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civilizations
In about 570 b.c., when Athenian lawyer Solon, “the wisest of the Seven Sages,” went to Egypt to study history, the priests he consulted told Solon that natural disasters had obliterated almost all tangible information of the civilizations of the past. The learned Egyptians said that there have been, and there will be, many destructions of human beings, the greatest by fire and water. The priests told Solon about Atlantis and the sacred knowledge, which was eventually passed down to Plato who, toward the end of his life, revealed it for us.
Plato’s fame as a scholar and his admirable writing skills ensured that knowledge of the Atlantean people would survive for us, and Colonel Churchward’s discovery of recorded information about the Motherland of Mu has helped to preserve the memory of that superior civilization. Data about the countries that preceded, coexisted with, or closely followed Lemuria and Atlantis is not as readily available, and most pieces of the puzzle are still missing. However, researchers are slowly collecting enough details to confirm that those two civilizations were not alone. Prior to 10,000 b.c., spiritually and technically evolved people, who were very similar to ourselves, thrived throughout the world.
Edgar Cayce tells us that at an international conference in 50,722 b.c., representatives from five countries assembled in Atlantis to discuss a permanent solution to the problem of the omnipresent dangerous wild animals that were overrunning the Earth. The Atlanteans provided transportation to their country in what may have been the first flying vehicles, airships that contained gas and resembled balloons.277 People from Lemuria, the Uighur Empire in the Gobi, west and north Africa, and the Carpathian Mountains of central Europe came to the first conference. Delegates from Peru and India were included in later meetings.
South America
Edgar Cayce offers information about some of the first Lemurians to flee to Peru, which he also referred to as Oz, Og, or On. They came after the earth changes of 50,000 b.c., and soon built new homes and temples. Religion was the main focus of their lives. As priests, priestesses, ministers, and teachers, they excelled in music, art, and the braiding of beads and designing of jewelry from abundant precious stones and metals. After many, many years the Ohlms, as Cayce calls them, designed an excellent system of democratic self-government, which was to influence governments throughout the world.278
Hundreds of years later, when Atlanteans arrived in Peru, the leader of the Ohlms was a weak person given to sexual excesses. After a brief war, the Atlanteans took over and taught the Law of One, mined gold and silver, and built walls across mountains.279
Dramatic changes in the land have altered the topography of South America, but megalithic constructions remain to demonstrate the skills of the advanced human beings of long ago who lived in an extensive chain of cities which stretched as far north as Columbia. The buildings in these cities, with their many-sided enormous stones tightly arranged in earthquake-resistant patterns, were similar to those of the massive city of Tiahuanaco, which thrived on the banks of Lake Titicaca during the time of Mu and Atlantis.280 The Incas did not construct as many buildings as the previous mysterious civilization. They used small rectangular stones and often placed their temples on top of the ancient, larger structures of their predecessors.
A “Garden of the Gods” on the Marcahuasi Plateau high in the Andes provides additional evidence of the prehistoric occupants of South America. Here, burial tombs and stupendous sculptures carved from granite cover an area of several square miles. The statues represent a variety of birds, animals, and human races. Some are so large that it is believed they were made by giants at least twelve feet tall. The descendants of the native Huanaca in this area describe the strange place as the home of the wizards and Giant Gods.281
Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, lies partly in Peru and partly in Bolivia. Today it is 13,500 feet above the Pacific Ocean, but once it was at sea level, 460 miles long and 30 to 100 miles wide. A canal from the lake gave access to the Pacific Ocean. A variety of oceanic plants still live in its brackish water. Nearby Lake Poopo and Lake Coipassa are also salty and were once included in gigantic Lake Titicaca.
route from pacific ocean to atlantic ocean as described
by col. churchward in “the children of mu”
In an ancient monastery in western Tibet, Col. Churchward found a map of South America on a large tablet. The person who made the map drew a group of constellations on it to indicate its date, and astronomers said those stars were in that position 25,000 years ago. The age-old map shows the present Amazon Basin as a huge inland sea, comparable to the Mediterranean today, with a narrow opening to the Atlantic Ocean, and a short canal from the basin to Tiahuanaco. Churchward believes the crumpled remains of the canal that connected Tiahuanaco with the Amazon Basin may be seen on the tops of the mountains which now stand between the city and the Amazon.282 Traces of another canal which formed a boundary of the city and continued on to the Pacific Ocean are visible today,283 as are docks for ships, cut from solid rocks,284 with rings on them, which served as attachments for cables for fastening oceangoing vessels.285
Before movements of the Earth’s crust pushed Tiahuanaco far above the level of the sea, people traveled in boats from one ocean to the other across the South American continent. Edgar Cayce makes several references to those who went back and forth between Mu and Atlantis, often to discuss principles of human behavior. The city of Tiahuanaco was a favorite destination. When Spanish friars discovered the ruins of the city in the sixteenth century, signs and symbols from the Far East indicated people from all over the world visited and inhabited the magnificent metropolis.
On the top of a truncated pyramid, the citizens of Tiahuanaco built the largest Sun Temple in the world, complete with an astronomical observatory. When German-Bolivian Professor Arthur Posnansky of the University of La Paz carefully studied its stone calendar, he determined that at the time the observatory was abandoned in 9550 b.c., the astronomers were studying the North Star.286
The Spanish were amazed to see that artisans had embellished buildings throughout the ancient city with gold and silver, including silver bolts weighing over three tons that served as rivets in huge monoliths.287 Remains of lifelike sculptures of citizens holding upraised drinking glasses lined the pleasant lake shore.288
The Gateway of the Sun, one of the largest carved monolithic structures in the world, displays some of the skills of Tiahunaco’s prehistoric citizens. The expert craftsmen cut the gate, which is over thirteen feet wide and nine feet high, from a solid block of thick andesite. Andesite, the material of most of the stonework at Tiahuanaco, is an extremely hard rock which blunts all but the strongest steel tools. In addition to our inability to understand how they accurately cut blocks of andesite weighing over eighty tons, no one really understands how the builders of Tiahuanaco moved the huge stones into position from quarries that were many miles away.
Space shuttle imaging indicates that we have excavated only a small fraction of the magnificent city of Tiahuanaco, and that 90 percent of it is below ground. As we penetrate the remains of its five layers of civilizations, we will gradually learn more about those who lived in this beautiful city so long ago.
Uighur Empire
The wild and barren Gobi Desert in northeast Asia was once a fertile and beautiful land, where the Uighur Empire prospered during the time of Lemuria and Atlantis. The magnificent cities of the Gobi, including the capital of Kara Khota, are well remembered in Far Eastern stories and legends. From the Chinese we know that the successful Uighur Empire was at its height around 17,000 b.c., and it spread from the Pacific westward through Asia and northern Europe.289
After struggling to dig down through fifty feet of gravel, boulders, and sand, Russian explorers finally uncovered ruins of Kara Khota south of Lake Baikal. From remnants in the city, archaeologists determined that the Uighurs knew astrology, mathematics, writing, reading, and medicine. They mined extensively, made textiles, and engaged in agriculture. Long before the history of Egypt began, the Uighurs made statues of gold, silver, bronze, and clay and were experts in decorating silk, metals, and wood.290
Atlantean priestesses frequently traveled to the distant land of the Uighurs to minister to the people and teach them the power of right and wrong.291 They worked together with the Lemurians, who joined them to teach the tenets of the Law of One. The two cultures are memorialized in an ancient painting of a Uighur queen and her consort. Poseidon’s trident, a symbol of Atlantis, appears with the queen, and lotus buds, symbolic of the land of Mu, are arranged at her feet.292 Cayce’s references to a City of Gold, a Temple of Gold, and a Temple of the Sun in Mongoloid land293 lend support to the Chinese legends that describe the prosperity of the Uighur Empire in the Gobi in the distant past.
When the biblical flood destroyed the eastern half of the Uighur land, the few people who remained were reduced to living in extremely primitive conditions.294 Today the desert’s shifting sands cover the bones of these talented people and their long-forsaken cities, but some day space satellites will detect additional enlightening evidence of them beneath the desert floor.
Many believe that Shambala, the home of highly evolved mystics and scholars who exist in another dimension, is positioned over the Gobi Desert.295 Esoteric tradition adds that when their land disappeared, Lemurian priests migrated to Shambala, where the highest known vibrations on our planet make it possible for them to more easily contact spiritual realms.
Rama Empire
Ancient Greek, Egyptian, Mexican, Hindu, and mystical writings all portray the Rama Empire, which once prospered in the Indus Valley of Pakistan and northern India.296 The Vedas, as described in the preface, offer the most extensive information about the Ramas’ advanced civilization. The seven greatest cities of the Rama are often referred to as “Rishi cities.” In Sanskrit, Rishi means “Master or Great Teacher,”which relates to the highly developed mental and psychic skills of the Rama leaders.297 Dravidian, the Rama’s undeciphered writing, is almost identical to the script of Easter Island, thousands of miles to the southeast,298 which suggests a connection with the Motherland of Mu.
The intelligent Rama developed flying vehicles called vimanas.299 In about the fourth century b.c., Bharadwaja the Wise compiled information about the vimanas from at least eighty earlier texts and Vedic epics for his book Vaimanika Shasta. Scholars, who found the Vaimanika Shasta in 1918 in the Barbuda Royal Sanskrit Library north of Bombay, have verified the authenticity of Bharadwaja’s work as well as the manuscripts he consulted when he assembled it.300
The Vaimanika Shasta includes elaborate descriptions of two- and three-decker planes, cargo-carrying aircraft similar to helicopters, and passenger planes capable of transporting 400 to 500 people. It even furnishes detailed directions for building the flying vehicles, including accurate dimensions and descriptions of what type of metal would be most suitable for various parts. Bharadwaja’s monumental work includes elaborate instructions for training pilots to fly the vimanas, functions the vehicles could fulfill and more.301 The well-known Mahabharata and the Ramayana, compiled from ancient temple records, contain further extensive information about the vimanas of the Rama Empire.
Chants and dances which the Pueblo, the Yaqui, and other Native Americans have passed down describe a long-lasting conflict between the Atlanteans and the people of a lost empire in the Indian Ocean. The war took place when the glaciers were still large,302 about 20,000 years ago.
Esoteric tradition describes one encounter in this conflict between the Ramas and the Atlanteans and a strange way in which the wisdom of the Ramas overcame their foes from the Atlantic Ocean. In their search for more land, the Atlanteans, who are referred to as the “Asvins,” once attempted to take over the capitol city of the Rama. The Indian ruler declared that, although the Rama only believed in peace, they would never succumb to the aggressive army of Atlantis. The Atlantean soldiers completely ignored him and, despite the Rama’s sincere and numerous attempts to avoid a battle, they proceeded to advance toward the city. At that point, the Rama priest-king raised his arms and, using a powerful mental technique which certain yogis in the Himalayas understand today, caused the leaders of the invading Atlanteans to drop dead one by one. It was as if huge rocks were falling on their heads from a great height and, as a result of the blow, their hearts just stopped beating. The remaining, terrified Atlanteans quickly retreated to their waiting valix (aircraft) and flew away.303
Archaeologists in India have recently begun to excavate Kot Diji and Harappa and the nine or more layers of civilization at Mohenjo Daro. They’ve discovered that residents of two of these ancient cities enjoyed running water, indoor toilets, and covered sewers.304 The level archaeologists are working at currently dates to about 3,000 b.c., but scientists have recently discovered an underwater city off the northwestern coast of India with a similar grid-style layout which thrived 9,500 years ago. This city, which is in about 120 feet of water, is five miles long and contains the oldest known group of manmade structures in the world.305 As research continues, modern equipment will undoubtedly produce evidence of life in the Pacific during the time of the Motherland of Mu.
Antarctica
The continent of Antarctica, which was not rediscovered until 1818, was once a land without snow and ice. Copies of ancient maps portray its lakes, rivers, and mountains as they are today beneath the glaciers. Some day we may find and explore the homes and buildings of seafaring Lemurians and Atlanteans who happily lived in Antarctica before unending snow suddenly covered the land.
A recent book that describes Antarctica as Plato’s Atlantis is filled with ifs and maybes. Its authors’ proposal that the plates of the Earth shifted from time to time is probable, but that an island which Plato describes as lying “within the mouth of the Pillars of Heracles” (the Straits of Gibraltar) moved to the present location of Antarctica is difficult to comprehend. Plato says the sea swallowed the island of Atlantis, but Antarctica is still above the surface, it did not sink.
Osirian Civilization
Long ago, the area the Mediterranean Sea now covers was dry, fertile land. The Nile River was known as the River Stix, and it flowed through Africa as it does today, but continued on to a lake in the Mediterranean valley. From the lake, the river moved foreward and flowed into the Atlantic Ocean at the Pillars of Heracles.306 Legends say that during the time of Atlantis the Osirian people lived around the large lake in this attractive Mediterranean valley. Over 200 of the Osirian’s megalithic buildings are visible today on the floor of the Mediterranean.
Little is known about this civilization, although it is assumed that the Osirian religion of Egypt, which focused around Osiris, originated with them.307 Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead, is portrayed as a mummy with his hands out of the wrappings and holding the symbols of a ruler. Myths about Osiris often connect him with water, either drowning in the Nile or submerged in water and then coming forth with life-giving moisture and fertilizing power. Perhaps this symbolizes the fate of the Osirians. When ocean levels rose about 10,000 b.c. and earthquakes changed the land at the Straits of Gibraltar, water from the Atlantic Ocean poured in and flooded the peoples’ cities. Those who could, quickly moved to the higher ground of Egypt and other surrounding lands.
On the island of Malta, ancient ruins offer evidence of the advanced people who once lived there. Numerous large monuments and structures, built with huge blocks of stone, are sometimes arranged in patterns. Ancient tracks on Malta are carved into the rocks on flat areas, and even on hillsides. The tracks form a network over the whole island, and some of them descend directly into the sea to the remnants of Osirian cities. Like railroad tracks, the mysterious ruts are parallel and equidistant, always curving and straightening together. Undeciphered writing on stone tablets in Malta will probably offer information about the strange tracks and those who formed them.
Egypt
When the first Atlanteans arrived in Egypt they failed to perceive the spiritual qualities of the native people. They thought the Egyptians were ignorant and inferior because they were not technologically advanced.308 This is similar to the way the Europeans assessed the inhabitants of Central and South America in the sixteenth century, whose civilizations were superior to theirs in many ways.
The land of Egypt was attractive, however, and Atlantean families continued to flee there from the unstable Atlantic Ridge. In their new homeland, they joined existing communities, worked in the schools and hospitals,309 and struggled to gain political power.310 The Atlanteans in Egypt even engaged in archaeological activities as they searched for evidence of prior inhabitants.311 They built a Temple of Sacrifice and a Temple Beautiful, whose activities offered a focus for those who wanted to devote themselves to helping the less fortunate and improving the lives of others. Preservation of Atlantean records, which will be discussed in chapter 18, was a full-time occupation for many of the newcomers.
Cayce tells us that Lemurians also moved to Egypt.312 As a result of extensive research, Churchward believes that the original Egyptians were Lemurians and Nagas who established a colony in the fertile delta of the Upper Nile, whereas the first Atlanteans lived in the Lower Nile Valley.313 (The word “Naga” comes from Cambodia, where at Ankor Wat the carved forms of the Great Seven-Headed Serpents are referred to as Naga. Churchward believes the design, which symbolizes the Great Creator of all worlds, came from the Motherland of Lemuria when people moved to the Asian continent thousands of years ago. Nagas refers to descendants of those Lemurians who settled on the mainland, and in this case moved to the Upper Nile.) After some conflicts, the two cultures combined and the country became a spiritual, scientific, and cultural center.
277. Cayce, Readings 953–24.
278. Robinson, Edgar Cayce’s Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man.
279. Ibid.
280. Sykes, Atlantis, Volume 4, No. 4, 1951.
281. Brother Philip, Secret of the Andes, pp. 58–60.
282. Churchward, The Children of Mu, pp. 80–82.
283. Sykes, Atlantis, Volume 4, No. 4, 1951.
284. Steiger, Atlantis Rising, p. 17.
285. Tomas, The Home of the Gods, p. 1.
286. Hansen, The Ancient Atlantic, p. 422.
287. Wilkins, Mysteries of Ancient South America, p. 189.
288. Ibid., p. 188.
289. Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu.
290. Ibid.
291. Cayce, Readings 1273–1, 1648–1, 3420–1.
292. Churchward, Ibid., p. 162.
293. Cayce, Readings 1648–1.
294. Churchward, Ibid., p. 291.
295. Milanovitch, Sacred Journey to Atlantis, p. 145.
296. Childress, Lost Cities of China, Central Asia, and India, p. 218.
297. Ibid.
298. Berlitz, Mysteries from Forgotten Worlds, pp. 128–129.
299. Childress, Ibid.
300. Childress, Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India & Atlantis, pp. 34–36.
301. Ibid., p. i of Foreword.
302. Hansen, The Ancient Atlantic, p. 307.
303. The information in this paragraph is from Childress, Lost Cities of China, Central Asia & India, p. 243.
304. Childress, Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean, p. 15.
305. Little, Ancient Mysteries, April 2002.
306. Childress, Ibid., p. 27.
307. De Camp, Lost Continents, p. 98.
308. Cayce, Edgar Evans, Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited, p. 125.
309. Cayce, Readings 516–2, 500–1.
310. Robinson, Edgar Cayce’s Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, p. 77.
311. Cayce, Readings 2799–1.
312. Cayce, Readings 1472–10.
313. Churchward, The Children of Mu.