In the previous post we discussed about the manvantars and
super-continents, now we shall discuss the origins of the human race. Hindu
scriptures have maintained that; humans and by far advanced civilizations have
existed on earth from the beginning of life on earth. We are presently living
in the 7th manvantar (Details of hindu concepts of time has been
discussed in the previous post). Each manvantar is divided into a cycle 0f 71
‘divya-yugas’. This divya-yuga cycle consist of 4 Yugas viz. Sat Yuga (Golden Age), Treta Yuga (Silver
Age), Dwapar Yuga (Bronze Age), and Kali Yuga (Iron Age). We are presently in
28th Kali yuga of the 7th manvantar. There are ancient Sanskrit writings
that describe Satya Yuga as an age when humans lived in complete harmony with
nature. The weather is always very mild, almost perpetually spring-like, and
there are no cities. The distinction between men and gods (devas) is virtually
non-existent. There is no need for technological devices of any sort, because
whatever end today's technology serves could be achieved back then through
their own innate abilities which were fully manifested at birth. Then comes
Treta Yuga, which is when people start to build houses and cities to live in as a result of somewhat more
unpredictable weather, political systems come into being and competition and
conflicts between people start to arise. Then we move onto Dwapar Yuga, the age
when doubt rears its ugly head. Wars become more common in this age. And then
we finally come to Kali Yuga, which is supposedly the current age that our
modern human civilization is in. It is commonly known as 'the age of quarrel
and hypocrisy' and is a very intense age. This is the paradox underlying each
of the yugas.
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| Sata Yuga or the Golden Age |
Hard to believe as it is; modern science have rejected these as
imaginations of primitive people. But they have failed explain that, how these primitive
people knew the exact workings of the cosmos, measurement of time in such huge
numbers, and even the use of nuclear energy. Charles Berlitz, author of several
books, including The Bermuda Triangle wrote: “ The Jyotish (400 B. C) echoes the modern concept
of the earth's place in the universe, the law of gravity, the kinetic nature of
energy, and the theory of cosmic rays and also deals, in specialized but
unmistakable vocabulary, with the theory of atomic rays. And what was thousands of years
before the medieval theologians of Europe argued about the number of angels
that could fit on the head of a pin.”
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| Ruins of Mohenjo-daro |
Supposedly if our current world is destroyed, say from a nuclear
holocaust or a natural catastrophe of global proportions. The surviving people
will have to start building up the new world with nothing but scratch. All the previous
age’s technology and scientific knowledge will slowly turn to oblivion. But
some scriptures and memories will remain, and will be passed down to future
generations for their benefit. After tens
and thousands of years, when even the relics of such technologies will
disappear; people will start treating them as myths and nothing else. So has
our world been destroyed before? In
1979 a book by David W. Davenport, an Englishman born in India, was published
in Italy. Its title was “2000 AC Diztruzione Atomica” (Atomic
Destruction 2000. BC). Davenport claimed to have proof that Mohenjo-daro,
one of the oldest cities in the history of human civilization, had been
destroyed by an atomic bomb. While giving a lecture at Rochester University,
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) theoretical physicist and the
Supervising Scientist of the Manhattan Project, who was familiar with ancient
Sanskrit literature; was confronted by a simple question:
Student: Was the bomb exploded at Alamogordo during the Manhattan Project the first one to be detonated?
Dr. Oppenheimer:
"Well -- yes. In modern times, of course."
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| Ancient Nuclear Wars?? |
It is commonly believed among
the mainstream scientific community that humans have their origins on Earth
approximately 200,000 years ago. However, over the last few centuries,
literally thousands of
archaeological discoveries have been made which severely challenges this
belief. Here are merely some of
the archaeological finds which clearly indicate
that the Homo sapiens sapiens species has existed on this planet for far longer than what
is usually taught in our textbooks:
* A human skull fragment from Hungary dated between 250,000 and 450,000 BC
* A human footprint with accompanying paleoliths (stones deliberately chipped
into a recognizable tool type), bone tools, hearths and shelters, discovered in France and dated 300,000 to 400,000
years BC
* Paleoliths in Spain, a partial human skeleton and paleoliths in France; two
English skeletons, one with associated paleoliths, ALLat least 300,000 years old
* Skull fragments and paleoliths in Kenya and advanced paleoliths, of modern
human manufacture, in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, dated between 400,000 and
700,000 BC
* Neoliths (the most advanced stone tools and utensils) in China of a type that
indicate full human capacity, dated to 600,000 BC
* Hearths, charcoal, human femurs and broken animal bones, all denoting modern humanity, in Java, dated to 830,000
BC
* An anatomically modern human skull discovered in Argentina and dated between
1 million and 1.5 million years BC (eoliths -chipped pebbles, thought to be the
earliest known tools- at Monte Hermoso, also in Argentina, are believed to be
between 1 and 2.5 million years old).
* A human tooth from Java yielding a date between 1 and 1.9 million years BC
* Incised bones, dated between 1.2 and 2.5 million BC, have been found in Italy
* Finds of paleoliths, cut and charred bones at Xihoudu in China and eoliths
from Diring Yurlakh in Siberia dated to 1.8 million BC
* Eoliths in India, paleoliths in England, Belgium, Italy and Argentina, flint
blades in Italy, hearths in Argentina,
a carved shell, pierced teeth and even two human jaws all bearing a minimum date of 2 million years BC
* Paleoliths from France dated between 7 and 9 million BC
* An eolith from India with a minimum dating of 9 million BC
* Incised bones from France, Argentina and Kenya no less than 12 million years
old
* More paleolith finds from France, dated at least 20 million years ago
* Neoliths from California in excess of 23 million years
* Three different kinds of paleoliths from Belgium with a minimum dating of 26
million BC
* An anatomically modern human skeleton, neoliths and carved stones found at
the Table Mountain, California and dated at least 33 million years ago
* A human skeleton found in Switzerland is estimated to be between 38 and 45
million years old.
* France has yielded up eoliths, paleoliths, cut wood and a chalk
ball, the minimum ages of which range from 45 to 50 million years.
* In 1960, H. L. Armstrong announced in Nature magazine
the discovery of fossil human footprints near the Paluxy River, in Texas.
Dinosaur footprints were found in the same strata.
* In 1983, the Moscow News reported the discovery of a fossilized
human footprint next to the fossil footprint of a three-toed dinosaur in the
Turkamen Republic. Dinosaurs have been extinct for approximately 65 million
years.
* In 1983, Professor W. G. Burroughs of Kentucky reported the find of three
pairs of fossil tracks dated to 300 million years ago. They showed left and
right footprints. Each print had five toes and a distinct arch. The toes were
spread apart like those of a human used to walking barefoot. The foot curved
back like a human foot to what appeared to be a human heel. There was a pair of
prints in the series that showed a left and right foot. The distance between
them is just what you'd expect in modern human footprints.
* In December 1862, The Geologist carried news of a human skeleton found
27.5 m (90 ft) below the surface in a coal seam in Illinois. The seam was dated
between 286 and 320 million years BC.
It's true that a few eoliths, skull fragments and fossil
footprints, however old, provide no real backing for the idea of advanced
prehistoric human civilizations. But some other finds do:
* In 1968, an American fossil collector named William J. Meister found a fossilized
human shoe print near
Antelope Spring, Utah. There were trilobite fossils in the same stone, which
means it was at least 245 million years old. Close examination showed that the
sole of this shoe differed little, if at all, from those of shoes manufactured
today.
* In 1897, a carved stone showing multiple faces of an old man was found at a depth of 40 m (130 ft) in
a coal mine in Iowa. The coal there was of similar age.
* A piece of coal yielded up an encased iron cup in 1912. Frank J. Kenwood, who
made the find, was so intrigued he traced the origin of the coal and discovered
it came from the Wilburton Mine in Oklahoma. The coal there is about 312
million years old.
* In 1844, Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster reported the discovery of a
metal nail embedded in a sandstone block from a quarry in the north of England.
The head was completely encased, ruling out the possibility that it had been
driven in at some recent date. The block from which it came is approximately
360 million years old.
* On 22 June 1844, The Times reported that a length of gold thread
had been found by workmen embedded in stone close to the River Tweed. This
stone too was around 360 million years old.
* According to Scientific American, dated 5 June
1852, blasting activities at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
unearthed a metallic, bell-shaped vessel extensively decorated with silver
inlays of flowers and vines. The workmanship was described as 'exquisite'. The
vessel was blown out of a bed of Roxbury conglomerate dated somewhat earlier
than 600 million years BC.
* In 1993, Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson reported the discovery
'over the past several decades' of hundreds of metallic spheres in a
pyrophyllite mine in South Africa. The spheres are grooved and give the
appearance of having been manufactured. If so, the strata in which they were
found suggest they were manufactured 2.8 billion years ago.
May be in some distant past not recognized by modern science,
humankind was far more advanced than we generally suppose. Following such
times, humankind entered a 'dark age'. The cause of such dark ages and the
total lapse of advanced civilization, is not known. And whether the
advancement, or even origins of that civilization, came by way of
extraterrestrial intervention, spiritual means or simple human ingenuity, is
also not known. Astrobiologists now suspect that life began on Earth shortly
after its formation...indicating that life evolves rather quickly and if such
holds true, it's quite possible that life could have evolved to advanced levels
of civilization prior to the first anatomically modern human ever chipping a flint stone.
