| Ir spacecraft: and its journey
to. Saturn: which began with

modern. :inventions. and

discoveries, i is a re-invention :
.. and that the Ancients had”
hot _only ‘the telescope. but.

other optical aids involving or

the lens.

Very: “ola: Indian writing. S,

such’.as_ the Mahavira-and

Drona: Parva relate that the, :
advanced .
astronomical.’ observatories ”
and: of . course there is.
physical evidéncé-to support

‘gods’. had-

this. with the. magnificent
ruin ‘of -the “Mayan ob-
servatory § at Chichen Itza.

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We have : to ‘admit that
observatories. are not very
efficient if the only tool used
is the: ‘unaided human’ eye
and it. appears that the old
astronomers had ‘more star
knowledge than meets the
eye, knowledge ‘that ‘could’
hardly have been gained by
merely- “eye-balling’ the night
skies. . ~

Proof?

Well consider the mystery
of the Dogons and their
incredible data regarding the
binary star system of Sirius.

The Dogon is a backward
tribe in Africa which claims
its descent from pre-dynastic
' Egypt which gives it a history
of at least 5,000 years. Two
French anthropologists,
(Griaule and Dieterien),
lived -with the Dogon for
many years and were finally
given the tribal secrets
concerning Sirius and its
white dwarf companion star.

The twin star of Sirius is
invisible to the naked cye —
even when Sirius itself does
not hide it — yet the Dogons
have in their possession a
well-preserved record of
accurate data which
corresponds to the latest
knowledge. gathered by our
present day astronomers.

They knew, for example,
that the dwarf companion
(Digitaria) completes its
revolution around Sirius in a
period of 50 years. This
period of revolution has only
recently been confirmed by
‘our’ astronomical  ob-
servations ... and the first
clear photograph of this tiny
star was obtained only in
1970,

1 ‘am: convinced ‘that. ‘the he
telescope; like : ‘many. ‘other .

; “ Bveri more e confounding ‘s
the Dogon data about the

exceptional weight of
Digitaria,, stating that it
_consists of a metal, Sagala,
‘which is a bit brighter than
iron and so heavy that. “all
earthly . beings combined
cannot lift it". This fact, of
extreme weight, has also
been confirmed by modern
astronomers...

Now how did a primitive
African tribe come to
possess such advanced
knowledge? Even if they
didn’t actually have a
telescope themselves, we
then have to assume that
someone passed this in-
formation on to them. The
intriguing question is...
WHO? And WHY?

From Peru we have a
fantastic collection of
‘picture stones’ in the
possession of Dr. Javier
Cabrera Darquea, photo-
graphed and written about
by the indefatigable Robert
Charroux. This ‘library’, with
its thousands of intricately
etched stones, shows scenes
that are so remarkable that
many acte: tists refuse to
believe at they are
authentic. |

Certainly one requires a
very open mind about them

when presented’ with
drawings of men and
dinosaurs together,

spaceship views of the earth
as it might have appeared
more than 40 million years
and detailed scenes
showing blood transfusions
and a complete heart
transplant operation.

However, for this article
I'm only interested ‘in the

\

"AN. ANCIENT. Peravian. astronomer studies passing
; _ comet t with the ald ofa Pre-Galileo telescope.

Stones -
‘biologisis’ éxamining | plant -
and animal specimens with -

vats

which.

the aid of large magnifying

glasses and one which
depicts a man looking at
some _ celestial activity
through a telescope.

As Charles Berlitz states in
his book, The Mystery of
Atlantis: “Every so often an
artifact turns up from some
ancient culture that is so out
of place in time as to be

almost incredible”.
Very true. One such
artifact was discovered

during the excavations of
Nineveh, the capital of
ancient Assyria. It was a
small crystal lens, ground to
a' sophisticated mathe-
matical formula around the
seventh century B.C. This
represents a time 1,900 years
before the advent of modern
lens grinding.

Roger Bacon, the
renowned English friar and
scientist, produced a great
deal of advanced work on a
wide range of subjects, some
of which suggests he must
have used a lens, first of all
in a microscope to study cell
development, and in a
telescope to obtain accurate
drawings ‘of the Great
Nebula in Andromeda,
showing details invisible to
the naked eye.

Roger Bacon lived be-
tween 1214 and 1294 ..,
almost 400 years before
Galileo would be the “first”
to aim a telescope at the sky,

Perhaps we should take ‘a
closer look’ at history.

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Toronto Sun Syndicate

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