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  9. William Sullivan, The Secret of the Incas, Crown, New York, 1996, p. 119.

  10. Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon-Tiki Expedition, op. cit., p. 141.

  11. Reported by David Hatcher Childress in Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific, Adventures Unlimited Press 1988, p. 313.

  12. Reported by Harold Osborne in Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas, Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1952, p. 64.

  13. Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon-Tiki Expedition, op. cit., p. 140.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Ibid., p. 140.

  16. See my interview with Heyerdahl in Graham Hancock, Underworld, Michael Joseph, London, 2002, pp. 35–6.

  17. Tepe means hill in the Turkish language and “the Turkish word Göbek means navel or belly,” Klaus Schmidt, Göbekli Tepe, A Stone-Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia, Ex Oriente, Berlin, 2012, p. 88. See also https://narinnamkn.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/portasar-or-gobekli-tepe-portasaris-the-old-name-of-what-is-now-called-gobekle-tepe-which-is-a-direct-translation-of-armenian-portasar/ and http://www.ancient.eu/article/234/ and http://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html.

  18. For a more detailed discussion of the archaeological dating of the Moai of Easter Island see Graham Hancock and Santha Faiia, Heaven’s Mirror, Michael Joseph, London, 1998, pp. 227–8.

  19. Father Sebastian Englert, Island at the Center of the World: New Light on Easter Island, Robert Hale & Co., London, 1970, p. 45.

  20. Francis Maziere, Mysteries of Easter Island, op. cit., p. 40.

  21. Ibid., p. 41.

  22. Science News, Vol. 89, No. 15, 9 April 1966, p. 239.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Ibid.

  25. R. Menzies, Duke University Marine Laboratory and Edward Chin, Marine Laboratory of Texas A&M University, Cruise Report, Research Vessel Anton Bruun, Cruise 11, cited here: http://huttoncommentaries.com/article.php?a_id=59 and http://huttoncommentaries.com/article.php?a_id=59#Footnotes.

  26. Robert M. Schoch, PhD, Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 2012, p. 77.

  27. Ibid.

  28. See Thor Heyerdahl, Easter Island: The Mystery Solved, Souvenir Press, London, 1989, pp. 234–5.

  29. Pitcairn Island (area 47 square kilometers) and Mangareva (area 15.4 square kilometers) are closer, the former standing at a distance of 2,075 kilometers and the latter at a distance of 2,606 kilometers, but this is still too far for these tiny islands to have contributed to the sedimentation load received by Easter Island.

  30. Robert M. Schoch, PhD, Forgotten Civilization, op. cit., pp. 78–9.

  31. For a discussion see Thor Heyerdahl, Easter Island: The Mystery Solved, op. cit., p.80ff.

  32. Translations of Watu Palindo’s name as “The Entertainer,” given on a number of internet sources, are spurious. “The Wise Man” is the correct translation. See Iksam, “The Spread of Megalithic Remains in Central Sulawesi as Part of Austronesian Heritage,” Presentation at National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung, Taiwan, 12 March 2012.

  33. Personal communications during research trip with Iksam Kailey.

  34. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=26496.

  35. Iksam, “The Spread of Megalithic Remains” op. cit.

  36. For supporting arguments concerning the connection of this type of art to psychedelic experiences see Graham Hancock, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, Century, London, 2005.

  37. Tubagus Solihuddin, “A Drowning Sunda Shelf Model during Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene: A Review,” Indonesian Journal of Geoscience, Vol. I, No. 2, August 2014, pp. 99–107.

  38. Ibid., p. 102.

  39. See Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Plato Never Lied: Atlantis in Indonesia, Booknesia, Jakarta, 2013.

  40. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm.

  41. Cited in http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm.

  42. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm.

  43. http://wakeup-world.com/2014/10/14/hieroglyphics-experts-declare-ancient-egyptian-carvings-in-australia-authentic/.

  44. R.T. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, London, 1959, p. 222.

  45. Ibid., pp. 246–7.

  46. Ibid., p. 140.

  47. Patrick Boylan, Thoth: The Hermes of Egypt, London, 1922, reprint edition by Ares Publishers, Chicago, 1987, p. 155.

  48. Personal communication from Danny Natawidjaja, PhD.

  49. “Archaeologists slam excavation of Gunung Padang Site,” Jakarta Post, 24 September 2014: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/24/archaeologists-slam-excavation-gunung-padang-site.html.

  50. Ibid.

  51. Email from Danny Hilman Natawidjaja to Graham Hancock, 2 October 2014.

  52. Ibid.

  53. “Archaeologists slam excavation of Gunung Padang Site,” Jakarta Post, 24 September 2014: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/24/archaeologists-slam-excavation-gunung-padang-site.html.

  54. Email from Danny Hilman Natawidjaja to Graham Hancock, 14 January 2015.

  55. Email from Danny Hilman Natawidjaja to Graham Hancock, 10 March 2015.

  56. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Plato Never Lied, op. cit. and Professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos, Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found, Lynwood, WA, USA, 2011.

  57. Michael Carrington Westaway, Arthur C. Durband et al, “Mandubular Evidence supports Homo floresiensis as a distinct species,” PNAS, Vol. 112, No 7, 17 February 2015, pp. E604–5.

  58. M.J. Morwood, R.P. Soejono et al, “Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia,” Nature (431), 28 October 2004, pp. 1087–91.

  59. M. Aubert, A. Brumm et al, “Pleistocene Cave Art from Sulawesi, Indonesia,” Nature (514), 9 October 2014, pp. 223–77.

  60. Josephine C.A. Joordens, Francisco d’Errico et al, “Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving,” Nature (518), 12 February 2015, pp. 228–31.

  61. Phil Grabsky, The Lost Temple of Java, Orion, London, 1999, p. 16.

  62. Luis Gómez and Hiram W. Woodward Jr., Barabudur: History and Significance of a Buddhist Monument, Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series, 1981, p. 21.

  63. Phil Grabsky, The Lost Temple of Java, op. cit., p. 17.

  64. Jan J. Boeles, The Secret of Borobudur, J.J.B. Press, Bangkok, 1985, p. 1 and XIX.

  65. Caesar Voute, Mark Long, Fitra Jaya Burnama, Borobudur: Pyramid of the Cosmic Buddha, D.K. Printworld Ltd., Delhi, 2008, p. 198.

  66. Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and its Transmission through Myth, Nonpareil Books, 1977, reprinted 1999, p. 132.

  67. G.R.S. Mead, Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, Samuel Weiser Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1992 (Reprint Edition in One Volume), Book II: A Translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature, p. 55.

  68. Ibid.

  69. Ibid.

  70. Ibid.

  71. Ibid.

  72. Ibid., Book III: Excerpts and Fragments, p. 60.

  73. Ibid., p. 61. Mead translates this passage as follows: “O holy books, who have been made by my immortal hands, by incorruption’s magic spells free from decay throughout eternity remain and incorrupt from time! Become unseeable, unfindable, for everyone whose foot shall tread the plains of this our land, until old Heaven shall bring forth meet instruments for you…” I have chosen, here, to use the same passage from the Sir Walter Scott translation—Sir Walter Scott (Ed. and Trans.), Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, Shambhala, Boston, 1993, p. 461.

  74. Ibid., p. 461, footnote 4.

  Chapter 19

  1. Plato, Timaeus and Critias, Penguin Books, London, 1977, Critias, p. 145.

  2. Sir Walter Scott (Ed. and Trans.) Hermetica, Shambhala, Boston, 1993, p
. 345.

  3. Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley (Eds.) from the translation of Adrian Recinos, Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991, p. 168.

  4. Ibid., p. 169.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid., p. 90.

  7. Ibid., p. 93.

  8. Ibid., p. 178.

  9. Ibid., p. 155.

  10. Gerald P. Verbrugghe and John M. Wickersham (Eds.), Berossos and Manetho, University of Michigan Press, 1999, p. 44.

  11. Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley (Eds.) Popol Vuh, op. cit., p. 156.

  12. Ibid., p. 78, note 3.

  13. R.T. Rundle Clark, The Origin of the Phoenix, op. cit., p. 1; Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis, Vol. 2, Black Classic Press, Baltimore, 1998 (Reprint Edition) p. 340.

  14. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of the Center for Archaeoastronomy, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–4, January–December 1985, p. 99.

  15. See, for example, Gerrit L. Verschuur, Impact: The Threat of Comets and Asteroids, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1996, p. 55. See also Duncan Steel, Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995, p. 15ff.

  16. Quoted in Julie Cohen, “Nanodiamonds Are Forever: A UCSB professor’s research examines 13,000-year-old nanodiamonds from multiple locations across three continents,” The Current, UC Santa Barbara, 28 August 2014. See http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014368/nanodiamonds-are-forever.

  17. Personal correspondence with Allen West. Email from West to Hancock dated 19 December 2014.

  18. Ibid., email from Hancock to West dated 8 January 2015.

  19. Ibid., email from West to Hancock dated 8 January 2015.

  20. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, Basil Blackwell, London, 1990, p. 12.

  21. Ibid., pp. 12–13.

  22. Ibid.

  23. W.M. Napier, “Palaeolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 405, Issue 3, 1 July 2010 pp. 1901–6. The complete paper can be read online here: http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/405/3/1901.full.pdf+html?sid=19fd6cae-61a0-45bd-827b-9f4eb877fd39, and downloaded as a pdf here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003:0744.pdf. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., pp. 150–3. See also Gerrit L. Verschuur, Impact, op. cit., p. 136.

  24. See W.M. Napier, “Palaeolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex,” op. cit. See also William C. Mahaney, David Krinsley, Volli Kalm, “Evidence for a Cosmogenic Origin of Fired Glaciofluvial Beds in the Northwestern Andes: Correlation with Experimentally Heated Quartz and Feldspar,” Sedimentary Geology 231 (2010), pp. 31–40.

  25. For the high probability that both the beginning and the end of the Younger Dryas were caused by impacts of different fragments from the same giant comet see Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramsinghe, Life on Mars? The Case for a Cosmic Heritage, Clinical Press Ltd., Bristol, 1997, pp. 176–7. See also Gerrit Verschuur, Impact, op. cit., p. 139.

  26. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., pp. 244, 275–7. See also Duncan Steel, Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, op. cit., pp. 132–3.

  27. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., p. 153.

  28. Ibid., p. 147.

  29. Ibid., pp. 150–1.

  30. Ibid., pp. 149–50.

  31. Ibid., p. 149.

  32. Jacqueline Mitton, Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy, Penguin Books, London, 1993, pp. 84–5; Duncan Steel, Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, John Wiley and Sons, 1995, p. 133.

  33. Victor Clube and Bill Napier, The Cosmic Serpent, Faber and Faber, London, 1982, p. 151; Bailey, Clube, Napier, The Origin of Comets, Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., 1990, p. 398; Clube and Napier, The Cosmic Winter, op. cit., p. 150.

  34. Sir Fred Hoyle, Lifecloud: Origin of the Universe, Dent, 1978, pp. 32–3.

  35. Emilio Spedicato, Apollo Objects, Atlantis and other Tales, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 1997, p. 12.

  36. Ibid., pp. 12–13.

  Index

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  A

  Abu Hureya site

  Adair, Aaron

  Adam, Jean-Pierre

  Airyana Vaejo

  Akapana

  Al-Battani

  Al-Masudi

  Alden, W.C.

  Alouf, Michael

  Alt, David

  ancient astronaut theories

  Ancient Egypt

  Annus, Amar

  antediluvian knowledge

  Apkallu see Seven Sages

  Ariastika, Wisnu

  Asagi Yarimca

  astrological ages

  astronomy

  Atlantis

  autumn equinox, Göbekli Tepe

  Ayahuasca

  B

  Baalbek

  Bada Valley

  Baines, John

  Baker, Victor R.

  Balabanova, S.

  Bar Hebraeus, Gregory

  Batuman, Elif

  Bauval, Robert

  Belmonte, Juan Antonio

  Benben

  Berossos

  betyls

  Black Mat impact

  black rain

  Black Stone, of the Ka’aba

  Bloody Creek Structure

  Bolling-Allerod interstadial

  Book of Jubilees

  Bori Parindang site

  Borobudur temple

  Boslough, Mark

  Breasted, James Henry

  Bretz, J Harlan

  Broecker, Wallace

  Bruce, James

  Builder Gods

  Burley, Paul

  Byblos

  C

  calibrated dating

  Candi Sukuh temple

  Carlson, Randall

  catastrophist geology

  Charity Shoal

  Charles, R.H.

  Chehab, Emir Maurice

  chullapas

  Clark Fork ice dam

  climate change

  Clovis people

  Clube, Victor

  Colavito, Jason

  Collins, Andrew

  Columbia Plateau

  column drums

  comet impact theory see Younger Dryas comet

  comets

  Constantine, Emperor

  continental drift

  Conway, Thor

  core drilling

  Coricancha temple

  Corossol Crater

  crepidoma

  Cutimbo site

  Cuzco

  D

  Dead Sea Scrolls

  Delphi

  Demir, Omer

  Dendara

  Deneb

  Derinkuyu site

  Dijk, Jacobus van

  Dome of the Rock

  Douaihy, Estfan El

  Dry Falls

  E

  earth crust displacement/instability

  earth measuring

  Easter Island

  Edfu Building Texts

  Edwards, I.E.S.

  El Fraile monolith

  Emiliani, Cesare

  Enki

  Enlil

  Enoch

  Environment of Violence

  Epic of Gilgamesh

  equinox sunset

  erratics

  eugenics

  extinction events

  F

  Faiia, Santha

  Fiedel, S.J.

  finger lakes

  Fingerprints of the Gods

  Firestone, Richard

  floods

  Ancient Egyptian legend

  Easter Island legend

  Flores island legend

  Hebrew legend

  and human behavior

  Mayan legend

  Mesopotamian legend

  Sumerian legend

>   Zoroastrian legend

  Flores island

  framboids

  Freemasonry

  frictional connection

  G

  Gamarra, Jesus

  Garcilaso

  Gardiner, Sir Alan

  geophysical surveys

  giants on earth

  Gilluly, James

  Giza Surface Luminescence Dating study

  global cataclysms

  global temperature change (Younger Dryas period)

  Göbekli Tepe site

  Golden Gate of the ecliptic

  golden navel stone

  Gosford Glyphs

  Great Primeval Mound

  Great Pyramid of Giza

  Great Sphinx of Giza

  Great Year

  Green, F.W.

  Greenland ice cores

  Griffiths, John Gwyn

  Gunung Padang site

  Gurshtein, Alexander

  H

  Haik

  Hakem, Ibn Abd El

  Hale, Rodney

  hallucinogenic DMT powders

  Hamlet’s Mill

  Hanan Pacha period

  Hansen, Oscar

  Hapgood, Charles

  Haran, Menahem

  Harran

  Hasmonean Tunnel

  Hassan, Selim

  Hawass, Zahi

  Heaven’s Mirror

  Heiser, Michael S.

  Heliopolis

  Henen-Nesut (Heracleopolis)

  Hermes

  Hermetica

  Heyerdahl, Thor

  Higgins, M.D.

  Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)

  Hogan, Timothy

  Holcombe, Troy

  Homeland of the Primeval Ones

  Hoover Dam

  Horus

  houses in the sky

  Hoyle, Fred

  human history

  Hunt, C. Warren

  I

  Ice Age

  Idris

  Inca de La Vega, Garcilaso

  Incas

  initiatic brotherhoods

  Intihuatana rock

  Inventory Building

  Inventory Stela

  Island of the Ka

  Isle of Fire

  Itoh, Kazumasa

  J

  Jacobs, James Q.

  Java

  Jenkins, John Major

  jökulhlaups

  K

  Kailey, Iksam

  Kalamba

  Kalasasaya

  Kalayan, Haroutune

  Karahan Tepe site