Fingerprints Of The Gods-
Graham Hancock
This book got me thinking so much more about who we are and where we came from.
There are some startling facts in this book that boggle the mind.
e.g. The
Piri Reis map. This is a real map which was made by a cartographer in 1513 from older "source maps"
It just so happens to depict in perfect detail the surface of the land mass (in part) of Antarctica. (Some 300 years before Antartica was even discovered) The land mass thats
underneath the ice sheet which couldn't possibly have been seen or mapped at that time. The earliest possible time this "source map" could have been written was 4000BC - which is intriguing to say the least.
Other maps are presented that show perfect lines of latitude
and longitude - humans were unable to work out longitude with any degree of accuracy until the late 18th century yet these maps are much older.... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
This book is also responsible for kicking off my obsession with Pyramids. To cut a long story short using all of the 21st century techniques and tools at our disposal we couldn't build the Great Pyramids of Giza today(the Japanese actually tried to build a smaller replica and failed miserably) - not even close - not to the same standards of precision that someone did build them to. If we can't build them now why are we supposed to believe that primitive Egyptians a few thousand years ago managed it??
The pyramids also "map out" the constellation of Orion, and are pretty exact in their placement (read VERY exact)
Interestingly though they only match perfectly with the night skies as seen at Giza c.10500 B.C. - long before the "Ancient Egyptians" were on the scene.
The sphinx has been dated using geology and weathering patterns caused by falling rain - (it's in the middle of a desert.) The only time rain could have fallen on it in significantly large amounts to cause the weathering was thousands of years ago.
There are walls built of huge polygonal blocks in South America built who knows when out of mammoth pieces of limestone - all odd shapes - all enourmous - they still fit together today well enough so that you can't even slide a piece of paper inbetween the joints.
There are reports of strange bearded white men called the "
Viracochas" which sound very familiar to descriptions of a certain biblical figure (and I don't mean Chris Ferguson) - but I digress.
Basically these people are credited with civilising the mayas and Incas - teaching them about lots of stuff - and then vanishing. They are also the reason the mayas were all but wiped out by Spanish conquistadors - according to their legends these men would return in the future - handily for the Spanish they resembled beared white men and were welcomed with open arms by the Mayas - who were then promptly slaughtered. How much knowledge has the human race lost because of that....
This book opened my eyes to lots of different things that I had never thought about before - I highly recommend it.