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THE MYSTEBY OF ATLANTIS 183
strated by the way they did their astronomical calculations
and
by the systems of measurement they developed. Obviously, they
all observed the same stars and planets. Yet the fact that they
made the calculations in exactly the same way and that from
among so many other possible combinations in the movements of
the celestial bodies they chose the very same conjunctions of the
same planets is more than striking. It just could not have happened
imless the Sumerians, the Egyptians, and Incas, the
Aztecs, and the Mayas had either evolved from one central civilization,
or were in constant contact with each other. And if there
was a common center, it had to be a land in between the two
sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the sunken continent of Atlantis.
Another equally striking similarity was the sun worship of the
Egyptians and the Mayas, both of whom believed that their
kings were sons of the sun god, even though the Egyptians,
being more civilized, did not practice human sacrifice.
Since the
Egyptians did not colonize the Mayas or vice versa, the only logical
explanation is that both cultures developed from a sun cult in
a land of common origin, probably an island in the Atlantic.
Finally,
stone block edifices,
on both sides of the Atlantic we find identical huge
built of cut pieces so heavy that even our
present-day equipment cannot move them. If anybody doubts
this, let him remember what happened only a few years ago,
when an international task force helped save the gigantic Abu
Simbel statues before completion of the Aswan High Dam in
Egypt. The statues had to be cut into pieces for lifting and transportation.
On the west side of the Atlantic similar huge blocks were used
at Cuzco and Tiahuanaco and also at the newly discovered underwater
constructions near Bimini. On the east side we have the
pyramids of Egypt and the gigantic stone slabs of Baalbek
in Lebanon, a temple of totally unknown origin. The ruins of
Baalbek, at an altitude of 3,800 feet, stand on a platform built of
enormous stone blocks weighing more than 800 tons each. None
of todays machines could move these megaliths or Hft them.
Such blocks must have been put in place either by giants or by
beings of a civilization that knew the secrets of levitation and antigravity.