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154 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
inhabiting the Pyrenees regions of both France and Spain, have
a rare blood group pattern that is found only among other
people speaking strange dialects and living near ancient menhirs
and dolmens. Could this be the blood of the Atlantans or even
the divine blood transmitted by the astronauts?
Above all there are the traditions that mark these people as
groups of fearless seafarers inured to gales and tidal waves during
a fabulous past. In order to navigate the oceans, this Atlantic
race naturally needed the precise calculations of sunset and
moonrise and the tables that showed them where they were during
their voyages. To establish these tables, they needed observatories
and they built them at Stonehenge, in England, at Carnac,
in France, and elsewhere.
The possibiHty that survivors of the sunken Atlantis found refuge
on the east Atlantic coasts and islands 12,000 years ago may
also explain why the oldest among the world's sacred texts and
legends mention dates much further in the past than the oldest
Mediterranean civilizations or even the Egyptian pyramids.
We
could here examine some of the most distant dates and try to
find if there is some correlation or even a similar method of reckoning
among them.
Diogenes Laertius, the Greek historian, mentions the year
49,214 before our era as the beginning of the astronomical
archives of the Egyptians. This is the oldest recorded date that I
know of. Next to it are the dates of the cave paintings in Lascaux
and Altamira going back at least 27,000 years. The age of
Tiahuanaco seems to be the same, but we have no precise data.
But in 839 B.C. Babylonian priests recorded the start of the first
Babylonian dynasty after the first deluge at the very early date
of 24,989 B.C. Next in line of recorded documents is the indication
in the Vatican Codex that the first Mayan calendar started
in 18,633 B.C. The last cycle, begun in 3144 B.C., is to end in the
year 2020 of our era.
The Aztecs counted their time in the same way as the Mayas,
by the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, but their cycles and
the departure dates of these cycles were different.
If the translations
in the Vatican Codex are correct, we live now in the fifth
cycle since the creation of the world. The first Aztec cycle, according
to the same Vatican source, should have lasted 202 con-