-Caveat Lector- -[cont]- <A HREF="http://www.habtheory.com/100.htm">Expanded Discussion of The HAB Theory</A> -- Expanded Discussion of The HAB Theory by Gershon Gales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- According to the HAB theory, there have been many occassions in the past during which the time between capsisings allowed human civilizations to develop, only to be wiped out again as the Earth tilted. In our present era, virtually all cultures, from the most primitive to the most civilized, have in the dim reaches of their history the record or legend of a great flood. In the Bible it is the story of Noah. In the Oriental book The Ten Stems of China there are texts about it. In Eros, the 12 clay tablets inscribed in Sumerian cuneiform contain the Epic of Gilgamesh, which recounts the journeying of Enkidu, a sort of counterpart of Noah. In Greek mythology, Deucation and his wife, Pyrrha, are the only survivors of a great flood visited on the Earth by the great god Zeus. The ancient Brahmans, Chat Deans, Hindus and Babylonians have their own records or legends about similar great floods from which only a handful of individuals escaped with their lives. Similar legends are found among the Indians of the Americas and among the aboriginal tribes of Australia, Borneo, Sumatra, Africa and Southeast Asia. Generally, we moderns have looked upon these stories as being apocryphal, but perhaps we have been wrong. And while the support they provide cannot yet be considered proof, they do provide interesting and sometimes rather awesome corroboration to the theory of a recurrently capsizing Earth. In Iraq, for example, near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is the site of the ancient Chaldean city of Ur. Evidence exposed by archeologists digging through layer after layer to a depth of 50 feet proved that over 130 dynasties existed there. Then, at just over 50 feet, they encountered an thick layer of clay. Beneath that layer were discovered the remains of another 10 dynasties, but the artifacts recovered from these lower layers bore little resemblance to those discovered in the layers above. Pottery below the clay was beautifully and skillfully painted, but that above the clay was not. Copper artifacts were common in the layers above the clay, but absent in those below. The archeologists are unanimous in concluding that the layer of clay must be the residue of a great flood which buried the city under a blanket of silt. For the silt to accumulate and turn into clay took a great while and, though scientists are still not agreed to the exact amount of time involved, the general consensus is that the upper layers were all deposited within the past 7,500 years. The ancient Greek Solon, according to Plato, was told by Egyptian priests in 600 BC that 9,000 years previously, Egypt had been invaded by great armies from the powerful island empire of Atlantis, and that afterward Atlantis was covered by the ocean in a great deluge. The existence of such a place as Atlantis has long been held as a myth, but in view of the accumulation of evidence, perhaps there is more veracity to the story than heretofore believed. [A note on scientific discoveries that may not have been known to HAB or Allan W. Eckert at the time the book was written: There are places in Antarctica that are totally arid, with no evidence of any precipitation at all in hundreds of years. There are also great dry valleys in Antarctica, wide enough for a small airplane to do a leisurely turn within it's width, which show clear evidence of the passing of a glacier; the smooth contours of the bowl, the scraping lines on the floor of the valley, and boulders scattered in a neat but random pattern all throughout the floor of the valley.] istorical Origin of Fruits and Vegetables The seats of origin of most of the world's important staple vegetables and fruits are the Sumatra-Malaysia area, and the Ecuador-Peru area. Most of our fruits have originated, as best as can be determined, from a large radius of southern Asia, of which the Malay Archipelago appears to be the hub. These include fruits such as cherries, pears, apples, plums, olives, figs and grapes. Others, too, perhaps -- apricots and peaches, citrus fruits, bananas, coconuts and mango. On the other hand, the basic vegetables seem to have originated primarily in the upper Andes -- Ecuador and Peru, as mentioned, but also Bolivia and upper Chile. They would include both white potatoes and sweet potatoes, yams, maize, numerous beans including Lima and navy beans, pumpkins, squash, peppers, and many others. It has never been clearly explained before, but there were cobs and kernels of popcorn found in ancient Peruvian burial grounds which were thought to be unique to the world until, some years later, identical species of popcorn were found in ancient urns buried in the Naga Hills in the border country of Burma and Siam. This has been a very uncomfortable coincidence. Is there any botanical evidence existing which links such fruits and vegetables to Egypt? The fruits and vegetables found there now came to that land as they came to Europe and North America -- transported there by migrating peoples. Is it not possible, then, that an Egypt originally having a cold climate might explain why early Egypt, as we know it, had virtually no such fruits and vegetables? Is it not strange that in one of the pivotal areas, South America, we find another ancient civilization, the Inca's, which, precisely like the Egyptian civilization, seems to have drawn its early cultural and technological level from a source it could never quite emulate, and which it was unable to maintain? Both the cultures of Egypt and Peru seem to parallel one another in being the slowly dying remnants of much greater civilizations of which we have no knowledge. The culture of the Egyptians appeared full-blown, without any history antedating the First Dynasty. About the year 450 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus journeyed to both Memphis and Thebes on the Nile and talked at length with the priests there about their country and its history. Herodotus was told by the priests of Memphis that their records went back 11,000 years. If they had survived a cataclysm, wouldn't accounts of it have played important roles in what the priests told Herodotus? Unfortunately, the Egyptian records were on papyrus and skin scrolls, housed in one of the greatest libraries of antiquity, the Alexandria Library. Much of that library, along with a large portion of its 700,000 scrolls -- the equivalent of 10,000 textbooks of today -- was lost to fire during the reign of Caesar. Nevertheless, the Alexandria Library was rebuilt and continued to be a great repository of ancient records until AD 390. In that year the Bishop of Alexandria, evidently insane and a religious fanatic, led a mob through the streets of the city and pillaged the library of half a million of its scrolls, all of which were burned at his order. Not too long after that, the remainder of the collection was destroyed by the invading army of Caliph Omer. Fortunately, though, during his visits, Herodotus noted some other very peculiar information passed on to him by the priests... information which heretofore has been discounted as imaginings. Assuming that an observer in one of the so-called safe areas of Earth at the time of a capsizing were looking at the heavens, he would note a drastic change in the course of the moon, stars and sun. The sun might rise in the south instead of the east, and set in the north instead of the west. Or it might even shift a full 180 degrees, so that the sun would appear to rise in the west instead of the east. Imagine that at the moment of the last capsizing it was nine in the morning in Memphis. The Earth suddenly began moving sideways even while continuing the normal rotation from west to east. To an Egyptian looking upward at such a time, it would appear that the sun had stopped in its path, then moved about erratically for a while and finally set very close to where it had risen. An impossible supposition? So it has always seemed. Consider, though, what else the priests of Memphis told Herodotus. They told him with great assurance that in the history of their country, spanning 11,000 years -- or, as they put it, 341 generations (Egypt had by then had 341 kings and a similar number of high priests) -- the sun had twice risen where it had set, without any great change in the productivity of their country! This heretofore inexplicable statement begins to have considerable relevance. There is a possibility that Egypt was fortunately situated where it could survive two capsizings with little damage. In other words, two capsizings ago, one of the poles was at Hudson Bay. When the capsizing occurred, the area now known as the Sudan Basin became a polar site. The Egyptians then lived in a climate not unlike that of Fairbanks or Reykjavik. Then another rollover occurred and once again the sun seemed to stand still and then set where it had risen, and what had been a pole became the Sudan Basin of today. The reference by Herodotus to the sun rising and setting twice in the same direction fits into the precepts of the HAB Theory very nicely. The HAB Theory contends that when a capsizing occurs, the ice caps suddenly move to the equator, and areas which were previously equatorial become sites for the new poles. This goes wholly against long-established geological estimates which, for example, place the age of the South polar ice cap at approximately 13 million years (though these estimates were revised downwards, to 130,000 years, in the mid 1980s). Records of Past Civilizations Such records have indeed been found ... in China. These were contained in a large number of peculiar stone disks discovered in some underground repositories in the Himalayas near the border of Tibet. The discovery of the disks was made in 1938 by Professor Chi Pu Tei, an archeologist who was leading students on an expedition into the Bayan Kara Ula Mountains in the then-disputed frontier territory of Tibet and China. Professor Chi Pu Tei and his students discovered what was first described as a series of caves, but later admitted to be a complex system of artificial tunnels and underground storerooms. These tunnels were perfectly squared and the walls, ceilings and floors were highly glazed, as if the passages and rooms were carved by a device emitting heat of such intensity that it simply melted its way into the mountains. The archeological group followed some of these passages and encountered larger chambers in which numerous un-described implements were discovered. The implements evidently differed from one chamber to another, but one item was found in common in each of the chambers -- the stone disks mentioned earlier. In each chamber, they were found in the same position -- on a smooth cube of rock, glazed just as the tunnels were, with anywhere from seven to 20 of the disks neatly stacked on top. Each disk was 22.7 cm (9 inches) in diameter and 2 cm (3/4 inch) thick. Each disk also had a perfectly circular 2 cm hole in the exact center. The outside edges were regularly indented all the way around, almost like the fluting on a pie crust. Each disk also had a twin groove which began at the center hole and gradually moved in an expanding counterclockwise spiral to the outer rim. The individual disks thus bore a certain similarity to the phonograph records of today. All of the disks -- a total of 716 -- were removed and taken for study to the Peking Academy of Prehistory. Nothing was heard about this discovery by Western scientists for the next 27 years. During that period, the disks were being studied intensively by Professor Tsum Um Nui. The Bayan Kara Ula Mountains area is one of the most isolated and least known areas on Earth today. The nearest city of any consequence is Lhasa, Tibet, about 400 miles to the south through virtually impassable terrain. It is an area presently inhabited by two tribes of very unusual people. The tribes call themselves Dropa and Han, and simply do not fit into any racial category established by anthropologists. For one thing, they are both of pygmy stature. The tallest and shortest adults have measured 4' 7" and 3'6" respectively, but the average height is 4'2". They are yellow-skinned. Their heads are disproportionately large and sparsely haired, and their eyes are large but not Oriental in aspect, with pale bluish irises. Their features are very nicely formed, most nearly approximating Caucasian, and their bodies are extremely thin and delicate. Adult weight is estimated to average about 38 to 52 pounds. The disks underwent extensive study by Professor Tsum Um Nui, interrupted at times by war. It took him and his coworkers only a short time to discover that the spiral grooves were not sound tracks but, rather, an incredibly ancient writing inscribed in some unknown way and very nearly microscopic in size. The disks were determined to be no less than 3,000 or 4,000 years old at the youngest, and more likely anywhere from 8,000 to 12,000 years old. This would make them the oldest known form of writing in the world. Deciphering was incredibly difficult. It took 24 years -- until 1962 -- before Professor Nui and a young colleague found the key and began deciphering=2E The deciphered spiral text of the stones, even though only a small amount was completed, was so startling in its content that the Chinese government prohibited any publication of the resultant papers. The precise location of the site has never been released, and that area has been termed 'Positively Forbidden Territory' for the Western world since 1938. Then, in 1965, in a mysterious manner, an article written by the Russian philologist Vyacheslav Saizev appeared in Das Vegetarische Universum, a German magazine, and in the Russian-English magazine Sputnik, telling about the disks, their qualities and composition, and a little about what had been deciphered from them. It's rather startling. Records of Past Civilizations: Ecuador Back in 1965 an Argentine citizen, Juan Moricz, who is an amateur archeologist, was poking about in the Ecuadorian Andes about 150 miles south of Quito, in the Province of Santiago. He found a cave held in superstitious awe by the Indian tribes of the area. After finally gaining their confidence, he was allowed to enter the cave to explore. What he found is amazing. The naturally formed cave gave way to a smooth shaft, obviously artificially made, which went straight down in three distinct drops, each of 250 feet. At 250 feet below the surface was a platform leading into a vault of considerable size. Radiating outward from this vault was a whole series of artificial tunnels. The same situation was found at the 500-foot level and at the bottom, 750 feet below ground level. These tunnels evidently were made in exactly the same manner as the tunnels in the Bayan Kara Ula Mountains in China... perfectly squared and highly glazed, as if formed by intense heat. There are thousands -- perhaps even tens of thousands -- of miles of these tunnels beneath Ecuador and Peru. Mostly they're still unexplored because the radiation in them is very high and compasses refuse to operate down there. Only a few hundred miles of them have been surveyed, and those mostly in a cursory manner. There are a great many chambers filled with artifacts and statuary but, most important, there is one chamber in particular of immense consequence. That chamber, with highly glazed walls, ceiling and floors, measures 459 feet by 492 feet. In the center is a huge table around which are seven chairs fashioned of an unknown material, as heavy as stone but not of stone. Nor are they metallic or wooden. The closest approximation seems to be some sort of extremely dense plastic, but far heavier than any plastic known. Forming a perimeter around the table and chairs is a ring of sculptured animals. They're made of the same material and appear to have been molded. Some represent animals indigenous to the area, others depict animals which definitely are not and never have been. There are jaguars and cougars, but there are also lions, elephants, wolves and bison. There are also monkeys, gorillas and bears, as well as small invertebrates such as crustaceans and gastropods. All this -- the furnishings and statuary -- are intriguing, but they pale in significance to what else is in this room, some 50 feet from the table. Fifty feet from that center grouping is a library permanently preserved in metal leaves. Each sheet of metal is 1.6 mm thick -- about 1/16 of an inch -- but 38 inches by 19 inches wide. Yet they're so sturdy that standing on the narrow edge and extending upward over three feet, they remain perfectly rigid, with no sign of bending. The metal most closely resembles zinc, but is not zinc. Neither is it tin or any other known metal or alloy. These metal pages stand side by side, held in place by great block-like pieces of material of the same substance the furniture is fashioned from. And each of these thousands of leaves has stamped on it, in regular order, just as if stamped by a powerful press, line after line of a peculiar boxed form of writing. The characters are wholly unfamiliar and seemingly of a sophisticated hieroglyphic nature, but whatever culture produced this amazing library also left with it the key to its deciphering. In a special niche, obviously made precisely for this purpose in one of the huge block bookends, is what appears to be an alphabet of 56 characters stamped in a gridwork of squares on metal of the same type as the leaves, but much thicker -- 1.5 inches thick, 5.5 inches wide and 20.5 inches long. >From top to bottom there are 14 rows of hieroglyphic characters, with four characters >per row, confined within boxes which are exactly 3.5 cm square -- that's roughly 1 3/8 inches. None of the characters are the same, but these very characters are used in different combinations in the rows of characters on the metal leaves. It's like someone today placing an alphabet in front of a large book. Other than Juan Moricz's early -- and partially successful -- efforts in this respect, no attempt has ever been made to decipher them, although for a trained cryptologist it would probably be a relatively simple matter. The prepared list of boxed characters is far more important to the deciphering of those hieroglyphics than was the Rosetta Stone in the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Then why has no attempt been made? Only the Ecuadorian government knows the answer to that. For the first four years after his discovery, Juan Moricz maintained secrecy about it, but he gradually realized the fantastic significance of his find and knew it should be placed in the care of reputable scientists. One of the big stumbling blocks was that he was "not an Ecuadorian," Nevertheless, in June of 1969 he petitioned the government of Ecuador to give him legal title to the entire system of tunnels and their contents, with the stipulation, in accordance with Article 666 of the Ecuadorian civil code, that though the treasures discovered became his personal property, they also remained subject to state control. After the governmental red-tape was cleared, and at last Moricz was granted the legal deed for his find, everything seemed fine. Then word got out that a great many of the archeological treasures in the upper-level passages were of solid gold or platinum. A governmental seal was placed on the entrance and has remained there ever since. It is now perpetually guarded, with entry supposedly permitted to no one. What purpose this accomplishes is anyone's guess. Moricz has speculated publicly that at intervals certain high government figures enter the tunnels and are gradually disposing of great quantities of the gold and platinum. Moricz spent a great deal of time learning how to decipher the hieroglyphics, and then gradually translating the printed metal leaves. He admits that he did not decipher them in sequence, but rather a leaf here and there taken at random. Nothing has been published of the findings although a few excerpts from his petitions to the government of Ecuador may be enlightening: "...the objects I found are of the following kinds: 1) Stone and metal objects of different sizes and colors. 2) Metal plaques engraved with signs and writing. They form a veritable metal library which might contain a synopsis of the history of humanity, as well as an account of the origin of mankind on Earth and information about a vanished civilization." DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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