Bridge of Time, Beyond the Present

By A.J. Schrager

What started out, a half century ago, to be a chase down historys trail to discover the origin of a silver sculpture of a man and his dog plasticized around a copper armature turned out to be a chase of the history of mankind itself.
The writer has brought to light of day, a reasoned documented analysis of the unbroken chain of seemingly isolated facts, obscure data and wove them into a tapestry or painted a word picture of where man has been.
The quest for the man, the sculptor, and his culture became a time traveled beyond the normal bounds of inquiry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 13, 2005
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Bridge of Time,

Beyond the Present

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A.J. Schrager

It’s About Time!

It’s about time that someone took seemingly isolated disciplines, correlated them into a cohesive form, chained them together for those that have an eye to see and a mind to wonder.

It’s about time present and past but not the future.

It’s about time for those who ask what, when, where and how come, but not why, all put together in one package.

It’s About Time!

Copyright © 2005 by A.J. Schrager.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

SYNOPSIS BY CHAPTERS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II      What About Peru?

CHAPTER III      Life’s keenest thrill is the hunt, the chase, the anticipation Ice Age and the Stone Age Man

CHAPTER IV      Enter Civilized Man (what happened and when)

CHAPTER V      Life is a series of New Beginnings—never ending! Who, when and where and what happened?

CHAPTER VI      What’s Atlantis to Greece and when?Question: What is man most interested in?Answer: Man himself!

CHAPTER VII      The Atlantean Connection North by East by West and Southwesterly

CHAPTER VIII      Peru Revisited—PART I The Three R’s Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic

CHAPTER IX      Was it the Creation, or was it the Age of Creativity?

CHAPTER X      The Ante-Diluvian Age of Creativity

CHAPTER XI      The Posterior Diluvian Age of Re-Creativity

CHAPTER XII      The Maritimes Part I—The Ancient Mariners, Pre-Diluvian

CHAPTER XIII      Phoenicians, The So-Called Ancient Mariners, Post Diluvian

CHAPTER XIV      Chaining Up the Links

CHAPTER XV      THE STATION’S IN SIGHT PART I

CHAPTER XV      THE STATION’S IN SIGHT PART II

EPILOGE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ENDNOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to acknowledge first and foremost that the clock that ticks the time that checks off the days, months and years prodded me to take up the pen and write it down on paper.

Along the way, once the process got started, I received constructive criticism, editing, assistance from many sources and encouragement to complete the task. I hope that I can adequately remember to thank all the members of my family, my friends and extended family at this point in time.

To my deceased wife, Bonnie, for her forbearance and patience with me while I soared into the void of time backwards. To my dear wife, Sue and Teddy, who have embraced my efforts with interest, love and a deep sense of positive encouragement without which this work would have languished half finished.

To my sons, John and Jeff, for their interest early on, I am deeply grateful. John, especially and initially, started the process of transcribing my hand scrawl into the computer.

To Mary Van der Kamp Nohl, an experienced and stellar reporter for the Milwaukee Magazine, I owe a debt of gratitude for honestly and expertly criticizing the early chapters—that corrected my naiveté form of writing to a format that I later found to be more professional.

To Marie May, my word processor, who transcribed all my manuscript’s pages and tapes, and whose expertise formatted the manuscript, my heartfelt thanks and admiration.

To my office staff, Jill Winkler and Sharon McCarragher that have copied, compiled, and organized the word processed pages, 1 offer my sincere thanks. This task they performed amid their other pressing Gallery duties.

To Kathy Lovrance and to Warren Gilson for taking an interest in the mystique of a subject so far out from the average. Kathy, an interested archeologist and ancient history buff recently passed away from the ravages of cancer before she got to read the last chapters.

To a friend of long standing, Harrold McComas, for his interest, encouragement, devil’s advocacy, but yet provided me with works to read from other authors on the prehistory of man and of the submerged continent, Atlantis. Over several luncheon dates, we wandered down history’s back door. About the ninth chapter, he said, I’m still not convinced. I hope he comes to a change of mind when he gets the chance to read the next six chapters and Epilogue.

I recall Albert Einstein after critiquing Immanuel Velikovsky’s Earth in Upheaval" just nine days before his passing who was not totally convinced either by Velikovsky’s work, but the gap of differences narrowed considerably by the time of his passing. Velikovsky was willing to set forth the situation; so do I!

To Professor Victor Mair of University of Pennsylvania for his touch of greatness and humanity in taking the time out of his most demanding schedule to answer my initial letter of reaching out and thereby developing a rapport which today amounts to profound admiration for his courage to set forth his findings and reach back to the amateur who has found in his (Professor Mair’s) work the missing linkage in the chain of human descent from before and after the deluge—to have its terminus in the Tarim Basin.

Also along the way, other family members and friends lent their support and interest in reading the early chapters. The names of Emily Schwoebel, Cathy Frohman, Margaret Moore, Ann Eagan, etc. come to mind.

Lastly, and most importantly of all, I give my humble thanks to the Holy Spirit who used this pen of mine and guided this hand through largely uncharted seas. Many is the time, I’ve felt His presence and His guidance in preparing this book.

SYNOPSIS BY CHAPTERS

Foreword—

CHAPTER I PAGES 43-59 FROM THE BEGINNING

How it all started. Initial curiosity sparked by finding out the origin of how the sculptures, from Peru, came to Milwaukee. Initial correspondence, research, advertising and replies. Realization that the search must begin in earnest.

CHAPTER II PAGES 60-95 WHAT ABOUT PERU

Introducing the sculptures, now named: Atlan and his hunting dog. Involvement with foundry work, learning about sculpture and casting, which led back to Milwaukee and determination to get Atlan and his companion out of the box. First stop: Peru. A short geographical update. William H. Prescott comes into focus with the glories of Peru, circa early 16th Century, as found by Francisco Pizzaro and his band of 200 intrepid Conquistadors. The background on the Incas, the Quichuas, and the Aymaras. Encountering the first mention of a white/bearded Race, with blond/red hair, blue eyes, tall giants—who came from the east; who introduced the religion of the worship of the sun, who taught the Autochthons the arts, sciences, agriculture, architecture, metallurgy. The person: Viracocha, the Sun King of the mythical white people of Peru. Comparing Atlan to published works on the arts of Peru. More descriptions of the religions, ceremonies, the architecture, engineering and sculpture of Peru before the Conquest. The legends of Peru as they relate to the Deluge. The Bridge of Time, over a river of printed information. Realization that Atlan did not originate in Peru and the search now begins by starting with the Ice Age to work our way downward in time.

CHAPTER III PAGES 96-133 ICE AGE AND STONE AGE MAN

Encapsulizing the time frame 20,000± years B.C.E. to 10,000 B.C.E. we meet Imanuel Velikovsky via his works: World’s in Collision and Earth in Upheaval et al. for a rationale as to the probable causes of the glaciations which lasted from 25,000 to 20,000 years ago when the ice is starting to melt. We encounter Henry Fairfield Osborn and Henri Breuil, through whose works, and others, we meet Stone Age Man: the hunter-gatherer; first, in the Neanderthal stage, second in the Cro-Magnon stage. The beginnings of the meltdowns and the appearance of the Cro-Magnon man replacing the Neanderthal. The evidence of the art in caves of France, of the Aurignacians. The artistry of the Cro-Magnon is delineated in four stages, bringing the era down to 10,000± B.C.E., with the meltdowns in between. The culture of the Cro-Magnons developing the capability of creating the silver sculptures, at the end of that period with the advent of metallurgy. Atlan is described in detail, being the hunter or military man who wielded a javelin and using a throwing stick; wearing a feathered headdress (casque). The feature of the feather headdress being found as far away as Easter Island and in Polynesia, all stemming from the cradle—a sunken civilization described as Atlantis. We see the end of the Ice Age/Stone Age Man, with more questions as to who made Atlan, when and where? What was this culture that could/probably did create such work? Some answers herein but more of the questions sends the search—for the civilized man!

CHAPTER IV PAGES 134-155 ENTER CIVILIZED MAN

The focus is the gap in time between the Stone Age and Recorded History.

Defining the methodology of arriving at conclusions. Setting the stages by which Stone Age mankind is transformed into the Civilized Man. The domesticating of animals, the development of agriculture from hunting/gathering, the development of metallurgy, the mastery of the seas.

The Copper Age as it pertains to America and Wisconsin, with the Mississippi Mound Culture, Lake Superior copper mining operations, etc., becoming, in part, the era known as the Bronze Age. The domesticating of the horse, the advent of the wheel/chariot/ cart, and finally the mastery of the seas.

CHAPTER V PAGES 156-200 WHO, WHEN AND WHERE AND WHAT HAPPENED?

With a brief introduction to Plato, the Timaeus and the Critias is presented with the history of Atlantis. In examining the Timaeus and Critias, all the elements of who—when—where and what happened are in place. All the attributes of the civilized age are brought into view—so that the people with the capabilities of the Atlanteans would have been able to create Atlan!

A rationale for what happened is discussed in the three major meltdowns of the Stone Age/Cro-Magnon era—which preceded the last final Deluge (Noachian). Discussion of the then-existing land bridge to Europe and Africa before the last catastrophe.

In 1878, U.S.S. Dolphin charts the Atlantic and maps the Dolphin’s Ridge. The findings of U.S.S. Stewart and the Harvey Hayes Tonic Depth Finder report. The 1923 Western Union report. The Immanuel Velikovsky report of the Columbia University Expedition of 1949 and Velikovsky’s dissertation giving an insight to the calamity that befell the area; the scenario involving meltdowns and volcanic action.

Finally, the How was it made question is answered (i.e. Atlan). For every question answered, new ones rear up—i.e. the pattern of where do Greek/Egyptians and Biblical history fit in?

CHAPTER VI PAGES 201-234 WHAT’S ATLANTIS TO GREECE AND WHEN?

Starting with the Timeous—the first identification of the commonality of origins in Neith and Athene, the acknowledged relationships. The flood of Ogygia—the great deluge during the reign of King Ogygus (Greek mythology), First King of Thebes. Ogygus said to be the son of Poseidon or Cadmus.

The Greek Flood Myth of later date with Deucalian and Pyrrha (which correspond to Noah); the Greeks being the seeds/remnants of a noble race; and the Greeks with the Egyptians being among the earlier efforts of colonization, before last Deluge.

Mythology and Fables are defined. A background capsule of the biography of Solan.

The comparison of the laws of Egypt and Greece, finding they are counterparts: as they were in olden times, i.e. common ancestral culture.

The idyllic state that was Atlantis and the degeneration that developed forebodes punishment, that they will be chastened. Grecian mythology mirrors the History of Atlantis.

The gods of Greece who were their kinsmen is delineated; colonization of the shores along the Mediterranean is described. The Kingdoms of the sons of Poseidon and Cleito are set forth, where known.

A brief description of Hesiod and mention of his work.

Zeus decides to destroy mankind via flood. Deucalian constructs the boat (ark). He and his wife, Pyrrha, survive the flood. The legend of Hercules, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians of Greece is outlined; Olympus explained. Twelve cardinal statements of findings are set forth concluding that Atlan was a creation of the times between the beginnings of civilized man and before the last deluge.

CHAPTER VII PAGES 235-271 THE ATLANTEAN CONNECTION

The extent of the Atlantean empire radiating to the four quarters of the world.

Egypt is now examined to find a connective cord to Atlantis. Egypt’s Prehistoric period appears to be coexistent with the Azilian Tardenosian cultures of the last era of the Stone Age. The end of the Prehistoric period is coincident with beginnings of civilized man, where tribal cults worshipped tribal or local gods. Advent of dynasties marks the rise of a united Egyptian state, bringing rapid progress in all branches of civilization including the arts, resulting in material prosperity. Tribal gods give way to cosmic gods—later taking on humanistic personalities, i.e. deifying their ancestral kings. First King Mena, unites upper and lower Egypt. Early Deity Min (Akhmin). Another early goddess is Neith (associated with Athene), followed by Osiris. The legend of Osiris is devolved.

The pyramids are in focus. Relationship of Mena to Atlantean ancestral deities is examined, along with Thoth and Osiris. The legends of Osiris are compared to the English/Scottish/Celtic beliefs. Touching upon Druidism and King Arthur legends associating Atlantis with Britain, then Ireland and points north and east.

American Indian legends are examined, finding comparables.

Thor Heyerdahl comes into our purview with a background view of the Kon Tiki story. Mr. Heyerdahl reports on similarities of the Polynesians to Peruvians and the race of white gods who lived before the Incas in Peru. Other European reports of the natives of Easter Island with white skins and beards, reddish blond hair, blue grey eyes et al. Viracocha and Kon Tiki resurface. The story of Kumaru or Kumara, the sweet potato.

So, the points north by east by west and southwesterly are covered from Egypt to Britain to Peru to Polynesia.

CHAPTER VIII PAGES 272-307 PERU REVISITED—PART I

Thor Heyerdahl is writing Aku-Aku and American Indians of the Pacific builds a strong case for the Caucasoid elements of Peruvians who fled Peru landing on Easter Island, Hawaii and New Zealand et al.

Juan de Betanzos relates the coming of Contici. Viracocha to Tiahuanaco. Viracocha’s activities before the Incas come. The stone sculptures of these white/bearded men with red/flaxen hair. Viracocha, who brought the people out of darkness into light of a new culture from a primitive state to the state of the art of civilization, bringing to them the sun worship from the east—where the sun rises. The east, where he and his Celtic-like disciples came from, resulting in their deified personification by the Authocthons. Later 12 foot statues in stone were raised in his memory. Viracocha also had the knowledge of metallurgy, responsible for the creation of all the gold and silver sculpture, creation of foundries, and fabricators; of architecture and stone masonry.

Viracocha and his disciples, the seed from Cro-Magnon race, coming from the rising sun, lived peaceably with the Aborigines creating monumental public works, highways, aqueducts, temples and founding the city of Cuzco. This was Period I Viracocha. After a period of time, his disciples and followers/colonizers in the era of Period II Viracocha were attacked and defeated by the Inca, Cari, Circa 450 A.D., in a battle at Lake Titicaca.

The then Sun Priest—aka Con (for Creator) Tici, or Illa Tici, Viracocha and his survivors flee Peru on Balsa rafts into the Pacific Ocean, and carried on the currents, landing on various Polynesian Islands prominent among which is Easter Island.

The Legends of the Islands are focussed on.

PERU REVISITED—PART II

Hypothesis I—White bearded, fair skinned arrive at the highlands of Peru in prehistoric past.

Hypothesis II—This race were architects, engineers, sculptors, metallurgists, agriculturists bringing civilization to Authocthons.

Hypothesis III—Circa 450 A.D., war rages at Lake Titicaca nearly annihilating the remnants of this race, survivors fleeing on Balsa rafts into the Pacific. Hypothesis IV—The seed of these survivors lives on to the present day.

Polynesia is represented by two distinct physical types of races, i.e. Mongoloid and Caucasoid.

The Caucasoid race that came to Peru in prehistory suffered two disastrous wars; one in Peru; the second on Easter Island. Yet, their race has not been extinguished.

The mummies of Peru are examined. Five authors from 1862 through 1943 corroborate the facts recited.

The reference to the Long Ears is encountered: with the comparison of the Long Eared People of Peru to the Long Ears of Easter Island.

THE AMERICAN CONNECTION—PART III

The Western hemisphere is covered from the Peruvian aspect via the Amazon Valley, but what about other parts—namely the United States?

Alexander W. Bradford in his American Antiquities reports long ears—i.e. large ears extending to the chin on an earthen vessel found 20 feet below the surface at Nashville, Tennessee.

Human bodies discovered near Cumberland River in Tennessee and in Mammoth Cave Kentucky.—clothed in skins of cloth, inlaid with feathers, high state of preservation, hair varying from brown to yellow to red.

Mr. Bradford also reported on the Peruvian bodies found by Spaniards in 1790, withered and dried and the hair of red color, linking up the red-haired people of Kentucky to the red-haired people of Peru.

He describes an urbanized culture, a civilized race, building mounds, fortifications, pyramids, living in cities and farms. Commencing in the State of New York, stretching west of the Alleghenies, eastward through Georgia and ending in southeast Florida.

Also in the west, up the source of the Mississippi, along the banks of the Missouri, thence down to the Gulf of Mexico and beyond the Red River.

They flourished in the Copper Age of man, wristlets of copper and a cross were found. Stone age knives of copper and various ornaments, even the use of silver. The record of a semi-civilized man in transition from Stone Age of stone/flint to working in metal; building mounds as altars, sepulchers and observatories.

They had the knowledge of the arch, of receding steps, the art of pottery and chemical composition of brick making.

They had a system of religion and mythology connected with astronomy and geometry.

2 + 2 = four

CHAPTER IX PAGES 308-360 WAS IT CREATION OR WAS IT THE AGE OF CREATIVITY?

Bishop Ussher’s date of Creation i.e. 4004 B.C.E. or Lightfoot’s date of October 23, 4004 B.C.E., the date Adam was created approximately 9:00 a.m. But, if we are to believe that fossils are evidence of earlier life, and that of the work of geologists, the world is much older than 6000 years! And for Ussher and Lightfoot, the second form of creation occurred after the Flood of Noah.

Re: Creation, we look in or Karl von Linné of Sweden (b. 1707) the leading naturalist of his day, who published Systema Naturae naming the species. His doctrine: there was created in Eden all species in pairs (although he was aware of fossils) and were created as adults at the same time and at same place.

Next, we look at Charles Bonnet, French (1720-1793) with his germ theory—i.e. all creatures great and small created at the beginning by direct act of God as germs.

Next in line—Georges C.L.F.D. Cuvier, French (1769-1832) who stated that instead of a single act of creation, he espoused many species once created, migrated to and fro, the beginning of the theory of catastrophies. He claimed this great natural revolution, which laid bare oceans and submerged other lands, causing the human race to resume its progressive state of improvement. His theory, in simple, is catastrophism.

Now comes Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz, Swiss (1807-1873), claiming that all species originated (created) simultaneously and separately in different parts of the world, and not moved via land bridges and that included man. He’s the last creationist.

Next comes up to bat: Sir Charles Lyell, British (1797-1875), with his published Principles of Geology. He gives names to periods. We come to a discussion of what is a species.

After Lyell, there’s Jean Baptiste Lamarck, French (1744-1829), claiming that species were not through all times unalterable. which leads into Charles Darwin, English (1809-1881); his life, his joining expedition on the Beagle in 1836, his journal on the Tendency of Species to form Varieties etc. The storm that follows and the fallout.

The speech of C.C. Gillespie—admitting to three deluges before Noah—and stating nothing of mans work has been found that are remnants of a former world entombed in these deposits.

Leaving the creationists and those that are for evolution, we now look into Biblical history—for those that have an eye to see and a mind that is curious—which leads us to Noah, who had an eye to see, an ear to listen and faith.

We begin to examine the Bible, i.e. Genesis only—first eleven chapters that occupy only 11 ½ pages in current Bibles—from creation to Abraham. We begin by taking an objective, hard look as to how the Bible was created itself, and come up with surprising findings! How Elohim and Jahovah, Hebrew scribes by those names assembled those early chapters, and with the help of the Priests, with their interpretations, together with the Massoretes. We have a Bible written with the consonantal alphabet, (before the Greeks added the vowels).

We have a dissertation on the various texts, which made their appearance circa 6th to 8th Centuries B.C.E. Next, we show charts Creation of Man to the Flood and From Noah to Abraham—based on three different versions of the Bible.

With this background on the Bible, we begin to read Genesis with new eyes and new interpretations. We first encountered Adam in verses 19 or 20 of Chapter II in current Bibles, and Eve in Verse 21—leaving the work to continue in the next chapter, we’ve touched upon the creativity in creating the Bible itself.

CHAPTER X PAGES 361-388 THE ANTE—DILUVIAN AGE OF CREATIVITY

Starting with Chapter 3 of Genesis, we explore the word Genesis and the work Genesis and compare it with the work of Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews.

Before departing in our comparisons, we learn some of the man Josephus and his times and his critics.

Beginning by trying to find out more about Adam and the origins of that name and of its counterparts.

We took a further look into the Forgotten Books of Eden written primarily during the Greek, Hasmonean and Roman periods, edited by R. H. Platt and pub. 1980.

Armed with all these printed words in the river of printed information, we now continue to read, interpolate and understand more of what was written in the Bible and of what was not written in the Bible that which we grew up to accept as gospel.

We learn that Adam and Eve had daughters; that Adam could read and write, built pillars of brick and stone, foretold of disaster to come, knew the stars et al.

That Cain married his sister, built cities, intent on gathering riches by fair means and foul. He sought bodily pleasures, fortified his cities, set out boundaries, developed weights and measures. We follow the descent of Cain’s children, how they invented brass, and harps and psalters, knew metallurgy and his posterity becoming wicked: everyone dying one after another more wicked than the former. In Cain’s story we see man’s conflict with evil.

We take a deeper look into Adam the patriarch, the inventor, who knew the heavenly bodies, who lived to the age of 930 years.

Adam and Eve beget Seth, who is the example of good and for seven generations of his descendants followed Seth’s example in regard for virtue. In the process of time, they, too, become perverted and forsook practices of their forefathers; making God their enemy (overtones of the Timaeus of Plato).

We follow Seth’s descendants to Jared—and the prediction of the flood and it is he who instructs Enoch and his descendants, amongst whom is Noah. Jared telling Noah that he will take the body of Adam from the cave and place it in the ark for reburial after the flood.

Two versions from Chapter 6 of Genesis regarding the sons of god and Beings from the spirit world entering into marriage with earth born women, creating the race of giants in the earth.

Then there’s Josephus’ version of these passages and commentations from Lewis Spence and Ignatius Donnelly as to how they relate to Plato’s Timaeus and the Atlantean legend.

The connotations of Atlas to Adam are cited.

Josephus gives us deeper background into the calamity that happened in the 600th year of Noah’s ‘government’. Next come the descendants of Seth, who was born, when Adam was either age 130 or 230 (depending upon the source) Adam lived to see six to seven generations from his seed—almost to Noah. Correlation of the Atlantean legends, the Greek legends and the Biblical legends. The period of great creativity developing to a high state of culture, emerging religions, art, industry, agriculture, mastery of animals, the sea—all except mastery of himself—man!

CHAPTER XI PAGES 398-418 THE POSTERIOR DILUVIAN AGE OF RE-CREATIVITY

We now follow Noah and his three sons and their descendants. Interpolating the Bible, we found other survivors besides Noah and his family. Noah lived 350 more years after the flood. He was 600 years old at the time of the Deluge.

Noah had three sons who were born 100 years before the flood. They were Shem, Japheth and Ham. With the help of Josephus and Encyclopedia Britannica, we follow the descent of the sons and the paths of re-peopling the world that they took.

1.   SHEM the oldest, lived 500 years after the flood. Hissons: Elam, Assur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram, as follows:

Elam   the Elamites, ancestors of the Persians—

founding city Elam.

Assur   founding City: Nineve, subjects: Assyrians—

intermarried with their cousins the Kasserites (Elamites). Capitol City: Assur—located on west bank of Tigris, Assur is deified as god Ashir.

Arpachshad became the Chaldeans—Capitol City: BU YAKIM amalgamated with the Babylonian language, became Aramaic. Had a son Sala (Salah/Shelah) who begot Peleg, who begot Reu, who begot Serug, who begot Noah, who begot Terah from whom came Abraham.

Lud   We have no information.

Aram   The Aramites, whom the Greeks call Syrians.

2.   JAPHETH Second son of Noah—had seven sons whoproceeded west along the mountains and north shore of Mediterranean as far as Cadiz. They were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras, as follows:

Gomer   The Gomerites, the Greeks call Galatians

(Gauls).

Magog   Magogites, the Greeks call Scythians.

Madai   The Madeans and called Medes by Greeks.

Javan   i.e. Jonia—from whom all Grecians are derived

(Ionia)

Tubal   Thobelites now called Iberes (Iberians)

Meshech The Moscheni—now called Cappadocians. Turas   The Thiracians and called by Greeks Thracians.

Japhet’s sons were called the Celts or Celtics—the connotation of Japhet to Japheth and/or Iapeth of Grecian and Atlantean history is brought into focus at length. Iapetus being considered ancestor of the human race.

Noteworthy is Javan’s sons being the bronze merchants, iron merchants, the western traders—of the bible (Ezekiel Chapter XXVII V. 13-19). Japhet’s fifth son, Tubal, the ancestor of the Iberians. The sons of Japhet are followed in great detail. 3. HAM The third son of Noah had four sons—i.e. Chus,

Mestaria, Phut and Canaan, as follows: Chus First son of Ham reigned over Ethiopians. Chus’

son, Nimrod tyrannized Babylonia. Mestaria (Mestrains) are the Mestre of Mizraim i.e.

the Egyptians. Phut founded Libya—the country of the Moors.

Canaan Inhabited the country called by that name and now called Judea. Canaan had four sons

The sons of the sons of Ham are followed along the southern shores of the Mediterranean—repeopling those shores (the people known as Phoenicians—stemming from Canaan’s land along the Levant Coast).

Thus we follow the repopulating of the Mediterranean world after the Deluge.

Noah landing in the Caucasus mountain area of Armenia from whence his seed homed in on their instinctive roots. We encounterthe name Caucasoid—attached to the Celtics, the white race. The origin of the word is delineated; the misnomer that stemmed from Johan Frederick Blumenbach, German (1752-1830) who wrote two works on anthropology (1778 and 1804) being the first to show the value of comparative anatomy in study of man’s history, gave labels to several varieties of families of man, calling the white race Caucasian, with the overtone that the white race originated in the Caucasian mountain area, which it did not—but has never been corrected.

It was erroneously stated to be the original home of the hypothetical Indo European, and that erroneous impression has stuck. But, in default of a better designation, it is labeled as one of the main ethnic divisions of the human race—Catch 22 situation.

Next is the Babylonian history of Gilgamesh recited to show the impact of the Deluge upon the Babylonian legendary history.

Lastly in this Chapter, another enlargement on the Bible is the story about Moses that never made it to the Biblical versions that we grew up with, courtesy of Josephus.

CHAPTER XII PAGES 419-474 THE MARITIMES PART I—THE ANCIENT MARINERS, PRE-DILUVIAN

Citing the Biblical references to the Maritimes begins our inquiry as to who were the Maritimes. For our chief reference we go to Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles Hapgood, Professor Keene State College, Keene, N.H. and via Adventure Unlimited Press for their unlimited permission to disseminate the knowledge gained by seven years of research involving students, technicians from U.S. Naval Hydrographic office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the 8th Air Force Reconnaissance Technical Squadron, et al.

The first object of study was the Piri Re’is’ world map brought to light in 1929 created in 1513 A.D. showing a part of Antarctic coast drawn before the immense Antarctica Ice Cap covered the coasts of Queen Maud Land.

Professor Hapgood’s opening statement that the book contains first hard evidence that advanced peoples preceded all the peoples now known to history.

The map of Piri Re’is was in the old Imperial Palace in Constantinople in 1929—when under Kemal A-ta Turk; president of Turkey, allowed a copy of this map to make its way to the United States, where it languished until 1956, when a Turkish naval officer brought it to the U.S. Naval Hydrographic Office. A Captain Arlington H. Mallory, after studying the map, opined that somebody had mapped the coast before the ice appeared.

This sparked the investigation undertaken by Professor Hapgood. Working in concert with the groups named above and, after several years, they were successful in preparing a grid and correlating the map to both coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and parts of Antarctica, checking every detail accurately and being then able to verify the claim of Captain Mallory.

The process is described in fair detail (in this chapter). Professor Hapgood brought to light that the ancient map makers had the knowledge of mathematics and trigonometry before the Grecian geographers and map makers, and there was evidence suggesting that the people who originated the maps possessed a more advanced science than that of the Greeks.

That Piri Re’is compiled his world map from components coming from a far greater antiquity than from the Alexandrian times, and that the "Piri Re’is map appears to be evidence of a decline of science from remote antiquity to classical times.

That these Pre-Hellenic people were aware of trigonometric projection adjusted to the curvature of the earth, that they were knowledgeable of longitude when such instrument for finding longitude was not invented until the 18th Century, and were undreamed of by the Greeks, and not even possessed by the Phoenicians. Further, they were capable of finding latitude, where as Columbus had the knowledge available of how to find latitude by astronomical observations but his latitudes were all wrong.

Where applying the grid to Piri Re’is’ map 95 geographical points were identified and some points that do not exist anymore in the mid-Atlantic. Professor Hapgood submits the Buache Map at this point.

The mid-Atlantic Ridge aka the Dolphin Ridge is delineated. The omission of the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica is discussed in detail. The coast of Antarctica is profiled, i.e. the Queen Maud Land Ice Cap with seismic soundings of British—Swedish Seismic Survey of 1949. A poignant legend from Piri Re’is’ map is cited re: the feather headdress of the nations of Antilla, pointing to a linkage from Azilian Tardenosian (previously cited) to American Indians, Easter Islanders/Hawaii.

Other maps are now illustrated and discussed, i.e. the Oronteus Finaeus map of 1532; Hadji Ahmed map of 1559; the Dulcert Portolan of 1339; De Canerio map of 1502.

Another area touched upon was Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition core sediments take from the bottom of the Ross Sea—and analyzed by Jack Hough of the University of Illinois and the Carnegie Institute; the date fitting nicely with the Ice Age meltdowns previously discussed.

Professor Hapgood says: for it seems that the mapping would have been done at least 6000 years ago, and further elaborating: the unglacial period of Antarctica cannot have come to an end later than 6000 years ago and must have existed for a very long time before that.

Mercator and other map makers and maps are mentioned.

Professor Hapgood concludes that: this civilization disappeared perhaps suddenly, more likely by gradual stages. Its disappearance has implications we ought to consider seriously.

Lastly, that the science we see at the dawn of recorded history was not science at its dawn but represents the remnants of science of some great and as yet untraced civilization.

CHAPTER XIII PAGES 475-511 PHOENICIANS, THE SO-CALLED ANCIENT MARINERS, POST DILUVIAN

Professor A.W. Brogger’s opening in this chapter about the Golden age of deep sea navigation being at its height as much as 3000 years before Christ, and that the Phoenicians were at the bottom of this age or curve".

The Phoenicians reappearing after the deluge to populate the shores of what is now Lebanon and rebuild ancestral (Atlantean) home city known as Carthage.

The origin of the Phoenicians stemming from Noah, after the Deluge, bringing the memory of the mastery of the sea and the elements of their language in the form of their consonantal alphabet. Donald Harden in his book The Phoenicians fills us with much background information.

Alexander’s conquest of Tyre in 332 B.C. and the Roman pillage of Carthage in the Punic Wars of 146 B.C. spell the end of their language.

The origin of our alphabet is examined along with the alphabets of other major languages.

Phoenician arts/industry is examined as is Phoenician religion. Their maritime prowess, their trading and their ability at architecture and metallurgy. Mention of their traffic is dyestuffs, especially from the murex shells, plus their traffic in gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, timber, apes, peacocks and slaves. They traded with Africa, Europe, including Britain, Ireland and points to the west in the deep sea.

Their sun worship is examined. Their Gods, the gods of the Greeks and of the Atlanteans were one and the same. Olympus said to be in the Atlantic and that Olympus itself is a derivation of Oluntos to Olumpos and a step away from sounding like Atlantis.

Phoenician walls, cities and harbors seem like a recollection of Atlantis of the Timaeus. Odysseus (Ulysses) appears in legend by Homer to have visited the Atlantean Island of Calypso—in the western sea beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Oceanus, Calypso, Syracuse, Scheria are all examined, and also the Iberians.

The Lady of Elche is compared to current day story of the Iberians as it pertaining to current exhibits in Barcelona and in Bonn Germany, and the analytical conclusions pertaining thereto.

The second impact of the Phoenicians is the source of our own alphabet. With the introduction of vowels by the Greeks, the emergence and comparison of the alphabets of major languages is undertaken, touching upon Greek, Hebrew, Egyptian and Chinese.

The Phoenician being the Sematic seafarers, teamed up with their Japhetic cousins who were the bronze merchants, traders, i.e. manufacturers and known as Tokarians, became involved in a war with Egyptians, Circa 1300 B.C. These Tokarians are the Japhetic cousins aka Celts (or Celtus) of the Phoenicians—and after this war a great dispersion. Elements of their Celtic/Tokarian turn up in the Tarim Basin in China i.e. Caucasoid mummies with red hair.

First mention of Dr. Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania and the three day conference held in April of 1996 regarding the Xinjiang mummies and artifacts of the Tarim Basin.

CHAPTER XIV PAGES 512-536 "CHAINING UP THE LINKS

The story of Tokhari of the Tarim Basin in Central China—through the work of Professor Victor H. Mair of the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues.

The saga of Cro-Magnon/Caucasoids/Europoids/Celtics whose remains were found in a well preserved mummified state in the sands of the Tarim Basin next to the Gobi Desert.

This race of Celtic people, tall, statuesque, with blond or brown or red hair, blue/green eyes, white skin—wearing woven textiles—and found amid bronze artifacts dating 4000 to 2000 years ago.

Located in cemeteries along the three routes of the silk road in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang Province, China.

The results of several expeditions to China, a nationally presented video on Public Television and a conference held in Philadelphia (attended by scholars from far points of the earth), were published in Washington by the Institute for the Study of Man Museum in 1998.

Their likenesses were found portrayed on cave walls at Kizil and Kumtura, the startling resemblances to the Nordic Europeans.

Professor Mair explains why and how they come to be so well preserved.

Others of this cadre, namely Xu Wenchan, Han Kangxin; Irene Good, Edwin Pulleybank, James Opie, Dolkum Kamberi and Paola Francalacci are quoted from their essays contributed to the conference—each with a specialty, all forging links in the chain.

Commonalities are described such as red ocher, reddish purplish dyed fabrics, sun spiral motifs, Celtic tartan weaving. DNA is examined by Paola Francalacci, all seemingly isolated facts when woven together form a tapestry/picture linking those common threads to similar ones reported on earlier.

CHAPTER XV PAGES 537-556 THE STATION’S IN SIGHT—PART I

Featuring the scanning electron microscopic findings of Richard Lewis, metallurgist, and scientific engineer formerly of Lockheed Aerospace in Santa Clara Valley, California—now doing consulting work in Tahoe, Nevada.

Enumerating his findings for the elements superficially enriched on the surface of Atlan and his dog—resulting from exposure to heat in excess of 1000° F as from perhaps a volcanic explosion or fallout.

Results of Geiger counter test declaring Atlan and his dog nonradioactive—hence conclusion, material not nuclear fallout.

The implication of mercury found in the tests.

The final visual description of Atlan and his dog and the conclusions stated.

CHAPTER XV PAGES 557-575 THE STATION’S IN SIGHT—PART II

Recalling contact with Mr. M. A. Shaw of Somonauk, Illinois and reestablishing contact after 22 years.

Mr. Shaw sends photographs and letter re: Llama—reproduced herein.

Examining the photos findings are that the Llama and Atlan and his Dog are of the same hand and same source.

How did the Llama come to Peru? Set off new search.

First a short dissertation on the Llama as a member of the Camelidae under the broad species genus of TYLOPODA.

Four members of this family are represented in Peru and surrounding countries only; they are Llama, Huanaco (Guanaco) Vicuna, and Alpaca.

Llamas are now confined to the western and southernmost parts of South America, though fossil remains have been found in the caves of Brazil and on the pampas of Argentina.

The implications of this quotation are then explored.

The New York Times and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel articles of April 19, 1996 are then cited with the articles In an Amazon Cave Light is Shed on Early Americans, Life and Art. Evidence found of ancient Americans camping in the caves about 11,000 years ago—caves in the vicinity of where remains of Llamas were found.

How come, then, that Llamas are not in Brazil or Argentina? The analysis of this situation and conclusion that the Live Llamas and Metal Llamas were carried into the new world—for food, fleece, and prolificated when brought to the highlands of Peru up the Amazon.

Concluding remarks.

EPILOGUE PAGES 577-600

The epilogue embroiders on subjects touched upon in the main body.

We look in on Ignatius Donnelly the politician, the literary giant, the Great Apostle of Protest, the visionary whose platform for the National Peoples Party written in 1891 bears fruit in the new deal of the 1930s.

Next, Lewis Spence’s background is brought into focus giving us an insight to his career.

Following Lewis Spence, we look in on Rhodes, the colossus and the linkage to the metallurgical ability to create the 105 foot bronze sculpture. The colossus being created by Chares of Lindus Circa 280 BCE, standing 56 years and toppled by an earthquake in 224 BCE.

The shipwreck off Rhodes Circa 1200 BCE is related, listing its cargo of bronze ingots etc.

We next turn to Jess Stearn in his The Door to the Future for quotes from a prominent geologist of a prominent university who quotes Edgar Cayce, and sums up his views asking Why is it that we know so much about man back to about 5000 years ago, and beyond 40,000 years? Why do we lose sight of him in the intervening period?

We follow up with an update on Donald Bunker—and an observation.