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1968 cont.
Secret Chamber in the Great Pyramid, By E. Sykes
According to the
Votan The Third the Serpent Priest, By E. Sykes
Brasseur de Bourbourg in the preface of his Popul Vuh
describes the burning by Bishop Zumaguerra in 1691 of a quanity of Quiche
manuscripts including one entitled: "Proof that I am a Snake" the
author of which was Votan the Third. In it the writer described a voyage to the
ruler of a distant land, usually assumed to have been King Solomon, which would
have dated it at 950 B.C. approximately. The author described to the king the
wonders of the New World: Plants, animals, men, precious metals and stones, but
refused to give any details of the route to be followed. His insistence on
proving that he was a snake, i.e. a priest of the Serpent Clan, of which Votan
was the titular god, would appear to have been unnecessary, unless there was
some element of doubt about his position. At this particular period of history
of King Solomon had concluded a treaty with his neighbor King Hiram of
Phoenicia, to allow Phoenician ships to rove the world in the search for
treasure and trade for Israel. It would seem possible that some young and
ambitious Phoenician sea captain managed to reach the Caribbean, and having
once tasted of its delights resolved to return there for good. Hence his
refusal to give the route to be followed to King Solomon, which was strictly in
accordance with Phoenician and Carthaginian tradition. But if he was not of
local origin he might have some difficulty in obtaining entry into the
exclusive circle of priesthood. To this end he would write a thesis for
publication giving all the reasons why he should be accepted. And he would sign
it with his newly adopted name of Votan the Third. It would be interesting to
know if his efforts met with success. Another version of this story, from the
Old World angle, appears in the "History of the Wonders of the
Universe" of which the name of the author escapes me at the moment. Nunez
de la Vega, a clerical contemporary of Zumaguerra, is stated to have burnt yet
another manuscript telling of an old man whose great grandson, named Votan, saw
the building of the great ziggurat. The two stories may just be different
copies of the same manuscript. There are plenty of editions of Popul Vuh, those
used were by max Muller, Morely, and Lewis Spence. Bourbourg is only available
in the British Museum, the Bodelean, etc., and I have not consulted it on this
occasion, relying mainly on qoutes by such writers as H. P. Blavatsky, Isis
Unveiled; G. I. Bryant: a holograph mms; E. Sykes: Dictionary of Non Classical
Myth; H. T. Wilkins: Secret Cities; etc. It would be interesting to know if
there are any other references to this manuscript written either before or at
the time of Brasseur. At this juncture my hypothesis is based upon a series of
what I hope are logical assumptions. It is still, however, in the shadowy
stage. E.S.
Lemuria Reconsidered, By L. M. Young on E. Sykes work by
said title.
Egerton Sykes in an excellent monograph, revives a subject
which though a fascinating one, has for a long time lain dormant. Lemuria is
not regarded as just one single continental area as it has been postulated
concerning Atlantis, but a vast region containing numerous islands and island
groups and a complex network of cultures that were in many instances
contemporary and others that seem to have been separated by extensive intervals
of time and entirely independent of one another. Unlike the former land mass in
the Atlantic, of whose traces are extremely meager and often controversial, the
vestigial remnants of the former populations and past civilizations in the
Pacific area are overwhelming, and fresh material is continually emerging. In
an earnest endeavor to correlate this mass of information, Egerton Sykes
reviews these various remains and groups and classifies the foregoing under
cultural definitions in accordance with the regions in which these are
situated.
Not all of these are located in the Oceanic area, and included
in this classification are the important remains of Ankor Vat in Cambodia once
the domain of the Khmers concerning whom too little is known. That the
foregoing was Buddhist religious center can be recognized from the elaborate
ornamented facades but the style of the architecture of the temple itself,
which is massive structure of pyramidal form with its staircases and storied
terraces have affiliations with a much older civilization. A great temple
situated in ancient Benares called Bindh Madha in India, demolished in the
17th century, to judge from the brief description that has been
preserved, seems to have been a edifice of a like kind. Also included in this
culture area which Egerton Sykes calls Gobean, is the Asiatic remains fringing
the Gobi desert which ten or twelve thousand years ago could have been an
Inland Sea. Sir Aurel Stein, a few decades ago explored this region
thoroughly and the volumes narrating his travels are practically the only
source for a region now inaccessible to Europeans.
The term Lemuria was first applied to a specific land-mass
envisaged by Phillip Lutley Sclater, a 19th century zoologist as the
area where Lemurs evolved, a concept considered warranted by their geographical
distribution. This itself of extremely large dimensions comprising Madagascar
to Southern India and also Australia. Several geologists to the present time
have offered similar hypothesis and though there are many variations in details
their main definitions are in conformity with the propositions above though
some would extend the land mass east of Australia to South Africa, an area which
Egerton Sykes defines as Gondwana.
(Webmaster note-this should be noted by the www.atlan.org
group as a reference as to why India and the surrounding area is not
Atlantis itself, I repeat is not Atlantis in itself, but might have been
available to atlantean culture, and not the other way around. We are not saying
the group is doing misinformation but only that it is taking advantage of
certain cultural dimensions not directly pertinent to the hypothesis of Plato's
who was very strict about it being around the region of 'Beyond the Pillars of
Hercules'. And yes though the Red Sea or Yemen might be another Straits they
are not formerly the kind Solon was talking about. Otherwise, it would have in
narrative stressed the old name of the Straits of Megan instead, well known in
Plato's time, and not referred to as Hercules's. Note Hercules is a mostly
northern aspect in terms of Greece though there was a Egyptian counterpart to
his iconography. Hercules in his Labors does go to Spain not to the bottom of
Yemen, or India. Therefore it is not surprising that all the Main Straits Plato
refers to is west of Greece and Turkey even more westward of this. To many
people do not understand that Plato, was a skeptical bird at times and would
follow up on myths and stories till he had them confirmed i.e. sailor stories
were for him the best source. Greece in his day was in a great trade with the
Italian region near the end of the Carthagean Empire were such stories would
have been plentiful.)
Sykes then goes into the human evolution history of the
Malay and Australian region of man back to 600,000- 1,500,000 years ago in a
rude form appearing, and continues with,
"How long the continental area survived in its
entirety is not known at present, but its severance from the mainland may have
been due to the impact of the Grosses Bluff meteor (http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images.html
) that fell in central Australia. This may have been a fragment or otherwise
connected with the meteor alluded by Mr. Egerton Sykes as having destroyed
Gondwana which was calculated by the Smithsonian Institute as having fallen
approximately 700,000 years ago. Though this disaster of some cataclysm may
have disintegrated the main continental structure and isolated Australasia, it
appears probable that there were in the Pacific till comparatively recent times
large portions of land existing, which were finally shattered into groups of
islands during and after the worldwide catastrophe of 10,000 B.C. These smaller
areas of land, at least those directly north and east of Australia, can be
divided for ethnological purposes into three regions called Melaneasia,
Micronesia and Polynesia, roughly confirming to the Avaka, Hawaikii Nanmetal
and possibly Kahoupookane cultures of Egerton Sykes". (Webmaster's Note- I
would highly advise all atlantologists to mostly follow what Sykes is saying in
that if you do look at Lemuria question please designate information in this
above outline of cultures in Pacific, so as not to confuse or mislead
information on Lemuria. Because this has been problem in the past of Churchward
followers, and we will not include Blavatsky because that is on a different
scale and arena plateau.)
"The Melanesian tribes include the aboriginal
Australian bushmen and the more primitive populations of New Guinea and the
outlying islands. The former aboriginal inhabitants of Tasmania also are
classed within this category. In color they are dark, more completely black
with Negroid traits. ( Webmaster note- It is apologized about the term
'Negroid' as not a appropriate of a term to those cultures who themselves would
not call themselves as such based on color, past or presently.) It is assumed
they penetrated into Australasia from the Malayan archipelago when this and
Indonesia were partly joined into a larger landmass or masses. Some idea of
their antiquity in this region can be judged from the circumstances that Dubois
though he did not disclose the find till many years afterwards, discovered a
skull which though of less advanced characteristics conformed to that of the
Australian aborigines. Australia itself does not appear to have any remains
denoting a higher or advanced people but the same cannot be said of the
Melanesian islands which are as Egerton Sykes describes strewn with traces of
vanished populations. A similar situation applies to the chain of islands
extending from Indonesia into the Pacific, peopled by the Micronesian populations,
a brown -skinned people of diverse characteristics, which also contain a large
amount of remnants of former civilization. That these peoples have spread
across the Pacific to Atolls that were never more than islands is obvious but
it seems most probable that the latter were a hybrid stock which evolved in one
area from a fusion of Melanesian and lighter elements. This could have been the
region, which comprises the Mariannes, Ladrones, Marshall and the Caroline
Islands containing the well-known centers of Yap, Oleai and Ponape. On all
these islands there are cyclopean monuments and extensive remains and on the
Ponape stand Metalanim of whose large harbor Nanmetal described by Egerton
Sykes who also provides a useful diagram giving the indication of the extent of
the works. Native tradition attributes these structures to a Melanesian
tribe which preceded the present inhabitants but it is unlikely that the
foregoing were any exception to others of their race and possessed neither the
ability or the technique necessary to initiate the complex labyrinth of which
Metalanim is mute testimony. Such construction would have required a vast
consumption of labor over a considerable passage of time, which with other
causes resulted in the intermingling of many diverse ethnological types much of
which was most probably slave labor. Among these may eventually been the
dominant race that one stage seems to have eventually declined, which if the traditions
prevalent throughout the Pacific have any basis of fact, were of light hair and
complexion.
The Polynesians who
exhibit in their ethnological composition, a skin only a tinge darker than
Europeans and have intelligent aquiline faces also seem to have encountered
these shadowy fair complexion people as they spread across the Pacific to New
Zealand on the one extremity, and to Easter Island and possibly the shores of
the American Continent on the other. Were these the Long Ears people who are
depicted on some relief's and monuments both in the Eastern Pacific and on the coast
of Peru? These appear to have early been in power in certain islands such as
Easter Island and tradition associates the making stone images and the stone
temple structures and when they were exterminated by conquest the art of
monolith making fell into decay. The same seems to have happened elsewhere and
the former people of Polynesia appear to have succumbed before these new
Pacific sea-voyagers and either were massacred or assimilated and their legends
adapted to patriotism of the conquering race. Among these have survived stories
of large areas of land co continental extent such as that which was called
Ka-houpo-o-kane which was asserted to have stretched from Hawaii, including
Samoa-holokoa (Rarotanga) and reaching as far as New Zealand, also taking in
Fiji. By co-ordinating the large mass of information concerning the
anthropology and archaeology of the Pacific into a sensible pattern, Egerton
Sykes has raised some thought provoking questions and in this intention then he
has succeeded well. By L. M. Young.
Two Journals were specially dedicated to the Pyramid
problem and the Lemuria Reconsidered which I do have and any interested can
contact me-Webmaster.
Egypt and Atlantis , By E.
Sykes
Also articles about 3 to 4
major impact craters at various times with 1968 continued.
