Grid of the Gods (32 page)

3. The Mysterious Connections Deepen: Nan Madol, Mohenjo Daro, and Easter Island

Nan Madol, which might justifiably be called the ancient Venice of the Pacific, and whose name means “in the middle of the way” in the ancient Dravidic tongue,
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lies just slightly off-center of that “axis of the world” stretching from Mohenjo Daro to Easter Island. A veritable pile of ancient stone ruins and canals spread across islands in the southeastern Pacific, Nan Madol is another one of those places where the closer one looks, the more the mysteries multiply.

Dotted with stepped pyramids about 30 feet high and various stone platforms, one of the most curious features of Nan Madol is that basalt roads emanate from many of these pyramids and lead “straight into the ocean!” As if that were not enough, one of these roads emerges from its submerged journey one thousand miles away
at the island of Rarotonga,
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a fact that strongly indicates that the area was once above water.

Like other spots on the Grid, Nan Madol and the wider Polynesian culture also has its traditions associated with certain sites, and in this case, two traditions interest us. Like Easter Island, where the giant Maoi head statues were said to have moved by themselves by some mysterious force called “mana,” the stone blocks of the pyramids at Nan Madol, weighting several tons, were said to have been “moved and raised by magic.”
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The second tradition, however, brings into stark relief yet another mystery associated with the Grid. Viracocha, the “sun-god” whom we previously encountered, was also the great “civilizer” god of the Incas, and was said to be white-skinned, bearded, and blue-eyed. As we shall discover in the next two chapters, the same claim is made for the civilizing god of the Mayans and Aztecs, Kukulcan and Quetzlcoatl.

The Polynesians, as many other Asian peoples, have similar traditions. After the first European missionaries arrived in the islands, they discovered that the Polynesians referred to themselves as “aomata,” a term that simply meant “humans.” But the Europeans were called “te-i-matang,” which meant “men from the land of the gods.”
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Other Polynesians referred to the white missionaries as “‘gold-haired children of Tangaroa,’ the god who according to their traditions came millennia before as a teacher and civilizer.”
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The idea is repeated in the Japanese legend of the ancient
Yamato
,
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the white people who supposedly came to Japan, teaching civilization, in the legends of the Hopi tribe in North America, and even in the Hindu epic, the
Ramayana.

But if this tradition is “so strong and important, and so common, then we cannot assume that it wasn’t somehow anchored in reality.”
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However, if it is anchored in some “reality” lost in the
mists of pre-history, what sort of reality is it? Are we dealing with a vast dispersion, or the activity of an elite? Or both? The problem is compounded by recent genetic studies, which place the origins of mankind in Africa, and from the black races some 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. While this is not the place to explore possible resolutions of this dilemma, it is worth suggesting that perhaps the dispersion of this white group of peoples was done with a purpose, one suggested by the traditions themselves, for in each case they say that there was a purpose involved, an
agenda
, namely, to bring “civilization” to the rest of humanity. We might be looking at the purposeful dispersion of an elite, not a migration. In either case, given the extent of the traditions of such contacts across the globe, and the equally suggestive linguistic evidence mentioned earlier, we are looking at a global activity and dispersion of this group of people.
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In the middle of this historical conundrum sits Nan Madol, an ancient city covering an area of almost eleven square miles, the center of which is a complex of artificially made islands occupying about one square mile. These islands are connected by tunnels.
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The site has also almost defied all attempts at a systematic exploration. The first explorer to do so — Kubary in the nineteenth century — committed suicide after a ship bearing artifacts recovered by him at Nan Madol sank on the way to Europe, and all his records and notes perished in a house fire. To this could be added dozens more who, visiting the site, perished, or were simply never seen again.
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Kubary was succeeded by the German Paul Hambruch in the early twentieth century, whose extensive survey of the site was popularized by Herbert Rittlinger in a book published in Germany in 1939.
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Rittlinger also mentioned a story that platinum metal tablets, covered with an unknown form of writing, were recovered there. If this story is true, then it might be yet another possible connection to
those lost Sumerian “Tablets of Destiny,” and yet another possible connection to the activity of someone trying to preserve knowledge.

4. The Lost Civilization and the Flood: Polynesia, Egypt, and the Hopi

As has been noted, one of the curious features of Nan Madol is the many roads that emanate from its pyramids, and then disappear into the ocean, and we have already noted the Easter Island tradition of the Flood, the disappearance of a land to the west, and its faint suggestion that this was linked, somehow, to a deliberate action. Interestingly enough, Polynesian legends confirm this view, and even Egypt has a legend of “a great land in the east, among the waters of ‘Uaj-ur’ (as they named the eastern seas) that has been claimed by the sea.”
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Most interesting of these “lost land” legends, however, are those of the Hopi in North America, who maintain that they were evacuated to
South
America, whence they made their way to
North
America.
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5. The Land Bridge Collapses

The Hopi legends raise a number of questions about the standard “land bridge” model of Amerindian migrations to the Americas, across a land bridge on the Bering Straits between Siberia and Alaska, and thence gradually expanding southward from North America to South America. This theory was first formulated in 1938 by Dr. Alexd Hrdlicka of the Museum of Natural History in New York.
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But almost as soon as it was formulated the theory began to show cracks. The first and most obvious was apparent even when Hrdlicka formulated the theory, for the anthropological diversity among Amerindians was far greater than his theory would allow.
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The most serious problem imposed by the theory, however, is that it carried with it the implicit assumption that the most advanced cultural traces
should be found in North America, and as the migration spread further south, less developed cultures should have emerged. But as we have seen, the most advanced culture in evidence — that at Puma Punkhu and Tiahuanaco — are far in advance of anything further north.
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The chronological progression of the facts is not that implied by the theory.

The discovery of human remains in 1963 in South America dating to 50,000 years ago,
along with tools
, was such an obvious contradiction to the theory that it is all but ignored by anthropology in North America.
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Worse yet, remains of black, white, and mixed human skulls in Meso- and North America have added an element of racial diversity on the American continents that the standard land bridge theory is unable to sustain.
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Even worse still, excavations in southern Chile of a human settlement — the oldest on
either
of the American continents — was found to be approximately 33,000 years old.
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In other words, it was
South
America, and not
North
America, that “became the scene of the most interesting, even breathtaking achievements — the continent that supposedly was peopled at the very last.”
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Worse yet, at Tafi del Valle, northwest of Buenos Aires in Argentina, there is a little-known megalithic site, that deserves attention. “the Argentine site wouldn’t be anything unusual either, if not for the fact that it looked as if all the characteristic elements from Neolithic Europe were transferred there, as if by some magic force.”
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These included trilithions, aligned to the cardinal compass points, stone circles, and phalluses.

But the most fatal blow to the land bridge theory comes from mitochondrial DNA, the DNA that all humans inherit from their mother. When this DNA is sampled, the oldest human remains in the Americas shows that they belong to a distinctively
Pacific
group called haplogroup B, common to the Pacific and southern North America,
but
not
to Siberia or Alaska.
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Worse still, blood-typing of South American mummies revealed a preponderance of Blood type A Rh negative, a feature common to Europeans predominantly.

6. Summary

We have journeyed far from the Paradoxes of Puma Punkhu, but the paradoxes there of advanced machining, and the genetic and cultural diversity of Amerindian peoples point to a very different picture than that of the standard land bridge theory. The almost unanimous traditions from Polynesia to the legends of the “white- skinned,” bearded civilizing gods Virachoca and — as we shall see in the next two chapters — Kukalcan and Quetzlcoatl, point to a population that is very diverse, and to the possible activity of a group of people traveling throughout the globe with an
agenda
, for over and over those traditions insist that these people came to teach “civilization,” to aid in its preservation and rebuilding after a great catastrophe.

That catastrophe was evident in that the traditions of a Flood abound in almost all these cultures, a tradition that in some cases implies that the catastrophe was in part brought about by the use of technology in conflicts. In some cases, the giant stone remains — as at Puma Punkhu — were clearly the products of an advanced machining technology well in excess of anything possessed even today. In other cases, legends and traditions ascribed a mysterious “force” to the placement of such gigantic stones, the force of “mana” on Easter Island.

Can any of these layers be peeled back still farther, to make some sense of the history of mankind, and why such monumental structures were undertaken at so many places? The answer is, yes, but in order to understand that answer, we must now journey northward, to Meso-America, and scrutinize the legends and structures of the Mayans and Aztecs.

1
Igor Witkowski,
Axis of the World: The Search for the Oldest American Culture
(Kempton, Illinois: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2008), p. 203.

2
The wall is located at Sacsayhuaan, near Cuzco. See David Hatcher Childress,
Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 2000), p. 70

3
Garcilasco de la Vega,
The Royal Commentaries of the Incas
, 233–235, cited in Hancock and Faiia,
Heaven’s Mirror
, p. 285, emphasis added.

4
Hancock and Faiia,
Heaven’s Mirror,
p. 286.

5
Ibid., p. 287.

6
Ibid.

7
Ibid., p. 285. As I point out in my book
The Cosmic War
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 2007), pp. 285, 293, the name Falcon is also attributable to another Egyptian god, the Sun-God Ra, and has distinctive connections to the planet Mars.

8
William Sullivan,
Secret of the Incas
, pp. 247–248, cited in Hancock and Faiia,
Heaven’s Mirror
, p. 294.

09
Hancock and Faiira,
Heaven’s Mirror
, p. 294.

10
Ibid.

11
Ibid., p. 295.

12
Igor Witkowski,
Axis of the World: The Search for the Oldest American Civilization
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 2008), p. 227.

13
Igor Witkowski,
Axis of the World: The Search for the Oldest American Civilization
,p. 226.

14
Witkowski,
Axis of the World
, p. 222.

15
Witkowski,
Axis of the World
, p.224.

16
David Hatcher Childress,
Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
, p. 71.

17
Igor Witkowski,
The Truth About the Wunderwaffe,
Trans. from the Polish by Bruce Wenham (European History Press, 2003). ISBN 838825916–4.

18
Igor Witkowski,
Axis of the World: The Search for the Oldest American Civilization
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 2008), p.197.

19
Ibid., p. 203.

20
Ibid., p. 212.

21
Ibid., p. 213.

22
Witkowski,
Axis of the World
, p. 213.

23
Ibid., p. 214, emphasis in the original.

24
I have already commented briefly on this tripartite pattern in connections with the observations of Alan Alford at Giza. Q.v.
The Giza Death Star
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 2003), pp. 24–38.

25
Witkowski,
Axis of the World
, p. 214.