9. William Sullivan, The Secret of the Incas, Crown, New York, 1996, p. 119.
10. Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon-Tiki Expedition, op. cit., p. 141.
11. Reported by David Hatcher Childress in Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific, Adventures Unlimited Press 1988, p. 313.
12. Reported by Harold Osborne in Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas, Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1952, p. 64.
13. Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon-Tiki Expedition, op. cit., p. 140.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 140.
16. See my interview with Heyerdahl in Graham Hancock, Underworld, Michael Joseph, London, 2002, pp. 35–6.
17. Tepe means hill in the Turkish language and “the Turkish word Göbek means navel or belly,” Klaus Schmidt, Göbekli Tepe, A Stone-Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia, Ex Oriente, Berlin, 2012, p. 88. See also https://narinnamkn.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/portasar-or-gobekli-tepe-portasaris-the-old-name-of-what-is-now-called-gobekle-tepe-which-is-a-direct-translation-of-armenian-portasar/ and http://www.ancient.eu/article/234/ and http://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html.
18. For a more detailed discussion of the archaeological dating of the Moai of Easter Island see Graham Hancock and Santha Faiia, Heaven’s Mirror, Michael Joseph, London, 1998, pp. 227–8.
19. Father Sebastian Englert, Island at the Center of the World: New Light on Easter Island, Robert Hale & Co., London, 1970, p. 45.
20. Francis Maziere, Mysteries of Easter Island, op. cit., p. 40.
21. Ibid., p. 41.
22. Science News, Vol. 89, No. 15, 9 April 1966, p. 239.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. R. Menzies, Duke University Marine Laboratory and Edward Chin, Marine Laboratory of Texas A&M University, Cruise Report, Research Vessel Anton Bruun, Cruise 11, cited here: http://huttoncommentaries.com/article.php?a_id=59 and http://huttoncommentaries.com/article.php?a_id=59#Footnotes.
26. Robert M. Schoch, PhD, Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 2012, p. 77.
27. Ibid.
28. See Thor Heyerdahl, Easter Island: The Mystery Solved, Souvenir Press, London, 1989, pp. 234–5.
29. Pitcairn Island (area 47 square kilometers) and Mangareva (area 15.4 square kilometers) are closer, the former standing at a distance of 2,075 kilometers and the latter at a distance of 2,606 kilometers, but this is still too far for these tiny islands to have contributed to the sedimentation load received by Easter Island.
30. Robert M. Schoch, PhD, Forgotten Civilization, op. cit., pp. 78–9.
31. For a discussion see Thor Heyerdahl, Easter Island: The Mystery Solved, op. cit., p.80ff.
32. Translations of Watu Palindo’s name as “The Entertainer,” given on a number of internet sources, are spurious. “The Wise Man” is the correct translation. See Iksam, “The Spread of Megalithic Remains in Central Sulawesi as Part of Austronesian Heritage,” Presentation at National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung, Taiwan, 12 March 2012.
33. Personal communications during research trip with Iksam Kailey.
34. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=26496.
35. Iksam, “The Spread of Megalithic Remains” op. cit.
36. For supporting arguments concerning the connection of this type of art to psychedelic experiences see Graham Hancock, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, Century, London, 2005.
37. Tubagus Solihuddin, “A Drowning Sunda Shelf Model during Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene: A Review,” Indonesian Journal of Geoscience, Vol. I, No. 2, August 2014, pp. 99–107.
38. Ibid., p. 102.
39. See Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Plato Never Lied: Atlantis in Indonesia, Booknesia, Jakarta, 2013.
40. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm.
41. Cited in http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm.
42. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm.
43. http://wakeup-world.com/2014/10/14/hieroglyphics-experts-declare-ancient-egyptian-carvings-in-australia-authentic/.
44. R.T. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, London, 1959, p. 222.
45. Ibid., pp. 246–7.
46. Ibid., p. 140.
47. Patrick Boylan, Thoth: The Hermes of Egypt, London, 1922, reprint edition by Ares Publishers, Chicago, 1987, p. 155.
48. Personal communication from Danny Natawidjaja, PhD.
49. “Archaeologists slam excavation of Gunung Padang Site,” Jakarta Post, 24 September 2014: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/24/archaeologists-slam-excavation-gunung-padang-site.html.
50. Ibid.
51. Email from Danny Hilman Natawidjaja to Graham Hancock, 2 October 2014.
52. Ibid.
53. “Archaeologists slam excavation of Gunung Padang Site,” Jakarta Post, 24 September 2014: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/24/archaeologists-slam-excavation-gunung-padang-site.html.
54. Email from Danny Hilman Natawidjaja to Graham Hancock, 14 January 2015.
55. Email from Danny Hilman Natawidjaja to Graham Hancock, 10 March 2015.
56. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Plato Never Lied, op. cit. and Professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos, Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found, Lynwood, WA, USA, 2011.
57. Michael Carrington Westaway, Arthur C. Durband et al, “Mandubular Evidence supports Homo floresiensis as a distinct species,” PNAS, Vol. 112, No 7, 17 February 2015, pp. E604–5.
58. M.J. Morwood, R.P. Soejono et al, “Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia,” Nature (431), 28 October 2004, pp. 1087–91.
59. M. Aubert, A. Brumm et al, “Pleistocene Cave Art from Sulawesi, Indonesia,” Nature (514), 9 October 2014, pp. 223–77.
60. Josephine C.A. Joordens, Francisco d’Errico et al, “Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving,” Nature (518), 12 February 2015, pp. 228–31.
61. Phil Grabsky, The Lost Temple of Java, Orion, London, 1999, p. 16.
62. Luis Gómez and Hiram W. Woodward Jr., Barabudur: History and Significance of a Buddhist Monument, Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series, 1981, p. 21.
63. Phil Grabsky, The Lost Temple of Java, op. cit., p. 17.
64. Jan J. Boeles, The Secret of Borobudur, J.J.B. Press, Bangkok, 1985, p. 1 and XIX.
65. Caesar Voute, Mark Long, Fitra Jaya Burnama, Borobudur: Pyramid of the Cosmic Buddha, D.K. Printworld Ltd., Delhi, 2008, p. 198.
66. Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and its Transmission through Myth, Nonpareil Books, 1977, reprinted 1999, p. 132.
67. G.R.S. Mead, Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, Samuel Weiser Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1992 (Reprint Edition in One Volume), Book II: A Translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature, p. 55.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid., Book III: Excerpts and Fragments, p. 60.
73. Ibid., p. 61. Mead translates this passage as follows: “O holy books, who have been made by my immortal hands, by incorruption’s magic spells free from decay throughout eternity remain and incorrupt from time! Become unseeable, unfindable, for everyone whose foot shall tread the plains of this our land, until old Heaven shall bring forth meet instruments for you…” I have chosen, here, to use the same passage from the Sir Walter Scott translation—Sir Walter Scott (Ed. and Trans.), Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, Shambhala, Boston, 1993, p. 461.
74. Ibid., p. 461, footnote 4.
Chapter 19
1. Plato, Timaeus and Critias, Penguin Books, London, 1977, Critias, p. 145.
2. Sir Walter Scott (Ed. and Trans.) Hermetica, Shambhala, Boston, 1993, p
. 345.
3. Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley (Eds.) from the translation of Adrian Recinos, Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991, p. 168.
4. Ibid., p. 169.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 90.
7. Ibid., p. 93.
8. Ibid., p. 178.
9. Ibid., p. 155.
10. Gerald P. Verbrugghe and John M. Wickersham (Eds.), Berossos and Manetho, University of Michigan Press, 1999, p. 44.
11. Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley (Eds.) Popol Vuh, op. cit., p. 156.
12. Ibid., p. 78, note 3.
13. R.T. Rundle Clark, The Origin of the Phoenix, op. cit., p. 1; Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis, Vol. 2, Black Classic Press, Baltimore, 1998 (Reprint Edition) p. 340.
14. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of the Center for Archaeoastronomy, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–4, January–December 1985, p. 99.
15. See, for example, Gerrit L. Verschuur, Impact: The Threat of Comets and Asteroids, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1996, p. 55. See also Duncan Steel, Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995, p. 15ff.
16. Quoted in Julie Cohen, “Nanodiamonds Are Forever: A UCSB professor’s research examines 13,000-year-old nanodiamonds from multiple locations across three continents,” The Current, UC Santa Barbara, 28 August 2014. See http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014368/nanodiamonds-are-forever.
17. Personal correspondence with Allen West. Email from West to Hancock dated 19 December 2014.
18. Ibid., email from Hancock to West dated 8 January 2015.
19. Ibid., email from West to Hancock dated 8 January 2015.
20. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, Basil Blackwell, London, 1990, p. 12.
21. Ibid., pp. 12–13.
22. Ibid.
23. W.M. Napier, “Palaeolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 405, Issue 3, 1 July 2010 pp. 1901–6. The complete paper can be read online here: http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/405/3/1901.full.pdf+html?sid=19fd6cae-61a0-45bd-827b-9f4eb877fd39, and downloaded as a pdf here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003:0744.pdf. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., pp. 150–3. See also Gerrit L. Verschuur, Impact, op. cit., p. 136.
24. See W.M. Napier, “Palaeolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex,” op. cit. See also William C. Mahaney, David Krinsley, Volli Kalm, “Evidence for a Cosmogenic Origin of Fired Glaciofluvial Beds in the Northwestern Andes: Correlation with Experimentally Heated Quartz and Feldspar,” Sedimentary Geology 231 (2010), pp. 31–40.
25. For the high probability that both the beginning and the end of the Younger Dryas were caused by impacts of different fragments from the same giant comet see Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramsinghe, Life on Mars? The Case for a Cosmic Heritage, Clinical Press Ltd., Bristol, 1997, pp. 176–7. See also Gerrit Verschuur, Impact, op. cit., p. 139.
26. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., pp. 244, 275–7. See also Duncan Steel, Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, op. cit., pp. 132–3.
27. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., p. 153.
28. Ibid., p. 147.
29. Ibid., pp. 150–1.
30. Ibid., pp. 149–50.
31. Ibid., p. 149.
32. Jacqueline Mitton, Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy, Penguin Books, London, 1993, pp. 84–5; Duncan Steel, Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, John Wiley and Sons, 1995, p. 133.
33. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Serpent, Faber and Faber, London, 1982, p. 151; Bailey, Clube, Napier, The Origin of Comets, Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., 1990, p. 398; Clube and Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., p. 150.
34. Sir Fred Hoyle, Lifecloud: Origin of the Universe, Dent, 1978, pp. 32–3.
35. Emilio Spedicato, Apollo Objects, Atlantis and other Tales, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 1997, p. 12.
36. Ibid., pp. 12–13.
Index
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A
Abu Hureya site
Adair, Aaron
Adam, Jean-Pierre
Airyana Vaejo
Akapana
Al-Battani
Al-Masudi
Alden, W.C.
Alouf, Michael
Alt, David
ancient astronaut theories
Ancient Egypt
Annus, Amar
antediluvian knowledge
Apkallu see Seven Sages
Ariastika, Wisnu
Asagi Yarimca
astrological ages
astronomy
Atlantis
autumn equinox, Göbekli Tepe
Ayahuasca
B
Baalbek
Bada Valley
Baines, John
Baker, Victor R.
Balabanova, S.
Bar Hebraeus, Gregory
Batuman, Elif
Bauval, Robert
Belmonte, Juan Antonio
Benben
Berossos
betyls
Black Mat impact
black rain
Black Stone, of the Ka’aba
Bloody Creek Structure
Bolling-Allerod interstadial
Book of Jubilees
Bori Parindang site
Borobudur temple
Boslough, Mark
Breasted, James Henry
Bretz, J Harlan
Broecker, Wallace
Bruce, James
Builder Gods
Burley, Paul
Byblos
C
calibrated dating
Candi Sukuh temple
Carlson, Randall
catastrophist geology
Charity Shoal
Charles, R.H.
Chehab, Emir Maurice
chullapas
Clark Fork ice dam
climate change
Clovis people
Clube, Victor
Colavito, Jason
Collins, Andrew
Columbia Plateau
column drums
comet impact theory see Younger Dryas comet
comets
Constantine, Emperor
continental drift
Conway, Thor
core drilling
Coricancha temple
Corossol Crater
crepidoma
Cutimbo site
Cuzco
D
Dead Sea Scrolls
Delphi
Demir, Omer
Dendara
Deneb
Derinkuyu site
Dijk, Jacobus van
Dome of the Rock
Douaihy, Estfan El
Dry Falls
E
earth crust displacement/instability
earth measuring
Easter Island
Edfu Building Texts
Edwards, I.E.S.
El Fraile monolith
Emiliani, Cesare
Enki
Enlil
Enoch
Environment of Violence
Epic of Gilgamesh
equinox sunset
erratics
eugenics
extinction events
F
Faiia, Santha
Fiedel, S.J.
finger lakes
Fingerprints of the Gods
Firestone, Richard
floods
Ancient Egyptian legend
Easter Island legend
Flores island legend
Hebrew legend
and human behavior
Mayan legend
Mesopotamian legend
Sumerian legend
> Zoroastrian legend
Flores island
framboids
Freemasonry
frictional connection
G
Gamarra, Jesus
Garcilaso
Gardiner, Sir Alan
geophysical surveys
giants on earth
Gilluly, James
Giza Surface Luminescence Dating study
global cataclysms
global temperature change (Younger Dryas period)
Göbekli Tepe site
Golden Gate of the ecliptic
golden navel stone
Gosford Glyphs
Great Primeval Mound
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Sphinx of Giza
Great Year
Green, F.W.
Greenland ice cores
Griffiths, John Gwyn
Gunung Padang site
Gurshtein, Alexander
H
Haik
Hakem, Ibn Abd El
Hale, Rodney
hallucinogenic DMT powders
Hamlet’s Mill
Hanan Pacha period
Hansen, Oscar
Hapgood, Charles
Haran, Menahem
Harran
Hasmonean Tunnel
Hassan, Selim
Hawass, Zahi
Heaven’s Mirror
Heiser, Michael S.
Heliopolis
Henen-Nesut (Heracleopolis)
Hermes
Hermetica
Heyerdahl, Thor
Higgins, M.D.
Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Hogan, Timothy
Holcombe, Troy
Homeland of the Primeval Ones
Hoover Dam
Horus
houses in the sky
Hoyle, Fred
human history
Hunt, C. Warren
I
Ice Age
Idris
Inca de La Vega, Garcilaso
Incas
initiatic brotherhoods
Intihuatana rock
Inventory Building
Inventory Stela
Island of the Ka
Isle of Fire
Itoh, Kazumasa
J
Jacobs, James Q.
Java
Jenkins, John Major
jökulhlaups
K
Kailey, Iksam
Kalamba
Kalasasaya
Kalayan, Haroutune
Karahan Tepe site
Keeper of Genesis
Kennett, James
Khorenatsi, Moses
Khufu
Kinzie, Carles R.
Knibb, Michael A.
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