Dryas began c.13,000 BC and ended with a brief warm spell until another freeze — the Older Dryas — began c.12,000 BC. It too ended with a warm spell.

  The Younger Dryas began c.10,800 BC and ended c.9700 BC. Both markers occurred in a geological instant when large objects collided with the Earth. The last event generated a global flood whose waves reached the Himalaya.

  During the Younger Dryas it is believed only primitive people populated the Earth. Yet around them existed someone else, a more advanced civilization whose deeds, traditions and monuments exist all around. After the flood, a select brotherhood appeared from the sea to assist humanity rebuild, then vanished... but not before leaving a warning.

  Where we are headed...

  1. THE CERTAINTY THAT THINGS ARE MUCH OLDER

  Saqsayhuaman, Peru. The Inka had no idea who built it either.

  In 1914 the Dutch Department of Antiquities published a report of a temple made of columnar basalt, reached by five terraces on the slopes of a 3000-foot tall mountain in central Java. It would be another hundred years before exploration of the site using ground penetrating radar revealed something explosive: the temple was just one exposed section of a much larger site, and the Mountain of Light, as locals called it, turned out not to be a mountain at all but a large-scale engineering project, a series of step pyramids built over successive periods, complete with a sealed chamber. Traces of human activity date the colossal structure to around 22,000 BC.

  At the other end of the Indonesian archipelago lies the island of Sumba, where villagers still use megaliths to build places of spiritual significance in the style of their forebears. No one remembers how long this tradition has been enacted, but local legends speak of unusual, giant people disembarking here after a global flood destroyed their homeland. These seafarers moved the original stones by means of some magical force from mountains on the other side of the island to where they stand today. One such monolith — a granite slab carved with perfectly squared, level and shallow steps — is identical in design to another at Saqsayhuaman, a megalithic metropolis 10,600 miles to the east, in Peru.

  Another site in the Andes — on what used to be the ancient shore of Lake Titicaca before an earth-shattering cataclysm rearranged the region — is Puma Punku, one of the world's oldest temples, whose jumbled megaliths reveal an extraordinary level of finesse in the cutting and shaping of stone that modern masons are at pains to explain. How did primitive people achieve such results without metal tools or diamond drill technology?

  The Bolivian altiplano is filled with oddities — such as the unsettling question of Aymara, a language some experts consider to be the oldest in the world. The computer scientist Ivan Guzman de Rojas demonstrated how Aymara is both skilfully designed and artificial — its syntax in particular, which, after careful analysis, was found to be rigidly structured and unambiguous, and seemingly developed from scratch, unlike standard language which evolves organically. Rojas proved how this ancient Andean tongue can be written concisely in the type of algebraic shorthand a computer can understand. Aymara is an algorithm with an ability to translate from one language to another, a bridge language, whereby the language of an original document can be translated into Aymara and then into any number of languages. 1

  And yet Aymara itself is derived from an earlier language, Puquina, a name likewise given to an Andean civilization whose remaining tribespeople still openly discuss their homeland, a landmass nicknamed Mu that once occupied a significant portion of the Pacific Ocean, from whence their predecessors fled after it sank during a global flood. It was they who assisted in setting up new temple cities on the shores of Lake Titicaca. 2

  At the northern end of the American continent, the Hopi maintain oral traditions recounting the destruction of the world on four separate occasions. The details of the second event appear to describe the onset of the Older Dryas glacial period some 14,000 years ago, but more to the point, they state how this climate change was induced by a violent alteration in the Earth's rotation and the reversal of its poles. In their words: "[the god] Sótuknang commanded the twins, Poqanhoya 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 the seas with a great splash, seas and lakes splashed over the land; and as the world spun through cold and lifeless space it froze into solid ice." 3

  Finally there is the case of Aotearoa, the island nation today called New Zealand, of which so little is ever mentioned and of whose prehistory even less is known. All this changed in 1994 when elders representing one of the nation’s few remaining indigenous people, the Waitaha, published their oral traditions in which they describe their forebears — a race of gods called U
rukehu — being overwhelmed by the gigantic waves of the great flood while traversing the Pacific, at a stroke placing their account some 11,000 years ago.

  The Waitaha claim to have originated from Easter Island, one of the world's remotest islands, and yet they regularly set sail on large, ocean-going catamarans and undertook a 4000-mile adventure to New Zealand to pay tribute to the Birthplace of the Gods.4 How did the Waitaha come to possess knowledge of such a distant land? From whom did they receive the coordinates to steer across a hostile and featureless ocean if not from master seafarers who'd already attempted the journey?

  According to conventional thinking, everything described above ought not to have been possible during this prehistoric era. Wasn’t this a time when humans were ignorant, barbaric and lived in caves like wild animals?

  Speaking off the record, many historians and archaeologists now accept there is something deeply disturbing with the conventional paradigm of human evolution, one that imagines the slow but progressive linear rise of civilization. Faced with a mountain of new evidence presented by independent researchers and scholars alike, the mainstream theory of human prehistory becomes inadequate, the result of erroneous assumptions made two hundred years ago that were blindly regurgitated and subsequently accepted as valid facts. Yet when scrutinized, such assumptions disintegrate like piles of decaying bone.

  Further obfuscating our understanding of what really took place during this antediluvian era is the fact that much, if not all prehistory has been written from a European, Anglo-Saxon point-of-view which, until recently, derided information from indigenous people as mere superstition or imaginative fabrication. Therefore what has generally been presented and taught about the origin of civilization is based on the assumptions of a tiny minority of the human race at the expense of the majority, particularly people whose ancestors knew better because they were closer to events and experiences that, in time, were immortalized in folklore and myth.

  Recent discoveries are indeed undermining the accepted paradigm of human evolution. The birthplace of humanity is no longer seen as Ethiopia c.160,000 BC, but Morocco c.300,000 BC. 5 The earliest civilization, the Sumerian, has been usurped by the Marrapan of the Indus Valley and the Scythian of the Carpathian region, who in turn are supplanted by an unknown people who built a factory and trading center in the Czech Republic 26,000 years ago.6 As to language, the development of full human linguistics to infer information is now estimated to have developed at least 40,000 years ago, 7 while ancient art, believed to have begun with the Lascaux cave paintings around 17,000 BC, has been eclipsed by the discovery in a Siberian cave of a 40,000-year old, finely carved green crystal bracelet, whose 0.3-inch diameter hole was created by the equivalent of a high-speed drill; latest research now puts the date closer to 70,000 BC. 8 And further, a female Venus figure from Berekhat Ram on the Golan Heights was found to have been carved more than 230,000 years ago. 9

  Then there’s the problem of out-of-place temples and megalithic structures. Archaeologists tend to squeeze them into a socially-comfortable era beginning around 3500 BC, making the following monuments rather awkward: Stonehenge's original post holes 8000 BC, the Osirion of Abydos c.10,500 BC, Göbekli Tepe 10,200 BC, the Great Pyramids of Giza, 10,400 BC, Tiwanaku 15,000 BC, and Gunung Panang, our artificial mountain in Java, 22,000 BC.

  Summit of Gunung Padang, Java. The interior dates to 22,000 BC.

  It appears civilization has been a long, on-going experiment. And it emerged at not one but multiple locations across the Earth, far earlier than imagined and, rather than developing linearly, it has endured cycle upon cycle before succumbing to periodic convulsion and obliteration. Virtually every culture other than the Western accepts this as fact.

  Mainstream historians find it perfectly acceptable that ancient civilizations such as the Olmec, Maya, Aymara, Egyptian and Sumerian sprang up complete, with fully-developed understanding of astronomy, geometry, mathematics, language, writing, complex mythology, megalithic construction technique, art, metallurgy, animal and crop domestication, and long-range ocean navigation — skills requiring tens of thousands of years of patient and gradual development. But in each case there was no development, such abilities materialized overnight. Cultures that should not have been in contact with each other, so we are told, arrive on the scene with elegantly conceived and identical creation pantheons — such as Creator Gods who travel between worlds on a boat along the Milky Way, a myth shared by ancient Egyptians, Polynesians and Central Americans alike.

  All these anomalies are perfectly acceptable to academia.

  The problem of humanity’s recent and uneven development was the subject of a NASA-commissioned investigation that pointed to this disturbing trend in evolved civilizations ‘suddenly’ appearing completely developed, to technology and agriculture ‘suddenly’ appearing around 10,000 years ago, and to science, mathematics and astronomy ‘suddenly’ manifesting in hotspots like Mesopotamia, Egypt, Yucatan, Peru and China. 10 Was it all a huge coincidence? Did all humanity spontaneously experience collective inspiration?

  Or did space brothers visit the Earth in their sky ships to teach Neanderthals the finer graces of civilization?

  Or better still, was the knowledge pre-existent, the sum of previous civilizations who succumbed to periodic cataclysms and man-made folly, whose existence was wiped out and buried deep beneath silt and sea, evidence of its grandeur condensed to myth and anomalous megalithic structures?

  The aforementioned NASA report was written in 1972. Recently, the renowned space agency has become infatuated with meteorites and asteroids and debris whose path the Earth cyclically crosses, bringing with it unimaginable chaos. A recent study by Czech astronomers warns of an increasing risk of significant hazardous and continent-damaging asteroids embedded within a specific meteor stream whose orbital path the Earth predictably intrudes every October and November, and again in June. This concentric ring of debris is so wide it takes the Earth two weeks to cross.11

  Is the recurring encounter with this field of rubble responsible for wiping out a previous high civilization? Because it does not take a genius to realize that our ancestors were obsessed with the sky. Stone circle after stone circle, temple after temple, megalith after megalith tracks the Sun, Moon and stars, reference specific constellations, even mark stupendous lengths of time, and yet for all the hard work involved in their calculation and construction, anyone armed with a bundle of sticks could achieve the same on their front lawn. It is not necessary to move megaliths weighing up to 1600 tons — which today only one crane on Earth is capable of lifting — so that future generations could tell the time, unless there was a need to have foreknowledge of looming events.

  Geologists have so far pin-pointed fifty impact craters so massive they left impressions greater than 600 miles in diameter.12 Yet despite such setbacks, life on Earth was defiant, it persevered. The mere fact you are reading this proves someone survived on a near-barren planet and told their offspring a tale of such proportion it would never be forgotten. We are told that since the close of the Younger Dryas 11,000 years ago, the present geologic period has been relatively stable, allowing humanity unprecedented upward mobility — some for better, some for worse — and yet this theory is misleading, for the Earth has succumbed to a dozen known catastrophes during this period. One of the most recent c.1600 BC shaped the rise and fall and regeneration of countless centers of civilization from Europe to the Middle East.

  The truth is, we rebuild, adapt, become complacent, fall, and the cycle repeats ad nauseam. Ancient Chinese astronomers were well aware of far more important calendrical systems than those governing solar and lunar cycles. One of them tracks the Earth’s 25,920-year axial rotation. During this great cycle, stargazers describe a cosmic mechanism winding itself up and unravelling in a great convulsion of nature, when "the sea is carried out of its bed, mountains spring out of the ground, rivers change their course, humans beings and everything are ruined, and the ancient traces effa
ced."13

  If entire landmasses were obliterated, memory of such a disaster can take the extreme psychological form of collective amnesia. If entire civilizations fell, they took with them the learned and the literate, their homes and monuments pounded into oblivion and laid beneath thousands of years of mud and debris, evidence of their deeds buried deep beneath our feet, our cars and skyscrapers.

  But indigenous traditions adamantly state that people did survive the great flood at the close of the Younger Dryas, individuals of unusual stature, whose advanced knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, architecture, and control of the mechanics of nature had them compared to gods. Their know-how became the catalyst for raising the human race from the state of barbarity to which it reverted. Myths were created. Legends spoke of global upheaval as a consequence of humanity falling out of sync with nature — storytelling mechanisms designed to engage audiences of the future with an unbroken narrative lest the events and lessons be forgotten. Because the events were real and, like a boomerang, liable to return.

  It is probably for this reason why a network of temples was erected across the face of the Earth using stone of a size beyond what is both practical and necessary for the singular purpose of marking days for sowing and harvest. And how it all comes around, with astronomers and space agencies of late becoming obsessed with the sky and Earth-destroying projectiles, with hardly a week going by without a press release on the subject.

  It seems we’ve been here before. And that’s the point of this adventure.

  If we invert the conventional European model and examine the narrative from the perspective of the oldest cultures on Earth, we receive a different version of ancient events, for virtually every one of them recalls an advanced antediluvian world civilization whose messengers survived an unimaginable catastrophe and disembarked at strategic locations after the Younger Dryas to build technologically advanced temples and establish laws which led to the sudden flourishing of human civilization. These gods were described as humanoid yet unusual of appearance and physique, magicians whose island homes succumbed to titanic forces.