Did a Nuclear war end Atlantis? (II)

****Editor Note: This article, as well as the rest of this series of articles intended to debate the Nuclear possibility of Atlantis, were not finished 100% as the Professor was still in the process of editing and complementing this series at the time of his death. *****

 

 

The Sun turns black

Brothers kill each other.

A time of axes and of swords,

Of shields that break under the stress.

A time of winds, the time of the Wolf

When the world itself drops dead.

The Elder Edda

 

The tale that you earlier heard in the realm of fiction we now transpose to the one of reality.

Plato, Timaeus

 

In The Sands of Baghdad

What seems to be a warning from the past came to us from beneath the sands of the Arabian Desert. In 1947, archaeologists were digging the area of the Euphrates Valley to the south of the city of Baghdad. The idea was to search for the vestiges of Eden and the Flood.

Layer by layer they found the vestiges of the successive civilizations that had occupied the region: Babylon, Chaldea, Sumer, Akkad. At last, they reached the level where the great civilizations yielded to small farming villages. Digging further, the archaeologists finally reached the level of pastoral nomads and, then, the one of the Stone Age savages. ^[1]

Everything fits the traditional scheme of prehistory that we learn in school. But then came the big surprise. When the excavations reached the lowermost level, a layer of fused sand was found to underlie all others. The archaeologists were baffled to explain the nature and origin of that fused sand. For sand is virtually pure silica a refractory material that only fuses at the extremely high temperature of 1728^oC. No ordinary fire is able to melt sand so extraordinary causes have to be invoked in order to explain the origin of the Mesopotamian glass layer. Since bonfires and volcanoes can safely be ruled out, we are left with only two possibilities: the fall of giant meteorites or cometary fragments, and the alternative of atomic or hydrogen bombs exploding over the region. ^[2]

Of course, no nuclear artifacts have ever exploded in the region of Mesopotamia, at least in historical times. And giant meteorites and comets leave traces such as craters, impactites, tektites and residues that are relatively easy to detect. Since these vestiges were not found in the region, this cause can also be discarded.

So, the only possibility left for serious consideration is that of atomic explosions in prehistoric times. But this is tantamount to postulating the existence of superior civilizations in the far past in an epoch so remote in time that these civilizations became utterly forgotten, except in the realm of Tradition.

The reality of “fossil” nuclear explosions immediately brings to mind Atlantis and, more exactly, the War of Atlantis which, according to Plato, brought about the colossal cataclysm that ended their era. It is interesting to note that similar layers of molten sand have been found in the desert of Gobi (Mongolia), in Peru, in California, in Palestine and even in Britain. In India, o skeleton with a radioactivity over 50 times the norm has reportedly been found by some archaeologists. ^[3]

Dr. Vyatcheslav Zaitser, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, examined these and other evidences and concluded that they suggest the reality of nuclear wars in the far past. In fact, he asserts that:

The Biblical narrative of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah suggests a nuclear explosion as it would be described by a non-specialized observer.

The Elder Edda which we quoted at the head of the present chapter speaks of the “Time of the Wolf”, when brother fights brother when swords clash and shields are broken by the impact of battle axes. It tells how the world drops dead and how:

The mountains clash

The Sky is split

And the Sun dies out…

The Earth sinks underseas

And the shiny stars fade away

Giant fires are lits,

Whose flames reach p to the skies

 

In other words, the Elder Edda is telling of an all-out war that can only be the one of Atlantis, fought with swords and shields, but also with far more sinister weapons capable of destroying the whole world.

Such traditional relations – which closely parallel the ones of the Book of Revelation and several others such – are usually held to be purely mythic prophecies of the end of times, one that lies in the distant future. But the ancient had a circular conception of time according to which whatever was will be again over and over, in the succession of recurring eras.

In other words, the remarkable events prophesied in detail in the Book of Revelation, in the Eddas and in other similar traditions are reports and ancient War and, more exactly, of the War of Atlantis. I too used to disbelieve the conclusions of researchers such as the ones we just quote. How could the ancients have had a nuclear war if progress has been unform since the dawn of humanity? How could primitives such as the apish Neandertal or even the far more formidable Cro-Magnon have ever inverted something more advanced than the stone axes that we find just about everywhere?

But some realities about these “primitive” savages are rather sobering. They were not only far more potent than ourselves physically. They had far larger brains and they had far more time than we do ourselves. In fact, modern technology is the result of a mere three centuries. And Homo sapiens have been around for about 1 million years or more.

The recurrent tradition of nuclear wars in the past I used to attribute to ancient precursors of the modern Sci-Fi writers, to the delusions and nightmares of drug-hallucinated or bards with more imagination than common sense. So, the ancient traditions and the detailed accounts of ancient nuclear wars told in, say, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata left me as utterly unimpressed as they have probably failed to impress the dear reader.

But hard facts are far harder to dismiss than tradition, even if told in the sober, matter-of-fact “historical” manner of the Hindu epics. Ok, you can dismiss one radioactive skeleton or two. After all, Geiger counters may fail to behave properly or to be properly operated. The molten, glassified sands that we just discussed are far harder to dismiss as some sort of artifact.

Besides, they are present in many different sites, and never received any satisfactory explanation at all. And what is even more interesting is the fact that they often occur in sites associated with Atlantis by many traditions: Baghdad, Gobi Desert, Palestine, Tiahuanaco, and so on. Consider, for instance, Baghdad, the fabulous city whose foundation – or rather, reconstruction – is usually attributed to Harum-al-Rasehid, the caliph of the Thousand and One Nights.

The ancient city of Baghdad – full of golden palaces and of no less beautiful temples, gardens and paved avenues – was built as a perfect replica of the capital city of Atlantis. The plan of pristine Baghdad is shown in Fig. 1 below, which the kind reader will compare with the plan of Atlantis as given by Plato, and which we also show in the same figure.

Fig. 1 – Plans of Pristine Baghdad and of Atlantis Compared
(a) Baghdad; Le Secret des 10001 Nuits
(b) Atlantis (Plan) J. V. Luce, etc

The coincidence between the plans of pristince Baghdad and of Atlantis is too perfect and too detailed to allow a random happening. In fact, the early Baghdad has been called “the Atlantis of the Sands” by researchers actual capital of the Lost Continent. Likewise, Tiahuanaco has been associated with Atlantis by many researchers, starting with Arthur Poznansky, who devoted his entire life to the research of the riddle of Tiahuanaco.

Palestine and Mesopotamia have consistently been – and in fact still are, at present – considered to be the Holy Land and the very site of Eden, the cradle of Civilization, if not of Mankind itself. And, needless to say, Eden is the Terrestrial Paradise and, hence, of Atlantis, its more scientifically appropriate counterpart.

Despite their logic and coherence, the facts and the traditions just discussed had failed to convince us of the reality of their connection with Atlantis until the other day when we made the sensational discovery of yet another piece of evidence that leaves very little room for doubting that reality anymore. And that fact is the atmospheric excess of C14, the radioactive isotope of ordinary carbon, the basic element of organic compounds.

As we discuss in detail in the second part of the present essay, this excess of radiocarbon (C14) first occurred in the atmosphere at the date of about 12,000 years ago, essentially the one of both the Atlantean cataclysm and that of the drastic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. This sharp injection of atmospheric radiocarbon closely evokes the one that occurred recently, after the discovery and the large scale of atomic and hydrogen bombs.

In both cases, the excess radiocarbon attained is about half of the naturally occurring one, and which is formed continuously by cosmic rays from outer space interacting with atmospheric nitrogen. In our discussion of the excess radiocarbon of long ago, we show the actual impossibility that this excess radioactivity could have been the result of natural causes such as nearby supernova explosions, the passage of miniature Black Holes through the earth. One could think of Astronaut Gods, after the conception championed by Erich von Danniken and Zechariah Sitchin.

But it is highly unlikely that – even in case they actually exist and indeed visit the earth – they would fight their wars down here, or that they would use airships that severely pollute the environment with poisonous radioisotopes. So, once more, we are left with the hypothesis of nuclear warfare in antiquity as the sole possible cause of the atmospheric excess of radiocarbon.

Likewise, the sole explanation for the layers of glassy sand that were found in Mesopotamia and elsewhere seems to lie in the explosion of nuclear artifacts. In fact, glassy layers of sand just like the ones of the Arabian and Gobi deserts were found in the sands of Arizona after the test of atomic and hydrogen bombs in that desert. Likewise, the Chinese tests of nuclear devices in the Mongolian deserts also resulted in the formation of similar layers of molten sand.

 

In The Sands of Gobi Desert

In the sands of Gobi Desert – in the Mongolian region of Central China – vast patches of vitrified sand similar to those of Mesopotamia. These patches of molten sand also closely evoke the ones produced in New Mexico by the A- and H-Bomb tests conducted there during WWII and after. As we said, these patches of molten sand and soil could be thought to have been produced by giant meteorites or cometary fragments except for two facts. One, there are no visible craters, and no vestiges such as tektites, impactites or meteoritic remains. Two, one could envisage a single impact, but several distinct ones?

One might inquire why these molten patches are found in deserts such as those of Arabia, Mesopotamia, Central China and elsewhere, but not in more ordinary locations. The reason for this is actually very simple. Similar patches probably existed elsewhere, but were erased by erosion or covered by soil and vegetation in regions where rains and running water exist in normal proportions. In the deserts, there are no rams or other water sources to cause the hydric erosion that fast wipe out such superficial geological features. Again, it is not impossible that it was actually some prehistoric nuclear war that turned these formerly fertile lands into now empty desert.

Nuclear devices cause huge forest fires and the exposed soils fast degenerate into deserts, as they are covered by sands blown in by the wind. Only a thorough scientific investigation, done in situ with these facts in mind can really tell. Moreover, the possibility of prehistoric nuclear warfare can also be investigated by analyzing these molten patches for the presence of excess radioactivity and other traces of nuclear explosions.

Once more, we note that there is a quaint connection between Gobi Desert and Atlantis. For one, Inner Mongolia is the fabled homeland of the Aryans. In fact, the Chinese origin of Aryan nations such as the Scythians and the Tocharians is presently receiving a sensational confirmation by the many finds of Aryan mummies in the region of Takla Makan, precisely that of the Gobi Desert and its extensions.

Secondly, it is precisely in that region of Inner Mongolia, – this time near Shensi, and the mountains of the Kunlunshan that we find the famous Chinese pyramid that are once again making the news. Now, pyramids are a very clearclut Atlantean “signature”, as we explain elsewhere in detail. To find pyramids in such an unlikely region of the globe and, moreover, one connected with Aryan mummies and vast patches of molten sands very possibly connected with prehistoric nuclear warfare is a coincidence that cannot be reasonably ascribed to chance.

But chancy coincidences are absolutely ruled out by Aryan traditions directly linked to Nazism and similar Occult movements of Germany and other nations.

 

The Mystery of Tektites

Tektites – a word derived from the Greek tectos, meaning “fused”, “smelted” – are beads of molten rock in size from tens of microns to about ten centimeters or over. Their composition varies, but differs markedly from that of volcanic glasses such as obsidian, generally far richer in water contents. Tektites are rich in silica, and their typical composition closely corresponds to that of sedimentary rocks, with 70-80% silica, 10-15% alumina, 2-5% iron oxides and 1-5% sodium and potassium oxides.

In about 1900, Eduard Suess, the noted Austrian geologist suggested that tektites were formed from glassy meteorites smelted during their crossing of earth’s atmosphere. But meteorites of glassy composition were never found, and Suess’ hypothesis was discard Volcanoes and glass factories have also been invoked in order to explain tektites. But, besides the difference in composition pointed out above many tektite fields lie far away from volcanoes and in deserts where obviously no glass was ever manufactured.

The shapes of tektite beads range from spherical to drope and dumbells with the larger ones presenting the shape of a button or an icecream cup, indicative of a passage in earth’s atmosphere while still in a molten state (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1 – Typical Shapes of Tektite Beads
(Enc. Brit. 74:15:274 (bottom right)

The typical shapes of tektites clearly show that they are splashes of molten rock, shaped by rapid flight in earth’s atmosphere. This conclusion is further supported by the fact that they present traces of radioisotopes produced by cosmic rays, as be the case if they had come from outer space. The present opinion of experts is that tektites were formed from rocks smelted and splashed by giant meteoritic impacts.

Though this explanation seems the most likely for several tektite strewn fields such as the giant one that covers most of Australia, Indonesia and the Indian Ocean, some smaller tektite fields present evidence of a different mode of formation. For instance, the tektites of Aouelloul crater in Mauritania or those of Mt. Darwin, in Tasmania differ remarkably in composition from ordinary tektites. So, many experts dissent from the ordinary opinion just mentioned.

This is difficult to imagine any source for the silica-rich tektites than certain sedimentary rocks or the sands and arenites of certain deserts. Again, many tektite strewn fields are found nearby huge meteoritic craters. But others, usually of a smaller size show no connection at all with meteorites both in their composition and in the absence of nearby meteoritic craters. Such is particularly the case of the tektites of the Libyan desert which are essentially pure silica (>98% SiO₂) and which show all evidence of having been produced by some sort of local explosion of great power such as that of an A- or H-Bomb.

An interesting opinion on the origin of the mysterious tektites was proposed some fifty years by the American geologist G. Link. When Virgil E. Barnes proved that some tektites of the size of sand-grains were composed of techatelierite (fused quartz) and hence corresponded to the composition of certain sandy shales, Link proposed that they originated in a planet covered by such sedimentary rocks that had been struck by a giant meteorite or comet.

That at least some tektites were not formed by meteoritic impacts is proved by the fact that – in contrast to giant meteoritic “splashes” – they present no vestiges from the parent rock. The radioisotopes present in tektites also present a perplexing picture. As we said above, there is a notorious absence of cosmic ray action, tending to show a terrestrial origin. The ages determined by radioisotopic decay of pairs such as Rb/Sr, U/Pb, Th/Pb, and so on yield results often in marked disagreement which those obtained by other methods such as those based on indirect dating of the soil layers in which they are found.

The problems of tektite dating are such that many authorities were led into postulating an extraterrestrial origin, for instance, in the Moon or on Mars. In this view, tektites would be the splashes of giant meteorites or comets hitting these bodies. This origin would nicely account for the fact that tektites apparently present evidence of having been melted twice. Here this occurs first when they are splashed, and a second time when they enter earth’s atmosphere at the enormous velocities typical of meteorites.

The button-like shape of certain tektites such as those shown in Fig. 1 is difficult to explain otherwise. They indicate this double process of shaping, a view that has been confirmed in the laboratory. The first time, the tektites are produced as spherical beads, in a vacuum. After they cool as spheres, they are again ejected by a second explosion, and deform into the button-like shape of Fig. 1. A second ejection would also nicely account for the discrepancy in dates presented by tektites, particularly those of the Indochinites.

The first time they are completely melted, and their radioactive “clocks” are reset to zero. The second time, they are only partly melted and preserve the original date. But they are thrown up, and fall back over the layer of soil which presents the anomalous younger age or about 10 kya. Several experts such as Prof. Bernd Pauli, of Prof. James Tobin, of the University of California, and other scientists, who discuss the problem of tektite age and made of formation in the Meteorite-Mailing-List, on the Internet, have apparently reached the following remarkable conclusions concerning Indochinites:

1. They were formed by a huge asteroidal or cometary impact in the region of Indochina at about 700 or 780 kya (kiloyears ago).
2. Some of these tektites, particularly the flanged button type, show unequivocal evidence of a second impact or unknown nature at about the age of about 10 to 12 kya.
3. This evidence is afforded both by their peculiar shape of partly ablated spheres and the atriations they present.
4. The age of the second event, dated at about 10 kya, is unequivocally afforded by that of the alluvial terrain apparently transported by it., in which they were found, and into which they were.
5. The young age of the second event is confirmed by the fact that such tektites show little of watery erosion, and hence could not have been exposed in the upper layers of soil by as long a period as that of their original age.
6. The presence of impacted grains of sand converted into coesite (a form of quartz) precludes the formation of tektite in volcanic explosions and favors meteoritic impact.

 

An old adage affirms that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. “While the accuracy of that old saw can be contested, it is apparently valid for the fall of meteorites, which the ancients often equated to lightning bolts. So, the twofold impact that has to be invoked in order to explain the so-called “age paradox” of tektites has to be resolved in a more logical fashion in order to become acceptable to these experts, who feel extremely unhappy at the situation.

Hence, we postulate here a new solution to the paradox posed by the Indochind tektites. Suppose that a nuclear war indeed occurred in the region at about the date of 10 or 14 kya. The tektites formed by the first impact would be ejected from their deposits by the second type of explosion and redeposited over the soil corresponding to that date.

Now, the date of about 10 to 14 kya centers at that of 12 kya, precisely the date given Plato for the cataclysmic end of Atlantis in an all-out War. Furthermore, a series of relatively minor explosions instead of a single large one of recent date would also nicely explain the absence of a large crater in the region where the tektites were ejected. In other words, the experts should be looking for a series of small craters of a relatively young age, rather than a single huge one. A relatively recent article on tektites proposes just this type of solution for this further paradox posed by tektites. ^[4]

Hence, we see how the enigmatic Australasian tektites – a huge strewn field that covers – a substantial portion of the South Seas region – apparently offer considerable support for our theory of an all-out nuclear war in Atlantean times. The date matches, the location matches, and the physical evidence matches. In contrast, no other acceptable alternative explanations have even been found for these enigmatic artifacts.

The Mysterious Origin of Indonesian Tektites

One of the great mysteries of modern geology concerns the origin of the Indochinese tektites. In fact, the other tektite fields are usually associated with meteoritic craters: the Moldavites with the Ries Kessel crater, in Germany, both dated at 15 Mya, the Aouelloul tektites with the Aouelloul crater in Mauritania, and so on. Recently, tektites were found in India directly at the Lonar Crater, directly confirming their terrestrial origin as the result of meteoritic or cometary impacts of a large size.

But, as a recent review article on tektites acknowledges, the exception continues to be the Indochinites:

These small glossary beads continue to arouse the interest of the scientific world… Interesting scientific problems remain. High on the list of unresolved questions is the source region for the Australasian strewn field, that cover over 10% of the surface of the Earth. The mass and real distribution of these tektites have long pointed to a source in Eastern Indochina (Taylor 1968). The event is dated, rather precisely, at 770.000 years ago, but the crater remains elusive… A site in Laos is a possibility. However, researchers only found flat-lying, undisturbed Mesozoic sedimentary rocks” in the area, with no sign of a candidate crater. Of course, the chemical and isotopic evidence has long identified these rocks as having the right age and composition to be the source material.

(The Editors, Tektites: Some Unresolved Problems Meteoritics 31-1, Jan. 1996, pg. 4. ??????)

 

Are Tektites Terrestrial or Extra-Terrestrial?

Two theories presently contend for the privilege, of explaining the Australasian tektites: a lunar origin and a site somewhere in Southeast Asia, particularly in Laos or Cambodia. In Cambodia, the main candidate is Lake Tonle Sap and in Laos, the one just mentioned. Quite recently, a new theory was proposed that preconizes that the Australasian tektites were formed by a cometary impact on a moon of Jupiter. This theory was proposed by the Russian scientist E. P. Izokh in order to account for the double age of Australasian tektites.

In his view, these tektites were formed 750 or so kiloyears ago, and spent a long time in space, falling down to earth as a swarm, some 12,000 years ago. But Izokh’s theory has been discarded due to the fact that hardly the moons of Jupiter or others have the right composition, the peculiar one of terrestrial sedimentary rocks. It is this fact that led to the definitive discarding of an extra-terrestrial origin for tektites. Moreover, radioisotopic studies show that tektites necessarily spent under 4.000 years in space.

We have apparently found the real cause of the persistent failures of research to find the crater actually associated with the Australasian tektites. They have been looking for a relatively small crater, whereas the one that in fact engendered these mysterious objects is so large that it cannot be seen from the ground, but only from far up, by means of spy satellites and such. The map of Fig. 2 dramatically shows what we are arguing.

Fig. 2 – Map of Tektite Strewn Fields
(Enc. Brit 81, Sv. Tektites, 18:61B)

The Australasian tektite-strewn field covers the immense region within the area delimited at the right bottom of the map, and centered at the region of Indonesia. As it shows, this area covers most of the Indian Ocean, Australia, the South China Sea and Indonesia, to a total of over 10% of Earth’s total. In fact, it probably extends to the right, into the Pacific Ocean, where the extreme depths prevent an effective recovery, and into South China, where political difficulties act likewise.

Researchers knows that the tektites are centered somewhere near Lake Tonle Sap because the larger tektites – some as heavy as 25 kilos or so – are concentrated there. It is natural that the larger fragments splashed by an explosion fall near the source, medium ones farther away, and the very lightest even further. When the finds are mapped, the bull’s eye falls in Southeast Asia and, more exactly, in Lake Tonle Sap, the great lake of Cambodia.

It is clear that an explosion capable of throwing fragments as far away as 10,000km or so cannot be produced by as small a crater as Lake Tonle Sap, invisible in the map of Fig. 2. Furthermore, the lake is elongated, rather than round, as is to be expected of a crater lake. This fact leads us to seek a far larger crater in the region. Again, the fact that the terrain in the whole of Southeast Asia and surrounding regions is of the right date, also points to the fact that all of it is part of the giant crater that was produced by the colossal meteoritic impact, some 750 kya.

 

One Giant Crater or Thousands of Smaller Ones?

In fact, the large Australasian tektites are called Muong Nong, after the site in Laos in which they were first found. The Muong Nong tektites are layered and irregular, and show no evidence of aerodynamic shaping, as would inevitably occur had they traveled at a first speed in earth’s atmosphere, as is the case of their smaller counterparts, the button-type tektites.

But the Muong Nong tektites have been found over an enormous region, of over 1 million km². This has led some researchers to posit that the Australasian tektites were generated by a shower of meteorites rather than a single large one. ^[5]

So, according to this view instead of a single crater of 1 million or more square kilometers, we should be looking for several thousand small craters of about 100 km² square. Of course, this proposal poses more problems than it solves. First, if the researchers failed to find even a single crater, how could they miss thousands? Second, how can only explain that a series of small meteors could eject material at distances of up to 10,000 km?

 

The Solution of the Indochinite Paradox

Definitely, the solution to the riddle lies elsewhere. As we already said, we believe to have found the solution to the paradox in the fact that researchers are seeking a smallish crater, when the real one has to have been one or more million square kilometers. We realize that such large craters are hard to believe. But they are a reality that cannot be escaped. In fact, we can observe such craters directly, in the lunar marie. If they exist on the Moon and elsewhere, why not on Earth?

What is there to shield us from them, except our flimsy atmosphere, clearly thin enough not to put a real obstacle to, say, a chunk of solid rock 100 km or more in diameter? If we allow for such a huge crater, all our difficulties are magically resolved once and for all. The Muong Nong tektites, whose layered structure suggests that they formed on site could then lay inside or near the large crater itself.

The enormous extension of the Australasian strewn field would be naturally explained by a super-giant event. But where would such a giant crater be hiding itself?

Fig. 3 – Map of the Region of Indochina’s Crater
(Brit. Atlas, Map 6 – Draw Tektite Field from Fig. 2)

The answer can be only one: under the South China Sea, that is where. In fact, the island of Indonesia is part of the rim of the giant meteoritic crater that formed the Austronesian tektites. When the shallow seafloor of the sea is exposed its crater-like shape is clearly visible. This can be seen in the map of Fig. 3, below, where we marked out both the rim of the giant meteoritic crater and the one of the tektite field. The reader will please note the rounded shape of that seafloor and the rim of islands that encircle it as a sort of pearl necklace.

And the region of Cambodia – with Lake Tonle Sap as a small spot inside it – roughly corresponds to the center of the crater. On the west side, the rim of the giant crater is formed by Sumatra and the Andaman islands. It then crosses Burma across Rangoon and Indochina just above Viangchan (Vientiane), follows the Mekong along its bend, crosses the island of Hainandao, then runs along the Philippines, then follows the core of Celebs, returning finally along Java and Sumatra.

The crater is round, and though far from perfect, is clearly visible in the map. Its distortions, though minor, are due to the that the region is the boundary of three or four tectonic plates that have moved considerably during the almost 1 million years that elapsed since the event. During the Ice Age, the seafloor of the region became exposed and became the site of Atlantis, as we show with actual maps in our Homepage on Atlantis [LINK TO SECTION WITH MAP].

 

The Atlantean Traditions on the Event

What is even more interesting on what concerns this fateful crater is the fact that the ancient Atlanteans were well aware of its true Celestial nature and its circular shape. They invariably portrayed Paradise – the Central Continent that corresponded to Atlantis – as a circular region surrounded by the other four continents. They also identified it as the Cosmic Egg and to the Tai-chi diagram (Yin-Yang) as we explain in detail in our article on the NOAA maps of the seafloor which first revealed tons the reality of the sunken continent of Atlantis. Still, another ancient allegory of the round shape of Atlantis is the portrait of pan-faced Hathor, the Great Mother who personifies Paradise.

But the most uncontrovertible evidence that the Atlanteans knew of the fact that their now sunken continent was indeed perfectly round or almost is given by the description that Plato makes of it. When Poseidon built Atlantis, says Plato (Critias 113d):

He inclosed the hill in which she dwelt [his wife] all around, breaking the ground and making alternate zones of land and sea larger and smaller, one encircling the other… These he turned as with a lathe, each have its circumference equidistant from the center…

This map of Atlantis is too well-known to require elaboration here. Its symbolism and function correspond to the Crossed Circle or Cross of Atlantis ⊕, as we discuss elsewhere. [LINK TO NOAA MAPS, DISCUSSION OF CROSS OF ATLANTIS]. There can be no reasonable doubt that the ancient Atlanteans had this reality in mind when they devised that profound symbolism. In fact, the Cross of Atlantis also serves as the symbol of the Earth even today, being so used by both astronomers and astrologers for that end.

Atlantis (Paradise) was said to be an image of the Earth, itself perfectly round. And the Cross itself represents the coordinates of Atlantis situated precisely at the intersection of the line of the Equator with that of the Meridian 0^o, that of Lanka, according to pristine convention. The meridian of Lanka was the International Dateline where the new day started by convention. Besides, it also was the start of the distances, measured in degrees of longitude. So, how could the ancient Atlanteans have failed to realize the true nature of their now sunken round continent if they portrayed both its shape and coordinates in the most unequivocal fashion?

 

The Celestial Origin of Paradise

There is also compelling evidence that the ancient Atlanteans also fully realized the Celestial nature of the event that created their homeland 750,000 years ago. in some ancient myths on the creation of Paradise – and such myths ultimately derive from Atlantis and its lore – Paradise is formed by a Celestial body that falls from Heaven into the sea forming its land. This myth is endlessly repeated, in several forms, the world over.

For instance, in the myth of Apolo, Paradise is located in the island of Asteria or Delos. Asteria means “Celestial”, and Delos means “Shiny One”. More exactly, Asteria derives its name from aster, meaning “star”, and, more exactly “shooting star”, or “meteorite”. In the myth, the nymph Asteria, chased by Apollo, turned into a quail and when the god changed into a hawk to capture her, she threw herself into the sea, where she died.

Her body became Ortygia, the island of Apollo. Ortygia means “Island of the Quail” (orthyse, in Greek). Later, its name was changed to those of Delos or Asteria. Asteria-Delos was deemed to be a floating-island, which could sink under the sea when required. What this means, is that Asteria-Delos was a dvipa, a sinking island of the type the Hindus identify to Paradise. In other variants of the myth, it is Apollo himself who, as the Fallen Sun, falls from Heaven into the seas, becoming Asteria.

Alternatively, the same myth is also attributed to Atlas and his daughters, the Atlantides or Pleiades. Chased by their lustful father, the seven girls turned into quails or doves (peleias = peleiades) and, when the pursuner changed into a hawk, they threw themselves into the water preferring death to shame. They later became the Seven Islands of the Blest, the remains of Sunken Atlantis. Here, the connection between Atlantis and the meteoritic fall is even more direct.

The myth of Apollo and Asteria of Atlas and his daughters are Greek adaptations, of identical ones of India. There it is Brahma who chases his own daughter. She changes into a quail (vartika) and he into a hawk, and so on. In other Hindu variants, which date from the Rig Veda, it is the Sun (Vivasvat) who chases the female (Sharanyu).

This time she changes into a mare, etc, etc.. The mare is the Vadavamukha, the Submarine Mare that is no other thing than the volcano that destroyed Atlantis. But here, the Mare personifies something more vast, the whole of the giant meteoritic crater. In other variants, also dating from Vedic times, the fall of the asteroid is figured as that of the head of Angiras, also called Dadhyanch. (“Spurter of curds”). His name probably allegorizes the spurting of tektites by the meteorite.

Anyhow, the decapitated head of Dadhyanch falls into the ocean and becomes an island in the middle of a lake or the sea. This island or mountain later becomes Paradise and its Holy Mountain. In other accounts, it becomes the Submarine Mare. Hindu myths are difficult but clear enough for those able to understand. We comment on these myths elsewhere, and urge the interested reader to find and study these interesting commentaries.

We also show that myths such as those of Adam – decapitated in Heaven – whose head became the Holy Mountain (Mt. Calvary) also derives from the same motif of the myth just commented. So does, for that matter the related myth told by Wolfram bom Eschenboch concerning the emerald that fell from Lucifer’s crown during the Fall, and which was subsequently carved into the Holy Grail.

In other words, the Holy Grail, the Cup of Soma is that great lotus chalice where Humanity and Civilization originated in the dawn of times, the very site of Atlantis-Eden. Space does not allow a fuller coverage of that fascinating subject here, and the reader must seek our other works on the subject for a fuller explanation. Did the Atlanteans or, rather, their predecessors actually watch the fall of the giant asteroid which they mistook for the fall of the Sun?

Perhaps. The cataclysm occurred in the times when Man already inhabited the region, which he entered 1 million years ago or more. The giant fall would be a catastrophe well worth remembering; perhaps the greatest ever in the times of Man. It certainly wiped out all life in the region, to the probable extension covered by the tektite-strewn field, if not larger. We can be sure that survival was barest and that it was by the greatest of luck that Man survived that cataclysm.

Another very interesting conclusion has to do with volcanoes. Indonesia is the most active volcanic location in the world. Hundreds of volcanoes are active there, and once in a while cause a major cataclysm such as the one that wiped out Atlantis-Eden for good. The volcanoes lie at the rim of the giant crater, and there can be scant doubt that the two events are correlated. We are tempted into generalizing and postulating that the Indonesian volcanoes are the result of meteoritic melt. In other words, the heat of the impact melted the sedimentary (silicic) rocks of the region and drove them down into the mantle, forming magma chambers.

The molten rock upwells, forming volcanoes. And since these are silicic, rather than basaltic, they erupt explosively, causing terrible fiery cataclysms and giant tsunamis. Are all volcanoes formed that way? Probably so. It is our impression that it is these giant impacts that crack earth’s crust like impacted an egg’s shell. The molters cracks (magma) finds its way along these cracks and upwells through their fissures.

This proposal has, over the standard one of magma Chambers formed by plumes issuing from the nucleus, the advantage of being far more logical and of the one of being attested in practice, at least for the Indonesian volcanoes. It would be extremely interesting to investigate this matter in detail, for it may further the study of volcanology to an enormous extent. Another interesting consequence of the above conclusion that the Indonesian tektites were generated by the lanetoidal-sized asteroid that created the South China Crater is the explanation of the uncanny mineral riches of Indonesia and Indochina.

The region was known in antiquity, by names such as islands of Gold, Islands of Tin. Islands of Silver, etc., due to the metals it produced. But it also produced diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, aquarines and other gemstones, as it does even today. It is known that asteroids are extremely rich in all sorts of rare, minerals. And it is also possible that it is the tremendous pressures caused by the giant impact that creates diamonds rather than the far less likely ones of earth’s nucleus.

If we are right, it seems that Indonesia’s giant asteroidal crater provides almost direct proof that precious minerals and gemstones such as the ones mined there are ultimately produced by falling asteroids. Truly a gift of the gods. Or rather, one from the Devil himself, for the fall causes an immense catastrophe.

 

The Roofs of Nazi-Fascism

The roots of Nazism and related movements are to be searched in far earlier traditions having to do with Thule and Hyperborea, the aliases of Atlantis in Germanic folklore. The legend of Thule is as old as the Germanic race itself. It was treated by Goethe in his fascinating Doctor Faustus, and by Wagner in his famous operas, so popular in Nazi Germany. The origins of the Thule Group out of which Nazism originated is treated in detail in the already mentioned book by pauwels and Bergier, so that duplication is unnecessary.

No one that reads their dramatic treatment of Nazi origins will fail to see the direct connection between Atlantis, Nazism, Zionism and the alchemical origins of nuclear technology. Unfortunately, space does not allow a deeper treatment of this fascinating problem here, and the interested reader is directed to our works on them. As Marcel Ray pointed out in 1939, the war that Hitler imposed on the world was a “Manichaean War”, a battle between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness”.

In other words, WWII was indeed a replica of the War of Atlantis, probably also fought not only with hand weapons, but by means of nuclear bombs, rockets and aircraft. As Rauschning, the famous German historian once said:

Every German has one foot in Atlantis, where he seeks a better Fatherland and a better patrimony. This double nature of the Germans… (check paragraph XXXX)

This double nature of the Germans, this faculty they have of splitting their personality enables them to live in the real world and, at the same time, to project themselves into an imaginary world. This is particularly noticeable in Hitler, and provides the Key to his magic socialism.

This “magic socialism”, alias Nazism is hence directly rooted in Atlantean traditions such as those entertained by the Group of Thule and the Wagnerian operas. Only that as is so often the case with all fanatical movements, the lofty Atlantean ideals suffered a gross distortion in the hands of Hitler and his gang, and ended up in a brutal carnage not only of Jews and other minorities, but also of their own people which they led into doom.

As Ranschning observes, Nazism became an obsession, a mania in Germany. In his own words; “National-Socialism is the St. Vitus’ dance of the 20^th century… a procession of flagellants”. Anyone who has ever observed this barbaric ritual will readily realize the kind of maniac frenzy that overtakes the worshippers during such processions.

Well, Nazism is not the sole instance where a good doctrine is turned into an evil one by some sectarian fanatics who use it as a device for achieving their own ends. History is full of similar happenings. No matter what, when Hitler rose to power the Jewish scientists were expelled from Germany, and “Jewish Science” was substituted by a Nazi one, based on the Welt Eis Theorie (“Theory of Global Ice”) and in that of the Holly Earth.

Scientists such as Einstein, Fermi, Szillard, Teller and many others sought refuge in America, where they pursued their researches’ towards the development of the A- and the H-bombs. As we said above, the legend of Thule – the ultimate boundary of the world – is as old as the Germanic race itself. Thule was a legendary island or continent located somewhere on “the far North”, being the homeland of the Nordic races.

No one knew its true location. Off Greeland? Labrader? The Artic Ocean? No one had the least idea. Or, rather, the highest initiates, the ones conversant with the Occult traditions derived from Theosophical movements such as the order of the Golden Dawn and Authroposophism well knew that Thule was in reality the same as Atlantis, and that it was located somewhere in the Far East and, more particularly, in what is now the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia.

The Thule Society was created by Dietrich Eckhardt. In the early 1920’s, Eckhardt and his friend, Alfred Rosenberg became acquainted with Hitler, whom they initiated in the secrets of the order. They taught the future Fuehrer that Germany was destined to rule the world and to eliminate all evil that stood in the way of the spiritual and moral progress of the Aryan race.

In 1923 the Nazional-Socialist Party – Nazi for short – was founded, with Ecxhardt and Rosenberg among the seven founders. Seven! The number coincides with that of the seven sacred islands of Atlantis! And it was chosen to emphasize the correspondence between Thule and Atlantis.

It was, however, in the hands of Klaus Hanshofer that the Thule Group would become what it later did: a society of high initiates in the arts of Black Magic General-Karl Hanshofer was introduced to Hitler by Rudolf Hess, who had been his assistant while he was a professor at the University of Munich. Hanshofer was a men of great culture. He had paid several visits to India and the Far East, and served in Japan, where he learned the language and became initiated in certain forms of esoteric Buddhism.

He believed – or, learned, perhaps – that the Germanic people had originated in Central Asia, the very region of the Gobi Desert that the Theosophist associate with Shaka Dvipa, the “White Island” that they believe to have been the primordial homeland of the Aryans Hanshofer was also a mystic who boasted of being able to predict the future. And the future he predicted for Hitler and Germany was rosy, with Germany ruling the entire world in the New Millennium the Nazis were inaugurating.

It was Hanshofer who introduced the swastika – a Far Easter symbol connected with the advent of Buddha and the Millenium – as the symbol of Nazism. But, though a Far Eastern symbol, the swastika has traditionally been considered an Aryan symbol and the standard imprint of Aryan presence wherever it is to be found: India, Troy, China, Transylvania, Phoenicia and even pre-Columbian America. the universal presence of the swastika bespeaks of a hidden pre-history of the Aryan races far more intensive and far more extensive than usually presumed.

Certain authorities site the origin of the Thule Group in Tibet and mention a connection with the esoteric Seat of the Green Dragon. And it is known for certain that the Nazis secretly imported Tibetan monks to Germany, where one of them became the most esteemed seer working for Hitler personally. These Tibetans are said by some to have been the secret emissaries of the King of the World, the mysterious ruler of the subterranean realm of Shambhala.

According to the esoteric doctrines of the Thule Group, a long time ago – possibly during the Ice Age – a highly developed Aryan civilization existed in the region of Central Asia that now corresponds to the Gobi Desert. The Ice Age – during which most of North Asia was covered by immense glaciers – probably explains the Germanic fixation with ice, both in their Cosmogonic myths and in the Eistehretheorie that formed the mythopoetic basis of Nazism.

No matter what, Nazi mythology also held that the great civilization of the White Island was destroyed by a great cataclysm, very possibly caused by an all-out nuclear war. In based on actual fact – as the Germans implicitly believed – this great civilization can only have been the one of Atlantis and that great war the war of Atlantis. And, as we shall discuss further below, the war of Atlantis – which, according to Plato and others ended up destroying the whole world in a tremendous cataclysm – seems to have been the same one which the sacred traditions of the Hindus identify with the ones of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, two different accounts of the same event.

The initiates of the Thule Group claimed that the Aryans were the survivors of that great cataclysmic War, which were forced to relinquish their destroyed homeland in search of alternative Promised Lands. They also held that this primordial homeland had been the former Center of the World, and that whoever restored that primordial condition would control the whole world. Hence, the unlikely alliance with a Far Eastern nation, Japan, in order to compose the Axis, the term they adopted in order to designate the Center of the World.

These esoteric doctrines have to do – except for the wild distortions introduced by the Nazis for their own benefit – with the traditions concerning Shambhala and the King of the World, which we already mentioned above. They were originally disclosed to the West in books such as Beasts, an and Gods, by Ferdinand Ossendovsky and The King of the World, by René Guénon. Far more garbled accounts are also to be had from author such as Helena Blavatsky and other Theosophic sources.

The Buddhic doctrines of the Tibetans in fact speak of two subterranean realms associated respectively with Agartha and Shambhala. They also correspond to what Tantric Buddhists and Hinduists call “Left Hand Way” and “Right Hand Way”. In terms of the most ancient Hindu traditions, the two sides who fought the Great War of Shambhala correspond to the Devas and the Asuras. These are the same as other traditions call Gods and Devils or, yet, Angels and Demons or Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness.

In Greek traditions, the two contendants were mythified as the Gods and the Titans, whose terrible war Plato and his commentators explicitly identified with the War of Atlantis. In Christian terms, the War of Shambhala is the one described in detail in the Book of Revelation.

Fig.2 – The Battle of Shambhala
(Wisdom and Compassion, pg. 158)

In fact, the Four Horsemen of Revelation closely correspond to the Four Kings of Shambhala, with their characteristic heraldic colours: white, red, yellow, black. In fig. 2 we have Rudrachakrin, the King of Shambhala, placidly observing the battle being waged by the Four Kings in the plains of Shambhala, which correspond to those of Armageddon. ^[6]

When the Allied forces invaded Berlin, they found among the multitudes of dead, the corpses of about 1,000 Tibetans dressed in German uniforms. They were the “left hand” Buddhist monks who had prophesied the victory of Hitler and his inauguration of the Thousand Year Reich (“Rein”) that would last till the end of times, in the next Deluge.

 

The Origin of the Atomic Bomb

The greatest riddles of mankind are often hidden right under our very eyes. Such is the case of the mysterious origin of the A- and the H-Bombs. As a part of my professional obligations as a nuclear scientist, I had to research the origin and mode of manufacture of nuclear devices during WWII and before.

In that quality, I not only researched the matter in depth but also had access to classified documents that are never divulged to the general public. And some of these even excogitated the possibility of alchemical processes being an actual reality. I know that most of us – the scientists and the intellectuals in particular – have been indoctrinated from earliest infancy to laugh at and deride the motion that alchemical processes – the transmutation of metals and other elements – can be a reality. But that ingrained certainty is far from reasonable anymore. In fact, the A- and the H-Bomb are indeed based in alchemical processes, the first transmuting uranium or plutonium into less heavy elements and the second in that of hydrogen isotopes into helium.

What is more, several governmental institutions of research and even some big industrial complexes are seriously investigating alchemical processes such as Cold Fusion for the production of pollution-free energy and for the disposal of radioactive pollution. So, we have to open our minds to novel possibilities in this day and age when we are about to enter into a new millennium and new era, the Age of Aquarius.

 

Was There a Previous Atomic Age?

We have treated the question of the mysterious rise of the A- and H-Bombs in detail elsewhere, and here we present just the basic essentials of that fascinating story of high espionage and international intrigue. As in normally the case in such crucial issues, the real truth is never told the public and is confined to the highest spheres of often invisible authorities and institutions.

We realize that what we are about to say will be taxed with sarcasm and ridicule as it has been in the past. After all, these are the usual devices utilized by those bent an demoralizing such attempts at inveiling the whole truth to the public. Calomniez, calomniez, il en reste toujour quelque chose. That is the maxim they follow, for people are often prone to believe slander and false accusations, particularly when the truths disclosed are hard to believe. But we feel that it is our duty to disclose the whole truth to the public, even at the risk of incurring in the ire of certain groups and organizations bent on dissimulating certain historical facts and realities.

No, I am not anti-Semitic at all. All I am striving at is to reestablish the truth, in a balanced, objective fashion. In fact, I have the deepest sympathy for those exiles of Eden, who are indeed the zealous guardians of the ancient arcanes of former eras of humanity. And I can understand how, once in a while, they will take advantage of the arcanes they guard, and use some of these to insure their own survival, when they feel that it is being threatened.

No one familiar with the secret reasons underlying WWII will deny the fact that this global war was at the bottom a mortal duel between Occult movements having to do with the eternal battle of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, the embodied under the names of movements such as Nazism, Zionism, the Axis, Fascism, etc..

But that story does not concern us here, and is told by us in detail elsewhere. For the moment, we limit ourselves to retelling the memorable facts attending the birth of the A-Bom, first in Europe through the efforts of the group led by Niels Bohr from Copenhagen on behalf of the Jews and Otto Hahn on that of the Germans, and later in America, to where the Allied effort was moved when the Nazis occupied France and Denmark.

This fascinating story is told in detail by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, in their trend-setting The Morning of the Magicians. ^[7]

As both Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier were orthodox Jews and since we are here merely repeating what they disclosed firsthand, it is not fair to maintain the position that these revelations are tainted with anti-Semitic bias.

Nor can be they dismissed as idle inventions or exaggerations, as Jacques Bergier was both a serious scientist and an extremely competent writer and researcher of the darker sides of History. Bergier, as an atomic scientist, directly participated in the secret movements led by Joliot Curie and Niels Bohr, among other celebrated scientists of Jewish extraction. As concerns the alchemical foundations of the effort that led to the development of the A-Bomb and, later, of that of the H-Bomb, Bergier tells an interesting story that would be unbelievable had he not been a personal witness to the fact. it is true that Bergier was an adept of the Occult Sciences.

But so were Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, Oppenheimer and indeed, most, if not all of the scientists engaged in the initial development of Atomic Power. The fact that most, if not all of the scientists engaged in that activity ware Jews committed to the destruction of nazism is also a strong indication of an underlying connection whose roots stretch, like that of Uggdrasil, all the way back to Hades and to the origins of Manking in Eden.

 

The Impossibility of Supernova Causation

Recently, several authors have revived and ancient theory which holds that Ice Age transitions are triggered by nearby supernova explosions, and applied it, in one form or another, to the demise of Atlantis. ^[8]

We have already argued, in the present work, the impossibility that nearby supernova explosions could have caused the demise of Atlantis for the simple reason that nearby supernova remnants do not exist at all. Its brightness becomes exceedingly high. It dies within a matter of days, but leaves behind a cloud of dust and gases, visible as a nebula, by means of telescopes.

As we already argued further above, stars move at a typical speed of 200 km/sec, that is, under one-thousandth that of light. Hence, if a supernova had exploded in the neighborhood of the Solar System as recently as 11,600 years ago, its remnants would be within 10 light years or so. However, the closest supernova remnants lie at about 1,000 lightyears or more away and, hence, none of them could have been “it”.

The book by Allan and Delair is precious for the evidence they provide for a global cataclysm of immense proportions some 11,500 or 11,600 years ago. the authors are both professional researchers, Delair in the field of prehistory and paleontology, and Allan a biologist specialized in the field of earth changes. However, they should not have ventured outside their specialties, as an astronomical cause of the cataclysm they propose is scientifically preposterous.

In fact, their theory is a refurbishing of the long ago refuted proposals of Velikovsky or the even more absurd ones of Zecharia Sitchin. Allan and Delair reject the reality of Ice Ages and even the hypothesis that a giant meteoritic or cometary fall may have caused the cataclysm that terminated the Pleistocene some 9,600 years ago. They claim to have found evidence – provided by Al 22 isotopes and by magnetic field inversions – that a “stellar blast”, a supernova explosion actually caused the catastrophe.

According to them, a fragment of the Vela supernova of planetoidal size entered the Solar System some 11,500 years ago and wreaked havoc. This intruding planet they name Phaëthon or Marduk. Here it survived for about a year, bouncing off the other planets and the sun, in a way that closely evokes the vicissitudes of “comet” Venus, as described Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision. Allan and Delair attribute the birth of planet Phaëthon to the explosion of the Vela Supernova, which ejected this chunk of matter in the catastrophe.

To this, they attribute a date of 13,000 years ago, the debris taking a time of about 1,500 years to get here, “traveling at supersonic speeds”, precisely on schedule for causing the cataclysmic and of the Pleistocene. The hypothesis of Allan and Delair was somewhat modified by Tony Smith, who also adopts the Vela supernova explosion in order to explain the end of the Pleistocene some 11,600 years ago. ^[9]

Except that Smith postulates two different alternatives if I understood his proposals correctly. At the first, the neutrons and other elementary particles disturbed the Solar wind and perhaps the sun itself, drastically altering earth’s climate. In the second hypothesis, the supernova explosion of Vela perturbed Oort’s Cloud at the fringes of the Solar System, breaking up Comet Eneke and sending the fragments towards the earth, where they caused the catastrophic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age.

Of course, both proposals – that of Tony Smith and that of Allan and Delair – are no more than amusing Science Fiction. In fact, they are not even original beings, as we already said, no more than a refurbished rendition of the ideas of Immanuel Velikosvky and Zechariah Sitchin, among many others. In fact, the idea that periodic destructions of the earth are caused by asteroidal or cometary falls can be traced back to antiquity.

Plato tells of their reality in his Timaeus and Critias. And the doctrines preached by Zoroaster already tell of a global catastrophe caused by the fall of a comet. But we believe that these traditions have little to do with the actual destruction of Atlantis and the end of the Pleistocene, and that they indeed refer to the earlier event that generated the Australasian tektites some 750 kya. Man already existed in the Australasian region at that remote epoch, and it is not unlikely that the tremendous cataclysm became permanently registered in both our minds and our myths and traditions.

After this intermission, we can return to the possibility that the Vela supernova actually caused the catastrophic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. The authors just mentioned apparently forgot William of Ockam’s basic tenet that hypotheses non sunt ponenda ine necessitate that is, that we should not posit hypotheses gratuitously, where they are not required. And such is particularly the case with the hypothesis that Vela’s explosion caused the end of the Pleistocene.

This hypothesis is not only unnecessary. It is impossible, physically speaking. First of all, Vela is to far away, as we already argued. Its distance from the Solar System is estimated at between 1,000 and 6,000 lightyears. And the energy of the explosion has been estimated fairly reliably from astrophysical data of several kinds. From these values the actual fluxes of gamma rays and other elementary particles has been determined. And there intensities are barely detectable, let alone able to cause a cataclysm of the huge proportions under discussion here. ^[10]

A second point worth noting is that Vela’s as its clouds have been perturbed by the nearby one of the Gum nebula. In consequence, its age is variously estimated as ranging anywhere between 5 and 13 kya (kiloyears ago). so, to attach the precise date of 11,500 or 11,600 years to that event is the kind of Procrustean fitting that is highly unscientific, as it leads the readers into wrongly assuming the coincidence is real.

The proposal of Allan and Delair suffers from a further scientific deficiency that renders it utterly incapable of coping with direct observational evidence obtained by several independent methods and several different observatories. The fact is that the fragments ejected by the explosion of the Vela supernova expand at a speed between about 60 to 165 km/sec, as has been determined by highly reliable methods. ^[11]

Traveling at such speeds – and a large chunk of matter of planetoidal size would necessarily travel at far lower speeds for reasons of energy and momentum conservation reasons of energy and momentum conservation – the fragments from Vela would take between 3 and 18 million years to reach the Solar System, even in the unlikely hypothesis that they could reach the high speeds attained by the atomic sized particles in the expanding clouds.

So, we may just dismiss the proposal of Allan and Delair as totally destitute of any astrophysical reality. Likewise, Tony Smith’s proposal – though having a better astrophysical foundation – is utterly incapable to account for the drastic end of the Pleistocene for the simple reason that the explosion occurred to far away to cause any palpable effect upon the Solar System. Anyway, the burden of proof lies with the alleger, and he has yet to provide a mechanism whereby Vela’s explosion could have had such a large effect upon Oort’s Cloud or upon the Sun and the planets themselves.

Nuclear War in Sodom And Gomorrah?

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a fiery cataclysm is perhaps one of the strangest passages of the Book of Genesis. Experts usually tend to think that it was due to some sort of volcanic conflagration. But the fact is that no volcanoes exist in the Dead Sea region or, for that matter in the whole of Palestine. Moreover, the cataclysm was apparently preordained by the “goods”, whoever they may have been, as we shall see further below.

That Sodom and Gomorrah were not Palestinian cities in proved by the below text of Revelation (ch. 11) on the Two Witnesses, and their war with the Beast. Though mighty – for the Two Witness have the power “to devour their enemies with fire, to close the skies so that it does not rain, to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with a thousand plagues” – the Two Witnesses are defeated by the Beast who exposes their dead bodies:

In the main street of the Great City, which is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, and where the Lord was crucified…

So, this passage identifies Sodom to Jerusalem and to the mythical Egypt where the Jews were enslaved. The Jerusalem Bible explains in a gloss that the Great City is neither Jerusalem nor Egypt but “no other than Babylon = Rome”. In fact, it mentions other passages of Revelation (16:19, etc.), where the identification of the “Great City” with Babylon is done explicitly. Moreover, these passages also identify this mystic “Babylon” with the Great Whore, and with the Queen of the Seas destroyed “in a single day by fire and plagues, sadness and famine”. (Rev. 18:18). And this maritime Babylon that never was is then described in detail as dealing in all sorts of Indian exclusivities: ivory, sandalwood, iron, bronze, alabaster, cinnamon, myrrh, etc..

The destruction in “a single day of woe” by some sort of fiery cataclysm closely recalls the works of Plato on the destruction of Atlantis, who literally affirms that “Atlantis was destroyed in a single day and a night of woe”. The fire of the destruction of this mythical “Babylon”, rose to the skies in a pillar of fire and smoke not unlike the one that guided the Israelites during their exodus from a likewise allegorical “Egypt”. What is even more strange is that its friends and allies could render it no help, for they were prevented from entering the region “kept away by fear”. (18:9).

Can it be the case that this fear of something the passage fails to specify was perhaps atomic radiation? What else is able to destroy a great city in a cataclysm of fire in a “single day” or, better yet, “in a single hour”, as the passage says? What but atomic radiation can poison the waters, cause them to turn ruddy as blood, cause the hair to fall off and the body to rot with some sort of white leprosy? The text says further (18:16):

Alas! Great City, Alas!

Dressed in linen, purple and scarlet,

Decked with gold, pearls and gemstones,

A single sufficed to turn thee to enough!…

 

And it adds that the ships and their crews were kept at bay and cried, while they watched the flames that consumed the Great City (18:19):

Alas! Great City, Alas!

Whose luxury market merchants

A single hour sufficed for your destruction!

 

Now, this is very strange, for neither Rome nor Babylon and, even less, Sodom, Jerusalem or Memphis are port cities. They never traded in commerce, and they never traded in Indian specialties. And, of course, their fiery destruction in a giant cataclysm is attested neither in history nor in the archaeological or geological record. The only solution to the riddle lies in identifying the Great City, one of the “people of a former era” with Atlantis itself. What else?

And the next passage (18:21) tells how.

A mighty Angel picked up a great boulder, large as a millstone and cast it into the sea, and said: “So, with a single blow, with the Great City of Babylon be effaced. And it shall be seen nomore!

And the brightness of the Angel “illuminated the whole earth with its splendor” (18:1). And he sung:

She has fallen! Babylon the Great is fallen!

It has been changed into the abode of devils.

And in the refuge of evil spirits.

The prison for all sorts of nuclear birds.

 

The “birds” here stand for the souls of the damned, usually represented by such winged creatures (Ka). And the passage is telling the widespread ancient tradition of the Hindus, according to which he destroyed site of Paradise – which they called Atala or Patala (“Sunken Land”, in Sanskrit) – was turned into Hell by the cataclysm that destroyed it. And that huge cataclysm, caused by the Angel of Death with “a splendor that illuminated the whole earth” is highly reminiscent of the fulgurating shine explosion.

Of course, it could also be caused by the fall of a giant meteorite or, yet, by a volcanic explosion of colossal proportions. In fact, we used to believe the second alternative was the actual cause of the destruction of Atlantis before we realized that it was done by design and planned beforehand, as the above passages also suggest.

We now believe – for theories must ever be perfected at the measure that new data and conclusions force their change – that the giant explosion of the Krakatoa volcano that caused the destruction of Atlantis was triggered by the nuclear explosion of a bomb thrown into its crater, precisely as the above passage on the Angel dropping a millstone in the seas suggests.

The Krakatoa is a submarine volcano, and the colossal explosion thus triggered ended by terminating the Pleistocene Ice and destroying the whole earth. The military of those times apparently underestimated the consequences of their evil deed, as they are wont to do even today. Restraint and foresight are two things that the military of all times consistently lack.

There is ample independent evidence that the passage of Revelation we just glossed in fact identifies “Sodom” with the Site of Paradise Destroyed. One such is afforded by the very name of Sodom itself, which means something like “Destroyed by Fire”. ^[12]

The fiery destruction of Sodom and the neighboring cities suggests that we seek the Great City in a volcanic region, subjected to this type of cataclysm. And the fact that it was a maritime port of importance suggests a coastal city, “sitting upon many waters”. What else but Indonesia? The only other ancient site that would do is Crete, which is near Thera volcano. But many facts labor against this choice, as we argue in detail elsewhere.

One such is that the civilization of Minoan Crete, as well as its cataclysm – dated at about 1,500 BC or so – are too late in time to account for Atlantis, which would date from 9,600 BC or so, according to Plato’s own words.

There is a passage on Sodom and Gomorrah of the Second Epistle of St. Peter (Pet. 2:4) entitled The Lessons of the Past, that is worth quoting:

For, if God has not spared the Angels who sunned, but placed them in Tartarus and chained them in darkness, where they await the Judgement. He did not spare the world of old… bringing the Flood upon that impious world. He burnt Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to destruction, making them into an example for the wicked in the days to come.

The same passage, nearly verbatim, is repeated in Judas 7, always in connection with the Flood and the Fall of the Angels after their defeat by Michael and his hosts. In fact, instead of three different events, what we have in reality is three different accounts of a single event: the Fall of Atlantis in the Great War. The Wisdom of Solomon (10:6) adds the interesting detail that Wisdom it was who:

Saved a good man from the destruction of the wicked. And he [got] escaped the fire that came down over the Five Cities, where a wasted land still smokes, bearing witness to their wickedness.

Again, this passage parallels the other cataclysms as if they were different accounts of the same event. But it also adds a piece of information on the cause of the Flood:

It was because a wicked man forsook her [Wisdom] in his anger that he murdered his brother in a fit of rage, and so destroyed himself. Through his fault, the earth was covered by the Flood.

The passage obviously refers to Cain and Abel. But the two brothers are allegories of far deeper truths. In the Biblical myths, as in others, the personages represent nations and their females (Wisdom included) represent their land. If this is granted, we are led to conclude that the dispute of Cain and Abel symbolizes the War of Atlantis, and the destruction of the Earth (Wisdom) that resulted therefrom. The earth recovered, but the two brothers died, for the evil one brought destruction to himself also.

No one will seriously believe in a God so cruel as to destroy a whole world because someone killed his own brother. After all, this happens daily, and the world would stand no chance at all with such an exacting ruler. But the story of the War of Atlantis makes sense, both morally and physically speaking. If two nations are so foolish as to go for an all-out nuclear war, the world may very well be altogether destroyed, as our scientists have repeatedly warned us.

As a matter of fact, a single nuclear artifact, if judiciously used, suffices to destroy the whole world. The trick is certainly well-known among the specialists, who for some reason – shame, perhaps? – refrain from mentioning the matter in public. For instance, if an A- or H-Bomb is thrown upon a typical PWR reactor, the released radioactivity – of the order of 10 billion Curies – suffices to kill all humans in a very short amount of time and in the most hideous manner.

Another possibility is to throw the bomb inside the crater of a mighty volcano. The bomb triggers a sudden release of the contained magma and the explosion is amplified a thousandfold. This was apparently what happened in Atlantis, to believe the traditions we discuss in this and in other works of ours. This is apparently the meaning of Cain and Abel’s suicidal duel and many such myths concerning the fight of the two brothers. The Egyptians, for instance, had a perfect in the Tale of the Two Brothers, the probable source of the Biblical myth of Cain and Abel.

When we compare the Biblical passages just quoted, their references to Tartarus, to the defeat the wicked giants, to their chaining in the darkness of Hades, and so on, anyone familiar with Comparative Mythology will not fail to see the exact parallels in Greek with the story of the war of the Gods and the Titans of Giants, their defeat by Zeus, and their chaining in Hades, where they too await the Resurrection of the Dead to come back to light. In fact, both of these traditions ultimately derive from Hindu mythology on the war between the Devas (Gods) and the Asuras (Devils) or in the duel between Indra and Vritra.

Plato and his commentators (Prochus, etc) tell us that the War of the Gods and the Giants are in fact an allegory of the War of Atlantis. If so – and why should we doubt the word of the greatest of philosophers and the wisest of them all? – The Biblical equivalents and its Hindu archetypes are also allegories of the same happening. In other words, the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the war that attended it (Gen. ch. 14) are also cryptical allusions to the War of Atlantis. In the passage just referenced, Sodom and Gomorrah are placed in the context of the Garden of Eden and, in fact, in that of Atlantis:

And Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole Circle of the Jordan, and it was well-avatered everywhere, all the way to Zoar, like the Garden of Jahveh, like the country of Egypt. This was before the Lord and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

Needless to say, this Jordan is the Celestial Jordan, in Paradise, in the Garden of Eden. The Dead Sea region which is often held to be the site of Sodom and Gomorrah, has never been fertile, and the region presents no detectable evidence of ever being irrigated or ever holding any cities of importance, despite over a hundred years of intensive archaeological research. And, what is more, the “Circle of the Jordan” is an almost literal allusion to be River Oceanus, which encircled Atlantis with its great circle, according to the descriptions of Greek mythology.

This passage of Genesis is a repetition of the clash of the Two Brothers, here allegorized as Abraham and Lot. Here their fight is avoided, and they just part company. But the narrative continues (ch. 14) to tell the story of the War of the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and their allies against Chedorlaomer and his, in the Valley of Siddim.

The Sodomites are described as Giants of Titans, called by names such as Rephaims, Zuzins, and Emins. As we already said, the Giants or Titans are indeed the Fallen Atlanteans. The nine kings who fought, plus Abraham who beat them all, and who was consecrated king by Melchinzedk (Gen. 14:18) are no other than the ten kings of Atlantis fighting five against five. The text is obscure, but the meaning is clearly that, as we explain in detail elsewhere.

We realize that the above conclusion that the War of Sodom and Gomorrah is and allegory of the (real) War of Atlantis may seem farfetched and even preposterous to most people. The reason for it is that we are, from earliest infancy, conditioned to believe that the Biblical relations – our Sacred History – are sheer moral allegories or at best, highly vaunted accounts of petty events concerning the miserable peasants that inhabited the dismal plains of Palestine.

We are taught, from infancy, that Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses and others such are actual persons, in contrast to the Heroes and demi-gods of parallel mythologies, whom we are led to believe to be purely legendary. In fact, both lessons are wrong. These personages are all allegoric. They are all copied from Hindu mythology, itself derived from the Vedas, which in fact date from Atlantean times, and chronicle Atlanteans events.

It is only thus that the Biblical events and the parallels of the other mythologies actually make sense. And why would they all be sheer nonsense rather than Sacred History, as they claim to be? Anyone who seriously reads our account of Atlantean history – not at all our creation, but merely our decoding of the ancient allegories on it – will not fail to realize that it indeed makes sense and that it is wherent with whatever is told in the Bible and other Holy Books.

Otherwise, they make no sense at all. Either spiritually or factually, as many theologies have come to realize. On the impossibility that the Five Cities of the Plain – Admah, Zeboim, Zoar (Bela), Sodom and Gomorrah – were located north of the Dead Sea region, it is enough to read that The New Bible Dictionary (J. D. Douglas, ed., Cambridge, 1962) says on it.

It quotes G. A. Smith (Historical Geography of the Holy Land, London, 1931) to the effect that the location of the Five Cities could not possibly be at the south of Dead Sea, for no vestiges of the Five Cities remain there, nor that of any plains able to be irrigated and used for agriculture. It is true that the level of the Dead Sea was lower during the Bronze Age and that their subsequent rising could have submerged cities located at its shores, in the southern half. This is believed by Biblical archaeologists, but nothing warrants their existence, for which no vestiges exist.

In fact, what the archaeological researchers demonstrate is that the region was voided even of its small villages from about 2,000 to 1,400 BC, precisely the period usually ascribed to Abraham and Lot, and hence to Sodom and Gomorrah. So, the conclusion is that if the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is founded or actual fact, it took place elsewhere.

Isaiah (ch. 13 and 14) prophecies the fall of the mystical “Babylon”– which we saw above to be the Paradisial archetype of the Mesopotanian counterpart – in connection with Sodom and Gomorrah?

And Babylon, fairest of all kingdoms,

The proud beality of the Chaldeams,

Shall be like Sodom and Gomorrah.

When God overthrew them both.

It shall be inhabited nomore…

And only wild beasts shall dwell there.

There the satyrs shall dance and gambol,

And dragons inhabit its gorgeous palaces.

 

These, of course never happened to Babylon either in the times of Isaiah or later. But it certainly was the case of Atlantis, which indeed became a dismal desert in whatever portion survived the cataclysm. Isaiah continues his execration with certain images that are known, allegories of the fall of the Great City that is indeed Atlantis, as we show elsewhere:

The Golden city has ceased…

Hades below stivis at its coming,

And the Shadows there rise to greet you,

The once mighty ones of the earth…

 

And the prophet compares the fall of Babylon, of the Golden City of Atlantis to that of Lucifer:

How last thou fallen from Heaven

O Lucifer, Son of Morning

 

He pursues his narrative in terms that the Jerusalem Bible itself acknowledges to be parallel to those of Phoenician mythology (note to Isa. 14:12). These include the Mountain of the Assembly (of the Gods), the title of “Eminent One” of Baal, the Fall of the Morning Star, etc.

In other words, the theme of Sodom and Gomorrah, just as that of the Fall of Lucifer, the alias of Hesperus who fell from the top of Mt. Atlas, according to Diodorus Siculus, is indeed no other thing than an allegory of the Fall of Atlantis. And the myth is no more Phoenician than it is Hebrew. In fact, it derives from Vedic mythology and dates from the times of Atlantis and its fall.

The passages on the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah are too many to comment in detail here. But there is a passage on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls worth quoting:

A pillar of smoke and dust rose into the air like a column rising from the bowels of the earth. It rained sulfur and embers on Sodom and Gomorrah, and destroyed the great city and the whole plain and all its inhabitants and every growing plant. And Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.

And Lot lived at the plain of Isoar (Zoar), but he later moved to the mountains because he became afraid of living there. The people were warned that they should move out of the place of the future explosion and not stay in exposed places. Nor should they look at the explosion, but hide in caves, beneath the ground… The fugitive who looked back was blinded and died.

This passage was quoted by Pauwels and Bergier, in their The Morning of the Magicians. The shower of sulfur and embers is no novelty, and in fact, figures in the Gospels (Luke 17:29). The story of Lot’s wife turning into a salt pillar is also known from the passage in Genesis. What is new is the mention of the explosion and the pillar of smoke rising from the bowels of the earth. moreover, some people were forewarned to leave the place, just as Lot also was in the Biblical account. So, the whole thing certainly evokes the preprogrammed explosion of an A- or H-Bomb.

But the sulfur and the fiery stones are indicative of a volcanic explosion. And the two can only be reconciled if we allow volcanic explosion triggered by an atomic device. The pillar of smoke is also a telltale of a nuclear or volcanic explosion of great magnitude. The warning against not looking back and on seeking shelter is also closely reminiscent of nuclear explosions, where similar orders are given the soldiers and the population by the civil defense.

What else but nuclear explosions coupled to, or triggering volcanic explosions did indeed destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and the other three cities of the Pentapolis so utterly that they were “found nomore”, having sunk to the bottom of the earth? What else causes a blinding flash, poisons the waters, causes burns and a sort of leprosy and “plague” (diarrhea) but nuclear explosions coupled or not to volcanic ones?

The “plague” in question closely resembles radiation poisoning, where the victims have their intestines destroyed and die a horrid death caused by vomits and diarrhea. Even the mention of people turning into salt statues – an apparent absurdity – finds factual support in the fact that in such huge explosions, the unfortunate victims that are not sheltered are covered by cinders and virtually “turn to stones”.

So, we see that the Biblical Story of Sodom and Gomorrah which our elders found unbelievable became frighteningly real after the development of nuclear weapons and particularly, after the realization that their destructive power can be increased a thousandfold by their use as trigger devices for giant volcanic explosions or for the spreading of the radioactivity contained in nuclear reactors and in radioisotope storage chambers.

Even the fact that the Bible often uses the doom of Sodom and Gomorrah as a sobering example to all finds a parallel in the Platonic relation on Atlantis. The fate of Atlantis was often used as a moral tale in the past, even by priests who love to threaten the congregation with “fire and brimstone” except that now that we realize the reality of Atlantis and its fiery destruction in a cataclysm almost certainly caused by an all-out nuclear war, the threat of instant global destruction is far more than just a nightmare of the netherworld.

It is a threat that menaces us all here and now. And the worst part of it is that a nuclear war, waged in the ruthless manner that wars normally are, may indeed lead to the destruction of the whole world, as it once did, at the dawn of the present era.

 

Ancient Traditions on Nuclear War

The ancient traditions on what only have been nuclear wars are too many to be discussed exhaustively here, as they would demand a whole book for themselves. We thus concentrate only in the most literal ones, those from India’s vast literature. We start by quoting from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the two great sagas of ancient India. Far more than charming romances or even initiatic novels, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are accurate historical relations dating from an enormous antiquity.

In fact, the two sagas tell the War of Atlantis from two different perspectives, that of the two contendants. Both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata also embody, in their enormous extension, all sorts of myths, traditions and detailed accounts of instances and geographical facts. More than mere compositions, they are compilations of the folkloric traditions that are still very much alive all over the Far East. Their enormous antiquity is also attested by the fact that almost verbatim copies of these sagas are encountered in the epic literature of the other ancient nations: the Iliad and the Odyssey in Greece, the Tale of the Two Brothers in Egypt, its counterpart in Phoenicia, and so on.

This universality attests the fact that the Hindu sagas indeed date from before the diaspora of humanity from the site of its origination in Atlantis-Eden. This event took place at the end of the Pleistocene precisely because of the Great War of Atlantis. The whole region was destroyed as a consequence and was deemed doomed and ill-fated, so the people left, to try to rebuild their Paradise Lost elsewhere. This exodus from devastated Eden is told not only in the Bible but far more realistically in the two Indian epics just mentioned.

When the Occident became acquainted with the fabulous wealth of Hindu literature, in the last century, everybody became fascinated with the detailed accounts of flying machines and of bombs dropped from the air, and having an enormous destructive power. Of course, the invention of the airplane, of Zeppelins, rockets, nuclear bombs and such still lay in the future and were only dreamed by exalted imaginative writers like Jules Verne.

So, their reality was passed over just as a pleasant fiction of some ancient precursor of the great French novelist. But nowadays the reality of these nightmares has become an unfortunate reality, and we must rethink the ancient records. What if they are indeed real, sacred history as they claim to be? What if, instead of mere sermons, the “fire and brimstone” is no invention of the bible-thumpers, but an actual reality that they just disfigured for their own ends?

Consider the following quotes from the Hindu epics mentioned above. No, they are no moralistic fables or exemplary novels. They preach no reed, but just relate facts objectively. Actually, the translation of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana we are quoting – the one made by the erudite Indian Scholar P. Chandra Roy – was made in the 19^th century, so it cannot be blamed with misinterpretation or exaggeration, as is so often the case.

In the of P. Chandra Roy, the devices, we have in mind had no more reality than in the times the Mahabharata was compiled by Vyasa, so descriptive metaphors had to be employed for devices such as A- and H-Bombs, airplane rockets, and others such. At the climax of the battle someone launched:

A single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as tem thousand Sins, rose in all its splendor… It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a giant messenger of death that reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.

We note that the word “projectile” used by the translator is exactly synonymous with “missile”. And what else but a nuclear warhead could be equated to the power that quickens the sun and the other stars (fusion) or to be able to generate a “pillar of fire and smoke” not unlike the one that marked the site of Sodom and Gomorrah or, in fact, that of destroyed Eden during the Exodus? What other weapon can engender not only the “atomic mushroom” here described as the “pillar of fire and smoke but “brighter than a thousand suns? What else can destroy an entire city of enormous size, and an entire city of enormous size, and an entire race of enemies as was the case here? ^[13]

The notion that the weapon in question was “unknown” apparently implies the idea that it had never been used before in combat. The description as an “iron thunderbolt” is also worth glossing. The Hindus call “thunderbolt” (Vajra) anything of an enormous destructive power: a giant meteorite, an actual thunderbolt, a giant volcanic explosion and as is the case here apparently, an atomic or nuclear device.

The vajra was the characteristic attribute of tempest gods such as Baal-Hadded, Zeus, Indra, Vishny, Shiva and others such. It is characteristically associated with the Flood – the archetype of all storms – and the destruction of the world that took place on this occasion. In the combat of Indra against Vritra, and in its Greek counterpart, the duel of Typhon and Zeus, the Vajra thunderbolt is used to defeat the Titan.

In consequence, the world is destroyed by a cataclysm of Fire and Water. For this reason, Indra is often called Vajrapani (“Vajra in Hand”). We quote, elsewhere in the present work, the Rig Vedic hymn (1:32) where this mortal combat is narrated in detail. Hesiod’s account of the battle of Zeus and Typhon (Theog. 820f) is no less remarkable. The whole world trembles and the mountains melt away. The entire earth is conflagrated until the universal fire is finally quenched by the Flood.

The world is destroyed, and a new era follows. A similar conflagration is also ascribed to the fall of Phaëthon, likewise felled by Zeus’ thunderbolt. Plato specifically equates the myth of the fall of Phaëthon with the destruction of Atlantis, just as he and his commentators also identify the war of the Gods and the Titans with the one of Atlantis.

The mention of an “iron thunderbolt” is likewise remarkable. Iron was, in Hindu traditions, the vile metal associated with war and death and other such disgraces. It was called the “black metal” (ayas unas) and even vajra itself. This negative association is due to the fact that iron is the metal of excellence for making weapons. Not impossibly, the black metal in question here could very well be uranium, itself a dark metal closely similar to iron in both colour and military usage. Anyway, the dark metal is always associated with the Kali Yuga (“Black Age” or “Iron Age”), said to have been brought about by the great war of the Mahabharata.

There can be little doubt then, from the above discussion, that the mythical combats of Gods and Titans which the Greeks vaguely associated with the War of Atlantis ultimately derive from the Hindu myths such as the Battle of Indra and Vritra or the far more realistic accounts of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. And it is only in the Indies, in the Far East that these traditions make historical and geographical sense, and seem indeed to have taken place.

After this digression, let us return to the remarkable quote of the Mahabharata. After telling that the formidable bomb launched by a missile destroyed the whole race of the Titans, the text continues:

Their corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white. After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected… In order to escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in the streams to wash themselves and all their equipment.

Their description is so realistic that it evokes the instructions issued to the soldiers in their drilling for nuclear combat. The nuclear bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only burnt people beyond recognition. They actually vaporized, in a flash of vapor, the unfortunate victims that were nearer the epicenter. One of the most shocking features of radiation poisoning is here described in detail: the hair and the nails drop away.

Pottery too, if exposed to searing heat such as that generated by nuclear artifacts, in fact, becomes brittle and fragile. This does not happen with normal fires, such as the ones actually used to fire ceramics during their fabrication. Only a nuclear device or some very special types of electric furnaces are actually able to produce the extremely high temperatures required to render pottery fragile in the manner described here.

The birds becoming white is harder to interpret. This could have happened because they were covered with silica dust raised by the explosion or else because seared feathers do in fact turn white. Further research is required in this matter. But the matter-of-fact relation leaves little room for doubt that the poet was not inventing but merely reporting. The poisoning of foodstuffs by radioactive pollutants is one of the saddest aspects of nuclear warfare.

The Mahabharata continues:

Then Vayu bore away crowds of Samsaptakas with sleeds and elephants and cars and weapons, as if they were dry leaves of trees… Born away by the wind, O King, they looked highly beautiful like flying birds…

Vayu was the wind god of the Vedic Hindus. But Vayu was no ordinary wind. He was Pavana, the Purifier, who rendered the earth pure and virginal, ridding it of all sorts of vermin that render it unfit for habitation. Here we see Vayu as the blast of the explosion carrying away as dry leaves both the combatants and their accoutrements.

Such super-weapons were called aqui-astras (“firearms”) in Hindu traditions. Some experts believe that the name actually refers to gunpowder firearms, cannons or bazookas. And, in fact, such firearms were also routinely employed in their wars, as several Hindu texts apparently imply. But, in the above case and others such, no such interpretation is possible. We either accept that these reports speak of nuclear weapons, or else we have to reject them altogether as idle inventions. Idle inventions? But how come they were so amazingly accurate, down to the matter of unforeseeable details.

For instance, the blinding flash of nuclear explosions, the fact that radioactive fallout was extremely poisonous or that the blast of the explosion would be so terribly destructive was not realized by the experts who programmed the first nuclear tests in Los Alamos. They placed the soldiers to be trained too near the site of the explosion and the result was that many, many soldiers became blind and (or radiation sick after the test and died the horrid death of such unlucky victims.

In another chapter, the Drona Parva, the Mahabharata tells of the explosion of the agui-astra, which it describes thus:

Meteors flashed down from the firmament… A thick gloom suddenly shrouded the hosts. All points of the compass were enveloped by that darkness… the sun turned dark and the universe, scorched with heat, seemed to be in fever. The elephants and the other creatures of the land, scorched by the energy of that weapon run in flight. The very waters became heated, the creatures residing in that element began to burn… The war chariots, burnt by the energy of that weapon… looked like trees burning in a forest fire…

The “meteors” falling down from the skies are the stones and the cinders ignited by the explosion and thrown up high in the atmosphere. The darkness, the fearful gloom that covered the entire region and turned off the sun itself is an effect that is only created by the very largest of volcanic explosions and their nuclear counterparts. The gloom is due to the thick veil of dust and smoke created not only by the explosion itself but also by the extensive fires it causes in both the cities and the forests. These fires increase a thousandfold the smoke raised by the explosion itself. It is they that caused the so-called “Nuclear Winter” mooted out by Carl Sagan and other scientists in their memorable book. ^[14]

This darkness that causes the sun and the moon and the stars to fade away and the day to turn into darkness is a feature of many mythologies and sacred traditions. Its reality cannot be doubted. However, it can also be caused by natural causes such as large meteorite / cometary falls, giant volcanic explosions and other such causes. An encircling darkness – which lasted perhaps for many years – is also traditionally associated with the demise of Atlantis. The destroyed region became the Realm of Darkness, the dominion of Lady Night traditionally associated with the Titans, the Cimmerians, the Haunebut and other such unfortunate inhabitants of dark Tartarus. Yes, Tartarus (Hades), the gloomy Realm of the Dead was a reality. It lay in the region of Australasia and corresponds to the site of Paradise Destroyed.

The long-range aftereffects of the suicidal war of Atlantis are also accurately described in the Mausala Parva:

Winds were dry and strong and showering gravel blew from every side… The horizon seemed to be everywhere covered with fog. Meteors – showing blazing coals – fell on the earth from the skies… Fearful circles of light were seen everyday around both the sun and the moon…

Such ill-ominous circles around the sun and the moon are called halos and, more exactly, parhelion and paraselene (Fig. 3)

Fig. 3 – Paraselene Around The Moon
(Webster Dict, sv)

The phenomenon is also called “mock sun” or “mock moon” due to the fact that it indeed embodies mock lights in the skies near those Celestial bodies besides the parhelic or paraselenic rings mentioned in the Mahabharata. These effects are caused by dust in the atmosphere – formed either by dust or by tiny ice crystals – which scatter the light of the sun or moon. Definitely, the illustrious author of the Mahabharata was either a very clever deviser of detailed scientific facts that he could not possibly know, or else he was basing himself on actual facts, observed and reported by personal witnesses.

An even more curious act that closely recalls the events in Chernobyl and elsewhere is also described in the Mausala Parva, the 16^th book of the Mahabharata where the great war is described in detail. After the battle the king, deeply moved, orders the survivors to carefully collect the pieces of the missile and to grind them into a fine dust and then throw it away into the sea.

In other words, the king ordered the decontamination of the region destroyed by the nuclear explosion. This cleaning up was done not only in Chernobyl and other places contaminated by a nuclear accident but also in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and other places where nuclear devices exploded.

 

Sindbad, Serendip and the Mogen David

In his Sixth Voyage, Sindbad gets to the Island of Serendip. Serendip is the Arabic name of Taprobane, the site of Lost Atlantis, destroyed in the Great War and sunken under the sea. The king of Serendip later sends, through Sindbad, a curious cup carved into a single huge ruby and engraved with certain signs. Harun-al-Raschid reciprocates and sends a similar cup to the King of Serendip, perhaps as a token of the recognition of his secret identity as the King of Hades.

We comment on that curious story elsewhere, in our work on Sindbad and Priester John, and will not delve into it here, except in order to explain the symbolism of the Mogen-David and its connection with Lost Atlantis (Serendip) and the Vadavamukha.

The cup sent through Sindbad as a gift to the caliph Harun-al-Raschid is really an alias of the Holy Grail, a recurrent motif in Arabic traditions. According to the erudite Jewish Encyclopedia, a “Solomon’s Seal” (or Pantacle) was engraved on the cup presented to Harun-al-Raschid by Prester John, as related by Lane, in his translation of the Thousand and One Nights (note 93).

But in Arab traditions, this name was given not to the pentacle but to the Star of David (see Magen, Dawid), its six-pronged counterpart (see image here). This difference is important, as the six-pronged rather than the five-pronged star is current in Hindu symbolism (Shatkona yantra, etc.). This name means “six-pronged” (or six-angled” or “hexagram”).

The Mogen-David (or Satkona yantra) is even today worshipped in Sri Lanka, in connection with Murugan-Karttikeya, the six-faced Hindu god. The shatkona is the symbol of Murugan-Karttikeya, the Hindu love god and alias of Kama. Karttikeya is the son of Shiva, an is an important deity in the Hindu pantheon. Murugan means “child-god” and Karttikeya means “son of the Krittikas (Pleiades). Murugan is himself six-faced, in connection with the six Krittikas, his foster mothers.

But this worship was brought over from Taprobane, the archetypal Lanka of which Sri Lanka is only a shabby copy. What this means is that Sindbad actually went to Taprobane, that is, Atlantis-Eden. And the connection we just established also proves that the Jews – who adopted this symbol as the one of their national identity – also came from there, in the dawn of times, when that vast land sunk away under the sea.

The shatkona represents the vajra. The vajra is the allegory of the Vadavamukha, the terrible volcano that destroys the world when an era comes to its end, as the present one shortly will. The connection of the shatkona (or Mogen-David) with King David is strange.

As the midget who defeated the enormous giant (Goliath, fully 3,00 meters tall!), King David is apparently an alias of Skanda-Karttikeya, who did the same in Hindu traditions. In fact, Skanda-Karttikeya is an alias of Kama in his irate, destructive aspect.

The name of David (Heb. dāwīd) is also worth investigating. It is derived from a radix dwd or wdd meaning “love”. This etymon is highly interesting. It establishes a direct connection with Kama, the Hindu love god whose name means exactly the same thing in Sanskrit and Dravida.

It also seems that the story of beautiful Ephebus who is able to set the heart of the mighty king or god on fire is everywhere the same, though rarely told as explicitly as in Greece: Ganymedes and Zeus; Kama and Shiva; Murugan and Indra; Vamana and Bali; Horus and Seth; Cupid and Typhon, and so on. This paedophilic fixation perhaps explains the well-known love of Greek philosophers for boys. Or perhaps this was merely a symbol for the event truly in question here.

In his terrible aspect, Murugan represents the Vadavamukha (or Aurva), the terrible volcano which destroyed Atlantis-Eden. An important Hindu myth tells the story of how inflamed by Shiva’s fiery glance, Kama (being immortal) threatened to inflame the whole world. So, Brahma enclosed the flaming god in a mare’s skull, which he deposited inside the ocean.

There this fire, the Vadavamukha (“Mare’s mouth (or face or skull)”) burns quietly, consuming the water of the ocean. When the time comes to destroy the world, the Vadamukha goes haywire, and explodes in fire, destroying the whole world with a cataclysm both igneous and watery. The Vadavamukha is really an allegory of a submarine volcano.

And we have been able to identify this submarine supervolcano as the Krakatoa, the famous Indonesian volcano. Moreover, we have also been led to conclude that this giant volcanism was apparently caused by the unfortunate idea someone had of throwing a nuclear bomb inside the Krakatoa caldera, in order to cause it to flare and destroy Atlantis.

The idea apparently worked far beyond the most optimistic expectations of the greatest enemy hawks. The volcano went off in a giant explosion, the whole ground caved in, and swallowed the entire region, along with the two contending armies, as Plato tells in some detail in his two dialogues on Atlantis, the Timaeus and the Critias.

There seems hence to be an esoteric connection of sorts among the vajra, the shatkona, the Mogen-David, the Vadavamukha and the giant volcanism that destroyed the site of Paradise, triggering the end of the Ice Age, some 11,600 years ago, the exact date given by Plato for the end of Atlantis in the giant volcanic cataclysm.

The vajra is the usual allegory of the Vadavamukha, the toolor weapon the gods use in order to destroy the earth when an era must end. The shatkona (or Mogen-David) is itself an allegory of the vajra, of which it is a nickname. And the connection with the supervolcanism which destroyed Paradise seems to be exactly the one we just posited.

The central role of the Mogen-David in Jewish symbolism and the one of the shatkona in Hinduism leaves no room for doubting its crucial importance in the sacred traditions of these two peoples. The vajra is a throwing weapon akin to Zeus’ thunderbolt, the discus of Vishnu and the lance (vela) or arrows of Skanda-Karttikeya.

So, it also seems connected with the sling (or slingshot) used by David in order to defeat mighty Goliath, the evil giant, apparently an euphemism for the vajra itself. Like the flowery bow and arrows of Kama, or the puny arrows of Cupid, these weapons are in fact almighty. No matter what, this symbolism shows the connection of the cup in question with sacred vessels and magic rituals of some sort, for instance in Black Masses and in apotropaic devices such as amulets.

The symbolism of the Mogen-David is also closely related to the Yoni-Lingam. The upright triangle represents the linga or phallus, and the inverted triangle represents the yoni or vulva of the female sex. This symbolism is typically Hindu, and its use in Israel confirms the Hindu origin of the Hebrews beyond reasonable doubt. It is highly unlikely that the puritanical Jews would ever devise, let alone use, a sexual symbolism such as the Mogen-David.

The Meaning of the Mogen-David

The Mogen David is also called Magen David, both of which are its Hebrew names. This interesting symbol is also called Star of David (or Shield of David or Hexagram). The Mogen David is formed by two inverted triangles, in contrast to the pentagram, which is made by a continuous line.

Both signs are often confused, for instance in the so-called Order of the Seal of Solomon of the Ethiopian government, where the Star of David is improperly called the Seal of Solomon. In fact, the Mogen-David consists of a six-pronged star, in contrast to the Seal of Solomon, which has only five prongs, as shown here. In the inverted form, the pentacle is often called Goat Star.

And both symbols are also used in witchcraft, witness the word hex, probably connected in some way with the mysterious figure. We note that the Star of David (Hexagram) often assumes a shape akin to monstrances and to the radiating sun, as shown in this instance here and here, two of the Ethiopian medals of honor (Seals of Solomon). These shapes suggest a vivid connection with the Sun, one which is present in the name of Solomon itself.^[15]

The etymology of the name of the Mogen David – or, more properly, Magen David – is normally said to derive from the Hebrew word magen (“shield, buckler, buckle”), itself derived from the radix gnn, meaning “protection”.

But this etymology is only approximate, and the word has further, deeper meanings. At the first level, this root is related to the Arabic jinni, from Arabic jinnī, (“demonic, demon”), itself derived from janna (“to cover, hide, conceal”), because these demons are normally invisible beings. In fact, the idea of “protection, shield” refers to the idea of amulets and amuletic protection used to ward off evil in all forms. This fact explains the wide use of hexagrams and pentagrams in magic, Cabbala and as amuletic devices. Some amuletic Stars of David current in the market can be seen here.

According to Arab legends, Solomon used his ring and his seal – either a five- or a six-pointed star – in order to invoke and control the jinī. Sometimes, this device is associated with his famous ring, on which it was apparently inscribed. Solomon’s fabulous wealth is by them attributed to the collaboration of these evil spirits. Solomon even used them to transport him and his court on a huge carpet which the jinnī dragged through the airs. No matter what, the use of the Seal of Solomon as an amulet is said to impart fortune and riches to the wearer.

With this linguistic information, we are now equipped to decipher the true meaning of the Mogen David. First of all, we note that the words “buckle” and “buckler” ultimately derive from the Latin buccula, diminutive of bucca (“mouth, face”). This etymology is allegedly due to the fact that buckles (cheekpieces) fastened the helmet to the face and protected it.

But we believe that the real reason for the name is slightly different. Ancient shields were the image of the cosmos itself. Such is the case of the famous shield of Achilles fashioned by Hephaistos himself. And the cosmos is in fact an image of Atlantis. Or vice-versa. This fact can be observed in ancient shields such as the ones here and here.

The boss at the center symbolizes the central mound of Atlantis, and the circular stripes the divisions of land and sea described by Plato. And the mound was really the one due to the volcano itself, the one which would eventually destroy the whole region, terminating the ear of Atlantis.

This volcano is, as we just argued, the Vadavamukha. And this Sanskrit name means “mouth (or face or skull) of the mare”, the Mare being the submarine mare, the volcano. We note that all these words correspond both phonetically and semantically: buckle, buccula, mukha, mogen. The b and the m are both labials and easily change one into the other. And these words all ultimately derive from the Dravida mukka, meaning the same thing: “face, mouth, skull”.

The diminutive buccula is fact the same as the yoni or vagina, often called by that name in the Latin languages. So, we believe that the name of the bucklers evolved not really because of their connection with the mouth, but because of their relationship with the Vadavamukha, whose shape they closely resembled.

This etymology is also proved or supported by the fact that the Latin word scutum, also means “shield, scutcheon”. This word is cognate with Gaul. yscwyd; Irish sciath; Bret. skoed; Fr. ecu; escutcheon; etc., as well as to the English words just given. These bases are in turn related to the Lat. scindo (“I split, crack”), itself connected with the idea of the buccula.

What these etymologies tend to prove is the fact that the Mogen David, like the shields and bucklers in general, really stood for the Vadavamukha. Even more exactly, they stood for Atlantis, much as represented in Achilles shield, and others such. The idea was perhaps the one of remembering the adversary of Atlantis’ terrible fate, so as to instill fear in his heart.

More or less the same thing is also represented in the aegis. The aegis was the shield of Minerva. It bore, at the center, the head of the Gorgon Medusa, which had the property of turning people to stone. Again, the Medusa was an allegory of the Vadavamukha, the terrible volcano. So is, by the way, the sacred syllable OM inscribed at the center of the shatkona. This rumbling sound represents the roar of the volcano and the giant waves it causes.

Volcanoes have the curious property of turning literally people to stone, as anyone who ever visited Pompey well knows. Their gases and cinders kill and bury them, and they gradually turn into human fossils which can be dug later, as they were there and in Herculaneum. The terrible face of the Medusa with its serpentine hair was copied directly from the one of Kali, the terrible Hindu goddess, in every detail, including the stuck-out tongue.

We also note another curious coincidence which does not seem to be fortuitous at all. The word kona in the word shatkona (“six corners or angles”) closely resembles the Latin cuna, the Port. cona, the French con, etc., all of which literally mean the same as “yoni, vulva”. These in turn derive from the Drav. kūna, meaning the same.

Summarizing what was just said. We demonstrated in some detail that the Mogen David (or Star of David or Seal of Solomon) in fact represents the Vadavamukha, the terribly destructive volcano of Atlantis. This symbolism was copied from the one of the Shatkona (or Hexagram), its Hindu archetype. David is an alias of Kama, of Skanda and other such child gods such as Eros, Cupid, Ganymedes, Vamana, Aquarius, Horus, and so on.

These boys often change into equally charming girls such as Kanya, Kumari, Kunti, Hathor Goldilocks, and other such charming nymphets and little girls. In their beneficial, loving shape, they are irresistible and attract an captivate all males, vanquishing their hearts and causing their doom.

In their terrible aspect, they correspond to the Vadavamukha, the ferocious volcano of Atlantis-Eden. And this submarine volcano we have finally managed to identify to the Krakatoa, the Indonesian supervolcano which actually set off the catastrophic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age.

This irresistible attraction is again an allegory of volcanoes. Volcanoes in fact irresistibly attract people only to doom them all. In their time aspect, they bring rain and fertility to the soil. Intime, large populations gather in the neighborhood of volcanoes. And when they go haywire and explode, they kill these populations in the most terrible way.

David, Goliath and the Mogen-David

The Mogen-David (or Star of David) – which is often misidentified as the five-pronged Seal of Solomon – is the six-pronged star that was taken as the symbol of the nation, as attested in the national flag of Israel. This flag is blue and white and consists of the Mogen-David between two blue bars. Israel’s flag was adopted on October 28, 1948. The flag is white with two horizontal blue bands and a blue Star of David at the center. The colors blue and white were taken from the colors of the Jewish prayer shawl (tallit). The tallit normally has gold stripes, not incorporated in Israel’s flag.

The Star of David (Magen David) is itself a traditional symbol of the Jewish people. This flag was designed for the Zionist movement by David Wolfsohn (1856-1914), a Zionist leader from Lithuania. The flag was first flown at the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897. Israel came into existence in November 1947, following a UN resolution on British-ruled Palestine. The State of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.

This symbolism is of Hindu origin, as we now argue in some detail, and has a deep esoteric significance. The Mogen-David itself represents the Vadavamukha, the terrible volcano whose fiery explosion destroys the world at eras end. This doctrine is the central tenet of Hinduism, and its reality can hardly be doubted anymore, now that we have demonstrated in detail the reality and volcanic nature of this type of cataclysm as the agency that triggers Ice Ages on and off.

What is actually represented in Israel’s flag – willingly or unwillingly, as sacred symbols are often merely copied from traditional sources – is precisely the effect the Vadavamukha and the seminal effects it actually had on mankind as a whole. In the course of my research, I have met this kind of symbol over and over again in Hindu sources. And the symbolism is invariably the same: the Vadava.

In fact, the Mogen David is derived from the shatkona (“hexagon”, in Sanskrit), the emblem of Murugan-Karttikeya. And the shatkona is itself an emblem of the vajra, which often responds to that name, as we explained in the above footnote. In turn, the vajra is the Vadavamukha, the ferocious volcano that destroyed the world, as we just explained.

Once this secret identity of the Mogen David is realized, the rest follows naturally. When the Vadavamukha exploded, igniting the world, the result was that it got permanently divided in two moieties. As Plato disclosed, this terrible event occurred during the Great War of Atlantis. In fact, it is very probable – as such unlikely coincidences are seldom if ever accidental – that it happened not really by an act of God himself, but by the will of men, as we now argue.

Atlantis was located right on top the Krakatoa volcano, then dormant or almost, much as is the case now. Volcanoes have the curious feature of attracting people with the prosperity they bring, with increased rains and fertilizing cinders. But when they go haywire and explode, they bring sudden doom often at an unimaginable scale, just as was the case here.

But, as we just said, it seems highly unlikely that this supereruption of the Krakatoa –one large enough to cause a cataclysm of global proportions and to trigger the catastrophic end of the Pleistocene and the Ice Age – was merely coincidental.

In some mysterious way, one event apparently led to the other. What we deem a sheer coincidence is very often the result of our ignorance in determining a causal relationship. And if we dismiss God’s intervention (direct or indirect) – something that has no place in Science – we are left with the mystery of determining the actual cause of the giant eruption of the Krakatoa, the supervolcano of Atlantis.

Such supervolcanic eruptions occur at intervals of about one-half to one million years or so. Hence, it is highly unlikely it would occur at the exact moment that the two enemy armies were fighting it out at the doors of Atlantis’ capital city. This a priori probability can be easily calculated.

Suppose the war lasted a full year, a rare thing in antiquity, when such disputes were quickly settled one way or the other. In this case, the a priori odds are about one in a million or so. Other values can be postulated and similarly calculated. But the changes are immaterial. The a priori odds are very small, and hence the attentive researcher is compelled to look for a cause-and-effect relationship of some sort. This is the scientific way to proceed, and that is what we did.

And the only possible hypothesis we could make was the one which we now argue. Maybe someone is more imaginative than ourselves and is able to come up with a better hypothesis. This is how Science progresses. Until then, scientific ethical standards require that this tentative explanation of ours be accepted at least as a working hypothesis.

The way we figured it out was that someone had the imprudent idea of throwing an explosive inside the Krakatoa’s crater in order to enhance its destructive effect and to lead his side to a faster victory. And the idea worked far beyond the most optimistic expectations of any of the ancient hawks. The Krakatoa erupted with unprecedented force, the two contending sides were swallowed up by the army, and the world exited the Ice Age, entering a thoroughly new era, the Holocene.

This name means “wholly new”. And the present geological era wholly deserves its name. Humanity got back to the Stone Age, and was forced to start from scratch all over again, as is known. So thorough was the destruction that the past was utterly lost and altogether forgotten. And the resetting was almost total, as humanity was reduced to only a small number of survivors, to believe the consistent, persistent traditions concerning the Universal Flood.

The War of Atlantis was, as we show elsewhere, a terrible intestine war of brother against brother. The darker moiety – which then prevailed – fought the white minority. And lost, even though it was deemed unbeatable and superior in both strength and cunning.

And this improbable victory is the one commemorated as that of minuscule David against the huge Goliath, and a myriad such allegories we find just about anywhere on earth. One well-known parallel can be cited here: the victory of Hu Gadarn against the Afang Dhu, likewise huge.

The Afang was a sort of Dragon, and Hu Gadarn a minuscule midget. And this legend is hence one in a long series on the victory of the minuscule hero against the evil, huge giant. Another well-known parallel is attested by the victory of Vamana, the dwarf, against King Bali, the virtuous colossal king of Dravidian India. Bali is an alias of Ravana, and his universal empire is in fact the same as Lanka, itself an alias of Atlantis.

Curiously enough, these traditions all invariably speak of a dirty trick, a ruse by the victorious midget hero, a “blow below the belt”, so to say. This unfair procedure violated the rigid rules of combat prevalent in antiquity, a fact that explains how come the giant was wholly unprepared to receive the unexpected blow. Hu Gadarn used a virgin to attract the Afang Dhu to his doom.

Vamana, the Dwarf avatar of Vishnu, adopted this midget form in order to trick Bali, the prodigal king who, even when he discovered the ruse, kept his promise, and preferred death to disgrace. In like manner, David used a sling in order to fell Goliath, whom he subsequently decapitated. Horus – who defeated Seth, the mighty god – used his charms of Ephebus in order to attract and castrate his predecessor in the throne of Egypt.

So did Siegfried with the Dragon, though this fact is only suggested and never explicitly told anywhere that I know of. These examples range in the hundreds and could be multiplied at will. But the above will have to suffice for now. The end result of this surprising victory was an inversion of the formerly prevailing world order. From a position of slaves in the land of Atlantis – the pristine “Egypt” of the Bible and other ancient sources – the whites passed to a hegemonic one.

But the world was ruined and most institutions perished. So, their victory was one of Pyrrhus, so to speak. This victory over the mighty, arrogant “Egyptians” due to the trick of the Seven Plagues of Egypt – which several experts have recognized as a giant volcanism – was what led to the utter destruction of the site of Paradise, forcing the Jews out of Eden, and into the far less paradisial Palestine. And this disaster was in fact the Universal Flood.

Such major disasters, often of a global character, actually form an endless succession, just as affirmed in the Hindu sacred traditions. This terrible reality is now being confirmed by the unmistakable evidence of the geological record, now that the hoodwinking of Darwin and Lyell is being abandoned by one and all, perhaps due to my strong denunciations over the last three decades. It is these major changes in Earth’s climate – the endless succession of the Ice Ages and Interglacial Periods – that form the different geological eras and, even more exactly, their interfaces.

These interfaces are where the evidence of major cataclysms concentrates, much as happened at the last time they occurred, at the end of the Pleistocene some 11,600 years ago. And this date is exactly the one quoted by Plato as that of Atlantis’s demise and the catastrophic ending of the Great War. Once again we are compelled to look for a a cause-and-effect relationship so that the seminal connection we have again established (first of all) is apparently undeniable.

One of the main consequences of this most unfortunate war – one so shameful that its very historicity was hidden from all, relegated to the condition of a sheer myth of supernatural nature – was that the two races became forever inimical. And this enmity was practically the only thing that survived from the former era.

The two former races of Atlantis – the blacks or reds and the whites or yellows – are fated to fight to mutual death wherever they meet. And this is what really happened in America, in Oceania, in India, and so forth. It is also thus, that one should understand the war of Jews and Nazis, Nazim being in fact an attempted return of the formerly defeated “black” moiety of Atlantis, now reduced to what amounts in practice to little more than sheer slavery.

And it is also thus that we must explain the doctrines on the Millennium and the return of the Golden Age when all such sores will be healed so that peace should finally return to this earth of ours. Since that epoch, we have had two races, so to speak. Even when they are subdivided into the usual four races – blacks, yellows, reds and whites – these sub-groups are normally arranged in two moieties: the blacks and reds on one hand, and the yellows and whites on the other one.

In order to avoid permanent conflicts and endless wars, a wise decision was taken by someone in deepest antiquity. the world was also divided into two halves, with one allocated to the dark moiety, and the other one to the whiter one. The dividing line was the meridian of Lanka, the extremity of the Old World and, consequently, of the New World as well. Everything and everybody on the western hemisphere, to the west of this meridian, belonged to the whiter races, and vice-versa.

This divide was deemed the end of the world on both sides and regarded as an impassable barrier. This meridian passed, in Europe across Gibraltar and on the other side in Sunda Strait, its eastern counterpart, the site of the other “Pillar of Hercules”. Or, better yet, this was really the Pillar of Atlas, the one that corresponds to the real Atlantis of the former era. One side mirrored the other one in essentially every detail, as each side attempted to reconstruct Paradise Lost as best as they could.

And this separation worked marvelously for eons until the ancient covenant was unilaterally broken by the whites. Spurred by greed and by the expansionist ambitions of Christopher Columbus, the whites used the excuse of “Christianizing” the infidels. And they succeded in conquering the whole New World. And the New World in fact soon became Christian all right.

All its enormous wealth was quickly appropriated by the whites, along with the land, the property and the women of the unfortunate natives, condemned to slavery, torture and burning at stake if they dared to resist oppression. A similar undertaking is now visibly happening in the Near East, perhaps in the hope of Christianizing it with the same success obtained in the New World. Curiously enough, no one seems to notice – or at least mention – this fact in public.

And all we can do about it is to hope that this unashamed effort does not end as catastrophically as it did when Atlantis was destroyed. Two races, two hemispheres and, naturally, two gods as well. One of them is black and the other one white, just as illustrated in the Mogen David and in similar symbols, for instance in the masterful allegory of the two Jahvehs mating shown in Fig. XXX below.

Fig. XXX – The Symbolism of the Mogen David
(a) – The Black and the White Jahvehs Mating (Mircea Eliade, Ocult. e Bruxaria, Cover)
(b) – The Mula-Bandha Tantric Posture (P. Rawson, Tantra, pg. 88)
(c) – The Mogen David or Star of David (L. Chochod, Hist. de la Magie, pg. 47)

This figure is traditional. And its source was a Cabbalistic treatise of peerless reliability reproduced by the eminent Mircea Eliade. The figure is inscribed with the Tetragrammaton (IHWH), so that the identity of the two personages is unmistakable. One should note, first of all, that the two figures form the figure of the Mogen David with their arms and their legs spread out.

Moreover, one Jahveh is white, and the other one black, characteristically portraying the dualism just argued. Strangely enough, this unusual sexual position is a standard posture in Tantra, as shown in (b). This curious position is called Mula Bandha (“root lock”) and takes great mastery and self-control in order to be practiced. It is only performed by the most skilled of the adepts and requires absolute self-control. So, the Hindu origin of this Cabbalistic figure is once again most unequivocal.

We also observe that the same dualism in the Mogen David illustrated in (c). Here the two triangles are one black and one white. The white, upright triangle stands for the phallus (linga) and the black, inverted one for its dual, the yoni or vulva. Please note that the two triangles are intertwined, so as to vividly portray the sex act which it also symbolizes. As is now clear, this symbol, the shatkona (or Mogen David), is a euphemic variant of the yoni-lingam, with the two sex members replaced by their usual symbols in Indian art.

Fig. XXX – Primary Division of the Cosmos
(P. Rawson, Tantra, pg. 197)

With this, we are finally able to explain the hidden meaning of the two horizontal bars in Israel’s flag. With reference to Fig. XXX above. This figure, traditional in Hindu symbolism, portrays the primary division of the Cosmic Egg. The Egg or Cosmos represents the earth itself. Hindu symbolism teems with the motive of the separation of the world in two halves, as we comment in some detail in our Atlantis site.

These two world halves are called Heaven and Earth, and are frequently mistaken for the sky and the whole planet. The objective of myths and symbols is to confound the profanes, much has been achieved here. Only the initiates are told the real meaning of the symbols, though only rarely at the level of detail and reality that we are disclosing here.

This type of symbolism is extremely old in India, and dates from Vedic times, the ones preceding the Great War or taking place during it. In fact, the Great War is described in detail in all sorts of allegories, for instance, the duels of Inra and Vitra. We note that this war has little if anything to do with the Aryan Invasion of the Indus Valley, which may or may not have taken place.

The white circle at the center of the figure portrays the Central Fire, a central feature of many myths and allegories such as the Pythagorean ones. We comment this important concept elsewhere, and will not delve into it here again. Of course, the central fire is not another planet (Counter-Earth) whirling around the sun or the center, as many have supposed.

Nor is it likely to be the fiery nucleus of the earth, unless someone is willing to concede that the ancient Hindus had an uncanny knowledge of earth’s interior equivalent to our own one, or perhaps even better. The real explanation is – regardless of this fact – that the Central Fire was precisely the Vadavamukha itself. Atlantis-Eden, like its replica, the Celestial Jerusalem, which should not be confused with its Palestinian counterpart – was deemed the Center of the Earth.

This symbolism of Paradise is too well known to require an explanation here. And this Center is really Meridian 0^o, the divide of the two hemispheres (or “worlds”), as we just explained. So, what this remarkable figure is really illustrating with good accuracy is the site of Meridian 0^O, with the Central Fire at the Center, and the two hemispheres pushed apart by it.

The Central Fire is the Vadavamukha, the volcano whose brutal explosion caused the world to become effectively separated into two isolated halves, one black, the other one white. Of course, no one is forced to believe my exegesis of these arcane symbolisms. After all, they are very obscure and take a lot of training and study before the pattern starts to emerge and they begin to make sense.

So much so, that no expert has ever been able to decipher this symbolism before. But the only alternative is to remain in the dark or wait a few millennia until humanity evolves and gradually learns to accept light when light is shown to them, more or less as Plato describes in his Myth of the Cave.

This profound myth explains Plato’s conception of the truth and the way it may be learned. We live in a world of illusions of all sorts and must learn to face the light of the Sun, even if it is initially blinding and causes our eyes to hurt a lot. In time, we may get used to it. Or so I hope. And I sincerely hope that the times to which Plato refers – the ones of Socrates and his condemnation to death for disclosing just this type of secret – are long past and that I will not follow his personage in his fate.

 

1. The excavations of Mesopotamia were conducted by Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (1880-1960). His word started in 1907, and lasted till his retirement, in 1949. Woolley discovered Ur (in modern Iraq) in 1926. He also discovered the evidence for what was initially taken to indicate the Flood. But these deposits of mud were later identified to belong to no particular epoch, and no evidence of an unusually large flood was ever discovered in the region of Mesopotamia, despite the firm conviction of Sir Leonard Woolley. The excavations of the of the region continued down to present time by his successors. ↑
2. Volcanoes do not exist in the region of Mesopotamia. Moreover, the temperatures created by volcanic eruptions are far below the melting point of silica (SiO₂). Likewise, forest fires – unlikely in the desertic region under consideration – only generate temperatures far below the one required for the melting of sand. Ordinary glass is a mixture silica (sand) and a fundent that considerably lowers the melting point of the material. This admixture makes it possible to fuse and work glass by means of usual flames such as those of blowtorches. Pure silica can only be melted by exyhudrogen torches or by means of radiofrequency furnaces. Sand is more properly quartz the crystalline form of silica. Fused quartz turns into a refractory glass called “silica” in the commerce. Glass is the non-crystalline (amorphous) form of substances that are normally crystalline. ↑
3. A. Tomas, The Home of the Gods (New York, 1974); and A. Gorbovsky, Riddles of Antiquity (Moscou, 1968) ↑
4. J. T. Wasson, “Layered Tektites: A Multiple Impact Origin for the Australasion Tektites, J. of Geophysical Research 102:95, 1991. For more on the age paradox of tektites, cf. R. º Chalmers et.al., Australasian Tektites and the Stratigraphic Age of Australites, Gephysical Soc. Am. Bull, 90:508, 1979. ↑
5. J. T. Wasson, Layered Tektites: A Multiple Impact Origin for the Australasian Tektites, J. Geoph. Res. 102:93, 1991. ↑
6. In fact, the name of Armageddon is a translation of that of Shambhala which is Sanskrit for “Plains of Reunion of the Armies”. Armageddon-Shambhala is the place where the multitudes of soldiers will gather for the final battle, just as they once did, in the War of Atlantis. In the Mahabharata, this place is called Kurukshattra (“Field of the Kurus”), meaning more or less the same. ↑
7. The book by Pauwels and Bergier was first published in French, by Gallimard, in 1960, under the name of Le Matin des Mages. It was first published in Great Britain under the title of The Dawn of Magic and in the US as The Morning of the Magicians in 1972. The book by the two French authors attained a colossal sucess, and was followed by several others. Their book set the trend in so-called “romantic Archeology” which is followed today by several writers of inferior quality. ↑
8. The present champions of this theory are D. S. Allan, J. B. Delair, Cataclysm! Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9,500 BC (London, 1995). A slightly different form of Cosmic cataclysm is proposed by P. La Violette (Earth Under Fire, N. York, 1996). Dr. La Violette proposes that such cataclysms are caused by explosions of the galactic core recurring at intervals of about 26,000 years. These explosions disturb the Solar System and cause the sun to flare and destroy the earth. The book of Allan and Delair was republished in the USA, under the now name of When the Earth Nearly Died. ↑
9. The theories of Tony Smith are published in his homepage at: http://galaxy.can.edu/tsmith/13mar41.html ↑
10. The reader interested in pursuing this matter further is urged to read the ample scientific literature on supernova explosions and remnants. Several interesting homepages on supernovas in general and on Vela in particular exist in the Internet, published by reputable scientific institutions such as the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Mullard Radio Astronony Observatory (MRAO) of Cambridge University, and several others. ↑
11. Cf. f-i:J. Raymond et al., The UV Spectrum of a Face-on Shock Wave in the Vela Supernova Remnant, Astroph. Journal 482:881 (1997).E. B. Jenkins, G. Wallestein, High Velocity, High Excitation Neutral Carbon in a Cloud of the Vela Supernova Remnant, Princeton Univ. Observatory Preprints (1997).The reader can also consult the ample technical literature referenced in these articles or in the specialized publicationssuch as Astrophysical Abstracts. ↑
12. The name of Gomorrah means “cleft”, a probable allusion to the Khasma Mega (or “Giant Cleft”), the giant abyss that is no other than the Fiery Pit f Hell. This etymology is close to the one of Sodom. The name of “Sodom” is usually held to mean “Burnt”, “Conflagrated” in Hebrew. More likely, it is a transcription of the Dravida chot-tom meaning “the Primordial Fiery Pit”. This is a traditional name of Paradise Destroyed. The name of Sodom seems to be a translation of that of Dhumândi (“Marked by Smoke”), Dhumândi is the Sanskrit name of the capital city of Attala (Atlantis), also called Atta-Sthali (“the Site of the Sacrificial Pyre”). The name of Sodom is also related to the Hebrew radix sod, meaning “secret”, “arcane”. Probably, because its true name, Atlantis was a secret to be kept. Sod was also the name given to Nahash, the Brazen Serpent of Sinai, itself an allegory of Atlantis and its firing. ↑
13. The word Vrishni means “mighty”, “titanic”, “giant”. Andhaka means “asura”, that is, “devil” or “titan”. Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Indra, Agni and many other gods and kings are descended from the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. They are indeed the same as the titans or Giants, the Atlanteans defeated by the Gods in the War of Atlantis. ↑
14. C. Sagan et all., The cold and the Dark, N. York, 1984. ↑
15. Solomon’s name is not derived from shalom = “peace”, a mere popular etymology. The true derivation of his name is from sol- (“sun”) + amon (“hidden”). As such, Solomon represents the mystic god, the other sun which shines in the underground, more or less as did Shamash and Ammon and many other such ancient sun gods. As the son of David, Solomon represents his other alias or avatar, the new “sun” or volcano which replaces the old one when it explodes in a colossal eruption that destroys the whole world. In interpreting myths such as the ones in question here, one should keep in mind the fact that myths are only pseudo-history. They may use actual historical facts entwined in their relations. But this is only a device to render them more or less believable to the more gullible public. The experts,the initiates and the Cabbalists know better than that, and seek for the mystic allegories and metaphors, underneath which the great truths are hidden. ↑