1966 Begins
Two Important Discoveries in Atlantology, By Egerton Sykes
1966
At the beginning of April a report was published in the
London Press to the effect that a certain Professor Menies,
an American oceanographer, working off the coast of Peru, took a series of some
400 underwater photographs at a depth of 750 fathoms or 1500 yards, out of
which four stone pillars bearing glyphs and drawings and obviously man made.
Whether the glyphs were some form of writing is not know at this stage as my
inquiries have failed so far to produce copies of the photographs. Any
additional information from readers would be welcomed. The other discovery was
made by Professor Manson Valentine of New York
who has unearthed a cache of sophisticated artifacts of possible Atlantean origin ten feet below the surface of Gonava Island off Haiti. The fact that the island is
famous for guano deposits may possibly explain why the relics have remained
undisturbed. The only other reference to Haiti
which I can trace is in a book by the French writer M.E. Descourtilz,
whose "Voyages d' un Naturalist en Haiti", published in Paris in 1803, described a temple in a cave
with drawings and has a relief's of gods and ceremonies on the walls. As there
has been hardly any archaeological research on the island during the past
century and a half it is quite possible that this cave is still in existence.
It is a pity that the discovery of Dr. Menzies did
not take place in the Atlantic, but at least
it proves a point which I have been making for years, that stone artifacts are
unlikely to be damaged by submersion.
Atlantis in France, E. Sykes an outline
Count Byron de Prorok -Sahara expeditions
Paul le Cour and Roger Devigne Society for Investigation In
the Atlantis Problem
Le Cour organization was 'Les
Amis d'Atlantis, survived after his death as
bi-monthly magazine called 'Atlantis' afterwards by that time subjects mostly
about the shadowy Celtic mysticism past. Up to 1966 they only published one
time the subject of Atlantis in article form since 1951.
"The result of this has been that, for practical
purposes, there has been no research into Atlantis since the end of the war. I
am well aware that several books have been published incorporating the word
Atlantis in their titles, but this does not of itself imply very much."
Sykes felt one of the rays of hope in France was Mr. C.C.
Hardy, who lives in Paris, one of the earliest members of our organization, who
is interested in the factual presentation of the subject. Apart from that I
have just heard from a French Priest who has been studying the subject for
years and who is visiting England in May (1966) I also have the son of some
American friends in New York who is now a student in Paris and shows considerable
interest. Perhaps we may yet manage to revive the dormant interest In Atlantis
in France.
"Que sera, sera." E.S.
A prelude to a restatement of the
question, By E. Sykes 1966
In 1949 my revised edition of Donnelly's book on Atlantis
was published in New York and London. However, in the intervening years,
much has been discovered, many new ideas have been put forth, and after twenty
years of correspondence with everybody else who is even remotely interested in
the subject, I have managed to learn alto which I did not then know. In the
process it has been possible to evolve a theory of the Atlantis problem which
is in reasonable agreement with modern scientific research and which may well
point the way to a solution of a question within a relatively short period of
time.
The basic factors are as follows:
1. Where was Atlantis situated?
2. What caused the disaster?
3.When did it occur
4. What evidence is available?
a. Material
b. Historical
c. Analogical
5. What possibilities are there of proving this?
The Atlantis problem has been complicated by the fact that
Atlantis is not separated from us by a gulf but rather by a series of post Atlantean cultures which filled up most of the gaps between
BC 10,000 and the early historical period of BC 5,000. In process of sorting
all this out it is now accepted that a certain amount of the evidence which had
been assumed to refer to Atlantis now seems to refer to these later cultures.
This is not of great importance in itself except in that it assures the continuity
of historical record. Atlantis has to be put into proper perspective as,
possibly, the earliest manifestation of culture known to the Western World and,
as such, constituting the root from which nearly
everything else in the Western World has sprung. In order to bring this about
we have to discard a whole series of misconceptions, which have tended to
confuse the issue. For example there is not the slightest evidence that the Atlantean Culture was in any way superior to that of
ancient Greece.
There is no reason to assume that the conduct of the Atlanteans
was in any way better or worse than that of other historical groups. Finally
there is no valid bases for the assumption that the
Atlantis disaster was caused by human beings having offended the gods by
discovering atomic fission, as had they done so it would still be possible to
pick up traces of the explosion 13,000 years afterwards. This attitude to
trying to transmute into the past one's fears of the present may be a mild
pathological interest but has no relationship to history. Atlantis was
submerged because of some natural disaster. The giant meteor craters in South
Africa, Australia, and Canada, any one of which would have been amply
sufficient to have caused it, are visible manifestations of occurrences which
have happened many times in the past history of our planet. (Webmaster note- we
may include the Argentina, Carolina's and Yucatan
asteroid blasts as well near the Atlantic region) It is hard to fathom the
reason for the reluctance of many people to accept the Atlantis concept.
Admittedly it means putting the clock of history back a few thousand years but
that has been done before and both archaeology and ancient history have
survived the process without scars. The perspective has been blurred by the
assumptions of various quasi religious groups which do not always fit in
with the background of factual knowledge. This, however, is a process which
frequently occurs and which sooner or later has to be fitted into the actual
sequence of events. It must be accepted that Atlantis did not constitute a
miraculous event but was purely and simply a part of our early history and that
although its eclipse by a natural disaster was unusual, the same occurred in
Minoan Crete which Santorin blew up in BC
1400. Here the event was on a smaller scale but was none the less effective.
These points have to be made to emphasize that Atlantis fell into a normal
historical pattern just as much as the early Egyptian, Babylonian, or Chinese
cultures. The fact that it occurred some thousands of years earlier does not
mean that any startling differences in human behavior are to be anticipated.
The pattern of evolution has been consistent ever since the appearance of the
first stone tool using primates a million years ago and Atlantis and its
culture will fit quite comfortably into it. But Atlantis is none the less
interesting for that. It is the earliest culture of which we have any records.
However the recent discovery by Dr. Maurits van Loon
of a village site at Tell Mureybat on the Euphrates
which is dated at BC 7,500, shows that the gap between official records and the
Atlantis concept has now narrowed down to 2,000 years, as compared with 6,000
at the end of the last war. That this hiatus will be bridged in the near future
is obvious, but that is no reason for slacking in our efforts to produce as
much evidence as possible so as to expedite the process. During my recent visit
to America the intensive questioning to which I was subjected made me realize
that in the course of seventeen years the situation of Atlantean
Research had changed considerably thanks to the wealth of new ideas and
discoveries which have come to my notice. These notes have been extracted from
the introduction to a fresh appraisal of the Atlantis problem which is now in
course of preparation and which should be finished this summer. (1966)
Webmaster note- I am fairly sure that E. Sykes was
referring to the A.R.E. Cayce group due to the fact he had visited them and was
invited and later gave some material to them. However, he was very weary of
some of Cayce's suggestions of a more advanced culture then either Sykes
thought they were, or that the scientific community would in 1966 accept. Sykes
was more probably hard on the Blavatesky groups
because of the timing of 'her prediction's in light of
the MU exploiters of the Pacific concept such as Churchward
putting out material at the same time frame or the Brothers he borrowed it
from. I am not saying that some of their claims may not have some legitimacy,
but on the Atlantis question as written by Plato i.e. a Classical writer it did
not help matters in that endeavor. So Sykes was neither in agreement or
disagreement he just felt it made it harder for scientific research into a
subject hounded by metaphysics as it is today. But this brings up the chicken
and the egg problem. Was not the subject Plato took on a fairly metaphysical
culture or super human in their technology, that today we would call almost New
Age as compared to other cultures in their own time???? There is some indications that this may well be so. The find by
Mr. Brown in Bimini of the Crystal Ball in the
Pyramid did stir quite an uproar as well as other
crystal skulls found before that find about 6 years after Sykes wrote this.
Early Science- A legacy from the Past, A
talk given by A.P. Thomas at the Atlantis Symposium at Brighton on 17th
of September, 1966 (a summary)
"In the course of a couple of million years man has
slowly evolved from the primitive stage to become a rational being. Because of
this the folk memory of all races should contain records of now extinct animals
and plants from these earlier stages. That this actually is the case is shown
by the Mansi Tribe of North Eastern
Siberia who tell of the times when there was a warm climate there
with giant trees and strange animals, now only known as fossils. The
mythological stories about fabulous animals, such as dragons, and griffins are
probably memories of the giant lizards of early times. But side by side with
these stories of the past we also find tales of scientific achievements by
individuals which do not quite mesh in with our gradual rise to the present day
level of technology. Is it possible that these stories are memories of the Lost
Atlantean civilization? The truthfulness of folklore,
over long periods of time, is shown by the stories told by the American
Indians, and the Australian Aborigines about stars crashing down on earth in
reference to the large craters of meteoric origin to be found in both areas
which date back to very early periods long before man began to think of writing
history. The Maya astronomical calendar, which -according to Bellamy-probably
evolved about 10,000 BC, was far more accurate than that of the Western World.
When Cortes landed in Mexico,
the European Calendar was ten days out, whilst that of the Maya was accurate.
In Babylon the
priests knew of the existence of the "Horns of Venus", which they are
invisible to modern man without a telescope. They had also recorded the four
larger of Jupiter's twelve moons, which are invisible to the naked eye. The
ancients also knew of the parallax of the sun, which they measured as an annual
displacement of the sun against the background of stars. This is extremely
difficult without precision instruments. Anaximes (BC
500) the Greek philosopher spoke of "Non luminous companions of
stars." Democritus, his contemporary, said: "There are more planets
than we are able to discover with our eyes." The Greek
National Museum
contains a model of the solar system made in BC 65, about which Dr. derek Price of Cambridge
commented:'Finding such an object in Ancient Greece is like
discovering a jet engine in the tomb of Tuten Khamen.' In India
we find the texts of Manu antedating Lamarck and Darwin by thousands of years,
while in BC 500 Kanada the sage had developed an
atomic theory. Some months ago while in India I was surprised to discover
that the Brahmins had used a unit of a three hundred millionth of a second in
their calculations. This, I was told, was a tradition from an age when the gods
walked the earth. One of the mysteries of the past is that of the ever-burning
lamps. The Mandan tribe of North
America tell of a time when they lived in cities beyond the ocean
in which the lights never went out . Cedrenus of Bycantium, who lived
in the 11th Century, in his "Compendium", wrote of a lamp
at Edessa in Syria, which had remained alight
for five hundred years. (Webmasters note-Kind of reminds me of the Phoenix Myth resurrecting
or its fire every 500 years?) At the beginning of this century the natives of
Torres Straits reported having seen round stones which gave out a strong
greenish blue light. A similar instance was reported a few years ago from Dutch
New Guinea where police
patrols saw similar stones near Mount
Wilhelmina. The origin of
these stones is unknown. That the source of some of these lights might have
been electrical is shown by the discovery by Wilhelm Konig
of early dry batteries near Bagdad. These were
reproduced in America by the General Electric Company shortly after the war and
were found to have a power of six volts. Instructions for making such batteries
are found in Princes Library at Ujjan in India, dating
back to great antiquity. These note that joining a hundred or more together is
very effective. Aagin when it comes to moving heavy
materials, a ceremony which takes place daily at Shivapur,
near Poona, in India, enables a 120 lb block of stone to be levitated by the
touch of 11 forefingers and the chanting of the "Qamar
Ali Dervish", the religious doctrines of the participants being what they
may. Could a similar process have been used in antiquity? That aviation in some
form or another was known in the past is born out by the descriptions of Vimana in the Ramayana, which were fueled with a yellowish
white liquid and could fly with the speed of the wind-say sixty miles an
hour-but required great skill on the part of the pilot. These appliances were
kept in grihas or hangers. The descriptions tell of
oceans looking like lakes, or rivers entering the ocean, and of flights above
the clouds. (Webmasters Note- Is it possible these machines were used from
trips between India region to the Maya in Central America like that tomb of the
man leaning over with difficult pedals and controls not just a UFO experience
but man making it in prototype?)
In China Emperor Shun (possibly of the Hsia Dynasty) who
lived 4200 years ago was said to have had a flying machine, as also Emperor
Cheng Tang, whose artificer Ki Kung Shi, built a
flying machine for him four hundred years later, which was subsequently
destroyed by Edict. He is said to have commanded the cutting off of
communication between heaven and earth. (Webmaster note-that means not just the
elements, or flight but also flying gods and aliens in severed relations?) The
writer Chuang Tzu told of a flight to a distance of 32,500 miles from the
earth. Was this an early satellite? Again when it comes to X-Rays and the like,
history tells us that Emperor Tsin Shi, (BC 3rd
Cent.) had a machine which illuminated the bones of his body, giving a reversed
image from a cubical contained with 4 feet sides. A still earlier Indian doctor
named Jivaka had a gem which made the body
transparent. The Brahmins knew about vaccination and inoculation 4000 years
before Jenner. (Webmasters note- Does it seem that Re-incarnation of inventors
is more plausible if the same inventions are being made over and over again
over mans time, each time just a little different then the last time?????) The
well known Piri Reis Map, which was first published in Turkey
in 1520 shows the Antartica free of ice, the South American
Coast line was not fully
explored until many years later. Dr. Afetinan the
Turkish authority considered that the original of the map came from the library
of Alexandria.
About the time of the Norman invasion of 1066, Abdul Wafa
was writing about the variation of the moon, which it is almost impossible to
ascertain without precision instruments, which were unknown at the time. The Voynich Manuscript, now in the USA, dating back to 1500 AD, contains
not only diagrams of microscopic sections of plants but also a sketch of the
Andromeda Nebula. At that time there were neither microscopes nor telescopes.
In the Bay of Pisco in Peru,
there is a huge petroglyph, resembling Neptune's Trident. The meaning of this remained obscure
until Beltran Garcia, a direct descendant of Garcilaso
de la Vega, suggested that it depicted a seismograph made up of a pendulum with
pulleys and cords, to register earthquakes. As is known the Incas had no
writing but imployed a device of knots and strings
called a quipu, which served as a mnemonic aid and
also as a record. Although it is stated that one of the early rulers abolished
books and writing, I believe that the quipu is but an
echo from some earlier gifted culture. A Sanskrit manuscript called the Mausola Purva refers to a weapon
which reduced everything to ashes, caused hair and nails to fall off, and
turned pottery white, while poisoning all foods. Could this have been some form
of atomic radiation? Ruz Lhuiller
the Mexican archaeologist found a Maya drawing depicting a man seated in a
rocket like machine with a fiery exhaust. Facing him is what could be a control
board. In terms of acoustics the statue of Memmon,
erected in BC 1500, was reported by Strabo to emit sound at sunrise. The last
time this happened was 196 AD. The Incas had a speaking idol of a similar
nature in the Valley
of Rimac.
Many years later Albertus Magnus and Saint Thomas
Aquinas constructed a speaking robot, but it chattered too much so they broke it
up. According to Arab legend automata guarded the secret entrance to the two
great Pyramids and the associated Temple
of the Sphinx. It is possible that the forthcoming investigation by American
scientists with the aid of Cosmic rays, to find other passages in the Pyramid
complex may provide a key to the mystery. (Webmaster note-How true that is as
of 1966 and what was found in the late 1990's and 2000's) The Popul Vuh states that in the
past: Man contemplated the arch of heaven and the rounded globe. Great was
their wisdom." Cicero writes of a celestial
Sphere hidden in the Temple of Virtue in Rome.
The German writer K. Doberer is of the opinion that
alchemy was born in Atlantis, where he felt that the secret of transmutation of
metals was known. He considered that much of the gold of the civilizations of Egypt and Peru had been produced in this
manner. In 1851 the Scientific American reported that a bell shaped vessel of a
then unknown metal with floral designs, had been found in the solid rock during
a blast. It is probably still existing in some
American museum. In Ecudor platinum ornaments have
been found. One wonders how the makers managed to produce the high temperature
needed to melt this metal, some 1770 degrees Centigrade. The United States
Bureau of Standards is said to have run a test on some steel which was seven
thousand years old and which only melted at a temperature of nine thousand
degrees Centigrade. Both Silver and Copper objects plated
with Gold have been found at Chan Chan
in Peru.
Whether they inherited these skills from an earlier culture or not we do not know. The Ancient Mysteries were probably the
learning of a Priestly
College who may well have
inherited this from Atlantis. In subsequent years this has been largely
forgotten only to be re-discovered again and again. The Buddist
Jakatas mentions a magic gem which when taken into
the mouth levitated a man into the air. Was this the method of overcoming
gravity? Did the Atlanteans and their contemporaries
bury their secrets in the hope that one day they would be treasure are said to
lie under Cuzco in Peru. Kanchenjunga, the great Mountain of the Himalayas, has
a name meaning: "Five Treasures of the Great Snow". These are said to
consist of libraries and objects, including some mechanical ones, sealed away
against hostile intrusion, only the wisest Lamas knowing how to get in. With
political changes the knowledge may by now have been lost. The same may be said
of the Pyramids, the one great monument known to all of us.
E.S.
The Flood and its
Background, By Georg Hinzpeter, 1966
and C.A. Burland
in his reference to carving of Orion on Stonehenge
in 1966. 1966 ends
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