Forgotten Ages Research

Have We Shattered the Atom Before?—Signs of a Former Nuclear Age

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Report Topics:

• Greek, Hindu and Arabic knowledge about the nature of the atom and quantum physics
• Use of radioactive materials by the Megalithic builders and the ancient Egyptians for healing and for protection
• World-wide memories of the effects of a nuclear blast and radioactive fallout
• Detailed descriptions of nuclear warfare from Tibet, ancient India and among Native Americans
• Melted ruins with high levels of radioactivity found in India
• The continuing enigma of the fissioned uranium deposits discovered at Oklo, Gabon in west Africa
• Report Update—Differentiating Between Types of Events and Time Periods

Full Report:

The concept of the atom is one which stretches back into unknown antiquity. The Roman scholar Lucretius, in the first century B.C.E., wrote about particles of matter “rushing everlastingly throughout all space.” Both Epicurus (fourth century B.C.E.) and Leucippus (fifth century B.C.E.) accepted the atomic theory which they attributed to the Greek Democritus. He once stated a reality which modern physicists accepted only within the last century:

“There is nothing but atoms and space.”

But the Greek philosopher made the mistake of claiming that atoms were the final basis of all matter, and were thus indivisible. Democritus received his concept of the atom from the Phoenician Moschus, who preserved an even older tradition that contained the more accurate fact that atoms, while the basis of matter, were indeed divisible—proven only within the last half of the twentieth century by the discovery of a myriad of sub-atomic particles.

The tradition of Moschus may have been derived from India, where one finds the most in-depth study of atomic theory recorded from the ancient sources. The Hindu sage Uluka, over two and a half millennia ago, spoke of all objects being composed of paramanu or “seeds of matter.” The Varahamira Table, dated to 550 B.C.E., attempted to measure th size of an atomic particle, and the figure given is close to that known today for the hydrogen atom.

Several Sanskrit books contain references to divisions of time that cover a very wide spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, according to Hindu texts dealing with cosmology, is the kalpa or “day of Brahma,” a period equivalent to 4.32 billion years.

At the other end, as described in the Brihath Sathaka, we find the kashta, which when one works out the various time divisions within divisions, translated into one three hundred millionths of a second.

Modern Sanskrit scholars have no idea why such large and such miniscule time divisions were necessary in antiquity. All they know is that they were used in the past, and they are obliged to preserve their tradition.

Time divisions of any kind, however, presupposes that the duration of something has been measured. The only thing that exists in Nature that can be measured in terms of billions of years on one extreme or hundred millionths of a second on the other, is the half-life disintegration rates of atomic radio-isotopes. These rates range from elements like uranium 238, with a half-life of 4.51 billion years, to sub-atomic particles such as K mesons and hyperons, with mean half-lives measured in the hundred millionths of a second.

The spectrum of ancient Hindu time divisions and the time spans of radio-isotope disintegrations thus coincide, and the former could easily have been used to measure the latter. If the ancient Hindus—or an earlier civilization from which the Hindus inherited their time divisions—had a technology that could discover and measure nuclear and sub-atomic matter, it means that the releasing of nuclear energy was also accessible to them.

There are many indications that radioactivity was not only measured, but was put to practical uses that we can only guess at today. Researcher Robert Charroux discovered that the megalithic pyramidal mound of Couhard, France was constructed using radioactive mortar. The structure originally stood about one hundred feet high, and was made of large phyllite stone blocks. The mortar, an orthase of limestone and caustic pitch, acts as an alkaline electrolyte upon the rock, and the reaction causes the emission of K41 gamma rays, which can still be measured today. A shaft led into the interior of the pyramidal mound, where a chamber existed as an accumulator. Did prehistoric humankind come here to receive radiation treatments for illnesses?

Radioactive uranium and thorium exist in some quantities in gold deposits, and the ancient Egyptians were more than likely familiar with these elements in their gold mining operations in Nubia, the modern Sudan. Nuclear scientist Professor Luis Bulgani is convinced that the Egyptians utilized radioactive materials as a form of protection. He stated in 1949:

“I believe that the ancient Egyptians understood the laws of atomic decay. Their priests and wise men were familiar with uranium. It is definitely possible that they used radiation in order to protect their holy places. The floors of the tombs could have been finished with radioactive rock. Such radiation could kill a man or at least damage his health.”

Many early famous Egyptologists and archaeologists who spent considerable time in exploring the ancient tombs along the Nile, died from mysterious causes. Without warning, they succumbed from circulatory collapse, severe fatigue, respiratory difficulties or brain damage and mental derangement—all symptoms of radiation poisoning.

The ancient Egyptians may have understood what Madame Joliot-Curie discovered only in 1934—that particle bombardment of non-radioactive materials can make them radioactive. One wonders if the many amulets and other curious pieces of jewelry wrapped into the mummy bandages were more than symbolic in their purpose--that instead they were deadly guardians that fatally contaminated all those who disturbed the mummy’s peace.

Oftentimes, cryptic legends or ancient texts may hide possible allusions to nuclear weapons and their effects. In China, the literary work Feng-Shen-I contains the account of a war between the Four Heavenly Giants of Ching-chang with Chiang-Tzu-ya and General Huang-fei-hu of Hsich’I. E. T. C. Werner relates how during the course of the war one of the Giants, Mo-li ch’ing, released a magic spear called the “Blue Cloud,” and what was its aftermath:

“It caused a black wind which produced tens of thousands of spears which pierced the bodies of men and turned them to dust. The wind was followed by the fire-wheel which filled the air with tens of thousands of fiery serpents. The thick smoke blinded and burnt men, with none being able to escape.”

Do we have here, in mythic terminology, a description of a nuclear blast?

The Pangive, a tribe of the African Bantu, preserves this strange story:

“The lightning of life lay packed within its special egg. The first mother received fire from it. When the egg broke open, out of it came all visible things. The upper half turned into a great mushroom tree, rising high into the heaven.”

O.E. Gurney quoted an ancient Hittite inscription which described:

“Dust clouds rise to the window of heaven, the houses glow like the embers of a hearth. The gods are stifled in their temples. The sheep die in their fold, oxen in their stall. The ewe spurns her lamb, the cow her calf. Barley and emmer wheat grow no more. Oxen, sheep, men cease to conceive, and those pregnant cannot bear.”

One of the most amazing literary testimonies to man-made destruction among ancient advanced civilizations is found in the Tibetan Stanzas of Dzyan, translated at the end of the nineteenth century. The Stanzas depict a holocaust engulfing two warring nations who utilize flying vehicles and fiery weapons:

“The great King of the Dazzling Face, the chief of all the Yellow-faced, was sad, seeing the evil intentions of the Dark-faced. He sent his airships to all his brother chiefs with pious men within, saying, Prepare, arise, men of good law, and escape while the land has not yet been overwhelmed by the waters.

“The Lords of the Storm are also approaching. Their war vehicles are nearing the land. One night and two days only shall the Lord of the Dark-faced arrive on this patient land. She is doomed when the waters descend on her. The Lords of the Dark-eyed have prepared their magic, their Fire Weapon. They are also versed in the Ashtar High Wisdom. Come and use yours.

“Let every Lord of the Dazzling Face ensnare the airship of every Lord of the Dark-faced, lest any of them escape.

“The great King fell upon his Dazzling Face and wept. When the kings were assembled, the waters of the earth had already been disturbed. The nations crossed the dry lands. They went beyond the watermark. The kings reached then the safe lands in their airships and arrived in the land of Fire and Metal.

“Star-missiles showered on the lands of the Dark-faced while they slept. The speaking beasts (radios?) remained quiet. The Lords waited for orders, but they came not, for their masters slept. The waters rose and covered the valleys. In the high lands there dwelt those who escaped, the men of the yellow faces and the straight eye.”

Even though the translation of these texts was made more than a century ago, it describes forms of nuclear destruction we have become familiar with only with the last half century. It is also significant that the man-made destruction depicted is coupled with cataclysmic movements of ocean waters. The massive flooding may have been touched off by the fiery holocaust, but more likely the inundation was a result of a sudden sea-level change caused by the sudden melting of Ice Age glaciers. If the “Lords of the Yellow-faced” were prehistoric Mongolian inhabitants of the Gobi region, the flooding described may have been the great tidal wave that swept across eastern Asia and into Siberia at the end of the Pleistocene. If this is true, however, it means that the forgotten nuclear war and watery destruction occurred over twelve thousand years ago.

Interesting evidence of a nuclear holocaust in remote antiquity is found on the Pacific isle of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. Apart from its huge monolithic statues and curious form of writing, the lonely landfall is also famous for a unique form of wood carving called maoi-kavakava.

The carving invariably represents a shrunken and diminished man, with unusual care taken to reproduce certain grotesque anatomical features. The first Europeans to visit Rapa Nui reported that the indigenous peoples were often willing to part with these little statues, as if they did not belong to them.

Even today, the miniature men are regarded by the Islanders as something fearful and alien, a memory of something that was not of their experience, but horrifying nonetheless.

Local legend attributes these statues to King Tu-ukoiho. One night, the King caught a glimpse of two misshapen, dwarfish beings who be believed were the spirits of the last members of a race that had once inhabited the island long before the present Polynesian population. Even though he saw them for only a moment, and afterwards they were never seen again, so strong an impression did these wretched men make on the King, that he immediately set out to sculpture a replica of them.

The modern kavakava statues are the faithful copies of the King’s original. The art form of these carvings is not Polynesian, in the least, and the sculpted facial features—hooked nose, staring eyes and small, square beard—appear to be Semitic. But the most interesting peculiarities are the appearance of the body. It is emaciated, with goiters, tumor growths, clenched mouth, collapsed cervical vertebrae and a distinguishable break between the lumbar and dorsal vertebrae. All these are medical indications of exposure to a severe dosage of radiation.

Legends of great battles with terrible weapons being utilized in dim antiquity are to be found throughout the world. Greek mythic historians told the story of a war lasting ten years between the Titans and the Olympians which ended in a stalemate. But then mighty Zeus, “no longer restrained his soul, but straightway his mind was filled with fury and he showed forth all his might.”

He called forth his “divine weapons” from Kyklopes and Hekatoncheires. In his palms the King of the Gods first “rolled the holy flame,” and finally “his bolts flew from his hand.” The life-giving earth “crashed as it burned, and the infinite wood cried aloud with fire.” The oceans boiled and volcanoes hurled forth with hundreds of rocks. The Titans were soon defeated, to be bound and imprisoned forever in the land of Tartarus.

Ethnologist R. Baker, in a study of the folklore of the Piute Canadian First Peoples, was told the following legend by chief Mezzaluma. The legend speaks of a time, “before the cold descended from the north,” when the bleak Canadian tundra was instead rich in vegetation:

“In the days when great forests and flowering meadows were here, demons came and made slaves of our people and sent the young to die among the rocks below the ground (mining?). But then arrived the thunderbird and our people were freed. We learned about the marvelous cities of the thunderbird which were beyond the big lakes and rivers to the south. Many of our people left us and saw these shining cities and witnessed the grand homes and the mystery of men who flew upon the skies. But then the demons returned, and there was terrible destruction. Those of our people who had gone southward, returned to declare that all life in the cities was gone—nothing but silence remained.”

This is all the Piutes know. They can give no more details about these events. They know only this story, which has been repeated to them by their forefathers. Significantly, the mention of “forests and meadows” growing on the now northern tundra of Canada at the same time as these events happened, points back to an era before the last Ice Age, more than fifty thousand years ago.

The Hopis of the American Southwest have a very similar tradition, which offers yet another glimpse of unrecorded history. The story is called Kuskurza, the Third World Age of the Lost Ancients, and is preserved by Frank Waters:

“Some of these of the Third World made a potuwvotas, or flying shield, and with their magical powers made it soar through the sky. On this many of them flew to a great city, attacked it and returned so quickly that they did not know where they had come from. Soon others from many nations were making potuwvotas, and flew to attack one another. So corruption and destruction came to the Third World peoples, as it had come to those who were before.”

In ancient India the texts of the Karna Parva recounts the story of “the War of the Gods and Asuras” waged by the great ruler Sankara Mahadeva against his enemies, the Daityas and Danavas. The ruler went forth in his “radiant celestial vehicle” and attacked the triple-city of Tripura, totally destroying it with his “god-given weapon” and sending “all the rebellious races burning to the bottom of the Western Ocean.” The texts in Chapter XXXIV of the Karna Parva say that:

“The illustrious deity sped forth, and his shaft which represented the might of the whole universe penetrated the triple city. Loud wails of woe were heard from all those within as they began to fall. Thus was the triple city burnt and thus were the Asuras burned and the Danavas exterminated by the gods.”

Two other ancient treatises from India, the Drona Bhisheka (Chapter XI) and the Harivamsa (Chapter LVI), offer descriptions of other major destructions from the same war in which whole cities were “consumed in an all-encompassing infero“ and “plunged into the water depths.” These accounts conclude with the defeat of a peoples called the Avantis—very close to Plato’s Atlantis.

In the Hindu epic poems of the Mahabharata and Ramayana are even more detailed descriptions of an age thousands of years ago when great god-kings rode about in their Vimanas or flying craft and waged war by launching powerful weapons at their enemies.

The descriptions given of these weapons in the ancient verses—their force, the characteristics of their destruction and the after-affects—sound disturbingly modern. The texts describe:

*The thunderbolt of Indra was endowed with the force of thousand-eyed Indra’s thunder.
*The bolt of death measured three cubits by six. It was the unknown weapon, the iron thunderbolt of Indra, the messenger of death.
*The projectile was charged with all the power of the Universe.
*The Agneya weapon was capable of being resisted by none of the very gods themselves.
*The Brahma-danda or Brahma’s rod was even more powerful.
*Though it struck only once, it smote whole countries and entire races from generation to generation.
*Adwattan let loose the blazing missile of smokeless fire.
*The missile burst with the power of thunder.
*The flying missile ruined whole cities filled with forts.
*The three cities of the Vrishnis and Andhakas were destroyed together in one instant.
*An incandescent column of smoke and fire as brilliant as ten thousand suns rose in all its splendor.
*Clouds roared upward showering dust and gravel.
*Dense arrows of flame like a great shower issued forth upon creation, encompassing the enemy on all sides.
*The sky blazed and the ten points of the horizon filled with smoke.
*Meteors flashed down from the sky.
*Fierce winds began to blow, and the very elements seemed disturbed.
*The sun appeared to waver in the heavens.
*The earth and all its mountains and seas and forests began to tremble.
*The wind blew as a fierce storm and the earth glowed.
*No one saw the fire—it was unseen. Yet it consumed everything.
*As rain poured down it was dried in mid-air by the heat.
*Birds croaked madly, and beasts shuddered from the destruction.
*Animals crumpled to the ground, their heads broken, and they died over a vast region.
*Elephants burst into flame, running to and fro in frenzy seeking protection.
*The waters of rivers and lakes boiled and the creatures residing therein perished.
*Thousands of war vehicles fell down on either side.
*Whole armies collapsed like trees in a forest burnt where they stood as in a raging fire.
*Corpses were so burnt they were no longer recognizable.
*The gaze of the Kapilla weapon was powerful enough to burn fifty thousand men to ashes.
*The thunderbolt reduced to ashes the entire race of Vrishnis and Ankhakas.
*To escape the breath of death the warriors leapt into rivers to wash themselves and bury their armor.
*Hair and nails fell out.
*Unborn children were killed in the womb.
*Birds were born with white feathers, red feet and in the shape of turtles.
*Pottery broke without cause.
*All foods became poisoned and inedible.
*The land was afflicted by drought thereafter for ten long years.

There are too many details here that are frighteningly similar to an eye-witness account of a nuclear explosion—the brightness of the blast, the column of rising smoke and fire, the fallout, intense heat and shock waves, the appearance of the victims and the effects of radiation poisoning. More than half a century ago these ancient descriptions were considered mere fantasy—but with the advent of the Nuclear Age in 1945, suddenly the texts from ancient India take on a whole new meaning.

There are remains that strongly suggest that nuclear wars were indeed waged in the distant past. According to the Mahabharata, the Great Bharata War in which flying Vimanas and fiery weapons were used, involved prehistoric inhabitants along the upper Ganges River of northern India. Precisely in the region, between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, are numerous charred ruins which have yet to be explored or excavated.

Observations made in the nineteenth century indicated that the ruins were not burnt by ordinary fire. In many instances they appeared as huge masses fused together with deeply pitted surfaces—described as being like tin struck by a stream of molten steel.

Some scholars are of the opinion that the horrific war which brought about the fall of the prehistoric Rama Empire in India was once fought in the region of what is now Kashmir. Just outside of Srinigar are the massive ruins of a temple complex called Parshaspur, whose multi-ton stone blocks are scattered over a wide area. The configuration of the blocks is suggestive of a tremendous explosion having once destroyed the site. It is not without karmic significance that today the two modern southern Asian nuclear powers—India and Pakistan—are bitter rivals, and one of the elements of their contention is the disputed region of Kashmir.

Farther to the south among the dense forests of the Deccan are more such ruins which may be of earlier origin, pointing back to a war antedating that the Mahabharata, and which encompassed a far greater area. The walls are glazed, corroded and split by a tremendous heat. Within several of the buildings that remain standing even the stone furnishings have been vitrified. That is, the surfaces of the rock have been melted and re-crystallized.

No natural burning flame or volcanic eruption could have produced a heat intense enough to cause this phenomena. Only a strong radiated heat could have done this damage. In this same region as this second group of ruins, Russian researcher Alexander Gorbovsky reported in 1966 the discovery of a human skeleton with radiation fifty times above normal levels.

In January, 1992 a news report was published concerning the discovery of a three-square mile area of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, located ten miles west of Jodhpur. The development of a housing project in this area had to be abandoned because of the high incidents of recurring cancer and birth defects.

A nuclear power plant recently built in the region was thought to be the culprit, but a five-member scientific team, headed by project foreman Lee Hundley, dispatched to study the mystery found a very different source. They eventually unearthed the charred remains of buildings thought to be at least eight to twelve millennia old which were once inhabited by perhaps as many as half a million people.

The prehistoric city had all the appearance—and the tell-tale radioactive residue—of having been destroyed by a nuclear weapon the scientists estimated was about the same size as that which destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Archaeologist Francis Taylor, in a follow-up to this initial discovery, found historical wall engravings and texts in a nearby temple which depicted the local people as praying to be spared from the “great light” that was coming to destroy their city. The inscriptions appeared to have been copied from older sources going back several thousands of years. Taylor was quoted as saying:

“It’s so mind-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.”

In order to protect the local population, the ash and ruins were carefully covered over to barricade against the remaining radiation, and today only a length of thick concrete highway running through the area is all that can be seen.

It may be more than coincidental that at the time the mysterious city was destroyed in Rajasthan circa twelve thousand years ago, there was also an increase in traces of copper, tin and lead in ice cores from around the world—indicative of huge amounts of pollutants suddenly being thrown into the upper atmosphere and circulated around the globe—as well as a dramatic increase in uranium concentrations in coral growths from 1.5 parts per million to over 4 parts per million. Paleo-climatologists have never been able to explain these increases as a natural occurrence.

If the Ancients used nuclear power for destructive means, did they also once utilize it peacefully, as an everyday energy source?

On September 25, 1972, Dr. Francis Perrin, former chairman of the French High Commission for Atomic Energy, presented a report to the French Academy of Sciences concerning the discovery of the remains of a prehistoric nuclear chain reaction.

Perrin’s first inkling came when workers at the French Uranium Enrichment Center observed that uranium ore from a new mine at Oklo, forty miles northwest of Franceville in Gabon, West Africa, was markedly depleted of uranium 235. All uranium deposits in the world today contain 0.715 percent of U235, but the Oklo mine uranium showed levels as low as 0.621 percent.

The only explanation that could be given for the missing U235 was that it had been “burned” in a chain reaction. Evidence in support of this conclusion surfaced when investigators at the French Atomic Center at Cadarache detected four rare elements—neodymium, samarium, europium and cesium—in forms that are typical of the residue form uranium fission.

Dr. Perrin concluded his report with the opinion that the Oklo uranium had undergone a nuclear chain reaction wich had been spontaneously set off by natural causes. Since the Oklo uranium depostis were geologically estimated to be 1.7 billion years old, Dr. Perrin suggested thatthis is when the reaction took place, for at that time the uranium would have been at its purest.

Following the publication of Dr. Perrin’s report, however, serious questions concerning his conclusions were raised by many experts. Glenn T, Seaborg, former head of the United States Atomic Energy Commission and Nobel prize winner for his work in the synthesis of heavy elements, pointed out that for uranium to “burn” in a reaction, conditions must be exactly right. Water is needed as a moderator to slow down the neutrons released as each uranium atom is split, in order to sustain a chain reaction. This water must be extremely pure. Even a few parts per million of any contaminant will “poison” the reaction, bringing it to a halt. The problem is that no water that pure exists naturally anywhere in the world.

A second objection to Dr. Perrin’s report involved the uranium itself. Several specialists in reactor engineering remarked that at no time in the geologically estimated history of the Oklo deposits was the uranium ore rich enough in U235 for a natural reaction to have taken place.

Even when the deposits supposedly were first formed, because of the slow rate of radioactive disintegration of U235, the naturally occurring fissionable material would have constituted only 3 percent of the deposits—far too low a level for a “burn.” Yet the reaction did take place, suggesting that the original uranium was far richer than a natural formation could have been.

So what remains is evidence of a nuclear reaction that cannot be explained by natural means. If nature was not responsible, then the reaction must have been produced artificially. Is it possible that the Oklo uranium is the “spent” processed and enriched fuel from a prehistoric nuclear reactor, produced by an unknown civilization who deliberately buried their contaminated waste long ago in West Africa?

Significantly, the “burned” uranium at Oklo is found in not one but thirteen distinct “zones” or deposits spread out over a mile, with a configuration which suggests someone in the unknown past had buried the waste materials with a specific purpose in mind. The site itself is well chosen for the task of containment, for despite being extremely old, the waste deposits have not migrated outside their designated “zones,” held in place by the surrounding geology.

Physicist Frederick Soddy made this significant statement in 1920 concerning the peaceful use of atomic physics as portrayed in ancient myths and legends:

“One is tempted to inquire how far the unsuspected aptness of some of these beliefs and sayings to the point of view so recently disclosed is the result of mere chance or coincidence, and how far it may be evidence of a wholly unknown and unsuspected ancient civilization of which all other relics have disappeared.

“It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legends of the philosopher’s stone, one of the earliest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we probably do not trace to its real source.

“The philosopher’s stone was accredited the power not only of transmuting metals, but of acting as the elixir of life. Now, whatever the origins of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect but very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views of atomic physics we hold today. It does not require much effort of the imagination to see in energy the life of the physical universe and the key to the primary fountain of the physical universe today known to be transmutation. Is, then, this old association of the power of transmutation with the elixir of life merely coincidence?

“I prefer to believe it may be an echo from one of many previous epochs in the unrecorded history of the world, of an age of men which trod before the road we are treading today, in a past possibly so remote that even the very atoms of its civilization literally have had time to disintegrate.”

Yet every science also has its darker aspects, and Soddy added these ominous words:

“Can we not read in these legends some justification for the belief that some former forgotten race of men attained not only to the knowledge we have so recently won, but also to the power that is not yet ours? I believe that there have been civilizations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.”

Report Update—Differentiating Between Types of Events and Time Periods

Part of the confusion that some researchers have had in identifying various global sites as having been affected by nuclear destruction in the distant past is that all the tell-tale widespread evidence of extensive melted stone actually belong to two separate and distinct events.

First, about the eleventh millennium B.C.E.occurred a major prehistoric global nuclear conflict that ended a number of forgotten advanced civilizations in a fiery holocaust.

Second, toward the end of the fourth and beginning of the third millennium B.C.E., someone attempted to turn on a solar tap energy accumulator that resulted in a major cataclysmic electrical avalanche between the Earth’s ionosphere and its surface, that literally burned out and melted parts of the energy grid of the planet at very specific geometric points.

The only real way to differentiate between these two types of sites is by three distinguishing features—

1. Was there radioactive residue present or not?

2. Can the site be dated as prehistoric (11th millennium B.C.E.) or ancient (4th millennum B.C.E.)?

3. How was the site geographically positioned in coordination with the planetary icosa-dodeca Crystal energy grid?

As a good opening example, we can start with those sites in central and southern India that have pronounced radioactivity associated with them. These places were designated in the Mahabharata as having been involved in a major conflict called the Great Bharata War in which nuclear weapons were described as having been used, and clues given in the text date the event to 12,000 years ago.

In contrast, the melted citadel remains of Mohenjo-Daro to the north, in present-day Pakistan, were not the result of a nuclear blast, but instead were caused by huge lightning bolts released during the global electrical avalanche that took place seven thousand years after the Bharata War.

We know this because, first, the melted runs of the Harappan city’s citadel dates to 3200 to 2800 B.C.E. Second, Mohenjo-Daro is a major node point in the Earth’s Crystal energy grid. And third, despite what some researchers have mistakingly reported, there is no radioactive residue present anywhere at this site. It appears that some authors have mistakingly confused Mohenjo-Daro with the real prehistoric radioactive locations in India, with which there is no association, since the two are historically separated by many millennia.

Lop Nor and other melted or glass-covered sites in central Asia are extremely old and show signs of radioactive residue. According to the devastating war and the wholesale annihilation of several races as depicted in the Book of Dzyan, these sites clearly played a role in the prehistoric nuclear conflict.

Yet withn the same general region are the remains of the city of Khora-Khota, situated about 625 miles west of Hohot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, near the edge of the Gobi Desert, where is another major energy node point. The walls of this city were left glazed in blue by some form of tremendous radiated heat, yet no radioactivity is evident.

Local Mongolian legends specify that this phenomenon had been caused not by a blinding flash of an explosion, bur rather by “a continuous stream of lightning bolts that crashed down from the sky.”

So long and so intense had this lightning barrage been that the vitrifying effects created a pattern that reached several thousands of feet into the ground. This is most unlike the results of a nuclear blast, the heat from which strikes the surface and immediately spreads out over a wide area but remains shallow. Instead, like a modern single lightning bolt hitting a tree or the ground, the ancient electrical cascade penetrated deep and left a pattern created by the electricity seeking multiple pathways of least resistance.

Similarly, the melted remains found in the Middle East, the Aegean area, in in the burnt Pyramid of Meidum in Egpt, the vitrified forts of Scotland, the melted rock surfaces discovered in Death Valley and at Kenko and Sacsayhuaman in Peru—all these can be dated to circa the fourth millennium B.C.E., are connected with geometrically spaced node points in the planetary energy gird, and have no evidence of radiation whatsoever.

That this was deemed a non-nuclear event but rather part of the global electrical avalanche can be seen in such ancient testaments as the earliest Sumerian version of the Gilgamesh Epic, where the destruction was described in these words:

“The heavens were roaring and screaming [immediate high-pitched sonics accompanying the lightning barrage], the earth was beset by booming sounds [continuous thunder as an after-effect, like with modern lightning storms]. Sudden strikes of fire as lightning flashed [in continuous bolts one after the other] as they rained a downpour of death. Then the fire-glow of the skies died out [the lightning ignited gases in the upper atmosphere were eventually extinguished] and everything in ashes was crusted over [melted, vitrified, glassified and then solidified as stone surfaces cooled].”

The second more famous Babylonian account was the story of the Tower of Babel, during which, according to the Hebrew Book of Genesis, occurred the “confusion of tongues.” This was the result of the avalanche lightning strikes electrically disrupting the speech centers in the brains of all the Tower’s builders, who could only “babble” incoherently and temporarily lost verbal communications with each other. Again, we have evidence this phenomenon took place about the fourth millennium B.C.E.

Yet again, in contrast, other global remains—like the large field of vitrified glass in the western desert of Egypt, or the heavily melted ruins of Cete Cuidades in Brazil—are marked with signs of radioactivity, pointing to nuclear destruction in far distant times.

In North America, scientists associated with the Lawrence Berkeley Nuclear Laboratory in California have discovered geologic evidence that many of the cherts and sedimentary deposits covering the entire Great Lakes region were once subjected to a short burst of extreme nuclear irradiation and particle bombardment, correlated with the presence of anomalous uranium and plutonium ratios found in abundance in the same affected area. And the time-frame when this sudden and dramatic event took place? About 12,500 years ago, when the global nuclear war took place elsewhere, leaving very similar residue.

On occasion what little we are left with can be interpreted both ways. As one example, we find evidence of melting at specific locations on Rapa Nui, even among the stone surfaces of the ahu sacred platforms on which the enigmatic island’s giant heads were erected. These statues were of recent date we know, plus Easter Island is a major node point in the planetary energy grid.

In addition, since no radioactivity appears to be extant, then the evidence of destruction from radiated heat must have happened during the ancient global electrical avalanche that took place five to six thousand years ago.

However, the one anomaly is the presence of Polynesian-style maoi-kavakava figurines which accurately portray a man suffering from the debilitating effects of advanced radiation poisoning.

Is this the singular memory left behind from an earlier destruction, the prehistoric nuclear war that may have also involved a far earlier population of primordial Rapanuians whose memory is totally lost to us today?

There is also another surprising aspect to consider. About 250 miles northeast of Bombay is situated a nearly circular lake-filled impact depression 1.4 miles across and approximately 2,200 feet deep, called Lonar Crater. This is the only known impact feature to have occurred in basaltic rock formation, with ejecta spread out nearly 4,500 feet, its rim containing several flows of melted rock up to 100 feet thick, and the lake bed possessing glassy nodules of basalt that show evidence of once being subjected to pressures exceeding 600,000 atmospheres.

The real mystery is, there are no meteoric iron or nickel remains whatsoever, suggesting this powerful blast was not of natural celestial origins, plus the fact that several independent sources have dated this event to 50,000 years old.

In addition, the Lonar region exhibits strikingly different zones of wate acidity and distinctive local flora and fauna with slight genetic abnormalities—both of which are indicative of once being subjected to a very short yet major spike in radioactivity levels.

Are we looking at possible evidence of an even earlier nuclear blast site that pre-dates all other similar relics in India by 40 millennia?

Very significantly, in esoteric-occult history, 50,000 B.C.E. saw the final end of the lost Mwvian civilization in the Pacific and the termination of the First Phase of Atlantean civilization in the Atlantic. Had the two forgotten advanced peoples fought a primeval world war in which both succumbed in the catastrophe, with what is now India also having been caught in the nuclear cross-fire?

Very noteworthy is the fact that the Hopis and other Native Peoples of both the United States and Canada preserve legends that there was once an earlier World Age when their distant ancestors built major cities throughout the Western Hemisphere and knew how to fly through the air over great distances.

But then came divisiveness and warfare, and the various prehistoric peoples attacked each other through the skies back and forth, destroying all their habitats and driving the survivors into slavery and exile, never to revive their lost civilization again.

What is remarkable is that the old legends agree that these remote events took place “before there were mountains of ice, when instead great forests covered the lands of the farthest north.”

Now we know geologically there were three distinct time periods when such ice-free conditions actually prevailed in the boreal latitudes, when vast forests grew above the the Artic Circle—during the Sangamonian Interglacial between 110,000 and 138,000 years ago, the Yarmouth Interglacial between 200,000 and 380,000 years ago, and the Aftonian Interglacial between 455,000 and 620,000 years ago.

Are Native Americans remembering a time when a vanished civilization destroyed itself, that stretched back hundreds of thousands of years into an incredible former World Age?

As other examples, some investigators are beginning to question the major scientific assumption that the many extensive fields of tektites—small glassy nodules of melted terrestrial silicas—found in various places and from different time periods, were purely the result of natural meteoric impacts. Could they have been of artificial man-made origins instead, the result of mega-wars fought by unknown civilizations in the very distant recesses of time?

Some of these tektite fields date back geologically to 750,000 years in age and even older. Does their presence bear witness to many cycles of nuclear cataclysms long ago?

Just how many times have totally self-annihilating conflicts been waged in the remote past? And can we today avoid making the same horrific mistake yet again?

[Copyright 2009, 2010. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]