The Phoenician connection to the ruins is striking. The monuments, stone carvings and statues found in Zimbabwe are identical in style to those which are predominant in Sardinia and other ancient Near Eastern cultures, including the worship of the god Baal. Explorers Neal and Hall were leading this drive at the turn of the century. They continue explaining that there is a “marvellous similarity” between these later Zimbabwes and many of the three thousand nauraghes, or terraced fortresses, which cover the island of Sardinia. “In both the Rhodesian and Sardinian erections evidences of nature-worship are abundant.” The age of the Sardinian nauraghes goes back to the Bronze Age, around 3,500 - 1,500 BC, and scholars like Geyard write: “I have no hesitation in considering the numerous round edifices of Sardinia, which are known under the name of nauraghes, as monuments of the worship of Baal.” The Zimbabwean ruins of the latter period resemble such monuments to the god Baal, who was worshiped between 2,500 and 200 BC all over the Near East and Egypt. This gives us a clear link between the advanced civilisations of the north and the distant lands of gold in the south, referred to as Ophir during biblical times.
This is an incredible breakthrough. There is constant reference to the ‘First Zimbabwe’ and ‘Latter Zimbabwe’ which can be distinguished by their architecture and worshipping of gods. Not only do we have strong evidence to support that King Solomon's mines were indeed located in southern Africa, but suddenly we have tangible evidence that there were two distinct civilisations in Zimbabwe, separated by thousands of years. The more recent or ‘Latter Zimbabwe’ was active between 2,000 - 200BC. They built their shrines and dwellings the same way as their brothers up north in the Near East, praying to the same god Baal; and another, much older prehistoric civilisation referred to by scholars as ‘First Zimbabwe’. Those from prehistory date back to over 50,000 years as shown by archaeologist Peter Beaumont with his discovery of ancient mines in Swaziland, Southern Africa. But the Sumerian tablets tell us that these African mines date back as far as 200,000 years. Too incredible to digest? There is now a visible line connecting ancient mythology with more recent history, finding a natural meeting place. The issue of the ‘shrines and temples’ is crucial here. While the ‘latter’ biblical civilisations in Ophir (Zimbabwe) were worshipping their gods, the ‘First Zimbabwean’ cultures had no need or knowledge about worshipping any gods. It was the original Anunnaki who created the mines with their new slave species as the first ever gold miners on Earth. They had no need for temples and worshiping, because that kind of ritual had only been introduced to Humankind around 4,000 to 6,000 BC, some 190,000 years later. But then came the kings and mariners of the north around 2,500 BC and they built their dwellings as lesser copies of the original Anunnaki structures, and immediately plonked their shrines for worshipping right next door. After all, they would not want to upset the ‘god of vengeance’ otherwise they would have been punished. There are many other curious similarities like names of rivers and places that also add to the Great Zimbabwe theory.
Ancient navigational plans of Phoenician King Necho some 610 years BC, setting out from the Red Sea to the south eastern coast of Africa or Monomotapa, is just one indication that the land of Ophir was actually in this part of the world. But the support for these theories has been growing for decades and the evidence seems to be irrefutable. There was really no other part of the world which could have provided King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba with so much gold during those days of history. While many of the ancient mines in Monomotapa may have been filled with soil and mud during the Great Flood, some have survived to tell the tale of prehistoric mining in the cradle of Humankind.
Other suggestions for the site of King Solomon's mines are southern Turkey in the Taurus Mountains, northwest Saudi Arabia and possibly the Eldorado of the Hebrews. Nubia, in the Sudan, was a great source of gold for the Egyptians. It just so happens that ‘Nub’ as in Nubia, means gold in ancient Egyptian. During the time of Queen Hatshepsut (1,503-1,482 BC) and later, the Egyptian navy brought great amounts of gold and stibnite from the areas in Punt to Egypt. The two other sources of gold mentioned in the Old Testament were Uphaz (Jeremiah 10:9 and Daniel 10:5) and Parvaim (II Chronicles 3:6). Where could those places have possibly been? So far historians have not been able to identify any of the references.
While the talk of gold is ever-present in the Old Testament, references to geological sites of gold and silver are relatively rare. In the book of Job it states: “Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they find it.”
(Job 28: 1)
Who are the “they” he mentions? Why would they be so obsessed with gold?
Southern India has long been known for its golden riches, where in ancient times loads of gold was mined. In his Bibliotheca Historica of the 1st century BC, Diodorus Siculus wrote that in India “the earth contains rich underground veins of many kinds, including many of silver and gold... ” Once again, it points to knowledge of ore mining and not just the commonly accepted alluvial methods.
In China, gold was mined and utilised during the earliest of times, including the Shang civilisation (1,800-1,027 BC) of the Huang-Ho River. Gold mining was probably introduced into Korea around 1,122 BC by the followers of Ki-ja, who migrated from China. From Korea, the various methods of mining for gold were taken to Japan, probably as early as 660 BC (Bromehead, 1942).
“Gold was known to the early Amerindians, but the metal was not held in high regard in the period… Later, during the first centuries of the Christian era, gold assumed much greater importance in the Olmec, Zapotec, Mayan, Aztec, and other civilisations of Mexico and Mesoamerica and in the Inca civilisation of South America.”
This is not true. The Andean and Mesoamerican cultures have been obsessed with gold for thousands of years, most of their oral and written legends refer to gold which could go back as far as 12,000 BC. These civilisations continue to tell us in their literature that the “gold belongs to the gods”. This would have made gold very important in their everyday lives and it was also the reason why their civilisations emerged.
“Gold was not prized by the Amerindians of Canada and the United States, and the aborigines of Australia seem not to have paid any attention to the precious metal.”
Could this have been because the Anunnaki did not find large deposits of gold in those areas to attract their attention? And therefore any human settlement for the purposes of mining gold only took place much later? Or their obsession with gold only reached them much later, once it became a ‘human’ obsession, inherited from the gods?
The past few pages were just a tiny taste of the confusion that surrounds the origins of gold on our planet. But the confusion and contradiction get much worse. I therefore have no problem whatsoever in turning to other scientific records that may be regarded as inferior or esoteric by many scholars, and rather try to unravel the real truth behind the rich ancient mythology and oral traditions of some cultures. Gold is a central feature in most, if not all ancient mythology. And yet, as strange as it may seem, after studying over 600 African mythological stories, I did not find one clear reference to gold. There may be some hidden imagery in some of them, but the general absence of gold in these stories is truly puzzling. It leads me to formulate some new theories. If Africa was in fact the cradle of the very first humans; and if they were created as a slaves to work in the gold mines; they would have been a truly “primitive worker” as the Sumerian scripts call them. As a primitive species, and in the very early days of human existence, they would have had no real feeling or understanding for what they were doing. As far as they saw it, they were given food and shelter while they performed some gruelling tasks, the reason for which they did not understand. It was a routine, year in, year out. The ‘stuff’ they were digging up had absolutely no value to them. They could not eat it, or use it in any way. Only many thousands of years later, when the human mental capacity increased dramatically and when interbreeding happened between humans and the ‘godly’ offsp
ring of the Nefilim, did the newly-spawned more intelligent humans, begin to give the metal value. This would have only occurred once civilisation and Kingship was bestowed on humans by their ‘gods’ and only after the global system of trade and currency entered the picture. The strange metal could have possibly developed some kind of strange sentimental value after the slaves began to set up their own settlements in Africa, and living away from the mining compounds. But they had no real understanding of the use for the metal, and the only expression of their intellect was to adorn themselves with it in many ways, to indicate their social standing and importance. Because just like their South American brethren, they always knew that the gold belonged to ‘the gods’.
My assumption is that like many scientific theories, ridicule will often be followed by respect. When we go through the Sumerian texts in later chapters, you will be amazed at how simply it can all be explained if we just put our prejudice aside and keep our minds open to new realities.
You see, the first signs of ore mining in Mesoamerica date back to around 12,000 years ago, before the emergence of agriculture on Earth, and around the end of the last Ice Age. At this stage humans did not have it easy. They were constantly under threat from the elements and wild animals. They were concerned with shelter and food while leading a predominantly nomadic lifestyle. How and why would gold seem so attractive to them?
But the oldest signs of ore gold mining get even more interesting when you visit the so-called Cradle of Humankind, just 20 minutes north of Johannesburg, South Africa. While archaeologists were making amazing discoveries about the origins of humanity, they also stumbled onto previously unexplained phenomena regarding gold mining. They discovered layers upon layers of prehistoric mining activity, which was dated back to 7,690 BC by scholars from Yale and Groningen Universities. This inspired the excavators to search a little further, only to be rewarded with a find of an ancient mine near the famous landmark of the Lion Park. They uncovered a five-ton hematite stone which was covering a large cavern. Carbon dating a piece of charcoal near the mouth shocked the archaeologists when they found it to be from between 20,000 and 26,000 BC. Not believing what they had found, they searched further and exposed more mining access sites dating back to 41,000 BC, give or take 1,600 years. Adrian Boshier and Peter Beaumont then extended their search to southern Swaziland where they found ancient mines containing twigs, leaves, grass and feathers which were most likely brought in by the miners. There were also notched bones, which indicate man's ability to count at such distant times. Other remains at the site date it back to around 50,000 BC. This must be a total riddle for historians, evolutionists and creationists alike. How on Earth is this possible? How will the supporters of the different doctrines explain this? This is where I would like to step in and remind the readers of my theory that creation and evolution should be considered simultaneously. The convergence of the two seems inevitable. While evolution is evident in most life forms around us, there is mounting evidence of a specific time when man was created. We will have to come to terms with the reality that the two philosophies will have to share the stage in the Great Human Puzzle.
We should not be surprised that prehistoric miners were already mining gold in southern Africa several hundred thousand years ago. After all, the geological landscape would not have changed at all since then, and if gold is still available in such abundance in this part of the world today, it must have been available then. We must remember that until 1970, gold from South Africa made up over 75% of all global gold supplies. This clearly means that the early humans knew exactly where the gold was, or they were shown by someone more intelligent where to dig. So, we need to ask again… why would primitive man, immediately after being created, start to mine gold so vigorously? It simply does not make any sense.
Somehow the hunger for gold grew gluttonously over the years. So much so that ships were dispatched from the Old World by kings and popes to bring back as much as was humanly possible of this shiny yellow metal. From the birth of humanity people have killed for gold and continue to do so to this day. I grew up in one of those mining communities myself. This hunger for gold probably reached its most nauseating zenith during the blood-thirsty Spanish invasions of the New World. The abundance of gold found in the Mesoamericas by the Conquistadores, together with the mythical stories of golden cities like Eldorado and Cibola, certainly raise the question: where did the so-called primitive natives find all that gold? Story has it that during the 200-year activities of the Conquistadores, the Spaniards looted more gold from the Americas than has been mined in the entire known world since then. This could obviously never be substantiated, but makes for some juicy imagery. But the history books tell us a predictably thin tale of the history and origins of gold in the world. What is known however, is that gold has always been and seemingly always will be the centre of great controversy, speculation and conspiracy.
At the centre of the gold gluttony was the ever-present Vatican, which supported the exploits of the Conquistadores. The split was said to be 90% for the Vatican and 10% for the Spanish king. The king in turn had a separate agreement with the Conquistadores who undoubtedly had a free-for-all for themselves when overpowering the native Indian villages of the New World while looting their gold. It is also said that the Vatican holds most of the gold in the world. A popular conspiracy holds that the Vatican has not only attempted to, but largely succeeded in, stealing all the USA gold reserves, with the aid of a succession of Jesuit US presidents. As far as conspiracies go, this one seems very interesting because it has some landmark presidential decisions to support it. The most famous is the decision by president Nixon on 15 August 1971, to divorce the Dollar from the gold standard. Suddenly the dollar no longer had gold to underpin its value and became just a piece of paper with a US government stamp on it. The Jesuit Order has been a powerful force in the murky waters of secret societies, linking them back to the formation of the ‘Illuminati’ around 1,340 AD in the central German state of Hess, and even further back to the establishment of the Rosicrucian Lodge in 1,100 AD in the German city of Worms, also in the state of Hess. The Jesuit Order was established in 1540 by a militant Christian-soldier-turned-cleric, called Ignatius of Loyola, as one of several Counter-Reformation organisations launched by the Catholics to suppress the rise of the Protestants. William Bramley has written a riveting book which deals extensively with most the secret societies in our human history linking us way back to the Garden of Eden and the so-called ‘Brotherhood of the Snake’. It makes captivating reading as it unravels many dark hidden secrets of our ancient past, pointing convincingly to some form of intervention by more evolved and more intelligent beings. But while they may have been more advanced, it does not mean they were not violent nor bloodthirsty. All these ugly characteristics are still clearly evident in humans today, as visible scars from ancient times. From our behaviour and the manipulative control which was exercised over us by secret societies, we can deduce that the influence of these strange phenomena in many ways prevented humanity from evolving faster to discover the true secrets behind our origins. But at the same time, there seem to have been other secret societies that had always had some form of advanced knowledge and information, which may have had the opposite effect on human progress. I will resist the temptation of getting too involved in this topic as Mr. Bramley has covered it superbly in The Gods of Eden.
But gold continued to play a pivotal role in human evolution to the extent that during the California Gold Rush starting around the 1850s, Vatican monks would basically use their cloth as a front to steal the gold from the native Indians along the Mexican and Californian coasts. There are reports of hard labour, slavery and torture of the natives, by Catholic monks in the name of god, and in pursuit of gold for the Vatican. Gold was probably the first metal known to Humankind and references to it have appeared almost from the birth of writing. Our entire human history is inextricably linked to the production of gold. If we take at face value what the Sumerians ha
ve written in their tablets, we learn that we were created as a slave species by the Anunnaki, with the sole purpose to work in the gold mines. The answer to the question, ‘why is mankind so obsessed with gold from the very beginning?’ is quite simple. Gold was the first thing known to primitive man. He was surrounded by it and consumed by it. It was the principal reason why he was created. The truth is however, that it was not really man who was so consumed by gold, but his masters and gods, the Anunnaki.
When we explore this early obsession with gold, we begin to understand the overpowering effect it must have had on early humans, how it shaped their behaviour in times to come, and how it drove their own vanity, greed and desire to be like their gods. Very quickly, this forbidden gold must have become the most desirable possession among the human slaves. They found ways to acquire it illegally, but gold was most likely also used to reward them from time to time for acts of obedience. So as time passed, a growing amount of gold made its way into human hands. Not really knowing what to do with it, or what its true purpose was, they started using their newly-acquired forbidden fruit in unconventional ways. They turned it into bracelets, necklaces, rings, ornaments, trinkets and an ever growing list of items of which the sole purpose was to show off its owner's elevated status in the emerging community. They made imitations of their gods' possessions, their chariots, their dwellings, their symbols and even their image. Archaeologists have uncovered countless numbers of effigies of many ancient gods. The value of gold suddenly exploded when the Anunnaki allowed the humans to leave the compounds of the mines and live on their own in growing communities.
This period seems to coincide precisely with the sudden emergence of civilisation in the Near East around 7,000 BC. Many humans settled here while continuing to work for their gods. The mines in the southern part of Africa continued to produce gold, but the human workers had now developed many communities that have spread over large parts of the continent. Golden artefacts attained the highest status symbol on Earth, and humans started to decorate themselves more and more with symbolic new jewellery. The more gold you possessed, the higher your status in the community. But it also meant that you had something to trade with or bargain with. This was exactly what the genetically modified human genome was waiting for. A stimulus to activate several dormant genes, which would cause continuous havoc for thousands of years to come. The greed gene, the gluttony gene, the opulence gene and a few more beauties hidden in our DNA, of which we are equally unaware at this stage. And so began the eternal race for possession and control among primitive humans, which is stronger today than ever before. I have always been fascinated by primitive tribes around the world and the importance they place on decorative artefacts and shiny objects. I could never understand that there were so many similarities in their rituals and their gods while they are separated by thousands of miles, oceans and continents. But the common human ancestry with its magic, shiny ingredient seems to tie it all together. The many rituals performed by the forgotten tribes of the world still today, and the importance they place on ornamental and decorative objects, can all be linked to the birth of man some 200,000 years ago and the role which gold played in his evolution.
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