The concept of the hall
of records was popularized by Edgar Cayce during the 1930’s through
his remarkable psychic readings. He suggested three locations
including the Great Pyramid. At the time, there was effectively no
evidence for his projected alternative history at all, let alone
support for the detail he was able to relate. I want to point that
out because our work here has step by step filled in parts of the
evidence trail that has to exist for his ideas to be seriously
considered at all.
Firstly we can now assert
that a Minoan – Atlantean culture arose in the centuries preceding
the building of the Great Pyramid around 2440BC that developed as a
sea based metal trading economy that was inspired by the growing
demands of the early Bronze Age. This culture was pre alphabet but
interacted with the Levant and Northern Africa at the least.
The great Pyramid fueled
the massive expansion of this trade and in particular launched the
exploitation of gold and copper mining on a global scale and in
particular established the key mines of Lake Superior and the tin
Mines of Cornwall. We may also presume gold placer in the Andes
began then as well as tin placer mining in Malaysia.
Trade factories were
established everywhere that it was feasible and shipping entered a
golden age. During this time, the coastal edges were completely
mapped by exploring mariners and prospective rivers traced to
promising centers of metal production. This all happened during the
latter half of the fifth millennia BP.
It is noted that the
science of astronomy was very sophisticated and observatories and
related pyramids were constructed globally. This sea based culture
provided the impetus to initiate imitative civilizations throughout
the great ocean littoral and this includes India and China as well as
the Americas. We presume here that Egypt and Mesopotamia were both
contemporaneous and internally connected by these merchants. What is
important to understand is that this culture informed by its homeland
sprang outward in a generation and established similar sophisticated
bases world wide.
This began as a semi
united polity that grew for a millennia and more until it succumbed
to geology. Remnants dragged on even into Roman times upon which
they finally expired.
What finally comes out of
this narrative is that the three locations that are obvious for the
purpose of building a hall of records for this maritime culture is
exactly the three herein mentioned. They should be within the three
most important establishments of this commercial regime. Yucatan was
a likely transshipment culture in place able to connect the Pacific
through a reasonable overland route and was able to also develop as a
densely populated agricultural civilization. Bimini was a major
holding and collection facility and a likely base for all the
shipping. It needed to be there in order to hold the two ends of the
circum Atlantic trade with Gibralter. Bimini . no sense otherwise
until you understand this part of it. Egypt of course sat astride
the access into the Indian Ocean.
Such a society would wish
to store key records and a hall of records comparable to the record
halls of Mesopotamia are inevitable.
These records would also
have had to be produced in the thousand years after the building of
the great pyramid. Again their form would be the copper gold alloy
invented in the Andes that succeeds in preserving such records.
Metal sheets can be pounded out that will not seriously deteriorate.
In short it all fits time and place and a hall of records goes from a
strange idea to a reasonable possibility. We really need to
dismantle the whole pyramid structure and put it all back together.
One aside. The ten
thousand year date is associated with a sighting on the Sphinx with a
star position and have no relationship to actual history at all.
However it keeps coming up mostly because Cayce dates were
effectively bad approximations at best.
Cayce pretty well got it
right in terms of understanding the actual scope of the Atlantean
world. He also addressed the existence of earlier civilizations that
appeared before the Pleistocene Nonconformity of around 12900 BP.
Scant evidence can be expected in terms of its historicity nor should
they be as the Event itself destroyed most of that. The Event as now
understood merely assures us that these prior civilizations have to
have existed in some form or the other.
Unfortunately they all
outrun our carbon dating capacity or push it to the limits.
Update
on Research on Cayce's Three Hall of Records
Cayce’s
Three Atlantean Halls of Record were located in Egypt near the
Sphinx, underwater in the Bimini area, and in the Yucatan area
possibly near the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras (Spanish for
Black Rocks) in Guatemala. The latter location was not specifically
named in the readings, but from clues and details given in several
readings, researchers in the 1930s determined Piedras Negras to be
the correct location. The Cayce readings state that the records were
saved prior to the final destruction of Atlantis around 10,500 B.C.
Stone tablets, linens, gold, and other artifacts are stored in the
Halls. The records relate the entire history of humanity including
the beginnings “when the Spirit took form or began the encasements”
in physical bodies in the ancient lands of Mu and Atlantis. They also
contain information about the ancient practice of building pyramids.
An update on the status of each follows:
Egypt
- The Giza Plateau
In
Egypt, A.R.E. members Joe Jahoda and Dr. Joseph Schor have been
unable to obtain permission to do further additional radar analysis
of the 25 x 40 foot underground cavern that they discovered near the
Sphinx in 1997. NASA scientists verified the cavern and Jahoda and
Schor were allowed to do limited drilling in order to drop cameras
down for a better look. Although the cavity appeared to be a natural
formation, it made what may be an unnatural, 90-degree turn.
Tentative approval was given for a more sophisticated radar analysis
to be done in 1999. Due to a bureaucratic snafu, the permits were not
approved. In a July 2001 article on the web site of the National
Geographic Society, Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Giza
Plateau, is said to have recently “urged other archaeologists to
join him in a two year moratorium on all excavations in the area from
Giza to Aswan.” The only explanation given is Hawass’ concern for
the preservation of the existing monuments.
During
the summer of 2001, two French archaeologists claimed to have located
entrances to hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Their
discoveries were reported in an ABC Online News Service. The French
researchers used computerized architectural data from Egyptian
funeral designs as well as a technique called macrophotography to
analyze hundreds of meters of walls within the pyramid. Although the
two men are calling for a joint French-Egyptian effort to uncover the
chambers, the response from other Egyptologists, both French and
Egyptian, has been less enthusiastic. Zahi Hawass has responded
emphatically that he is unaware of any evidence for hidden chambers
or cavities in the Great Pyramid.
The
National Geographic Society’s follow-up study of the so-called
“door” found at the far end an air shaft leading from the Queen’s
chamber in the Great Pyramid was due to commence in March of 2000. It
has been repeatedly postponed with no reason given. This pyramid has
just recently been reopened to the public. It was closed over the
past year for repairs as part of a routine rotation and cleaning
schedule involving all the pyramids at Giza. Given the great amount
of publicity surrounding the airshaft door, the lack of follow-up is
mysterious in itself. (The shafts have since been probed with more
mysterious doors found.)
In
2004, Zahi Hawass announced that the University of Birmingham (UK)
was performing an extensive ground-penetrating radar study of the
area between the Sphinx and Great Pyramid to find the tunnels and
chambers there. Hawass also related that the tunnel under the Sphinx
had not been fully cleared of debris.
Yucatan
Hall of Records - Piedras Negras
After
4 seasons of exploration at the ancient Maya site of Piedras Negras,
Brigham Young University archaeologists have decided not to return.
Instead, they plan to take the materials they have excavated over
previous seasons and study them in the laboratory. The project was
originally slated to last 5 years and no definitive reason is given
for the decision to retreat to the laboratory. However, in the most
recent report, Stephen Houston and Hector Escobedo hint at the
“taxing” nature of the site itself. Located deep within the
Guatemala jungle, Piedras Negras can only be accessed by 2-days of
travel via rugged mountain “roads” then by canoe over white water
rapids. Because the site is located in a rainforest, it is only
feasible to work there in the dry seasons — roughly March through
June. Even then, the weather is hot and humid and the remoteness of
the site requires the most primitive camping conditions. The
remoteness and primitive conditions combined with the nearby camps of
several guerilla groups have helped to protect the site from
widespread looting.
During
the final season (Spring 2000), BYU focused efforts into probing some
of the oldest pyramids located at the site. One of these appears to
have a sublevel built during the PreClassic Maya era — around
400-600 B.C. Due to the unstable nature of the building materials,
they were unable to completely penetrate to the core of the building.
This portion of the site (South Group) and the Acropolis area are the
most likely locations for the Hall of Records according to clues
given by Cayce in the readings. Additional excavations were performed
during 2000 within the Acropolis and, as in the past, were hampered
by large piles of debris left at the site by the University of
Pennsylvania’s digs in the 1930s.
The
most outstanding find of the season was a 3000 lb. carved stone
panel, which had been attached to a large pyramid. It was apparently
thrown down the steps at some point in the distant past landing
upside down in front of the Acropolis complex. It is the most
complete hieroglyphic text uncovered at the site in 65 years.
Although some of the carvings are eroded, archaeologists skilled in
interpreting the hieroglyphs have determined that it contains the
life story of Piedras Negras’ Ruler 2. This ruler was of the Turtle
Clan and was named after the founding Father god of the Maya,
Itzamna. Although the panel was carved well after the 10,000 B.C.
Hall of Records period (it is dated to around 600 A.D), it does
contain a reference to the Maya sacred creation date for the “Fourth
World” (3114 B.C.) linking some of the events of the life of Ruler
2 to that time frame. Given that the Ruler also carries the name of
Itzamna, there may be more to the purpose of the panel than the
archaeologists are able to determine at this time. The study of Maya
hieroglyphics is still in its infancy and even now it is understood
that their writing style was very sophisticated and carried multiple
levels of meaning.
Although
abandoning their effort for the moment, BYU concedes that there is
still much that is not understood about the site and that more
excavation needs to be done. Given that the Guatemala government has
utilized American funded projects such as this to help rebuild these
sites and prepare them for tourist contact, chances are there will be
future activity at Piedras Negras. This has already happened as the
University of Pennsylvania has now announced that they will perfom
site investigations at Piedras Negras in 2004. In addition, Greg and
Lora Little will be making an expedition to Piedras Negras in 2004 to
make a video documentary.
Bimini
Much
exploration has been done in the area of the Bimini Islands since the
discovery of the so-called Bimini Road in 1968. The Cayce readings
had predicted the discovery of ruins in that area during that year.
According to the readings, Bimini was near the place where the
largest Atlantean island sank around 10,000 B.C. Since the discovery
of the “road,” aerial photographic surveys have turned up several
other unusual underwater formations. Some of these are
pentagon-shaped and others resemble building foundations. Shipwreck
debris scattered all over the area has confused the issue bringing
some less than scientific and greatly sensationalized claims of
“proof of Atlantis.” These claims are easily debunked and
ridiculed by the scientific community.
Sampling
of the stone found in the road formation has also turned up
conflicting evidence. Samples taken in the 1970s by the U.S.
Geological Survey concluded that the road was simply a natural beach
rock formation. In 1997 Dr. Joan Hanley of the Gaea Project reported
that the content of the rocks varied geologically to the point that
they could not have been located side by side naturally. One of the
most exiting discoveries, however, was a series of effigy sand mounds
shaped like a shark, dolphin and alligator within the Bimini mangrove
swamps. The mounds align primarily with the stars Sirius, Rigel,
Vega, and Capella in about A.D. 1000. Ground penetrating radar has
failed to locate any artifacts under the mounds although the high
water table may have created a barrier.
The
1990s also brought the
discovery of an additional large stone formation south of Bimini
similar to the road found in 1968. Project Alta, a side-scan sonar
search of the area south of Bimini, reported in 1993 the discovery of
a 35-foot wide hexagonal feature as well as some unusual right
angles, concentric circles, and triangular-shaped features.
In 1998 and 1999 donations were received by the Gaea Project to do
sonar analysis on the ocean floor near the location of the Bimini
road off the Bahama ridge. Other investigations have since been done
looking for possible ruins near the Gulf Stream, but results have
been inconclusive.
Recent
Investigations
In
2002 the ARE and the EFC funded a satellite
imaging project of
630 sq km around Bimini. The imaging found over a dozen mysterious
circles just to the south of Bimini. In 2003, Greg and Lora Little
examined several of these circles and found that they are natural or
of recent origin and not worthy of more investigation. In addition,
the discovery of the underwater platform at Andros and a nearby area
with what appear to be paving stones may have some connection to the
Hall of Records.
In
2003, the Littles also performed several expeditions to Andros to
investigate enigmatic underwater structures first spotted from the
air in 1968 and 1969. Links to these reports can be found here.
One of the most intriguing discoveries at Andros was unexpected.
A gigantic
three-tiered stone platform was found in
shallow water off the coast. In April 2003, the ARE released a press
release on
this find.
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