Grid of the Gods
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This may most easily be illustrated, again, by pictures of the type of “jigsaw” construction methods that we have already encountered in Peru:
Stone Wall at Easter Island61
Irregular Stone Cuts at Easter Island62
Witkowski points out that there are four distinctive features of the constructions of these walls on Easter Island that tie them directly to the walls of Sacsayhuaman, Tiahuanaco, and even the high Andean “Incan” fortress of Machu Picchu:
1. The stone blocks are very closely matched to each other, despite rounded, complex shapes;
2. They are polygonal;
3. Their external surfaces are convex; and,
4. The entire wall is inclined toward the center of the construction.63
All this evidences at least some sort of contact between these far-flung locales in historical times.64
Before looking at the script that ties Easter Island to the other side of the Pacific, it is worth mentioning that in 1956 the famous explorer and archaeo-navigator Thor Heyerdahl discovered a statue on Easter Island wholly unlike its more famous moai “Face” statues, in that this one was a bearded man closely resembling in style similar statues found at Mohenjo Daro in India. Two similar specimens were discovered in Bolivia near Tiahuanaco. This is the first beginning of some “cracks” in the “land bridge” theory that the Native American populations migrated across the Bering Strait thousands of years ago, for what these connections suggest is rather a migration across the South Pacific.65
The most telling evidence for such a connection, however, is the aforementioned script of Easter Island, the Rongo Rongo writing.
Rongo Rongo Script of Easter Island66
Witkowski notes that his fellow countryman, the linguist Professor Benon Z. Szalek of the University of Szczecin, made a detailed study and comparison of the Rongo Rongo script with the writing of the Indus Valley civilization in India, the civilization centered around the mysterious ruins of Mohenjo Daro:
Comparison of Rongo Rongo Script to that of the Indus Valley67
Compounding the difficulty that this astonishing resemblance represents is the fact that the Indus Valley-Mohenjo Daro civilization disappeared ca. 1000–1200 years BC according to conventional archaeology.
It means that at the moment when Easter Island was inhabited, Mohenjo Daro’s unique system of writing, its religion, etc.… lived only in human memory. It (had) been gone for over two millennia (at least according to officially accepted theories)! It was simply one of the three oldest civilizations on our planet, along with the Sumerians and the empire of the Pharaohs. Could Easter Island’s culture reach that deep into the prehistory of mankind? Incidentally, these circumstances make the Rongo Rongo script the oldest system of writing in use in historical times, for no less than four thousand years.… In the case of this chain of traces, the truth seems so obscure, and so strange at the same time, that one has to ask himself a question: what really happened there, in the Pacific and Indian Ocean, all those thousands of years ago?68
As we shall see in a moment, that question becomes even more peculiar when one examines the ruins of Mohenjo Daro themselves, for they afford yet another connection with distant Tiahuanaco and Viracocha, and a very bizarre one at that.
Contributing to this mystery is the fact that Easter Island’s own indigenous peoples are of apparent Polynesian descent, but their local legends tell of an earlier race of a “long eared” people with “taller skulls, brighter skin, and of course a very different cultural heritage. They spoke a non-Polynesian language and according to the known tradition, it was they and only they, who knew the secret of writing.”69 These “long-ears” were, according to local tradition, white skinned and red haired!70 This tradition was confirmed by the first permanent European settler on the island, the French priest Eugene Eyraud, who began a campaign of burning the wooden tablets containing the Rongo Rongo script. Eyraud observed that the local natives were not able to read the writing, confirming the idea that the “long-ears” kept the secret of reading the writing to themselves.71 According to the islanders’ traditions, “the first king, Hotu Matua, brought with him 67 most precious tablets from their land of origin in the west.”72
This tradition is very suggestive, for it indicates not only that the Easter Islanders maintained that they came to the Island “from the West,” i.e., across the Pacific, but that part of the purpose may have been to bring priceless records of some sort to the island, and perhaps from thence, elsewhere. In any case, this tradition is also suggestive of another possible connection to the West, and to the celebrated Sumerian “Tablets of Destinies,” the terrible objects of power with which and over which the “gods” fought a tremendous war, upon the conclusion of which, some were destroyed and others were taken “elsewhere.”73
If bringing some priceless records was the purpose of the migration to Easter Island, then there is a sort of logic to it, if the purpose was to prevent such records from falling into the wrong hands by hiding them in a remote place, for one cannot get much more remote than Easter Island.
That there was some sort of hidden purpose behind the migration to this remote and desolate place is evident from the fact that the semi-triangular island itself covers only about 45 square miles, and from the fact that its hard igneous rock contains little soil suitable for agriculture. Yet, the island contains several distinctive and famous statues of heads — the famous Maoi — weighing as little as 10 or as much as 200 tons,74 all of which are facing the center of the island in order, according to local legend, to protect the island from sinking into the sea as had happened a previous time in the population’s legends.75 All this, of course, has prompted the question of how such a small population in such an isolated place could have quarried and then transported such enormous and finely-carved statues.
Maoi Heads on Easter Island
Maoi Heads on Easter Island
Local legend and tradition does not help much in answering this question, for on Easter Island, just as at various ancient sites on the Grid in Great Britain, the tradition states that the stones moved themselves!
There is, however, a clue as to the means of this movement in local tradition, but that clue opens up yet another mysterious connection between Easter Island and, of all places, Egypt:
…(According) to the legend the stony giants moved “on their own,” to designated places thanks to the magical power called “mana.” regardless of whether it’s true or not, it is, however, nonetheless a fact that the same type of description of motive power emerges in the “second best” place of archaeological mystery in the Pacific, namely Nan Madol — some 10,000 km away to the west (around 6200 miles)…
However this is by no means the end of the puzzling parallels. The mana power was symbolized by a sign that perhaps was supposed to concentrate is, and which was carved out on the backs of some statues. Strangely enough, it bears a striking similarity to the Egyptian magic “ankh” cross, which was supposed to perform the same function.76
Nor is the presence of the strange “ankh-like” symbol the only connection to the distant cultures of the Middle East.
The idea of “bird-men” figured prominently into the cultus of Easter Island and its traditions.77 This chimerical concept even appears as a heiroglyph in the Rongo Rongo script itself.78 This bird- man symbol was perhaps the hieroglyph for the islanders’ chief god, Make Make, who lived in the sky and who had such a command over the mysterious “mana” force that he was isolated, because his power over the mana was dangerous.79 Make Make’s dangerous control or use of the mana force was manifest in lightning, “exactly the same motif associated with the main Andean god, Viracocha,”80 and, for that matter, the similar association of the principle god of Greece — Zeus — with thunderbolts, and the Mesopotamian gods Ninurta and Nergal with the same thing.81
Moreover, there are other strange connections of the “bird-men” gods to the Middle East. One need only think of the depiction of the Egyptian god of sci
ence and wisdom, Thoth:
Similar chimerical bird-man depictions are also found in Mesopotamia:
Mesopotamian Bird-Man
It would thus appear then that in addition to a world-wide grid phenomenon that we are also confronted with the global extent of more or less the same religious and mythological images accompanying it.
2. The Mystery of Mohenjo Daro
Nowhere is this better in evidence than in the suggestive ruins of Mohenjo Daro in India. We have already encountered the local legends of Viracocha suddenly destroying the civilization of Tiahuanaco by “deadly rays,” with “lightning.” Make Make, Easter Island’s chief “sky god” similarly wields lightning, and its Rongo Rongo script connects it directly to the Indus Valley Civilization.
The ruins of Mohenjo Daro are gruesome testimony that such a deliberate act of mass destruction by some sort of technologically advanced means may have actually once happened, for at Mohenjo Daro one finds a city and citadel designed with modern plumbing, sewers, and an intricacy of planning and sophistication that boggle the imagination, as a glance at its street plan will demonstrate:
Street Plan of Mohenjo Daro in the Indus Valley
The Ruins of the Central Citadel of Mohenjo Daro
However, the most peculiar thing about the ruins of the city is the fact that, lying strewn about its molten, vitrified ruins are several human skeletons laying in the streets, some even holding hands, as if caught in some sudden catastrophe while going about their daily business:
The Skeletons of Mohenjo Daro
Archaeologists investigating the area discovered a layer of radioactive ash near the region in Rajastan, India, covering an area of three square miles. So high were the levels of radiation that the Indian government cordoned the region off.82 Digging further they discovered evidence of an atomic blast that occurred between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago.83 One of the skeletons of Mohenjo Daro was discovered to have a level of radioactivity some “50 times greater than it should have been due to natural radiation.”84
Vicacocha’s “deadly rays,” indeed!
Surveying this gruesome scene, one is reminded of the chilling words in the Indian epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, depicting an ancient “war of the gods”:
Gurkha, flying in a swift and powerful vimana,
Hurled a single projectile,
Charged with all the power of the universe,
An incandescent column of smoke and flame,
As bright as ten thousand suns,
Rose with all its splendour.
It was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.
Hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white…85
(It was a weapon) so powerful
That it could destroy the earth in an instant —
A great soaring sound in smoke and flames —
And on it sits death…86
Dense arrows of flame,
Like a great shower,
Issued forth upon creation,
Encompassing the enemy….
A thick gloom swiftly settled upon the Pandava hosts.
All the points of the compass were lost in darkness.
Fierce winds began to blow.
Clouds roared upward
Showering dust and gravel
…
The earth shook,
Scorched by the terrible violent heat of this weapon.
…
From all points of the compass
The arrows of flame rained continuously and fiercely.87
In my book The Giza Death Star I noted that these texts “are more than suggestive of the effects and results of the use of nuclear weapons,” including the loss of hair and teeth88 and the reduction of glass and pottery to a fragile brittleness due to exposure to high neutron and gamma radiation.
But I also suggested that a closer examination of certain details of these texts hinted at some other kind of weapon, one that could indeed “hurl lightning” in a concentrated bolt of plasma, rather like squeezing the blast effects of a hydrogen bomb through a pipe, the “most significant” of those “suggestive phrases” being those which clearly stated that one was dealing “not with many nuclear bombs,” but with “one single weapon.”89 Additionally, other phrases suggested something other than nuclear or thermonuclear weapons:
1) “all the power of the universe” suggested a weapon somehow reliant upon the energy of space-time itself;
2) “the earth shook” suggests — if one take the phrase in the sense that “earth” means the entire planet, and not simply “land” — suggests that the entire planet’s energy was utilized or affected;
3) “arrows of flame” that radiate “from all points of the compass” suggest, again, a radiant energy converging on a target by means of electromagnetic interferometry.90
I concluded that the Hindu epics, in addition to plausible descriptions of nuclear weaponry in the conventional sense, were also describing a weapon based upon the ability to manipulate the physical medium itself.91
We now have an odd constellation of facts indicating a relationship between whatever high civilization was behind the ruins of Puma Punkhu, Easter Island, and the Indus valley, among which are mythological parallels between Viracocha and the gods of the rest of the world, the similarity of construction methods between Easter Island and Tiahuanaci and Puma Punkhu on the one hand, and the Rongo Rongo script connecting it to the Indus Valley on the other.
To this high strangeness we may now add yet a further piece of evidence that suggests a common civilization of in high antiquity, dispersed, for whatever reason, across the globe, and that is liguistics. Witkowski points out that his countryman, Professor Benon Szalek, made a comparison of the common word roots of Basque, Hungarian, and…Japanese! From this he concluded that “these peoples must have been subjected to the influence of some single state organism — or that they were once part of it.”92 Or perhaps we are in the presence of the influence of a hidden elite or elites with a common cultural origin?
Howsoever one answers that question, Prof. Szalek’s linguistic investigations revealed something else, namely, that whatever connections as once existed between these groups was broken ca. 7000 BC.93 In other words, if there was to be any “Tower of Babel Moment” in human history, it most likely occurred prior to 7000 BC.
By now one will have noticed a peculiar thing: all the dates with which we have been concerned point to something pre-existing the ancient high civilizations of Sumer, Egypt, and the Indus Valley, and over and over again there is the fixation upon the date of 10,500 BC, within which the atomic layer of ash in India fits. Even the linguistic evidence suggests that “something catastrophic” happened to put an end to whatever civilization as may have existed in this time frame. But there can be no doubt that something existed, and that it was something of great technological sophistication, for the ruins of Puma Punkhu clearly suggest it.
3. The Mysterious Connections Deepen: Nan Madol, Mohenjo Daro, and Easter Island
Nan Madol, which might justifiably be called the ancient Venice of the Pacific, and whose name means “in the middle of the way” in the ancient Dravidic tongue,94 lies just slightly off-center of that “axis of the world” stretching from Mohenjo Daro to Easter Island. A veritable pile of ancient stone ruins and canals spread across islands in the southeastern Pacific, Nan Madol is another one of those places where the closer one looks, the more the mysteries multiply.
Dotted with stepped pyramids about 30 feet high and various stone platforms, one of the most curious features of Nan Madol is that basalt roads emanate from many of these pyramids and lead “straight into the ocean!” As if that were not enough, one of thes
e roads emerges from its submerged journey one thousand miles away at the island of Rarotonga,95 a fact that strongly indicates that the area was once above water.
Like other spots on the Grid, Nan Madol and the wider Polynesian culture also has its traditions associated with certain sites, and in this case, two traditions interest us. Like Easter Island, where the giant Maoi head statues were said to have moved by themselves by some mysterious force called “mana,” the stone blocks of the pyramids at Nan Madol, weighting several tons, were said to have been “moved and raised by magic.”96
The second tradition, however, brings into stark relief yet another mystery associated with the Grid. Viracocha, the “sun-god” whom we previously encountered, was also the great “civilizer” god of the Incas, and was said to be white-skinned, bearded, and blue-eyed. As we shall discover in the next two chapters, the same claim is made for the civilizing god of the Mayans and Aztecs, Kukulcan and Quetzlcoatl.