The Primordial Civilization
Part 3: Ancient Knowledge in the New World
So far we have reviewed the evidence of a huge corpus of knowledge in both mathematics and astronomy in the Old World that only recently, after long and dark millennia, have been equaled or improved.
Back to this side of the world, one can see the remains of magnificent pyramids whose builders, the old Mayas, developed so accurate a calendar that it established the year of 365.2422 days – a lot more precise than the Julian of 365.2500 and even the Gregorian of 365.2425 days, in use until now. The Mayas also developed a numbering system based on the position of values, whose use would only become general in Europe from the Fifteenth Century onwards, and which implied the conception and use of zero.
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Detail showing three columns of glyphs from
2nd century CE La Mojarra Stela 1. The left column
gives a Long Count date of 8.5.16.9.9, or 156 CE.
(Wikipedia)
In this connection, it has become widely known that the Mayan calendar was based on the so-called Long Count, whose starting point was established in about 3114 BC and was supposed to end about 5,125 years later, i.e. in 2012 AD approximately. Further elaborations about this striking feature can be seen in my “About Year 2012” here.
As to the Toltecs and Aztecs, great builders of pyramids, and the mysterious, much older Teotihuacans and Olmecs, I have mentioned elsewhere that they apparently were the first to develop a sophisticated astronomy and an accurate calendar; probably as accurate as those of the Tiahuanaco and the Incas, which were altogether astronomical and agricultural and so sophisticated – at least with the Incas – that they included the biological cycles of some plants and animals.
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The Kalasasaya Temple in Tiahuanaco, in present-day Bolivia, the central opening
of whose monolithic "Sun Gate" (not shown here) signaled every year
the Winter and Summer Solstices
(photo Crystalinks)
Needles to say, all these cultures established with utmost precision the dates of the equinoxes and solstices. This was made for example, in the South of Peru, by the mysterious “lines of Nazca” of Pre-Inca times, regarded as the world’s largest astronomical calendar, and by the Inca monolith known as Intihuatana (“the Sun-hitching stone”), a clock or astronomical device that stands out at the highest point of the citadel of Machu Picchu, near Cusco.
Intihuatana Stone at Machu Picchu near Cusco, Peru (Archives)
Other witnesses of the great advances made all over the world from remote times can be seen, even today, in the ruins of ancient cities whose existence was legendary or unknown, like Mohenho-Daro and Harappa, in India, so advanced that their streets had canalizations and their houses bathrooms, and a meaningful fact: their inhabitants apparently did not wear any offensive weapons. Here too, mysterious engraved inscriptions were found that even now can be seen in Mesopotamia where, by the way, from a deep Sumerian layer pertaining to 3000 BC or before was unearthed a statuette of Shiva meditating in Yogic stance, identical to another found in the ruins of the Mohenho-Daro citadel – obviously indicating that it was made before that date.
These findings not only suggest that already in remote times there were relationships among great civilizations, but also – as further claimed by some people – that the Sumerian civilization originated in that city-state, which in fact would be a lot older than is officially accepted.
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Mohenho-Daro, one of the largest city-settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization
in present-day Pakistan, was contemporary of the ancient
Egyptian, Mesopotamic and Crete civilizations
(photo Wikipedia)
There even are traces of a vast civilization that would have encompassed the whole North of Europe, from Ireland andBritain to the Scandinavian countries, and which would date back from as early as 9000 BC. It is very possible that the builders of the great stone observatories of Stonehenge in England and Carnac in France, as well as the gigantic zodiacal circle of Glastonbury, in England, of 30 miles in circumference, which would date back from 3000 BC, came from it. Modern analysis has shown that such builders, on top of possessing a most advanced astronomical knowledge, were great geometers who, for example, knew that a triangle whose sides are proportional to 3, 4 and 5 will always contain a right angle, a property whose discovery is attributed to Pythagoras (the author of the famous theorem) but which, in all justice, should be attributed to them; in like manner, it is known that by means of an approach that not for being simple was less advanced, they could draw huge, almost perfect circles.
From these and other enigmatic vestiges, some authors have concluded that some of the posterior cultures, like the Sumerian and Egyptian in the Old World, and the Mayan and Aztec in the New, were in their respective prosperous times, and after the disappearance of some technological culture about which nothing is known at present, climbing down, and not up, the world’s civilization ladder. This notion has been reinforced by the discovery of certain documents, which include the famous map of Piri-Reis, with characteristics of 12,000 – 13,000 years ago: the Antarctic coast free of ice, rivers and mountains on the Queen Maud Land, and an ocean level lower than it is currently; the map of Zenon, which shows Greenland free of ice such as it was 14,000 years ago; that of Hadji Hamed, with the land bridge of the Ice Age between Alaska and Siberia visible; and that of Finaens, showing the Sea of Ross as it was 6,000 years ago, etc – and also by references to cataclysms which, upon extinguishing whole cities, even civilizations, would have caused a cultural reversal to various degrees of barbarianism. Such would be the case, for example, of the biblical Flood, which would have to be placed between 8000 and 10000 BC, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which is supposed to have occurred around 3000 BC, to mention but two of the better-known examples, capable of creating conditions like the ones depicted. After that there would have come a slow, painful material progress of mankind toward present-day civilization, which does not remember a thing about a primordial civilization better than the older ones, and whose decline and imminent disappearance, in a time of profound, total global crisis as we are living now, are predicted in turn by many scholars.
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Apart from its great historical interest, the map of Piri-Reis has been alleged to contain
details that no European could have known in the 1500s, which proves the existence
of ancient technological civilizations, visits by extraterrestrials, or both
(from Professor Dutch’s The Piri-Reis Map at
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/PiriRies.HTM)
Do I need to add that this crisis is nowadays rampant in all orders of human existence and, in all probability, running abreast of the end time specified by the Maya Calendar and prophesized by all major religious trends and the esoteric tradition from all over the world?
Thank you,
Luis Miguel Goitizolo