| THE MOUND BUILDERS OF WISCONSIN CONTACT ME .... Copyrite@2004 Mary Sutherland The People of MU and ATLANTIS Unknown to the majority, America at one time enjoyed a civilization second to none on earth. They held and understood the ancient knowledge of MU..the knowledge of the workings of the Cosmic Forces which is the 'true science upon which the universe was built'. Science of the First Civilizations Although we pride ourselves in our advanced technology and Intellect, we today are still very far behind a most wonderful and advanced civilization that pre-existed us. At the time of the destruction of MU , the sciences of which we now know and are utilizing for the last 700 years , were known to this culture and practiced through the development of over 100,000 years of study and experience . It is not unreasonable to think they may have been practiced for millions of years. As you see, we have a long ways to go before we could even think of obtaining and familiarizing ourselves with what they knew. But we can learn and develop from the ancient texts they left behind for us. ENOCH 10:12,18 All the earth has been corrupted by the teaching of the work of Azazyel..Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance, and the offspring of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind. The Atlanteans came from Mu and were giants both in body and in intellect, and greater scientists than those of the present day. For one thing, they had aeroplanes which were operated by solar force. Homer's vessels "going without sails or oars" refers to them, as does the myth of Icarus, who was warned by his father Daedalus to fly ...nor low, nor high, If low, thy plumes may flag the ocean's spray, If high, the sun may dart his fiery ray. Unfortunately for their own future, the Atlanteans turned their knowledge to negative and material uses. Many modern practices such as vivisection, blood transfusion, the transplanting of animal glands to human bodies -- even the craze for personal wealth and power -- In direct defiance of nature, The Atlanteans used their knowledge for warfare, which resulted in the catastrophic submergence of their continent which was felt around the worl;d as can be evidenced by the great deluge stories in all cultures. THE ANCIENTS BECAME THE GODS OF MODERN DAY MAN According to some researchers, of which Iam among them, just after the Deluge at the dawn of the present time cycle, a mysterious group of gods (re-)appeared to initiate the survivors in the rudiments of civilization. From Thoth and Osiris in Egypt, to Quetzacoatle and Viracocha in the Americas, traditions worldwide subscribe the origins of our contemporary civilization, to this sophisticated group. *Just after the Deluge, at the dawn of the present time cycle, an era the Egyptians called ZEP TEPI, "The First Times", a mysterious group of "gods" appeared, to initiate the survivors in the rudiments of civilisation. Zep Tepi is Genesis. Zepi means Time and Tepi means First. Together they are the 'First Times' . From Thoth and Osiris in Egypt, to Quetzacoatal and Viracocha in the Americas, traditions worldwide subscribe the origins of contemporary civilisation to this sophisticated group*. GENESIS 6:4 The Nephilum (tall hybrid race) were on the earth in those days - and also afterwards (ie, a second visitation or return)- when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown, a tall human hybrid race. In Numbers 13:33 we read "There we saw the Nephilum, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilum." After the biblical Flood, there was a second visitation of the 'fallen' angels or those that 'came from the sky', evidently smaller in number and more limited in area and for the most part confined to Canaan. In Genesis 14:5, they were known as Rephaim and Emim. To others they were called Anakim, from Anak, who came of the Nehilum (Numbers 13:23), and Rephaim, from Rapha, another notable one among them. Like the nuclear survival bunkers and secret research facilities of our own civilisation, there were those who arose from the underground "cities of the Gods", after the Flood and War of the 'Gods'. These survivors are characterised in the Bible as the "prediluvian patriarchs", like Enoch and Methuselah, the "giants and heroes of old", mentioned in Genesis. Their gods returned from the sky and brought back with them the knowledge lost to them during the Flood Period. These are the 'fabled gods' of ancient Summer, Egypt, Peru and India. Chaper 1:5...Command your wives and daughters that they adorn not their heads and their faces..For thus they allured the Watchers before the flood..and they..gave birth to 'giants' (Nephilum), for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven. Abortion, induced miscarriages and ceasarians were practiced at this time, due to the fact that many of the babies in the mothers womb grew too large to be born without endangering the lives of the mother. I would like to note here that the very existence of the Sumerian Civilization is an enigma in itself. The very word Sumer literally means 'The Land of the Watchers'. The Sumerian language is strange in that it has no connates with any known Indo-European, Semitic, or other language. According to ancient legend the origin of the Sumerian civilization came to be from the coupling of humans with a non-human civilization of immense powers with its beginnings on the shores of the Persian Gulf, near the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu. At places like the temple complex of Sacsayhuaman in Peru and the Mayan pyramid complex at Tikal, Guatemala, massive tunnel systems have been identified. It is now possible to understand how a million Incans and Mayans escaped the decimation of their cultures. In similar fashion the SIRA radar deployed in Egypt as early as 1978, mapped an extraordinary subterranean complex beneath the Egyptian pyramids resulting in three decades of secret excavations to penetrate the system. Since the declassification of this new ground-penetrating radar several years ago, the most staggering data has emerged of complex and labyrinthine underground systems in various parts of the world. At places like Guatemala in the South Americas, tunnels have been mapped under the Mayan pyramid complex at Tikal, which extend a full 800 kilometres to the opposite side of the country. Investigators remarked, it was possible to understand how half a million Mayan Indians escaped the decimation of their culture. The SIRA radar was deployed in Egypt as early as 1978, mapping an extraordinary subterranean complex beneath the Egyptian pyramids. Arrangements made with President Sadat of Egypt, resulted in three decades of top secret excavations to penetrate the system. At a recent meeting in Australia, one of the key scientists on the Giza project, Dr. Jim Hurtak, showed film footage of work in progress called, CHAMBERS OF THE DEEP, due to be released at the end of the century. As of yet, it has still never been released The film reveals the discovery of a vast megalithic metropolis, 15,000 years old, reaching several levels below the Giza plateau. While the rest of the Nu-Age speculates about a hidden chamber under the left paw of the Sphinx, the legendary "City Of The Gods", lays sprawled beneath. Complete with hydraulic underground waterways, the film shows massive chambers, the proportions of our largest cathedrals, with enormous statues, the size of the Valley of the Nile, carved in-situ. Researchers, risking their lives with lights and cameras, carefully negotiated rubber dinghies across subterranean rivers and kilometer-wide lakes, to penetrate sealed chambers beyond. Already, remarkable caches of records and artifacts have been found. We can now see a legacy of a civilisation and a technology way beyond our own. A technology capable of creating a vast underground city, of which the sphinx and pyramids are merely the surface markers. The project scientist, Dr. Hurtak, likens it to the impact of contact with an advanced extraterrestrial culture. He described it as the discovery of the Fourth Root culture, the so-called Atlantean civilisation, destroyed by the last earth tumble. It presents unequivocal evidence that all languages, cultures and religions trace back to a single common source, which Dr. Hurtak refers to as the "Parent Civilisation". According to Dr. James J Hurtak, ,this was a culture who cracked the genetic code and possessed the keys of the physical spectrum, the "Higher Light Physics" of the ancients...The very information that Gigamesh went in search of on his famous trek to the lost "City of the Gods" . This is what he was in search of in the tunnels beneath "Mt. Mashu" . *One of the major figures in our investigation is Dr. James J. Hurtak. He is , the Californian mystic and polymath who has played a key role in all the major aspects of the emerging belief system. He was involved in explorations at Giza in the 1970s and was one of the major proponents of the Face and Pyramids of Mars (and their connection with Egypt), In my book, Living in the Light, I speak of the 'Language of Light'.. The Language of the Gods, HIBURU. Dr. Hurtak also refers to this ancient language..but as a "language of light". ..literally. Not only about this wonderful language of the 'gods' but of a great priest SCIENTIEST of a previous time cycle, the time Atlantean/Mu Cycle, by the name of ENOCH. He associate him with the building of the Great Pyramid complex. He alludes to a grand spiritual SCIENCE, a science which describes a GENETIC STAIRWAY TO THE STARS. What have we been told of ENOCH. That he is a patriarch, father of Methuselah and great grandfather of Noah, the architect of the original Zion, the legendary 'City of Yahweh', inventor of the alphabet and calendar. Taken away with God and shown the 'secrets of heaven and earth, returning with the 'weights and measures' for all humankind. Ahh..lest we not forget the KEYS OF ENOCH! Unknown to most Christians he was also the Egptians THOTH, the 'Lord of Magic and Time. He was HERMES to the Greeks, the 'Messenger of the gods'. Ironically , although the Christian congregations have been taught to avoid anything of pagan or idol worshipping faiths, the saintly ENOCH is non ohter than the Celtic wizard MERLIN, who disappears up an apple tree to the mythic Avalon, seeking the seret of immortality and vowing to return. Just like the Book of Revelations, the Pagan religions also speak of the same traditions, ie. the Mayan legend of Quetzacoatal, promises a return of knowledge at 'the end of time', or the end of this present time cycle. Sound pretty close to Revelations's 'All things shall be revealed...doesn't it'. Although removed from our bible history years ago by early 'religious leaders', Enoch is still known by most theological students. From the Dead Sea Scrolls we were able again to regain the hidden knowledge of this patriarch and read his works as he describes a wondrous ancient civilisat, who misused the KEYS of higher knowledge and were unable to save themselves from the last cataclysm. Thus ..both literally and figuratively they lost the 'keys' ..they lost all higher knowledge. THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN ALL THINGS WILL BE REVEALED But of course , first through the Elite and their teams of scientists and archeologists..., and over 30 years later they are now trickling down to the common man, of which I highly suspect was not welcomed by those in power .nor by corporate religions. The extraordinary discoveries in Egypt and other parts of the world, describe not just an advanced technology but, evolutionary path beyond our present state. Careful scientific examination of the world’s key pyramid sites, reveal them to be sophisticated harmonic structures, not only mirroring positions of the planets and stellar systems but, designed to mimic the chakras and harmonic cavities of the human body. Every stone within the Great Pyramid is harmonically tuned to a specific frequency or musical tone. Even the sarcophagus in the centre of the Great Pyramid is tuned to the frequency of the human heart beat. Astonishing experiments, conducted by Dr. Hurtak and colleagues at the Great Pyramid and other sites in the South Americas, demonstrate the pyramids to be voice-activated "geophysical computers." Intoning specific ancient sounds, the scientific team produced visible standing waves of light, above and within the pyramids and were even able to penetrate, hitherto, inaccessible chambers. Subsequent discoveries indicate the ancient priest-scientists employed some sort of harmonic sound technology within the temple structures. The lost Enochian knowledge reveals the mother tongue as a "language of Light". Known to the ancients as HIBURU, it is the primal seed language, introduced at the beginning of this time cycle. Modern research confirms, the most ancient form Hebrew to be a natural language, the alphabetic forms emerging from the phosphene flare patterns of the brain. The same shapes, in fact, born of a spinning vortex. It is a true language of light, coursing through our very nervous system. Encoding the natural waveform geometries of the physical world, Hiburu is a harmonic language, mimicking the waveform properties of light. The "keys" Enoch speaks of, turn out to be sound keys, keys to be vibratory matrix of reality itself, the mythic "Power of the World". The Enochian knowledge describes sonic equations, encoded within the ancient mantras and god names, capable of directly affect the nervous system and producing profound effect of healing and higher consciousness states. IF YOU WOULD SPEAK WITH THE GODS, YOU MUST FIRST LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODS As the ancient texts declare, "If you would speak with the gods you must first learn the language of the gods." DNA, the ancient cabalistic "Tree Of Life" portrayed in the Biblical Torah, is now coming to be viewed as a live vibrating structure, rather than a fixed tape recording. Many modern scientists, regard DNA as a shimmering, waveform configuration, able to be modified by light, radiation, magnetic fields or sonic pulses. The legacy of Thoth/Enoch suggests this "language of Light", the harmonic science of the ancients, could actually affect DNA. The evidence in Egypt, indicates this was the grand 6,000 year genetic experiment attempted by the Egyptians, the quest for immortality and the stars, a quest described by the great ones of old, a quest initiated by Gilgamesh so very long ago. The Egyptians were not fixated on the afterlife, as thought by early Christian translators but, focussed on creating a higher type of human. Along with many ancient cultures, they believed DNA came from the stars and was destined to return. The knowledge of Thoth/Enoch implies humans are meant to evolve beyond our present terrestrial form, as the Bible tells us, "we may become greater than angels". The Egyptians record stories of the "Star Walkers", occasional individuals who, like Enoch, travelled "beyond the Great Eye of Orion" and returned, to walk like gods amongst men. Despite the bleaching of semi-divine beings from modern consciousness, could it be possible, as the ancient texts insist, we are destined to "become as gods"? are the Mayan "Lords of Light" and the Egyptian/Tibetan "Shining Ones" really a higher form of human? Is this why the elite ones have kept their work secret from us..is this why archelogist have kept secrets of this wonderful race from us..Is this why they do not devulge the truth to us on our creation and evolution history. Are they saving this information only for them. Questions yet to be answered..... According to many earth legends, such beings are supposed to return regularly, at the beginning and end of each time cycle, the 13,000 year half-point of our solar system’s 26,000 year zodiacal orbit around galaxy centre. Because of conditions on our galactic orbit, these 13,000 year intervals or "worlds", seem to be separated by cataclysmic upheaval. According to the "calendar in stone" of the Great Pyramid, which describes the so-called "Phoenix Cycle" of our galactic orbit, the present time period ends (converted to our present calendar) in the year 2012 AD. The Greek word PHOENIX, derived from the Egyptian word, PA-HANOK, actually means, "The House of Enoch". The Enochian knowledge suggests, these regular cataclysmic changes act as an evolutionary agent provocateur, to quicken the resident life forms to the next evolutionary phase, prior to exodus from the womb planet. Human evolution may proceed more rapidly than previously thought. The evidence now appearing, records civilisations before us, who mastered the physical continuum and progressed beyond this world. There were also those who failed. We, too, have equal opportunity to make it or break it. The discoveries emerging from Egypt, describe the existence of a world wide pyramid temple system in prehistory, mounted like antennae on the key energy meridians, which were employed by ancient priest-scientists as a musical system to stabilize the tectonic plates of the planet... cataclysmic geology at it’s finest. From the mother tongue word JEDAIAH, meaning "the way of the Word" or "the power of the Word", the ancient JEDAI priests used the language of Light to tune the planet like a giant harmonic bell. Much is being rediscovered in the last days of this time cycle. In the words of Dr. Jay Franz, of the Omega Foundation, "even if we don’t dare to name it, there is a universal feeling of something impending on the world stage." 2002 Update by Dr. Hurtak Since the beginning of 2002, Dr. J.J. Hurtak and a European team of investigators and explorers have been recording the construction of a massive system of walls being placed around the historic pyramidal sites and the larger unexcavated area of Giza, Egypt — in total, an area covering approximately eight square kilometers. Why build these massive walls at this time? Certainly Giza is one of the finest archaeological zones of the world. Are there new treasures of ancient Egypt yet to be uncovered that require sophisticated technology and surveillance platforms, to protect the ongoing research along the Giza plateau? Has, perhaps, an area been discovered that shows tracings of rare earths and unique minerals? Or is it simply, as some officials are claiming, a move to protect the plateau from terrorists and control the masses of tourists visiting the area? The standard argument for the creation of such a wall is “crowd control”, but the details of this new construction suggest an initiative that is both multi-purpose and grand scale: the wall near Nazlat al Salman will be, at a minimum, 7 meters (22 feet) high. Are such measures solely for crowd control? The walls have been built in stages. Images taken in February of 2002 reveal the walls extending far out into the desert where, for the most part, they have not been noticeable to the average visitor. Note the foundation and the massive re-bar supports. The walls have been carefully constructed on a deep and wide foundation (at least 2 meters below ground) with iron rod poles poised to support the concrete interfaces, with room for a special attachable cover. All in all this suggests a gargantuan wall. This barrier would enclose all major archaeological activity but would do nothing to protect the archaeological site from the strong winds that blow across the plateau. So vast is this structure that some local village homes have been removed, suggesting that what is envisioned on the plateau is more than just a restricting device for visitors to the popular site. What we see is a larger, carefully thought-out design, encompassing neighboring findings and, perhaps, protecting underground graves, tunnels and passages. Thus, not only are the aboveground structures contained in this “new zone,” but also the vast underground structures yet to be uncovered. The extent of the walls clearly shows the detailed consideration of civil engineers and hydrological experts. (I think of the likes of the ingenious Italian architect Paolo Soleri, who designed all the ingredients for an underground city to match his aboveground city in the deserts of Arizona.) The psychological reality of guards stationed as sentries at intervals along the entire wall carries the intrigue of a major feature film set, designed for the few experts who are to find an underground sphinx or obelisk, or a connection between Osiris and the constellation of Orion, rather than an open-door feature for thousands of well-behaved international students of history and archaeology who have never needed to be extensively controlled. Indeed, are the chambers of the deep being closed in the 21st century to students of world culture history who follow in the footsteps of explorers like Charles Piazzi Smyth and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, who entertained a higher meaning to Egyptian architecture? Are these sites now being closed to technologically gifted explorers at a time when new proto-historic findings could serve to unite the various camps of thinkers and philosophers in the Near East on the basis of a grand history for all people? We hope that newly discovered realities within the walls will not be limited to the few, and that there will be no concealment of important historical information that could bring a higher knowledge and unity to all humankind. Dr. J.J. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D. Specialist in remote sensing Sumer, Peru, China, Americas, Mu and Atlantis all have one thing in common . It's history with underground tunnels and civilizations. In 1947, the world was excited by the discovery of a number of scrolls in a cave in the Qumram Valley of the Dead Sea. This discovery was nothing compared to what came twelve years later which was another set of scrolls found in Mexico relating to the long lost civilizaton of MUROR (MU). This discovery was made by Willima Niven while excavating the Valley of Mexico. He discovered the remains of a buried city which flourished thousands of years prior to the Pleistocene Man of Europe. In his excavations, Niven uncovered more than 2600 stone tablets, over 12,000 years old, which was later deciphered by our good friend Churchward. In 1959, during further excavations at Niven's site, professor Reesdon Hurdlop, uncovered a stone sarcophagus set into the floor of a small temple. Inside the sarcophagus were sixty-nine scrolls oir leaves of payprus bearing strange writings. By 1964, these scrolls had been deciphered sufficiently to reveal that they held the intimate details of life on the continent of MU over a period of years prior to its destruction. Professor Hurdlop set the date of the scrolls at 20,000 to 25,000 B.C....However, this date may be much older than imagined. The importance of this find was in the fact the writing found was in phoenic alphabet. Up until this time, all works found were esoteric language of symbols and hieroglyphs. And up until then, and still claimed yet today by those that chose to ignore the true facts is that the credit for the Fathers of the Written Word were the Sumerians. EXTERMINATION OF THE GIANTS AND THE GODDESS TRADITIONS The Greeks preserved the tradition of the sinking of Atlantis in the myth of Deucalion. The legend says that after the fourth race had passed its apex of development, a change occurred in men. Modesty, truth and honor from the times of the earlier Mu fled, and in their place came crime, fraud, cunning and the wicked love of gain. Seeing the condition into which the earth had fallen, Jupiter determined to destroy it and form a new land where men would have fresh opportunities to live a virtuous life. So the waters came and covered the land, leaving only Mount Olympus above the waves. There Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha found shelter, and from them sprang the new, fifth race. * This story was later mirrored by the Hebrew in the story of Noah and the Flood. See War of Mt. Olympus Thousands of years after, Solon, the great Athenian law-giver and one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, visited Egypt and recounted the myth of Deucalion to one of the priests of Saïs. The priest assured Solon that it was the record of an actual historical event which had occurred. . He told the Greek sage of the last of the Atlantean Islands, which he called Atlantis, but which was really the Island of Poseidonis, picturing in detail its high mountains, canals, bridges, and harbors filled with vessels from foreign ports. He gave a full account of the inhabitants of the island and their customs, describing in particular the laws of the country and the method of their enforcement. On his return to Athens Solon wrote down the tale in epic form, which Plato inherited repeating the story to Timaeus and Critias. Long before the island of Poseidonis sank beneath the waves, one of the early sub-races of the Aryan stock descended from the high plateaux of Asia and emigrated to islands in the West. There they resided for some thousands of years, intermarrying with members of the last, or seventh sub-race of the Atlanteans. Ages later these people, called Atlantean Aeolians because of their long stay on the remnants of the lost continent, were to become the ancestors of the Greeks, for when some of the islands around Poseidonis showed signs of sinking, they had again to leave their homes. They built a flotilla of arks and sailed through the Pillars of Hercules (the Straits of Gibraltar) into the Mediterranean Sea. Some of them colonized the coasts of Italy and Spain. Others went on into the Aegean Sea and settled on the Greek Isles and in Thessaly, to which they gave the name of Aeolia. The Atlantean Aeolians were, therefore, the "autochthones" of Greece, the forefathers of the Hellenes. The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans in Crete proved that the early settlers belonged to a highly cultured race. They had built a road across the island upon which they travelled in wheeled chariots. Their palaces were equipped with bath-rooms, running water, drainage systems, heating devices, and even elevators! Who were these mighty builders? Pausanius said that "the walls of Tiryns were built by the Cyclopes," and Euripides called the plain of Argos the "Cyclopean land." The identity of the Cyclopes is shrouded in mystery. One might expect the Greeks would themselves have left a record of their forefathers. They did, but in a form unacceptable to modern scholars. The Greeks preserved the record of the races which preceded them in their myths THE PEOPLE OF MU Through research and study it soon became obvious that there had been and early communication between Mexico and the Far East. Further study proved out that both Mexico and the Far East had at one time been satellites of the Great Continent of MU, along with Atlantis. See Life and People of MU James Churchward wrote a very informative book titled The Cosmic Forces MU which is a startling occult study of this ancient super civilization more scientifically advanced than our own... based on his research of over 4,000 ancient tablets originating from Mu. Being that Churchward has devoted most of his life, over 60 years in the research and study of this ancient race, I will be using much of his work as reference throughout these pages. We will trace his work back to the clay tablets of the Naacals, which originally brought a library of over 10,000 tablets from the Motherland to the precious relics and tablets of the American Mound Builders. Fifteen thousand years ago, the Sacred and Inspired Writings were perfectly understood by our ancestors. According to Churchward, in Egypt they were fairly maintained down to the time of Moses. Moses understood them, Ezra, who compiled the Old Testament did not. Two thousand years ago, only five monasteries had the learning to understand these writings. Today knowledge of this civilization has been hidden from us. Why? It could and would no doubt change our society , science and religion as we know it today. Where are these writings Now? Are they Lost? No...but they have been scattered to the wind and those that have found them have forgotten how to read or properly interpret them. But according to Prophecy and Divine Laws, this lost knowledge will once again re-appear and learned. Translations of the sacred writings are very difficult and easily misinterpreted. According to Churchward, modern man learns from hearing and teaching. In the Ancient writings we can not hear or be taught. For example, symbols or hieroglyphs form a radical and the radical has many meanings. The actual meaning of the word depends on how it is pronounced and accentuated. In Churchwards 60 plus years of research he became convinced that the oriental Naacal tablets and the American tablets originally came from the same source - the Sacred Inspired Writings. This shows me that we do not need to cross the seas to Egypt and the Far East to learn of this Wonderous Civilization. The knowledge is right here in America and we can re-discover much of this in our research of the American Mound Builders. Click Here for More on the Science of MU THEORY THAT INDIANS WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS WAS NOT ACCEPTED UNTIL MID NINETEETH CENTURY Evidence suggests mound builders of North American placed Temples at locations that form an interlocking grid matrix producing geometric patterns in the shape of five pointed stars. These Mound Builders were the unknown or I should say now forgotten forces that influenced the developement of the Native Americans. The later Indian burial mounds of North America could have been built over pre-existing remnants of a long lost knowledge. This has been the case of most conquering cultures throughout the ages. Ancient North American mounds stand unarguably before humanity challenging all to accept the simplicity of their achievements. Accurately mapping the Americas, the mound builders placed Temples at locations that form interlocking grids. By connecting the dots of these ancient Indian burial mound sites, the map begins to reveal an organized grid. The mounds produce geometric patterns in the shape of five pointed stars. Uncovering the great mysteries of the Mounds and the site grids may be the the greatest discovery of the millennia . The belief of a vanished raced dominated popular and scientific discussions of the origins of the mounds. Although scholars were trying to push the theories of American Indians as th e builders of the mounds, many people refused to believe this 'new' theory and it wasn't until our recent time of in the mid-nineteenth century did the 'new' theory become accepted. Today only a few even know of this past belief. It was Albert Gallatin, founder of the American Ethnological Society of New York and Wisconsin naturalist that pushed this unpopular position. However, Caleb Atwater published Description of the Antiquities in the State of Ohio and other Western States (1820) and advanced the idea that the mounds were built by a culture much more advanced than the American Indians. Josiah Priest, 'Antiquities and Discoveries of the West', argued that the mounds were built by the Lost Tribes of Israel, wandering Egyptians, Greeks and other groups unassociated with the American Indian. William Pidgeon's ' Tradition of De-Coo-Dah' (1858) , states that the De-Coo-Dah told him of an ancient race of mound building people who were much more numerous than the present Indians. Wisconsin and King Soloman's Temple In the 11th chapter of Genesis we read about the building of the tower at Babel, and then in verse 8 it says, "So the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city" According to the Book of Mormons, after the Genesis Flood , during the time of 'The Tower of Babel, a group sailed from the Region of the Tower of Babel to North America . This group of people s were the JAREDITES . The First Battle of Cummorah By 600 BC the Jaredites had divided into two warring camps—one righteous, the other unrighteous. Their armies (2 million men each) fight to the last man on the Hill Ramah (which is also the Hill Cummorah and which is now located in Western New York State). A man named Ether "hides up" the records of his people (gold plates). The Second Battle of Cummorah and the Nephites About the time the Jaredites are fighting their war of annihilation, another band leaves the Middle East and boats to the New World—to South/Central America. These are the NEPHITES. They multiply and divide into two seperate groups; the white skinned race of Nephites and a dark skinned race of Lamanites. About 100 BC, a group of Nephites (called the Limhites) who had broken away from the main body of Nephites migrate to the area near the Hill Cummorah. They find the golden plates of the Jaredites. Later they are reunited with the main body of Nephites and add the Jaredite plates to the main body of plates A thousand years after the Jaredite battle on the Hill Ramah, the Nephites and Lamanites battle their way Northward until they arrive at the same hill (now called Cummorah). They also fight to the last Nephite warrior. The Lamanites who survive will become the NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS . After the Final Battle, a man named Moroni buries the gold plate records of his people in the hill. Fourteen hundred years later the Mormons 'claim' he returns as the Angel Moroni and leads Joseph Smith to the plates (1823) In the Spanish histories of the Sea Powers there is a strange gap between the Lydians (1149-1101 B.C.) and the THRACIANS (970-884 B.C.) which, according to Herman Hoeh was "deliberately inserted in this list. It is similar to attempts elsewhere to expurgate any record of the PELASGIANS, who were the HEBREWS of the Kingdom of Israel. The missing item should be: Pelasgians 131 1101-970 "This list indicates that the Hebrews became dominant in Spain at the time the Lydians resettled in the Grecian world in 1101" (Compendium Of World History. Vol. II. Pasadena, CA: Ambassador College. 1963. P. 125). Another interesting fact about this period of time is the dates of the Pelasgian influence in Spain -- 1101-970 B.C. If you haven't realized it already, this was the time-frame of David and Solomon's reign in Israel! David was at the height of his power, and there was no nation left with the means to challenge him. His attention now turned to his personal goal of building a great temple to honor the God of Israel. While God did not allow David to actually build the Temple, he was allowed to make preparations for its construction that was carried out during the reign of his son Solomon. These preparations, the Bible reveals, were prodigious indeed! With vast war booty and tribute payments pouring in from vassal nations, David was now able to access the raw materials he needed for the Temple project -- using the help of his Phoenician and Pelasgian allies. David's prodigious Temple preparations and his instructions to Solomon are recorded in I Chronicles 22: 1-16. Relates Steve M. Collins -- David accumulated "great stores of iron for nails and clamps" (RSV), showing that what secular historians have called the "iron age" was well under way by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. The Iron may have very well been mined here in Wisconsin. He also accumulated "bronze in quantities beyond weighing," (RSV) so David also accumulated massive stockpiles of copper ores and refined copper products for Solomon to utilize in his reign. He also amassed much cedar wood through his alliance with the city-states of Tyre and Sidon. In the course of his wars, David had collected large amounts of gold and silver from tributary nations, and verse 14 quotes David as summing up his temple preparations with these words: "With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone too have I provided." (RSV). -- The "Lost" Ten Tribes of Israel...Found!, p. 24. This brings to mind one very obvious question -- WHERE did all this copper ore come from? Since the amounts of gold and silver were weighed ("a hundred thousand talents of gold" and "a million talents of silver"), the copper and iron stockpiles obviously had to far exceed the precious metals stockpiles to be considered "beyond weighing." How many millions of talents of iron and copper ores, then, were amassed to reach an amount "beyond weighing"? Apparently such a vast amount of copper and iron ores could not have all come from sources that were indigenous to Israel. However, since David was on friendly terms with the Phoenician city-states of Tyre and Sidon, he could have had the Phoenician merchant ships import the ores from overseas. "Phoenician [or Canaanite] ships dominated the commerce of the Mediterranean Sea. In the book Bronze Age America, the late Dr. Barry Fell (Professor Emeritus of Harvard University) records that copper trading between ancient North America and the Old World was extant prior to and DURING THE REIGN OF KING DAVID! "His book cites evidence from ancient inscriptions that Norse kings carried on a copper trade with the New World in the St. Lawrence River as early as 1700 B.C., seven centuries prior to the reign of King David over Israel" There is, clear evidence that David's allies, the Canaanite Phoenicians, were included in the New World copper trade and that some of David's huge stockpile of copper ore came from the Phoenician's North American trading routes. Notes Barry Fell -- There is also quite independent...reasons for thinking that ancient European voyages came to America. That concern the mining of metals. For the past twenty years leading mining engineers and university metallurgists have been seeking from archaeologists an explanation of a most baffling mystery in the history of mining technology. So far no answer has been given. Around the northern shore of Lake Superior, and on the adjacent Ile Royale, there are approximately 5,000 ancient copper mine workings. In 1953 and 1956 Professor Roy Drier led two Michigan Mining and Technology expeditions to the sites. Charcoal found at the base of the ancient mining pits yielded radio carbon dates indicating that the mines had been operated between 2000 B.C. and 1000 B.C...The most conservative estimates by mining engineers show that at least 500 million pounds of metallic copper were removed over that time span, and there is no evidence as to what became of it. Bronze Age America. NY: Wallaby, 1976. P. 261. Since radio carbon dating can be inaccurate in this time frame, we should lower the dates. However, it would still fall into the time of King David and Solomon's reigns over Israel. Since the mining operations at these North American sites were taking place during the reigns of David and Solomon, it is more than likely that part of this Lake Superior copper was used to satisfy David's voracious appetite for raw copper for the Temple. The biggest customers for copper and other raw materials in the world of the time were King David and Israel and, later, King Solomon. It is well-known that Solomon's building projects went far beyond anything that David himself envisioned -- so the demand upon the available world sources of raw materials during their reigns must have been huge indeed! The local mines could not have supplied all the ore required at the time. With this in mind, it is significant that these ancient Lake Superior copper mines were worked to exhaustion during the reign of King Solomon, meaning that they were producing during the time that David was stockpiling copper ore "beyond calculation" for the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem! "Since the North American copper mines had been known to the Old World for centuries before David lived, and since there is evidence that Phoenician ships called at ancient North American ports, the means to transport Lake Superior copper ores to King David of Israel did exist" . Following is an copper artifact found in one of the mounds. Note the Israelite characteristics amd feather The Bible states that ancient Israel, under King David, was stockpiling massive quantities of copper ore around 1,000 B.C. Sources also confirm that the North American copper mines ran out of ore during the reign of Solomon. The connection between the two is quite obvious: most of the ancient North American copper ore was shipped to ancient Israel and used for the construction of the Temple and later projects of Solomon. Note on Barry Fell : Barry Fell was a scholar of high standing at one of the world's most imposing academic institutions, Fell endeavored to bring a scientist's objective discipline to the process of identifying mysterious alphabetic scripts and pictographs, translating them from their ancient languages, and interpreting their meaning in the context of their surroundings. CONTINUED |
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| PLATE MOVEMENT THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME Ages shown in upper left are millions of years before present NOTE: The YELLOW AREAS on the maps represent land areas and shallow seas surrounding the continents. BLUE AREAS are deep oceans. The RED DOT shows the location of Wi sconsin. |
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