ATLANTIUM Episode XXXVI

IS TIME KEEPING FROM THE STARS?

Time keeps on tickin' tickin' away, sings songwriter Don Henley in one of his greatest hits. The marking of time and the references about time permeate every culture on Earth. Where did the keeping or marking of time come from? The answer could be out of this world. Literally. The ancient Sumer are credited with creating the hour, minute and second and we still use the exact same increments today. So, how did the ancient Sumerians come up with this revolutionary and long lasting idea?

Little was known about the ancient Sumer before the mid 1800s until the emerging science of archeology discovered their existence. In 1910 a large cache of clay tablets were found containing thousands of documents written in an unknown language. The tablets were recorded using a cuneiform alphabet with 400 characters, along with relief panels containing pictures made using metal seals. Many years have been dedicated to the study and interpretation of these clay panels. Researchers have found records that cover every aspect of everyday life, marriage documents, business contracts, city tax records and a virtual encyclopedia of a very advanced culture. The Sumer are credited with being the first civilization on Earth to have invented a long list of things we still use everyday; the wheel, arch, astronomy, courts, laws, mathematics, sea travel, and time keeping just to name a few. Perhaps one of the most amazing aspects of the Sumer is their highly detailed accounts of their gods the Annunaki. The Annunaki came down to Earth from Heaven and created man by mixing their DNA with the primitive humans that lived on Earth at the time of their arrival. The Anunnaki gave the Sumer everything they needed. All the inventions they are credited with were given to them by the Annunaki according to their writings. The Sumer had a mathematical system based on 60 rather than our base 10 system. They divided hours by 60 minutes, and minutes by 60 seconds. How were they able to mark off these units of time? It is assumed that they must have had some device capable of marking time. A very curious device is ever present on the wrists of the Annunaki. The Sumer generated a great number of carvings, statues and images of the Annunaki and they always took great care in placing what for lack of a better description appears to be a watch. They are not Rolexes but do look very precise with a face, markings all around the outside of the face and a sweeping hand. The Sumer have left great volumes of information to us about their gods the Annunaki. The Annunaki are characterized by the Sumer as a great space fairing people. They are believed to have been very large individuals perhaps 2-3 times larger than a man. They are called the Nephilim in the Hebrew Bible and referred to as the Sons of God. They became attracted to human women and had offspring that were giants, the "Men of Renown". What is interesting is that the Sumer recorded stories about these creatures thousands of years before the Bible. One startling account tells of the Annunaki's origins and how their planet Nibiru comes through our neck of the woods every 3600 years. One time in the ancient past Nibiru passed to close to Earth and knocked off a big chunk of our planet that later formed our Moon. The cross pollination of Earth with Nibiru provided the basic elements for their evolution. These ideas are 7000 years old and NASA today believes that this could be a very valid theory. NASA is currently searching for what they call Planet X. Planet X is believed to be out beyond our recognized solar system. Much of the information contained in the ruins of the Sumer has yet to be translated, who can imagine what knowledge may be reveled. Were the ancient Sumer just a bunch of really smart tribesmen? Are the Annunaki merely religious idols created as part of a creation myth? In the Atlantium continuum the answer is "NO". The probability of a group of primitive humans gathering in the desert and creating the first of many inventions we still use today without some sort of help is difficult to imagine. The record shows that they had almost every modern convenience that we have today and the TIME to enjoy it. ATLANTIUM. Roc Hatfield/Author

ATLANTIUM Episode XXII

GREETINGS FROM DREAMTIME

The ancient Aborigines the oldest know race of humans on the planet tell of a state of reality known as "Dreamtime". They believe our world was created by spirit beings in an earlier age called Dreamtime. This age began at the dawn of time and continues even until today. Aborigines have always believed that there are two realities, one is the world around us and the other is Dreamtime. In their detailed myths these spirit beings came to earth in shinning boats, flying canoes that sailed high above the water. Wanjina came down from the sky and lived on the land and when they became tired they returned to their abode in sky clouds. In the many caves around Ayres Rock the Aborigines have left portraits of how the Wanjina appeared to them over 18,000 years ago.

Much more recently the Egyptians carved a panel in the Step Pyramid at Saqqara that prominently features a man sized creature with large almond shaped eyes. The "Mothman of Saqqara" is an insect looking being that would be very menacing in appearance if seen in person. The creature was placed in among a group of humans working on the Pyramids and could have potentially been instructing them. The Egyptian creature is named after the Mothman legend of Clendenin, West Virgina. Members of this sleepy town discovered a bazaar creature living in an abandoned TNT factory near town. It was described as a human sized moth like being with large reflective eyes that could fly. The town suffered from the collapse of its Silver Bridge leaving 46 dead the week before Christmas in 1966. Many still until today believe that the Mothman was there to warn residents or observe the Bridge collapse tragedy. After the tragedy the Mothman was never seen again. The 8000 year old rock drawings at Val Comonica Italy depict two ancient human like beings floating as if weightless and dressed in what today could be described as spacesuits. The beings are holding instruments of some sort and wearing helmets made of a clear glass bubble. A cave drawing made by early man in Africa revels a humanoid creature clearly wearing a protective suit and helmet. Flying discs are swirling above his head. The discs are drawn from the side and from below. In Japan as many as 15,000 Dogu figurines have been found throughout the island. These highly intricate clay figurines range in age from 10,000 to 2500 years old. Very little is known about the Dogu figurines. Researches believe that the Dogu were fertility gods or religious icons. However the figurines are amazingly similar to many of the other ancient images found throughout the world. The figurines are also called "divers". In the years after deep diving suits were invented observers noticed how closely the outfits resembled diving gear. This was long before the advent of space flight and spacesuits. Today's deep diving suits feature claw like hands for workers to manipulate objects from inside their pressurized suits. Many of the Dogu figures have claw like hands extending from their arms. The Dogu could be 3D representations of the Aborigines' Wanjina. The Dogu and Wanjina both share many of the same features. Large goggle like eyes, a small vent like nose and an oversized suit. The observation suggests that the Dogu were dressed in a manner that protected them from the earths' environment. The fact that so many of the figurines have been found indicates that the primitive peoples of Japan were very aware and respectful of the Dogu. Could ancient man have actually seen and interacted with all of these nightmarish creatures subsequently creating elaborate mythologies around the experience? Are these images evidence of contact by a space fairing race of beings? In the Atlantium continuum the answer is YES. Artifacts and ancient texts are surfacing that suggest that the world 50,000 to 12,000 years ago was far different from today. The world was host to super technology and served as an inter-galactic spaceport. Just as today we have people who live in the modern sophistication of large metropolitan cities while African bushmen live in primitive grass huts. This same juxtaposition could have existed in the ancient world, primitive outlanders could have come in contact with these visitors and would have been awestruck. This truly would have seemed like a Dream. Atlantium. Roc Hatfield/Author

ATLANTIUM Episode XXI

ANCIENT SPACE TRAVEL


One of the most well know stories from the Hebrew Bible is that of Ezekiel. More than 2500 years ago Ezekiel stood on the desert floor near the river Chebar where he describes being visited by a massive flying machine. Among other things he denotes how the flying machine moved, how its parts worked and how it sounded. NASA engineers stripped back all the layers of poetry and created an artist rendering of how Ezekiel's Wheel may have really appeared and the results are astounding. Ezekiel was by no means the only Bible figure to describe strange aberrations in the sky. There are countless drawings, figurines and written descriptions of exotic flying objects that have been observed from the most distant past. If you look at the evidence on the surface alone it leaves one with the impression that "Space Travel " was common place in the ancient past.

The ancient Sumer were one of the most prolific chroniclers of Space Travel. Using a cuneiform alphabet of more that 400 letters they recorded in great detail the story of the space fairing Annunaki. The Annunaki traveled to Earth from a distant planet known to them as Nibiru. The Sumer left us with an enormous cache of information including crude artist renderings. Appearing on a Sumerian clay tablet is an image of what looks like a frame from a Hollywood storyboard. A Starship that looks eerily like the Enterprise from the Star Trek series is headed directly toward our solar system. The Sun and the Planets are depicted in the familiar flat plane that we use today. One remarkable detail featured in the image seems to represent a collector array on the left front pylon. Our modern spacecraft and satellites use this same dish shaped antenna to pick up weak radio signals that travel vast distances. These images are 6500 years old but yet still seem futuristic and contain knowledge that was only rediscovered in very recent times. The ancient Rama Empire known today as India left us with a cornucopia of data related to their space program and various flying craft. Sanskrit texts that have recently been translated define a number of various craft that are classified as being able to fly in the atmosphere only, while others are capable of space travel. One story tells of a battle on the moon and in orbit between the Rama and one of its rival empires. These Rama space craft were designed to carry a contingent of soldiers to any planet for deployment. The Egyptians carved images 5000 years ago of creatures they beleived came to earth from the heavens. Images of various craft have been discovered recently at the temple Abydos. These highly controversial carvings have set traditional archaeology on its heels. The images are detailed reliefs of futuristic flying craft that mainstream historians say are just a fluke. That in fact even though these images look like modern aircraft they are just the result of panels being carved over and over a number of times leaving these completely unintentional images. More recently the skies over 16th century Europe were filled with advanced flying craft. Many Renaissance painters conspicuously included them in religious frescos. Often the craft are seen with their deft pilots at the controls. The New World has had its share of space travelers, the Maya left us a number of elaborate stone carvings that reveal highly technical illustrations of space craft. Even ancient Japan has a long heritage of artifacts, writings and paintings that memorialize fantastic flying machines and their operators. The Dogu figurines dating back 10,000 to 30,000 years are an enigma. These ancient astronauts with there intricately carved spacesuits and helmets were made by humans that according to modern science were just emerging from their caves. These awesome looking figurines have been found in many areas and are always uniquely similar. The Dogu figurines always feature large goggles, a helmet and a complex suit with pockets and straps. How could the ancient Japanese conceived of these images when they were barely beyond wearing animal skins? All of these ancient artifacts leave us with many difficult questions. How did all of these ancient primitive cultures create such compelling ideas and technological understanding? Did these ancient people produce these ideas and objects? In the Atlantium continuum the answer is NO. All of these ideas and artifacts are most likely the ancient worlds' best shot at remembering an earlier age. The age prior to our earliest recorded history, the time from 50,000 to 12,000 years ago. New and amazing information is beginning to emerge that may put mankind on a completely different footing. We may ultimately find that our real origins are well beyond the bounds of this world. ATLANTIUM. Roc Hatfield/Author