Tuesday, May 26, 2015

More than 8,000 Year Old Indian City Irradiated by Atomic Blast



Mohenjodaro
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built.

For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction. The levels of radiation there have registered so high on investigators’ gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people. One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in 1945.
The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the continent.
“A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe… An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor… It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race. The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white. After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river.”
Mohenjodaro
Archaeological Site of Mohenjo Daro
A Historian Comments
Historian K. Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are full of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention fighting sky chariots and final weapons. An ancient battle is described in the Drona Parva, a section of the Mahabharata.
“The passage tells of combat where explosions of final weapons decimate entire armies, causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants and weapons to be carried away as if they were dry leaves of trees,” says Ganguli.
“Instead of mushroom clouds, the writer describes a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds as consecutive openings of giant parasols. There are comments about the contamination of food and people’s hair falling out.”
Mohenjodaro
Archaeological Site of Mohenjo Daro
Archeological Investigation provides information
Archeologist Francis Taylor says that etchings in some nearby temples he has managed to translate suggest that they prayed to be spared from the great light that was coming to lay ruin to the city.
“It’s so mid-boggling to imagine that some civilization had nuclear technology before we did. The radioactive ash adds credibility to the ancient Indian records that describe atomic warfare.”
Construction has halted while the five member team conducts the investigation. The foreman of the project is Lee Hundley, who pioneered the investigation after the high level of radiation was discovered.
There is evidence that the Rama empire (now India) was devastated by nuclear war. The Indus valley is now the Thar desert, and the site of the radioactive ash found west of Jodhpur is around there.
Consider these verses from the ancient Mahabharata:
…a single projectile
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour…
a perpendicular explosion
with its billowing smoke clouds…
…the cloud of smoke
rising after its first explosion
formed into expanding round circles
like the opening of giant parasols…
..it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
…The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognisable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment.
Until the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, modern mankind could not imagine any weapon as horrible and devastating as those described in the ancient Indian texts. Yet they very accurately described the effects of an atomic explosion. Radioactive poisoning will make hair and nails fall out. Immersing oneself in water gives some respite, though it is not a cure.
When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city. And these skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards. What could cause such a thing? Why did the bodies not decay or get eaten by wild animals? Furthermore, there is no apparent cause of a physically violent death.
Mohenjodaro
Skeletons found at Mohenjo Daro scattered in the street.
These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on par with those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal. Other cities have been found in northern India that show indications of explosions of great magnitude. One such city, found between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, seems to have been subjected to intense heat. Huge masses of walls and foundations of the ancient city are fused together, literally vitrified! And since there is no indication of a volcanic eruption at Mohenjo-Daro or at the other cities, the intense heat to melt clay vessels can only be explained by an atomic blast or some other unknown weapon. The cities were wiped out entirely.
Mohenjodaro
While the skeletons have been carbon-dated to 2500 BC, we must keep in mind that carbon-dating involves measuring the amount of radiation left. When atomic explosions are involved, that makes then seem much younger.
Interestingly, Manhattan Project chief scientist Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer was known to be familiar with ancient Sanskrit literature. In an interview conducted after he watched the first atomic test, he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita:
“‘Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.’ I suppose we all felt that way.”
When asked in an interview at Rochester University seven years after the Alamogordo nuclear test whether that was the first atomic bomb ever to be detonated, his reply was, “Ancient cities whose brick and stonewalls have literally been vitrified, that is, fused together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and other places. There is no logical explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast.”
Mohenjodaro
Giant Unexplained Crater Near Bombay
Another curious sign of an ancient nuclear war in India is a giant crater near Bombay. The nearly circular 2,154-metre-diameter Lonar crater, located 400 kilometres northeast of Bombay and aged at less than 50,000 years old, could be related to nuclear warfare of antiquity.
No trace of any meteoric material, etc., has been found at the site or in the vicinity, and this is the world’s only known “impact” crater in basalt. Indications of great shock (from a pressure exceeding 600,000 atmospheres) and intense, abrupt heat (indicated by basalt glass spherules) can be ascertained from the site. David Hatcher Childress in Nexus Magazine:
“The crater is formed in the basalt rock of thickness 600-700m (2,000 to 2,200 feet). This rock is made of many layers or flows which were laid why volcanic activity at various times, five of such flows are exposed at the crater rim. Thickness of these flows ranges from 5 to 30m.”
“The crater is about 150m (500 feet)deep and has average diameter of 1830m (1.4 miles). The elevated rim consists of 25m of bedrock and 5m of ejecta over it. This ejecta blanket is spread over about 1350m (4,400 feet) away from the crater rim and slopes away by 2-6°. The uppermost region of eject contains the deposits that were melted due to the impact”.


Mohenjodaro
Aerial photograph of the Lonar Crater.
Lonar is a place of obscurities, especially as the only meteoric crater formed in basaltic terrain. It has remained relatively intact due to low degree of erosion by environmental agents, making it an excellent model for study. However, several strange things happen here:
1. The lake has two distinct regions that never mix — an outer neutral (pH7) and an inner alkaline (pH11) each with its own flora and fauna. You can actually do a litmus paper test here and check this for yourself.
2. There is a perennial stream feeding the lake with water but there seems to be no apparent outlet for the lake’s water. And it is also a big unsolved mystery where the water for the perennial stream comes from, in a relatively dry region like Buldhana. Even in the driest months of May and June, the stream is perpetually flowing. Lonar generates questions and more questions.
From indiadivine.org

Friday, May 22, 2015

10 unusual temples outside of India


10 unusual temples outside of India 1. Wat Rong Khun, Thailand

A contemporary temple, Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai is better known as the White Temple. A Buddhist place of worship, it has made it to our list of funky temples because of its unconventional exterior. It is completely white, and each form it highlighted with mosaic glass and mirrors, making it sparkle in the sunlight. Privately owned; it is a work in progress, not expected to be completed for many years to come. Thailand’s very own Sagrada Familia!
Wat Rong Khun

2. Haeinsa , South Korea

One of South Korea’s most important Buddhist temples, Haiensa in South Gyeongsang Province was initially built in 802. It was rebuilt in 1818 after a fire gutted it the year before. The most amazing bit about this temple is the fact that it is home to a complete copy of Buddhist Scriptures which have been written on 81,350 printing blocks made of wood – all of which survived the devastating fire!
 Tripitaka Koreana





















 

3. Po Lin Monastery , Hong Kong

This Buddhist monastery on Lantau Island was started in 1906, but continuous additions and extensions have been made to it over the years. A very notable extension - and the one that resulted in putting this monastery on our list – was the construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, in 1993. This statue, made of 202 bronze pieces, is 112 feet tall. On a clear day, the statue is visible across the bay from as far as Macau. It also holds the record of being the world’s tallest, outdoor, seated Buddha.
Po Lin





































 

4. Borobudur Temple,  Indonesia

Borobudur in Java is the largest and one of the most famous Buddhist temples around the world. Built in the 9th century, it was abandoned in the 14th for not so clear reasons. Made of over 2 million blocks of stone, this huge monument lay hidden for centuries under volcanic ash and jungle growth only to be rediscovered in the 19th century. Since then several restorations have given it back some of its past glory.
 Borobudur
























5. Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Temple, Malaysia

One of Malaysia’s oldest and now a major Hindu temple, this sparkler started off as an ordinary little hut. That is, till the chairman of the temple decided it was time the humble place of worship got a make over fit for a disco. So now Malaysia has its first and only glass temple in Tebrau. Light from crystal chandeliers bounces off every surface, from doors and walls to pillars and ceilings which are decorated with 300,000 tiny mosaic pieces of coloured glass. It is quite a bright blaze in there!
Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Temple


























6. Hanging Temple, China

Hanging precariously on a cliff side in the mountains near Datong, is the Hanging Temple. Built about 1,500 years ago, this monastery is the only existing place of worship which is a combination of three traditional Chinese religions – Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Another claim to fame is that it has made the list of the world’s top ten most odd dangerous buildings!
 Hanging Temple






















7. Chion-in Temple, Japan

Kyoto’s Chion-in temple is the headquarters of the Jodo sect, the most popular form of Buddhism in Japan. A 17th century structure, it has a huge two storey tall gate which is the largest existing structure of its type in Japan. Another completely bizarre feature is the floor – the wooden boards have these metal ends that are attached to metal joints – giving off a piercing squeaky sound when someone walks over them. The purpose of this musical floor was to keep a track on intruders. Chion-in also has a giant bell in the main hall – it weighs some 70 tonnes and needs 17 strapping monks to ring it!
 Chion-in























8. Jetavanaramaya, Sri Lanka

Jetavanaramaya is a 4th century stupa in the sacred city Anuradhapura. It makes our list for the incredible number of firsts in figures – it is 400 feet tall, placing it on top of the tallest stupa in the ancient world list. It is also the largest structure in the ancient world with a base area of 2,508,000 square feet. Another funky figure is an unbelievable 93.3 million baked bricks that were used as construction material for this colossal structure.
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9. The Golden Rock, Myanmar

The Golden Rock on Mt Kyaiktiyo in Mon State is probably the most dramatic mounument on our list. A popular destination for Buddhist pilgrimage, it is a visual delight – imagine a small pagoda built on top of a granite boulder which defies all known laws of gravity and is strangely perched on a mountain side. If that is not cool enough, add to it gold leaves pasted on the boulder by the faithful. A beautiful sight, especially in the evening;  when the rays of the setting sun seem to set the gold leaf on fire.
 The Golden Rock























10. Ta Prohm, Cambodia

One of the very few temples in the Angkor region of Siem Reap that has been left in its original form, Ta Prohm is as dramatic as they come. A simple structure, its beauty is in the fact that large roots of various trees have grown over and above the temple structure, binding it in a sort of an unearthly and pretty scary looking grip. Made famous by the Tomb Raider movie that was filmed here, it is one of Cambodia’s most visited sites.
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The Distances to the Planets -Higher Realms

In Srimad Bhagavatam 5th Canto Chapter 23 translated by AC Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
The Distances to the Planets -Higher Realms
Vedic Cosmology Decoding the 5th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam's photo. For Janaloka we add 160,000,000 miles to Maharloka which gives us 271,224,902 and divide b...y 952,530,892.3 = .284741318
Then multiply by Venus at it's lowest circumference, which is 9,202,104,012 and divide by ((4,000,000,000 X Pi) / 360) This tells us that Janaloka is at 75.06375149 degrees
For Tapoloka we add 640,000,000 miles to Janaloka and divide by 952,530,892.3 = .956635537
Now multiply by circumference for constellations which is 2,389,453,778 = 2,285,836,398
Now divide by universe divided by 360 or
(4,000,000,000 X Pi ) / 360 ) = 65.48438913 which means Tapoloka is at 65 degrees
When we say that now we know what is the degree we can know circumference by multiplying the circumference of the universe by cos (75.06375149 or by cos (65.48438913 respectively for Janaloka and Tapoloka which gives us 3,238,908,200 for Janaloka and 5,214,304,353 for Tapoloka
Distances to the Planets by Mayesa dasa
Part Thirteen
Vedic Cosmology Decoding the 5th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam's photo. Vaikuntha
Perhaps the degrees at which I have placed Janaloka and Tapoloka should be reversed but we shall plunge ahead so that we can get a sense of the whole system, then any problems can be adjusted.
For Satyaloka we add 960,000,000 miles to Tapoloka and divide by 952,530,892.3 = 1.964476866
Now let us multiply by 1,455,665,606 which is Jupiter's highest circumference = 2,859,621,408
Now divide by ((4,000,000,000 X Pi) / 360 ) = 81.92211885 degrees
One who is mathematician and is following along will understand that we are working with what is called "process of elimination" This whole system will have to be further refined after we have it all in place.
Finally we come to Vaikuntha. For Vaikuntha we add 209,600,000 and divide by 952,530,892.3 = 2.184522223
We can know what is the universe's exterior circumference. That is the size of universe (4,000,000,000 X Pi) plus the 8 shells. The first shell is 10,000,000,000 miles The second is ten times that and third ten times that ,etc
This is 29 X 10,000,000,000 X 2 X Pi plus (4,000,000,000 X Pi ) = 1,834,690,110,000
Now we divide by 360 and multiply by 89.9999999999 or even 90 degrees gives us 458,672,527.4
Now divide by our decimal gives us 209,964,688.2 which is circumference of some planetary body at 80.38164599 degree of the universe.
We saw that Satyaloka was at 81.9 degrees-probably these two numbers should be the same. Now a mathematician can understand how he could work backwards from Vaikuntha to shore up the numbers.

Text 9 how Maharloka is above Dhruvaloka and then comes Janaloka and then Tapoloka then Satyaloka,etc.
Now we shall calculate these and diagram.
From now on I shall be adding the cumulative numbers in a different way to save time. it should be clear what I am doing. For example if the suns axle is 31,500,000 plus 800,000 for the moon then the next calculation ( for th...e constellations will add in 2,400,000 for the constellations on top of 31,500,000 and 800,000 )
Maharloka
We begin with Maharloka which is said to be 80,000,000 miles above Dhruvaloka
Formula
Axle of sun plus added numbers is 141,100,000 Bhuhulasva plus added numbers 773,084,901.3 / 360 = 2,147,458.059/ 141,100,000 / 2,147,458.059 = 65.70559057
We must now use the circumference of the universe. That circumference is 12566370610
(4,320,000 X 12,566,370,610) / ( 1,577,917,828 + 4,320,000 ) / 65.70559057 =506,754.1533
This is the circumference of Maharloka.
Maharloka stretches from one side of the universe to the other. Is it a planet or a region of planets?
5,067,541,533 / universe = .403262142
That is cosine 66.21773023
Janaloka
Formula
axle plus for Janaloka is 933,084,901.3
Bhuvulasva plus is 301,100,000 / 360 = 2,591,902.504
301,100,000 / 2,591,902.504 = 116.1694931
Now (4,320,000 X 12,566,370,610) / ( 1,577,917,828 + 4,320,000 ) / 116.1694931 = 295,345.0885
2,953,450,885 / universe = .235028154
That is cosine 76.40671764
Tapoloka
Formula
Axle plus = 941,100,000
bhuvulasva plus = 1,573,084,901
1,573,084,901 / 360 = 4,369,680.281
941,100,000 / 4,369,680.281 = 215.3704481
Now (4,320,000 X Universe) / ( 1,577,917,828 + 4,320,000 ) / 215.370 4481
= 159304.3385
1593043385 / Universe = .126770365
That is cosine 82.71699636
Illustration 8 shows
A Satyaloka
B Tapoloka
C Janaloka
D Maharloka
E Dhruvaloka
F Constellations
G 7 Sages
Satyaloka
Formula
axle plus = 1,901,100,000
bhuvulasva plus = 1,873,084,901
1,873,084,901 / 360 = 5,203,013.615
1,901,100,000 / 5,203,013.615 = 365.3843985
Now (4,320,000 X universe) / ( 1,577,917,828 + 4,320,000 ) / 365.3843985
= 93,901.35256/
939,013,525.6 / universe = .0747243
That is cosine 85.71461859
Formula
Vaikuntha
We must now use the circumference of the universe plus the universal shell. That number is 3,125,663,706... ---- From Mayesa Dasa



Mysteries of Sacred Universe- Śiśumāra Planetary Systems’ -By Richard Thompson


The Śiśumāra Planetary Systems’
Vedic Cosmology Decoding the 5th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam's photo.Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 5 Chapter 23 ‘The Śiśumāra Planetary Systems’ Text 1 to Text 9 by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This chapter describes how all the planetary systems take shelter of the polestar, Dhruvaloka. It also describes the totality of these planetary systems to be Śiśumāra, another expansion of the external body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Dhruvaloka, the abode of Lord Viṣṇu within this universe, is situated 1,300,000 yojanas from the seven stars. In the planetary system of Dhruvaloka are the planets of the fire-god, Indra, Prajāpati, Kaśyapa and Dharma, all of whom are very respectful to the great devotee Dhruva, who lives on the polestar.
Like bulls yoked to a central pivot, all the planetary systems revolve around Dhruvaloka, impelled by eternal time. Those who worship the virāṭ-puruṣa, the universal form of the Lord, conceive of this entire rotating system of planets as an animal known as śiśumāra.
This imaginary śiśumāra is another form of the Lord. The head of the śiśumāra form is downward, and its body appears like that of a coiled snake. On the end of its tail is Dhruvaloka, on the body of the tail are Prajāpati, Agni, Indra and Dharma, and on the root of the tail are Dhātā and Vidhātā. On its waist are the seven great sages.
The entire body of the śiśumāra faces toward its right and appears like a coil of stars. On the right side of this coil are the fourteen prominent stars from Abhijit to Punarvasu, and on the left side are the fourteen prominent stars from Puṣyā to Uttarāṣāḍhā.
The stars known as Punarvasu and Puṣyā are on the right and left hips of the śiśumāra, and the stars known as Ārdrā and Aśleṣā are on the right and left feet of the śiśumāra. Other stars are also fixed on different sides of the Śiśumāra planetary system according to the calculations of Vedic astronomers. To concentrate their minds, yogīs worship the Śiśumāra planetary system, which is technically known as the kuṇḍalini-cakra.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.1
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, 1,300,000 yojanas [10,400,000 miles] above the planets of the seven sages is the place that learned scholars describe as the abode of Lord Viṣṇu.
There the son of Mahārāja Uttānapāda, the great devotee Mahārāja Dhruva, still resides as the life source of all the living entities who live until the end of the creation. Agni, Indra, Prajāpati, Kaśyapa and Dharma all assemble there to offer him honor and respectful obeisances. They circumambulate him with their right sides toward him. I have already described the glorious activities of Mahārāja Dhruva [in the Fourth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam].
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.2
TRANSLATION
Established by the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the polestar, which is the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, constantly shines as the central pivot for all the stars and planets. The unsleeping, invisible, most powerful time factor causes these luminaries to revolve around the polestar without cessation.
PURPORT
It is distinctly stated herein that all the luminaries, the planets and stars, revolve by the influence of the supreme time factor. The time factor is another feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everyone is under the influence of the time factor, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind and loves His devotee Mahārāja Dhruva so much that He has placed all the luminaries under the control of Dhruva's planet and has arranged for the time factor to work under him or with his cooperation.
Everything is actually done according to the will and direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but to make His devotee Dhruva the most important individual within the universe, the Lord has placed the activities of the time factor under his control.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.3
TRANSLATION
When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper positions — one bull being closest to the post, another in the middle, and a third on the outside. Similarly, all the planets and all the hundreds and thousands of stars revolve around the polestar, the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, in their respective orbits, some higher and some lower.
Fastened by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the machine of material nature according to the results of their fruitive acts, they are driven around the polestar by the wind and will continue to be so until the end of creation.
These planets float in the air within the vast sky, just as clouds with hundreds of tons of water float in the air or as the great śyena eagles, due to the results of past activities, fly high in the sky and have no chance of falling to the ground.
PURPORT
According to the description of this verse, the hundreds and thousands of stars and the great planets such as the sun, the moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter are not clustered together because of the law of gravity or any similar idea of the modern scientists.
These planets and stars are all servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda or Kṛṣṇa, and according to His order they sit in their chariots and travel in their respective orbits.
The orbits in which they move are compared to machines given by material nature to the operating deities of the stars and planets, who carry out the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by revolving around Dhruvaloka, which is occupied by the great devotee Mahārāja Dhruva. This is confirmed in the Brahma-saḿhitā (5.52) as follows:
yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇāḿ
rājā samasta-sura-mūrtir aśeṣa-tejāḥ
yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakro
govindam ādi-puruṣaḿ tam ahaḿ bhajāmi
"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, under whose control even the sun, which is considered to be the eye of the Lord, rotates within the fixed orbit of eternal time. The sun is the king of all planetary systems and has unlimited potency in heat and light."
This verse from Brahma-saḿhitā confirms that even the largest and most powerful planet, the sun, rotates within a fixed orbit, or kāla-cakra, in obedience to the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This has nothing to do with gravity or any other imaginary laws created by the material scientists.
Material scientists want to avoid the ruling government of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore they imagine different conditions under which they suppose the planets move. The only condition, however, is the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. All the various predominating deities of the planets are persons, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is also a person.
The Supreme Personality orders the subordinate persons, the demigods of various names, to carry out His supreme will. This fact is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (9.10), wherein Kṛṣṇa says:
mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ
sūyate sa-carācaram
hetunānena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate
"This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again."
The orbits of the planets resemble the bodies in which all living entities are seated because they are both machines controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (18.61):
īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāḿ
hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati
bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni
yantrārūḍhāni māyayā
"The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy." The machine given by material nature — whether the machine of the body or the machine of the orbit, or kāla-cakra — works according to the orders given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead and material nature work together to maintain this great universe, and not only this universe but also the millions of other universes beyond this one.
The question of how the planets and stars are floating is also answered in this verse. It is not because of the laws of gravity. Rather, the planets and stars are enabled to float by manipulations of the air. It is due to such manipulations that big, heavy clouds float and big eagles fly in the sky.
Modern airplanes like the 747 jet aircraft work in a similar way: by controlling the air, they float high in the sky, resisting the tendency to fall to earth. Such adjustments of the air are all made possible by the cooperation of the principles of puruṣa (male) and prakṛti (female).
By the cooperation of material nature, which is considered to be prakṛti, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is considered the puruṣa, all the affairs of the universe are going on nicely in their proper order. prakṛti, material nature, is also described in the Brahma-saḿhitā (5.44) as follows:
sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā
chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgā
icchānurūpam api yasya ca ceṣṭate sā
govindam ādi-puruṣaḿ tam ahaḿ bhajāmi
"The external potency, māyā, who is of the nature of the shadow of the cit [spiritual] potency, is worshiped by all people as Durgā, the creating, preserving and destroying agency of this mundane world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, in accordance with whose will Durgā conducts herself."
Material nature, the external energy of the Supreme Lord, is also known as Durgā, or the female energy that protects the great fort of this universe. The word Durgā also means fort. This universe is just like a great fort in which all the conditioned souls are kept, and they cannot leave it unless they are liberated by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord Himself declares in Bhagavad-gītā (4.9):
janma karma ca me divyam
evaḿ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaḿ punar janma
naiti mām eti so 'rjuna
"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna."
Thus simply by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can be liberated, or, in other words, one can be released from the great fort of this universe and go outside it to the spiritual world.
It is also significant that the predominating deities of even the greatest planets have been offered their exalted posts because of the very valuable pious activities they performed in previous births. This is indicated herein by the words karma-nirmita-gatayaḥ.
For example, as we have previously discussed, the moon is called jīva, which means that he is a living entity like us, but because of his pious activities he has been appointed to his post as the moon-god. Similarly, all the demigods are living entities who have been appointed to their various posts as the masters of the moon, the earth, Venus and so on because of their great service and pious acts.
Only the predominating deity of the sun, Sūrya Nārāyaṇa, is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Mahārāja Dhruva, the predominating deity of Dhruvaloka, is also a living entity. Thus there are two kinds of entities — the supreme entity, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the ordinary living entity, the jīva (nityo nityānāḿ cetanaś cetanānām). All the demigods are engaged in the service of the Lord, and only by such an arrangement are the affairs of the universe going on.
Regarding the great eagles mentioned in this verse, it is understood that there are eagles so big that they can prey on big elephants. They fly so high that they can travel from one planet to another. They start flying in one planet and land in another, and while in flight they lay eggs that hatch into other birds while falling through the air.
In Sanskrit such eagles are called śyena. Under the present circumstances, of course, we cannot see such huge birds, but at least we know of eagles that can capture monkeys and then throw them down to kill and eat them. Similarly, it is understood that there are gigantic birds that can carry off elephants, kill them and eat them.
The two examples of the eagle and the cloud are sufficient to prove that flying and floating can be made possible through adjustments of the air. The planets, in a similar way, are floating because material nature adjusts the air according to the orders of the Supreme Lord.
It could be said that these adjustments constitute the law of gravity, but in any case, one must accept that these laws are made by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The so-called scientists have no control over them. The scientists can falsely, improperly declare that there is no God, but this is not a fact.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.4
TRANSLATION
This great machine, consisting of the stars and planets, resembles the form of a śiśumāra [dolphin] in the water. It is sometimes considered an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva. Great yogīs meditate upon Vāsudeva in this form because it is actually visible.
PURPORT
Transcendentalists such as yogīs whose minds cannot accommodate the form of the Lord prefer to visualize something very great, such as the virāṭ-puruṣa. Therefore some yogīs contemplate this imaginary śiśumāra to be swimming in the sky the way a dolphin swims in water. They meditate upon it as the virāṭ-rūpa, the gigantic form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.5
TRANSLATION
This form of the śiśumāra has its head downward and its body coiled. On the end of its tail is the planet of Dhruva, on the body of its tail are the planets of the demigods Prajāpati, Agni, Indra and Dharma, and at the base of its tail are the planets of the demigods Dhātā and Vidhātā.
Where the hips might be on the śiśumāra are the seven saintly sages like Vasiṣṭha and Ańgirā. The coiled body of the Śiśumāra-cakra turns toward its right side, on which the fourteen constellations from Abhijit to Punarvasu are located. On its left side are the fourteen stars from Puṣyā to Uttarāṣāḍhā.
Thus its body is balanced because its sides are occupied by an equal number of stars. On the back of the śiśumāra is the group of stars known as Ajavīthī, and on its abdomen is the Ganges that flows in the sky [the Milky Way].
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.6
TRANSLATION
On the right and left sides of where the loins might be on the Śiśumāra-cakra are the stars named Punarvasu and Puṣyā. Ārdrā and Aśleṣā are on its right and left feet, Abhijit and Uttarāṣāḍhā are on its right and left nostrils, Śravaṇā and Pūrvāṣāḍhā are at its right and left eyes, and Dhaniṣṭhā and Mūlā are on its right and left ears.
The eight stars from Maghā to Anurādhā, which mark the southern course, are on the ribs of the left of its body, and the eight stars from Mṛgaśīrṣā to Pūrvabhādra, which mark the northern course, are on the ribs on the right side. Śatabhiṣā and Jyeṣṭhā are on the right and left shoulders.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.7
TRANSLATION
On the upper chin of the śiśumāra is Agasti; on its lower chin, Yamarāja; on its mouth, Mars; on its genitals, Saturn; on the back of its neck, Jupiter; on its chest, the sun; and within the core of its heart, Nārāyaṇa. Within its mind is the moon; on its navel, Venus; and on its breasts, the Aśvinī-kumāras. Within its life air, which is known as prāṇāpāna, is Mercury, on its neck is Rāhu, all over its body are comets, and in its pores are the numerous stars.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.8
TRANSLATION
My dear King, the body of the śiśumāra, as thus described, should be considered the external form of Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Morning, noon and evening, one should silently observe the form of the Lord as the Śiśumāra-cakra and worship Him with this mantra: "O Lord who has assumed the form of time! O resting place of all the planets moving in different orbits! O master of all demigods, O Supreme Person, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You and meditate upon You."
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.23.9
TRANSLATION
The body of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, which forms the Śiśumāra-cakra, is the resting place of all the demigods and all the stars and planets. One who chants this mantra to worship that Supreme Person three times a day — morning, noon and evening — will surely be freed from all sinful reactions. If one simply offers his obeisances to this form or remembers this form three times a day, all his recent sinful activities will be destroyed.
PURPORT
Summarizing the entire description of the planetary systems of the universe, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that one who is able to meditate upon this arrangement as the virāṭ-rūpa, or viśva-rūpa, the external body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and worship Him three times a day by meditation will always be free from all sinful reactions. Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura estimates that Dhruvaloka, the polestar, is 3,800,000 yojanas above the sun.
Above Dhruvaloka by 10,000,000 yojanas is Maharloka, above Maharloka by 20,000,000 yojanas is Janaloka, above Janaloka by 80,000,000 yojanas is Tapoloka, and above Tapoloka by 120,000,000 yojanas is Satyaloka. Thus the distance from the sun to Satyaloka is 233,800,000 yojanas, or 1,870,400,000 miles. The Vaikuṇṭha planets begin 26,200,000 yojanas (209,600,000 miles) above Satyaloka. Thus the Viṣṇu Purāṇa describes that the covering of the universe is 260,000,000 yojanas (2,080,000,000 miles) away from the sun.
The distance from the sun to the earth is lower planetary systems called Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talātala, Mahātala, Rasātala and Pātāla. Below these lower planets by 30,000 yojanas, Śeṣa Nāga is lying on the Garbhodaka Ocean. That ocean is 249,800,000 yojanas deep. Thus the total diameter of the universe is approximately 500,000,000 yojanas, or 4,000,000,000 miles.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to the Fifth Canto, Twenty-third Chapter of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "The Śiśumāra planetary System."

Gravity force or Air Power? Sri Bhagvat Puran

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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 Chapter 23
TEXT 3
TRANSLATION
When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper positions—one bull being closest to the post, another in the middle, and a third on the outside.
Similarly, all the planets and all the hundreds and thousands of stars revolve around the polestar, the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, in their respective orbits, some higher and some lower.
Fastened by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the machine of material nature according to the results of their fruitive acts, they are driven around the polestar by the wind and will continue to be so until the end of creation.
These planets float in the air within the vast sky, just as clouds with hundreds of tons of water float in the air or as the great śyena eagles, due to the results of past activities, fly high in the sky and have no chance of falling to the ground.
PURPORT
According to the description of this verse, the hundreds and thousands of stars and the great planets such as the sun, the moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter are NOT clustered together because of the law of gravity or any similar idea of the modern scientists.
These planets and stars are all servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda or Kṛṣṇa, and according to His order they sit in their chariots and travel in their respective orbits.
The orbits in which they move are compared to machines given by material nature to the operating deities of the stars and planets, who carry out the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by revolving around Dhruvaloka, which is occupied by the great devotee Mahārāja Dhruva. This is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.52) as follows:
yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇāṁ
rājā samasta-sura-mūrtir aśeṣa-tejāḥ
yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakro
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, under whose control even the sun, which is considered to be the eye of the Lord, rotates within the fixed orbit of eternal time. The sun is the king of all planetary systems and has unlimited potency in heat and light.”
This verse from Brahma-saṁhitā confirms that even the largest and most powerful planet, the sun, rotates within a fixed orbit, or kāla-cakra, in obedience to the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
This has nothing to do with gravity or any other imaginary laws created by the material scientists.
Material scientists want to avoid the ruling government of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore they imagine different conditions under which they suppose the planets move. The only condition, however, is the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
All the various predominating deities of the planets are persons, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is also a person. The Supreme Personality orders the subordinate persons, the demigods of various names, to carry out His supreme will. This fact is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (9.10), wherein Kṛṣṇa says:
mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ
sūyate sa-carācaram
hetunānena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate
“This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.”
The orbits of the planets resemble the bodies in which all living entities are seated because they are both machines controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (18.61):
īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
hṛd-deśe ’rjuna tiṣṭhati
bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni
yantrārūḍhāni māyayā
“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.”
The machine given by material nature—whether the machine of the body or the machine of the orbit, or kāla-cakra—works according to the orders given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Personality of Godhead and material nature work together to maintain this great universe, and not only this universe but also the millions of other universes beyond this one.
The question of how the planets and stars are floating is also answered in this verse. It is not because of the laws of gravity. Rather, the planets and stars are enabled to float by manipulations of the air.
It is due to such manipulations that big, heavy clouds float and big eagles fly in the sky. Modern airplanes like the 747 jet aircraft work in a similar way: by controlling the air, they float high in the sky, resisting the tendency to fall to earth.
Such adjustments of the air are all made possible by the cooperation of the principles of puruṣa (male) and prakṛti (female). By the cooperation of material nature, which is considered to be prakṛti, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is considered the puruṣa, all the affairs of the universe are going on nicely in their proper order. prakṛti, material nature, is also described in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.44) as follows:
sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā
chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgā
icchānurūpam api yasya ca ceṣṭate sā
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
“The external potency, māyā, who is of the nature of the shadow of the cit [spiritual] potency, is worshiped by all people as Durgā, the creating, preserving and destroying agency of this mundane world.
I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, in accordance with whose will Durgā conducts herself.” Material nature, the external energy of the Supreme Lord, is also known as Durgā, or the female energy that protects the great fort of this universe. The word Durgā also means fort.
This universe is just like a great fort in which all the conditioned souls are kept, and they cannot leave it unless they are liberated by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord Himself declares in Bhagavad-gītā (4.9):
janma karma ca me divyam
evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti so ’rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” Thus simply by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can be liberated, or, in other words, one can be released from the great fort of this universe and go outside it to the spiritual world.
It is also significant that the predominating deities of even the greatest planets have been offered their exalted posts because of the very valuable pious activities they performed in previous births. This is indicated herein by the words karma-nirmita-gatayaḥ.
For example, as we have previously discussed, the moon is called jīva, which means that he is a living entity like us, but because of his pious activities he has been appointed to his post as the moon-god. Similarly, all the demigods are living entities who have been appointed to their various posts as the masters of the moon, the earth, Venus and so on because of their great service and pious acts.
Only the predominating deity of the sun, Sūrya Nārāyaṇa, is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Mahārāja Dhruva, the predominating deity of Dhruvaloka, is also a living entity. Thus there are two kinds of entities—the supreme entity, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the ordinary living entity, the jīva (nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām).
All the demigods are engaged in the service of the Lord, and only by such an arrangement are the affairs of the universe going on.
Regarding the great eagles mentioned in this verse, it is understood that there are eagles so big that they can prey on big elephants. They fly so high that they can travel from one planet to another.
They start flying in one planet and land in another, and while in flight they lay eggs that hatch into other birds while falling through the air. In Sanskrit such eagles are called śyena. Under the present circumstances, of course, we cannot see such huge birds, but at least we know of eagles that can capture monkeys and then throw them down to kill and eat them. Similarly, it is understood that there are gigantic birds that can carry off elephants, kill them and eat them.
The two examples of the eagle and the cloud are sufficient to prove that flying and floating can be made possible through adjustments of the air. The planets, in a similar way, are floating because material nature adjusts the air according to the orders of the Supreme Lord.
It could be said that these adjustments constitute the law of gravity, but in any case, one must accept that these laws are made by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The so-called scientists have no control over them. The scientists can falsely, improperly declare that there is no God, but this is not a fact.
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Sun movement per Ancient Indian Bhagvat Purana


Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “The Movements of the Sun.”
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While west found out sun movements in 1600 BC, Ancient India knew about Sun motion Millions of years ago per Bhagvat Puran-
It is the Sun that actually moves across the sky
In the midst of that region of outer space [antarikṣa] is the most opulent sun, the king of all the planets that emanate heat, such as the moon.
By the influence of its radiation, the sun heats the universe and maintains its proper order. It also gives light to help all living entities see.
While passing toward the north, toward the south or through the equator, in accordance with the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is said to move slowly, swiftly or moderately.
According to its movements in rising above, going beneath or passing through the equator — and correspondingly coming in touch with various signs of the zodiac, headed by Makara [Capricorn] — days and nights are short, long or equal to one another.
The Movements of the Sun
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 Chapter 21: The Movements of the Sun text 1 to text 19 by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This chapter informs us of the movements of the sun.
The sun is not stationary; it is also moving like the other planets. The sun’s movements determine the duration of night and day. When the sun travels north of the equator, it moves slowly during the day and very quickly at night, thus increasing the duration of the daytime and decreasing the duration of night.
Similarly, when the sun travels south of the equator, the exact opposite is true — the duration of the day decreases, and the duration of night increases.
When the sun enters Karkaṭa-rāśi (Cancer) and then travels to Siṁha-rāśi (Leo) and so on through Dhanuḥ-rāśi (Sagittarius), its course is called Dakṣiṇāyana, the southern way, and when the sun enters Makara-rāśi (Capricorn) and thereafter travels through Kumbharāśi (Aquarius) and so on through Mithuna-rāśi (Gemini), its course is called Uttarāyaṇa, the northern way. When the sun is in Meṣa-rāśi (Aries) and Tulā-rāśi (Libra), the duration of day and night are equal.
On Mānasottara Mountain are the abodes of four demigods. East of Sumeru Mountain is Devadhānī, where King Indra lives, and south of Sumeru is Saṁyamanī, the abode of Yamarāja, the superintendent of death. Similarly, west of Sumeru is Nimlocanī, the abode of Varuṇa, the demigod who controls the water, and north of Sumeru is Vibhāvarī, where the demigod of the moon lives.
Sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight occur in all these places because of the movements of the sun. Diametrically opposite the place where the sunrise takes places and the sun is seen by human eyes, the sun will be setting and passing away from human vision.
Similarly, the people residing diametrically opposite the point where it is midday will be experiencing midnight. The sun rises and sets with all the other planets, headed by the moon and other luminaries.
The entire kāla-cakra, or wheel of time, is established on the wheel of the sun-god’s chariot. This wheel is known as Saṁvatsara. The seven horses pulling the chariot of the sun are known as Gāyatrī, Bṛhatī, Uṣṇik, Jagatī, Triṣṭup, Anuṣṭup and Paṅkti. They are harnessed by a demigod known as Aruṇadeva to a yoke 900,000 yojanas wide. Thus the chariot carries Ādityadeva, the sun-god.
Always staying in front of the sun-god and offering their prayers are sixty thousand sages known as Vālikhilyas. There are fourteen Gandharvas, Apsarās and other demigods, who are divided into seven parties and who perform ritualistic activities every month to worship the Supersoul through the sun-god according to different names. Thus the sun-god travels through the universe for a distance of 95,100,000 yojanas (760,800,000 miles) at a speed of 16,004 miles at every moment.
SB 5.21.1
Translation:
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, I have thus far described the diameter of the universe [fifty crores of yojanas, or four billion miles] and its general characteristics, according to the estimations of learned scholars.
SB 5.21.2
Translation:
As a grain of wheat is divided into two parts and one can estimate the size of the upper part by knowing that of the lower, so, expert geographers instruct, one can understand the measurements of the upper part of the universe by knowing those of the lower part. The sky between the earthly sphere and heavenly sphere is called antarikṣa, or outer space. It adjoins the top of the sphere of earth and the bottom of that of heaven.
SB 5.21.3
Translation:
In the midst of that region of outer space [antarikṣa] is the most opulent sun, the king of all the planets that emanate heat, such as the moon.
By the influence of its radiation, the sun heats the universe and maintains its proper order. It also gives light to help all living entities see.
While passing toward the north, toward the south or through the equator, in accordance with the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is said to move slowly, swiftly or moderately.
According to its movements in rising above, going beneath or passing through the equator — and correspondingly coming in touch with various signs of the zodiac, headed by Makara [Capricorn] — days and nights are short, long or equal to one another.
Purport:
Lord Brahmā prays in his Brahma-saṁhitā (5.52):
yac cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇāṁ
rājā samasta-sura-mūrtir aśeṣa-tejāḥ
yasyājñayā bhramati saṁbhṛta-kāla-cakro
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead under whose control even the sun, which is considered to be the eye of the Lord, rotates within the fixed orbit of eternal time. The sun is the king of all planetary systems and has unlimited potency in heat and light.” Although the sun is described as bhagavān, the most powerful, and although it is actually the most powerful planet within the universe, it nevertheless has to carry out the order of Govinda, Kṛṣṇa.
The sun-god cannot deviate even an inch from the orbit designated to him. Therefore in every sphere of life, the supreme order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is carried out. The entire material nature carries out His orders.
However, we foolishly see the activities of material nature without understanding the supreme order and Supreme Person behind them. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ: material nature carries out the orders of the Lord, and thus everything is maintained in an orderly way.
SB 5.21.4
Translation:
When the sun passes through Meṣa [Aries] and Tulā [Libra], the durations of day and night are equal. When it passes through the five signs headed by Vṛṣabha [Taurus], the duration of the days increases [until Cancer], and then it gradually decreases by half an hour each month, until day and night again become equal [in Libra].
SB 5.21.5
Translation:
When the sun passes through the five signs beginning with Vṛścika [Scorpio], the duration of the days decreases [until Capricorn], and then gradually it increases month after month, until day and night become equal [in Aries].
SB 5.21.6
Translation:
Until the sun travels to the south the days grow longer, and until it travels to the north the nights grow longer.
SB 5.21.7
Translation:
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued; My dear King, as stated before, the learned say that the sun travels over all sides of Mānasottara Mountain in a circle whose length is 95,100,000 yojanas [760,800,000 miles]. On Mānasottara Mountain, due east of Mount Sumeru, is a place known as Devadhānī, possessed by King Indra.
Similarly, in the south is a place known as Saṁyamanī, possessed by Yamarāja, in the west is a place known as Nimlocanī, possessed by Varuṇa, and in the north is a place named Vibhāvarī, possessed by the moon-god. Sunrise, midday, sunset and midnight occur in all those places according to specific times, thus engaging all living entities in their various occupational duties and also making them cease such duties.
SB 5.21.8-9
Translation:
The living entities residing on Sumeru Mountain are always very warm, as at midday, because for them the sun is always overhead. Although the sun moves counterclockwise, facing the constellations, with Sumeru Mountain on its left, it also moves clockwise and appears to have the mountain on its right because it is influenced by the dakṣiṇāvarta wind.
People living in countries at points diametrically opposite to where the sun is first seen rising will see the sun setting, and if a straight line were drawn from a point where the sun is at midday, the people in countries at the opposite end of the line would be experiencing midnight. Similarly, if people residing where the sun is setting were to go to countries diametrically opposite, they would not see the sun in the same condition.
SB 5.21.10
Translation:
When the sun travels from Devadhānī, the residence of Indra, to Saṁyamanī, the residence of Yamarāja, it travels 23,775,000 yojanas [190,200,000 miles] in fifteen ghaṭikās [six hours].
Purport:
The distance indicated by the word sādhikāni is pañca-viṁśati-sahasrādhikāni, or 25,000 yojanas. That plus two and a half crores and twelve and a half lakṣa of yojanas is the distance the sun travels between each two cities. This comes to 23,775,000 yojanas, or 190,200,000 miles. The total orbit of the sun is four times that distance, or 95,100,000 yojanas (760,800,000 miles).
SB 5.21.11
Translation:
From the residence of Yamarāja the sun travels to Nimlocanī, the residence of Varuṇa, from there to Vibhāvarī, the residence of the moon-god, and from there again to the residence of Indra. In a similar way, the moon, along with the other stars and planets, becomes visible in the celestial sphere and then sets and again becomes invisible.
Purport:
In Bhagavad-gītā (10.21) Kṛṣṇa says, nakṣatrāṇām ahaṁ śaśī: “Of stars I am the moon.” This indicates that the moon is similar to the other stars. The Vedic literature informs us that within this universe there is one sun, which is moving. The Western theory that all the luminaries in the sky are different suns is not confirmed in the Vedic literature.
Nor can we assume that these luminaries are the suns of other universes, for each universe is covered by various layers of material elements, and therefore although the universes are clustered together, we cannot see from one universe to another. In other words, whatever we see is within this one universe. In each universe there is one Lord Brahmā, and there are other demigods on other planets, but there is only one sun.
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 Chapter 21 text 12 to text 19 by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
SB 5.21.12
Translation:
Thus the chariot of the sun-god, which is trayīmaya, or worshiped by the words om bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ, travels through the four residences mentioned above at a speed of 3,400,800 yojanas [27,206,400 miles] in a muhūrta.
SB 5.21.13
Translation:
The chariot of the sun-god has only one wheel, which is known as Saṁvatsara. The twelve months are calculated to be its twelve spokes, the six seasons are the sections of its rim, and the three cātur-māsya periods are its three-sectioned hub. One side of the axle carrying the wheel rests upon the summit of Mount Sumeru, and the other rests upon Mānasottara Mountain. Affixed to the outer end of the axle, the wheel continuously rotates on Mānasottara Mountain like the wheel of an oil-pressing machine.
SB 5.21.14
Translation:
As in an oil-pressing machine, this first axle is attached to a second axle, which is one-fourth as long [3,937,500 yojanas, or 31,500,000 miles]. The upper end of this second axle is attached to Dhruvaloka by a rope of wind.
SB 5.21.15
Translation:
My dear King, the carriage of the sun-god’s chariot is estimated to be 3,600,000 yojanas [28,800,000 miles] long and one-fourth as wide [900,000 yojanas, or 7,200,000 miles]. The chariot’s horses, which are named after Gāyatrī and other Vedic meters, are harnessed by Aruṇadeva to a yoke that is also 900,000 yojanas wide. This chariot continuously carries the sun-god.
Purport:
In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa it is stated:
gāyatrī ca bṛhaty uṣṇig
jagatī triṣṭup eva ca
anuṣṭup paṅktir ity uktāś
chandāṁsi harayo raveḥ
The seven horses yoked to the sun-god’s chariot are named Gāyatrī, Bṛhati, Uṣṇik, Jagatī, Triṣṭup, Anuṣṭup and Paṅkti. These names of various Vedic meters designate the seven horses that carry the sun-god’s chariot.
SB 5.21.16
Translation:
Although Aruṇadeva sits in front of the sun-god and is engaged in driving the chariot and controlling the horses, he looks backward toward the sun-god.
Purport:
In the Vāyu Purāṇa the position of the horses is described:
saptāśva-rūpa-cchandāṁsī
vahante vāmato ravim
cakra-pakṣa-nibaddhāni
cakre vākṣaḥ samāhitaḥ
Although Aruṇadeva is in the front seat, controlling the horses, he looks back toward the sun-god from his left side.
SB 5.21.17
Translation:
There are sixty thousand saintly persons named Vālikhilyas, each the size of a thumb, who are located in front of the sun-god and who offer him eloquent prayers of glorification.
SB 5.21.18
Translation:
Similarly, fourteen other saints, Gandharvas, Apsarās, Nāgas, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas and demigods, who are divided into groups of two, assume different names every month and continuously perform different ritualistic ceremonies to worship the Supreme Lord as the most powerful demigod Sūryadeva, who holds many names.
Purport:
In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa it is said:
stuvanti munayaḥ sūryaṁ
gandharvair gīyate puraḥ
nṛtyanto ’psaraso yānti
sūryasyānu niśācarāḥ
vahanti pannagā yakṣaiḥ
kriyate ’bhiṣusaṅgrahaḥ
vālikhilyās tathaivainaṁ
parivārya samāsate
so ’yaṁ sapta-gaṇaḥ sūrya-
maṇḍale muni-sattama
himoṣṇa vāri-vṛṣṭīṇāṁ
hetutve samayaṁ gataḥ
Worshiping the most powerful demigod Sūrya, the Gandharvas sing in front of him, the Apsarās dance before the chariot, the Niśācaras follow the chariot, the Pannagas decorate the chariot, the Yakṣas guard the chariot, and the saints called the Vālikhilyas surround the sun-god and offer prayers. The seven groups of fourteen associates arrange the proper times for regular snow, heat and rain throughout the universe.
SB 5.21.19
Translation:
My dear King, in his orbit through Bhū-maṇḍala, the sun-god traverses a distance of 95,100,000 yojanas [760,800,000 miles] at the speed of 2,000 yojanas and two krośas [16,004 miles] in a moment.
Purport:
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Twenty-first Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “The Movements of the Sun.”

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Sri Rama connection with South Korea

As per the history, around 2000 years ago, Indian princess - Suriratna from Ayodhya travelled to South Korea and married a Korean King - Kim Suro. The story goes that Suriratna, a princess of Ayodhya, journeyed with her brother to Kimhae in what is now Korea in 48 AD to marry a king there after gods appeared to her father in a dream. The princess, renamed Huh Hwang after her marriage to King Suro, had 10 children and established the Kim or Karak clan.
The clan today has around 6 million members in South Korea — 12% of the country's population — and includes former president Kim Dae Jung; former prime ministers Heo Jeong and Kim Jong-pil; Kim Yoon-ok, the wife of former president Lee Myung-bak; and the Korean ambassador to New Delhi, Joon-gyu Lee.
When some members of the Korean clan read about the legend in Samguk Yusa, an 11th century Chinese-language memoir of the three kingdoms in Korea, they decided to explore the connection. In the late 1990s they got in touch with the Ayodhya administration and with Bimlendra Pratap Mohan Mishra, a descendant of Ayodhya's erstwhile royal family.
Interestingly, Queen Huh's tomb in South Korea has a pagoda in frontage, which is built with stones and believed to have brought from Ayodhya.
On the other hand, a monument has been built in memory of Hwang Huh on the picturesque banks of river Saryu in Ayodhya. Built in Korean tradition, the monument has a three-metre high stone weighing 7,500 kg.
How PM Modi invoked 'Lord Rama' to strengthen ties with South Korea
Revival of this unique cultural connection between the two countries, while Indian Première Narendra Modi is on visit to South Korea, can help forge stronger diplomatic as well as economic relations.
Bimlendra Pratap Mohan Mishra, a descendant of Ayodhya's royal family, meets with Kim clan members.
But the clan had done its homework and was convinced that the queen migrated from Rama's capital. Besides documentary proof, it had two other pieces of evidence that pointed toward Ayodhya. First, the queen carried stones with her to balance her ship. These stones are not found in Korea and date back to India.
Second, the dynasty of the queen and king had a pair of fish as its symbol. Mishra's forefathers had the same emblem and you can see the image of the fish pair on several ancient structures in and around Ayodhya. It is considered a good omen.
The Korean clan constructed a memorial for the queen in Ayodhya in 2010 and members now visit the site in March of every year to pay homage to their "great-great grandmother". Kimhae, located in the southern part of Korea with a population of around 520,000, established a sister-city association with Ayodhya in 2010.
The memorial to Queen Huh in Kimhae.
A delegation comprising prominent people including Bimlendra Pratap Mohan Mishra from Ayodhya has even visited Kimhae at the invitation of the clan. But Mishra said previous Indian and Korean governments never pursued the connection seriously in the context of economic and cultural ties.
However, the new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen on using the link to bolster ties between Seoul and New Delhi. It has already offered to renovate Queen Huh's memorial in Kimhae City.
The government of Uttar Pradesh state, meanwhile, has been persuaded by Delhi to refurbish the queen's memorial and other historic monuments in Ayodhya at a cost of around 60 million rupees. It is also in the process of beautifying the park where the memorial stands.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav recently met Hyeon Dong-hwa, who has lived in India since 1954 and has been associated with the Korean clan's work in Ayodhya since the beginning.
Hyeon feels apart from the Ayodhya legend, Buddhism has potential to bring India and Korea closer. He wants India, Korea and Thailand to develop an axis as Ashoka, a king from India, in the third century BC sent monks to Korea as well as Thailand to promote Buddhism.
In Uttar Pradesh, meanwhile, chief minister Yadav has also invited the president of the Karak Clan Society to visit the state. As well, he wants to use the connection to woo Korean investment to his state, particularly in Noida, a city adjoining New Delhi.
Ambassador Lee frequently invokes the "Korean-Indian" parentage of his forefathers to further his country's interests in New Delhi. Last month, he took a 60-member delegation of Korean entrepreneurs to Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Modi, to explore increased Korean investment there.
Addressing a Korea-Gujarat friendship forum, the ambassador traced his lineage to Ayodhya, saying that one quarter of all Koreans were descendants of the Korean-Indian couple.
Last month, two Korean warships docked for four days in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The ships Choi Young and Cheonji were believed to have followed the route taken by the Ayodhya princess.
source-http://www.indiatvnews.com/politics/national/modi-lord-rama-ayodhya-connection-south-korea-29350.html
http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/454401/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Prasad-finds-clues-to-promote-Ayodhya-in-Korean-history/articleshow/44928969.cms
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/india-south-korea-to-upgrade-monument-for-queen-suriratna-hur-hwang-ok-in-ayodhya-115051801084_1.html

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Udasi-A sect of Sikkhism -reverses Guru Nanak Dev's teachings.

Udasi is a religious, ascetic, monastic, Hindusadhu sect that reveres some of the teachings of Sikhism, but is primarily focused on the teachings of its founder, Sri Chand(1494–1643), the son of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder and the first Guru of Sikhism.
Udasi Sadhus practice the ways of sanathan dharma or the saintly way, follow five Hindu gods known as pancha-devata, namely these are Ganesha, Devi, Shiva, Surya and Vishnuand perform rituals known as panch prakarti puja or natural rituals encompassing the five elements of water, fire, earth, air and sky.
Udasi comes from the root word udas which means detachment or renunciation. Udasi Sadhus are well known for having long matted dreadlocks in emulation of Lord Shiva and in keeping with the philosophy of not cutting one's hair. However during certain cleansing rituals or initiations they are known to shave all hair from their face and head, known as a munda. Udasis are limited to robes of red, white, black or a tobacco like orange color, while others go naga style covered in the ashes of their dhuni, near naked wearing only a red loincloth as their founder Sri Chand was famed for.
Udasi writers, like Anand Ghan, have written unfounded commentaries on portions of theSikh scripture, along with Janamsakhis andgur-bilas works.

During the 17th century, Udasis escaped persecution by the Mughal Empire, as they look different from Khalsa Sikh and Akalis, in whose absence the Udasis continued the daily rituals and readings of the Guru Granth Sahib in the Sikh places of worship, while the Sikhs were away fighting. However, one Udasi tall tale tells that when the Mughals came to Sri Chand's camp in Kashmir for his submission, Sri Chand took a burning log from his fire and slammed it into the ground while incanting a mantra, the log immediately sprouted into a growing tree at which the Mughals left Sri Chand and the Udasis be.
At one point in history (approximately 1849), there were more than 250 Udasi akharas in India.
During the Gurdwara Reform Movement of the early 1920s, Udasis forced out of the Sikh historical shrines for their heretical teachings and practices. There are presently far fewer Udasis than there were prior to the Gurudwara Reform Movement.
Traditionally, there were four Udasi centres (akharas or dhuans) with each controlling a certain preaching area; eastern India (main centre, Nanakmatta), western Panjab andKashmir, Malwa (Punjab) and Doaba. There is an Udasi gurudwara (temple) in Amritsar, near the Harimandir Sahib (Golden Temple).
Today's Udasi are predominantly located in northwestern India especially around Punjab,Haryana Gujarat and cities like Haridwar and New Delhi ,they are divided into three major group:
Niya (New) Udasi Panchayati Akarda
Bara (Big) Udasi Panchayati Akarda
Nirmal Udasi Panachayati Akarda
Where the panch or five in Panchayatioriginates, the Panchadevas

Friday, May 15, 2015

There Were Giants on the Earth


There Were Giants on the Earth



(From Various Scources)

In the Joseph Smith translation of Genesis 6:4 it says “And in those days there were

Giants on the earth and they sought Noah to take away his life.”

From Forrgotten Ages published by Dr J. R. Jochmans

Other Giant remains, from historic rather than prehistoric times, have been brought to

light on practically every continent. In 1928, workmen blasting a tunnel in the Andes Mountains

for the Ecuador Central Railroad, suddenly opened an entrance to a buried cavern. Inside, the

amazed workers gawked at stone coffins containing the skeletons of several eight-foot and ninefoot

giants, The bones were forwarded to a university--and disappeared. About the same time, a

human skeleton 17 feet tall was unearthed at Gargayan in the Philippines, and other specimens--

13 feet in size--made their appearance in Ceylon. In 1960, at Tura in southwest Assam state in

India--near the border or Bangladesh--a crew was digging a foundation for a new building on a

college campus, when their shovels came upon a curious mound of stones less than four feet

below the surface. Removing the stones, the Indians exposed the remains of an 11-foot man.

Conservative scholars were quick to dismiss the skeleton as being that of a large ape—a

consensus formed without even examining the bones, Those who did see the remains, however,

identified them as unquestionaly human. What is more, buried with the giant were charcoal bits,

flints, and a metal bowl. As one witness remarked, “I've never known these objects to be buried

with an ape.”

In 1969, construction workers excavating a site for a factory near Terracina, sixty miles

from Rome, bulldozed into a pit containing a row of fifty tiled coffins. Each coffin contained a

skeleton, all of which were between 6 and a half and 8 feet tall. State archaeologist Dr. Luigi

Cavallucci, who analyzed the find, noted that the bones were remarkably well preserved, and all

the specimens had been males, and in their forties when they died. The conservative suggestion

that was that this had been A group of special Roman legionaries, chosen for their height. But

there were a number of problems with this theory: First, the skeletons were not abnormally tall,

due to pituitary overgrowth; rather, the bones were well proportioned and healthy--meaning they

belonged to a truly giant race, and not of short Roman stock. Second, no Latin inscriptions were

found with the remains to date them to the Roman period. In fact, no inscriptions were dug up

whatsoever, leaving the age of the remains very much in question. And third, as researcher John

T. Battle noted: “Roman soldiers were buried with their uniforms, armor, and weapons. Their

military trappings were placed beside them in their coffins. But there was nothing in these

coffins except the bones.”

Without a doubt the highest concentration of giant bones and giant artifacts are to be

foundin North America--which sheds light on a peculiar aspect of the forgotten history of this

continent. The Desert Weekly of Salt Lake City, Utah, reported in the issue or March 14, 1891, a

discovery made by workmen digging the foundation of a new hotel in Crittendon, Arizona—

about 50 miles southeast of Tucson. Eight feet below the surface the workers came upon a large

hardened clay sarcophagus and, prying the lid open, they found a granite case containing

the skeleton of a man 12 feet tall. The unknown giant had had long hair, and wore a bird-shaped

headdress. Unfortunately, by the time investigators arrived to examine the find, the bones had

crumbled to dust. About that same time and in the same area--in an abandoned Indian cliff

dwelling south of Winslow, Arizona a cowboy came upon an enormous human skull. Author

Jesse J. Benton, who recorded the incident in his book Cows By the Trail1 tells how the

cowhand put his own normal-sized stetson on the giant skull--and, in comparison, he reported, it

•looed like one of those tiny hats that merrymakers wear on New Year's.

In neighboring Nevada, a number of giant remains have been discovered in and around

Lovelock Cave near Lovelock, eighty miles northeast of Reno. In 1911 a guano mining

operation began unearthing large bones and mummies of several

individuals who had once stood between 6 and 1/2 and 9 feet in height. John T. Reid,

ore of the mining engineers and also an amateur archaeologist, attempted to get professors from

the University of California to see the strange remains. Finally one did arrive, accompanied by

another •authority" from New York. The two

gathered potsherds and basketry, and later published an article on these—but they would not have

a thing to do with the "nonconformist" giant bones. In 1931

more skeletons--this time 8 feet and 10 feet long--were brought to light from the Humbo1dt lake

bed near the Lovelock Cave. These had been bandaged in a gum. covered cloth, like Egyptian

mummies. And in 1939, still another specimen, this one 7 feet 7 inches, was discovered on the

Friedman Ranch near Lovelock itself.

Tragically , while various findings were all well-documented, the bones themselves were either

eventually thrown away or in one case, a collection was destroyed by fire. Today, only a handful

of the bones are kept by a private museum in Winnemucca.

In the mid-west and east many more titan remains have made unexpected appearances.

From a mound 71 feet and diameter and about 4 feet high located 'Brewersville, Indiana, a

number of investigators uncovered in 1879 a number of skeletons, one of which was 9 feet 8

inches long. A necklace of mica was strung about his neck, and at his feet a human figure of

fired clay imbedded with piece of flint had been placed. Flints and axes also buried with the

bones were determined by the Indiana State Historical Society to be unlike any of those of the

Indians in that area. These remains, however, were lost in a flood in 1937. About that same time,

in Ohio, the American Antiquarian (volume 18, page 60) reported that another mound had

produced a copper axe 22 inches long--and weighed 38 pounds. In l925 at Walkerton--20 miles

southwest of South Bend, Indiana--a group of amateur archaeologists opened still another mound,

this one containing eight skeletons from 8 to 9 feet tall, wearing heavy copper armor. The bones

and artifacts were unfortunately scattered and lost.

In the New England states, the 1880's saw the discovery of several gargantuan finds.

During construction of a rail link between Cazenovia and Canastota, New York. five skeletons

were unearthed, one of which was more than 11 feet long. Near Tioga Point, Pennsylvania, a

team of antiquarians dug into yet another mystery

mound. Among the team were state historian Dr. 0. P. Donehue, professor A. B. Skinner of the

American Investigating Museum, and Professor W. K. Morehead of Phillips Andover Academy.

The astounded experts uncovered the bones of 68 men none of which were less than 7 feet tail.

The remains were promptly sent to the American Investigating Museum in Philadelphia--and just

as promptly lost. In 1886, an amateur archaeologist named W. N. Scovill probed into another

mound at nearby Ellishurg, and found bones of a man almost 8 feet tall.

By far the highest number of giant remains for one area have been

Unearthed in Minnesoata. Again, the decade of the 1880's was the time when most of the

significant finds were made: The St Paul Pioneer Press on June 29, 1885 reported that mounds

located west of Chatfield yielded six skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall, all with receding foreheads. Other

men of the 8-foot category were unearthed by workers clearing ancient mounds to make way for

expansion of a brick factory in Dresbach. These bones were so old that they crumbled to dust on

exposure to air. At Clearwater, more mounds yielded up more giant skeletons, with receding

foreheads and buried upside down. At La Crescent, mounds contained titan bones, with huge, flat

cooking pans. The American Anthropologist, no. 5, vol. 8, p.229 described a stone axe head

discovered "with the pointed end embedded in the soil at Birchwood”, It was exhibited in the

collection of the Missouri Historical Society, which found the axe to be 28 inches long, 14 inohes

wide, and 11 inches thick. The problem was--it weighed 300 pounds. In August, 1896,

the St. Paul Globe published an account of the findings of a 9-foot skeleton on a farm near Lake

Koronis. The bones of 7-foot men turned up near Moose Island Lake, while a gravesite at Pine

City brought to light seven more gargantuan skeletal frames. In 1882, a mound near Warren

produced ten giant skeletons, as well as an added mystery: the bones of horses, animals which

were not supposed to be found in America until after the advent or the Spanish in the sixteenth

century...,.

Why have so many giant remains been found in Wisconsin? It is noteworthy that the

Sioux Indians have legends which claim that ages ago their forefathers slaughtered a race of

giants in a battle in Minnesota. In fact many Indian legends throughout America recount how,

before their people inhabited this land, a race of giants lived here, whom the Indians

overwhelmed and wiped out in a war of genocide. Surprisingly, the Indian stories find

confirmation in Greek, Hindu, Chinese and Incan literature.

Did a Giant Race Once Inhabit North America?

In 1833 a work party of soldiers was ordered to dig a foundation for a powder magazine at an

army outpost on Lompock Ranchero, in California. Their spades barely broke the surface when

suddenly the soldiers came upon a layer of carefully placed stone and gravel. Breaking through

this with bars and picks, the workers came upon an astounding sight. Below was a stone coffin

surrounded by carved shells, a massive stone axe, large flint spear points, and several tablets of

porphyry covered with an unknown script. But what the soldiers could not believe is what was

lying in the coffin: the skeleton of a man who in life would have stood over 12 feet tall. A priest

from a local Spanish mission was summoned by the commanding officer, to see if he could read

the stones with writing, and determine the giant's origin. Though versed in several European

languages and Church Latin, the padre found the script alien, and could only repeat the Bible

passages concerning the days of old when "giants were in the earth" when he examined the

bones. The Indians in a nearby settlement, however, heard of the find, and the shaman or

•medicine man" of the tribe solved the mystery of the giant's origin. The bones, he said, were that

of an alhegewi, a race of titans who according to their legends had occupied the land before the

Indians, and who the Indians wiped out in a war of extermination. The shaman demanded that the

bones be turned over to his tribe, for the spirit of great strength and cunning were still in them, to

be worshipped and rekindled by hispeople. But a potential uprising was the last thing the

commander of the outpost wanted, so--as one of the officers who witnessed the events later

recorded—the commander gave the bones and artifacts to the priest at the local mission, and he

reburied them in a secret place. They have yet to be rediscovered today.....

The Indian legend which the shaman told is not just an isolated story, but is a tradition

found among many Indian nations across North America. The Piutes of Nevada still speak today

with strong distaste about a race of red-haired giants called by them the Sitecah, with whom their

forefathers once fought. Finding no land to expand for their people, and constantly harassed by

roving bands of these giants, the Piute of long ago allied with other intermountain tribes, and

attacked the Sitecah. A long and bloody war ensued, with great casualties on both sides.

Eventually the large numbers of Indians outweighed the superior strength and cunning of the

giants, and the Sitecan were driven into the Pit River area near Shasta Lake and Mount Shasta--

where they disappeared from history.

Other Indian legends, of the mid-west and east, record a war of even greater intensity.

What is most interesting is that the Indians identify the ruins of the Mound Builders--those tens of

thousands of mysterious earthworks found scattered throughout the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio

river valleys, from Georgia to Minnesota and from Nebraska to West Virginia--as having

belonged to the giants. This contradicts modern conservative opinion which theorizes that the

mound constructions were done by the ancestors of the Indians themselves. Some Indians say

yes, their forefathers did indeed work on the earthworks--but as slaves to the giants, who were the

real masterminds, while other Indians, especially the Sioux, Deleware and Iroquois, claim it was

their ancestral peoples who defeated the giants and ended their mound-building projects. In fact

it has been in many of the ancient mounds found in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York and

Minnesota that giant skeletons and artifacts were unearthed. The

weight of evidence therefore points to the Indians' legends possessing the historical fact--not the

conservative theories.

According to the Indian accounts (as preserved in Volume 12 of Memoires of the

Historical Society of Pennsylvania , in the distant past the Deleware-Lenni-lenape peoples swept

in a flood of migration from the far west, but on reaching the valleys west of the Mississippi, they

were confronted by a well-entrenched people of tremendous stature and possessing a high

civilization. These people they called the "Allegewi" or "Telligewi"--much the same as given

to them by the California Indians, and after whom the Alleghany river and mountains were

named. The progress of the Deleware-Lenni-lenape was stopped, and they were driven back but

not discouraged. At the same time, the Iroquois people were trying to find a passage through

Allegewi territory, from the north. Two migratory peoples eventually entered into an alliance

together, and proclaimed war against the giants. One by one, the Allegewi strngholds

fell, and the giants were forced to become wanderers along the streams and river-systems they

had attempted to defend. Another tradition affirms that the primitive Indian invaders, because of

their great numbers, successfully overwhelmed the ancient gargantuan inhabitants of the northcentral

states, and that the last great battle in this area was fought at the falls of the Ohio river,

where the remnant was driven upon a small island below the rapids, and there the whole of them

cut to pieces. The Indian chief, Tobacco, informed General George Rogers Clark of a legend in

which was preserved the memory of a battle fought at Sandy Island, where “the first peoples of

this land" had been slaughtered. Another Indian chief, Cornplanter, told that Ohio, Kentucky and

Tennessee had once been inhabited by a gigantic white-skinned people, who were familiar with

the arts of civilization, which hi own forefathers knew nothing of. After a series of battles with

the invading tribes, these former inhabitants were completely exterminated. The chief also

declared that the old burial places--the mounds--were the graves of these indigenous giants, and

that the great earthen fortresses had not been constructed by his people, but belonged to the "very

long ago" people, who were huge, light-complexioned, and skilled in many arts. The Indians also

had a superstition concerning the territory of what is now Kentucky. One Indian elder

expressed his astonishment that present-day white folk would want to live in a region which had

been the scene of such conflicts as had taken place there. An old Sac Indian, in 1800, said that

Kentucky was filled with ghosts of its slaughtered giant inhabitants, and wondered why the white

man could make it his home.

When we look at the Mound Builder earthworks in the northern and central states, it is

interesting to note that they are mostly defense enclosures which, for the most part, face the north

and west--the directions the Indians claim their forefathers invaded from.....

The memory that North America was once inhabited by giants has

been preserved not only by the Indians, but also by ancient peoples in other parts of the world.

One of the oldest Chinese literary works, the Shan Hai King, the "Classic of Mountains and

Seas," a geography book dating back in its original form to 2250B.C. Recent analysis by experts

has brought to light the fact that portions of this early work give a detailed and highly accurate

description of the major mountains and rivers of North America--revealing that the ancient

Chinese once undertook a scientific survey of this continent over 4,000 years ago. In the Ninth

and Fourteenth Books of the Shan Hai King are fragments of observations made by the Oriental

survey team of the various people inhabiting America at that time. In the regions of the

"Southeast Corner to the Northeast Corner" (from Georgia to New England),as well as in the

"Great Waste" (the western and south-western deserts), the Chinese called the "Great Men's

Country." One of the surveyors, named Cheu-fu~Chang, found in the west not far from the

"Great Canyon Where the Sun is Born"--the Grand Canyon--a wooden arrow with a metal point”

6 ½ feet long. He calculated that its owner must have been 12 to 15 feet tall. A

footnote to this discovery, given in the Fourteenth Book, tells how ancient Japanese sailors once

encountered bad weather, and were driven onto the shores of the "Eastern Continent." There,

before their return home, they encountered "tall savages of a foreign tribe" more than 11 feet

high. Other early Chinese literature, such as Ho-tu's "Album of Gems" and the "Kuh-liang

History" speak of strange lands beyond the Pacific called Ta-tsin" and "Lin-t'ao," where men of

huge stature lived, leaving behind footprints many feet in size where they walked.

The giants of North America appear at one time to have been a restless,

warlike breed, for several ancient sources describe their invasions of other lands. The last

surviving Incan prince, and historian of his people, Garcilasco de la Vega, preserved the legend in

his multi-volume opus Commentaries Reales de los Incas, that Peru was once attacked by a

gigantic race from the North. He recounted that they first arrived by sea upon the northern

Peruvian coast in the Manta region: "The giant men were strange to behold; their

eyes were large, and their hair was worn long. They were. beardless and their skin was light.

A few of the giants wore animal skins for clothing; others walked the land without clothes. They

built a settlement near the sea, at a spot along the desert land of the Manta region. They dug

enormous wells." De la Vega further described how the giants, not finding enough to eat, began

raiding local villages and cities, killing and pillaging, and striking terror in everyone because of

their gigantic size. The Incan historian claimed that the giants were then struck dead from some

catastrophe originating in the sky--and that all that is left of their reign of terror are giant bones

scattered across the Peruvian countryside.....

The most detailed account of the American giants and their migrations comes to us from

the Greek Theopompus of Chios, a student of Plato. The Roman chronicler Aelian, in his Varia

Historia (c. A.D. 200) preserved portions of Theopompus' lost work Maropidae, written in 320

B.C. In this work, the Greek recorded a conversation between King Midas of Phrygia and the

satyr Silenos. Theopompus--through Silenos--repeated Plato's accurate observation in the

Timaeus and Critias that on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean from Europe is another land mass

which he called the "outer continent." Silenos then proceeded to describe the inhabitants and

nations of this distant western country: "The people are twice as tall as those common to our

climate (Europe), As a race they are called Merops, and occupy that portion of the continent

called Anostos ("no return"), its shores often covered by mist, and where the two rivers run

nearby, the River of Pleasure and that of Grief, The Merops giants have several large towns

governed according to their own customs. Among these are two which in no way resemble each

other. The first is Eusebius (the peaceful). The earth is so productive of its fruits that its peoples

need neither plows or oxen--it is unnecessary to sow or till the soil. The Eusebian giants die

happily and smiling. The second metropolis is Machimos (the warlike), and here the inhabitants--

numbering no less than two million--are very belligerent. They are always armed, always

fighting, and work unceasingly to conquer, expanding their frontiers, thanks to which they

command over several neighboring nations. Once, the Machimos giants desired to invade our

islands (Europe), and gathered together from among themselves and the other nations of the outer

continent they dominated a great hoste of ten million strong. They crossed the ocean,

arriving on the shores of the land of the Hyperboreans (Britain). But upon learning that the

Hyperboreans were the happiest of our nations, but which to their eyes was displeasing, the giants

continued no further in their invasions."

The details presented by Theopompus find several interesting parallels in other Greek

accounts. Homer, about 850 B.C., in his Odyssey, Book IX, described a land of gigantic

"Cyclops" strikingly similar to the description above:

"With heavy hearts we labor through the tide,

To coasts unknown and oceans yet untried.

The land of Cyclops first, a savage kind,

Nor tamed by manners, nor by laws confined;

Untaught to plant, to turn the glebe or sow;

They all their products to free nature owe.

The soil untilled a ready harvest yields,

With wheat and barley wave the golden fields."

Homer also described in his Odyssey, Book VI, a people called the Phaeacians as once inhabiting

"Hyperia," the land to the far north, but who were forced to move

to new lands because of Cyclopean invasions:

"In elder times the soft Phaeacian train

In ease possessed the wide Hyperian plain;

Til the Cyclopean race in arms arose,

A lawless nation of gigantic foes;

The great Nausithous from Hyperia far,

Through seas retreating from the sounds of war,

The recreant nation to fair Scheria led...."

All the same elements are present here as found in Theopompus' account: Both refer to an

invasion of Britain--Hyperia and Hyperborea are synonymous--by a Cyclopean or gigantic race at

some time in the distant past. Herodotus the historian (Book IV, p. 2?), likewise spoke of the

Arimaspians-- "one-eyed giants--who "lived at the northern-most limit of Europe." which Britain

at that time was considered. Even the distant Hindus, who revealed their intimate arid very accur

ate knowledge of Europe in the geographic portions of the Puranas, called Britain both the "White

Island" arid the "Island of the Mighty Ones." In the Ramavana

Ravana inquires, "Where do the mighty ones dwell?" and is told by Narada, "They dwell in the

White Island of Varaha-dwipa"--western Europe.

One last interesting point to take note of is that Theopompus divided the

giants of America into two major groups1 the "peaceful” arid "warlike." Archaeologists

examining the earthworks of the Mound Builders divide the structures into two general areas--

north and south--each possessing their own particular architectural and artistic traits. Those

mounds found among the southern states are characterized by temple platforms, truncated

pyramids, etc. usually located in flat places, with no surrounding walls or other concerns for

defense whatsoever. The northern Mound Builders were for the most part of a different nature:

their earthworks were predominantly fortress enclosures, usually constructed on river terraces,

where the summits provided good strongholds. In practically every example of these elaborate

defense structures, there is displayed great engineering skill and military knowledge. The

northern Mound Builders thus seem: to have been preoccupied with fighting arid war--while their

southern neighbors had no such preoccupation. Is it only coincidence that these are the very same

characteristics of Theopompus' American giants?

We have only scratched the surface here in regards to the stories and legends,

and bones and artifacts, found around the world and especially in America that demonstrate the

existence of giants in the unknown past. Far more research and diggings are needed to fill in the

gaps of what we still do not know. And at the same time, better recognition must be given to

those facts which we do know. The whole notion of giants can no longer be relegated to the realm

of fantasy their remains and works are real enough, and the stories of their exploits are based on

actual memories of historical events. Perhaps someday, when we read again the account of

Goliath in the Bible, we shall not smile in amusement, but realize that we are meeting face-toface

with a survivor of a forgotten race who once walked the earth, and built a lost civilization on

the American continent....

Giant Skeletons

Giant Skeletons

In his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John Haywood

describes "very large" bones in stone graves found in Williamson County, Tennessee, in

1821. In White County, Tennessee, an "ancient fortification" contained skeletons of

gigantic stature averaging at least 7 feet in length.

Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New York. J.N.

DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae "larger than those of the present type" in Wisconsin

mounds in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered skull bones "of great size and thickness" in

mounds of Kansas City area in 1877.

George W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of Ashland County,

Ohio. In 1879, a nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was excavated from a mound near

Brewersville, Indiana(Indianapolis News, Nov 10, 1975)

A six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a foot taller

than the average Indian height in the area, and these natives- what few there were of

them -were not mound builders.

"A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions" was found in a clay

coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics, during mound explorations by a Dr

everhart near Zanesville, Ohio.(American Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61)

Ten skeletons "of both sexes and of gigantic size" were taken from a mound at Warren,

Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883)

A skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was found in a massive stone structure that was likened

to a temple chamber within a mound in Kanawha County, West Virginia, in 1884.

(American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus Thomas, Report on Mound Explorations of

the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th Annual Report, Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-

91)

A large mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which was found a

skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved on the vault. (American

Antiquarian, v7, 1885, 52f) click here for full article

In 1885, miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6 feet 8 inches

tall holding an infant. The mummies were found in a cave behind a wall of rock in the

Yosemite Valley. click here for full article

In Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall. (St. Paul

Pioneer Press, June 29, 1888)

A mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and

teeth "twice as large as those of present day people," and besides each was a large bowl

with "curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures." (Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by

Ron G. Dobbins, NEARA Journal, v13, fall 1978)

The skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake Koronis,

Minnesota; while at Moose Island and Pine City, bones of other giants came to light. (St.

Paul Globe, Aug. 12, 1896)

In 1911, several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8 feet tall were

discovered in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada. click here for the full article

In February and June of 1931, large skeletons were found in the Humboldt lake bed near

Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two skeletons found measured 8 1/2 feet tall and

appeared to have been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric similar to the Egyptian manner.

The second skeleton was almost 10 feet long.(Review - Miner, June 19, 1931)

A 7 foot 7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman ranch, near

Lovelock, Nevada, in 1939.(Review - Miner, Sept. 29, 1939)

In 1965, a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock ledge along

the Holly Creek in east-central Kentucky. click here for the full article

ANOTHER GIANT FIND:

This One an “Enigma” From the Depths of the Earth--There is

one find of gigantic bones that deserves special attention, because it belongs

in a class by itself.

.

In July 1877, four prospectors were looking for gold and silver outcroppings in the

desolate hills near the head of Spring valley, not far from Eureka, Nevada. Scanning the rocks,

one of the men spotted something peculiar projecting from a high ledge. Climbing up to get a

better look, the prospector was surprised to find a human leg-bone and knee cap sticking out of

solid rock. He called to his companions1 and together they dislodged the oddity with picks.

Realizing they had a most unusual find, the men brought it into Eureka, where it

was placed on display.

The stone in which the bones were embedded was a hard, dark red quartzite,

and the bones themselves were almost black with carbonization indicative of a tremendous age.

When the surrounding stone was carefully chipped away, the specimen was found to be

composed of a leg bone broken off four inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower

leg bones, and the complete bones of the foot. Several medical doctors examined the remains,

and were convinced that anatomically they had indeed once belonged to a human being, and a

very modern- looking one. But the most intriguing aspect of the bones was their size: From

knee to heel they measured 39 inches. Their owner in life had thus stood over 12 ft tall.

Compounding the mystery further was the fact that the rock in which the bones were dated

geologically to the era of the dinosaur, the Jurassic.

Another report, this one from Australia, was received by the

author in personal correspondence from Mr. Rex Gikoy of the

Mount York Natural History Museum in Mount Victoria. Mr.

Gikoy stated in his letter that he "prefers to keep an open mind,

being free of all scientific prejudices and dogmas." He went on to

state he is the "only archeologist in Australia researching on the

likelihood that giant men once occupied this land." He described his

findings. "The most common of all giant fossil footprints found in

Australia are generally 24 inches long by 7 inches across the toes. It

is estimated that the creatures to whom these prints belong must have

stood from 10 to 12 feet tall."

Mr. Gikoy has also found stone artifacts belonging to humans

of some type, "clubs, hammer stones and other types to 361bs. It is

evident that such artifacts were beyond the strength of any normal

human being." In another place, Mr. Gilroy states, "I do believe

that these were no mere apeman', but that they were men of

considerable intellect for stone-age men."

From book Treasures of the Ancients by Stephen B. Shaffer p. 31-32, Cedar Fort inc. 1996

Dr. Heinerman followed Brewer into a tunnel that had been dug on a downward track, barely

squeezing and squirming like a worrn through the narrow passageway. After a short distance he

carne to an opening, and reaching down felt the edge of a set of stairs that led into a chamber. The

chamber was about twenty feet long and fourteen feet wide. The air was stifling and breathing

was very labored. Several inches of fine dust covered everything, and puffed up with each step

that they took. About twenty-five stone boxes were stacked against one wall and another twenty

against the other wall. Most were wrapped with a cover of juniper bark with pine pitch smeared

all over them to make them waterproof. In a smaller chamber were two mummies of large stature.

( From the Book

Footprints On The

Sands of Time by Dr

Clifford Burdick

Geologist )

Dr. Heinerman describes the mummies:

“The texture of their skin was soft, almost moist, like tanned leather. In the cave I saw an

abundance of weapons, swords, tools, copper and metal plates of various sizes, all of which were

very curious. Some of the copper, plates were of a strange composition, shattering like glass into

fibrous pieces, not unlike the windshield of a car, if dropped. I believe that this chamber houses at

least two different ages of antiquities." (See Pictures at the end of this paper )

From the book Hidden Treasures of Ancient American Cultures by John Heinerman, 2001,

Bonnevile Books, Springvile, Utah.

Two young teenage boys, Orson W. Huntsman and David U. Huntsman, were out roaming

around on a 10-mile stretch of grassy bench land situated between their father's big ranch and the

town of Tooele. Now bordering this wide grassy region were surrounding hills that carried

evident marks of the ancient shoreline of old Lake Bonneville. They were eager to explore around

on this terrace to satisfy their own innate curiosities.

As they looked upward to a hill just above them, they noticed from a certain angle a hole

in the side of it. With renewed excitement, they eagerly scrambled up to the entrance and

discovered about ten feet inside, something very old, dry, and shriveled up. It looked to them like

an old discarded "squash," which is what they called it. They continued further in and found

themselves inside a very high and wide cavern of ancient origin. Excited beyond words, they took

their "squash" with them and returned home to show their parents the mysterious find.

When Brigham Young and the other apostles arrived in Tooele a short time later, this

"squash" was taken to him for further evaluation, accompanied with a written explanation of how

it was found. President Young turned the curious object over in his hands a number

of times as he examined it from all sides, while meditatively pondering on the matter at the same

time. Finally, he broke his silence with a short statement to the effect that this supposed "old

squash" was, in reality, the skull of an ancient Jaredite.

He and some of the others expressed a desire to meet the boys who made this discovery

and accompany them to the place where it was first located. Given the propensity of cockiness in

youth, the two Huntsman boys and their egos retched up several notches higher as they led the

Prophet of the Lord and other servants of God back to the well-hidden cavern. With the air being

in short supply and virtually no circulation inside the rock chamber, great care had to be taken

going in. Torches were lit at the entrance way, and several men held aloft a wagon cover to create

just enough air movement underneath, so they could continue burning while providing ample

breathing space for those going inside.

The men had to move very slowly so as not to stir up several inches of yellow human

dust that covered much of the cavern floor. The walls were lined with a number of stone shelves

containing numerous skeletal remains. Awe and wonderment undoubtedly filled the minds of

those privileged to see such ancient evidence for themselves. Finally, Prophet Young broke the

spell-binding silence by declaring that "there were bones of the Jaredites, well a long time"

(see Lamond W. Huntsman's Huntsman Annals (Provo: J. Grant Stevenson, 1971; pp.46-47).

An even more remarkable find of Jaredite skeletal remains occurred many years ago in

Utah County. It was sometime in the mid-1930s when Utah Lake dropped to its lowest water

levels ever, due to several years of virtually no moisture to speak of. A self-trained naturalistgeologist-

archaeologist from nearby Lehi by the name of John Hutchings (then in his midforties),

was able to walk out a good distance on dry lake bed where he located and excavated

several large mounds. While digging into one of them near the lake's epicenter (that would

normally have been under many feet of water), he struck what he assumed to be a large rock. But

in the process of further digging around, his slight annoyance turned to amazement as he

discovered a portion of an ancient, rounded, cemented stone roof that had once been covered with

a pitch-like substance (apparently for water-proofing).

He had a small rock hammer and a pointed trowel with him in addition to his shovel.

Patiently he worked away enough stone with these implements to form a hole large enough

through which he could enter. Hutchings never went on any exploratory trip without taking along

some matches and a miner's coal-oil lantern as well as adequate water and a little dried fruit to

drink or much on whenever he became hungry or thirsty. He now realized just how handy that

lantern would come in. But before lighting it, he walked several feet directly across from his first

hole, dug another one and pried away some more stone. This now gave him both an entry and exit

through which air could travel to keep his lantern from going out.

Once it was lit, he lowered it through the first opening and leaned in to have a better look.

He gauged the distance to the floor to be only four feet, having been lucky enough to penetrate

through on the room's circular perimeters instead of going in further towards the top, where the

descent would have been much greater and probably required a rope (which he didn't have with

him at the time) to do so. Once safely inside, he moved towards the center of the chamber where

there was more head room and he could straighten up from his stooped position. A large stone

box sealed with a heavy lid about the size of a small coffin sat in front of him. As he gradually

turned around, the light reflecting off the walls revealed 12 very large skeletons carefully laid out

around the stone chest in a clockwise arrangement, with the skulls facing inward towards the box.

Taking a tape measure from his trouser pocked, he measured several of the skeletons

from head to foot with the lantern on the floor beside him. He was astonished by the

measurements taken: eight-feet-four-inches for one; eight-feet-eleven-inches for another; and

nine-feet-four-inches for a third. When my father took my brother and I, as young teenagers, out

to visit Mr. Hutchings on July 21st, 1961, during the time of this spell-binding narrative, the 72-

year-old gentleman paused long enough to remind us that it helps, at times like this, if one is a

little clairvoyant. He told us that he was and had inherited this gift from his own father as a young

child. Mr. Hutchings said that while he was inside what seemed to be an old burial chamber,

his mind was trying to figure out what civilization had produced such giants as these. Just then a

flash of intelligence crossed his mind with the idea that these were all Jaredite skeletons.

He next examined the stone chest itself and found by measuring its various dimensions to

be thirty inches long, sixteen inches wide, and eighteen inches tall. As he thoughtfully paused to

Give some consideration to removing the sealed lid for an inspection of the contents inside, a

feeling ebbed over him that such an act would be wrong to do. But a general disclosure of what

the chest did contain was brought to his mind. He was given to understand that it contained a

number of different metallic records giving the life histories of each of these individuals, all of

whom apparently belonged to a royal family of some kind. This had been their burial chamber

where the deceased members were interred. As he pondered the propriety of removing

some of the remains themselves, a good feeling descended over him as an indication that such a

thing was permissible.

He left the tomb and walked some distance back to his truck and retrieved half-a-dozen

shaved wood bushel baskets with lids that fit over their wire handles. Orchard growers used these

to shore their picked apples, peaches, and pears in, but Mr. Hutchings used them to carry things

that he found on his various jaunts, such as bird nests, Indian arrowheads and spear points,

pottery shards, willow baskets, grass sandals, and rock and mineral specimens. He returned to the

tomb and carefully placed six of the complete skeletons into each bushel basket. He remarked to

my father, brother and I in his narration that the arm bones were so long on some of these

skeletons, "the hand-and-finger bones almost reached the kneecaps on a few of them." He closed

up both holes after exiting the chamber and made sure all evidence of human presence in the area

was obliterated before leaving the spot. He gave three skeletons to the University of Utah and two

others to Brigham Young University, keeping the best one of the bunch for himself. He told

professors at both schools how he came by way of them, but instead of winning their

compliments, he suffered their scorn and ridicule. "They just laughed at me, saying there was no

such thing in the middle of Utah Lake," my father later recorded in his unpublished life's history.

"After that I wanted nothing more to do with professors or educated men" (taken from "My Life's

Journal" by Jacob Heinerman, pp.31-37).

An early LDS newspaper, The Evening and Morning Star (1(3):22; August 1832)

identified exceptionally large skeletons (like those previously referred to in this text) as being

ancient Jaredites:

"...As they were a very large race of men, whenever we hear that uncommon large bones have

been dug up from the earth, we may conclude, that was the skeleton of a Jaredite! Outside of the

Beehive State, skeletons of gigantic proportions have been found in other parts of America,

including some along the Western Reserve (a tract of land in NE Ohio, on the southern shore of

Lake Erie).

From the Journal History of the Church under September 8th, 1880 (p.3) is a clipping

from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer about an excavated mound in Muskingum County filled with

giant remains. "In one grave, there were two skeletons - one male and one female. The male

skeleton measured nine feet in length, and the female eight feet. In another grave were also found

two skeletons - male and female. The male frame in this case was nine feet four inches in length,

and the female eight feet. In another grave was found a female skeleton, holding in her arms the

skeleton of a child three feet and a half long. [A] remaining seven [skeletons] were found in

single graves, and were lying on their sides. The smallest of the seven was nine feet in length,

and the largest ten."

Some of the antiquarian city, county, and state histories of the early 19th century contain

occasional references to extraordinary-sized human remains. Case in point would be Harvey

Rice's Pioneers of the Western Reserve (p.303), in which he described an ancient burial

ground that was uncovered in i8oo. Concerning the giant skeletons found in this particular Ohio

mound, we read: "Human bones of gigantic proportions were discovered in such a state of

preservation as to be accurately described and measured. The cavities of the skulls were large

enough in their dimensions to receive the entire head of a man of modern times, and could be put

on one's head with as much ease as a hat or cap. The jaw-bones were sufficiently large to admit

being placed so as to match or fit the outside of a modern man's face. The other bones, so far as

discovered, appeared to be of equal proportions with the skulls and jaw-bones. Several of [these]

have been preserved as relics in the cabinets of antiquarians, where they may still be seen."

An Ancient Cemetary of Giants Near Niagara, NY

(From The Daily Telegraph , Toronto, Ontario Wed August 23, 1871 )

TWO HUNDRED GIANT SKELETONS OF ANAKIN IN CAYUGA TOWNSHIP

DISCOVERED IN ANCIENT CEMETARY

Cayuga, August 21-- “On Wednesday last, Rev. Nathaniel Wardell, Messers. Orin Wardell (of

Toronto), and Daniel Fredenburg, were digging on the farm of the latter gentleman, which is on

the banks of the Grand River, in the township of Cayuga. When they got to five or six feet below

the surface, a strange sight met them. Piled in layers, one upon top of the other, some two

hundred skeletons of human beings nearly perfect-- around the neck of each one being a string of

beads.

“There were also deposited in this pit a number of axes and skimmers made of stone. In

the jaws of several of the skeletons were large stone pipes-- one of which Mr. 0. Wardell took

with him to Toronto a day or two after this Golgotha was unearthed.

“These skeletons are those of men of gigantic stature, some of them measuring nine feet,

very few of them being less than seven feet. Some of the thigh bones were found to be at least a

foot longer than those at present known, and one of the skulls being examined completely

covered the head of an ordinary person. These skeletons are supposed to belong to those of a race

of people anterior to the Indians.

“The farm, which consists of 150 acres, has been cultivated for nearly a century, and was

covered with a thick growth of pine, so that it must have been ages ago since the remains were

deposited there. The skulls of the skeletons are of an enormous size and all manner of shapes,

about half as large again as are now to be seen. The teeth in most of them are still in almost

perfect state of preservation, though they soon fall out when exposed to the air.

Some large shells, supposed to have been used for holding water, which were also found in the

pit, were almost petrified. There is no doubt that were a scheme of exploration carried on

thoroughly the result would be highly interesting. A good deal of excitement exists in the

neighborhood, and many visitors call at the farm daily.

“The skulls and bones of the giants are fast disappearing, being taken away by curiosity

hunters. It is the intention of Mr. Fredinburg to cover the pit up very soon. The pit is ghastly in

the extreme. The farm is skirted on the north by the Grand River. The pit is close to the banks,

From the appearance of the skulls, it would seem that their possessors died a violent death, as

many of them were broken and dented.

“The axes are shaped like tomahawks, small, but keen, instruments. The beads are all of stone

and of all sizes and shapes. The pipes are not unlike in shape the cutty pipe, and several of them

are engraved with dogs’ heads. They have not lost their virtue for smoking. Some people profess

to believe that the locality of Fredinburg farm was formally an Indian burial place, but the

enormous stature of the skeletons and the fact that pine trees of centuries growth covered the spot

goes far to disprove this idea" (Taken Fro Ancient American Vol. 6 , Number 41, 2001)

In 1872, the Historical Collections of Noble County Ohio (p. 350,351), a mound was uncovered,

in which were found “the remains of three skeletons whose size would indicate they measured in

life at least eight feet in height. The remarkable feature of these remains was they had double

teeth in front as well as in back of mouth and in both upper and lower jaws. Upon exposure to the

atmosphere the skeletons crumbled back to mother earth.”

Giants

Reprint: Facts for the Times: A collection of Valuable Historical Extracts, pages 1 71-72

G.I.Butler, 1885

In the first age of the world, man lived almost a thousand years; while now he rarely exceeds the

allotted threescore and ten.

This is clearly shown, not only by the Bible and ancient history, but by the discoveries of antediluvian

remains.

The Gospel Herald of Dayton. Ohio, gives the following account:

In the Scientific Department of one of our most popular weekly exchanges, we find an interesting account of

a large human skeleton. recently discovered in Am, France.

The frame is complete in all its parts, and is four yards in height. It was found in a soil of alluvium, the head

buried in the earth, with the feet upward.

Day before yesterday, while the quarrymen employed by the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company

(Minnesota] were engaged in quarrying rock for the dam which is being erected across the Mississippi at this place,

they found embedded in the solid granite rock the remains of a human being of gigantic stature.

About seven feet below the surface of the ground, and about three and a half feet beneath the upper stratum

of rock, the remains were found imbedded in the sand, which had evidently been placed in the quadrangular grave

which had been dug out of the solid rock to receive the last remains of this antediluvian giant.

The grave was twelve feet in length, four feet wide, and about three feet in depth, and is today, at least two

feet below the present level of the river.

The remains are completely petrified, and are of gigantic dimensions. The head is massive, measures thirty

one and one half inches in circumference. but low in the os frontis, and very flat on the top.

The femur measures twenty six and a quarter inches. and the fibula twenty five and a half, while the body is

equally long in proportion.

From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. the length is ten feet nine and a half inches. The measure

around the chest is fifty nine and a half inches. This giant must have weighed at least nine hundred

pounds when covered with a reasonable amount of flesh.

(Taken From Ancient American Issue # 43, p. 17 )

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Sketch of Manti Mummy (male) and figures on Mummy

case. Mummy was 8 ft tall, Note figures of dinosaur head.

(From Hidden Treasures of Ancient American Cultures)

Sketch of Female Mummy From Manti

Cave . Mummy 8 ft tall

(From Hidden Treasures of Ancient

American Cultures)

 

 

In 1895, miners working near Bridlevale Falls, California,

discovered the tomb of a woman whose skeletal

remains indicated that she had stood 6-feet 8-inches in

height. She was clutching the remains of a child to her

breast. In 1898, scientists excavating in Death Valley

found the fossilized remains of a female who stood 7-

feet 6-inches in height and whose spine bore several

extra "buttons" at its base, indicating that in life the

woman had been endowed with a tail-like appendage. In

1974, the skeleton of a 7-foot woman was found sealed

in a cave at the crest of a high mesa near Chalk

Mountain, Texas.

“Amazing finds were also made in California about 1810 and in Montana in 1924. One was that

of a six-toed giant, the other was the skull of a man found 130 feet deep in a lava-covered mine.

A human molar embedded in an eocene coal measure was found in November 1926 in No. 3

Eagle Coal Mine atBearcreek, Montana, and in strata anywhere between thirty and seventy-five

million years old. An amazing skull—there is no other word for it!—of a giant man with double

rows of teeth all round the massive jaws was found on Santa Rosa Island in the Santa Barbara

Channel, California. It has a singular tie-in with the statement in the old Babylonian Talmud,

called the Berakthoth, that the giants before the Great Deluge had double rows of teeth!....

On Shemya the men’s job was to build an airstrip for landing purposes. One day in May

1943, a remarkable discovery was made. At the northeast end of this tiny island is a bluff of

sedimentary rock, and below it, on the beach, are strewn igneous and sedimentary boulders.

When these beach boulders were shifted, the bulldozers started to work and turned up layer on

layer of fossils, each layer differing from that below it.

In one of these layers were huge human bones and skulls of giants, lying near fossil ivory and

mammoth and mastodon bones. Some of these giant human skulls lacked the lower jaw. The

skulls were from one foot ten inches to two feet long! They were emphatically human and not animals.

The bones of the animals lay far enough apart for them to be clearly perceptible.

The height of these giants measured no fewer than twenty-four feet! I questioned my informant

and he was positive in his affirmation of the astounding height of these men—a height that tallies

with that asserted in ancient

His story goes on: “These giant remains in the Shemya beach were found about six feet

below the surface. The ground where the skulls and bones were found is swampy and sandy, and

the beach was just muck and deteriorated rock. Mixed in with the big bones were smaller ones.

They might have been deposited there in a cataclysm, but there is evidence that this may have

been also an ancient graveyard of the giants. It is curious that all these skulls of giant men had

holes in them two inches in diameter. Maybe that was in accord with the notion of ancient folk

that you could let the soul out of the head by trephining the crania. It may have been done with

clubs or arrows, but as all the skulls were perforated, I reckon it is more likely that an ancient

ritual was followed?’

( From Out of Time and Place, P. 65 From the files of Fate Magazine, 1999, Liewellyn

Publications, St Paul, Minn. )

Giant Human Remains

- From records and sources all over the world. -submitted by John Williams

Giant Skeletons:

In his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John Haywood

describes "very large" bones in stone graves found in Williamson County, Tennessee, in

1821. In White County, Tennessee, an "ancient fortification" contained skeletons of gigantic

stature averaging at least 7 feet in length.

Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New York. J.N.

DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae "larger than those of the present type" in Wisconsin mounds

in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered skull bones "of great size and thickness" in mounds of

Kansas City area in 1877.

George W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of Ashland County,

Ohio. In 1879, a nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was

excavated from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana (Indianapolis News, Nov 10, 1975).

A six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a foot taller than

the average Indian height in the area, and these natives- what few there were of them -were

not mound builders.

"A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions" was found in a clay

coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics, during mound explorations by a Dr

Everhart near Zanesville, Ohio. (American Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61).

Ten skeletons "of both sexes and of gigantic size" were taken from a mound at Warren,

Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883) A skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was

found in a massive stone structure that was likened to a temple chamber within a mound in

Kanawha County, West Virginia, in 1884. (American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus

Thomas, Report on Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th Annual Report,

Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91).

A large mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which was found a

skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved on the vault. (American

Antiquarian, v7, 1885, 52f).

In 1885, miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6 feet 8 inches tall

holding an infant. The mummies were found in a cave behind a wall of rock in the Yosemite

Valley.

In Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall. (St. Paul

Pioneer Press, June 29, 1888).

A mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and teeth

"twice as large as those of present day people," and besides each was a large bowl with

"curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures." (Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by Ron G.

Dobbins, NEARA Journal, v13, fall 1978).

The skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake Koronis, Minnesota;

while at Moose Island and Pine City, bones of other giants came to light. (St. Paul Globe,

Aug. 12, 1896).

In 1911, several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8 feet tall were

discovered in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada. In February and June of 1931, large skeletons

were found in the Humboldt lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two

skeletons found

measured 8 1/2 feet tall and appeared to have been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric

similiar to the Egyptian manner. The second skeleton was almost 10 feet long. (Review -

Miner, June 19, 1931).

A 7 foot 7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman ranch, near

Lovelock, Nevada, in 1939.(Review - Miner, Sept. 29, 1939) In 1965, a skeleton measuring 8

feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock ledge along the Holly Creek in east-central

Kentucky.

AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:

There was a race or group of people found in Australia called "meganthropus" by

anthropologists. These people were of very large size--estimated between 7 to 12 feet tall,

depending on what source you read. These people were found with mega tool artifacts, so

their humaness is difficult to question. Four jaw fragments and thousands of teeth have

been found in China of "gigantopithecus blacki"--named after the discover. Based on the

size of the teeth and deep jaws, its size has been estimated at around 10 feet and as tall as 12

feet, 1200 pounds.

PROOF OF AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:

In old river gravels near Bathurst, NSW, huge stone artifacts -- clubs,

pounders, adzes, chisels, knives and hand axes -- all of tremendous weight, lie scattered over

a wide area. These weigh anything from 8, 10, 15, to 21 and 25 pounds, implements which

only men of tremendous proportions could possibly have made and used. Estimates for the

actual size of these men range from 10 to 12 feet tall and over, weighing from 500 to 600 lbs.

A fossicker searching the Winburndale River north of Bathurst discovered a large

quartzitised fossil human molar tooth, far too big for any normal modern man. A similar

find was made near Dubbo, N.S.W.

Prospectors working in the Bathurst district in the 1930's frequently

reported coming across numerous large human footprints fossilised in shoals of red jasper.

Even more impressive were fossil deposits found by naturalist Rex Gilroy around Bathurst.

He excavated from a depth of 6 feet (2 m) below the surface a fossil lower back molar tooth

measuring 67 mm. in length by 50mm. x 42 mm. across the crown. If his measurements are

correct, the owner would have been at least 25 ft. tall, weighing well over 1,000 lbs!

At Gympie, Queensland, a farmer, Keith Walker, was ploughing his field when he turned

up the large fragment of the back portion of a jaw which still possessed the hollow for a

missing lower back molar tooth. This is now in Rex GiIroy's possession. The owner of the

tooth would have stood at 10 feet tall.

In the Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains NSW, a Mr P. Holman found in ironstone

protruding from a creek bank the deeply impressed print of a large human-like foot. The

print was that of the instep, with all 5 toes clearly shown. This footprint measures 7 inches

across the toes. Had the footprint been complete it would have been at least 2 feet (60 cm in

length, appropriate to a 12 foot human. However, the largest footprint found on the Blue

Mountains must have belonged to a man 20 feet tall!

A set of 3 huge footprints was discovered near Mulgoa, south of Penrith, N.S.W. These

prints, each measuring 2 ft long and 7 inches across the toes, are 6 ft. apart, indicating the

stride of the 12 ft. giant who left them. These prints were preserved by volcanic lava and ash

flows which "occurred millions of years" before man is supposed to have appeared on the

Australian continent (if one is to believe the evolutionary theory): Noel Reeves found

monstrous footprints near Kempsey, N.S.W. in sandstone beds on the Upper Macleay River.

One print shows toe 4 inches (10cm) long and the total toe-span is 10 inches (25cm) -

suggesting that the owner of the print may have been 17 feet tall.

It is certain the Aborigines were not the first to reach Australia.

Anthropologists maintain mainland Aborigines are in fact quite recent

arrivals that ate their predecessors who were akin to the New Guinea natives. Aborigine

themselves admit in their ancient folklore that this land was inhabited by several groups of

men, as well as giants, before they settled here.

MORE GIANT RECORDS:

In an old book entitled "History And Antiquities Of Allerdale," there is an account of a

giant found in Cumberland, England, at an unknown date in the middle ages. Called "A

True Report of Hugh Hodson, of Thorneway," it states: "The said gyant was buried four

yards deep in the ground, which is now a corn field. He was four yards and a half long, and

was in complete armor; his sword and battle-axe lying by him....his teeth were six inches

long, and two inches broad...." The bones of a twelve foot tall man were dug up in 1833 by a

group of soldiers at Lompock Rancho, California. The skeleton was

surrounded by giant weapons, and the skull featured a double row of teeth. Yet another

giant was unearthed in 1891, when workmen in Crittenden, Arizona excavated a huge stone

coffin that had evidently once held the body of a man 12 feet tall. A carving on the granite

case indicated that he had six toes.

A living giant was sighted in the little village of Buffalo Mills,

Pennsylvania, on August 19, 1973. A man at least nine feet tall strode down the main street

of the village, dressed in strange clothing, which appeared to be made of some sort of

shimmering material. He gazed at the startled townspeople in a dark, penetrating way and

then loped off casually into oblivion.

OTHER GIANT EVIDENCES:

In July, 1877, four prospectors were looking for gold and silver

outcroppings in a desolate, hilly area near the head of Spring Valley, not far from Eureka,

Nevada.

Scanning the rocks, one of the men spotted something peculiar projecting from a high ledge.

Climbing up to get a better look, the prospector was surprised to find a human leg bone and

knee cap sticking out of solid rock. He called to his companions, and together they dislodged

the oddity with picks. Realizing they had a most unusual find, the men brought it into

Eureka, where it was placed on display.

The stone in which the bones were embedded was a hard, dark red quartzite, and the bones

themselves were almost black with carbonization - indicative of great age. When the

surrounding stone was carefully chipped away, the specimen was found to be composed of a

leg bone broken off four inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower leg bones,

and the complete bones of the foot. Several medical doctors examined the remains, and were

convinced that anatomically they had indeed once belonged to a human being, and a very

modern-looking one.

But an intriguing aspect of the bones was their size: from knee to heel they measured 39

inches. Their owner in life had thus stood over 12 feet tall. Compounding the mystery

further was the fact that the rock in which the bones were found was dated geologically to

the era of the dinosaurs, the Jurassic - over 185 million years old. The local papers ran

several stories on the marvelous find, and two museums sent investigators to see if any more

of the skeleton could be located. Unfortunately, nothing else but the leg and foot existed in

the rock." Strange Relics from the Depths of the Earth--Jochmans

http://www.ior.com/~kjc/pages/strange.htm

EVEN MORE RECORDS OF GIANTS:

In 1936 Larson Kohl, the German paleontologist and anthropologist, found the bones of

gigantic men on the shore of Lake Elyasi in Central Africa. Other giant skeletons were later

found in Hava, the Transvaal and China. The evidence for the existence of giants is

incontrovertible. "A scientifically assured fact," says Dr. Louis Burkhalter.

1. Large bones in stone graves in Williamson County and White County, Tennessee.

Discovered in the early 1800s, the average stature of these giants was 7 feet tall.

2. Giant skeletons found in the mid-1800s in New York state near Rutland and Rodman.

3. In 1833, soldiers digging at Lompock Rancho, California, discovered a male skeleton 12

feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by caved shells, stone axes, other artifacts. The

skeleton had double rows of upper and lower teeth. Unfortunately, this body was secretly

buried because the local Indians became upset about the remains.

4. A giant skull and vertebrae found in Wisconsin and Kansas City.

5. A giant found off the California Coast on Santa Rosa Island in the 1800s was

distinguished by its double rows of teeth.

6. A 9-foot, 8-inch skeleton was excavated from a mount near Brewersville, Indiana, in

1879.

7. Skeletons of "enormous dimensions" were found in mounds near Zanesville, Ohio, and

Warren, Minnesota, in the 1880s.

8. In Clearwater Minnesota, the skeletons of seven giants were found in mounds. These had

receding foreheads and complete double dentition.

9. At Le Crescent, Wisconsin, mounds were found to contain giant bones. Five miles north

near Dresbach, the bones of people over 8 feet tall were found.

10. In 1888 seven skeletons ranging from seven to 8 feet tall were

discovered.

11. Near Toledo, Ohio, 20 skeletons were discovered with jaws and teeth "twice as large as

those of present day people." The account also noted that odd hieroglyphics were found

with the bodies.

12. Miners in Lovelock Cave, California, discovered a very tall, red-haired mummy In 1911

13. This mummy eventually went to a fraternal lodge where it was used for "initiation

purposes."

14. In 1931, skeletons from 8 ½ to 10 feet long were found in the Humbolt lake bed in

California.

15. In 1932, Ellis Wright found human tracks in the gypsum rock at White Sands, New

Mexico. His discovery was later backed up by Fred Arthur, Supervisor of the Lincoln

National Park and others who reported that each footprint was 22 inches long and from 8 to

10 inches wide. They were certain the prints were human in origin due to the outline of the

perfect prints coupled with a readily apparent instep.

16. During World War II, author Ivan T. Sanderson tells of how his crew was bulldozing

through sedimentary rock when it stumbled upon what appeared to be a graveyard. In it

were crania that measured from 22 to 24 inches from base to crown nearly three times as

large as an adult human skull. Had the creatures to whom these skulls belonged been

properly proportioned, they undoubtedly would have been at least 12 feet tall or taller.

17. In 1947 a local newspaper reported the discovery of nine-foot-tall

skeletons by amateur archeologists working in Death Valley.

18. The archeologists involved also claimed to have found what appeared to be the bones of

tigers and dinosaurs with the human remains.

19. The Catalina Islands, off California, are the home of dwarf mammoth bones that were

once roasted in ancient fire pits. These were roasted and eaten by human-like creatures who

were giants with double rows of teeth.

THE KOSSUTH GIANTS:

Kossuth: October was a month of some excitement in scientific circles as seven strange and

gigantic mummies were discovered just outside of Kossuth Center. Marvin Rainwater, a

local farmer, had been digging a new well on his property and struck a deposit of very hard

stone about nine feet below the topsoil. In attempting to dig it out, he found that it was more

than four feet wide in every direction. Removing it would be a terrific chore. He considered

the possibility that this was a layer of bedrock, but that would certainly be odd that close to

the surface. Further, being somewhat familiar with geologic deposits, he knew that the stone

was not the familiar limestone for which such Eastern Iowa areas like Stone City are

famous. This

was something else entirely. Upon close inspection Rainwater also saw that the stone was

not as rough as might be expected in a natural formation, but was in fact smooth and

polished. Now very curious as to the nature of the find, he called several friends from

surrounding farms and they began an excavation. They discovered that it was not a single

stone, but rather one of at least several irregularly cut slabs stretching out over a wide area,

yet fitted so tightly together that not even a knife blade could be put between them. Each

slab measured roughly 8'x10', and when struck with a

sledge seemed to ring with a hollowness that might indicate this was not a floor but the

outside portion of a ceiling. Rainwater wondered if he had not stumbled upon some sort of

buried stone structure on his property. Believing that there might be a way to parlay living

other than farming if he played his cards right, Mr. Rainwater contacted Georg Von

Podebrad College, who in turn dispatched a team of archeologists, anthropologists, and

geologists to the site. The researchers were delighted with the anomalies presented them.

Firstly, the stone was not at all native to Iowa, but was in fact basalt-a

hard, dense volcanic rock composed of plagioclase, augite, and magnetite. The type of stone

used by the Egyptians to build their massive monuments. The depth of the slabs indicated

that they had been there for a very long time, predating the advent of the kind of modern

transportation and heavy machinery needed to bring such a large quantity of foreign stone

to Iowa, and quite probably the slabs had been laid down before the last glacial age.

It is impossible to gauge with any certainty just how long they had been there. After the soil

covering the slabs had been entirely removed, the area covered by the stones was a perfect

square measuring 188 feet on each side. Digging around the perimeter revealed that

Rainwater had been correct, the structure did go deeper into the ground. The cyclopean

structure was revealed to be a pyramid similar in shape to one located at Marietta, Ohio,

although those mounds and monuments erected by the prehistoric Indians were made of

sun dried brick mixed with rushes. This technique, too, is curiously similar to the Egyptian

technique of brick making with straw and mud. It took many months, but the entire

structure was finally exposed, and on the eastern side was found a massive filled in archway

with strong resemblance to those of ancient Greece. At the bottom of the arch was a smaller

arch, measuring only 6' to the capstone. This too had been filled in and blocked off. With

genuine awe and some hesitancy the scientists of the Rainwater

Site began the work of opening the smaller entryway, wondering what light from the first

torch penetrated the gloom of the ancient structure, Albert Grosslockner gasped at what he

thought were seven huge and exquisitely detailed statues seated in a ring around a very

large and deep fire pit. Moving closer, he realized that the figures were not carved of stone,

but were in fact the mummified remains of some giant humanoid race.

Could what they found be in fact a prehistoric burial vault for some pre-human creatures

or was it a prison designed to hold some freakish aberration of nature? The figures, were

each fully ten feet tall even when measured seated in their cross-legged positions. They all

faced into the circle with arms folded across their legs. Upon close examination it was seen

that they had double rows of teeth in their upper and lower jaws. The foreheads were

unusually low and sloping, with exceedingly prominent brows. The skin of the

mysterious giants was wrinkled and tough, as though tanned, and the hair of each of them

was distinctly red in color. Their faces, still very expressive even in death, taunted the

scientists with their silence. Who, or what, were these creatures, how had they come to be

locked in this stone room, and where had the stone itself come from originally? After

careful excavation of the site, the bodies were removed for x-ray and autopsy examination.

The excitement over the find was far in excess of the "Gypsum Man" find in Iowa so many

years before-a hoax from which the Putnam Museum of Davenport had never fully

recovered from. These giants were very real. The medical examinations demonstrated that

there was definite skeletal structure, that they were organic creatures who had once been

very much alive.

One explanation for the mummies might lie in the legends of the Paiute Indians who tell of a

race of red-haired giants who were their mortal enemies centuries ago. They were called the

Si-Te-Cahs, driven from Nevada by a previously unheard of alliance of tribes. Did the Si-

Te-Cahs retreat from the west to Iowa? Was the stone structure here before and simply coopted

by the giants? No one may ever know, however it is interesting to note that among the

Indian relics held in the Kossuth County chapter of the State Historical Society are three

robes made entirely from very long strands of red hair. We await DNA comparisons of

samples taken from the mummies and the

robes to determine a connection. In the mean-time, Marvin Rainwater has had his farm

purchased by interested parties in Hopkins Grove for an undisclosed sum, and is quite

happily no longer toiling in his fields or digging wells.

GIANT SKULLS FOUND:

Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on Johnny Carson's

TONIGHT SHOW in the 1960s (usually with an exotic animal with a pangolin or a lemur),

once related a curious story about a letter he received regarding an engineer who was

stationed on the Aleutian island of Shemya during World War II. While building an

airstrip, his crew bulldozed a group of hills and discovered under several sedimentary

layers what appeared to be human remains. The Alaskan mound was in fact a graveyard of

gigantic human remains, consisting of crania and long leg bones. The crania measured

from 22 to 24 inches from base to crown. Since an adult skull normally measures about

eight inches from back to front, such a large crania would imply an immense size for a

normally proportioned human. Furthermore, every skull was said to have been neatly

trepanned (a process of cutting a hole in the upper portion of the skull).

In fact, the habit of flattening the skull of an infant and forcing it to

grow in an elongated shape was a practice used by ancient Peruvians, the Mayas, and the

Flathead Indians of Montana. Sanderson tried to gather further proof, eventually receiving

a letter from another member of the unit who confirmed the report. The letters both

indicated that the Smithsonian Institution had collected the remains, yet nothing else was

heard. Sanderson seemed convinced that the Smithsonian Institution had received the

bizarre

relics, but wondered why they would not release the data. He asks, ""...is it that these

people cannot face rewriting all the textbooks?""

GIANT FOOTPRINTS:

In South Africa, a giant footprint of a woman measuring over 4 feet long has been carbon

dated at approximately 9 million years old. Pointing to the probability of this being a female

human-like species' foot, proportionally the two-legged being would need to be some 30 feet

tall! The local African people commonly refer to this as a highly revered and sacred site.

Giants, twice the size of gorillas, were found in Java.

The petrified remains of a giant were found in South Africa. A well-known anthropologist

declared that these remains showed that these man's ancestors must have been giants.

GIANT DEVILS:

Within an ancient burial mound near the town of Sayre in Bradford County, Pennsylvania,

skeletons measuring approximately 7 feet in length were discovered in the 1800s. But the

most remarkable feature of these tall skeletons was not their height, but the strange hornlike

protrusions above the brow region on their skulls. It was estimated that they were

buried around 1200 AD. According to some sources, the skeletons were sent to the

"American Investigating Museum" in Philadelphia, and vanished.

REVISED ARTICLES:

In Lampec-Rancho California, in 1833, soldiers discovered a skeleton 11' 9'' long which was

covered with boulders with an unidentified writing. A similar writing was unearthed on the

isle of Santa Maria off the cost of Los Angeles. In July of 1887 in Eureka Nevada, a human

leg was found measuring 38.9 inches form the knee to the heel. The man was over 11 foot

tall. In Crittenton Arizona in 1891 a sarcophagus was uncovered containing a human 3

meters high and had 12 toes. More recently skeletons ranging from 2.8 meters to 3.12

meters were found by soviets in the Caucasus Mountains. In China

skeletons 10 feet tall have been found. In the Philippines a giant human skeleton was found

at gargation, Measuring 17 feet long. In the Eagle three Cole mine at Bear Creek Montana

in 1920 two human molars were found three times larger than normal. In Braton Tennessee

human footprints were found in solid rock 33 inches log and one foot wide. These also have

six toes each.

Tools found in Morocco are so large their users must have been at least 12 foot tall. Other

Giants found around the world are: the Java giant, the south China giant, and the South

Africa giant. (See The Timeless Earth p. 26)

In 1833,soldiers digging a pit for a powder magazine at Lompock

Rancho, California, hacked their way through a layer of cemented gravel and came up with

the skeleton of a giant man about twelve feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by carved

shells, huge stone axes, and blocks of porphyry covered with unintelligible symbols. The

giant was also noteworthy in still another respect :He had a double row of teeth, both upper

and lower. When the natives began to attach some religious significance to the find,

authorities ordered the skeleton and all the artifacts secretly reburied- and, of course, lost to

the scientific study they deserved.

This particular giant, incidentally, bore marked similarity to another, that of a giant man

with double rows of teeth whose skeletal remains were dug up on Santa Rosa Island, off the

California coast. Subsequent research has shown that he, or his descendants, feasted on the

small elephants which once lived on that island and which have vanished like the giants who

ate them, countless ages ago.

Near Crittenden, Arizona, in 1891, workmen excavating for a commercial building came

upon a huge stone sarcophagus eight feet below the surface. The contractor called in expert

help, and the sarcophagus was opened to reveal a granite mummy case which had once held

the body of a human being more than twelve feet tall -a human with six toes, according to

the carving of the case. But the body had been buried so many thousands of years that it

had

long since turned to dust. Just another silent witness to the truth of

Genesis, which tells us that there were giants in the earth in those

days, the excavation of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the world, shocked

archeologists.

These skeletons were positively human. Some of these skeletal remains are on Maui in lava

caves near Ulupalakua and Olowalu. An example of this is the "mysterious" disappearance

of more than 50 perfectly kept gigantic antediluvian skeletons (between 10-14 feet tall)

found in a cave in Arizona.

Earth Giants : over the years a number of gigantic human skeletons have been unearthed.

The most distinctive of these were the remains of some American giants found in the 1880s

at Tioga Point, near Sayre in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, as recounted by Robert

Lyman in Forbidden Land. Some other examples include the following:

A decayed human skeleton claimed by eyewitnesses to measure around 3.28 metres (10 feet

9 inches tall), was unearthed by labourers while ploughing a vineyard in November 1856 in

East Wheeling, now in West Virginia.

A human skeleton measuring 3.6 metres (12 foot) tall was unearthed at Lompock Rancho,

California, in 1833 by soldiers digging in a pit for a powder magazine. The specimen had a

double row of teeth and was surrounded by numerous stone axes, carved shells and

porphyry blocks with abstruse symbols associated with it.

Several mummified remains of red haired humans ranging from 2-2.5 metres (6.5 feet to

over 8 feet) tall were dug up at Lovelock Cave, (70 miles) north-east of Reno, Nevada, by a

guano mining operation. These bones substantiated legends by the local Piute Indians

regarding giants which they called Si-Te-Cahs. For some reason scientists did not seem to

want to investigate these finds further so many of the bones were lost. Fortunately one of

the giant Lovelock skulls is still preserved today. It measures almost 30cm (1 foot) tall and

resides along with other various Lovelock artifacts in the Humboldt Museum in

Winnemucca, Nevada. Some of these artifacts can also be found in the Nevada State

Historical Society's museum at Reno.

Cascade Tunnels With Ancient Giant Beings

“According to Fortean researcher Pippa Braybrook, bones of strange giant beings were uncovered in 1904

by J.C. Brown in the slopes of the Cascade Mountains. These Mountains run from Northern California to

British Colombia,. The bones were uncovered in an ancient tunnel cut into solid rock, “lined with tempered

copper and hung with shields and wall pieces made of gold.” Other rooms deeper in the tunnel contained

similar objects, some carved with drawings and hieroglyphics.

We are told that Brown left this treasure go unclaimed for 30 years. In 1934 he attempted to recover these

ancient works. Friends claim that when they last saw him he was ascending into this area with supplies

enough to last him for a month. He was never seen again.” (Subterranean Worlds p. 70, By Timothy Green

Beckley, 1992,Inner Light Publicationa Box 753 New Bunswick, N.J. )

THE HUBBARD DISCOVERY:

In this magazine for September, 1923, we mentioned a reported discovery by Mr. Samuel

Hubbard, of remains of giants in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Owing to press

unreliability, we did not notice this to a great extent. We have now, however, obtained more

knowledge on the subject, and there remains no doubt that Mr. Hubbard has actually made

a discovery composed of the following parts:

(a) Petrified bodies of two human beings about 18 and 15 feet in height respectively. One of

these is buried under a recent rock fall which would require several days' work to remove;

the other, of which Mr. Hubbard took photographs, is in a crevice of difficult accessibility.

The bodies are formed of a limestone petrification embedded in sandstone.

(b) An ancient beach, now sandstone, containing a great number of footprints of a giant

race, men, women and children; the prints of adults about 17 to 20 inches in length, and

corresponding in size and shape to the Carson City and Blue Ridge prints.

EVEN MORE GIANT RECORDS:

According to a press clipping, dated Nayarit, Mexico, May 14, 1926, Capts. D. W. Page and

F. W. Devalda discovered the bones of a race of giants who averaged over ten feet in height.

Local legends state that they came from Ecuador. Nothing more has been heard of this, but

that is not surprising; the word "giant" will flutter the feathers of any scientist into rapid

flight, metaphorically speaking, in the opposite direction. So also with a report from the

Washington Post, June 22, 1925, and the New York Herald-Tribune, June 21, 1925. A

mining party, it is reported, found skeletons measuring 10 to 12 feet, with feet 18 to 20

inches long, near Sisoguiche, Mexico. The Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, says that

explorers in Mexico located large human bones near Tapextla, indicating a race of "gigantic

size." All this, if unfounded, would be straining

coincidence or imagination pretty far.

Press accounts say that the skeleton of a gigantic man, with head missing, has been

unearthed at El Boquin, on the Mico River, in the Chontales district. The ribs are a yard

long and four inches wide and the shin bone is too heavy for one man to carry. "Chontales"

is an Indian word, meaning "wild men."

In the late 1950's during road construction in Homs southeast Turkey, many tombs of

Giants were indeed unearthed. These tombs were 4 meters long, and when entered in 2

cases the human thigh bones were measured to be 47.24 inches in length. They calculated

that the person who owned this Femur probably stood at fourteen to sixteen feet tall. A cast

of this bone is seen at the Creationist museum in Texas.

Flavius Josephus, the noted Jewish historian of the first century A.D.,

described the giants as having "bodies so large and countenances so entirely different from

other men that they were surprising to the sight and terrible to the hearing." And he adds

that in his day, the bones of the giants were still on display!

Giant Human Remains

- From records and sources all over the world. -submitted by John

Williams

Giant Skeletons:

In his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author

John Haywood describes "very large" bones in stone graves found in

Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1821. In White County, Tennessee, an

"ancient fortification" contained skeletons of gigantic stature averaging at

least 7 feet in length.

Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman,

New York. J.N. DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae "larger than those of the

present type" in Wisconsin mounds in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered

skull bones "of great size and thickness" in mounds of Kansas City area in

1877.

George W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of

Ashland County, Ohio. In 1879, a nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was

excavated from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana (Indianapolis News,

Nov 10, 1975).

A six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a

foot taller than the average Indian height in the area, and these nativeswhat

few there were of them -were not mound builders.

"A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions" was

found in a clay coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics,

during mound explorations by a Dr Everhart near Zanesville, Ohio.

(American Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61).

Ten skeletons "of both sexes and of gigantic size" were taken from a

mound at Warren, Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883)

A skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was found in a massive stone structure that

was likened to a temple chamber within a mound in Kanawha County,

West Virginia, in 1884. (American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus

Thomas, Report on Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th

Annual Report, Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91).

A large mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which

was found a skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved

on the vault. (American Antiquarian, v7, 1885, 52f).

In 1885, miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6

feet 8 inches tall holding an infant. The mummies were found in a cave

behind a wall of rock in the Yosemite Valley.

In Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet

tall. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 29, 1888).

A mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with

jaws and teeth "twice as large as those of present day people," and besides

each was a large bowl with "curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures."

(Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by Ron G. Dobbins, NEARA

Journal, v13, fall 1978).

The skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake

Koronis, Minnesota; while at Moose Island and Pine City, bones of other

giants came to light. (St. Paul Globe, Aug. 12, 1896).

In 1911, several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8

feet tall were discovered in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada. In February and

June of 1931, large skeletons were found in the Humboldt lake bed near

Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two skeletons found

measured 8 1/2 feet tall and appeared to have been wrapped in a gumcovered

fabric similiar to the Egyptian manner. The second skeleton was

almost 10 feet long. (Review - Miner, June 19, 1931).

A 7 foot 7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman

ranch, near Lovelock, Nevada, in 1939.(Review - Miner, Sept. 29, 1939) In

1965, a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock

ledge along the Holly Creek in east-central Kentucky.

AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:

There was a race or group of people found in Australia called

"meganthropus" by anthropologists. These people were of very large size--

estimated between 7 to 12 feet tall, depending on what source you read.

These people were found with mega tool artifacts, so their humaness is

difficult to question. Four jaw fragments and thousands of teeth have been

found in China of "gigantopithecus blacki"--named after the discover.

Based on the size of the teeth and deep jaws, its size has been estimated at

around 10 feet and as tall as 12 feet, 1200 pounds.

PROOF OF AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:

In old river gravels near Bathurst, NSW, huge stone artifacts -- clubs,

pounders, adzes, chisels, knives and hand axes -- all of tremendous weight,

lie scattered over a wide area. These weigh anything from 8, 10, 15, to 21

and 25 pounds, implements which only men of tremendous proportions

could possibly have made and used. Estimates for the actual size of these

men range from 10 to 12 feet tall and over, weighing from 500 to 600 lbs. A

fossicker searching the Winburndale River north of Bathurst discovered a

large quartzitised fossil human molar tooth, far too big for any normal

modern man. A similar find was made near Dubbo, N.S.W.

Prospectors working in the Bathurst district in the 1930's frequently

reported coming across numerous large human footprints fossilised in

shoals of red jasper.

Even more impressive were fossil deposits found by naturalist Rex Gilroy

around Bathurst. He excavated from a depth of 6 feet (2 m) below the

surface a fossil lower back molar tooth measuring 67 mm. in length by

50mm. x 42 mm. across the crown. If his measurements are correct, the

owner would have been at least 25 ft. tall, weighing well over 1,000 lbs!

At Gympie, Queensland, a farmer, Keith Walker, was ploughing his field

when he turned up the large fragment of the back portion of a jaw which

still possessed the hollow for a missing lower back molar tooth. This is now

in Rex GiIroy's possession. The owner of the tooth would have stood at 10

feet tall.

In the Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains NSW, a Mr P. Holman

found in ironstone protruding from a creek bank the deeply impressed

print of a large human-like foot. The print was that of the instep, with all 5

toes clearly shown. This footprint measures 7 inches across the toes. Had

the footprint been complete it would have been at least 2 feet (60 cm in

length, appropriate to a 12 foot human. However, the largest footprint

found on the Blue Mountains must have belonged to a man 20 feet tall!

A set of 3 huge footprints was discovered near Mulgoa, south of Penrith,

N.S.W. These prints, each measuring 2 ft long and 7 inches across the toes,

are 6 ft. apart, indicating the stride of the 12 ft. giant who left them. These

prints were preserved by volcanic lava and ash flows which "occurred

millions of years" before man is supposed to have appeared on the

Australian continent (if one is to believe the evolutionary theory): Noel

Reeves found monstrous footprints near Kempsey, N.S.W. in sandstone

beds on the Upper Macleay River. One print shows toe 4 inches (10cm)

long and the total toe-span is 10 inches (25cm) - suggesting that the owner

of the print may have been 17 feet tall.

It is certain the Aborigines were not the first to reach Australia.

Anthropologists maintain mainland Aborigines are in fact quite recent

arrivals that ate their predecessors who were akin to the New Guinea

natives. Aborigine themselves admit in their ancient folklore that this land

was inhabited by several groups of men, as well as giants, before they

settled here.

MORE GIANT RECORDS:

In an old book entitled "History And Antiquities Of Allerdale," there is an

account of a giant found in Cumberland, England, at an unknown date in

the middle ages. Called "A True Report of Hugh Hodson, of Thorneway,"

it states: "The said gyant was buried four yards deep in the ground, which

is now a corn field. He was four yards and a half long, and was in complete

armor; his sword and battle-axe lying by him....his teeth were six inches

long, and two inches broad...." The bones of a twelve foot tall man were

dug up in 1833 by a group of soldiers at Lompock Rancho, California. The

skeleton was

surrounded by giant weapons, and the skull featured a double row of

teeth. Yet another giant was unearthed in 1891, when workmen in

Crittenden, Arizona excavated a huge stone coffin that had evidently once

held the body of a man 12 feet tall. A carving on the granite case indicated

that he had six toes.

A living giant was sighted in the little village of Buffalo Mills,

Pennsylvania, on August 19, 1973. A man at least nine feet tall strode down

the main street of the village, dressed in strange clothing, which appeared

to be made of some sort of shimmering material. He gazed at the startled

townspeople in a dark, penetrating way and then loped off casually into

oblivion.

OTHER GIANT EVIDENCES:

In July, 1877, four prospectors were looking for gold and silver

outcroppings in a desolate, hilly area near the head of Spring Valley, not

far from Eureka, Nevada.

Scanning the rocks, one of the men spotted something peculiar projecting

from a high ledge. Climbing up to get a better look, the prospector was

surprised to find a human leg bone and knee cap sticking out of solid rock.

He called to his companions, and together they dislodged the oddity with

picks. Realizing they had a most unusual find, the men brought it into

Eureka, where it was placed on display.

The stone in which the bones were embedded was a hard, dark red

quartzite, and the bones themselves were almost black with carbonization -

indicative of great age. When the surrounding stone was carefully chipped

away, the specimen was found to be composed of a leg bone broken off

four inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower leg bones,

and the complete bones of the foot. Several medical doctors examined the

remains, and were

convinced that anatomically they had indeed once belonged to a human

being, and a very modern-looking one.

But an intriguing aspect of the bones was their size: from knee to heel they

measured 39 inches. Their owner in life had thus stood over 12 feet tall.

Compounding the mystery further was the fact that the rock in which the

bones were found was dated geologically to the era of the dinosaurs, the

Jurassic - over 185 million years old. The local papers ran several stories

on the marvelous find, and two museums sent investigators to see if any

more of the skeleton could be located. Unfortunately, nothing else but the

leg and foot existed in the rock." Strange Relics from the Depths of the

Earth--Jochmans http://www.ior.com/~kjc/pages/strange.htm

EVEN MORE RECORDS OF GIANTS:

In 1936 Larson Kohl, the German paleontologist and anthropologist,

found the bones of gigantic men on the shore of Lake Elyasi in Central

Africa. Other giant skeletons were later found in Hava, the Transvaal and

China. The evidence for the existence of giants is incontrovertible. "A

scientifically assured fact," says Dr. Louis Burkhalter.

1. Large bones in stone graves in Williamson County and White County,

Tennessee. Discovered in the early 1800s, the average stature of these

giants was 7 feet tall.

2. Giant skeletons found in the mid-1800s in New York state near Rutland

and Rodman.

3. In 1833, soldiers digging at Lompock Rancho, California, discovered a

male skeleton 12 feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by caved shells,

stone axes, other artifacts. The skeleton had double rows of upper and

lower teeth. Unfortunately, this body was secretly buried because the local

Indians became upset about the remains.

4. A giant skull and vertebrae found in Wisconsin and Kansas City.

5. A giant found off the California Coast on Santa Rosa Island in the 1800s

was distinguished by its double rows of teeth.

6. A 9-foot, 8-inch skeleton was excavated from a mount near Brewersville,

Indiana, in 1879.

7. Skeletons of "enormous dimensions" were found in mounds near

Zanesville, Ohio, and Warren, Minnesota, in the 1880s.

8. In Clearwater Minnesota, the skeletons of seven giants were found in

mounds. These had receding foreheads and complete double dentition.

9. At Le Crescent, Wisconsin, mounds were found to contain giant bones.

Five miles north near Dresbach, the bones of people over 8 feet tall were

found.

10. In 1888 seven skeletons ranging from seven to 8 feet tall were

discovered.

11. Near Toledo, Ohio, 20 skeletons were discovered with jaws and teeth

"twice as large as those of present day people." The account also noted

that odd hieroglyphics were found with the bodies.

12. Miners in Lovelock Cave, California, discovered a very tall, red-haired

mummy In 1911

13. This mummy eventually went to a fraternal lodge where it was used for

"initiation purposes."

14. In 1931, skeletons from 8 ½ to 10 feet long were found in the Humbolt

lake bed in California.

15. In 1932, Ellis Wright found human tracks in the gypsum rock at White

Sands, New Mexico. His discovery was later backed up by Fred Arthur,

Supervisor of the Lincoln National Park and others who reported that

each footprint was 22 inches long and from 8 to 10 inches wide. They were

certain the prints were human in origin due to the outline of the perfect

prints coupled with a readily apparent instep.

16. During World War II, author Ivan T. Sanderson tells of how his crew

was bulldozing through sedimentary rock when it stumbled upon what

appeared to be a graveyard. In it were crania that measured from 22 to 24

inches from base to crown nearly three times as large as an adult human

skull. Had the creatures to whom these skulls belonged been properly

proportioned, they undoubtedly would have been at least 12 feet tall or

taller.

17. In 1947 a local newspaper reported the discovery of nine-foot-tall

skeletons by amateur archeologists working in Death Valley.

18. The archeologists involved also claimed to have found what appeared

to be the bones of tigers and dinosaurs with the human remains.

19. The Catalina Islands, off California, are the home of dwarf mammoth

bones that were once roasted in ancient fire pits. These were roasted and

eaten by human-like creatures who were giants with double rows of teeth.

THE KOSSUTH GIANTS:

Kossuth: October was a month of some excitement in scientific circles as

seven strange and gigantic mummies were discovered just outside of

Kossuth Center. Marvin Rainwater, a local farmer, had been digging a

new well on his property and struck a deposit of very hard stone about

nine feet below the topsoil. In attempting to dig it out, he found that it was

more than four feet wide in every direction. Removing it would be a

terrific chore. He considered the possibility that this was a layer of

bedrock, but that would certainly be odd that close to the surface. Further,

being somewhat familiar with geologic deposits, he knew that the stone was

not the familiar limestone for which such Eastern Iowa areas like Stone

City are famous. This

was something else entirely. Upon close inspection Rainwater also saw that

the stone was not as rough as might be expected in a natural formation,

but was in fact smooth and polished. Now very curious as to the nature of

the find, he called several friends from surrounding farms and they began

an excavation. They discovered that it was not a single stone, but rather

one of at least several irregularly cut slabs stretching out over a wide area,

yet fitted so tightly together that not even a knife blade could be put

between them. Each slab measured roughly 8'x10', and when struck with a

sledge seemed to ring with a hollowness that might indicate this was not a

floor but the outside portion of a ceiling. Rainwater wondered if he had not

stumbled upon some sort of buried stone structure on his property.

Believing that there might be a way to parlay living other than farming if

he played his cards right, Mr. Rainwater contacted Georg Von Podebrad

College, who in turn dispatched a team of archeologists, anthropologists,

and geologists to the site. The researchers were delighted with the

anomalies presented them.

Firstly, the stone was not at all native to Iowa, but was in fact basalt-a

hard, dense volcanic rock composed of plagioclase, augite, and magnetite.

The type of stone used by the Egyptians to build their massive monuments.

The depth of the slabs indicated that they had been there for a very long

time, predating the advent of the kind of modern transportation and heavy

machinery needed to bring such a large quantity of foreign stone to Iowa,

and quite probably the slabs had been laid down before the last glacial

age.

It is impossible to gauge with any certainty just how long they had been

there. After the soil covering the slabs had been entirely removed, the area

covered by the stones was a perfect square measuring 188 feet on each

side. Digging around the perimeter revealed that Rainwater had been

correct, the structure did go deeper into the ground. The cyclopean

structure was revealed to be a pyramid similar in shape to one located at

Marietta, Ohio, although those mounds and monuments erected by the

prehistoric Indians were made of sun dried brick mixed with rushes. This

technique, too, is curiously similar to the Egyptian technique of brick

making with straw and mud. It took many months, but the entire

structure was finally exposed, and on the eastern side was found a massive

filled in archway with strong resemblance to those of ancient Greece. At

the bottom of the arch was a smaller arch, measuring only 6' to the

capstone. This too had been filled in and blocked off. With genuine awe

and some hesitancy the scientists of the Rainwater

Site began the work of opening the smaller entryway, wondering what

light from the first torch penetrated the gloom of the ancient structure,

Albert Grosslockner gasped at what he thought were seven huge and

exquisitely detailed statues seated in a ring around a very large and deep

fire pit. Moving closer, he realized that the figures were not carved of

stone, but were in fact the mummified remains of some giant humanoid

race.

Could what they found be in fact a prehistoric burial vault for some prehuman

creatures or was it a prison designed to hold some freakish

aberration of nature? The figures, were each fully ten feet tall even when

measured seated in their cross-legged positions. They all faced into the

circle with arms folded across their legs. Upon close examination it was

seen that they had double rows of teeth in their upper and lower jaws. The

foreheads were unusually low and sloping, with exceedingly prominent

brows. The skin of the

mysterious giants was wrinkled and tough, as though tanned, and the hair

of each of them was distinctly red in color. Their faces, still very expressive

even in death, taunted the scientists with their silence. Who, or what, were

these creatures, how had they come to be locked in this stone room, and

where had the stone itself come from originally? After careful excavation

of the site, the bodies were removed for x-ray and autopsy examination.

The excitement over the find was far in excess of the "Gypsum Man" find

in Iowa so many years before-a hoax from which the Putnam Museum of

Davenport had never fully recovered from. These giants were very real.

The medical examinations demonstrated that there was definite skeletal

structure, that they were organic creatures who had once been very much

alive.

One explanation for the mummies might lie in the legends of the Paiute

Indians who tell of a race of red-haired giants who were their mortal

enemies centuries ago. They were called the Si-Te-Cahs, driven from

Nevada by a previously unheard of alliance of tribes. Did the Si-Te-Cahs

retreat from the west to Iowa? Was the stone structure here before and

simply co-opted by the giants? No one may ever know, however it is

interesting to note that among the Indian relics held in the Kossuth County

chapter of the State Historical Society are three robes made entirely from

very long strands of red hair. We await DNA comparisons of samples

taken from the mummies and the

robes to determine a connection. In the mean-time, Marvin Rainwater has

had his farm purchased by interested parties in Hopkins Grove for an

undisclosed sum, and is quite happily no longer toiling in his fields or

digging wells.

GIANT SKULLS FOUND:

Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on Johnny

Carson's TONIGHT SHOW in the 1960s (usually with an exotic animal

with a pangolin or a lemur), once related a curious story about a letter he

received regarding an engineer who was stationed on the Aleutian island of

Shemya during World War II. While building an airstrip, his crew

bulldozed a group of hills and discovered under several sedimentary layers

what appeared to be human remains. The Alaskan mound was in fact a

graveyard of gigantic human remains, consisting of crania and long leg

bones. The crania measured

from 22 to 24 inches from base to crown. Since an adult skull normally

measures about eight inches from back to front, such a large crania would

imply an immense size for a normally proportioned human. Furthermore,

every skull was said to have been neatly trepanned (a process of cutting a

hole in the upper portion of the skull).

In fact, the habit of flattening the skull of an infant and forcing it to

grow in an elongated shape was a practice used by ancient Peruvians, the

Mayas, and the Flathead Indians of Montana. Sanderson tried to gather

further proof, eventually receiving a letter from another member of the

unit who confirmed the report. The letters both indicated that the

Smithsonian Institution had collected the remains, yet nothing else was

heard. Sanderson seemed convinced that the Smithsonian Institution had

received the bizarre

relics, but wondered why they would not release the data. He asks, ""...is it

that these people cannot face rewriting all the textbooks?""

GIANT FOOTPRINTS:

In South Africa, a giant footprint of a woman measuring over 4 feet long

has been carbon dated at approximately 9 million years old. Pointing to

the probability of this being a female human-like species' foot,

proportionally the two-legged being would need to be some 30 feet tall!

The local African people commonly refer to this as a highly revered and

sacred site. Giants, twice the size of gorillas, were found in Java.

The petrified remains of a giant were found in South Africa. A well-known

anthropologist declared that these remains showed that these man's

ancestors must have been giants.

GIANT DEVILS:

Within an ancient burial mound near the town of Sayre in Bradford

County, Pennsylvania, skeletons measuring approximately 7 feet in length

were discovered in the 1800s. But the most remarkable feature of these tall

skeletons was not their height, but the strange horn-like protrusions above

the brow region on their skulls. It was estimated that they were buried

around 1200 AD. According to some sources, the skeletons were sent to the

"American Investigating Museum" in Philadelphia, and vanished.

REVISED ARTICLES:

In Lampec-Rancho California, in 1833, soldiers discovered a skeleton 11'

9'' long which was covered with boulders with an unidentified writing. A

similar writing was unearthed on the isle of Santa Maria off the cost of Los

Angeles. In July of 1887 in Eureka Nevada, a human leg was found

measuring 38.9 inches form the knee to the heel. The man was over 11 foot

tall. In Crittenton Arizona in 1891 a sarcophagus was uncovered

containing a human 3 meters high and had 12 toes. More recently

skeletons ranging from 2.8 meters to 3.12 meters were found by soviets in

the Caucasus Mountains. In China

skeletons 10 feet tall have been found. In the Philippines a giant human

skeleton was found at gargation, Measuring 17 feet long. In the Eagle three

Cole mine at Bear Creek Montana in 1920 two human molars were found

three times larger than normal. In Braton Tennessee human footprints

were found in solid rock 33 inches log and one foot wide. These also have

six toes each.

Tools found in Morocco are so large their users must have been at least 12

foot tall. Other Giants found around the world are: the Java giant, the

south China giant, and the South Africa giant. (See The Timeless Earth p.

26)

In 1833,soldiers digging a pit for a powder magazine at Lompock

Rancho, California, hacked their way through a layer of cemented gravel

and came up with the skeleton of a giant man about twelve feet tall. The

skeleton was surrounded by carved shells, huge stone axes, and blocks of

porphyry covered with unintelligible symbols. The giant was also

noteworthy in still another respect :He had a double row of teeth, both

upper and lower. When the natives began to attach some religious

significance to the find, authorities ordered the skeleton and all the

artifacts secretly reburied- and, of course, lost to the scientific study they

deserved.

This particular giant, incidentally, bore marked similarity to another, that

of a giant man with double rows of teeth whose skeletal remains were dug

up on Santa Rosa Island, off the California coast. Subsequent research has

shown that he, or his descendants, feasted on the small elephants which

once lived on that island and which have vanished like the giants who ate

them, countless ages ago.

Near Crittenden, Arizona, in 1891, workmen excavating for a commercial

building came upon a huge stone sarcophagus eight feet below the surface.

The contractor called in expert help, and the sarcophagus was opened to

reveal a granite mummy case which had once held the body of a human

being more than twelve feet tall -a human with six toes, according to the

carving of the case. But the body had been buried so many thousands of

years that it had

long since turned to dust. Just another silent witness to the truth of

Genesis, which tells us that there were giants in the earth in those

days, the excavation of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the

world, shocked archeologists.

These skeletons were positively human. Some of these skeletal remains are

on Maui in lava caves near Ulupalakua and Olowalu. An example of this is

the "mysterious" disappearance of more than 50 perfectly kept gigantic

antediluvian skeletons (between 10-14 feet tall) found in a cave in Arizona.

Earth Giants : over the years a number of gigantic human skeletons have

been unearthed. The most distinctive of these were the remains of some

American giants found in the 1880s at Tioga Point, near Sayre in Bradford

County, Pennsylvania, as recounted by Robert Lyman in Forbidden Land.

Some other examples include the following:

A decayed human skeleton claimed by eyewitnesses to measure around

3.28 metres (10 feet 9 inches tall), was unearthed by labourers while

ploughing a vineyard in November 1856 in East Wheeling, now in West

Virginia.

A human skeleton measuring 3.6 metres (12 foot) tall was unearthed at

Lompock Rancho, California, in 1833 by soldiers digging in a pit for a

powder magazine. The specimen had a double row of teeth and was

surrounded by numerous stone axes, carved shells and porphyry blocks

with abstruse symbols associated with it.

Several mummified remains of red haired humans ranging from 2-2.5

metres (6.5 feet to over 8 feet) tall were dug up at Lovelock Cave, (70

miles) north-east of Reno, Nevada, by a guano mining operation. These

bones substantiated legends by the local Piute Indians regarding giants

which they called Si-Te-Cahs. For some reason scientists did not seem to

want to investigate these finds further so many of the bones were lost.

Fortunately one of the giant Lovelock skulls is still preserved today. It

measures almost 30cm (1 foot) tall and resides along with other various

Lovelock artifacts in the Humboldt Museum in Winnemucca, Nevada.

Some of these artifacts can also be found in the Nevada State Historical

Society's museum at Reno.

THE HUBBARD DISCOVERY:

In this magazine for September, 1923, we mentioned a reported discovery

by Mr. Samuel Hubbard, of remains of giants in the Grand Canyon of

Arizona. Owing to press unreliability, we did not notice this to a great

extent. We have now, however, obtained more knowledge on the subject,

and there remains no doubt that Mr. Hubbard has actually made a

discovery composed of the following parts:

(a) Petrified bodies of two human beings about 18 and 15 feet in height

respectively. One of these is buried under a recent rock fall which would

require several days' work to remove; the other, of which Mr. Hubbard

took photographs, is in a crevice of difficult accessibility. The bodies are

formed of a limestone petrification embedded in sandstone.

(b) An ancient beach, now sandstone, containing a great number of

footprints of a giant race, men, women and children; the prints of adults

about 17 to 20 inches in length, and corresponding in size and shape to the

Carson City and Blue Ridge prints.

EVEN MORE GIANT RECORDS:

According to a press clipping, dated Nayarit, Mexico, May 14, 1926, Capts.

D. W. Page and F. W. Devalda discovered the bones of a race of giants who

averaged over ten feet in height. Local legends state that they came from

Ecuador. Nothing more has been heard of this, but that is not surprising;

the word "giant" will flutter the feathers of any scientist into rapid flight,

metaphorically speaking, in the opposite direction. So also with a report

from the Washington Post, June 22, 1925, and the New York Herald-

Tribune, June 21, 1925. A mining party, it is reported, found skeletons

measuring 10 to 12 feet, with feet 18 to 20 inches long, near Sisoguiche,

Mexico. The Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, says that explorers in

Mexico located large human bones near Tapextla, indicating a race of

"gigantic size." All this, if unfounded, would be straining

coincidence or imagination pretty far.

Press accounts say that the skeleton of a gigantic man, with head missing,

has been unearthed at El Boquin, on the Mico River, in the Chontales

district. The ribs are a yard long and four inches wide and the shin bone is

too heavy for one man to carry. "Chontales" is an Indian word, meaning

"wild men."

In the late 1950's during road construction in Homs southeast Turkey,

many tombs of Giants were indeed unearthed. These tombs were 4 meters

long, and when entered in 2 cases the human thigh bones were measured

to be 47.24 inches in length. They calculated that the person who owned

this Femur probably stood at fourteen to sixteen feet tall. A cast of this

bone is seen at the Creationist museum in Texas.

Flavius Josephus, the noted Jewish historian of the first century A.D.,

described the giants as having "bodies so large and countenances so

entirely different from other men that they were surprising to the sight

and terrible to the hearing." And he adds that in his day, the bones of the

giants were still on display!

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Tales of Gtant Skeletons Found j

In the late 1950s, along the Euphrates River valley in southeastern Turkey, a road construction

crew uncovered a tomb containing a human skeleton, measuring some 15 feet in length.

Consequently, several tombs of giants were uncovered in the area,

Archeologist Joe Taylor and his grandson are seen in the photo with a sculpted copy of the femur

bone above. Joe Taylor operates the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, in Crosbyton, Texas

(www.mtbianeo.com).

Taylor also reports on several other finds recorded in history. In 613, a skeleton was found

near the casde of Chaumont in France, The giant skeleton was reported to be 25 feet, 6 inches

long. In 1456, a 23-foot skeleton was found beside a river in Valence, France. In 1577, a human

skeleton was found under an overturned oak tree in the Canton of Lucerne. It was reported to be

19 feet, six inches long.

But most incredible of all, is the story of two separate 36-foot human remains found by

Carthaginians somewhere between 200 and 600 B.C.

Joe Taylor And Son With Display of

Giant Leg Bone in his Mt Blanco Fossil

Museum

Giant Bones in a Mound

Professor A. B. Skinner and Professor W. X. Morehead of Phillips Andover Academy, and Dr.

George Donohue, Pennsylvania State Historian, who have been conducting research searching

the valley of the Susquehanna have uncovered an Indian mound at Tiogan Point on the upper

portion of Queen Esther’s Flats, on what is known as the Murray farm... In the mound uncovered

were found the bones of sixty-eight men which are believed to have been buried 700 years ago.

The average height of these men was twelve feet... Further evidence of their giant size was found

in large celts or axes hewed from stone and buried in the grave. On some of the skulls, two inches

above the perfectly formed forehead, were protuberances of bone. Members of the expedition say

that it is the first discovery of its kind on record and It valuable contribution to the history of the

early races. The skull and a few bones found in one grave were sent to the American Indian

Museum. (THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 14, 1916)

THE SKELETAL REMAINS OF HUMAN GIANTS UNEARTHED

A famous Ohio mound gives up the remains of human skeletons, some in good condition, while

most crumbled to dust when exposed to air. Although the full dimensions of the skeletons were

not given, it is stated that the skulls themselves were huge or twice the size of contemporary

humans. Also, some of the stone hand implements used by this race are described as being of

“extremely large size.”

INDIAN MOUND

STRANGE AND IMPROBABLE

SKELETONS

At the center of one of the large Ohio burial mounds, excavators In 1891 found the

skeleton of a massive man wrapped in copper armor. On the head was a copper cap, and copper

moldings encased the jaws. The arms were clad in copper, and so were the chest and stomach.

On either side of the head were wooden antlers encased in copper, and the mouth cavity was

filed with immense but decayed pearls. Around the neck was a necklace of bear’s teeth inlaid

with pearls. Beside the skeleton of the giant lay that of a woman.

The remains were found at a depth of 14 feet in a mound 500 feet long. 200 feet

wide, and 28 feet high. (NATURE, 45:157, DECEMBER 17, 1891)

SEVEN SKELETONS FOUND

Seven skeletons were found in a burial mound near Clearwater, Minnesota, in 1888. They had

double rows of teeth in the upper and lower jaws and had been buried in a sitting position.

facing the lake. The foreheads were unusually low and sloping, with prominent brows. (THE

SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS PIONEER PRESS, JULY 1, 1888)

NINE FOOT SKELETON

A skeleton nine feet eight inches tall was recovered from a stone burial mound at

Brewersville, Indiana, in 1879. A mica necklace was around the neck, and a crude

human image of burnt clay embedded with pieces of flint stood at the feet. The mound,

between 3 and 5 feet high and 71 feet in diameter was excavated by Indiana archaeologists

scientific observers from New York and Ohio, a local physician, Dr. Charles Green, and the

owner of the property on which the mound stood, a Mr. Robison.

The bones were kept by the Robison family in a basket in a nearby grain mill. They

were lost when a flood swept away the mill in 1937. (THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS,

NOVEMBER 10, 1975)

MORE ON HUMAN GIANTS OF ANCIENT AMERICA

A reporter alludes to giants being uncovered from huge animal shaped mounds located 80

miles west of Madison Wisconsin However the excavations are being carried on by Smithsonian

archaeologists who generally are careful as to what kinds of information is released to the public.

Hence, the dimensions of the giants, the likely builders of the aforesaid mounds, were not given

(August 10, 1819 2:3, 4th paragraph).

Extensive study of human remains and artifacts found in mounds in Georgia and other southern

states leads to an 1846 report that, in ancient America, powerful giants engaged in a number of

battles. n (THE NEW YORK TIMES. JULY 25, 1879, 2:5,)

SKELETONS WITH HUGE SKULLS

UNCOVERED

Today, 18 skeletons of a “hitherto Unknown race were found in a

mound at Lake Delavan in southern Wisconsm The skulls of the skeletons (those which were

presumed to be the males) were unusually large. The various lengths of the skeletons Uncovered

were not revealed. [THE NEW YORK TIMES MAY 4, 1912]

OLD SKELETON IS FOUND

PANA, Illinois. June 20--

Workmen digging in a mound on a farm northwest of here unearthed today a skeleton more than

six feet long, believed to be of a man of the prehistoric period buried by Indian Mound Builders.

A clay pipe and a vase also were found.

(THE NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 21, 1924- 15:5.)

INDIAN GRAVES YIELD

SHENANDOAH RELICS

Flood waters near Berryville. Virginia unearth a 7 1/2 foot skeleton of an ancient human. Of

course, when this human, to whom the bones belonged, was alive in the flesh he would have been

more like 7 feet. 9 inches tall. Also, this skeleton like some others found in the same area had

generally 2 to 3 times the mass as that of contemporary humans. The grave where the skeleton

was found was centrally located amongst other graves, perhaps, testifying to the important

position in society that the owner of these bones once held.

Another find, much larger than the first, was on the farm of Felix McManus, near Berryville,

Virginia This is supposed to be an old Indian cemetery, and the unearthing was done by floods

when the Shenandoah River was unusually high. Practically the same sort of relics were found,

including a tomahawk. The graves were grouped around a center one in which the skeleton

measured seven and one-half feet. (THE NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE 81 1924 - VIII, 2:7.)
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