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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mayan Calendar bombshell: dates changed

Rob Waugh, DailyMail.co.uk (May 11, 2012); Wisdom Quarterly

The Aztec Calendar has grown more famous than the Mayan. They are loosely related but the Aztec came much later. The Mayan Calendars, of which there are 20+, vary and serve different purposes. The long count marks the end of ages not the end of the world.

The Mayans reveal their darkest mysteries: New excavation reveals secrets of their calendar -- including [men in black] figures and symbols never seen before.

Wall covered in calculations relating to Mayan calendar
Line-up of men in black uniforms
Astrological calculations not fully understood
Dates seem to stretch 7,000 years into FUTURE
Contradicts "doomsday" predictions about 2012
First paintings found on walls in Mayan dwellings
Huge city in Guatemala finally reveals its secrets

Angelyn Bass works wall dating back 1,200 years

A vast city built by the ancient Mayan civilization [which existed in Mesoamerica over many modern Latin American countries] and discovered nearly a century ago in modern-day Guatemala is finally starting to yield its secrets -- including a hint that apocalyptic predictions around the "end" of the Mayan Calendar may be wrong.

NationalGeographic.com

Excavating for the first time in the sprawling complex of Xultzn in Guatemala's Peten region, archaeologists have uncovered a structure that contains what appears to be a work space for the town's scribe.

Its walls are adorned with unique paintings -- one depicting a line-up of men in black uniforms and hundreds of scrawled numbers -- many calculations relating to the Mayan calendar and stretching up to 7,000 years into the future. More plus video

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Traces of alien life are all around us (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; DeathBy1000Papercuts; BeforeItsNews; Digital Journal; Coast to Coast

(Y2221) Fly over Earth in 60 seconds in this time-lapse from the front of the Int'l Space Station orbiting at night showing the Earth's ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (55 sec) and the stars of the Milky Way galaxy (Smooth version).

Samut Prakan, Erawan Museum, the "heavens" in Buddhist Thailand (Stewie1980/Flickr)

UFO rimmed with green lights caught on film in Brazil
LBG1, Dec. 26, 2011

A spate of Christmas UFO sightings has been caught on video recorded between Dec. 23-25, 2011 -- the Christmas UFOs -- after what seemed to be a UFO “respite.” The majority of the videos reveal UFO orbs or spheres. A UFO video from Brazil revealed multicolored lights linked to what seemed to be a larger object rimmed with green lights. The larger object is revealed after video images were resized. More (worldwide Xmas UFO videos)

From Bases on the Moon to Earth's Skies
Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

Space aliens seem foreign to us -- thanks to a PR campaign by the government and clandestine services like the CIA, FBI, NSA, NSC, and Pentagon (as well as agencies around the world) who promote the silly idea of "little green men."

The fact is Earth has and is being visited from time immemorial. And earthlings have found them in space, such as the relics discovered on the Moon, Mars, and Phobos... Odd things are visible in Los Angeles skies. Yet it is easier to find "mythological" references in religious texts than in newspaper stories and pulp fiction. But sacred texts speak of angels -- which nearly 8 out of 10 Americans believe in -- and giants and "gods" (devas).

Theistic "pantheons" are found everywhere from Japan, to Greece, to Burma, to Rome... It is not superstitious but preternatural. These fine-material beings can remain unseen or make themselves known. Some come from space, some are earthlings (called bhummi-devas, yakkhas, pretas, kumbandhas, nagas, garudas in Buddhism).

What evidence is there that Americans or Westerners in general can believe in? The Judeo-Christian Bible is replete with stories or extraterrestrials (seraphim, cherubin, nephilim, angels, archangels, fallen angels), as are pre-biblical sources from Sumeria, Egypt, and Near Eastern religions (Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, and Mesopotamian lore). Or we can simply look in the sky or to former military brass confessions.

What are Egypt's pyramids really made of?

National Geographic gets involved

WINSTED, Connecticut - MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) photo and video analyst Marc Dantonio created a "quadcopter" for the upcoming National Geographic special "The Truth Behind UFOs." The purpose was to show how technology can fool anyone into thinking they are seeing a real UFO. According to Dantonio, he suggested to National Geographic while doing a job for them that he could "create a functional UFO... More

Lunar Anomalies NASA knows about
Coast to Coast interview with Ken Johnston

Ken Johnston, who worked for NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the Apollo missions, claims he was fired for telling the truth. He joined Coast to Coast's George Knapp to share his contention that NASA knows there is evidence for both modern and ancient artifacts on the Moon -- as well as an active base there. He explained that in his position as Photo Control Department Manager, he had access to highly detailed film and negatives taken during the Apollo missions. In viewing 16mm film shot by Apollo 14, NASA saw a shadow cast in the bottom of a crater: "And as we approached it, in the dark area there were like five domes lit from the inside, and a little plume that looked like steam streaking up above it," Johnston said. More

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Malta: underground beings demand humans

October is "Monster Month" on Wisdom Quarterly

This unbelievable story is corroborated by Alex Collier and Philip Schneider at the military base in Dulce. "Mythological" creatures really exist. Governments around the world have long known. They are fed humans just as told in Buddhist accounts of the king and the Yakkha Alavaka.

Malta's Temples and Tombs
Graham Stuart

Just beneath the southern tip of Italy, in the extreme western part of the Mediterranean sea, lies the island of Malta. In the past Malta has been the possession of many nationalities, and has been considered to be one of the most strategic areas on Earth, being a port and an intersecting point between Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and so on. This 9-mile-long island was an ancient center of civilization when the Phoenicians from Carthage invaded and began their rule.

Chambers and catacombs beneath the Island of Malta (bibliotecapleyades.net)

A group of ancient priests who worshipped the god Moloch (another name for Baal, Osiris, and Nimrod, whom the ancients considered the "sun god") visited the island in Old Testament times. The islanders readily accepted their teachings, including that of offering up human sacrifices to appease Moloch, for the ancient Maltese themselves practiced human blood sacrifice to the "gods" of the underworld -- literally, underground -- beneath the island and elsewhere.

These so-called deities were often identified with serpents [nagas or reptilians and hairy yakkhas]. When the Apostle Paul, a Christian Biblical figure, visited the island, as recorded in the Book of Acts Chapter 28, he learned of their superstitious beliefs. He had been bitten by one on the island (at the time called Melita) and survived by the power of another "god," Jesus, a popular New Testament figure, whom the Maltese knew nothing about until Paul got through with them.

Since the time of the Carthagians, Malta had had many rulers -- Romans, Arabs, Normans, Argonese, Castillians, the Hospitalers of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, later known as the Knights of Rhodes, and still later as the Knights of Malta, who remain there to this day, having dual headquarters in Rome.

A few miles south of the Maltese town of Valletta is the small village of Casal Paula. In 1902, workmen digging a well fell into the earth. What they discovered was a series of ancient caves, mostly excavated out of solid rock. The caves descended into three lower tiers. These multi-leveled catacombs became known as the "Hypogeum of Hal Saflienti" after the street overhead. A hypogeum is Latin for an underground structure.

Near the floor of the last chamber, within the third and last (officially recognized) sub-level of the ancient catacombs, there are a few so-called "burial chambers." They are only a few feet square, situated next to the floor, and one must get on hands and knees to look into them.

These chambers are just large enough to crawl through. There have for years been rumors that one does not end but continues into deeper, unexplored caverns beyond.

This was the subterranean passage and chamber referred to years ago in an article that appeared in the August, 1940 issue of the National Geographic magazine. The article states the following concerning several people who disappeared without a trace:

"Many subterranean passageways, including ancient catacombs, now are a part of the island’s fortifications and defense system. Supplies are kept in many tunnels; others are bomb shelters. Beneath Valletta some of the underground areas served as homes for the poor. Prehistoric men built temples and chambers in these vaults. In a pit beside one sacrificial altar lie thousands of human skeletons. Years ago one could walk underground from one end of Malta to the other. The Government closed the entrances to these tunnels after school children and their teachers became lost in the labyrinth while on a study tour and never returned."

The story, however, goes much deeper than the National Geographic article indicates. Other sources say that about 30 children vanished in these catacombs on the study tour. Moreover when the hypogeum was first discovered, nearly 30,000 human skeletons of men, women, and children (victims of ancient sacrifice to the underworld gods, performed by an old neolithic race) were discovered as well.

One article written by a Miss Lois Jessup, at the time an employee of the British embassy, [who entered and saw the monsters that were fed humans] states: Out of this lower tunnel on the far side of the chasm, she claims, emerged in single file several very large creatures of humanoid form but completely covered with hair from head to foot. Noticing her, they raised their arms in her direction, palms out, at which point a violent "wind" began to blow through the cavern, snuffing out her candle. Then, some "thing" wet and slippery (apparently a creature of a different sort) brushed past her. Read full account

Actually, Jessup found the giants of the cave hard to describe because of their covering, which seemed to be like long white hair, combed downward and shaggy looking. Their heads were unusually elongated at chin and top with large features, and the hair on their heads fell about the shoulders like a draped monk's cowl. Lois found the Heindel drawings exciting because "the currents in the desire body" sketches were the first to resemble in any way the cave dwellers she saw on Malta. Nor does her description of them correspond to Shaver's Deros, hideous dwarfs or trolls who might very well have carved that portion of Hal Salfini now open to the public. This conflict in sizes and types very well illustrates the point I made earlier, that the underworld is peopled with beings of many sizes, shapes, and varying degrees of density, from the completely physical to the completely invisible. (vivamalta.org)

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Shangri-La Found by Mountaineer

Secrets of Shangri-La lectures (Benaroya Hall, Seattle)

(Seattle Times) Did Shangri-La — the mythical, Himalayan city first mentioned by a 5th century Chinese poet as a utopia for Buddhists — actually exist? Peter Athans, a much-respected, Bainbridge Island-based moun-taineer who has reached the summit of Mt. Everest seven times, may know the answer. In 2007, Athans explored the hidden, ancient kingdom of Mustang, in Nepal. His "National Geographic Live!" presentation, "Secrets of Shangri-La," takes place at Benaroya Hall [on April 13-14, 2009]. Q&A and more>>

"I'll be speaking about three expeditions I led over the last two years into Nepal's remote and exotic Kingdom of Mustang. Mustang was for many years closed to foreigners, earning it the moniker 'the highest and most forbidden kingdom in the world.' The current monarch is the 25th in a lineage that has existed for more than 600 years. It is one of the remaining few Himalayan Buddhist kingdoms."