The Meaning of the Primordial
Castration
The Krakatoa is now a submarine volcano located inside
the gigantic caldera that now forms the Sunda Strait separating
Sumatra from Java. In Hindu myths, its explosion and subsequent fate
are allegorized as the Primordial Castration which turned the Cosmic
Phallus (Linga) into the Cosmic Yoni (or Vulva). And Earth’s Yoni is
the same as the Khasma Mega of Hesiod, mentioned further
above.
We see how the apparently absurd traditions of the ancients indeed
make far more sense than those of the crude attempts at explanation
by the modern experts of all sorts. It is also precisely to this
fact that refers the legend of Atlas, the Pillar of Heaven. Unable
to bear the load of an earth overpopulated with gods, Atlas
collapsed, and let the sky fall dawn over the earth, destroying it.
The name of Atlas indeed derives from the Greek radix tla
meaning "to bear", preceded by the negative affix a, meaning
"not". Hence, the name of Atlas literally means "the one unable to
bear [the skies]". Such is the reason why Atlas (and other Titans
like himself) are often portrayed with weak, serpentine legs. The
collapse of the skies is, of course, a clever allegory of the fall
of volcanic dust and debris from the afar explosion of Mt.
Atlas. In Hindu myths, one layer buries the former one,
giving rise to a new heaven and a new earth, just as we read in
Revelation.
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Atlantis and the Rising of
the Phoenix
The above is, of course, exactly the message of St. John’s Revelation
(21:1) concerning the New Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is
Atlantis, reborn from its cinders, as a sort of Phoenix, the
bird that personifies Paradise in Greek myths. These myths were
indeed copied from Egypt who, in turn, cribbed them from India.
India and, more exactly, Indonesia, is the true land of the Phoenix,
as is relatively easy to show, since it is from there that comes the
name of the Benu bird of the Egyptians and that of the Phoenix of
the Greeks.
This mystic bird was called Vena in the Rig Veda. So, if the Phoenix
indeed symbolizes Atlantis-Paradise resurging from its own cinders,
as we believe it does, there can be little doubt that the legend is
originally Vedic, and originated in the Indies. The name means
nothing that makes sense in either Egyptian or Greek. But in the
holy tongues of India it means the idea of Eros (Love) and, more
exactly, the Sun of Justice that symbolizes Atlantis
rising from the waters of the primordial abyss. This myth forms the
essence of the one of the Celestial Jerusalem, as well as, say,
those of the Orphic Cosmogonies, those of the Egyptians, and those
of most other ancient nations.
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Egypt and the Origin of the
Legend of Atlantis
Plato concedes that he learnt the legend of Atlantis from Solon who,
in turn, got it from the Egyptians. But those, in their turn, learnt
it from the Hindus of Punt (Indonesia). Punt was the Ancestral Land
(To-wer), the Island of Fire whence the Egyptians originally came,
in the dawn of times, expelled by the cataclysm that razed their
land. From there also came the Aryans, the Hebrews and Phoenicians,
as well as the other nations that founded the magnificent
civilizations of olden times.
It is from the primordial Lemurian Atlantis that derive
all our myths and religious traditions, the very ones that allowed
the ascent of Man above the beasts of the field. From Atlantis
derive all our science and our technology: agriculture, cattle
herding, the alphabet, metallurgy, astronomy, music, religion, and
so forth. These inventions are so clever and so advanced that they
seem as natural as the air we breath and the gods we worship. But
they are all incredibly advanced inventions that came to us from the
dawn of times, from the twin Atlantises we utterly forgot.
It is in India and in Indonesia, that, even today, we find the secret
of Atlantis and Lemuria hidden behind
the thick veil of their myths and allegories. The crucial events are
disguised inside the Hindu and Buddhic religious traditions, or told
as charming sagas like those of
the Ramayana and the Mahaharata. The error
that led the ancients, along with the modern researchers, into
believing that Atlantis
lay in the Atlantic Ocean is easy to understand now that we
know the true whereabouts of the sunken continent. When humanity
moved from Indonesia into the regions of Europe and the Near East,
the "Occidental Ocean" of the Hindus became the Oriental Ocean, for
it then lay towards the east.
The (Hindu) myths that told of Atlantis sinking in the
Occidental Ocean became interpreted as referring to the Atlantic
Ocean, western in regards to Europe, their new residence. The Hindus
called the sunken continent by the name of Atala (or Atalas) a name
uncannily similar to that of Atlas and of Atlantis (by
the appending of the suffix tis or tiv = "mountain", "island", in
Dravida, and pronounced "tiw"). It is from this base that names such
as that of the mysterious Keftiu of the Egyptians, the "Islands in
the Middle of the Ocean (the "Great Green")" ultimately came (Keftiu
= Kap-tiv = "capital island" or "Skull Island" = "Calvary" in
Dravida, the pristine language of Indonesia). But this is a long
story which we tell elsewhere, presenting the detailed evidence for
this uncanny allegation of ours.
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The Reversal of the Oceans
and the Cardinal Directions
It is to this "reversal" of the Cardinal Directions just mentioned
that Plato and Herodotus make reference, along with
other ancient authorities. Interestingly enough, even the
Amerindians — who came in, at least in part, from Indonesia into
South America via the Pacific Ocean impelled by the Atlantean
Cataclysm — often confuse the direction of their primeval homeland,
which they sometimes place in the east, sometimes in the west. But,
strangely enough, they never place it towards the north, as they
should, if they came in via the Bering Strait.
The ancient Greeks attempted to mend their myths calling, by the name
of "Atlantic", the whole ocean that encircles Eurasia and Africa.
But the result was even worse than before and the confusion only
grew. Herodotus used to laugh at this ridiculous attempt by the
geographers of his time (Hist. 2:28). Aristotle, in his De Coelo, is
also very specific on the fact that the name of "Atlantic Ocean" —
that is, the "Ocean of the Atlanteans" — was the whole
of the circular, earth-encompassing ocean.
So, we able to conclude that Atlantis can legitimately be localized
either in the ocean we presently call by that name, or, even more
likely, in the ocean where the ancients placed their legends and
their navigations, the Indian Ocean. This ocean they named
Erythraean, Atlantic, and so on, names which are indeed related with
that of Atlantis, "the land of the Reds", the Primordial Phoenicia
or Erythraea, whose names mean "the red one".
It should perhaps be emphasized that it is the name of the Atlantic
Ocean (or "Ocean of the Atlanteans") that derives from that of
Atlantis, and not vice-versa. And that name far predates Plato,
being mentioned, f. i., by Herodotus, who wrote his History fully a
century before Plato wrote the Critias.
Moreover, as Herodotus explains, the name of "Atlantic Ocean"
originally applied to the Indian Ocean, rather than the body of
water now so named. So, it is on that side of the world, and not on
ours that we should expect to find Atlantis.
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Atlas, Hercules, Atlantis,
and the Itinerary of the Heroes
Greek myths often embody the confusion of east and west that we just
pointed out. The itineraries of Greek heroes such as Hercules,
Jason, Ulysses and the Argonauts are all absurd when placed
in the Mediterranean or even in the Atlantic Ocean. But they all
make a lot of geographical and mythical sense if we place them in
the Indian Ocean, as we should. And that is indeed what we do, in
other more specialized works of ours on this fascinating subject.
Likewise, the Titan Atlas and his mountain, Mt.
Atlas, were placed just about everywhere, from Hesperia
(Spain), the Canaries and Morroco to the Bosphorus and the Far
Orient, at the confines of Hades (Hell). The result was a profusion
of Atlantises and of Pillars of Atlas (or of Hercules) that makes no
sense al all. Indeed, the two heroes who personified the World’s
Pillars represented the two Atlantises we discussed
further above. They are personified as Atlas and Hercules, the
primeval Twins whom we encounter in all Cosmogonies.
In Plato’s dialogues concerning Atlantis (the Critias
and the
Timaeus), Hercules is called Gadeiros or Eumelos, names
that correspond to something like "Cowboy" or, rather "Fencer of
Cattle". This name is a literal translation of that of Setubandha,
the Sanskrit appellation of Indonesia. This name is due to the fact
that Indonesia indeed "fences out" the seas, dividing the Pacific
from the Indian Ocean.
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The Ultima Thule, the Twins,
and the War of Doomsday
Indonesia was, as we said above, the Ultima Thule (or
"Ultimate Boundary") of the ancients, the last frontier which should
not be crossed by the navigants. There lay the Pillars of Hercules
and of Atlas, the two primordial Twins. In another guise, the two
correspond to the twins of Gemini (Castor and Pollux),
directly derived from the Ashvin Twins of the Hindus. In Egypt they
corresponded to Seth and
Osiris, and were commemorated by the two obelisks posted
at the entrance of Egyptian temples.
Hercules is, of course, a Phoenician deity (Baal Melkart), in turn
derived from Bala or Bala-Rama ("the Strong Rama"), the twin brother
of Krishna. Bala means "Strong" or "Strength" in Sanskrit, being
called the same (Bias = "Strength") in Greek and other tongues.
Krishna is the World’s Pillar, clearly the personification of
Atlantis.
More exactly, the Twins personify the two races of blondes
(Aryo-Semites)
and brunets or "reds" (Dravidas), fated to fight wherever they
meet. Both shades are originally from Eden (Lemuria),
the primordial Paradise where humanity originally arose.
Osiris, the Egyptian god, also played the role of Cosmic
Pillar (Djed), a role he shared with
Seth, his twin and dual. But this mythical symbolism
ultimately derives from that of Shiva as the Sthanu, the "Pillar of
the World" and that of Shesha (or Vritra), the Cosmic Serpent who
was the archetype of Seth-Typhon.
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The Battle of the Sons of
Light and the Sons of Darkness
The Twins — like the Devas and Asuras of the Hindus and
the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness of the Essenians — are
always the personifications of the two races that dispute world
hegemony since the dawn of times. It was their war, according to
Plato — who calls them "Greeks" and Atlanteans — that led to the
destruction of
Atlantis.
There is no reason to doubt that the great philosopher was indeed
transmitting ancient traditions faithfully. For, we are starting to
learn all over again that global wars can indeed lead to the world’s
end. In fact, it is the same endless war that menaces us now as it
did at the dawn of times. This frightening reality is told in
the Ramayana, in the Mahabharata and in
the Iliad, not to mention the other myths and traditions.
But the war of Atlantis is also the War of Armageddon
narrated in the Book of Revelation. This war is in reality a
repetition or replica of the worldwide, primordial battle between
Gods and Devils. These mighty beings were the same as the
so-called Titans (or Giants) in Greece. Their war was, as Plato
and his commentators explain in detail, the same as the one of
Atlantis.
Armageddon means (in Hebrew) the same as
Shambhalla (in Sanskrit), "the Plains of Gathering". There
the armies of the world will gather, in the end of times, for "the
war that is to end all wars", for it will close the Kali Yuga.
The perspective indeed seems frighteningly real, doesn't it indeed?
Fables or Reality? Religion or Profanity? Science or Superstitious
Nonsense? We are inclined to believe that our ancestors spoke in
earnest, and that the war of Armageddon and the end of
the world are fast becoming all too real possibilities.
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Are Mars and Venus a
Celestial Example?
We do not want to seem alarmists, as our message is indeed one of hope
and salvation, and not of "Bible thumping". The recent discovery of
vestiges of extinct life in Mars brings a memorable
lesson that is worth detailing. Earth has been, in the past, the
victim of countless catastrophes that nearly wiped out Life
altogether. These cataclysms were due to different causes such as
cometary and asteroidal falls or volcanic cataclysms bringing on or
off the Ice Ages. Not impossibly, wars such as the War of
Atlantis and the Battle of the Gods can have
indeed happened in a far, utterly forgotten past that lives on in
our myths and holy traditions from everywhere.
Perhaps our wars just continue these and others that possibly took
place on Mars and Venus, destroying Life there, if not in other
Solar Systems as well. It may even be the case that Big Bangs and
Creations are indeed cyclic processes that recur periodically, just
as the traditions of the Hindus on Cyclical Eras affirm in detail.
The extinction of the dinosaurs, and the origin of the Moon — pulled
out of the Earth by a planetoidal impact — are instances of such
sobering cataclysms. Thousands of giant craters — as large as those
on the Moon, though almost effaced by erosion — are still observable
on the earth, as scientists are starting to discover. Hundreds of
times in the past we have had massive extinctions of Life on earth.
Many times in the past our world nearly became as "empty and dark and
devoid of form" as at Creation, when God reshaped the earth for the
last time. The Uniformitarianism of Darwin and Lyell
is no more than a naive belief in the Panglossian doctrine
that "all things only happen for the better, in the best of all
possible worlds".
Fossils and extinctions are here to prove, just as do Geology and
other sciences, that Catastrophism is a feature of Nature as much,
and possibly even more, than Uniformitarian phenomena. Thousands of
Apollo and Amor objects swarm across earth’s orbit, ready to strike
us at a moment’s notice with a force of a million Megatons and over.
The idea that God favors humans "above the beasts of the field" is
just our own naive, self-centered notion of what God should look
like. More likely, He regards all Life as sacred, as His own
handiwork, if He exists at all. That is what Nature indisputably
demonstrates in practice all the time.
Mars, with its dead residues of Life, with its oceans
empty and dry, with its terrible dust storms sweeping across the
endless void and devastation, is here to prove to all that God — or,
as some will, Nature or Mother Earth — sometimes loses his/her
temper and extinguishes Life altogether. This almost happened at the
Flood, as the myths tell us. The victimizing of Atlantis
— perhaps because they sinned, perhaps because they warred — almost
took the rest of us along. Venus is another instance, in reverse,
that planets can indeed die and become as sterile as the Moon. And
perhaps, earth itself was just "reset back to zero" some four
billion years ago, when the Moon was pulled out of it by a giant
meteoritic impact of planetoidal size.
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Atlantis and the Illusion of
Darwinian Uniformitarianism
As we just said, Darwin’s Theory of Uniformitarian Evolution
is just an illusion of die-hard scientists. What the world
presents us daily is an endless series of ever larger cataclysms,
ranging from atom smashing to the Big Bang. We recently watched a
comet hitting Jupiter and opening a gash on that planet as big as
the whole earth. Mars
shows all signs of having been hit by a planetoidal sized body, which
opened a huge crater on one side and pushed up Olympus Mons
on the opposite one. Perhaps it was this cataclysm that extinguished
Life on the Red Planet. Venus too presents vestiges of similar
catastrophes. Perhaps we are only stranded here on earth, fated to
become extinct when our allotted time expires who knows when?
Life is an illusion, as all things, as the Hindus teach us. According
to them, even the gods eventually die, and are replaced by better,
more evolved godly forms. An illusion is also the supremacist theory
that affirms that Civilizations first arose in an Occidental
Atlantis
that never was, out of Europoid stock. But Civilization evolved at a
time when the whole of Europe was almost fully covered by a mile
thick glacier that rendered survival very meager and scant.
Plato’s Atlantis is, in contrast, described as a luxurious
tropical Paradise, bedecked with metals, horses, elephants, coconut,
pineapples, perfumes, aromatic woods and other features that were an
exclusivity of India and Indonesia in the ancient world. Was the
great philosopher dreaming, or was he indeed basing himself on Holy
Books now lost in the bonfires of the Holy Inquisition
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The Atlantic Atlantis is an illusion too, just as are
the Cretan, the African, the American, the North European and the
Black Sea ones.
The true Atlantis, the archetype of all other Atlantises
is Indonesia, or rather, the extensive sunken continent rimmed
by this island arc. It is there that we had Plato’s
"innavigable seas", the same one mentioned by navigants such as
Pytheas, Himilco,
Hanno and others. It was this primordial Atlantis
that served as a model for the
second Atlantis — the one of the Indus Valley — as well
as for the myriad other similar Paradises that we encounter in all
ancient religious traditions and mythologies.
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The Krakatoa Volcano and the
"Innavigable Seas" of Atlantis
Another central, unique feature of Atlantis were its
seas, rendered "innavigable" as the result of the cataclysm, as
reported by Plato and other ancient authorities. As we
mentioned further above, the seas of Atlantis were
innavigable because they were covered thick with giant banks of
floating, fiery pumice-stone. This pumice was ejected by the giant
explosion of volcanic Mt. Atlas, the one which caused
the foundering of the Lost Continent.
A similar phenomenon indeed happened — in a far lesser scale, but one
big enough to be one of the world’s largest catastrophes — at the
explosion of the Krakatoa volcano that we mentioned
further above. The formation of pumice — a sort of stony "froth"
made of siliceous glass — is characteristic of the Indonesian
volcanoes, and is indeed the cause of their explosive eruptions of
incomparable force. The phenomenon is quite similar to the "popping"
of popcorn. The water-soaked siliceous magma of the submarine
volcano (the primeval Krakatoa) built up tremendous pressures under
the weight of the crust and the overlying sea water. Eventually, the
topping crust which formed the volcanic peak gave, and the eruption
occurred, explosively.
Thus released, the overheated water dissolved in the hot magma turned
instantly into vapor, literally bursting like popcorn, except that
in a worldwide scale. The sea was impelled, in a huge tsunami that
was the event mythified as "the Flood from below". Simultaneously,
the ashes and debris were thrown up into the stratosphere, as
"soot". This fly ash eventually fell back to the earth and the sea,
choking all life in the region, and causing the enormous quantities
of rain, "the Flood from above". Further away, it settled over the
Ice Age glaciers, causing their melting and triggering the
end of the Pleistocene, precisely as related above.
Interestingly enough, the Hindus associate this sort of stuff — this
vitreous "seafroth" — with Krishna and Balarama,
the archetypes of Hercules and Atlas. Balarama is the alias of the
Serpent Shesha, whose name means (in Sanskrit) "residue" and, more
exactly, the kind of foam such as ambergris or pumice stone thrown
over the beaches by the seas. The whole story is a clever allegory
of the explosion of Mt. Atlas, the World’s Pillar, ejecting the huge
amounts of pumice stone and fly ash that covered the soil and the
seas of Atlantis, and choking out all its paradisial forms of life.
The Titans — and Atlas in particular — were likened to Serpents (or
Dragons), and to "weak-legged", anguipedal, Civilizing Heroes such
as Erychthonios, Cadmus, Hercules, Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan, etc.. All
such indeed derive from the Nagas ("Serpent-people",
"Dragons") of India and Indonesia, as we argue elsewhere.
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The Illusory,
Chimerical Atlantises
As we said above, the Cretan "Atlantis" of certain authorities is an
illusion, as are all others outside the two Indies. Nevertheless,
the explosion of the Thera volcano closely parallels
the one of
the Krakatoa of 1883, as some have noted. But it is far
too small and far too wrongly sited in relation to the Pillars of
Hercules for to be the right time and the right place.
Moreover, Crete lacked the size and the importance that Plato
attributes to Atlantis, being puny in comparison to,
say, the contemporary civilizations of Egypt, Babylon and Mycenian
Greece. And the Theran cataclysm never sunk Crete underseas,
or even hampered its existence in any notable way. In fact, the name
of Crete (Kriti) means "swept", rather than "sunken one", as does
the name of
Atlantis in the holy tongues of India. So, Crete was
recognizedly "swept" by the Theran cataclysm, but not indeed
"sunken" by it, as Atlantis was.
The prehistoric explosion of the Krakatoa volcano that
sundered open the Strait of Sunda was, by comparison a million times
stronger. If the Theran explosion could sweep away the considerable
extent of Minoan Crete, we are led to conclude that the one of the
Indonesian volcano could well have wiped out an entire
continental-sized civilization, and have triggered the chain of
events that culminated in the end of the
Pleistocene Ice Age.
Equally illusory are the Atlantises of the Bosphorus (Moreau de
Jonnés), of Spain (R. Hennig), of Libya (Borchardt), of Benin, in
Africa (Leo Frobenius) and the even less likely one of the North Sea
(Olaus Rudbeck), the Americas (several authors) and Antactica
(idem). Even more impossible are the Atlantises located in sunken
islands of continents of the Atlantic Ocean and, particularly, the
Sargasso Sea, for they are not even geophysical possibilities.
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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
and Donnelly’s Atlantis
There are no sunken continents at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, as
an extensive study of this region has unequivocally shown. What this
detailed research disclosed is the existence of the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge, a vast submarine cordillera that divides the Atlantic Ocean
at the middle. This feature corresponds to the rift from whence the
Tectonic Plates issue, causing the continents to drift away from the
spot, at the rate of a few centimeter per year.
Hence, despite the brilliant plea of Ignatius Donnelly, this
ridge corresponds not to a sunken continent, but to land that is
slowly rising out of the sea bottom. Such rifts and ridges in fact
exist in all oceans. They rise above sea level in certain spots
forming island arcs, as in Indonesia and at the Indus Valley. Where
they do, they cause the kind of terrible volcanoes and earthquakes
that we have been discussing above. It is no coincidence that the
two Atlantises we mentioned are located precisely at such spots
where the Mid-Oceanic Ridges rise above the surface of the sea.
When we inspect the map of
Fig. 1, we also note that a sizable chunk of India disappeared at
the end of the Ice Age at the Indus Delta. This region is now known
as the Rann of Kutch ("Marshes of Death") and is in fact still
sinking underseas, even today. This region is deemed a sort of Hell,
and has been clearly flooded by some sort of terrible cataclysm that
also took place at the end of the Pleistocene, just as did the one
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Lemurian Atlantis and
the Four Rivers of Paradise
At this occasion, that of the demise of Atlantis, the
Himalayan glaciers melted in the greater part, pouring its waters
down the Indus Valley, in floods that were hundreds of times larger
than the ones of today, even when the monsoon storms castigate the
region. Such is clearly the record left by the tempest that swept
away the second Atlantis (Hesperus), throwing it into the sea during
the second of
the Biblical Floods.
The same thing also happened at the other side of the Himalayas,
whence issue the rivers that irrigate South Asia, China and
Southeast Asia, such as the Huang-ho, the Yangtzé, the Mekong, the
Irrawaddy, the Brahmaputra, the Ganges. These are indeed the Four
Rivers of Eden (Lemurian Atlantis), as we argue in detail elsewhere.
There can be very little doubt that the Lemurian Atlantis
— as well as its successor, the Indian Atlantis — are sacred
traditions based on real facts which were in no way exaggerated by
our ancestors.
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The Civilizing Heroes
and Heroines Are Atlantean Escapees
The cataclysms in question caused the mass migrations of nations which
later were to form civilizations of the past such as those of the
Egyptians, the Greeks, the Cretans and the Mesopotamians. These also
included the Jews, the Phoenicians, and the Aryans, driven away from
their ancestral lands in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. At first they
settled in India, but were driven out by the locals, moving to the
places just mentioned.
Such mass migrations are told in the Bible and in similar Holy Books
of all nations, in legends such as those of Moses and the
Israelites,
Aeneas and the Romans, Hercules and his Greek "cattle"
(armies), of
Cain’s expulsion from Eden, of Quetzalcoatl’s arrival in
Mexico, of that of Viracocha and the Incas in Peru, of
the Fomorians and the Tuatha de Danaan arriving in Britain,
and so on.
These legends disguise real facts under the veil of allegories, and
personify or deify the nations in question under the figures of
heroes such as Noah, Manu, Hercules, Kukulkan, Abraham,
Quetzalcoatl, and a myriad others, or in heroines like Venus,
Demeter, Dana, Danu, Vesta, Hathor, Isis, Hecate and so on.
Lemuria was indeed
the Great Black Mother of Gods and Men. She is the same
goddess that we know by names such as Kali, Parvati, Demeter, Hera,
Isis, Ishtar, Venus, Cybele and even the Virgin Mary.
The paradoxical virginity of the Great Mother refers to
the fact that she bore the Lemurian civilization on
her own, in an autochthonous manner, without the help of an
"inseminator" civilization. In contrast, all other civilizations
evolved by being seeded from outside by the Civilizing Heroes, the
Angels, the Gods, the Devils, etc.. These were the Lemurian
Sons of God that, though , illuminated the world with the
Light of our Great Mother.
The second Atlantis, India, is our Great Father.
The Father is the inseminating god known as Shiva in India, Jahveh
in Israel, Zeus in Greece, Viracocha in Peru, Quetzalcoatl in
Mexico, Bochica in Colombia, and so on. He is the god that is
castrated and dies but who resurrects from among the dead, whole and
virile as ever. The image is not without analogy with an immortal
volcano such as the Krakatoa that explodes and
vanishes from sight, but keeps shining underneath the ocean, until
the time comes for it to rise and shine again, perhaps at
God's command.
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The Many Aspects of
God
As we just said, myths work at several levels, and a parallel such as
the Atlantean one is just a facet of God’s myriad
aspects. In other words, volcanoes are manifestations of God’s
power, the weapon he often chooses to castigate the nations and to
force Evolution to follow its course. The Hindus call this force by
the name of vajra, a Sanskrit word meaning both "hard as
diamond", as well as "thunderbolt". The vajra is the
thunderbolt weapon used by almighty gods such as Baal (Hercules’s
archetype), Zeus, Indra, Haddad, and a myriad others. In fact, God
is neither the vajra nor the volcano, but the force behind it, its
impeller and wielder.
For the vajra is indeed the flail of the gods, the Celestial weapon He
uses in order to quicken Evolution and to stir Nature into action,
in the endless parade of life forms that characterizes Life. Perhaps
all this has a purpose in the divine conscience, though I don’t
really know for sure. But there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind
that Catastrophism is God’s way, if He indeed has any. Moreover, it
is also Nature’s way, let no one doubt it. The ancients well knew
that, and so do I, having learnt from them. For instance, they often
portrayed the
vajra as a flail or a lash, or even a hammer or a mace wielded
by the god in order to stir Nature into action.
Gods like Christ are not the only ones to die and to rise again from
the dead. By the way, Christ too is the wielder of the "iron rod",
the hardest of metals being a metaphor for "diamond" and, hence, for
the
vajra. Christ was preceded by many aliases, and the conception
of "dying-resurrecting" gods akin to the Sun of Justice dates from
oldest antiquity. Among the many archetypes of Christ we can
mention, offhand, Osiris, Attis, Tammuz, Adonis, Shiva, Kronos,
Saturn, Dionysos, Serapis, Mithra and, of course, Krishna, in his
infinite series of avatars, and Hercules, the great hero, in his
fiery apotheosis that figured the Atlantean Conflagration.
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1.- Tektites are glass beads and concretions resulting
from giant meteoritic (or cometary) falls or, perhaps, from gigantic
volcanic explosions as well. These collisions scatter tektites far
and wide, as in the above case. The ones in question are called Indochinites, in an allusion to the region where they abound the
most. The Indochinites were dated at 700 kyears (one kiloyear = one
thousand years). The explosion of Lake Toba took place 70 kyears
ago. The even larger one of Lake Taupo took place at some 100 kyears
ago or so.
These giant explosions — which all occurred in the region of
Indonesia, volcanically the most active in the whole world — are
easily large enough to trigger an Ice Age. However, whether one is
indeed caused depends on other conditions, probably dictated by
insolation and other variables, astronomical or not. As we just
said, the region of Indonesia has literally hundreds of active or
dormant volcanoes, and has been very little researched so far, due
to its remoteness.
Further research of the Indonesian region will, now that its
connection with the birthplace of Mankind is being pointed out,
certainly confirm the reality of what we are claiming. Our research
is based on very detailed local traditions and is the fruit of many
years of study of the myth of Atlantis-Eden from a scientific though
unbiased, point of view. We push no religious, scientific,
philosophic or mercenary point, and our interest lies solely in
establishing Truth. As the Romans used to say, Amicus Plato, magis
amica Veritas.
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