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1960 cont.
A Letter From Professor Marcel Homet,
You will be interested to know that my book the 'Son of the
Sun' has been published in
News from the USSR, by Dr. N. Zhirov in
his Cave Paintings in the Urals
The Soviet biologist and speleologist Alexander Rumm,
reports having discovered in the Kapova cave in the South Urals a series of
cave paintings made by man in the Orignac-Solutre-Madgalaine periods. The
paintings were found in the Upper Levels of the Cave at a point, which was very
difficult of access. They included pictures of cave bears, wolves, hyenas, red
deer, Przevalski horses, and other animals. What was of great interest were the
paintings of saber toothed tigers, of true elephants with short pro-boscis, and
of tropical antelopes. These present an enigma for, as far as we know, the
saber-toothed tiger became extinct several hundred thousands of years ago,
while the tropical animals did not live in the Urals in the Pleistocine. The
pictures are very old and are coated with a transparent caliciferous layer. The
cave is rich in drawings in red ochre. All the walls and ceilings of this upper
chamber are covered with them. They are of all periods: Orignac, Solutre,
Magdalenian, each with its typical peculiarities, frequently one on top of the
other. Near the cavern were discovered a rock formation resembling the Egyptian
Sphinx. It would appear possible that here also was a sancuary of the nature of
that discovered on the Marahusi Plateau by Dr. Daniel Ruzo. The Academy of
Science of the USSR is sending a special expedition to the cave in order to
study it. A report on the matter was written by Yu. Guriev and published in
Isvestia for 27.12.59.
The Existence of Lemuria in the Indian
Ocean, By E. Sykes
We have just received a note from Dr. N. Th. Zhirov, to the
effect that professor V. Bogorov, Corresponding Member of the Academy of
Sciences of the USSR, Chief of the Soviet Oceanographical Expedition on the
ship 'Vitiaz' has communicated in a recent article in the press that while
working in the Indian Ocean this expedition has found not only a new great
submarine elevations but also individual submarine mountains.
In the Western part of the Indian Ocean cores taken from
the sea bottom at a depth of 5 kilometers showed a layer of sand under a
deposit of two meters of ordinary ocean silt. The Professor thinks this is a
trace of the former Lemuria. He points out that the many small islands and
banks in the Northern waters of the Indian Ocean may also well be traces of this
lost continent. Dr. Zhirov thinks that this Lemuria may be the mythical mother
country of Sumarian Legend, the Snake Island of the Egyptian story, and to be
linked with some of the archaeological cultures of East Africa.
Webmaster Note-It seems two different Lemurias' have to be
distinguished from one or the other the Indian Ocean one and the Pacific one.
As to the Snake Island, and Dilmun or Punt Land's Prince as the island being in
the Indian Ocean is possible, but a confusion of stories had occurred. Note
that the serpent of the island was plumed, a more Atlantic or Atlantis side of
the African identity, yet the prince sails from Punt which is on the Indian
Ocean side where his journey started from. We may consider the twin Ethiopic
atlantis's were extended empires of Atlantis from the Atlantic who moved in a
eastward tract of migration. Lemuria may have already existed and at this point
had only its final islands to supply some influence upon by the Atlantic born
Atlanteans. The Indian Ocean would thus mark the melting pot of Atlantean and
Lemurian trade, which may have had serpent worship as the common thread. In
this case the Cobra began to be depicted as winged like the Sun where as
opposed to the Atlantic plumed serpent who was not a Cobra but was more of a
sea ader, or south american flying ader in serpent variety. The symbols seem to
have been heraldic and amalgamated yet the kingdoms in origin began differently
from the other. The other aspect; outside of the above discussion, is the fact
involving the fascination of slender objects being able to fly by early man's
observations such as the boomerang, and living flying species (like the flying
serpent, or flying fish). This might show a very early indication of interest
in mimicking crude kites to fly with. Early Man figured if a snake and a fish
can fly why can't he? We think that the making of flying vehicles may have
occurred far earlier then we give credit to possible past civilizations, and
may extend back to at least Paleolithic times. The only evidence offered is
that man may have come across flight earlier then we know can be found in the
point that elephant hide when decomposing if it is enclosed or sealed up with
large amounts of methane may at times almost float or lighten its own outer weight.
When a fire lights this explosion might have sent the hide into movement up
into the air or away from the torch holder, or burning him. That observation
may have given an idea like a balloon to use methane as a fuel to burn under
the elephant hide or using sewn up portions of hide in patterns. The point may
be fantastic or stranger then fiction but when we look at the Paleolithic man
building huts out of the mastodons or mammoth bones in precise configurations,
as if they are in a rude hindenberg zeppelin shapes, the mammoth hide was
covering over the bones and sewn. One wonders if he took that next leap at some
earlier time to be able to experiment with flying. It might have been some
hunting practice gone wrong that may have led to the discovery of a certain
chain of bio-chemical events. The only reason for mentioning this is that E.
Cayce actually cited that the Atlanteans used balloons of mammoth skin, and a
kind of fuel or heat to blow them up. I can envision that a logo like a flying
serpent might be an appropriate symbol on a sail of a ship (Kite) or on a
balloon. So, with this original insignia of this inventor and then it
symbolically pointing back to his fascinations poetically and historically it
was referring to that leader when he had first noted both observations and gave
his discovery for others to use. For you can not see if the topography of
Atlantis was once on a map a plumed serpent unless you are floating high into
the air (unless one was psychic). It reminds me of the affirmation so is it
above, so is it below. These comments above are admitted as speculation at
best.
Who Were the Serpent Clan? E. Sykes end of
1960
Practically every important myth of cosmic disaster and
recreation has some reference to serpents. In some cases, as in the Old
Testament and in the Zoroastrian Legends the serpent ruler survived the
disaster, in others, such as the Eddic story, where the Midgard Serpent
perished, the serpent clan is wiped out. The general impression in the Old
World of the exceptional wisdom and intellect of the serpent clan, brings us to
the question: who were they? Practically the only thing that is certain is that
they were not serpents, any more thatn any other race having an animal or a
bird as its totem. It may therefore be assumed that they were a pre deluge race
of humans, having a serpent as their totem, much as the snake of Asclepius
became the insignia of the medical profession today. Their wisdom did not have
to be superhuman, merely on a slight higher level than that usually prevailing.
Whether they were merely contemporary with the Atlantean culture or whether
they formed a part of it is still a question. Doubtless their technical
achievements formed the basis for many of the stories of flying machines and
the like, which have come down to us. That there was some basis in fact for
them is shown by their prevailing myths of every nation from Ireland to
Hindustan. Even allowing for the exaggeration of subsequent generations of
professional storytellers, there remains a substratum of such matters as
artillery, aircraft, mariner compasses, and the like to enable us to visualize
the potentialities of the era. The reason why these inventions were not
continued was the simple one that any system of technology not only demands the
knowledge of what to do but also the materials and equipment with which to do
it. For example many people know how to build a small radio set provided that
they have available transistors or valves, copper wire, and insulation,
electric supplies, and many kinds of fitments needed. But supposing that
supplies of all these were suddenly cut off by some cosmic disaster. The effort
of staying alive would occupy the attention of most people, and the equipment
salvaged would continue to be used until it wore out. In a few generations the
accomplishments of the past would become a series of fairy tales to amuse
children."
" And this is what seems to have happened here. It
takes between ten and twelve thousand years for a given culture to reach
heights, it only remains to hope that we shall be luckier with ours that some
of our predecessors."
Atlantis and the Ice Age, By
Rene Malaise, D. Sc. 1961 begins
