More Chinese Mysteries

More Chinese Mysteries

        I’ve never had the privilege of visiting China, but I’ve long been a great admirer of their beautiful land and rich, colorful heritage.   Like the United States, their country is so large that they have almost every landscape and environment imaginable.  They are one of the oldest continuously living cultures existing in the present day, possibly second only to the traditional Indian culture.  

To their credit (and the benefit of modern historians, as well as the dismay of Chinese history students), the Chinese people have kept meticulous records of almost every event and piece of knowledge, great or small, throughout their four-thousand-year history, despite their many conflicts, invasions and changes of power.  Because of this incredibly detailed recording of their history, any subject that is not included in their record has great interest to serious scholars.  

However, these deviations from the officially approved Chinese narrative are usually considered an embarrassment to the Chinese government.  Subsequently, they tend to be hidden away, stone walled, suppressed or similarly obfuscated.  Certainly they are not pursued with any enthusiasm.

        In previous blog entries, I have pointed out some of the arcane artifacts and curiosities that point to a technological civilization predating the current Chinese culture.  We have looked at such things as:

     -the Longyou Caverns, which are 23 separate massive artificial subterranean chamber systems, replete with pillars and stairs and hallways.  They have been carved out of the living rock in a way that demonstrates an impressive level of geological and structural expertise.  To hollow these caverns out and carry off the excess stone (since the removed stone is nowhere to be found) would have required an enormous amount of either man/hours, skill or technology (or all the above).  

They are decorated with beautiful bas relief designs, that look like images from historical Chinese artwork.  The images and characters portrayed, however, depict characters, stories or histories unknown to modern scholars.

     -gigantic ancient dolmens (groups of massive stones that have been balanced atop one another) littering the landscape of Manchuria,

     -the Lanzhou stone, which, when broken open, was found to contain a machined screw that the stone had formed around,

     -Mount Baigong with its ancient and untraceable system of sophisticated and modern looking underground pipes composed of a metal that can’t be completely analyzed, 

     -the aluminum belt buckle of Chinese general Chow Chu, entombed with him 1500 years before modern industrial technology had developed the process for producing aluminum from bauxite ore, 

     -ancient axes made of sapphire, produced by an unexplainably sophisticated technology.

        While these are all remarkable and highly interesting in and of themselves, they are not the only technological anomalies found in China, by any means.  Here are some more.

Lake Fuxian

Yunnan province in China

 

 

Location of Lake Fuxian in Yunnan province

 
         The beautiful recreational Lake Fuxian, in the Yunnan province of China, is surrounded by picturesque hotels, resorts, docks and marinas.  At 100 square miles in area and 509 feet deep, it is the third deepest freshwater lake in all of China. 

        One of the local sport diving excursion operators was searching for new locations to show his customers.  

         In one of the locations he explored, he began to find earthenware and stones that looked like they had been chiseled and shaped by man.  Further exploration revealed a series of hand carved flagstones that formed a road, leading to formations that were obviously buildings.  

Underwater flagstones forming a road

        When the government was informed, they sent down a submarine.  It located, in addition to the buildings, stairs and various walls.  Further, deeper surveys of the bottom revealed an arena and multiple pyramids, covering roughly one and a half square miles.

 

        Further explorations are on-going.  However, all this new information is producing some consternation among the Chinese archaeological and governmental authorities. 

It seems that, in four thousand years of meticulously kept, highly detailed records about every aspect of Chinese life and civilization, nothing at all was ever written about a large, well-constructed city at this location.  On the shoreline, perhaps, but not in the middle of the lake.  In the Chinese historical record, this lake has always been here, unchanged in its depth and, therefore, unsuitable for any construction.

Since it is located at the bottom of a deep lake, significant re-arrangement of the landscape had to have occurred.  If there was no mention made of it in the record, then it must have occurred long before such records were made.  At the very least, it was more than 4,000 years ago. 

The pyramids of Shaanxi

Location of Shaanxi province in China

          The first indication that something extraordinary existed in the province of Shaanxi occurred in the 1930’s.  Western military pilots flying over the area began to return with photographs of large pyramids.  

Various pyramids at different locations

        Further aerial survey over the years has located approximately 38 within 16 miles of each other.  There are 100 such pyramids altogether, most of these within 60 miles of the city of Xian.  One of these is thought to be the hidden tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, around which the famed terra cotta warrior statues, in all their hordes, have been located.  

         Exploration of these pyramids has been slow in speed and minuscule in quantity.  In contrast to the significant amount of resources and support that Chinese officials gave to the exploration of the ruins in Lake Fuxian, the government has ruled that the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi is too dangerous to excavate.  They cite the legendary booby traps that are reported to lie within and the toxic levels of mercury that analysis of the soil have indicated. 

 

        The government also has declared the area of the pyramids off limits to anyone who does not live there already.  Since the only people living in the area are farmers and other agricultural workers, information about the pyramids has been sparse.  

        It hasn’t been helped by the fact that orchards and other crops have been systematically planted on top of the pyramids, as though in some half-hearted attempt to camouflage them.  It seems that the Chinese officials know something about these structures that they want hidden from the outside world.

What are they doing?  Oh, those inscrutable Chinese!

The Statues of Sanxingdui

        The place name of “Sặnxῑngduĭ” translates picturesquely as “Seven Star Hill.”  Located in the Sichuan province of China, it is the site of a striking cache of artifacts.  What was unearthed were a large collection of statues, masks, images and other strange objects.  Many of them are done in exquisite bronze work.  There are some representations of natural objects, such as birds, but it is the faces that captivate your attention.

It is impossible to tell what they represent, since they are unlike anything known.  The faces are impossibly angular, the lips thin and stretched in a grin.  The eyes are inhumanly large and slanted, some having bug-like stalks protruding from the irises.  The ears are enlarged and pointed, bat-like.  The entire group is obviously from the same tradition, but what they represent, or their use, is unfathomable.

Once again, there is no record of any such artifacts or the people who made them.  Wild guesses have been made by the scholars who don’t want to seem like they are clueless, but they have no real information on which to base these declarations.  

WARNING!!

     The truth is there.  You just have to see it.

     This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.  

     It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently created an advanced civilization that exceeds our own.  It was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 4,500 years trying to preserve or re-build that civilization.  I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored, discredited or suppressed by people who have an opposing agenda.

     I’m sorry that this doesn’t support the propaganda narrative of the current crop of materialistic academic dictators.  I have neither the time or the inclination to refute them.  There are too many verifiable facts to be examined and drilled down on to waste time on silly fantasies that lack even face validity.  

Nothing that you see on this blog is original.  Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books.  I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice.  That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

     The point is, nothing here is made up.  The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in its readily discernible pattern. 

      You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

The Archetype Civilization: Part One

The Archetype Civilization

Part One

One of the basic tenets throughout this blog has been the concept that there was, after Eden and before the Flood, a period of about 1,656 years, ending in 2348 B.C.  During this time humans developed a world-wide, unified civilization.  To differentiate this civilization from succeeding daughter civilizations (however close) and to give it the pre-eminence that I think that it deserves, I will call this culture the Archetype civilization.  (I know.  I’m very presumptuous.  I’m getting therapy.)

We have been discussing a great many scattered pieces of evidence for this concept from around the world.  Let’s begin to pull some of these pieces of information into a more coherent whole.  

While there were regional and stylistic variances here and there, the commonalities of this culture far outweigh the differences and are still evident worldwide.  There were fundamental distinctions in the lives of the people from this time that made these common characteristics recognizable.  I’ll try to group some of those differences into categories.

1.   Physically and mentally superior citizens  

2.   Rare or strange artistic and construction materials

3.   A distinctive architectural style

4.   A recognizable, unique and universal language

Physically and mentally superior citizens

First, people lived longer, were healthier, stronger and mentally more capable.  

The Bible shows us that the lifespans of the people living up to Noah’s day were longer than our own by more than a factor of 10.  In other words, instead of living 70, 80 or 90 years, they lived for 900 years or more.

Expert analysis, by people who are medical experts on human skull development (and therefore less biased than your average anthropologist or archaeologist), was conducted on the normal maturation processes seen in the most ancient of skulls.  The analysis demonstrated that these people were very much older than anyone who has subsequently lived (see Buried Alive by Jack Cuozzo).  The ancient peoples lived longer.

The earliest human remains showed bones that were denser and more robust, with muscle attachments that were much larger than our own, on the average.  This means that their bodies were more muscular and durable.

In the book of Genesis, in the Bible, Adam was capable of both naming and remembering the names of all the animals – a feat no modern human could accomplish unaided. Additionally, ancient crania (the area of the skull that held the brain) averaged 10% more volume than the current human cranium averages. 

Their brains were uniformly larger.  They had to be smarter.

Recent studies have been conducted on the physical artifacts and construction works, writings and habits of ancient peoples.  Even those peoples that we are familiar with from more recent times, like the ancient Greeks, were found to be more creative and insightful with better memories than the average modern citizen (I dare say, even if augmented by a smart phone). 

Sorry, folks.  The facts don’t support e-volution.  De-volution is very real and provable, however, especially within humanity. 

For example, there are scholars who specialize in Greek architecture.  They have concluded that, while we can copy the styles and techniques of ancient Greek buildings, there is no way that we, as a people, could ever have created such innovative, graceful works that blended into the existing landscapes as the Greeks did.

Despite what you may have been told, humanity is not getting better and better.  We are not superior to our ancestors.  We are not evolving into a higher species.  Just the opposite in fact.  

If they possessed superior neurology, then vision and hand/eye coordination would have logically been superior in the Archetype people as well.  There is evidence to support this.  

As one example, in the blog entry entitled “Cave Sight,” we saw that earlier peoples left traces of artistic work.  The characteristics and location of that work showed both extraordinary skill and superior eyesight.

So, trait one of the Archetype Civilization is the evidence of more robust, capable and intelligent individuals.

Next time we’ll look at rare or strange artistic and construction materials

WARNING!!

     The truth is there.  You just have to see it.

     This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians. 

     It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently created an advanced civilization that exceeds our own.  It was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 4,500 years trying to preserve or re-build that civilization.  I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored, discredited or suppressed by people who have an opposing agenda.

     Nothing that you see on this blog is original.  Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books.  I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice.  That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

     The point is, nothing here is made up.  The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in its readily discernible pattern. 

      You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.