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Contents
The Confederacy of Atlantis.................................................................................................................2
The red hood....................................................................................................................................2
The hat.............................................................................................................................................3
The boomerang................................................................................................................................3
Arm reliquaries................................................................................................................................4
Walking on water.............................................................................................................................4
Walking trees...................................................................................................................................5
The doges.........................................................................................................................................7
The water-spider............................................................................................................................11
The mien as a cross........................................................................................................................14
The door-jinn.................................................................................................................................17
Dolmen...........................................................................................................................................18
The eight barques...........................................................................................................................19
Gwion.............................................................................................................................................20
The flying canoe............................................................................................................................22
The Canary Islands........................................................................................................................22
The Shekina...................................................................................................................................23
The race-track of Atlantis..............................................................................................................26
The fish of Vettersfelde..................................................................................................................27
The dogon......................................................................................................................................28
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The Confederacy of Atlantis
As shown above, there are close likenesses between
symbols in southeast Asia and South America, though
less so between these and symbols in northeast Asia
and North America, as if they were dispersed by sea,
not land. The question remains open as to whether this
was a one-way trip or whether migrants sailed back
and forth between ice age and green age. In the 1500s
South American Indians took Spanish colonialists to
be friendly seadogs, since the pale man Wairocana had
promised to come back:
At Manta (Ecuador) he walked westward across the Pacific, promising to return one
day.1
Compared to the Pacific the Atlantic is small, so if seadogs were able to reach South America via
Antarctica, they may have traveled further along the South Atlantic gyre and up the west coast of
Africa to the Canaries and beyond. Here are some ancient symbols found in southeast Asia and
South America and also in and around Europe.
The red hood
As revealed by their DNA, neanderthals had russet hair so appeared
in Sherwood Forest in the form of Robin Hood and Will Scarlet.
Denisovans may have been like them in this respect, since they
appear on Easter Island with russet hoods called pukao. Robin
Hood was also linked to Stonehenge, where a copse was called
Robin Hood’s Ball. Also on the site is a heeling stone, so the ball
near a heel must be the ball of Robin Hood’s foot.
The closest major nearby monument that was built before the site - during the early
Neolithic period - is known as Robin Hood’s Ball, and it's around 4 km (2.5 miles)
northwest of Stonehenge. Despite being listed as an official monument in 1965, Robin
Hood's Ball has yet to be fully excavated, and its purpose still isn't properly understood.2
Whatever else it did, it marked the end of the axis of the zodiac
beginning in the southeast, as was generally the case on neanderthal
territory. The hue of the pukao was deemed so important that it was
hewn from a different rock, known as red scoria, borne from a
quarry at Puna Pao. The statues have a single brow-ridge over both
eyes, a typical feature of neanderthals and kin.
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Encyclopedia Britannica. Viracocha, Incan deity, 2016
MacDonald, F. A mysterious ritualistic site has been found near Stonehenge, www.scienealert.com, 21 Nov 2016
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The heads as a whole may not faithfully represent denisovan heads,
since it may have been useful to recall them in terms of extant
species with similar looks or behavior. As mentioned above, wild
Canaan dogs were domesticated not only by can-men or canoe-men
but also hamadryad baboons.
The Canaan dog is believed to have been a primitive feral in
ancient Canaan. Excavations in Ashkelon, Israel, unearthed
the largest dog cemetery in the ancient world containing 700
dog skeletons, all of which were anatomically similar to the
Canaan dog of modern times. Archaeologists hypothesize
that the dogs were revered as sacred animals … Canaan dogs
have a strong survival instinct. They are quick to react and
wary of strangers, and will alert to any disturbances with
prompt barking, thus making them excellent watchdogs.3
The hat
A traditional Korean horsehair hat or kat is also an image of Hanuman’s
cone of herbs on a flat pan, and its profile is the ground plan of a hut in
Lepenski Vir. It dates back to at least the Koguryo kingdom (37 BC –
668 AD), as shown by a mural in the tomb Kamshinchong.
The boomerang
Boomerangs have been used in Australian for tens of thousands of years, as
shown by rock art. Some are meant to fly back to the thrower and others are
not. On the map, light brown marks regions with both kinds, and yellow the
regions with only the non-returning. Dark brown marks regions without any.
A boomerang found in the Carpathian mountains in Poland was made from
a mammoth’s tusk about 30,000 years ago;4 King Tutankhamen of Egypt
(died c. 1300 BC) had both kinds of boomerangs; and some from the first century BC have been
found in the Netherlands. The Hopis in North America use a flat non-reversible throwing stick for
hunting small game like rabbits, and redheaded Þórr in Scandinavia had a returning boomerang
called mjǫlnir.
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Canaan dog, Wikipedia, 2016
Valde-Nowak et al. Upper paleolithic boomerang made of a mammoth tusk in south Poland, Nature, 329, pp. 436438, 01 Oct 1987
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Arm reliquaries
Patagonia is said to be the land of giants or guants, French for glove. Giants are a guise in which
can-men or canoe-men often appear in mythology, like the ice giant Ymir (Rimy) in Norse myth, so
if Patagonia was the land of giants, denisovan genes in the region are due to the former presence of
denisovans.
The holy version of genesis through the division and sub-division appears in Norse
myth in the form of the world-tree, the Yggdrasil, and in Patagonia in the form of
hands or gloves, so can-men and canoe-men seem to have shared the same
cosmology. Here are gloves from the Sicán culture (750-1375) in northeastern
Peru, where ‘giant golden gloves (were) worn only by the dead’. 5 In other words
they had no practical use. They simply revealed the belief of the dead that the
system of planets evolved from a spiral nebula with the golden sun at its hub. The
dead were presumably sages, not mothers. Arm reliquaries are also recalled in
North America by Seneca and Cayuga tribes living round the ‘finger lakes’ there:
Oniate, the Dry Fingers or Dry Hand, is a disembodied mummified arm of Iroquois
(especially Seneca and Cayuga) folklore. In some stories Dry Fingers is purely a
bogeyman, appearing in deserted areas to terrorize people passing by. But in other
stories Dry Fingers is a vengeful apparition that only punishes badly behaved people,
especially those who speak evil of the dead, sow discord, or pry into other people's
business. The arm can fly, and any person touched by its withered, dried finger is killed,
afflicted with a disease, or struck blind.6
The allusion to its flying and blinding people is due to the fact that
the division and subdivision of a spiral nebula into planets was
also symbolized by forked lightning, which is able to kill or blind.
According to an aid worker back from Bolivia, clairvoyants there
often claim to have been struck by lightning. 7 This sounds like a
symbolic initiation, but the author’s clairvoyant mother showed
him on chilly days a leaf ‘photographed’ on the back of one of her
hands. Lightning had struck only a few feet away decades earlier.
In Europe in the Middle Ages the arms and hands of saints were
preserved in silver or gold. The one here, in the Church of Saint
Paul’s Shipwreck on Malta, may hold some of his right wrist-bone.
Walking on water
Not only Wairococha but also Jesus and Buddha are said to have mastered it. As regards Jesus, the
two events leading up to it were his healing a lame man by the sheep-gate on the sabbath then his
feeding an audience of 5,000 by dividing and sub-dividing ‘5 loaves and two little fish’. This
suggests why Wairococha left America on foot by walking across the Pacific:
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Steel A & Richards B. Take your family to Peru (with help from Seattle Art Museum), Nov 2016
http://www.native-languages.org/morelegends/oniate.htm, 2016
Streckenbach, Renate. Mentioned during a conversation years ago.
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The sheep-gate alludes to the sign known as Sheep or Goat in the Chinese version of the zodiac and
as Capricorn in the western, since the New Testament is a treatise on medical astrology. The 5
loaves are the 5 planets in the old earth-centered model of the system, and the 2 little fish are
Mercury and Venus, which in this model are merely satellites of the sun, itself a planet.
The sign Capricorn and division and sub-division show that
Jesus is nearing the end of an axis. The axis which ends near
Capricorn is the one leading from summer to winter, from day to
night, from south to north, and from green age to ice age, so
Jesus walks wakefully at night on the northern part of the lake as
a denisovan during an ice age.
Walking on water alludes to climate change, like scenes of
skaters painted in Holland during a ‘little ice age’ in the 1600s,
so the same may be true of the Sea of Galilee in the gospels and
the Pacific in the myth of Wairococha. But if Wairococha had
wished to cross the Pacific on foot, he could have left from any
part of the coast, whereas he left on the equator, as if to move
westwards along the South Pacific gyre, so at the most he may
have pulled his raft over the ice to the open water. The key point
is not how far he had to walk but climate change as the reason
for his migrating.
Walking trees
Tree-men were mentioned in central America and shown in northeastern Australia but also appear in
the gospels:
And they come to Bethsaida. And they bring to Him (Jesus) a blind man and implore
Him that He might touch him. And having taken hold of the hand of the blind man, He
led him forth out of the village, and having spit upon his eyes, having laid the hands
upon him, He was asking him if you see anything. And having looked up, he was
saying, “I see the men, for I see them as trees walking.”8
In effect, Jesus granted him not only vision but also a denisovan view of the world, as shown by a
tale from the Ainu on Hokkaido:
The rotten branches or roots of trees sometimes turn into bears. Such bears as these are
termed payep kamui, i.e. ‘divine walking creatures’ and are not to be killed by human
hand. Formerly they were more numerous than they are now, but they are still
sometimes to be seen.9
The rotten branches allude to willows, one species of which is native to Hokkaido and plays a role
in Ainu culture:
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Berean Literal Bible, Mark, 8, 22-24
Chamberlain, B.H. Ainu Folktales, Trees turned into bears, written down from memory, told by Penri, July, 1886
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Shigeo Toyokawa, a 75-year old Ainu, always feels refreshed and at ease using his knife
to chip a willow stick, or ‘inaw’ in Ainu, to be used in ceremonies for a ‘kannuy-nomi’
prayer’.10
Willows propagate by rotting:
Today, dense willow stands can be observed along most of the northwestern Patagonian
rivers mainly populated by individuals of the Eurasian S. alba-S. fragilis complex. In
general a typical feature of willows is their ability to reproduce not only via seeds but
also via vegetative reproduction. Whenever fragments of branches fall into the water
and are swept away by the current, they can sprout as soon as they are deposited on a
patch with suitable conditions … Floating willow twigs can be observed in the river
channels and sprouting twigs can be seen along all the studied river margins.11
Whether the same is true of willows on Hokkaido or whether the tale alludes to willows in
Patagonia is a question with a bearing on the route taken by seadogs on their way to Hokkaido. It is
currently supposed that willows native to Europe were taken to Patagonia by colonialists in the
1800s, but in North America they are mentioned in connection with denisovans, whose sages
favored the holy version of genesis through division and subdivision into 8 parts like a spider
branching out into 8 legs. This spider appears in Lakota myth on the great plains as Iktomi:
As Iktomi spoke, he took the elder’s willow hoop – which had feathers, horse hair,
beads and offerings on it – and began to spin a web … All while the spider spoke, he
continued to weave his web, starting from the outside and working toward the center.
When Iktomi finished speaking, he gave the Lakota elder the web and said, ‘See, the
web is a perfect circle, but there is a hole in the center of the circle … If you believe in
the Great Spirit, the web will catch your good ideas, and the bad ones will go through
the hole.12
Such a web would be useful in fishing, to capture fully grown fish
and let smaller ones through. Here is a traditional example, known as
a dream-catcher. The four feathers within the circle mark two axes,
so the web also stands for the zodiac. The willow-twig bears in the
Ainu tale must be djogeon, since these were both twigs and dwarfs
(in German zweige and zwerge). They were also horsemen like
Sagittarius, so men and horses were hung as twigs from trees at
Uppsala in Sweden in the early Middle Ages. 13 This seems to have
been warriors’ way of disposing of them.
10 Tahira, T. & Kobayashi, T. Some in Hokkaido preserve Ainu culture, The Japan Times, 25 Jan 2007
11 Budde, K.B. et al. Widespread invasion without sexual reproduction? A case study on European willows in
Patagonia, Argentina, Biological Invasions, Springer, 30 May 2010
12 Legend of the dreamcatcher. Akta Lakota Museum & Cultural Center,
13 Adam of Bremen. Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, 11th century
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Aquarius the can-man was also a canoe-man or doge and was shown
during the Jōmon era (about 14,500-300 BC) on the island of
Hokkaido as a dōgu figure. The islanders were genetically more like
the minority Ainu than present-day Japanese. 14 A dōgu tends to be
stocky with big eyes and can-shaped limbs, and spirals on the clothes
of the one here show his allegiance to the holy spirit. The slit eyes go
back to the use of cowrie-shells as eyes in skulls, as along Sepik River
in Papua New Guinea. Eyes as such are organs of light and associated
with the sun, but cowries come from the sea and grow in the form of
spirals so also allude to the earth and the holy spirit. As mentioned
above, the eyes of Kāla topping a doorway on East Java bear spirals
too.
Few figurines are like the dōgu, but one is shown here. The cans
have been changed into yellow eggs, as if to show that the
leadership of society had passed from the hands of can-men into
the hands of sun-men – from the hands of sages into the hands
of warriors. This figurine is not from the mainland opposite
Hokkaido but from the Canary Isles in the Atlantic.
A link between the two regions is further confirmed by statues on
Gozo, the isle of giants, in the Mediterranean. Here for instance is a
figure (c. 3,500 BC) of a goddess. The legs and feet are like those of
the Japanese figure, but the material used is different, so there was no
technical reason for broadening the calves and narrowing the feet. The
likeness must be due to the symbolism, but this too would not be
enough without a shared prototype.
14 Travis, J. Jōmon genes. Using DNA, researchers probe the genetic origins of modern Japanese, www.pitt.edu,
undated, read on 18 Oct 2016
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This example has not been chosen from a set of less suitable
figures but is typical, as shown by the remains of another
figure.
In northern Europe the seadogs are recalled as musical red-haired klabautermänner with pipes and
hammers, and on Hokkaido are recalled by the Ainu in one of their tales:
A certain Aino went out in a boat to catch fish in the sea. While he was there a great
wind arose, so that he drifted about for six nights. Just as he was like to die, land came
in sight. Being borne onto the beach by the waves, he quietly stepped ashore, where he
found a pleasant rivulet. Having walked up the bank of this rivulet for some distance, he
saw a populous place. Near the place were crowds of people, both men and women.
Going on to it, and entering the house of the chief, he found an old man of very divine
aspect. That old man said to him: ‘Stay with us a night, and we will send you home to
your country tomorrow. Do you consent?’
So the Aino spent the night with the old chief. When next day came, the old chief spoke
thus. ‘Some of my people, both men and women, are going to your country for purposes
of trade. So, if you will be led by them, you will be able to go home. When they take
you with them in the boat, you must lie down and not look about you but completely
hide your head. If you do that, you may return. If you look, my people will be angry.
Mind you do not look.’ Thus spoke the old chief.
Well, there was a whole fleet of boats, inside of which crowds of people, both men and
women, took passage. There were as many as five score boats, which all started off
together. The Aino lay down inside one of them and hid his head, while the others made
the boats go to the music of a pretty song … (Half the fleet went up a river underway,
but the Ainu was brought safely home and) dreamt that the same old chief appeared to
him and said: ‘I am no human being. I am the chief of the salmon, the divine fish ...15
Here is a boat from another denisovan hotspot, the Andaman isles. The square sail is not shown.
15 Chamberlaine, B.H. Aino Folktales. The worship of the salmon, the divine fish (translated literally. Told by
Ishanashte, 17th July 1886.
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The Moken traditionally
spend their whole life on
board a kabang boat
with their families. It is
their home, workplace
and refuge. The kabang
is categorized as a logboat, meaning that the
hull consists of just one
meticulously
dug-out
tree-trunk, a technique
used world-wide since
the stone-age. The most
remarkable aspect of the kabang is that the Moken have developed a construction
technique and design making the boats into ocean-crossing sailing boats … The French
anthropologist, Jacques Ivanoff, stated that the kabang is a symbolic embodiment of a
human being, with mouth and anus and different organs. That is why parts of the boat
are named after parts of the human body, for example la-kae (stomach), ta-bin (cheek),
ba-hoy (shoulder), and ta-bing (ribs).16
Not only humans but also penguins have stomachs, cheeks, shoulders and ribs. The Ainu tale makes
several relevant points:
1. Long distance trade
If the sailing were done for only a day or two up and down the coast, there would be no need to
include women, who could rather stay at home doing lighter work. The distance covered is
confirmed by the chief’s claim that his fleet is due to sail to the Ainu’s country, not village. It is
further confirmed by his claim that his people are salmon:
After several years wandering huge distances in the ocean, most surviving salmon
return to the same natal rivers where they were spawned.17
The ‘salmon of knowledge’ also features in the Fenian cycle of Irish mythology, and Solomon in the
Bible is wise and just.
2. The penchant for music
Denisovans were singes (French), both monkeys and singers.
3. The importance of trust
The chief of the salmon treats the Ainu generously and offers to take him home, but only if he lies
down and trusts them to keep their word. Their society is based on honesty and trust and they are
willing to extend these courtesies to outsiders only if they too are honest and trusting.
In biological terms, a group of altruistic individuals working together well has a competitive edge
over a group of individuals exploiting each other, but if selfish individuals infiltrate an altruistic
group, they share the gains but not the work so threaten the survival of true members. Hence the key
16 Boats – Kabang, www.moken-projects.com
17 Salmon run. Wikipedia, 2016
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to the survival of altruistic societies is the ability to identify and label the selfish as outsiders.
Kindness should be shared only with the kind.
The same point is made by European tales. One of them is the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Eurydice steps on a viper, is bitten and dies, then Orpheus is heart-broken. He goes to the
underworld to retrieve her and plays so beautifully on the lyre that he is allowed to take her back
but only under one condition. He is not to look round at her before they are back. Unfortunately, a
little too soon, he wonders whether or not he has been tricked and looks round, only to see her
drawn back into the underworld.
Another such tale is that of Sir Gawain (or Gwion) and the green man. In Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight (about 1390), Gawain is faced by a giant known as the Green Man, who lives in woodland
and seems to be camouflaged in Lincoln green like Robin Hood’s merry men. Gawain lives in a
castle, as befits a warrior, and the green man lives in a barrow, as befits a neanderthal.
The transition from the old to the new order of society, from joint responsibility to warfare, was
symbolized by a beheading, since the earth at the head of the old axis of the zodiac was taken away
and placed at the head of the new, next to the sun, so the green man comes to the castle and
challenges a knight to behead him there, provided that he may return the favor in his own domain in
a year’s time, if he happens to survive.
Gawain accepts the challenge and beheads him, but the green man picks his head up and reminds
him of the agreement. On his way to the green man’s home, the Green Chapel, Gawain spends a
few nights in a castle, where the lord offers to give him anything he gains in the next few days, as
long as Gawain agrees to do the same. Gawain keeps his word, except for a girdle, which he is
given by the lady of the castle. She claims it is a charm able to save his life. When it comes to his
turn to be beheaded, the ax is swung and falls on his neck, but it bites only a little into the flesh. The
green man wounds Sir Gawain only to the extent to which Gawain has betrayed his trust.
4. Denisovan vulnerability
If a whole tribe or people lives mainly on the high seas, a tsunami may be enough to wipe them out.
In Timaeus Plato describes the end of Atlantis:
But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods, and in a single day and
night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of
Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.18
In few other texts are they described as warlike. Indeed in Kritias Plato writes:
As for those genealogies of yours which you have recounted to us, Solon (an old
Athenian), they are no better than the tales of children; for, in the first place, you
remember one deluge only, whereas there were many of them; and, in the next place,
you do not know that there dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of men which
ever lived, of whom you and your whole city are but a seed or remnant. And this was
unknown to you, because for many generations the survivors of that destruction died
and made no sign.
18 Plato. Jowett, B.(trans.) Timaeus,
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Deluge is less likely to allude to heavy rainfall than to a periodic change in sea-level, with far
greater consequences.
5. The passing of an era
In his dream the Ainu is told by the chief of the salmon: ‘You thought you only stayed with me one
night. But in truth that night was a whole year.’ In other words what the Ainu witnessed was not a
recent voyage but one very long ago.
Salmon are also mentioned in the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. The old minstrel Wainamoinen longs
to marry a pretty girl called Aino, as if to reestablish the old order of society, where power was
shared by pretty brides and elderly sages, but Aino is loath to marry an old man so goes down to the
shore and swims out to a rock. A gale tosses the rock and Aino into the sea, where she changes into
a fish. Later, in fishing for salmon, Wainamoinen hooks her and draws her up into his boat but fails
to recognize her. While he is wielding a silver knife, to slice her up, she leaps back into the water
and calls out:
Hither have I come, O minstrel,
in thine arms to rest and linger,
and thyself to love and cherish,
at thy side a life-companion ...
Once thou wert the wise-tongued hero,
now the foolish Wainamoinen,
scant of insight, scant of judgment,
didst not know enough to keep me,
cruel-hearted, bloody-handed,
tried to kill me with thy fish-knife,
so to roast me for thy dinner;
I, a mermaid of Wellamo,
once the fair and lovely Aino,
sister dear of Youkahainen.19
She has lost her kindness and honesty, and he has lost his wisdom and gentleness. This bodes ill for
the old order.
The water-spider
The old order was a pact between mothers and sages. The former favored the version of genesis out
of Mother Earth and the latter the version of genesis out of a spiral nebula through division and subdivision. The earth could be symbolized by the sea, and the system of 8 planets by a spider with 8
legs, so a symbol on which both could agree was a water-spider. This seems to have been
specifically the choice of denisovans, since it was used in only their region.
19 Crawford, J.M. (trans.) 1888
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(A water-spider) is also known as the mistress of the
Jōren Falls in Izu, Shizuoka. The legend has it that a man
was resting at the foot of the waterfall, when his feet
were bound with a vast number of spider threads. To free
himself, he cut the threads and tied them to the stump of
a tree, which was pulled from the ground and drawn into
the waters.
After this incident at the Jōren waterfall, the villagers became afraid and stopped going
to the waterfall. However, one day, a woodsman logger from out of town, unaware of
the story of the Jōren Jorōgumo, began cutting wood in the area. After he accidentally
dropped his ax into the water, he dove into the pool to find it, then a beautiful woman
appeared and returned the ax, telling him never to tell anyone about her. While the
logger kept the promise, he began to feel anxious about the incident. One day while he
was drunk, he told his secret and finally felt at ease. He then fell into a deep sleep, never
to awaken again.20
Once more a canoe-man or -woman is obliging to a
person whom she takes to be one of her own – a
woodcutter wielding an ax, whose haft symbolizes the old
axis of the zodiac. She asks him only not to betray her
trust, but he does then pays the price. She is a weaver and
catcher of dreams and ensnares him in one of these. In
central America the spider-woman appears in a mural as
the ‘great goddess of Teotihuacan’ and in North America
is recalled by the Seneca as having interacted with
dwarfs.
The Seneca tribe, one of the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, believed that a
supernatural spirit called Dijien was a man-sized spider who survived fierce battles
because its heart was buried underground.
The allusion to battles suggests that relations became strained. A spider is also reported by Paiutes
round Lake Lahontan, where it is said to have taken any shape, including a human one. The Paiutes
also claim to have had dealings with red-haired giants, who lived on the lake.
The Paiutes, a native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona,
told early white settlers about their ancestors’ battles with a ferocious race of white, redhaired giants. According to the Paiutes, the giants were already living in the area.
The Paiutes named the giants Si-Te-Cah that literally means tule-eaters. The tule is a
fibrous plant the giants wove into rafts to escape the Paiutes’ continuous attacks. They
used the rafts to navigate across what remained of Lake Lahontan.
According to the Paiutes, the red-haired giants stood as tall as 12 feet and were a vicious
unapproachable people that killed and ate captured Paiutes as food. The Paiutes told the
20 Jorōgumo, Wikipedia, 2016
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early settlers that after many years of warfare, all the tribes in the area finally joined
together to rid themselves of the giants.
One day as they chased down the few remaining red-haired enemy, the fleeing giants
took refuge in a cave. The tribal warriors demanded their enemy come out and fight, but
the giants steadfastly refused to leave their sanctuary.
Frustrated at not defeating their enemy with honor, the tribal chiefs had warriors fill the
entrance to the cavern with brush and then set it on fire in a bid to force the giants out of
the cave.
The few that did emerge were instantly slain with volleys of arrows. The giants that
remained inside the cave were asphyxiated. Later an earthquake rocked the region and
the cave entrance collapsed, leaving only enough room for bats to enter it and make it
their home …
Among the thousands of artifacts recovered from this site of an unknown people is what
some scientists are convinced is a calendar: a donut-shaped stone with exactly 365
notches carved along its outside rim and 52 corresponding notches along the inside …
In February and June of 1931, two very large skeletons were found in the Humboldt dry
lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada. One of the skeletons measured 8.5 feet tall and was
later described as having been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric similar to Egyptian
mummies. The other was nearly 10 feet long [Nevada Review-Miner newspaper, June
19, 1931].21
The giants had moved inland but had taken their habits with them and were living along the shores
of a big lake as sailors and fishermen. Their ferocity may be taken with a pinch of salt, since they
were not the invaders, but if there was a shortage of food due to climate change, immigrants would
not have been welcome.
Lake Lahontan was biggest about 12,700
years ago, when it had a surface area of
more than 8,500 square miles or 22,000
square kilometers with a depth of up to
270 meters. As shown on the map, what is
now a desert region was then the
American lake district, and Lake Lahontan
had a big central island and many
peninsulas. The dark blue area at the top of
the map shows the extent of the ice sheet;
the medium blue areas show lakes
remaining today; and the light blue areas
show lakes about 17,500 years ago. As to
Lake Lahontan, ‘The lake had largely
21 Aym, Terrence. Nevada’s mysterious cave of the red-haired giants, 10 July, 2010
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disappeared in its extended form by about 9,000 years ago.’ 22 The change is put down to increased
evaporation, as the climate warmed.
Since the spider stood for the holy version of genesis, a spider grandmother
appears as world-creator among tribes in the southwest of the USA. She
appears not only there and on Hokkaido but also on Crete, which had the same
orientation of the zodiac, as if belonging to the same confederacy. There she is
Ariadne (Arachne, Greek for spider) in the labyrinth of Knossos, designed as
her dance-floor and spider-web, but labyrinth comes from labrys, a doubleheaded ax. As shown by the image, the two blades stand for the two sides of
the zodiac, and the haft for the axis.
Red-haired giants have also been reported in Australia:
Back in 1898, a Mr Jack Petheridge was one of a party of graziers in search of good
pasture lands beyond Broome in the 'top end' of Western Australia on the fringe of the
wild north-west Kimberley region. Penetrating inland across the Fitzroy River, they
entered the Oscar Range country. Jack was 25 years old at the time and a good shot with
a rifle, supplying the group with kangaroo meat during the expedition. What follows is
from Jack's own diary, still preserved by descendants now living in Perth.
"My companions and I had been out from Broome for two months, and as we were low
on food again I went out one day to shoot more game. I approached a stand of trees and
dense shrubbery. When it was but 30 yards distant, I heard rustling among the foliage.
Then to my horror, an enormous ape of the gorilla family emerged into view, full 14 feet
in height. His snarling mouth, displayed large teeth and his eyes were deeply set within
thick eyebrows. His forehead sloped back, and long thick reddish-brown hair trailed
from his head which was sunk into the shoulders, giving him a stooped gait.
I observed his large genitals and his strong muscular body and arms which appeared
much longer than a normal man's. His hands and fingers were very large and he gripped
a high-tree branch with his left hand as he stood looking menacingly at me. The manape began advancing towards me and it was then I fired a shot at the brute's chest. He
screamed and clutched his chest but kept coming, so I fired again-a fatal shot at his
head-and bought him down only feet from me. The man-ape was covered over much of
his body in thick reddish-brown hair and had very large feet with an opposable big toe."
I ran back to camp to tell my disbelieving companions but, after they saw the body, the
first thought was how many of these gorillas were thereabouts. But the creatures great
height and bulk, was much more than any ordinary gorilla to our knowledge and,
anyway, what were such animals doing in Australia?"23
The mien as a cross
The use of cowrie-shells to replace eyes in skulls is not limited to people along the Sepik River on
Papua New Guinea, since they were also used for this purpose in Jericho (c. 7,000-6,000 BC) and
22 Lake Lahontan, Wikipedia, 2016
23 Gilroy, R. The Yowie Story, http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com, 2016
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parts of Africa. The shells are always placed with the slits horizontal, as if at the ends of the old
axis. If swiveled through 90°, they would be vertical like the pupils of cats and lions.
Evidence that the slits of the two eyes were meant to be seen as
sections of a single axis comes from the neanderthal cave La RocheCotard in the territory of Langeais by the Loire in France, where a
sliver of bone was pushed through a rock resembling a human mien,
to create two eyes. In effect the mien and the zodiac stood for the
system of planets, so the mien could also stand for the zodiac. But if
the eyes mark the the east-west axis of the zodiac, the nose may
mark the south-north axis. Is there any evidence of this?
In the Kuba kingdom in Africa, there are three kinds of masks, showing three
siblings sent to earth by the great god Woot, but all three have a strip of material
hanging from the bridge of the nose and running down to the chin, highlighting the
vertical axis. This particular mask is covered in cowries, but the vertical strip is
golden, alluding to the sun at the start of the second axis. This also confirms that
the wandjina’s lack of a mouth is due to the mien’s having been that of an
elephant, mammoth or stegodon, whose mouth is behind its trunk. The fact that an
elephant’s nose is called a trunk, like that of the world tree, confirms the
symbolism.
But where did this symbolism began? Did it spread from Africa to Australia, or
from Australia to Africa? Was it devised by modern man or by denisovans? The
following mask from the dōgu or rather the dogon in West Africa offers an answer.
The two axes are clearly marked by a single straight brow-ridge over the eyes on
the one hand and the long straight nose on the other. A single brow-ridge over the
eyes was also a feature distinguishing neanderthals from modern humans but maybe
not from denisovans.
Seen from the side, the mien becomes even more clearly not that of a modern human
but of a monkey or monkey-like human. Likewise the wandjina in Australia are not
like modern humans in having big round eyes, so the symbolism associated with the
zodiac was viewed as specifically neanderthal or denisovan, though it remains
unclear whether they devised their cosmology and symbolism before or after leaving
Africa.
If the symbolism were brought from Australia to Africa, it could have been
brought on the Indian Ocean gyre along the equator or eastward via South
America, so does this symbolism occur there?
Here is a Mayan mask from central America based on the same notion, as
shown by the white inlay on the bridge of the nose, and a stuck-out tongue. The
spiraling eyes are like those of Kālá on East Java. The African mask is the one
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most like an elephant and a segment of a circle, encompassing two signs of the zodiac with eyes as
planets, so seems to be closer to the original.
The association of the mien with can-men is also shown by this statue
of Bes from Egypt, since his body is in the form of a segment too, and
his head and beard form a truncated segment like a hut at Lepenski
Vir. His mien or ugly mug was often shown on mugs or cans, to
identify him unmistakably as a can-man. His mien had such a wealth
of associations that no other was allowed to be shown full-face in
Egyptian painting. Often he is shown wearing a crown of feathers.
The mien was also associated with can-men or canoe-men in the
Alborz mountains just south of the Caspian Sea. In the Persian epic
Shahnameh, it is the home of a white devil, Div-e Sepid. A giant
skilled in magic, he is killed by modern man in the guise of Rostam,
who uses his blood to heal the poor sight of warriors. Plainly the magic was medical and the giant
had fine eyesight. He is said to have reacted to Rostam's battle-cry by quickly picking 'up from the
ground in his mammoth hand a stone as big as a small mountain' and springing at Rostam ‘like a
wild elephant.'24 As his pale mien reveals, he is no modern man but associated with mammoths.
The chronology of changes to the mien remains uncertain. The features of the original mien may
have been:
1) a clear horizontal axis in the form of aligned cowrie-shells
2) a clear vertical axis in the form of a trunk or long nose
3) teardrops along the cheeks as planets
4) tusks
The mien was then changed to be less like the mien of an elephant and more like that of a can-man
or canoe-man with
a) a clear horizontal axis in the form of a brow-ridge
b) a tongue stuck out
c) big round eyes
d) a skull high at the rear
e) elongated earlobes in memory of an elephant or similar creature
A further transformation consisted in dropping the horizontal axis and
in viewing the eyes as duplicates of the planet assigned to the two
signs at the end of the axis. The kuba mask has features (1), (2) and
(3), since it is said of a Ngaady mask that ‘the two vertical lines below
the eyes running down the cheeks represent tears of joy and pain
associated with being the queen mother.’25
The wandjina have feature (2); Wairococha on the gate of Tiwanaku
has feature (3); Kālá has feature (4); and elongated earlobes are
24 Renninger, Elizabeth D. The Story of Rustam and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi, Charles Scribner's Sons,
1909, p. 150
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common in Sarawak on Borneo and shown as typical of sages from India to China, from Buddha to
Laotse. Of surviving representations, the African seem to be nearest the original, but since the mien
was nonetheless associated with big-eyed monkey-men, the possibilities seem to be:
1. The symbolism originated in Africa before the lineages of more recent humans diverged.
2. The symbolism was devised by the forebears of neanderthals and denisovans before they left
Africa.
3. The symbolism was devised by the forebears of neanderthals and denisovans after they left
Africa, to which it was later introduced by seadogs.
Possibility (1) may be the least likely, since the symbolism was associated with monkey-men not
only in Africa but also in India, where the can-man Aquarius appears as the monkey and canoe-man
Hanuman, bearing a cone of herbs. There are also tales in which he has dealings with modern
humans, so he was not viewed as a forebear of modern humans but as a member of a related species
living at the same time.
It may be possible to decide between possibilities (2) and (3) through genetic analysis. If the mien
has been adopted mainly by African tribes with a portion of neanderthal or denisovan genes, the
question is when they acquired them. If long ago, they may have interacted with the seadogs’ before
they left. The forebears of can-men and canoe-men on the one hand and of modern man on the other
may have become plainly distinct while still living not far apart, once the former became nocturnal.
A mixed marriage between a nocturnal and diurnal human would not be easy.
The door-jinn
As shown by this painting, Pieter Breughel
(1525-1569) was familiar with the doorjinn, their way of life and their downfall.
Red-headed sailors who had circled the
globe, thrifty musicians with leisure to
shape culture and science, they are here
chained to an archway or tora within sight
of the sea and without enough food, while
two cranes or storks in the sky are freely
migrating. The scene is like the one
depicted by Plato at the end of his
Republic, where the renowned star-gazers
are cooped up in one of their own caves
and can view no more of the cosmos than
shadows cast on its wall.
25 Rebirth African Art Gallery, Kuba royal mask history, www.rebirth.co.za, year 2000
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Dolmen
The 8 xian were said to live on 5 isles in the Bohai Sea, which lies between the Shandong peninsula
and the Korean peninsula. Both regions are famous for their dolmen, which are more numerous in
Korea but bigger on the Shandong peninsula. Like dogū figures, found not only on Hokkaido but
also on the Canary Islands and Malta, dolmen are found all round the world but not in neighboring
regions, as if the tradition had spread by sea, not land.
The region from Korea to India is typified by the presence of denisovan genes. The tip of Saudi
Arabia is near Mecca, where the walkaround is anticlockwise, suited to the southern hemisphere,
not the northern, and the area with dolmen on the west coast of Africa is near the Canary Islands
and the Dogon heartland. Israel is not only anomalous in the region in having dolmen but also in
the orientation of its churches. But dolmen also spread throughout neanderthal Europe, showing that
the same cosmology and social organization were accepted.
The dol in dolmen and dol hareubang may be akin to tul in Old Babylonian, meaning a fountain or
fish-pond, since the old axis of the zodiac led from the earth to the outermost planet, from sea to
mountain or desert. In effect dolmen may have stood for the arc of the covenant, making the dol
hareubang, as gatekeepers, guardians of the constitution.
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The eight barques
The I Ging or Book of Changes, seemingly going back
to denisovan times, is made up of pairs of 8 trigrams,
each of which stands for a planet. Each trigram is made
up of a set of 3 lines, whole or divided, alluding to the 3
phases of division in the holy version of genesis. In Tibet
the trigrams are called parka or barques, and all possible
pairs can be allotted to squares on a draughts-board or
periodic table. The numbers on this one stand for
commentaries, no longer in the right order. In effect the
board had two uses:
1) Chips on the board could stand for ships on a seaboard, with the board serving as a Mercator
projection of the sea. Tibet lies far inland, so either the parka came from elsewhere or Tibetans are
the offspring of seadogs. As shown by the map of HLA distribution above, the latter is more likely.
2) The board could serve as a periodic table of epigenetic changes and the resulting ailments, since
each planet was thought to guide the specialization of cells into organs, as shown by the fact that the
parka are also known in Tibet as the 8 directions (of specialization), so if two planets move into
conjunction and are sensed as being only one hybrid planet, the tallying organs become hybrid too.
According to a Chinese tale, the conversion of the board into a battlefield for the game of draughts
or chess tallied with a change in society and the end of cavemen: Two boys are sent by their
mothers to bring water in pails from a stream, but in going upstream they reach a cave and see two
youths playing chess. While they are watching, a hare comes out and begins to jump up and down,
and whenever it jumps up, the earth flowers, and whenever it falls back, the flowers wilt.
At the end of the game they are handed a couple of reeds and told to come back to the cave
whenever in need and to tap on the boulder sealing the entrance. On getting back to their village,
they find everything changed and try to remind the people of who they are. The villagers retort that
these are the names of their distant forebears and begin to threaten them, so the boys rush back to
the cave, but the cavemen have gone, and the boys have lost the reeds.
The boulder at the entrance to the cave incidentally casts light on Jesus’ resurrection. It suggests
that neanderthals or denisovans, hibernating as bears, sealed the entrance to their cave for the sake
of warmth and safety then rolled the boulder away in spring. Jesus was left in a cave after
crucifixion, and the boulder was rolled away just afterwards, so when was he crucified?
There is no consensus regarding the exact date of the crucifixion of Jesus, although it is
generally agreed by biblical scholars that it was on a Friday on or near Passover.26
Passover was the spring festival. In the tale above, as in the tale about the Ainu fisherman who
encountered the chief of the salmon, there are two different measures of time. The boys subjectively
experience the excursion as taking only a few hours, though it turns out to have taken several
26 Wikipedia. Crucifixion, 2016
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generations. Not a day but an era has passed, and while a sea-map or periodic table has changed into
a war-game, society as a whole has become more violent. 27 Just as dolmen and dogū figures are
found not only in the far east but also in Europe, there are versions of the tale in Wales and Eire.
In Wales in the Dream of Rhonabwy King Arthur (Earther) plays chess against Owain (Gwion), and
moving a piece on the board causes warriors to move in battle. Arthur has his soldiers and Owain
his ravens. In Eire the tale involves a giant. A warrior called Diarmuid comes to him for refuge and
is granted it, as long as he refrains from ruining the giant’s economy by eating his food, which
consists of rowan berries from his holy tree. Diarmuid promises to refrain then breaks his promise
by killing the giant and climbing up into the tree. While he is there, his enemies catch up with him
and sit unwittingly under the tree for a game of chess. Diarmuid follows the game and guides one of
the players by dropping berries onto the board as currants/currents, revealing that it was formerly
not a battlefield but a seaboard.
In terms of dolmen and temple-orientation Israel, on Canaanite territory, is a regional anomaly, as if
formerly part of the denisovan confederacy, as also implied by the Hebrew Sefir Yetzira, the Zephyr
of Creation. In it the planets are symbolized by the 7 days of a week and 7 phonemes and so on but
are also symbolized by the 8 points of a compass,
showing that in Canaan the planets were likewise
viewed as standing for 8 directions of epigenetic
change. Barques or bark canoes may have to be
anchored, and the set of 8 planets was known in
Egypt as the ankh, a name derived from the names of
the 8 planets in pairs - Amun & Amaunet, Nu &
Naunet, Kek & Kauket, Huh & Hauhet, so the
temple of Ankor Wat alludes to not only the
anchoring of a barque but also the system of planets. Here is the Zephyr of Creation as shown by
Botticelli with Venus on the high seas.
Gwion
The oldest rock paintings in Australia are not the wandjina but the so-called Bradshaw paintings,
named after Joseph Bradshaw, who traveled to Kimberley and sketched them in the 1890s.
They are traditionally said to have been painted by
Gwion, which is the Ngarinyin name for the sandstone
shrike thrush, one of five species of songbird
belonging to the genus Colluricinca. Their grey and
brown plumage hardly catches the eye, but their songs
are ‘strong, mellow and beautiful’.28 Little is known
about the birds, since they tend to live in gorges out of
27 One version of the tale is available at www.uexpress.com: Lost Time, a Chinese Tale, 30 Mar 2014
28 Campbell, B. & Lack, E. A dictionary of birds, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010, p. 390
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the way, but they use crannies in cliffs as resonance chambers, flinging their songs afar. According
to a website devoted to aboriginal culture:
Aboriginal elders say they know nothing about Bradshaw paintings; they were done by
‘different people to us.’29
This would be an odd thing to say, if aborigines had been the first settlers. They call the paintings
Gwion Gwion. The doubling of the name, like that of Gong Gong in China, shows it in the process
of dividing like a spiral nebula into planets, as if the painters had been agents of the holy spirit.
Thrushes also appear in Norse mythology in the form of the world-tree the Yggdrasil (egg-thrush),
as if the old axis in the zodiac could be shown as leading from beach to beech, and the new one as
leading from egg to thrush. Indeed, as seen from the circle of Stonehenge, to the south-southeast
stands the hill fort Ogbury (egg-fort) and to the north stands Larkhill, so in this case the new axis
leads from egg to lark. Moreover, to the east of the cursus marking the east-west axis of a bigger
circle lies the Cuckoo Stone, so in this case the old axis leads from egg to cuckoo.
Neanderthals had russet fur and were likened to robins,
so to the northwest stands a copse called Robin Hood’s
Ball, the ball being the ball of his foot, so the new axis
was likened to a giant with his head in the southeast and
his feet in the northwest and led not only from egg to
lark but from egg to robin. The stones are said to have
been brought to their present site by Merlin, the merle
noir, which is French for blackbird, and nearby lies
Amesbury (amselburg), which is German for Blackbird
Fort, and a blackbird is also a true thrush.
A conference of birds also appears in a Persian poem by the Sufi Farid ud-Din Attar, who according
to his name was a herbalist. The birds gather, to find out which of them should be revered as their
king. Kings were associated with the sun, so in effect they had to travel back along the axis linking
the outermost planet to the sun. This they do by crossing 7 dales in search of the mythical bird, the
Simorgh, but on reaching the start of the axis, they find not the sun but a lake (the sea-mantled
earth). In effect they have traveled back along the old axis, not the new, so have found no warriorking but a place where waterbirds are mirrored and doubled. But the poem alludes not to England
but to China in beginning:
It was in China, late one moonless night,
the simorgh first appeared to mortal sight he let a feather float down through the air,
and rumors of its fame spread everywhere.
29 What is Bradshaw (Gwion Gwion) rock art? Www.creativespirits.info,
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Indeed the pilgrimage is proposed by a hoopoe, whose
Eurasian species flies south in winter to equatorial Africa
or he Indus valley. On the map its summer region is shown
in brown and its winter regions in blue. Some blackbirds
spend summer in Scandinavia and winter in England,
whereas song-thrushes breed from March to June in
England/Eggland and western Europe and fly in winter as
far south as the Canaries, the site of the dogū figurine
shown above with egg-like shoulders and thighs.
The flying canoe
In a Seneca tale above, a boy called Gaqka steps into an abandoned canoe, which then rises into the
air and takes him to the deep south. Such a vehicle is recalled throughout the region, even in
Canada:
From the very beginning of settlement in New France, tales of bewitched canoes flying
through the air were part of folklore. Their origin was a combination of an Aboriginal
legend about a flying canoe and a folktale from France about a hunter condemned to be
chased through the night skies for eternity because he went hunting on a Sunday during
High Mass.30
Charon’s ferry in Michelangelo’s version of the last judgment in the
Sistine Chapel is likewise a seaplane, already taking off, and the
apsaras in Buddist iconography likewise tend to fly and accompany the
heavenly musicians, the gandharvas. These are the can-divas, close
cousins of the Indian pandavas or pan-divas. But if the apsaras are
divas, why are they named differently? Ab is Old Babylonian for sea
and zarah paradoxically for stork, since
white storks migrate between Europe and Africa and avoid
crossing the Mediterranean Sea by a detour via the Levant in the
east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west. The air thermals on
which they fly do not form over water.31
In effect the apsaras are like storks in migrating but unlike them in going by sea. In the Bible Sarah
is the wife of Abraham, with whom she gives rise through Esau to the Edomites. Edom means red,
and Esau is hairy. Neanderthals had russet hair and denisovans were like them in most respects.
The Canary Islands
The Canary Islands’ link to the dogū or doges is shown not only by the orientation of its pyramids
but also its name:
30 Canada’s History. Enchanted canoe, www.canadashistory.ca, 2016
31 Boyes, S. Top 25 wild bird photographs of the week #38, National Geographic, 01 03 2013
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The name Islas Canarias is likely derived from the Latin name Canariae Insulae,
meaning ‘Islands of the Dogs’, a name applied originally only to Gran Canaria …
Another speculation is that the so-called dogs were actually a species of monk seal
(canis marinus or ‘sea dog’ was a Latin term for ‘seal’), critically endangered and no
longer present in the Canary Islands … Alternatively it is said that the original
inhabitants of the island, Gaunches, used to worship dogs, mummified them and treated
dogs generally as holy animals. The ancient Greeks also knew about a people, living far
to the west, who are the ‘dog-headed ones’, who worshiped dogs on an island.32
The Guanches were not directly from Africa:
The earliest known history of Tenerife begins with the Guanche people. They were
original inhabitants of the island and their presence can be dated back to about 200 BC.
Unlike the typical Spaniard, who is dark haired with olive skin, these people had fair
hair and were tall with a Scandinavian appearance.33
The Shekina
The notion of the Shekina in modern Judaism is ill defined.
The Shekina is held by some to represent the feminine attributes of the presence of
God.34
She is not only feminine but also a source of merriment and music:
The Shekina rests on man … only through a matter of joy in connection with a precept,
as it is said, But now bring me a minstrel!35
In fact 'Shekina' or 'shakin' is short for the names of the sun, Saturn and moon - Šamaš, Kronos &
Šin - in Harran in northern Mesopotamia so stands for the trinity, but the trinity emerged with the
rise of the warrior caste and the downfall of women, so she must be older than her name and go
back to matriarchal times. Indeed she may be the elderly woman entity shown in the paleolithic by
so-called Venus figurines. Societies were then swayed mainly by pretty young women and erudite
elderly homosexuals, so a suitably ambiguous image was of an erudite elderly woman. She appears
in Shakespeare’s Tempest as the original inhabitant of Prospero’s island:
This blew-eyed hag was hither brought with child
and here was left by th’ sailors.36
This is commonly changed, to read ‘this blue-eyed hag’, but the allusion is to the holy ghost (the
whole gust), not to the sea.
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Canary Islands, Wikipedia, 2016
A brief history of Tenerife, Tenerife Information Centre, 2016
Shekhina, Wikipedia, 2016
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The Shekina appears among the Hopi in
Arizona as the Kachina, who is embodied by
dancers and dolls, some of whom have
feathery halos like the wandjina.
The traditional Hopi are organized into
matrilineal clans. When a man marries,
the children from the relationship are
members of his wife’s clan. The Bear
Clan is one of the more prominent
clans.37
The clans’ being matrilinear suggests that the Hopi earlier practiced polyandry, so the identity of a
child’s father was uncertain. Denisovans were often likened to bears, as by the Ainu, so the naming
of the Bear Clan suggests that the Hopi esteemed denisovans. Indeed:
According to one version of Hopi belief, the kachinas were beneficent spirit-beings,
who came with the Hopis from the underworld … The kachinas wandered with the
Hopis over the world, until they arrived at Casa Grande, where both the Hopis and the
kachinas settled for awhile. … The kachinas danced for the Hopis, bringing them rain
and all the many blessings of life.38
In effect the Shekina or kachina stood originally for the society of planets and denisovan society
then for individual denisovans, renowned as merry dancers and minstrels, as were Robin Hood and
his merry men in the thickets of Sherwood Forest. Denisovans charmed the world with their siren or
sea-wren songs and gave rise in the Middle Ages to the minnesänger or mienensänger – the singers
of the holy mien. One of the more eminent was Walther von der Vogelweide / Walter of the BirdMeadow (c. 1170 – c. 1230), a contemporary of Francis of Assisi (1181/2 – 1226), who preached to
migratory swallows like a man taking coal to Newcastle or owls to Athens. A poem by Goethe
(1749-1832) suggests that not only swallows but also the Chinese had earlier been migratory.
Sag’, was könnt‘ uns Mandarinen,
Satt zu herrschen, müd‘ zu dienen,
Sag‘ was könnt‘ uns übrigbleiben,
Als in solchen Frühlingstagen
Uns des Nordens zu entschlagen
Und am Wasser und im Grünen
Fröhlich trinken, geistig schreiben,
Schal‘ auf Schale, Zug in Zügen.39
Say, what could we mandarins do,
tired of ruling as of serving,
say, what could be worth our trying
save, in spring’s delightful season,
to withdraw from northern regions
and in leafage by the water
to resume our holy writing,
sipping from the cans of knowledge?
Indeed mandarins of the top rank wore cranes in flight as insignia, and demoiselle cranes from
Mongolia and northeastern China spend winter in India, reaching heights of 4900 – 7900 meters in
crossing the Himalayas, the height of Everest being 8848 meters. A crane is also shown below an
aurochs and a fox on a pillar at the neolithic site Göbekli Tepe, where the aurochs is likely to stand
37 Hopi. Www.crystallinks.com/hopi.html, 2016
38 Kachina, Wikipedia, 2016
39 Goethe, J.W. Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten, 1830
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for the spring sign Taurus, the crane for the fall sign Aquila, and the fox, as red as Mars, for the sign
half way between them.
Here is the Ming official Jiang Shunfu with cranes on
his ‘mandarin square’. Cranes are also shown flying
across the top of Sassetta’s painting called ‘The Journey
of the Magi’, as if they had not come especially to see
him but were there on business, owing to the season. But
why, according to Goethe, should spring prompt
mandarins to head south, not north? Why spend winter
in the north, unless in the southern hemisphere?
The shekina was also revered on main island of Malta,
illustrating the island’s ambiguous nature in being part
of the mainland during an ice age but not so during a
green age. Her presence is alluded to by Abraham
Abulafia (1240-c-1291) in putting forward the denisovan cell model of astrology:
A sound is known to be heard more clearly in a place hollow or riddled with holes...
Since the human body is known to have many caves and cavities, it is plain how the
shekina dwells in such a body able to produce speech.'40
It sounds bizarre to suggest that the trinity or system of planets could be crammed into a cell, but in
fact a resonant cell or room has been uncovered on the island:
Researchers detected the presence of a strong double resonance frequency at 70Hz and
114Hz inside a 5,000-years-old mortuary temple on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is an underground complex created in the Neolithic (New
Stone Age) period as a depository for bones and a shrine for ritual use. A chamber
known as "The Oracle Room" has a fabled reputation for exceptional sound behavior.
During testing, a deep male voice tuned to these frequencies stimulated a resonance
phenomenon throughout the hypogeum, creating bone-chilling effects. It was reported
that sounds echoed for up to 8 seconds. Archaeologist Fernando Coimbra said that he
felt the sound crossing his body at high speed, leaving a sensation of relaxation. When it
was repeated, the sensation returned and he also had the illusion that the sound was
reflected from his body to the ancient red ocher paintings on the walls.41
These paintings are of spirals and pentagons, so the Hypogeum
must have been dedicated to the old order and the holy spirit.
The so-called sleeping lady was found in the main chamber, so
if she is really the hibernating Shekina, Abulafia’s bizarre turn
of phrase makes sense.
40 Mafteah ha-Ra‘ayon, 1200s
41 Mediterranean Institute of Ancient Civilizations. Ancient man used super-acoustics to alter consciousness, posted at
www.phys.org, on 16 June 2014
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The race-track of Atlantis
A reversal of orientation is also evident on this map of Atlantis from Athanasius Kircher’s Mundus
Subterraneus (1665), since the arrow pointing north is pointing down, as if seafarers were poled
differently to landlubbers.
Atlantis is derived from alt-anta, an anta being the
Portuguese name for any of the 5000 megaliths on the
Iberian peninsula, and alt is the word for high, so the
seaboard of Atlantis or Alt-anta is the seaboard of high
dolmen. These are found not only along the Atlantic
coast but also in Korea and the south of India, so Atlantis
was not strictly limited to the Atlantic. Indeed, according
to Plato, the whole earth was settled by the gods, whom
he alludes to with a naval analogy:
In the days of old the gods had the whole earth distributed among them by allotment.
There was no quarreling, for you cannot rightly suppose that the gods did not know
what was proper for each of them to have, or, knowing this, that they would seek to
procure for themselves by contention that which more properly belonged to others.
They all of them by just appointment obtained what they wanted, and peopled their own
districts; and when they had peopled them, they tended us, their nurselings and
possessions, as shepherds tend their flocks, excepting only that they did not use blows
or bodily force, as shepherds do, but governed us like pilots from the stern of the vessel,
which is an easy way of guiding animals, holding our souls by the rudder of persuasion
according to their own pleasure; thus did they guide all mortal creatures.42
The ‘rudder of pleasurable persuasion’ implies that, like can-men, the canoe-men were led by
homosexuals. In describing Atlantis, Plato adds that there were
… gardens and places of exercise, some for men, and others for horses in both of the
two islands formed by the zones; and in the center of the larger of the two there was set
apart a race-course of a stadium in width, and in length allowed to extend all round the
island.
The racetrack of Atlantis alludes, among other things, to the North Atlantic gyre, and the horses to
seahorses, as implied by the racetrack of Atlanta:
Melanion fell in love with her. He knew that he was not fast enough to win the race, so
he did what many frustrated lovers have done; he prayed to Aphrodite for help …
Aphrodite presented Melanion with three golden apples and a plan … Melanion then
ran his race with Atlanta, carrying the apples with him. When Atlanta caught up to him,
he tossed the first apple at her feet. The sight of the magic golden apple was irresistible
to Atlanta. She stopped to pick it up, confident that she could make up the time. Soon
enough she was once again passing Melanion. He threw the second apple, this time
further to the side. Again, she lost time retrieving the apple. As she again caught up, the
finish line was near, and chasing the third apple cost her the race.43
42 Plato. Kritias
43 Atlanta, www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Heroes/Atlanta/atlanta-html, 2016
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The zodiac has two axes, ending in four points or
apples, but one point marks the beginning and end of
the race, so only three are passed on the way. The
racetracks of Atlantis and Atlanta are both circular and
encompass the four seasons or sea-suns. Spring could
be spent in the Azores, summer in Eggland/England,
fall in the Canaries, and winter in the Gulf of Mexico.
The seahorse stood for denisovan society in being a
sea-creature in the form of a spiral nebula.
The fish of Vettersfelde
The golden fish below, made by Sythians about 500 BC and found in Poland in 1882, recalls the
world of canoe-men, which it compares satirically with the world of modern man.
The lateral fin stands for the axis of the zodiac leading from the first sign of summer to the first sign
of winter. On one side of the zodiac the series of planets begins with the earth or moon, and on the
other side with the sun, and these two alternative models of the system, suggested by the two spirals
coming out of the eye, also stood for the old order of denisovan and neanderthal society on the one
hand and the new order of modern man on the other. They were respectively caring and warlike.
The latter is shown by a series of land animals in the form of predators and prey above the fin, and
the former by a series of fish led by a merman. One fish is guilelessly trying to swim back towards a
sea-hawk, but the merman is gripping it by the tail and drawing it along with him to safety.
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The dogon
Dogū figurines were made on the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, and
an ethnic group living near the same coast is called the dogon. The main figures in
their pantheon are twins associated with the color red. The one here is lifting his
arms like the branches, showing that twins are due to division, as in the holy
version of genesis. These twins are also said to be fish-like water spirits able to
walk on their tail fins when on land, so they may have been penguins known to the
dogon only by hearsay. Dogon society is based on mutual help:
The Dogon are strongly oriented towards harmony, which is reflected in
many of their rituals. For instance, in one of their most important rituals, the
women praise the men, the men thank the women, the young express
appreciation for the old, and the old recognize the contributions of the
young.44
They also have a remarkable knowledge of astronomy:
Their priests told them (the anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlein) of
a secret Dogon myth about Sirius (the dog star). The priests said that Sirius had a
companion star that was invisible to the human eye. They also stated that the star moved
in a 50-year elliptical orbit around Sirius, that it was small and incredibly heavy, and
that it rotated on its axis.45
Its unseen companion, nearly as massive as the sun but about the size of the earth, was otherwise
not discovered till the mid-1800s. The German astronomer Friedrich Bessel deduced its presence in
1844 from irregularities in Sirius’ motion, but it was first seen by Alvan Graham Clarke in 1862.
The rising of the dog star heralds spring in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern,
where it was viewed by Polynesians.
44 Dogon, Wikipedia, 2016
45 Dogon creational myths, www.bibliotecapleyades.net, 2016