Saturday 31 January 2015
Friday 30 January 2015
THE SHEMITAH: THE BIBLICAL PATTERN WHICH INDICATES THAT A FINANCIAL COLLAPSE MAY BE COMING IN 2015
ED Noor: There is more to this Shemitah than one might think. I had heard of this event referred to as a "jubilee"but this is the Jewish cabalist mentality we speak of. The information provided is scant but damning although it must be noted that the author being discussed, Jonathan Cahn, is described even in Wiki as a "messianic Jewish rabbi and pastor".
By Michael Snyder
January 30, 2015
Does a mystery that is 3,500 years old hold the key
to what is going to happen to global financial markets in 2015?
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Could it be possible that the timing of major
financial crashes is not just a matter of coincidence? In previous
articles on my website, I have discussed some of the major
economic and financial cycle theories and their proponents. For example,
in an article entitled “If Economic Cycle Theorists Are
Correct, 2015 To 2020 Will Be Pure Hell For The United States“,
I examined a number of economic cycle theories that seem to indicate that the
second half of this decade is going to be a nightmare economically. But
the cycle that I am going to discuss in this article is a lot more
controversial than any of those.
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In his most recent book, Jonathan Cahn (“messianic Jewish rabbi and Pastor”) has demonstrated
that almost all of the major financial crashes in U.S. history are very closely
tied to a seven year pattern that we find in the Bible known as “the
Shemitah”. Since that book was released, I have been asked about this
repeatedly during radio appearances. So in this article I am going to
attempt to explain what the Shemitah is, and what this Biblical pattern seems
to indicate may happen in 2015.
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If you are an atheist, an agnostic, or are
generally sceptical by nature, this article might prove quite challenging for
you. I would ask that you withhold judgment until you have examined the
evidence. When I first heard about these things, I had to go verify the
facts for myself, because they are truly extraordinary.
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So
precisely what is “the Shemitah”?
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In the
Bible, the people of Israel were commanded to let the land lie fallow every
seven years. There would be no sowing and no reaping, and this is
something that God took very seriously. In fact, the failure to observe
these Sabbath years was one of the main reasons cited in the Scriptures for why
the Jewish people were exiled to Babylon in 586 BC.
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But there
was more to the Shemitah year than just letting the land lie fallow.
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On
the last day of the Shemitah year, the people of Israel were instructed to
perform a releasing of debts. We find the following in Deuteronomy chapter 15…
At the end of every seven years you shall grant a relinquishing of debts.
This is the
manner of the relinquishing: Every creditor that has loaned anything to his neighbour
shall relinquish it. He shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother,
because it is called the Lord’s relinquishment.
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This
happened at the end of every seven years on Elul 29 ~ the day right before Rosh
Hashanah on the Biblical calendar.
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So what does
this have to do with us today?
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Well, if you
go back to the last day of the Shemitah year in 2001, you will find that there
was an absolutely horrifying stock market crash.
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On September 17th, 2001 (which was Elul 29 on the Jewish calendar), we
witnessed the greatest one day stock market crash in U.S. history up to that
time. The Dow fell an astounding 684 points, and it was a record that held for precisely
seven years until the end of the next Shemitah year.
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At the end
of the next Shemitah year in 2008,
another horrifying stock market crash took place. On September 29th, 2008
the Dow plummeted 777 points, which still today remains the greatest one
day stock market crash of all time. It turns out that September 29th,
2008 corresponded with Elul 29 on the Jewish
calendar ~ the precise day when the Bible calls for a releasing of
debts.
So on the very last day of the last two Shemitah years, the stock market crashed so badly that it set a brand new all-time record.
And now we
are in another Shemitah year. It began last fall, and it will end next
September.
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Could it be
possible that we will see another historic market crash?
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Author
Jonathan Cahn has correctly pointed out that we should never put God in a
box. Just because something has happened in the past does not mean that
it will happen again. But we should not rule anything out either.
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Perhaps God
is using His calendar to make a point. Cahn believes that if we are going
to see something happen, it will probably occur as the Shemitah year comes to an end…
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Cahn has
pointed that, according to his research, the worst of the worst usually happens
at the end of the Shemitah year, not at the beginning. In fact, the last day of
the year, Elul 29 on the Hebrew calendar, which will occur on Sept. 13, 2015,
is the most dreaded day.
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The pattern
revealed in “The Mystery of the Shemitah” is that the beginning of the
Shemitah’s impact is often subtle, but leads to a dramatic climax.
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“The
beginning may mark a change in direction, even a foreshadow of what will come
to a crescendo at the Shemitah’s end,” he said.
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And this
time around, far more people are paying attention. Back in 2001 and 2008,
most Americans had absolutely no idea what a “Shemitah year” was. But now
it is being talked about on some of the most prominent alternative news
websites on the Internet. For example, the following is what Joseph Farah of WND has to say about the Shemitah year…
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Farah
believes the date Sept. 13, 2015 bears close watching ~ though he is quick to
admit he has no idea what, if anything, will happen in America.
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“A clear
pattern has been established,” he says. “I don’t believe it’s a coincidence
what happened in America on Elul 29 in 2001 and 2008. It would be foolish to
ignore the possibility that a greater judgment might be in the works ~ especially
if America continues to move away from God and His Word.”
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The Shemitah
year that we are in now does end on September 13th, 2015 ~ and that falls on a
Sunday so the markets will be closed.
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But when it
comes to the Shemitah, we aren’t just looking at one particular day.
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And it is
very interesting to note that there will also be a solar eclipse on September
13th, 2015. Over the past century, there have only been two other times
when a solar eclipse has corresponded with the end of a Shemitah year.
Those two times were in 1931 and 1987, and as Jonathan Cahn has told WND, those solar eclipses foreshadowed major
financial disasters…
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In 1931, a solar eclipse took place on Sept. 12 ~ the end of a “Shemitah” year. Eight days later, England abandoned the gold standard, setting off market crashes and bank failures around the world. It also ushered in the greatest month long stock market percentage crash in Wall Street history.
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In 1931, a solar eclipse took place on Sept. 12 ~ the end of a “Shemitah” year. Eight days later, England abandoned the gold standard, setting off market crashes and bank failures around the world. It also ushered in the greatest month long stock market percentage crash in Wall Street history.
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In 1987, a
solar eclipse took place Sept. 23 ~ again the end of a “Shemitah” year. Less
than 30 days later came “Black Monday” the greatest percentage crash in Wall
Street history.
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Is Cahn
predicting doom and gloom on Sept. 13, 2015? He’s careful to avoid a
prediction, saying, “In the past, this ushered in the worst collapses in Wall
Street history. What will it bring this time? Again, as before, the phenomenon
does not have to manifest at the next convergence. But, at the same time, and
again, it is wise to take note.”
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So what is
going to happen this time?
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We will just
have to wait and see.
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But without
a doubt so many of the same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the
financial crash of 2008 are happening again right before
our very eyes.
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It has been
said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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Perhaps you
believe that there is something to “the Shemitah”, or perhaps you think that it
is all a bunch of nonsense.
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But at least
now you know what everyone is talking about. What you choose to do with
this information is up to you.
THE FIRST PEOPLE
Ed Noor: Above, the Colossus of Rhodes. Please enjoy the following from Mathaba a few weeks ago. For those of you who might wonder about some of the current digressions, I am just so fed up with the Chosenites and the mess they are making of everything that now I present whatever I feel like. I am just so bored with them and their one note problems. So here is something just a little different.
By Zakaria Bziker
January
16, 2015
Kenitra ~ `Why should we be so arrogant as to assume that we`re the first homo-sapiens to walk the earth?` (J.J. Abrams et al., 2010)
No
one remembers one’s moment of birth and neither does humanity. The beginning of
man is a scientific mystery. This article, however, is not about how man came
to be, but about shortly after that; it is about the dawn of humanity, a
missing chapter in human history. People, in this forgotten chapter, mapped the
earth and sky long before there were ancient Egyptians or Jews. They are not to
be confused with Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, or Homo Ergaster. Instead,
they are remembered by ancients as ‘gods’ because it is they who first
engineered societies, leaving baffling traces on earth.
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The idea of how humanity’s progress began is relative. Before the enlightenment, human civilizations throughout history viewed the past as glorious and expected the future to simply resemble and repeat the past. Mankind did not think highly of themselves until after Kant declared the motto “Sapere aude,” ~ dare to think for yourself. But the question remains: what is it in our distant past that made the ancients behold it with such impressiveness?
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Scientific
and technological progresses do not necessarily take thousands of years. The
pace can be exponential, slow, or even regressive – exponential through accidental
breakthroughs and inventions, e.g. the 20th century, but slow when impeded by a
major force such as the Roman church or the Black Death that prolonged the dark
ages for a century. Regression occurs due to a massive loss of knowledge, e.g.
the burning of the Alexandria Library in 391 A.D. The idea that scientific and
technological development takes millennia is an impression that we get from our
assessment of the known history. Progress is inevitable and desirable for any
civilization.
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This event resulted in the Dark Ages.
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The progress of science and technology changes the way we live presently as well as how we see the past and future. Our expectations of the future change based partly on the breakthroughs we make and the pace of the scientific development. Our visions of the past, too, change as we develop new ways of investigating facts.
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The progress of science and technology changes the way we live presently as well as how we see the past and future. Our expectations of the future change based partly on the breakthroughs we make and the pace of the scientific development. Our visions of the past, too, change as we develop new ways of investigating facts.
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The
current worldview of the past is that things were primitive, and that mankind
emerged from a state of barbarism to become smarter and more capable. However,
emerging evidence suggests otherwise beginning with Plato’s account of
Atlantis, although, across the past two millennia, his account was considered
fictional.
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In
1882, U.S. Congressman Ignatius Loyola Donnelly published his book ‘Atlantis:
The Antediluvian World’ in which he gathers the then-available evidence in favour
of an early mighty civilization that was far more advanced than they had any
right to be. He mainly studied ancient myths and believed Plato’s account of
Atlantis to be historically accurate. (Image below).
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Forty-seven years later, in 1929, a medieval map called Piri Reis was found at the Imperial Palace library in Constantinople (Istanbul). This map inexplicably depicts, with unprecedented fine details, the continents of South America and Antarctica corresponding to present longitude and latitude albeit it dates back to 1513. It was not until after the Piri Reis map discovery that other maps of high precision started emerging, eg: the Ribero maps 1520-30, the Ortelius map 1570, and the Wright-Molyneux map 1599 (McIntosh, 2000:59).
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Forty-seven years later, in 1929, a medieval map called Piri Reis was found at the Imperial Palace library in Constantinople (Istanbul). This map inexplicably depicts, with unprecedented fine details, the continents of South America and Antarctica corresponding to present longitude and latitude albeit it dates back to 1513. It was not until after the Piri Reis map discovery that other maps of high precision started emerging, eg: the Ribero maps 1520-30, the Ortelius map 1570, and the Wright-Molyneux map 1599 (McIntosh, 2000:59).
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The
Piri Reis map was thought to have been based on Columbus’ explorations, though
he never surveyed South America. Later, Charles Hapgood studied the map
intensively and concluded that a remote and advanced civilization had existed
and mapped the unexplored parts of the world before Columbus’ time (Hapgood,
1966). Hapgood’s unorthodox theory of earth crustal displacement also accounts
for a pre-existent civilized culture in Antarctica. Albert Einstein found that
Hapgood’s ideas had scientific worth (Einstein, 1953).
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Years
later in 1978, Brad Steiger’s book ‘Worlds Before Our Own’ rekindled the issue
of past advanced societies. Steiger studied the OPA (out-of-place artifacts) to
support his theory which challenged the well-accepted idea that if humans were
primitive in the past, common sense then says the deeper one digs down into the
earth the more un-advanced artifacts one finds. What he actually found was that
some advanced human artifacts are located in the lowest primordial geologic
strata whereas primitive ones are located in upper strata (thus labelled
Out-of-Place Artifacts). He also presented evidence that strongly suggests the
cohabitation of dinosaurs and humans. Steiger’s unconventional book fuelled
other subsequent works such as Dead Men’s Secrets (1986), Forbidden Archaeology
(1993), The Orion Mystery (1993), Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), and
Technology of the Gods (1999). But, Steiger’s book was also met with a great
deal of criticism.
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Today,
theories such as Steiger’s, along with supporting evidence, call into question
the current worldview of the first people. When one subscribes to this
unconventional and unaccepted theory of history, one is then driven to
speculate two possible past events that put an end to these historical
societies. Either they were so advanced that they destroyed themselves, or they
were destroyed by a global cataclysm from which a few survived. The first case
seems less probable than the second although there might be some clues that
imply ancient warfare.
“When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand turned to fused green glass. This fact, according to the magazine Free World, has given certain archaeologists a turn. They have been digging in the ancient Euphrates Valley and have uncovered a layer of agrarian culture 8,000 years old, and a layer of herdsman culture much older, and a still older caveman culture. Recently, they reached another layer, a layer of fused green glass” ~ (New York Herald Tribune, 1947)
The
assumption of uniformitarianism makes scientists attribute the current features
of the earth surface to a slow process that took millions of years. The
alternative view however suggests that these features are the result of a
worldwide cataclysm that took place mere thousands of years ago. In this
regard, three pieces of evidence in favour of the past cataclysm will be
discussed.
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First,
we have the problem of the carbon dating method. Most geologists use carbon
dating to determine the age of fossils and geologic strata. The reliability of
this method requires a balance between the forming and decaying of radioactive
carbon that has been maintaining its equilibrium for millions of years in
earth’s atmosphere. However, carbon’s forming and decaying has not even yet
reached equilibrium on earth for the amount of C14 that is being produced is
greater than that which is being decayed. As a result, we cannot use today’s
C14 ratio (0.0000765%) in the atmosphere as a benchmark to measure the presence
of C14 in ancient fossils.
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Plus,
it is hopeless to correlate earth’s epochs with the geologic column since the
latter is based on fiction (Huse, 1983:15; Smith, 2012:242). Vertical petrified
trees are the whistle blower that exposes the invalidity of the geologic column.
Many petrified trees running across multiple geological strata have been
observed in nature which could only suggest that these strata formed in a short
period of time, a result of a rapid cataclysmal sedimentation for example, but
not millions of years (Harold 1969; 1971, Rupke, N.A, 1970).
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Secondly,
there is scientific evidence of a past near-extinction event, also known as
population bottleneck event. The two researchers William Amos and J.I. Hoffman
from University of Cambridge found genetic evidence for a sudden and drastic
decline of the world population to a very small number of people thousands of
years ago (Amos & Hoffman, 2010:131-7). This is speculated to be caused by
a worldwide cataclysm.
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Third,
there are stunning similarities among several ancient myths and legends of
different people across the globe on the event of a past global catastrophe,
more specifically a global flood similar to the one mentioned in both Biblical
and Qur’anic accounts. Some of these myths are Sumerian creation myth (ca. 1600
B.C.), Ancient Greek flood myths, ancient myths of Kwaya, Mbuti, Maasai,
Mandin, and Yoruba people in Africa, Yu the Great (ca. 2200 B.C.) and Nüwa in
China, Tiddalik in Australia, Hopi mythology in North America, Unu Pachakuti
myth of the Incas in South America and this is not the end of the list for there
are more than 500 ancient deluge legends (Cox, 1997:198; Dey, 2012: 112; Wohl,
2000:273; LaViolette, 2005: 235). These myths are traces of a global collective
memory referring to an actual event in the distant past.
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Myths are fossils of history (Gray, 2004:15). They preserve history in ways that might not make sense to us. The dialogues of Plato regarding Atlantis are the most vivid memory of antediluvian societies we have today. Some myths that still recall some faint memories of the golden age depict these societies with magic and supernatural powers. Take the example of the Sanskrit epic of vimanas about a mythological flying machine. Recently, some researchers have immersed themselves into studying ancient myths from this perspective (ex: Max Igan, 2005), and they have found rather curious results.
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Myths are fossils of history (Gray, 2004:15). They preserve history in ways that might not make sense to us. The dialogues of Plato regarding Atlantis are the most vivid memory of antediluvian societies we have today. Some myths that still recall some faint memories of the golden age depict these societies with magic and supernatural powers. Take the example of the Sanskrit epic of vimanas about a mythological flying machine. Recently, some researchers have immersed themselves into studying ancient myths from this perspective (ex: Max Igan, 2005), and they have found rather curious results.
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Critical
to the discussion of ancient advanced societies is concrete evidence to support
the current bold claim of highly advanced societies in prehistory. The Nobel
medalist and chemist Dr. Melvin Cook concludes that the earth underground oil
deposits were formed as a result of a sudden and rapid burial of organic
materials just a few thousand years ago (Cook, 1966; 1967). Thus, it could be
the case that the oil deposits are ancient buried cities that turned into oil
due to the sudden sedimentation and high pressure since the deluge would have
had ruined and buried everything. In that sense, we might be burning the
evidence simply by running an errand in a car.
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The
matter of concrete evidence requires speculation. How much do we really know
about earth? Absence
of evidence is not evidence of absence. The evidence could be
staring us in the face but we are just blinded due to the way we perceive and
interpret facts. Due to a lack of perspective, we may not look for or see the
evidence that is before us. There are, however, some tantalizing hints that
ought to be considered seriously.
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First,
we must acknowledge that the biggest manmade edifices on earth are concrete
evidence and their construction and purpose are still unexplained. For
thousands of years, the Great Pyramid of Khufu had been the tallest structure
on earth until the Empire State Building skyscraper was completed in 1931, and
still is “the most
colossal single building ever erected on the planet” (britannica.com). It is
aligned to true geodetic North and its location is found to be the center of
the earth landmass. This sort of precision entails a comprehensive knowledge of
earth geography, e.g. Mercator projection, which is something very unexpected
of ancient Egypt (Bauer, 2007:86). In addition to that, engineers and
scientists conclude that it is impossible to replicate the great pyramid
despite the sophisticated technology we have nowadays given the structure’s
immensity and staggering precision (Fix, 1984; West, 1993; Hancock, 1995; Rux,
1996: 265; Dunn, 1998; Amato, 2007:4; Atiya & Lamis, 2007:3; Beaudoin &
Joseph, 2007:54; Sheldon, 2009:146-147; Cadose, 2012:75).
“Scientists have conceded that modern man cannot build a great pyramid that would retain its shape for thousands of years without sagging under its own weight.” (Gray, 2004:172)
The
engineer Markus Schulte, however, speculates that if it were possible to
replicate the Great Pyramid alone, it would today cost us some $35 billion
(Malkowski, 2010:117). Investing such money in such colossal structure, that is
not even habitable, and without any expected profit, is something we certainly
would not do today.
So the question of ‘how was it built?’ is of less importance to ‘why was it built?’
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One of the latest theories that seems to explain why the Giza pyramids were built is the Orion Correlation theory (1993) advanced by Robert Bauval. The theory suggests that the three pyramids at Giza mirror the three stars in the Orion constellation, also known as Orion’s belt, and the position of the Nile River in relation to the pyramids mirrors the position of the Milky Way galaxy in relation to the Orion constellation. Bauval observes that the shaft within the Great Pyramid was, in the past, oriented towards the middle star of Orion’s belt which is the star representing the same pyramid. However, that is not all there is to the theory. Bauval’s theory does not make much sense without taking into consideration the astronomical phenomenon called precession of the equinoxes, also called the Great Year or the Platonic Year. This phenomenon is plainly earth’s third cycle after the daily and annual ones. The cycle is either caused by the slow wobbling of the earth due to the moon gravitational pull or by the whole solar system moving in a helical orbit. Its implication is that the night sky stars move backward across the eons. As a result, the position of constellations in the night sky for the ancient is not the same as of their position nowadays. Every time the sun rises in the morning of the vernal equinoxes (March 20 and September 22), the background constellation on the horizon of that morning is one of the Zodiac constellations. One cycle is completed when the entire Zodiac constellations come to pass. The NASA estimates the cycle to last 25,800 years making each constellation last 2,125 years in the morning of the vernal equinoxes.
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One of the latest theories that seems to explain why the Giza pyramids were built is the Orion Correlation theory (1993) advanced by Robert Bauval. The theory suggests that the three pyramids at Giza mirror the three stars in the Orion constellation, also known as Orion’s belt, and the position of the Nile River in relation to the pyramids mirrors the position of the Milky Way galaxy in relation to the Orion constellation. Bauval observes that the shaft within the Great Pyramid was, in the past, oriented towards the middle star of Orion’s belt which is the star representing the same pyramid. However, that is not all there is to the theory. Bauval’s theory does not make much sense without taking into consideration the astronomical phenomenon called precession of the equinoxes, also called the Great Year or the Platonic Year. This phenomenon is plainly earth’s third cycle after the daily and annual ones. The cycle is either caused by the slow wobbling of the earth due to the moon gravitational pull or by the whole solar system moving in a helical orbit. Its implication is that the night sky stars move backward across the eons. As a result, the position of constellations in the night sky for the ancient is not the same as of their position nowadays. Every time the sun rises in the morning of the vernal equinoxes (March 20 and September 22), the background constellation on the horizon of that morning is one of the Zodiac constellations. One cycle is completed when the entire Zodiac constellations come to pass. The NASA estimates the cycle to last 25,800 years making each constellation last 2,125 years in the morning of the vernal equinoxes.
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So
how is that information relevant to the Giza plateau? Well, in the immediate
vicinity of the pyramids we have the Sphinx which faces east. The Sphinx shape
seems to resemble a lion, and thus Bauval suggests that it symbolizes the
Zodiac constellation of Leo. In the morning of the equinoxes, the Sphinx, in
the present era, faces the constellation of Pieces and is slightly shifting
towards the constellation of Aquarius, but by running a computer backward
simulation of the earth precession, we find that the Sphinx at some point in
the remote past used to face the constellation of Leo from 10,970 to 8810 B.C.
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Now
the eureka moment is when we line up the shaft inside the Great pyramid with
the middle star of Orion’s belt in that epoch and at last we have an exact date
of around 10,450 B.C. So all of a sudden the pyramids are no longer tombs but a
gigantic clock that has a date frozen into its structure.
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The
first scientific recognition of the precession cycle took place in ancient
Greece (129 B.C.) by the astronomer Hipparchus. However, ancient Mesopotamia,
Maya and Egypt somehow knew about the cycle and we do not know whether this knowledge
was handed down from earlier times or they scientifically discovered it. This
cycle tracks time on a large span and it is “extremely difficult to observe,
and even harder to measure accurately, without sophisticated instrumentation”
(Hancock, 1995:231). Using the cycle as an astronomical clock with the help of
an eternal structure that defeats the eons of time and all of that with
staggering precision is something very remarkable that presupposes a thorough
knowledge of astronomy and engineering.
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At
this point it is doubtful to think that ancient Egyptians designed and built
the Giza Necropolis. We know many aspects of ancient Egyptian daily life with
the minutest details. However, there is no single mention of: “Oh, by the way,
we also built the pyramids” in their hieroglyphs records or even any hieroglyph
inscription inside the three main pyramids. Some evidence even suggests that
the site predates the legendary flood. Incrustations of natural salt were found
inside the great pyramid when it was opened for the first time (Dinwiddie,
2001:164). Furthermore, in the 1750’s, the naval captain and explorer Frederic
Norden reported the existence of a great number of oysters and seashells in the
vicinity of the pyramids and the Sphinx.
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In
his Histories, Herodotus also reports that he observed in the surrounding area
of the pyramids seashells and signs of salt water calcification back then
(Herodotus, ca. 450 B.C., Book II:12). All of that evidence seems to suggest
that maybe the Giza plateau was once under water. Then what about the strong
tie between ancient Egyptians and the Giza plateau? Aside from ancient Egypt,
most ancient civilizations exhibit a sort of obsession and admiration for
pyramid-like structures which could originally be ascribed to the three
pyramids at Giza. Further, the failed attempts to reproduce the pyramids on a
small scale, like the case of the three Queen’s Pyramids, explain how impressed
ancient Egyptians were by the colossal three edifices. It is not so crazy after
all to assume that ancient Egyptians founded their entire civilization in the
vicinity of the Giza plateau only to be identified with the immensity of the
structures.
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If
one assumes that the correlation theory is valid, then what is special about
the remote date at which the Giza plateau hints? In general, 10,000 B.C. is a
very significant date in our conventional wisdom. It is the date when the late
ice age ended. It marks the first appearance of wooden buildings, human
settlements in the Americas and the domestication of animals. Remains of humans
in caves and a remarkable transformation marked with the introduction of
farming all date back to the same era. All these sudden developments could
signify two possible scenarios.
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The first
scenario suggests that humans were witnessing the most significant step in
their long chain of evolution.
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The second
suggests humans were actually recovering from a worldwide cataclysm. Following
the line of the second, and less known, scenario, one cannot expect survivors
of a cataclysm to build cities right from the start. They would have to spread
out over the earth which would eventually result in linguistic deviation.
Keeping track of one another would not be possible due to the absence of means
of communication. This latter may explain the absence of historical accounts
before the city of Uruk made its appearance ca. 4500 B.C. So instead of
progressing forward, humans would have to go through a phase of silence
characterized by the struggle with nature and the use of archaic tools before they
start coming together to build urban centers.
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The book ‘Noah to Abram: The Turbulent Years: New Light on Ice Age, Cave Man, Stone Age, the Old Kingdoms’ by Erich A. Von Fange highlights the striking similarities between the knowledge we have about early archaic human cultures of the Lower Paleolithic period (Oldowan, Acheulean and Mousterian tool cultures) and the case of a post-cataclysm man trying to survive upon the ruins of their ancestors. Given the growing body of evidence, the second view is now becoming more recognized in outer circles. The Roland Emmerich movie 10,000 BC (2008), for example, opted for the cataclysm scenario for which it received sharp criticism from the academic circle and was dubbed archaeologically and historically inaccurate. Going back to the Giza plateau, why would the ancient go to such trouble to build huge monuments that hint at a specific date? Why is 10,000 B.C. an important date for the pyramid builders? What was happening back then?
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The book ‘Noah to Abram: The Turbulent Years: New Light on Ice Age, Cave Man, Stone Age, the Old Kingdoms’ by Erich A. Von Fange highlights the striking similarities between the knowledge we have about early archaic human cultures of the Lower Paleolithic period (Oldowan, Acheulean and Mousterian tool cultures) and the case of a post-cataclysm man trying to survive upon the ruins of their ancestors. Given the growing body of evidence, the second view is now becoming more recognized in outer circles. The Roland Emmerich movie 10,000 BC (2008), for example, opted for the cataclysm scenario for which it received sharp criticism from the academic circle and was dubbed archaeologically and historically inaccurate. Going back to the Giza plateau, why would the ancient go to such trouble to build huge monuments that hint at a specific date? Why is 10,000 B.C. an important date for the pyramid builders? What was happening back then?
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Just
a little while after 10,000 B.C., all cultures seem to have started emerging
simultaneously with no substantial signs of preliminary phases. They went from
being hunter-gatherers to becoming citizens with rights and responsibilities.
“How does a complex civilization spring full-blown into being? Look at a 1905 automobile and compare it to a modern one. There is no mistaking the process of ‘development’. But in Egypt there are no parallels. Everything is right there at the start. The answer to the mystery is of course obvious but, because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom considered. Egyptian civilization was not a ‘development’, it was a legacy.” (West, 1979:13)
The
sudden appearance of cities is probably backed up by solid knowledge of
sophisticated social structure. The presence of a high culture the like of
ancient Egypt in such epoch is in itself very enigmatic. Furthermore, the
superiority of ancient Egypt over ancient Greece is indisputable although Egypt
is older. Herodotus and many other modern historians have pointed out this
contradiction (McCants 1975:62). Even earlier than Herodotus, Solon’s account
embodies a small talk between the two cultures. Solon (d. ca. 559 B.C.) was an
Athenian statesman and a distant ancestor to Plato. He had a conversation with
an ancient Egyptian priest in which he was told:
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“ ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never
anything but children, and there is not an old man among you.’ Solon in return asked him what he meant. ‘I mean to say,’ he replied, ‘that in mind you are all young; there is no
old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which
is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again,
many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes’ ” (Plato’s Timaeus, ca. 360 B.C.)
The key to this mystery is that it is highly probable that some people may have kept valuable knowledge originating from the first people that allowed them to prosper faster and earlier than others.
For
example some Egyptologists conclude that ancient Egyptian high priests
possessed some powerful secret knowledge to which the triumph of ancient Egypt
was attributed (Nuttall, 1839:668; West, 1979 :24; Linke, 2012:28; Hancock,
1995:361; Marks, 2001), like the knowledge of electricity (Childress, 1996:18).
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The
first people certainly left some remnants of their advanced science that still
linger even up to today. In astronomy for instance, the artificial division of
the celestial longitude zones into 12 Zodiac constellations of 30 degrees each
along with the awareness of the celestial precession seem to be descending from
a higher culture. In addition to that, the heliocentric view of the world is
not new. Its earliest traces date back to ancient Sanskrit texts (e.g.
Yajnavalkya, ca. 900 B.C. and Aryabhata ca. 550 B.C.) and later Aristarchus of
Samos (ca. 230 B.C.). In that sense, the Copernican revolution is rather a
revival of lost knowledge.
“Contrary to history as we know it, in that remote period we call ‘prehistory’, there subsisted an embarrassing wealth of astronomical knowledge. And may I suggest that the more one looks into it, the more one feels that a race of scientific giants has preceded us.” (Gray, 2004:105)
In
medicine, alternative medicine with its unknown origin entails a deep knowledge
of human anatomy that made its way to modern day and has been acknowledged by
the World Health Organization despite being still not understood.
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In physics, knowledge of electricity may also have existed in prehistory. The German archaeologist Wilhelm König found a 2000-year-old ancient battery, known as the Parthian Battery, in the National Museum of Iraq in 1938 (Handorf, 2002:84–7). The battery is reported to have been unearthed near Baghdad (the area of Khujut Rabu) during a 1936 excavation. In 1940, König produced a scientific paper on the battery based on which “Willard F. M. Gray, of the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, built and tested several reproductions of the Khujut Rabu finds, all of which produced equivalent electrical input” (Kenyon, 2008:42).
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In physics, knowledge of electricity may also have existed in prehistory. The German archaeologist Wilhelm König found a 2000-year-old ancient battery, known as the Parthian Battery, in the National Museum of Iraq in 1938 (Handorf, 2002:84–7). The battery is reported to have been unearthed near Baghdad (the area of Khujut Rabu) during a 1936 excavation. In 1940, König produced a scientific paper on the battery based on which “Willard F. M. Gray, of the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, built and tested several reproductions of the Khujut Rabu finds, all of which produced equivalent electrical input” (Kenyon, 2008:42).
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Moreover,
aluminum is a metal that cannot be generated without electricity, which was not
available until 1854. However, many items made of aluminum have been found in
archaeological sites, e.g. in the burial site of General Zhou Chu (265-420
A.D.). As a matter of fact, electricity is the very first thing one stumbles
upon once one starts studying matter, and it is not a difficult thing to
rediscover especially if one has foreknowledge of its existence.
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In geography, ancient maps undoubtedly fuelled the age of maritime exploration. The Piri Reis map continues to amaze modern man not only for its accuracy but also for its depiction of Antarctica before it was supposedly discovered in 1819. The continent is depicted being free of ice with geological details that irrefutably correspond with the seismic echo sounding profile run by the Swedish-British-Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in 1949 (Ohlmeyer, the USAF Commander, in a letter to Charles Hapgood, 1960). Meanwhile, the Antarctica landmass is thought to have been under the ice cap long before our species even evolved according to Academia. So what are we seriously missing here?
In geography, ancient maps undoubtedly fuelled the age of maritime exploration. The Piri Reis map continues to amaze modern man not only for its accuracy but also for its depiction of Antarctica before it was supposedly discovered in 1819. The continent is depicted being free of ice with geological details that irrefutably correspond with the seismic echo sounding profile run by the Swedish-British-Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in 1949 (Ohlmeyer, the USAF Commander, in a letter to Charles Hapgood, 1960). Meanwhile, the Antarctica landmass is thought to have been under the ice cap long before our species even evolved according to Academia. So what are we seriously missing here?
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”~ Tom Clancy
Some
of the ideas presented in this article may seem at odds but that is the nature
of mysteries. They remain mysterious until someone makes sense of them. For
example, Giza Pyramids preach for lost science and technology but their
astronomical alignment preaches for a post-cataclysm construction which somehow
does not make sense. This article is not trying to construct a systematic view
of the past. It is rather an invitation to dig deeper into the past. Knowing
our past is of great value. The past, the present and the future are all a one
chain of events. The more we know about the past, the more we know ourselves
and our possible directions.
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The
evidence to question what we know about the past of humanity is all around us.
Some recognize it, some reject it, and some go to extreme views such as
associating these perplexing legacies with ancient alien visits. The manner in
which people react to evidence or anomaly is conditioned by attitudes towards
the past and under the influence of the rampant contemporary philosophies of
presentism and scientism or practices like obscurantism. Any anomaly in science
could be a twinkling of a new discovery or paradigm shift that may be left
unnoticed or even denied for fear of misoneism. A true scientific and intellectual
honesty will never be achieved unless we are open to adjust or even reconstruct
our theoretical assumptions accordingly until the anomalous, as Kuhn puts it,
becomes expected (Kuhn, 1970:52). At a minimum, we show effort of
reconciliation instead of burying our heads in sand. It is only a matter of
time before man faces the greatest disappointment in science and its grand
theories due to the snobbishness of present science. We are in a desperate need
not only for a paradigm shift but, most importantly, for a scientific
renaissance.
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Zakaria Bziker is a student at Ibn-Tofail University
(Kenitra, Morocco), currently pursuing a master’s degree in Education. He
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