Secret_History

Chapter 11: Time 473
We have looked at the Americas as the possible ancient empire of Atlantis. It is
now time to reiterate certain observations. We have noted earlier that the practice
of human sacrifice seems to have originated and spread in the Southern
Hemisphere. We have also noted that human sacrifice was most closely associated
with Solar deities. The further north you go, the less importance the Sun had, the
more importance the Moon was given, and the incidence of human sacrifice
diminished. At certain points, where the two “types” mingled, it was not
uncommon to find Moon worship associated with human sacrifice, or Sun worship
divorced from Human Sacrifice. But what is evident from tracking the myths and
folktales and artifacts, is that Human Sacrifice was primarily a Southern
Hemisphere production. It would be almost impossible to track the ancient peoples
with firm accuracy, but the point is that there is evidence that the religion of the
Jews came from South America via India to the Middle East, bringing its
bloodthirsty, flesh flaying, genital mutilating god along.
At the same time, we find megalithic structures on Malta that predate the deluge,
and the conical pyramids of Rock Lake, Wisconsin, connected to similar structures
on the Canary Islands. We have tracked our long-legged Cro-magnon types across
Europe to Central Asia and back again. And we most certainly suspect that they
were inhabitants of North America as well. We have found the shamanic goddess
worshipping peoples of Central Asia, shepherds and horsemen and husbandmen of
the land.
What happened to the peoples of North and South America? Where was
“Athens”? How did the “Athenians” defeat the evil empire of Atlantis?
When we contemplate these questions, what comes to mind is that amazing,
ancient tale of the Ark, represented in a hundred tales down through the millennia
as any number of things from five smooth stones picked up from a stream flung by
a young lad at a giant, after which he cut off his head, to the head of a Gorgon held
up as a weapon to turn the wicked into stone. We find a reflection of the idea of
being “turned to stone” in the story of Lot’s escape from the wicked cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah where, when his wife hesitated and looked back, she was
turned to a pillar of salt. In the legend of Perseus, just looking at Medusa would
turn one to stone.
As we review the myths and legends, we find that strange story of the Sumerians
about the theft of the “tablet of destinies”, which connects us to the golden tablets
of the Aesir of Snorri Sturlson, and the Emerald tablets of Hermes, from which we
move on to the tablets of the law in the Ark. Then we come in a circle to the idea
of the “law bearer” or Ark, as the Thesmophoria of the Eleusinian mysteries
celebrated only by women - and the woman was represented as a doorway, a delta
- a cross even - from which the hanged man, Odin, hung for nine days to receive
the secrets of the Goddess, the runes, and for which he sacrificed his eye to drink
from the spring of wisdom. What a tangled web.
Speaking of webs, when we consider the possibility that all of our dating
methods might be useless if the earth has been repeatedly subjected to cataclysmic
- including nuclear- events, we are then free to consider Tiahuanaco as possibly
being a surviving Atlantean city. We have only Plato’s discussions upon which to
speculate about the Atlanteans, and we will come to that soon enough. For the
moment, we certainly wish we could query the silent stones about the past. The