Tomb of Gilgamesh found in Iraq (video)

End Times Productions; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ancient Mesopotamian terracotta relief (circa 2250-1900 BC) showing Gilgamesh slaying the Bull of Heaven, an episode described in Tablet VI of the Epic of Gilgamesh (wiki).

Artist's impression of palaces, The Monuments of Nineveh (Sir Austen Henry Layard, 1853)

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The Gilgamesh flood story (which came long before the Noah's Ark retelling) is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood story from the Epic of Atra-Hasis [1].

A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their inspiration and subject matter.

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History

Gilgamesh's supposed historical reign is believed to have been approximately 2,700 BC [2], shortly before the earliest known written stories. The discovery of artifacts associated with Aga and Enmebaragesi of Kish (Sumer), two other kings named in the stories, has lent credibility to the historical existence of Gilgamesh [3].

The earliest Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date from as early as the Third dynasty of Ur (2,100–2,000 BC) [4].

One of these poems mentions Gilgamesh’s journey to meet the flood hero, Utnapishtim, as well as a short version of the flood story [5].

The earliest Akkadian versions of the unified epic are dated to circa 2,000–1,500 BC [6]. Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth.

One fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh's journey to meet Utnapishtim.

Tablet XI

The Gilgamesh flood Tablet XI was discovered in Nineveh [8]. It contains additional story material besides the flood. More

Actual World MAP: Buddhist Cosmology (video)

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly; Documentary; Hawaiian Gazette (1/11/1907); Wiki; Palikanon.com

Exaggerated curvature in NASA's CGI of our world as if seen from near-earth space

MAP: Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, 1865-1918 (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov)

(Documentary) Inspired by the book Worlds Beyond the Poles, this documentary is a new look at our universe. We see the earth is flat, but we are told not to believe our eyes. Instead, we are shown CGIs (computer generated images) by NASA to confuse us. The book is nonfiction, based on observable facts. Might it explain the "stars" and "planets," and how we can get there? If true, it means there are many lands with (human) life.

Worlds Beyond the Poles

Worlds Beyond the Poles

The pages of Worlds Beyond the Poles contain the first and only description of the real world of land, water, and vegetation, where human and other forms of life abound. This is a work of nonfiction. It is a simple recital of fact that transcends the most elaborate fictions ever conceived. It projects our first understanding of the factual and endless universe that contains human life throughout its vast length and width, despite abstract theories to the contrary. It is the view of the author that the earth is a plane (rather than a globe planet) and stationary as the Judeo-Christian Bible states. It includes original illustrations.
 

The Northwest Passage is opening up in the warming world of Jambudvipa (AP).

This is a modern, colorized 3D map of the Hawaiian Islands (USGS)

Terra incognita is a strange place, Unknown Land. Where is it? It was once all around. Now it is Antarctica and beyond. How can there be a beyond if the world is a sphere, a ball, a globe? There can't.

Our world must be some other shape, contoured. Ancient Buddhist and other sacred texts certainly do not describe a ball traveling in midair while spinning at 1,000 MPH without sloshing its water. They describe a series of mountain rings and lands unexplored. The Buddha described them.

Chart of Buddhism's 31 Planes of Existence

A Buddhist cosmogony is not lacking. It agrees in large part with that of other religions, if only being more detailed or inclusive. The Buddha disclosed the world as have 31 "planes." These are not singular worlds but worlds alongside similar worlds. They move up an order of magnitude, and in that next plane there are many worlds. There are, therefore, countless worlds extending out in all directions or in ten-thousandfold directions.

Discussion of this human plane should not be misunderstood, as has for so long been the case, as being limited to earth. There are many worlds within the human plane. They are similar in their cycles, going through things as we go through them. The world, this earth, this planet was described as rings of mountains around a central mountain call "Good Meru," Mt. Sumeru.

Buddhist cosmology

What is the shape of this world if the nearby sun leaves a hot spot on the ocean?

What did Marilyn Monroe know about the Mercator [Inner-Ring] Projection Map? Not much.

The world-mountain Sumeru is an immense, strangely shaped peak that arises in the center of the world, and around which the Sun and Moon revolve.

Its base rests in a vast ocean, and it is surrounded by several rings of lesser mountain ranges and oceans.

These three worlds are all located on, or around, Mt. Sumeru: the World of the Thirty-Three (Trāyastriṃśa devas) live on its peak; the The Four Great Space Kings (Cāturmahārājikakāyika devas) live on its slopes; the Titans (Asuras) live in the ocean at its base.

Mt. Sumeru and its surrounding oceans and mountains are the home not just of these beings but also vast assemblies of beings of popular mythology who only rarely intrude on the human world.

Earth

Stay in your world. We'll stay in ours (WQ).

Manuṣya-loka is the world of humans and human-like beings who live on the surface of the earth. [Agartha in name of the inner or middle earth.]

The mountain-rings that gird Mt. Sumeru (not the Himalayas) are surrounded by a vast ocean or oceans, which fill most of the world. The ocean is in turn surrounded by a circular mountain wall called Chakra-vāḍa (Cakka-vāḷa) which marks the horizontal limit of the world.

In this ocean there are four "continents" or great land masses which are, relatively speaking, small "islands" (dvipas or lights) in it. Because of the immenseness of the ocean, they cannot be reached from each other by ordinary sailing vessels.

• The World-Ruler Mahasudassana Sutra

But in the past, when the "world rulers" (cakra-vartins) ruled, communication between the continents was possible by means of the treasure called the chakra-ratna (cakka-ratana), which seems to refer to a spaceship, "flying saucer," vimana), which a cakra-vartin and retinue can use to fly through the air between the lands/continents.

Cakkaratana with anti-gravity propulsion

• Wheel Treasure (cakka-ratana): One of the seven treasures of a world ruler. When a world ruler is born into the world, this treasure appears from its home/storage (cakkadaha) traveling through the air/space (J.iv.232, but see Vepulla). It is the world ruler's chief symbol of office; on its appearance the ruler sprinkles it with water and asks it to travel to the various quarters of the world, winning/conquering them [into a kind of peacefully won empire, perhaps by intimidation of this craft's imposing might]. This it does, carrying with it through the air the world ruler and a fourfold army. Wherever the world ruler halts, all the chiefs of that quarter acclaim the world ruler as their overlord and declare their allegiance. Having thus traversed the four quarters of the earth, it returns to the world ruler's capital and remains fixed as an ornament on the open terrace in front of the world ruler's inner apartments/residence (D.ii.173f; M.iii.173ff). The Commentaries (e.g., DA.ii.617ff; MA.ii.942ff) contain lengthy descriptions of it: It is shaped like a wheel, its nave is of sapphire, the center of which shines like the orb of the moon, and around it is a band of silver. [That sounds like a flying saucer all right.] It has one thousand spokes, each ornamented with various decorations; its tyre is of bright coral; within every tenth spoke is a coral staff, hollow inside, which produces the sounds of the fivefold musical instruments when blown upon by the wind. On the staff is a white parasol [which definitely looks like a standard flying saucer in all depictions, ancient and modern], on either side of which are festoons of flowers. When the wheel moves, it appears like three wheels moving one within the other ["wheels within wheels," as the biblical reference goes]. When a world ruler dies or leaves the world, it disappears from the sight of humans for seven days; it gives warning of the ruler's impending death by slipping from its place some time before the event (D.iii.59f.; MA.ii.885). When a successor has lived righteously for seven days, it reappears (D.iii.64). It is the most precious and the most honored thing in the world (UdA.356).

The four "continents" or lands are:
 

1. Jambudvīpa (Jambudīpa) is located in the south and is the dwelling of ordinary human beings. It is said to be shaped "like a cart," or rather a blunt-nosed triangle with the point facing south. (This description echoes the shape of the southern coastline of India). It is 10,000 yojanas in extent (Vibhajyavāda tradition) or has a perimeter of 6,000 yojanas (Sarvāstivāda tradition) to which can be added the southern coast of only 3  ¹⁄₂ yojanas' length. The continent takes its name from a giant Jambu tree (Syzygium cumini), 100 yojanas tall, which grows in the middle of the continent. Every continent has one of these giant trees. All Buddhas appear in Jambudvīpa. The people here are five to six feet tall and their length of life varies between 10 years and 10 to the power of 140 years (10¹⁴⁰, Asankya Aayu, an "incalculable" period).

2. Pūrvavideha (Pubbavideha) is located in the east and is shaped like a semicircle with the flat side pointing westward (i.e., towards Sumeru). It is 7,000 yojanas in extent (Vibhajyavāda tradition) and has a perimeter of 6,350 yojanas of which the flat side is 2,000 yojanas long (Sarvāstivāda tradition). Its tree is the acacia. The people here are about 12 feet (3.7 m) tall, and they live for 250 years.
 

3. Aparagodānīya (Aparagoyāna) is located in the west and is shaped like a circle with a circumference of about 7,500 yojanas (Sarvāstivāda tradition). The tree of this continent is a giant kadamba tree. The human inhabitants of this continent do not live in houses but sleep on the ground. They are about 24 feet (7.3 m) tall, and they live for 500 years.

4. Uttarakuru (Uttarakuru) is located in the north and is shaped like a square. It has a perimeter of 8,000 yojanas, being 2,000 yojanas on each side. This continent's tree is called a kalpavṛkṣa (kapparukkha) or kalpa-tree, because it lasts for the entire kalpa (an average lifespan, 1000 years here, rather than an aeon). The inhabitants of Uttarakuru have cities built in the air/space. They are said to be extraordinarily wealthy, not needing to labor for a living -- as their food grows by itself -- and having no private property. They are about 48 feet (15 m) tall and live for 1,000 years, and they are under the protection of the Sky King Vaiśravaṇa.

Ancient technology we can't understand (video)

Ancient Secret Discoveries, June 5, 2017; Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

This amazing video scrutinizes a variety of ancient technologies by looking at artifacts and explaining the capability these items imply. Where did these out of place artifacts (ooparts) come from?

Would members of any advanced civilization -- from, say, 10-15,000 years in the past -- have simply stayed in one area? Or would they have moved across the planet taking their technology with them?

Generally, we can suppose that the technology of highly advanced civilizations would tend to become widespread. It in turn follows that we would expect to find evidence of their technology all over. This video shows many artifacts from antiquity that challenge preconceptions about our predecessors’ technologies and level of scientific and spiritual knowledge. Let's begin with the ancient Sumer and the evidence for ancient astronauts.

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Massive MOON monument discovered in Israel

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; LiveScience.com; Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)

The sin qua non, not without which, for life would not exist on Gaia without Luna

The Moon deva Sin (also called Nanna and Suen) may be the key to understanding this monument. A lunar crescent served as its symbol, and the Israeli name Bet Yerah suggests the god was revered there. This image shows an ancient Sumerian seal (from another site) mentioning him, the lunar crescent engraved on it (livescience.com).

Luna (Chandra, Freyja, Demeter), the Moon goddess (devi, a "shining one")

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Massive 5,000-Year-Old Stone Monument Revealed in Israel

Owen Jarus (LiveScience.com, Sept. 15, 2014)

Satellite image showing monument within larger landscape. Modern road passes near it with several modern towns located nearby (Landsat/DigitalGlobe/Ido Wachtel/livescience.com).

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Freyja, Scythian devi (esotericonline.net)

A lunar-crescent-shaped stone monument that dates back around 5,000 years has been identified in Israel.
 
Located about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the Sea of Galilee, the structure is massive.

Its volume is almost 500,000 cubic feet (about 14,000 cubic meters), and its length is about 492 feet (150 meters), making it longer than an American football field.
 
Pottery excavated at the structure indicates the monument dates to between 3050 B.C. and 2650 B.C., meaning it is likely older than [some of] the pyramids of Egypt. It was also built before much of Stonehenge was [previously thought to have been] constructed.
 
Archaeologists previously thought the structure was part of a city wall, but recent work carried out by Ido Wachtel, a doctoral student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, indicates there is no city beside it and that the structure is a standing monument.
 
"The proposed interpretation for the site is that it constituted a prominent landmark in its natural landscape, serving to mark possession and to assert authority and rights over natural resources by a local rural or pastoral population," Wachtel wrote in the summary of a presentation given recently at the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. More

• PHOTOS: the Crescent-Shaped Monument

"Moon god" monument unearthed in Israel

Inna Lazareva, Tel Aviv (Sept. 17, 2014)

About 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the Sea of Galilee, a newly identified crescent-shaped monument was built about 5,000 years ago (DigitalGlobe/Google Earth)

 

A structure once believed to form part of an ancient town is identified as a 5,000-year old monument believed to have been used to honor the Mesopotamian moon god "Sin."

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Crescent Moon on Buddhist observance (wiki)

A 5,000-year-old stone structure in the shape of the crescent moon in northern Israel has been identified to be an ancient monument, predating much of the construction of Stonehenge in England and Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
 

The structure, known as Rujum en-Nabi Shua'ayb or Jethro Cairn, is located near the Sea of Galilee.

 
It was initially discovered in the early part of the 20th century, and was thought to form part of an ancient city's defensive walls.
 

But doctoral student Ido Wachtel from Hebrew University in Jerusalem recently made a convincing case that the construction served as a monument in its own right.
 
“The proposed interpretation for the site is that it constituted a prominent landmark in its natural landscape, serving to mark possession and to assert authority and rights over natural resources by a local rural or pastoral population,” Mr. Wachtel wrote in a paper submitted to an archaeology conference in Switzerland.

 

Presenting his findings at the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Mr. Wachtel said the structure may have been erected to honor the ancient Mesopotamian moon god, "Sin" [Akkadian Su'en].

 

One of the most important gods in Mesopotamian [Babylonian and Sumerian] mythology, Sin, also known as "Nanna," is symbolized as a crescent moon and is often depicted riding on a winged bull [as a "mount" or vahana in Vedic-Hindu mythology].

 

The structure was found close to the ancient Israeli town of Bet Yerah [(Khirbet Kerak) Arabic Sinn en-Nabra or Al-Sinnabra], which translates as "house of the moon god" and is believed to have been linked to the town's religious community. The vast structure, which is 150 metres long with a volume of 14,000 cubic metres... More

The Ruins of the Castle

Khirbet Kerak or Tel Bet Yerah (Hanay/wiki)

(WIKI/WQ) Khirbet Kerak (Arabic Khirbet al-Karak, "the ruins of the castle") or Beth Yerah [Hebrew בית ירח ‎, "House of the Moon (god)"] is a tell (archaeological mound) located on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern day Israel (Eric M. Meyers, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1997, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Volume 1, Illustrated ed., Oxford Univ. Press. p. 312).

The tell spans an area of over 50 acres -- one of the largest in the Levant -- and contains remains dating from the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000 BC-2000 BC) and from the Persian period (c. 450 BC) through to the early Islamic period (c. 1000 AD) [Ibid.; The Holy Land: An Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700, Jerome Murphy O'Connor, Oxford University Press, 1980, p.159 Milgrom, Jacob; Wright, David Pearson; Freedman, David Noel; Hurvitz, Avi (1995)].

A form of Early Bronze Age pottery first discovered at the tell but also seen in other parts of the Levant (including Jericho, Beth Shan, Tell Judeideh, and Ugarit) is known as "Khirbet Kerak ware" [Pomegranates and golden bells: studies in biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern ritual, law, and literature in honor of Jacob Milgrom (Illustrated ed.). Eisenbrauns. pp. 630-632].

Khirbet Kerak culture appears to have been a Levantine version of the Early Transcaucasian Culture [Ian Shaw, Robert Jameson (2002). Ian Shaw, Robert Jameson, ed. A Dictionary of Archaeology (6th, illustrated, reprint ed.). Wiley-Blackwell]. 

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Sumerians/Anunnaki (Zecharia Sitchin)

Zecharia Sitchin; lbawop; Wisdom Quarterly

Zoroastrianism's winged discs (UK)

This presentation by the late great linguist, historian, and author Zecharia Sitchin is about his 70 years of research. Sitchin (1920-2010) was an Azerbaijani-born American author investigating human origins by way of ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture (Persian Empire) to the Anunnaki, "those who from the sky came" in winged disks.

The Asuras were cast off Sumeru to Earth

These beings -- possibly the Ashuras/Ahuras of Buddhist and Vedic/Indian lore descending from high atop Mt. Sumeru (the Near East/Central Asia spaceport in Sumer, Sumeria (modern Iraq/Iran) -- were revered by Zoroaster (Zarathustra). The religion, displacing those Indian/Indus Valley Civilization traditions revering the devas -- evolved, Mithra, mysteries, Ahura-Mazda, which is the basis of a great deal of Christianity as originated in Persia (Iran) and followed in Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, Iranis, and Parsis of India.

The Anunnaki was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru or Nirbiru. This hypothetical planet is understood to be on an elongated, elliptical orbit within our Earth's solar system. Sitchin asserts that Sumerian history/mythology -- which is at the root of Vedic, Egyptian, Islamic, and Judeo-Christian lore -- is the origin of this view. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 26 languages.

• Facts about Anunnaki: 2012returnofnibiru.com

Sacred Sexuality

Amber Dorrian (Wisdom Quarterly)

Collage of colors, caresses, and mental scenery (Wisdom Quarterly)

Sex is sacred. It seems to have always been this way, with dancing girls, choruses singing in a heavenly-style, (and goodness knows molested altar assistants). Always up until a certain Age.

For example, the almost obscene word "harem" (Turkish, from Arabic حرم ḥaram "forbidden place; sacrosanct, sanctum," related to حريم ḥarīm "a sacred inviolable place; female members of the family" and حرام ḥarām, "forbidden; sacred") indicates that what we consider sacrilege and irreligious today was once held sacred in temples (revealing advanced architecture, materials, and math others gave humans in different places), churches (communes or congregations of people not buildings), and religious beliefs.

Harem refers to the sphere of women in what is usually a polygynous household and their enclosed quarters which are forbidden to men. It originated in the Near East and came to the Western world via the Ottoman Empire. That's according to Wikipedia.

But all of this pre-Axial behavior sounds like it emerged out of the same general region that centers in the Near East (at the base of mythical Mt. Sumeru: Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Babylon). From there it extended out in all directions -- towards Egypt in the west, India in the east, Jerusalem in the north, and Arabia in the south. The Greeks and Romans (and the great walled Chinese) still carried on until something happened in the Axial Age: some kind of sexism took over and made us believe this is the way it has always been -- sexually uptight, mysogynistic, patriarchical, imperial rule from the top.

It's as if unsavory aliens (maybe nagas, yakkhas, asuras or reptilians, ogres, titans) landed, made a deal with small countries that turned them into superpower empires with enormous senses of entitlement and talk of a "divine right" to conquer and rule the world. "Divine"? "Handed down from space" -- which is all the div in "divine," deity, and deva stands for -- has come to mean a terrible injustice. It set up a whole upside down world that closed down the right side of our brains.

Something happened to our creative, preverbal, idetic imaginations. And we have been systematized and simplified where even meditation -- the most natural thing in the world connecting us to reality -- does not make sense without step by step instructions, books and diagrams, a guru, and lots of words. Is it any wonder people, or entire movements, get back to the land, enjoy free love, take mushrooms (or DMT-friendly drugs as opposed to harmful synthetic chemicals brewed in labs and distributed by operatives for the clandestine services). And we laugh and call them hippies, bonobos, and drop outs. Hmmm.

Berlusconi's Italian Harem
TIME.com
The woman at the center of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's latest sex scandal says that when she was 9 years old, she was raped... converted from Islam to Catholicism. Not all of Italy is impressed. A management consultant grew so disgusted with the things she saw on Berlusconi's shows ("Bunga Bunga") that she made her own video to raise awareness of the problem, splicing together scenes from various shows, including one, from a show called Joking Apart, that shows a woman in a thong hung on a hook in a meat locker. More>>

India to the Moon; UK's UFO files; New Mts.

The "ridiculous" becomes real as seen in the following three stories out today:

• UFOs in England
• India in Space
• Mountains where they shouldn't be

According to the AP and ABC News, the British National Archives has released a collection of secret files documenting its long standing UFO investigations.

• Video and story: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6069716

Assume that aliens do exist and will one day come to Earth. Odds are they do not speak English. How are you going to communicate with the little green men and beg them not to enslave you? A scientist named John Elliott is working on a solution.

Science to Communicate with Aliens

Photo: Alien art at the Science Museum in London. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made public secret files on UFO sightings, with the dossier including a range of reports from a close encounter with a UFO over Kent and a letter from a woman claiming to be an alien warrior (AFP/File/Martyn Hayhow).

Assume that aliens do exist and will one day come to Earth. Odds are they don't speak English. How are you going to communicate with the little green men and beg them not to enslave you? A scientist named John Elliott is working on a solution.

According to several sources within Yahoo's the Buzz, an Englishman is developing a way to decipher alien languages into understandable words and sentences. How can he do this when no aliens have ever given voiceover samples? A blog from Discover Magazine explains that Elliott developed a computer program that analyizes 60 languages from around the world. The goal is to be able to find a trend among those very different languages that will reveal a pattern in the way aliens may communicate.

Elliott, for his part, is realistic about his goal. According to Discover, the forward-thinker suspects that alien languages will be very different than human languages. He simply wants to be able to break up "extra-terrestial messages into nouns and verbs." Allow us to diagram a sentence to get the process started: E.T. (subject) phone (verb) home (object). That was easy. Now, bring on the aliens!

India to the Moon: the Asian Space Race
NEW DELHI – India readied its first lunar mission on Wednesday [10/22/08], seeking to convert its new wealth into political and military clout and join an elite group of nations with the scientific know-how to reach space.

In the last year Asian nations have taken the lead in exploring the moon: Japan and China both sent up spacecraft last year, and India's Chandrayaan-1 will join them in orbit around the moon for a two-year mission designed to map the lunar surface. Chandrayaan means "Moon Craft" in ancient Sanskrit. [Ancient spacecraft, known as Vimana, were known, documented, and studied in the Vedic texts of India. (Photo: Vimana illustration courtesy of atlantisquest.com)]

The moon mission comes just months after it finalized a deal with the United States that recognizes India as a nuclear power.

"It is a remarkable technological achievement for the country," said S. Satish, a spokesman for the Indian Space Research Organization, which plans to launch the 3,080-pound satellite from the Sriharikota space center in southern India.

To date only the U.S., Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China have sent missions to the moon. The United States is the only nation to have landed a man on the lunar surface, doing so for the first time in 1969. More>>

• Full story: India readies 1st moon mission in Asian space race

(mnh.si.edu)

As for other Indian things Western science is only now beginning to believe in, what are these strange "new" mountains science is planning to probe? The legend of Sumeru (Pali, Mt. Sineru) includes four mountain ranges walling off the North Pole, which WQ has in previous posts determined is what "Sumeru" in fact refers to in Buddhist cosmography.

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Given the dispute in the actual size of Sumeru (measured in fuzzy archaic terms such as nahutas and yojanas), it is possible that it is a "magnetic mountain" visible as lines of force in the earth's magnetic field extending from the Pole. Such a steady phenomenon would have been readily visible to the Buddha and other ancient "seers" (rishis). Nevertheless, it seems remarkable that entire physical mountain ranges are as yet unexplored by science:

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