Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00226)

Dallas wrote, in part: <<Nor can any 
history previous to 6,000 years be 
recognized as, for instance,
in the scanty reference to Atlantis 
(mentioned by Plato, who died 347 B.C.).
And even he gives no date of its 
disappearance. In the SECRET DOCTRINE 
and the MAHATMA LETTERS [pp. 151, 155] 
this was fixed at 9,564 B. C.>>

Graham Hancock in his FINGERPRINTS OF 
THE GODS offers statements of geologists 
who date the Sphinx, Valley Temple, 
among others, as conclusively showing 
evidence of weathering patterns 
(vertical fissures and wearing of the 
megaliths up to 3 metres) from heavy 
rains which could only have occurred 
about the time of the melting of the ice 
towards the end to the ice age, about 
13000 to 8000 BC (?), after which the 
area began to dry up. Orthodox 
Egyptologists don't seem to want to 
logically deal with such evidence, 
holding on to their linear views of 
human evolution. Page 486: <<I asked 
John West why he thought that 
Egyptologists and archaeologists were so 
unwilling to consider that the Sphinx 
might be a clue to the existence of a 
forgotten episode in human history.
"The reason, I think, is that they're 
quite fixed in their ideas about the 
linear evolution of the civilization. 
They find it hard to come to terms with 
the notion that there might have been 
people, more than 12,000 years ago, who 
were more sophisticated than we are 
today ... The Sphinx, and the geology 
which proves its antiquity, and the fact 
that the technology that was involved in 
making it is in many ways almost beyond 
our own capacities, contradicts the 
belief that civilization and technology 
have evolved in a straightforward, 
linear way ... Because even with the 
best modern technology we almost 
couldn't carry out the various tasks 
that were involved in the project. The 
Sphinx itself, that's not such a 
staggering feat. I mean if you get 
enough sculptors to cut the stone away 
they could carve a statue a mile long. 
The technology was involved in taking 
the stones, quarrying the stones, to 
free the Sphinx from its bedrock and 
then moving those stones and using them 
to build the Valley Temple a coulple of 
hundred feet away ..."
This was was to me: "you mean that the 
200-ton blocks in the Valley Temple 
walls were quarried right out of the 
Sphinx enclousure?"
"Yes, no doubt about it. Geologically 
they're from the identical member of 
rock. They were quarried out, moved 
over to the site of the Temple---God 
knows how---and erected into 
forty-foot-high walls---again God knows 
how. I'm talking about the huge 
limestone core blocks, not the granite 
facing. I think that the granite was 
added much later, quite possibly by 
Khafre. but if you look at the 
limestone core blocks you'll see that 
they bear the marks of exactly the same 
kind of precipitation-induced weathering 
that are found on the Sphinx. So the 
Sphinx and the core structure of the 
Valley Temple were made at the same time 
by the same people---whoever they may 
have been."
============end of quote

Best wishes,
Mauri