Our Cosmic Ancestors (12 page)

In the centre of the Aegean Sea exists a small island by the name of Delos. It has always been considered the most sacred place of ancient Greece, even though no one seemed to know why, of all places, Delos should be so sacred. It was simply an accepted belief apparently carried over from a past unknown. To me it seems there can be only one logical explanation for this belief. Delos is the geometric centre of a true design of the gods - the Maltese cross of majestic proportions that extends over hundreds of miles over the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Turkey.

To show that this gigantic geometric figure is not the figment of imagination and no science-fiction invention, please follow me in tracing this cross with a compass and a straight-edge over a good map of the Aegean Sea. Let's put the sharp point of one compass arm in the middle of Delos and measure a radius of 1.500 ancient Egyptian stadia, or 270 km, and run the trace arm OT the compass full circle. We will have passed in succession through Cape Matapan and Delphi in Greece; the island of Psathura in the Northern Sporades; Antandrus and Sardis in Anatolia; Camirus on Rhodes; and Akra and Araden on Crete.
Now let's trace a smaller circle with Delos still in the centre. A radius of 1,000 Egyptian stadia, or 180 km, will give a ring that connects Hermione in Greece; a high bank between the islands of Lesbos and Skyros; Didyma in Anatolia; and a point now submerged north of the Dia Island. Thus, if we include Delos, we have
thirteen geographic sites that have always been sacred places marked by temple ruins
constructed over even more ancient ruins from time immemorial. Thirteen has always been a magic number for astrological reasons. All of the places that we have found tracing the circles around Delos are not on firm land; but we must remember that in the past, the Mediterranean had a much lower water level. At any rate, these sites were not chosen by chance, as our next step of tracing on the map will prove.

PSATHOURA. LESBOS ANTANDROS
DELPHI
SARDIS
HERMIONE DI DYME
CAMIROSMATAPAN
ARADEN DI A AKRA.
The Maltese cross of the Aegean Sea

A beautiful Maltese cross, centred on the island of Delos and 540 kilometres wide, can be obtained by tracing lines between thirteen famous Greek temples around the Aegean Sea, but ancient Greeks did not know it. Was that cross traced by astronauts from outer space several thousand years ago?

When we connect all of the sites with straight lines going from point to point in the following order: Delos, Matapan, Hermione, Delphi, Delos, Psathoura, Lesbos, Antandros, Delos, Sardis, Didyme, Camiros, Delos, Akra, Dia, Araden, and Delos, we have drawn a magnificent geometrical figure known as the 'Maltese cross', a sacred pagan sign since antiquity as well as the sign of the Crusaders who fought to liberate Jerusalem from the Infidels. Indeed, the designs of the Lord are beyond human comprehension!

What interests us now is how and why such a gigantic pattern was marked on the Aegean and surrounding lands. I do not believe that even today's land surveyors could so precisely mark such a gigantic figure
of over 335 miles
jumping from island to island and stretching over sea and mountains. Except from high up in the air, this Maltese cross would not be visible. To measure and mark all of the salient points, two very modern tools of mapping are an absolute necessity. First, a synchronous satellite orbiting at the Delos latitude of 37
^°
23' with a space velocity of 1,328 kmph. Then, to keep that satellite stationary over Delos, one of our newest devices that was perfected only a short time ago - a navigation and distance-measuring airborne radar with metallic reflectors installed at distances of 180 and 270 km around the two circles.

The Maltese cross of the Aegean must have been constructed by just such means or with other much better devices still unknown to mankind. The ancient Greeks did not know about its existence; and they had no knowledge of astronomy or geometry until the Egyptians gave them the basics of these sciences. To find out for what purpose and to whose benefit this geometrical marking was set up, we have to continue our logical deductions and look back many, many thousands of years.

The geometric figures of Nasca in Peru that have been described in dozens of books are not so unique. Straight lines, triangles, and trapezoids have been discovered by aerial photography in many other places around the world. These designs cannot be recognized while your feet are on the ground. Some, like the Maltese cross of the Aegean Sea, can be perceived only on good maps. And all of these baffling markings have one thing in common - they have been measured and laid out in stadia of 600 ft, or 180 m, the same as in Mayan and Egyptian measurements. These stadia and the feet and
cubits that were derived from them are the very oldest prehistoric standards of measurement.

The Maltese cross presents a very curious characteristic. When the eight outer points are set on a circle, the eight radii divide it in sections of 3/28 and 4/28 of the circle. That could have been just a whim of the creators of this geometric figure, but a closer look reveals some hidden meaning. In ancient cultures, the circle has been divided into 5, 6, and 7 parts, in 8, 12, and 360 sectors. The Arabs seem to have used t it and 44 parts, but as far as we know no one in classical antiquity divided a circle into 28 sectors.

However, if we cross the Atlantic and go to the Mayas, Incas, or even the Wyoming Indians, we find this division. The Medicine Wheel of Wyoming was divided into 28 equal parts, and the temple of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia was divided into 28 sectors by 29 columns. Also the cubit of Cuenca, in Ecuador, has 7 hands of 4 fingers each, or a total of 28 fingers; because the gods of that time had only 4 fingers on each hand as many sculptures and drawings show it. Twice twenty-eight is 56, and such is the number of hieroglyphs on the solid gold plate of Cuenca. Note also that megalithic Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, England, has 56 Aubrey holes. In the classical antique world only the royal cubit of the Egyptians was divisible into 7 hands of 4 fingers each, and that brings us to the possible conclusion that the Egyptians, as well as the creators of Stonehenge and the Maltese cross, had a connection or a common origin with the civilizations of Cuenca, Tiahuanaco, and Wyoming.

There are ancient Greek temples and cities that have been submerged by the Mediterranean. Today no one has a right to doubt that reality. Aerial photography has rediscovered what old Aegean fishermen found thousands of years ago - sunken temples, villages, and streets. Just outside of the small port of Halieis, between Mycenae and Tiryns, there reposes under many feet of water a former temple of Zeus built in 780 B.C. Just like the Karnak temple near Luxor, it was rebuilt several times, with new additions reoriented at angles up to 40
^°
from the origin, representing a time span of 2,880 years, or 10 times 288 years, the Tiahuanaco number.

That means the oldest part of this temple was constructed 5.600 years ago. The building at Halieis is constructed with the Mycenean foot of 0.277 m, which for all practical purposes equals the Celtic
foot of 0.276 m. This same measure was employed in the megalithic sites of England, France, and Spain, which according to the latest estimates date back 10,000 years or more, preceding the ziggurats of Mesopotamia and the Egyptian pyramids.

All of the legends of Mediterranean people mention the cataclysmic variations in the level of the sea and the eruption of a volcano on the island of Thera, in 1521 BC, or 3,500 years ago. The eruption and the following tidal waves destroyed the Minoan civilization. Many islands around Crete disappeared under water and the bottom of the sea caved in. The conquest of the Aegean Islands by Mycenaeans from Greece followed. But before this catastrophe, about 12,000 years ago, there was the really big one - the flooding of the Gibraltar Strait by the Atlantic Ocean, and the sudden rise of the Mediterranean Sea level by at least 200 m, or 600 ft.

Modern calculations have been made to see what would happen to the Mediterranean if the Strait of Gibraltar were dammed up. All of the rivers that bring fresh water to the Mediterranean could not equal the volume of water evaporated by the heat of the Sun. The sea level would descend rather rapidly, reducing the evaporation area and finally settling at a point of equilibrium where the water flowing in from the rivers would equal the amount evaporating. This new level would be about 600 ft. below the present level. The past would return. The islands of the Aegean Sea would be much larger and all thirteen points of the Maltese cross would be visible.

When the isthmus of Gibraltar gave way to the pressure of the Atlantic, because some cosmic event caused the northern polar ice cap to melt and raised the level of the oceans, all of the coastal lines of Greece and its islands were submerged. Whole civilizations disappeared. A few ignorant shepherds high in the mountains survived and carried over to future generations legends of this deluge.

But all was not lost. The arid mountains were now closer to the sea and the climate changed. With more frequent rains, agriculture prospered and domestic animals grew fatter. This may well have been the time of Paradise on Earth, as the Hebrew legends recall it. It may have been the period chosen by the Bible as the starting point for the cultural evolution of man by simply ignoring all previous civilizations. Most certainly what the Bible calls the Garden of Eden is the golden age of Mediterranean legend.
Legends are usually not simple inventions. Most of them are based on historical facts, precisely dated, sometimes in very esoteric terms. The legend of Hercules, the strong and brave Greek hero who won immortality by performing the twelve heroic labours demanded by Hera, is a good example. In this tale of antiquity, we find the lion of Nemea, the hydra of Lorna, the pillars of Hercules, and the bull of Crete. Translating these into the signs of the zodiac, we have Leo, Cancer, Gemini, and Taurus. For the astrologers of the Mediterranean basin, the cycle of precession of the equinoxes, a revolution of the Earth's axis around the pole of the ecliptic, was 25,920 years divided into twelve periods of 2,160 years each.

Until our modern astrologers finally agree where we are at the present time on the zodiac, we can assume that the era of the Fishes started on 21 March in the first year after Christ. In that case, the zodiacal era of Leo started in 10,800 BC; that of Cancer in 8,640 BC; that of Gemini in 6,480 BC; that of Taurus in 4,320 BC; and that of Aries (or the Golden Fleece) in 2,160 BC, ending at the start of the present era of Pisces. Consequently, we can assume that the Hercules legends indicate that the collapse of the land between the promontories at Ceuta in Africa and Gibraltar in Europe happened about 12,000 years ago, and that it took nearly 6,000 years for the floodwaters to settle at the present level.

It is not necessary, however, to go to Greece or South America to find geometric designs and alignments of mysterious origin. In England, surveyors long ago found that nearly all megalithic monuments repose on lines of magnetic or telluric flux, or ley lines, as the English call these pathways. These ley lines, when photographed from high altitude, show up quite clearly as they can be detected by lusher vegetation and electromagnetic radiations interfering with radio waves. Also exposures on photographic film over these ley lines tend to get fogged by some radiation. Like avenues converging in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe, so these magnetic boulevards intersect at important megalithic monuments of great fame and past glory. And flying saucers frequently follow these lines in their flights.