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OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
stroying fofever the great archaeological value that these relics
possessed.
Much of the evidence we now seek may have been
destroyed centuries ago.
Luckily, however, there is one object, the only one that I
know, that in my opinion comes from fabled Atlantis. It is
unique at this moment and the only one of its kind in the whole
world. It is the ceramic disk of Phaistos, thousands of years old,
discovered by Sir Arthur Evans in the 1890s in the southern part
of Crete under a thick layer of volcanic ashes. This ceramic disk,
about 20 cm in diameter, is covered on both sides with hieroglyphs
that nobody so far has been able to decipher.
The characters are displayed in a spiral form, starting in the
center and turning counterclockwise. The signs
are clustered in
groups of one to seven, separated by a stroke. The virgules, as
well as the spiral line that encloses the characters, are engraved.
The signs themselves have been impressed in the soft clay by a
stamp or a seal. Judging by the fine detail of these seals, they
must have been made of metal and so immediately one is
reminded of the mysterious gold tablet of Cuenca with its fiftysix
hieroglyphs struck in the soft gold before it solidified, in
order not to alter the standard weight.
Thirty of the undeciphered sign groups on the Phaistos
disk
are on one side, thirty-one on the other, which could suggest that
it is a calendar based on alternating thirty- and thirty-one-day
months, coming into phase every four years with the solar year.
The cycle of such a calendar would be 1,461 days or twentyseven
months of thirty days each and twenty-one months of
thirty-one days each. The hieroglyphs for each day could represent
either the name of the day or what had to be done that day.
Some scientists even think the disk may have been a navigational
table. But so far nobody has been lucky enough to decipher and
explain its use and significance. Neither can I, despite my conviction
that this artifact stems from the fabled Atlantis and is proof
of that continent's existence, as were the stone pavements found
under water near Bimini.
The discovery near Bimini, in the Bahamas, incidentally, occurred
just as predicted by the famous American seer Edgar
Cayce, who in 1923 said that a temple of Atlantis would be
found under water near Bimini in 1968. Even for someone who is