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WERE WE ON THE MOON
IN 2309 B.C.?
(…and what
about Mars?)
Jonathan Gray
In 1926, Professor A.
W. Bickerton declared the concept of shooting at the moon to be foolish and impossible.
In 1935, the noted astronomer F. R. Moulton wrote that man could never travel
in outer space. In 1957, Dr. Richard van der Riet Wooley (former Astronomer Royal)
called the idea of space travel "utter bilge". Eight months later Sputnik I was
orbiting the earth.
In a remote northern
area of Tibet lie the ruins of the Hsing Nu capital, discovered by Duparc in 1725.
Within the city, Duparc
came upon a mass of monoliths (once coated with silver), a pyramid, part of a
tower of blue porcelain, and a royal palace, containing thrones with sun and moon
images. There was also a large milky white stone surrounded by exquisite drawings.
Now for the stunning
sequel. In 1952, a Soviet expedition arrived. The group was shown by Tibetan monks
some ancient documents, whose descriptions agreed with those of Duparc.
But here is the breathtaking
part: the milky white stone, so said the documents, was "brought from the moon."
Moon rock? Is it possible?
Could man actually have left this earth and gone to the moon in ages past? Was
space travel a natural adjunct to his civilization? Are there clues?
Indeed there are. Indications
of the reality of ancient space travel do come from widely separated parts of
the world. Written and oral tradition is widespread—and, it seems, reliable.
Chinese historians in
particular never tried to please their rulers at the expense of truth. Death was
preferred to untruthful reports of history. As an example we have the fate of
historians in the reign of Chi in 547 B.C. We should therefore take seriously
the historical reports of China, even if they seem at first to he far-fetched.
There is a tendency
in scientific circles nowadays to regard ancient documents and even mythology
and folklore - as sources of history. Anthony Roberts expresses it this way: "Legends
are like time-capsules that preserve their contents through ages of ignorance."1
In regard to some of
the chronicles cited hereafter, internal evidence will carry its own proofs of
authenticity.
My first source is an
old manuscript described by James Churchward, the English scholar who wrote decades
before people spoke of artificial satellites and spaceships.2
1 - INDIA: Vehicles that
could revolve around the earth (i.e., satellites): "Their fuel is drawn from the
air in a very simple and cheap way. The motor is something like a modern turbine:
it works from one chamber to another and does not stop or stall unless switched
off. If nothing happens it continues to function. The ship in which it is built
could revolve as long as it liked around Earth, only falling when the parts of
which it is made were burnt up.
2 - INDIA: Philosophers
and scientists who orbited the earth "below the moon and above the clouds" are
spoken of in the ancient Surya Siddhanta.3
Giant satellites made
of shiny metal and turning about an axis are described in detail in ancient Sanskrit
texts, right down to their dimensions and interiors, as well as smaller craft
that fly between them and the earth.
3 - CHALDEA: Two "modern"
rockets emitting rays at the rear, a box like a loudspeaker and a "copy" of a
Gemini capsule—are engraved on a copper chisel unearthed at Ur.
4 - SUMERIA: Pictographic
texts describe three related objects on display in Sippar: the golden sphere (command
module?), the "GIR" (a long arrow-shaped object, divided into several compartments)
and the "alikmahrati," meaning "advancer that makes vessel go" (i.e., a motor,
or an engine). Together they look very much like a three-part rocket ship.
Another explicit sign
is the combination of two words "DIN" and ‘GIR." When joined together to form
the word "gods," the tail of the finlike "gir" fits perfectly into the opening
of the rocketlike "din," which exhausts fire from its tail.
5 - PERU: A clay vessel
8-1/2 inches high portrays a kind of "space capsule" on which motor and exhaust
are clearly recognizable.
6 - ITALY: A painting
discovered in the niche of a room under Rome’s Palatine Hill, in 1961, portrays
what appears to be a rocket. It stands on a launching pad. From it run guys or
cables; behind is a tall wall, resembling a counterblast wall.
7 - JAPAN: Excavations
have uncovered clay figurines of people clad in peculiar "space suits", with helmets
entirely covering their heads. On the helmets are representations of something
like slit-type glasses, breath -filters, antennae, hearing aids and even night-sight
devices.
8 - INDIA: The Mahabharata describes "two storey
sky chariots with many windows, ejecting red flame, that race up into the sky
until they look like comets . . . to the regions of both the sun and the stars."4
9 - GUATEMALA: Another
ancient description mentions "a circular chariot of gold, measuring 12,000 cubits
in circumference and able to reach the stars"5
10 - INDIA: Other references
speak of:
* Pushan sailing in golden ships
across the ocean of the sky * Garuda (a celestial bird)
carrying Lord Vishnu in cosmic journeys * Aerial flights "through the
region of the sky firmament which is above the region of the winds"6 * The Ancients of Space Dimensions.7
11- NEW ZEALAND: Maori
legends tell of flying machines and journeys to the moon
12 - CHINA, 3rd
century B.C.: Chuang Tzu, in a work entitled Travel to the Infinite, relates
a trip he made into space to 32,500 miles from the earth.
13 - TIBET and MONGOLIA:
Ancient Buddhist books speak of "iron serpents which devour space with fire and
smoke, reaching as far as the distant stars."
14 - TIBET: The three levels of a pyramid in the Hsing Nu capital commemorated three historical periods in the remote past: the pre-space travel era, the time when men were able to visit one of the heavenly bodies, and then afterward when they came back to earth and lost the power of space travel. It was here that there reposed on the altar a "stone brought from the moon".
15 - BABYLON: The Epic of Etana (4,700 years old)
supplies us with very accurate descriptions of the earth’s surface from progressive
altitudes—descriptions which were not verified in our own era until the high-altitude
aerial flights of the 1950s and the first space shots of the 1960s.
The description of this
ancient space flight depicts exactly what happens when man leaves the earth (the
concept of the round earth which becomes small, due to perspective as distance
increases, and changes into particular colors) .8
16 - BOOK OF ENOCH: The
ancient Book of Enoch says that in space "it was hot as fire and cold as ice"
(where objects get hot on the side illuminated by the sun and icy cold on the
shaded side) and "a dark abyss."9
17 - YUNNAN PROVINCE CHINA
Engravings of cylindrical rocketlike machines, which are shown climbing skyward,
were discovered on a pyramid which suddenly emerged from the floor of Lake Kun-Ming
during an earthquake.
18 - GREECE: Lucian pictured
the moon as a body like the earth which could be reached in 8 days and wrote a
"fiction" (?) of a moon trip.
19 - CHINA: "Desolate,
cold and glassy": In the year 2309 B.c. the engineer of Emperor Yao decided to
go to the moon. The "celestial bird" provided him with information on his trip.
He explored space by "mounting the current of luminous air" (the exhaust of a
fiery rocket?).
Hou Yih flew into space
where "he did not perceive the rotary movement of the sun."10 (This statement is of paramount importance in
corroborating the story because it is only in space that man cannot see the sun
rise or set.)
On the moon he saw the
‘frozen-looking horizon" and erected a building, "the Palace of Cold".
His wife Chang Ngo likewise
flew to the moon, which she found a "luminous sphere, shining like glass, of enormous
size and very cold; the light of the moon has its birth in the sun," she declared.
(Chang Ngo’s moon exploration report was correct. Apollo II astronauts found the
moon desolate with a glasslike soil— and parts of it even paved with pieces of
glass. Most of the moon, at any given time, is in the throes of extreme cold.
It plunges to minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit at midnight.)
The ancient Greek scientist
Empedocles had also declared that the moon was made of glass. Such precise knowledge
implies on-site inspection of the moon in the remote past.
20 - CHINA: A story from
this same period states that an enormous ship appeared on the sea at night with
brilliant lights which were extinguished during the day. It could also sail to
the moon and the stars, hence its name, "a ship hanging among the stars" or "the
boat to the moon".
This giant ship which
could travel in the sky or sail the seas was seen for 12 years.11
21- CHINA: "The Shi Ching"
book says that when the Emperor saw crime and vice rising in the world, "he commanded
Chong and Li to cut off communication between the earth and the sky—and since
then there has been no more going up or down."12
Is this not a clear
indication of the cessation of space travel in the past?
22 - TIBET: Sanskrit documents
discovered by the Chinese at Lhasa are claimed to contain directions for building
interplanetary spaceships. Flight to the moon is mentioned (though it is not stated
whether this was undertaken or just planned). The Chinese have stated that certain
of the data were being studied for inclusion in their space program.
23 - Relics on the moon?
Reports have been made concerning strange messages on the surface of the moon.
* An object shaped like a sword
near the crater Birt * Strange cross formations in
the crater Eratosthenes and at Fra Mauro
* Angular lines in the crater
Gassendi and seven spots in the shape of the Greek capital Gamma on the floor
of the crater Littrow * Two giant sets of letters
under Mare Serenitalis, to the left of Mare Tranquilitatis, which read: "PYAX"
and "JAW"—black letters, easily discernible * Strange tracks running right
up the wall of a crater.
If such geometric constructions
were found on earth, speculation would rage as to the men who left them.
Not every discovery has been announced by NASA—and exploration has scarcely begun. Already NASA has run out of budget for further moon visits. It is by no means impossible that future astronauts will discover objects or installations showing that other human beings came to the moon in the distant past.
24 - It was July 20, 1969,
the occasion of the first moon landing. During the last reconnaissance flight
around the moon, preceding the landing, one of the astronauts made an unexpected
announcement: he had just seen the contours of what seemed to be some sort of
seven-story structure.
What was it that he
saw? Might it have been the "Palace of Cold"? Why did they subsequently delete
a full 11 minutes - including this - from rebroadcasts? (But it was too late.
We had already heard it.)
If there is a single,
ancient, long-abandoned edifice on the moon, if there is a single object indicating
earlier intelligence, if there is still one recognizable rock drawing to be found,
then just think what such a find would do to our conventional history.
But wait! News has continued
to filter through—not only from the moon, but from 40 million miles away on the
small planet Mars.
25 - A Soviet scientist who defected
to the West claims that photographs taken by an orbiting satellite clearly show
the ruined temples of a civilization—on the planet Mars!
The 58-year-old scientist
was a high-echelon member of an elite team that has worked together since 1961
when Vostok I carried Yuri A. Gagarin as the first man in space.
But Russia’s growing
emphasis on the development of a nuclearized "Star Wars" satellite system in space
prompted him to flee Russia. He now lives under an assumed identity in Switzerland.
He reports that several
years ago, a Soviet satellite was launched for Mars. It reached that destination
in 1982 and has been orbiting the Red Planet ever since.
Its sole purpose was
to beam photographs and other data back to a manned satellite orbiting Earth.
The task was accomplished with incredible success.
The photographs are
computer-enhanced and in full color. The detail they show is far beyond anything
produced in America. And there is no mistaking what they reveal.
The city scanned by
the satellite’s camera is three times the size of Moscow and it is ringed by wide
boulevards, one inside the other and linked together by smaller avenues, like
the spokes of a cartwheel.
The temples must have
been huge. Most are in ruins, as though crumbled by a tremendous Marsquake. But
some still support slate-grey domes that measure two to four miles in diameter.
The Soviet Union will
never admit to this incredible discovery because it would reveal too much of their
technological progress.
End of the story? No,
not quite. On February 4, 1985, the Melbourne, Australia, Age reported the belief of thirty
U.S. scientists that two photographs sent back from Mars in 1976 by the Viking
spacecraft indicate the existence of an ancient civilization.
Richard Hoagland, science
writer and member of the group of scientists known as the Mars Investigation Group,
said the photos show what appear to be four huge pyramids lined up symmetrically
with a face.
Dr. C. West Churchman,
a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said there are too many
details pointing to the possibility of an extinct habitation on Mars.
What then, I ask, is
the real truth about our past? Have we been to Mars before?
End
Notes:
1 Anthony Roberts, Sowers of Thunder. London: Rider and Company, 1978,
p. vii.
2 A passage in the Mahabharata. Tr. By E.R. Rice. New
York: Oxford, 1934. Quoted by James Churchward in The Children of Mu. New York: Ives
washburn, 1956, pp. 188-189.
3 The Surya Siddhanta. See Andrew Tomas,
We Are Not the First. London: Sphere,
1971, p. 149.
4 A passage in the Mahabharata. Tr. By E.R. Rice. New
York: Oxford, 1934.
5 Maya folklore.
6 The ancient Samsaptakabadha.
7 The Puranas.
8 A seal cylinder depicting
Etana flying on an eagle's back between the sun and the moon is in the Berlin
Museum.
9 Tomas, We Are Not the First,
p. 146.
10 Ibid., p. 47.
11 The Collection of Old Tales, a Chinese
work compiled in the fourth century, from ancient sources.
12 Tomas, We Are Not the First,
pp. 148-149.
From Jonathan
Gray’s Dead Men’s Secrets, chapter
27 Surprising
discoveries in lost cities of the dead. Technology that vanished.
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