Atlantean Research Journal, and Atlantis from 1950 cont.

The African Bushmen and Atlantis, By Ernest J. Sawyer (a Summary)

Hoerbiger states that we have had, in succession, five, or six moons, each having been destroyed by the earth's gravitational pull and scattering its debris upon our own planet. Our present moon, which he calls Luna, will eventually be destroyed in the same way.

In South Africa Sawyer was examining data available at that time to establish without doubt the existence of Atlantis. "Unique throughout the entire world is the huge rockery of meteorites which stands in the public place of Windhoek, the capital of South West Africa. Nowhere are to be found so many meteorites as on the coast of Africa and, as I shall establish, there is a reason for this."

"There may be millions of meteorites scattered over the dreary plains at Windhoek, there certainly are many thousands of tons. Meteorites are worth 35,000 a ton, but export is prohibited. The Ovambos, a native tribe, worship these fragments from the skies and the Bushman today pay them special reverence."

All around the coastline of South Africa are raised beaches running parallel with it, the beaches are always about 200-350 feet above sea level. Hoerbiger felt that the catastrophic upheavel caused the loss of Atlantis by submerging it during one of the later glacial periods, with corresponding devastation of South Africa.

"The effect of a satellite slowly approaching the earth would be to pile up the seas into a huge girdle tide." Following this tide some gigantic Ice caps would form and thus raising up the beaches. The study has not been directed some much at the loss of Atlantis as it is to what occurred to its people after they had left the country. The theory is that the Bushman is not aboriginal to South Africa and came from somewhere else. The generally accepted theory is that they descended from the Grimaldi man of Southern France who immigrated to Africa by means of a land bridge that once connected to the two continents. Yet, it is also possible they may have descended from a group escaping Atlantis and went for higher ground in Africa. It is generally admitted that the Bushman are some of the oldest cultures in South Africa, and they roamed many years before the Bantu appeared. They became over time more degenerate from there original state of a higher culture lost over time in the wilderness. (This was Sawyer's opinion). The shape of the rock paintings he points out as the reason for earlier great intelligence. Are they the only group in Africa that are the only survivors, Sawyer says 'I think not', and proceeds into the article.

The Bushman have no written records known but they do have legends that has come down from pre-historic times. They have legends that the moon has been held responsible for all that has taken place, whether good or bad. The sun is seldom mentioned in these legends. Are these legends handed down from a very remote time over several thousand years? Could they have witnessed a great destruction along their coastline in S. Africa? "Geological phenomena point to destruction by volcanoes, floods, and ice floes, and it would be strange if some of these happenings were not incorporated in the mythical legends of the Bushman." Is it possible that a great deal of the meteorites in S. Africa is the remnant of a destroyed moon? Here is one Bushman Legend:

"We may not look on the moon when we kill game. We may only look where the moon is not standing. We fear the light of the moon. Our mothers used to tell us that the moon was not good if we looked at him. If we look at the moon when we have killed game the beasts of prey will eat this game when it is dead. If the game is not dead this is due to the 'moon water'. Because our mothers used to tell us that the 'moon water' which we see lying on top of a bush is like fluid honey. The 'moon water' destroys the poison with which we kill our game. We also fear the moonlight because our mothers told us that the game would lead us to a place without water and we might die of thirst."

There is another legend that deals with the origin of Death. 'It tells us how the moon dies and return again, thereby teaching all living beings that they, too, will die and live again." Does this have any reference to ancient legends regarding a moon being totally destroyed and another coming in its place.' (Webmaster note-the Egyptians also talked about a resurrecting moon, but did not imply that it occurred as physically is what could happen, but meant it more spiritually to help it return like the sun at dusk or daybreak. It still does not take anything away from the fear and beliefs the Egyptians in more ancient times once held about the moon.)

There is also outside of high beaches a lot of river terraces and in some place in higher ground that look as if they had receded back to the oceans. At Stellenbosch, some 35 miles from Cape Town, and 350 feet above sea level, the writer found ancient stone implements embedded in the sand that is saline in character, 25 feet below the present ground level. These implements are large, indicating that only men of huge stature could have used them. One weighed 14 pounds and was very possibly used as a chopper. "Archaeologists believe that these massive stone implements were made, and used, by a race of giants that have long been extinct"!

"I am suggesting that these supermen were Atlanteans who has succeeded in escaping from the deluge that swept their country." Most primitive Africans have legends about volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, and excessive rain in their stories. He mentions in Genesis the Giants in the Bible, and at Stellenbosch the Man found in a dig was seven feet tall. His reasoning things were growing bigger then in the fossils.

"I consider that when the imminence of disaster became obvious, some of the Atlanteans escaped across the bridges to what is now the South West Africa and their descendants are the Bushman of today, a people who fear the moon, and whose folklore tells of a tremendous disaster to the earth in which the moon played a part in. " "The raised beaches that entirely encircle South Africa tell us that, at some geological eriod, the sea was some 200 feet higher than it is today. Did the gravitational pull of the moon cause this phenomenon?

 The Head of Medusa By Edgerton Sykes 1950 cont.  

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