8

15
19

15
19

+
=
76
7+6
=
13
1+3
=
4
9
T
H
E

C
O
S
M
O
S

20
8
5

3
15
19
13
15
19

+
=
117
1+1+7
=
9

2+0

1+5
1+9
1+3
1+5
1+9

2

6
10
4
6
10

1+0

1+0

1

1

8
5

3

+
=
16
1+6
=
7

2
8
5

3
6
1
4
6
1

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

15

21

1+5

2+1

6

3

+
=
9

9
T
H
E

C
O
S
M
O
S

20
8
5

3
15
19
13
15
19

+
=
117
1+1+7
=
9

2
8
5

3
6
1
4
6
1

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

COME SEE MY OBSERVATORY

 

15

+
=
15
1+5
=
6

3
T
A
O

20
1
15

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

2+0

1+5

2

6

1

+
=
1

2
1
6

+
=
9

NINE
9

3
T
A
O

20
1
15

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

2
1
6

+
=
9

NINE
9

9

+
=
9

4
G
A
I
A

7
1
9
1

+
=
18
1+8
=
9

7
1
9
1

+
=
18
1+8
=
9
NINE
9

4
G
A
I
A

7
1
9
1

+
=
18
1+8
=
9

7
1
9
1

+
=
18
1+8
=
9
NINE
9

 

6
R
O
C
K
E
T

18
15
3
11
5
20

+
=
72
7+2
=
9

9
6
3
2
5
2

+
=
27
2+7
=
9
NINE
9

 

19

9

9

+
=
37
3+7
=
10
1+0
=
1

9
S
A
C
R
I
F
I
C
E

19
1
3
18
9
6
9
3
5

+
=
73
7+3
=
10
1+0
=
1

1+9

1+8

10

9

1+0

1

1
3

9
6
9
3
5

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

1
1
3
9
9
6
9
3
5

+
=
46
4+6
=
10
1+0
+
1
ONE
1

9
S
A
C
R
I
F
I
C
E

19
1
3
18
9
6
9
3
5

+
=
73
7+3
=
10
1+0
=
1

1
1
3
9
9
6
9
3
5

+
=
46
4+6
=
10
1+0
+
1
ONE
1

8

8

14

+
=
30
3+0
=
3

12
T
H
E

H
U
M
A
N

R
A
C
E

20
8
5

8
21
13
1
14

18
1
3
5

+
=
117
1+1+7
=
9

2+0

2+1
1+3

1+4

1+8

2

3
4

5

9

8
5

8

1

1
3
5

+
=
31
3+1
=
4

2
8
5

8
3
4
1
5

9
1
3
5

+
=
54
5+4
=
9
NINE
9

15

21

18

1+5

2+1

1+8

6

3

9

+
=
18

1+8

9

12
T
H
E

H
U
M
A
N

R
A
C
E

20
8
5

8
21
13
1
14

18
1
3
5

+
=
117
1+1+7
=
9

2
8
5

8
3
4
1
5

9
1
3
5

+
=
54
5+4
=
9
NINE
9

8

8

14

+
=
30
3+0
=
3

8
T
H
E

H
U
M
A
N

20
8
5

8
21
13
1
14

+
=
90
9+0
=
9

2+0

2+1
1+3

1+4

2

3
4

5

8
5

8

1

+
=
22
2+2
=
4

2
8
5

8
3
4
1
5

+
=
36
3+6
=
9
NINE
9

8
T
H
E

H
U
M
A
N

20
8
5

8
21
13
1
14

+
=
90
9+0
=
9

2
8
5

8
3
4
1
5

+
=
36
3+6
=
9
NINE
9

 

THE

GIZA

POWER PLANT

Christopher Dunn

1998

Lessons from the Past

Page 249

"As I have argued, a complete interpretation of a civi-lization such as ours is beyond the scope of one individual or group of individuals who are trained in only one discipline. Archaeologists and Egyptologists have interpreted and explained artifacts surviving ancient civi-lizations from a perspective that has resulted in a belief that our own civili- zation is the first to develop technology that uses electricity as a means of performing work. Working from this premise, it is not surprising that evi-dence such as the granite artifacts found in Egypt, which demand that we include the possibility of advanced technological knowledge existing in pre-history, haS been misinterpreted, disregarded, or overlooked.

We also must consider, however, that if this unthinkable nuclear catas-trophe actually transpired, someone would have put into writing the horror they witnessed. It is possible that such writings would survive the centuries to provide future historians with some clues to the horrific events, assuming those records were interpreted correctly. Without doubt, an event of such magnitude would leave its mark. And indeed, written records do entice us with clues of what could have been an ancient nuclear accident-or even an ancient nuclear war.

The ancient Indian Sanskrit text The Mahabharata is a work that has no precise chronological origin. It is estimated that it was written around 400 B.C. but probably was copied from earlier texts from a much earlier date. A complete translation in eleven volumes, though unelegant in some schol-ars' minds, was made by Kesari Mohan Ganguli and published under the name P. Chandra Roy between 1883 and 1896.5 The work is replete with references to terrible wars that involved the use of weapons that we nor- mally do not associate with the primitive warriors of prehistory. The writer, or writers, of The Mahabharata seemed to exaggerate, or get confused, when describing weapons that-given the era in which they were used-should / Page 250 / have been limited to swords, spears, and bows and arrows. Was it imagina-tion or wishful thinking that prompted the writer(s) to describe weapons that included missiles and "birds" that swooped down from the heavens, issuing forth fire to demolish entire forests? There also was a terrifying de-vice that moved in a way that, if considered to be a simple projectile, defied the laws of physics:

Thus the terrifying tumult of war was rampant when the Gods Nara and Narayana joined the battle. The blessed Lord Visnu, upon seeing the divine bow in Nara's hand, called up with his mind his Danava- destroying discus. No sooner thought-of than the enemy-burning dis-cus appeared from the sky in a blaze oflight matching the sun's, with its razor-sharp circular edge, the discus Sudarsana, terrible, invin- cible, supreme. And when the fiercely blazing, terror-spreading weapon had come to hand, God Acyuta [Visnu] with arms like elephant trunks loosed it, and it zigzagged fast as a flash in a blur of light, razing the enemy's strongholds. Effulgent like the Fire of Doomsday, it felled foe after foe, impetuously tearing asunder thousands of Danavas and Daityas as the hand of the greatest of men let go of it in the battle. Here it was ablaze licking like a fire, there it cut down with a vehe-mence the forces of the Asuras. How it was hurled into the sky, then into the ground, and like a ghoul it drank blood in that war.6

There seem to be forces at work in this battle that we do not possess even today. There is an intelligence that guides this discus. Is this intelligence just the imagination of the writer, or is it the report of an eyewitness obser-vation? In order to justify the latter, we have to consider not only the intelli-gence that guided this discus, but the source of its energy. As though to an-swer our question, the text later refers to the "Elixir" that brought an added dimension to the ancient Indian wars so that they more closely parallel our own: "When that grand bird had rid them all of life, he strode across them to look for the Elixir. He saw fire everywhere; blazing fiercely, it filled all the skies with its flames, burning hot and razor-sharp rays, and evil under the stirring of the wind."? Then as if to make an association between the Elixir and its use: "He saw, in front of the Elixir, an iron wheel with a honed edge / Page 251 / and sharp blades, which ran incessantly, bright like fire and sun. . . . And behind the wheel he saw two big snakes, shimmering like blazing fires, tongues darting like lightning, mouths blazing, eyes burning, looks venomous, no less powerful than gruesome, in a perpetual rage and fierce, that stood guard over the Elixir, their eyes ever-baleful and never blinking. Whomever either snake's eyes were to fall upon would turn to ashes:"8 This passage brings to mind the important role gasoline has played in modern war, not only as a weapon, but as fuel for vehicles. Could the Elixir have been the gasoline that fueled these ancient conflagrations?"
E
L
I
X
I
R

9

9

+
=
18
1+8
=
9

E
L
I
X
I
R

9
6
9

+
=
24
2+4
=
6

2+4

9
24
9

+
=
42
4+2
=
6

E
L
I
X
I
R

5
12
9
24
9
18
+
=
77
7+7
=
14
1+4
5
FIVE
5

1+2

2+4

1+8

3

6

9
+
=
18
1+8
=
9

5

9

9

+
=
23
2+3
=
5

5
3
9
6
9
9
+
=
41
4+1
=
5

E
L
I
X
I
R

9

9
9
+
=
27
2+7
=
9

E
L
I
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I
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Perhaps the foregoing is just an ancient myth that has no basis in real-ity, although there are more references to other weapons of war that are closer to home and that have more meaning today than they did when the Sanskrit was first translated: "The King of the Gods, beholding the rage of Phalguna, unleashed his own blazing missile, which streaked across the en-tire sky. Thereupon the Wind God, who dwells in the sky, thunderously shaking all the oceans, generated towering clouds that sent forth shafts of water:'9 .

With missiles streaking through the air against an opposing force, it may not be so surprising to find that the ancient Indians used these missiles in much the same way as the United States in the Gulf War with the Patriot missile: " . . . Filled with anger and vindictiveness, Parasurama brought forth a mighty weapon of Brahma. On my part, I produced the same excellent weapon of Brahma in order to counter the effect of his weapon. Those two weapons of Brahma met each other in mid-air, without being able to reach either Rama or myself. Around them a flame blazed forth, and living things were greatly afflicted thereby."10 As though to indicate the power of these mighty missiles, the ancient storyteller(s) wrote, "Thus sped by that mighty warrior, the shaft endowed with the energy of the Sun caused all the points of the compass to blaze with light:'11

Knowing that the energy of the sun comes from the fusion of hydrogen atoms, the thought of hydrogen bombs brings terrible visions of vast de- struction, mushroom clouds, and insidious radiation wafting across the land. These visions are included in other books that reference The Mahabharata as testimony of nuclear war in prehistory. In We Are Not the First, Andrew Tomas wrote: " 'A blazing missile possessed of the radiance of smokeless fire / Page 252 / was discharged. A thick gloom suddenly encompassed the heavens. Clouds roared into the higher air, showering blood. The world, scorched by the heat of that weapon, seemed to be in fever: thus describes the Drona Parva a page of the unknown past of mankind. One can almost visualize the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb explosion and atomic radiation. Another passage compares the detonation with a flare-up of ten thousand suns."12

Frederick Soddy, British chemist and Nobel prize winner for his work on the origin and nature of isotopes, discerned a vastly different meaning in these words than his contemporaries. Regarding the ancient Indian scrip-tures in 1909, before the atomic age, he wrote: "Can we not read into them 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 the power that is not yet ours?"13 Soddy's work with British phycisist Ernest Rutherford added to our understanding of the atom and led to the splitting of its nucleus by Sir John D. Cockroft and Ernest T. Walton in 1932. Soddy believed that civilizations in the past were familiar with the awesome power contained within the atom and had suffered the consequences of its misuse. In 1910 he wrote in his book, Radium:

Some of the beliefs and legends bequeathed to us by antiquity are so universal and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself Never- theless, we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and whether the similarity between them may not point to the e.xist- ence of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. 14

Tomas pointed out that a skeleton was discovered in India that had up to fifty times more radioactivity than normal. He also puzzled over a meet- ing he had with Pundit Kaniah Yogi. He wrote:

According to Pundit Kaniah Yogi of Ambattur, Madras, whom I met in India in 1996, the original time measurement of the Brahmins was sexagesimal, and he quoted the Brihath Sathaka and other San- /Page253 / skrit sources. In ancient times the day was divided into 60 kala, each equal to 24 minutes, subdivided into 60 vikala, each equal to 24 sec- onds. Then followed a further sixty-fold subdivision of time into para tatpara, vitatpara, ima and finally kashta-or 1/300,000,000 of a second. The Hindus have never been in a hurry and one wonders what use the Brahmins made of these fractions of a microsecond. While in India the author was told that the learned Brahmins were obliged to preserve this tradition from hoary antiquity but they themselves did not understand it."

6
M
I
N
U
T
E

13
9
14
21
20
5

+
=
82
8+2
=
10
1+0
=
1

4
9
5
3
2
5

+
=
28
2+8
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

19

15
14

+
=
48
4+8
=
12
1+2
=
3
6
S
E
C
O
N
D

19
5
3
15
14
4

+
=
60
6+0
=
6

1+9

1+5
1+4

10

6
5

1+0

1

5
3

4

+
=
12
1+2
=
3

1
5
3
6
5
4

+
=
24
2+4
=
6

SIX
6

6
S
E
C
O
N
D

19
5
3
15
14
4

+
=
60
6+0
=
6

1
5
3
6
5
4

+
=
24
2+4
=
6

SIX
6

Page 253 Continues

Is this reckoning of time a folk memory from a highly techno- logical civilization? Without sensitive instruments the kashta would be absolutely meaningless. It is significant that the kashta, or 3 x 108 second, is very close to the life-spans of certain mesons and hyperons. This fact supports the bold hypothesis that the science of nuclear physics is not new.

The Varahamira Table, dated B.C. 550, indicates even the size of the atom. The mathematical figure is fairly comparable with the ac-tual size of the hydrogen atom.15

The indications that nuclear war was once a reality on this planet and was suffered by a civilization that was equally advanced as or more advanced than our own may be supported by some and rejected by others. However, we can no longer ignore the factual evidence that a prehistoric civilization capable of developing advanced machining techniques once existed on this planet. The theory I have presented in this book is based purely on fact, and I trust that readers will evaluate the deductions I have drawn from these facts with open-mindedness and objectivity."

 

14
A
L
B
E
R
T

E
I
N
S
T
E
I
N

1
12
2
5
18
20

5
9
14
19
20
5
9
14

+
=
153
1+5+3
=
9

1
3
2
5
9
2

5
9
5
1
2
5
9
5

+
=
63
6+3
=
9

NINE
9

ALBERT NINESTIME

A
L
B
E
R
T

E
I
N
S
T
E
I
N

9

9

+
=
18
1+8
9

9

NINE
9

9

1

9

+
=
19
1+9

10

1+0
1
ONE

1

1+0

10

1+4

1+9

1+4

9
14
19

9
14

+
=
65
6+5
11
1+1
2
TWO
2
14
A
L
B
E
R
T

E
I
N
S
T
E
I
N

1
12
2
5
18
20

5
9
14
19
20
5
9
14

+
=
153
1+5+3
9

9

NINE

1+2

1+8
2+0

1+4
1+9
2+0

1+4

3

9
2

5
10
2

5

1+0

1

1

ONE

1

2
5

5
9

5
9

+
=
36
3+6
9

9
NINE
9

1
3
2
5
9
2

5
9
5
1
2
5
9
5

+
=
63
6+3
9

9
NINE
9

+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

=

=

22

41

+
=
63
6+3
9

9

NINE
9

2+2

4+1

4

5

+
=
9

9
NINE
9

 

14
A
L
B
E
R
T

E
I
N
S
T
E
I
N

1
12
2
5
18
20

5
9
14
19
20
5
9
14

+
=
153
1+5+3
=
9

1
3
2
5
9
2

5
9
5
1
2
5
9
5

+
=
63
6+3
=
9

NINE
9

 

9
19

14

15
14

+
=
71
7+1
=
8

11
I
S
A
A
C

N
E
W
T
O
N

9
19
1
1
3

14
5
23
20
15
14

+
=
124
1+2+4
=
7

1+9

1+4

2+3
2+0
1+5
1+4

10

5

5
2
6
5

1+0

1

9

1
1
3

5

+
=
19
1+9
=
10
1+0
=
1

9
1
1
1
3

5
5
5
2
6
5

+
=
43
4+3
=
7

SEVEN
7

15

28

1+5

2+8

10

1+0

6

1

+
=
7

11
I
S
A
A
C

N
E
W
T
O
N

9
19
1
1
3

14
5
23
20
15
14

+
=
124
1+2+4
=
7

9
1
1
1
3

5
5
5
2
6
5

+
=
43
4+3
=
7

SEVEN
7

15

+
=
15
1+5
=
6

6
R
O
C
K
E
T

18
15
3
11
5
20

+
=
72
7+2
=
9

1+8
1+5

1+1

2+0

9
6

2

2

3

5

+
=
8

9
6
3
2
5
2

+
=
27
2+7
=
9
NINE
9

8

15

14

+
=
37
3+7
=
10
1+0
=
1

8
H
Y
D
R
O
G
E
N

8
25
4
18
15
7
5
14

+
=
96
9+6
=
15
1+5
=
6

2+5

1+8
1+5

1+4

7

9
6

5

8

4

7
5

+
=
24
2+4
=
6

8
7
4
9
6
7
5
5

+
=
51
5+1
=
6

SIX
6

8
H
Y
D
R
O
G
E
N

8
25
4
18
15
7
5
14

+
=
96
9+6
=
15
1+5
=
6

8
7
4
9
6
7
5
5

+
=
51
5+1
=
6

SIX
6

14
9

15

14

+
=
52
5+2
=
7

8
N
I
T
R
O
G
E
N

14
9
20
18
15
7
5
14

+
=
102
1+0+2
=
3

1+4

2+0

1+8

1+5

1+4

5

2
9
6

5

9

7
5

+
=
21
2+1
=
3

5
9
2
9
6
7
5
5

+
=
48
4+8
=
12
1+2
=
3
THREE
3

8
N
I
T
R
O
G
E
N

14
9
20
18
15
7
5
14

+
=
102
1+0+2
=
3

5
9
2
9
6
7
5
5

+
=
48
4+8
=
12
1+2
=
3
THREE
3