Our Cosmic Ancestors (20 page)

How come then that our forefathers back in the Stone Age had values so exact, which we ourselves were only able to obtain after 4 October, 1957, when the Soviet satellite Sputnik started to trace and measure the first orbits around the globe? We then obtained the exact measurements by observing the irregularities in the orbits of the first artificial satellites in order to calculate the true shape and dimensions of our globe. There is no better or easier way to do it. Yet our Stone Age ancestors had the same data. And this is why the measurement units of our ancestors became so utterly important for the scientific unravelling of the mysteries of our origin.

The numerous ancient drawings and sculptures found all over the globe showing astronaut-like figures in helmets and space suits are
pictorial testimonies from the farthest past that indeed visitors from outer space left their footprints here,
But these paintings in caves and on cliffs are not scientific proofs of extraterrestrial visitations. However, the precise knowledge of our forefathers of the length of 1
^°
of longitude or latitude at any given point on the globe surely is proof;
and so is the constant of Nineveh, the cold undeniable calculation in exact numbers that was used for thousands of years on both sides of the Atlantic by people who could never have obtained such information by themselves.

Our ancestors who came from outer space circled our globe and calculated the size of our Earth from the time that it took them to orbit it at a given altitude, as they also measured the irregularities of the sphere by the changes in their orbital velocity. This information was later - probably 64,800 years ago - given to the new generation of man. The weight of the ancient coins and the Nineveh constant of the solar system are today two of our best scientific proofs that

ANCIENT GOLD AND SILVER COINS

NAME
^COUNTRY
WEIGHT/ NUMBER WEIGHT/

GRAMS unit GRAMS
Scruple Denarius Penny Denarius Ducat Dirham Real Ecu Florin Ducat Tael Dram Denarius Tournoi Dinar Drachma Kite Solidus Dobra Groat Louis Doubloon Hexa Shekel Sovereign Aureus Shekel Stater Philip Kedet Rupee Tola England 1.296 24,000 31,104 Germany 1.428 15,000 21,333 England 1.555 20,000 31,104 France 1.692 20,250 34,265 Venice 2.179 12,000 26,148 Arabia 2.917 9,600 28,000 Spain 3.400 8,100 27,542 France 3.525 9,720 34,265 Firenza 3.533 7,400 26,148 Venice 3,606 7,250 26,148 China 3.780 9,600 36,288 England 3.888 8,000 31,104 Roma 3.898 6,650 25,920 France 4.230 8,100 36,265 Arabia 4,242 6,600 28,000 Greece 4.250 6,000 25,500 Egypt 4.500 6,000 27,000 Roma 4.547 5,700 25,920 Portugal 4.918 5,600 27,542 England 6.221 5,000 31,104 France 6.345 5,400 34,265 Spain 6.800 4,050 27,542 Byzantium 6.821 3,800 25,920 Palestine 7.294 3,600 26,260 England 7.776 4,000 31,104 Roma 7.795 3,325 25,920 Chaldea 8.333 3,600 30,000 Greece 8.440 2,500 21,100 Macedonia 8.573 2,500 21,433 Egypt 9.000 3,000 27,000 India 10.769 3,900 42,000 India 11.666 3,600 42,000

astronauts from space gave us their knowledge. But there are many others.

It is not difficult to understand how our ancestors calculated their coin weight in gold and silver from the local dimensions of their longitude and latitude degrees. Here follow four of the most striking examples.

At the average latitude of Egypt, the length of I
^°
of longitude is 96,000 m. If we divide this number by 320,000, we obtain a foot of 30 cm, the unit used to build the Pyramid of Kephren. One cubic foot of this basic unit has a volume of 27,000 cu cm, or 27,000 g of water. This is the weight of one Egyptian talent - 27 kg. But the Egyptian way to write it is 60 sep of 450 g each, or 600 deben of 45 g, or again 6,000 kite of 4.5 g. Besides, this is one of the oldest examples of use of the decimal system, if not the very oldest known today.

The median latitude in the region of the megalithic temples in England gives to 1
^°
of longitude the average value of about 66,325 m. When that is divided by 240,000, we obtain 1 ft. of 0.2764 m that was used to construct Stonehenge, and I cu. ft. of Stonehenge has the weight of 21,100 g, or cu cm, of water. This weight divided by 2,500 gives a unit of 8.44 g. No old coins of 8.44 g each have been found in England, but the Mycenaean gold stater weighed exactly 8.44 g.

Now, Mycenae in Greece is thousands of kilometres away from Stonehenge, yet archaeologists have long been wondering if there was any direct relation between this old Celtic site in England and ancient Greece. This is because the outline of a Mycenaean dagger has been found engraved on a stone slab in Stonehenge. Now that we know that the Mycenaean stater has been derived from the Celtic foot of Stonehenge, which is much older than Mycenae, we may believe that perhaps it was the Celts who built Mycenae.

In Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, 1
^°
of longitude is about 107,000 m. Divided by 360,000, this geodesic measure gives us a foot of 0.2972 m, which, with the cubit of 0.4458 m. is the construction unit of the Temple of Kalasasaya in Tiahuanaco. The Tiahuanaco cubic foot weighs 26,260 g, the exact weight of the gold talent in Greece, which was also used all over the Eastern Mediterranean region, divided into 60 minas of 437.66 g each or into 3,600 shekels of 7.29 g each.

ANCIENT MEASURING SYSTEMS

^{Name or Origin}
Length in Millimeters Water Weight in Grams of Cubic
_{of the System Foot Cubit Foot Cubit Yard}

Hindu 275.892 413.838 21,000 70,875 567,000* Celtic 276352 414.528 21,105 71,230 569,840* Mycenae 277.777 416.666 21,433 72,338 578,702* Danube 280.000 420.000 21,952 74,088 592,700* Indus 292.402 438.603 25,000 84,375 675,000* Greece 295.490 443.235 25,800 87,077 696,610* Rome 295.945 443.918 25,920 87,480 699,840* Sinner 297.000 445.500 26,198 88,418 707,350 Tiahuanaco 297.234 445.851 26,260 88,628 709,020* Inca 298.760 448.140 26,666 90,000 720,000* Egypt 300.000 450.000 27,000 91,125 729,000* Indus 301.845 452.768 27,500 92,813 742,500* Spain 302.643 453.965 27,720 93,555 748,440* Bagdad 303.659 455.489 28,000 94,500 756,000* Avoirdupois 304.919 457.379 28,350 95,680 765,450* Babylon 305.257 457.885 28,444 96,000 768,000* Florence 306.168 459.252 28,700 96,863 774,900* Persia 307.796 461694 29,160 98,415 787,320* Venice 307.936 461904 29,200 98,550 788,400 Greece 308.276 462.414 29,296 98,875 791,000 Babylon 308.642 462.963 29,400 99,225 793,800* Troy 314.489 471.734 31,104 104,976 839,808* France 321.085 481.627 33,102 111,720 893,754 France 324.639 486.959 34,214 115,472 923,778* Pied Du Roi 324.800 487.2(X) 34,265 115,644 925,155 China 331.071 496.606 36,288 122,472 979,776* Baalbek 333.333 500.000 37,037 125,000 1,000,000* Cuenca 347.603 521.405 42,000 141,750 1,134,000* Cleops 349.432 524.148 42,666 144,000 1,152,000* Chephren 350.000 525.000 42,875 144,703 1,157.625 Coffers 350.882 526.323 43,200 145,800 1,166,400* Reims 355.690 533.535 45,000 151,875 1,215,000* China 358.140 537.210 45,936 155,036 1,240,290 Chanres 368.403 552.605 50,000 168,750 1,350,000*

* Derived from the ancient Earth volume of 108,864 x 10
¹⁶
cubic meters.

But what is the connection between South America and the Mediterranean?

A degree of longitude at the latitude of the caves of Cuenca, in Ecuador, is nearly 111,230 m. Divided by 320,000, this gives a foot of 0.3476 m and 1 cu. ft. equals 42,000 g of water. This weight could have been the base for several coins of our ancestors, but it is certainly the foundation of the gold Iola in India, weighing 11.66 g and still in use today in the Persian Gulf, where the Arab oil sheiks are paid for their oil in gold tolas freshly minted just for them. The Cuenca foot in my opinion could also be the ancestor of the Hindu foot of 0.2759 m whose cubic foot weighs 21,000 g. This mystery is even more intriguing when we see it in the light of recent discoveries that the Hindus navigated all the way around Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, and up the Amazon River to bring home copper and tin from mines in Peru and Bolivia.

No less surprising is the as-yet-unverified information from the Arabian Desert where very ancient pre-Islamic ruins have been found that seem to be built with a foot of 0.3037 m, a dimension that is new to us. Let's call it the foot of Baghdad. Some other sources recently indicate that a very old Arab map has been found, where the equator is divided not in the usual twenty-four or thirty-six parts but in forty-four equal arcs of 8.18 degrees each.

As archaeological findings go, the two discoveries would hardly seem to have anything in common. Yet if one uses a little bit of imagination and calculation, this first impression changes. The two bits of information could very well be pointing to a system of measurement used by ancient Arabs so very long ago that the Arabs themselves have forgotten it and that no archaeologist ever knew about it.

Thousands of years ago before the decimal system became generally known, they didn't use the Pi factor of 3.141593 to calculate the circumference of a circle. Instead, the much more convenient division 22/7 was employed because it was simpler. If the radius of a circle was 7 units, then the circumference was 44 same units. It was quite logical to use this same system to divide the equator into 44 units of 910,980 m each and to estimate the radius of our planet as 7 times 910,980 m, or 6,376,860 m, which is how the ancestors of the Arabs calculated the equatorial the circumference of the globe at 40,083 km, instead of 40,075 km as we now measure it. Not bad at all, especially when one considers that instead of our precise figure of 6,378 km, they figured that the radius of our globe was 6,377 km.

When we divide 910,980 m by 3 million, we obtain a foot of 0.3037m, nearly the same as the foot of the Indus valley of 0.3018 m or the feet of the Egyptians or the Mayas that measured exactly 0.3 metres.

This new foot of Baghdad could very well have been the base for at least three monetary systems. One cubic foot of Baghdad would 28,000 cc of water and weigh 28 kg. Such a weight would equal 6.600 gold dinars of 4.24 g each as used in Arab lands, or 9.600 silver dirhams of 2.92 g each in circulation all over North Africa, or even 2,600 gold or silver rupees of 10.77 g each in India today.

It is not too difficult to believe that our ancestors knew the approximate dimensions of our planet and used this information, clad in religious rites and rules, to create measures that corresponded to the human limbs. We can even accept the fact that the rotation of the Earth's surface had been estimated at 1,000 Babylonian cubits of 0.4629 m per second or 100,000 Mycenaean feet of 0.2777 m per minute, fantastic as it may be. But when we have to recognize now that our forefathers knew the circumference of the globe better than we knew it up to twenty years ago and that they used this exact knowledge in exactly the same way from continent to continent, such admission becomes very difficult unless we allow our skeptical minds to accept the theory of extraterrestrial visitors participating in the development of our civilization.

It seems certain now that further studies of weights and coins of the distant past will lead to the discovery of a central culture common to all mankind and stemming from the unknown place on our planet where the astronauts from outer space first landed about 65,000 years ago in order to foster a new race of earthlings.

One thing that can be said with certainty now is that all the measurement systems ever used, no matter when or where, shared a common relation to the dimensions of our planet and therefore to the metric system. In its modern form, that system was established only some 200 years ago in France. But, of course, the metric system was not invented by the French. Nor was it invented by the
Egyptians who used it 5,000 years ago or by the Mayas who built their terraced pyramids in metric dimensions.

The system must be even older than the Sumerian sexagesimal way of counting or the Mayan vigesimal numeration. It must have been developed by a civilization familiar with decimal counting, positional calculation, and the use of zero, a civilization which we have not yet found and probably never will find on the continents or islands known to us, because it must be more than 100,000 years old and has probably been hidden in the depths of some ocean for tens of thousands of years.

According to the most recent theories, there were four original civilizations that appeared simultaneously at four equidistant points on Earth in the Arctic, Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans. All of these points are now under water, but hundreds of thousands of years ago these were continents; and they will rise again when our present continents in turn sink.

This theory is based on a very simple observation that everyone can make with an orange kept in a dry place. After a month or so, the juice will have partially evaporated and the soft core will have shrunk more than the hard rind. The orange will have changed form from a sphere to a tetrahedron which has a higher surface-to-volume ration than a sphere. Our Earth has shrunk like an orange while its core cooled off and has formed four continents and four big oceans that keep moving all of the time. They travel from one geographical location to another, very, very slowly in relation to the rotational axis of our planet. These global movements could be called the polar rounds and they make it difficult to calculate the correlations between different measurement systems in different countries of the world if these systems are many thousands of years old. It is necessary to know the displacements of the poles to come up with the right results, because each local standard of measurement varies with time. This is why I am convinced that only a system of measurement that does not change with the polar rounds could survive the time, and this system could only be based upon the unchanging circumference of our globe, not the changing longitudes and latitudes. The metric system is like that, and it must be as old as humanity itself.