Ancient Astronauts
& Airplane Pendants

A number of  unusual gold ornaments from Colombia,
Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela, have been interpreted
by some Archaeologists, as model airplanes, after Ivan T. Sanderson, (1911 - 1973), head of the Society for the 
Investigation of the Unexplained, in the United States, 
saw a reproduction of a Colombian example.

The original object had been part of a traveling exhibition,
organized by  the Colombian government in 1954, the
jeweler, Emmanuel Staubs was commissioned to make reproductions of six of the objects.

Many bird form pendants of Costa Rica, feature a
lower section, shaped like a workaday Celt or ax. The
stone Celt of teardrop shape, was the common working
tool in the ancient Americas and in some instances, the
shape itself, took on greater, perhaps even sacred, 
significance.

To the modern eye, the minimal rendering of the crested
bird headdress, the large, flattened ear flares and the
acutely angled beak, creates the impression, of a
helmeted warrior or spaceman. (1st–5th century,
Costa Rica, Guanacaste & Nicoya).

 

Who Modeled for These Pendants?

Ancient Astronauts?  Moth Man?

 

Moth Man Costa Rica?

 

Who Are These Sea Men?

What is all this Technical Gear?	Ancient Race of Fish People?	Winged Fish People?

 

 

The Mysterious
Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

Thousands of  years  before  the  arrival  of  Columbus,
civilization  existed  in  Costa  Rica.   Evidence  of  human occupation,  dates  10,000  years  back.   Perfectly  spherical  granite  bolas,  (balls)  found  near  the  west  coast  are
among  the  cultural  mysteries,  left  by  the  pre Columbian  inhabitants.
 

Some  are  small  as  a  baseball,  ranging  in  size,  to  that
of  a  Volkswagen  bus.   Parque  Nacional  Guayabo, has 
ruins  of  an  ancient  city,  with  aqueducts  and  some 
marvelous  gold  and  jade  work,  of  about  1000  years  ago, 
have  been  found  in  the  southwest.


Evidence  of  the  Olmec  and  Nahuatl  Mexican  civilizations influence,  are  found  in  archeological  sites  in  the  central  highlands  and  Guanacaste.  By  the  time  that  Columbus
arrived,  there  were  four  major  native  tribes:  the  Caribs 
(East  Coast),  the  Chibchas,  Borucas,  and  Diquis 
(southwest). 

Mysterious  Spherical  Earth  Lights... of  the  Rainforest!

In 1979, when Ivar Zapp first encountered the great stone
spheres of the Diquis Delta, in southern Costa Rica,
he was struck by their size and the precision of their
construction.

These impressive globes, weighing up to 30 tons and
measuring up to three meters in diameter, were perfect
spheres, to within 2 millimeters, from any measurement
of both their diameter and circumference. 

Academic archaeologists, attributed the spheres, to the
Chorotega Indians and stated that, they were constructed
1100 to 1400 years ago.  Yet, there is nothing else, in
the record of the Chorotega and nothing in their tool 
chest, that would indicate a capability to erect perfect 
spheres of such magnitude.

Megalithic construction, appears to predate smaller and 
inferior construction, throughout the Americas. The earliest
known people of the Americas, the Olmec, left images of
themselves, carved in huge stones, at sites ranging from
coastal Gulf of Mexico cultures, near present day Veracruz,
to the highlands of Guatemala.

If the spheres, were clearly not the work of the Choretega,
or any historical known culture in the Americas, one must
ask "who" and "when" these spheres were constructed.

South and Meso American cultures, going back to 2500
BC , exhibited no relationship to the spheres. How old 
could they be?

Local myth, depicted the spheres, as having "something
to do with stars",  so Ivar began mapping the sightlines
of the spheres, that remained in situ.

Eventually he discovered that the sightlines, did not 
correspond to our present "heavens" but that they did, in
every instance, describe a  geographical directional path
to significant sites, of the ancient  world.  Including sightlines
to Stonehenge in England,  the pyramids at Giza, in Egypt
and to Easter  Island  in Chile.

Was Central America the site, if not  the center, of an
ancient seafaring civilization? 

In the "Timaeus" and again in the "Critias",  Plato wrote, 
of a vast island continent,  beyond the Pillars of Hercules
and across the ocean, that was destroyed, by a natural 
cataclysm.  It  was a cataclysm of such great  magnitude,
that it  "swallowed  up" the  land,  that  was called Atlantis,
and destroyed a great  navigational culture and left only
"the bare bones" of that  mysterious  continent.

So far reaching, were the effects of the cataclysm, that
even Athens, was affected and almost drowned under its
force.  In the aftermath of the cataclysm, the surviving
remnants of humanity, who had once based their great 
city  states, on a mathematical harmony, with the greater
universe,  lapsed into a primitive state and very slowly, 
began the process, of  rebuilding  civilization.

Plato's rendering, of the destruction of the Golden Age, 
has been dismissed as fiction and folly, by many and has
been misplaced, geographically, by others. However, his
writings, have provided us, with a  window into the magical  knowledge of the past.

Following his substantial lead,  we have found positive
and substantial evidence, that Atlantis existed, in a very
real place, the Americas, a continent, whose center
is situated at the point, where the great ocean currents,
came together and that creatively connected, the diverse
navigational cultures of  the Golden Age.

Plato wrote of Atlantis, as a great island continent, a
center of ancient knowledge, with a navigational base,
at its capital city.  The Americas, form a  great  island
continent,  with an ancient  navigational base,  at  its
center.   Plato also wrote of a Golden Age,  wherein
myth and knowledge, of the heavens, were recreated,
in ordered city states, on a peaceful  Earth.

The  sphere builders, constructed an orderly, even
precise, depiction of  the  heavens.  Were  they 
descendants of Atlantis?  If so, did they leave the 
legacy, of their knowledge, to the Olmec and to  the
ancient  Maya?

Unlike the Europeans that  "discovered" them, the
Maya,  were able to construct  great city states, that
existed  for centuries,  without  walls,  without defensive
fortifications, and with interconnecting roads and canals,
that  beckoned visitors, from other cities and other
continents.
 

The  keen  vision of the  Mayan
priests,  looking  through an
unpolluted  atmosphere, allowed
them  to  view  the heavens,  in
three dimensions,  a wonderful
event, that only  sailors of  the
mid Pacific, can now experience.
 

Were  they  the  keepers of the
knowledge of the Golden Age,
an age of peace and mutual understanding?

Did the sphere builders and  the Mayan astronomers,
once interact  with the peoples of other  great  megalithic
sites, among them, the builders of Cuzco in Peru,
Stonehenge in England and the Great Pyramids of
Egypt?

Through an extensive examination of the archaeological
sites, of the Americas and through a reevaluation of
mythic  tales of cataclysmic destruction, (only recently 
confirmed, by Chaos Science), we believe we have
uncovered the original site of a civilization, long
believed  to be a myth.

The site of Atlantis, a continent that flourished, in a
Golden Age,  when man and the celestial universe,
were in harmony.

Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World,
have presented the evidence, that the ancient cultures
of Sumer, Egypt, and of the Maya,  as well as hundreds
of others, all contain myths of a Golden Age, that
perished, in a great flood. Evidence of a continuity,
of language,  from  Atlantis.

The Greeks gave the name Atlantic,  to the ocean
outside  the  pillars of  Hercules,  called Atlantis, the
great  empire,  of  the Golden Age and  stressed  the
importance of Atlas, as both the first king of Atlantis,
and  the  upholder of the heavens and  of  heavenly
knowledge?

"Atl" is not even a syllable, native to the Greek language.
Yet  it  is a key syllable,  in the Nahuatl and Mayan 
language of the Americas.  In fact, "Atl" means
water in Nahuatl.  Nahuatl itself, means people of the
water (sea).

Evidence of sailings to the Americas, many thousands
of  years ago, as well as considerable proof of navigation,
out  of  the Americas.  Not only have traces of cocaine, a 
derivative of the cocoa plant, a genetically American plant,
been found, in Egyptian  mummies, residues of  tobacco,
in the form of nicotine,  have  also  been  found. Again,
tobacco, is a wholly American plant.

The diffusion, throughout  the Pacific, by 12,000 BC of
the genetically American  sweet  potato and for  the 
spread of  the American coconut  and American cotton?
Land migration theories, explain that birds carried seeds
and the  ocean currents, carried floating coconuts.

But every attempt, to float coconuts across the Pacific,
has met  a disastrous outcome, the sea water softens
the coconuts' eyes and micro organisms enter  the 
nut and destroy its meat and its ability to regerminate.

If a bird carried the sweet  potato from the  Americas,
to distant islands in  the Pacific,  it  must  have  been
a parrot, squawking  the  name of its burden, as it
flew, because the original name,  for  the  sweet  potato,
in ancient Peru, "kumara",  was  identical in pronunciation,
to its name,  throughout  Polynesia.

From  Easter  Island,  to New Zealand, thousands of years,
before European  ships arrived,  this edible root  with  an
exclusive  genetic  history,  solely  in  the  Americas,  was
called  kumara.

Similar  inventions,  can  be  argued,  to  be  similar
responses, by  an  independent  people,  to  similar problems
and  man is  renowned,  as  the  problem  solving  animal.  
But  as  the noted  plant  geographer, G.  F.  Carter,  once
observed,  "Any  fool  can  make  an  arrow point,  but  only
God,  can make  a  sweet  potato."

Then there is  the question of  the  parrot  itself. 
Genetically solely American,  a  favorite of  Pre  Inca 
Peruvians, (to judge from its appearance in  ancient tombs)
and too poor  a  flyer,  to  have  transversed  the oceans on
its own, the parrot  would have to have traveled  with
navigators.

Separate  evolution  theory,  has  a  difficult  task  in
explaining its appearance  throughout Polynesia,
Micronesia and  Melanesia,  as well as, its introduction
into  Asia  and the  Indian sub continent,  probably
around 15,000  years ago.

The  Golden  Age  of  man,  has  been  dismissed  as
folly.  But  if  it  was  truly  fiction,  how  can  we  explain
the existence,  of  highly  stylized  rock  art  paintings, 
an  expression  of  mythic  beliefs,  of  similar  design 
and similar  execution,  (often  by  spit  painting),  in 
southern Europe at Lascaux,  22,000  years  ago, in 
Australia, 25,000  years  ago and in the Americas at
Pedra Furada, 32,000  years  ago?

Among  the  animals,  depicted  in  the  Brazilian  paintings
at  Pedra  Furada,  were  horses  and camels,  both 
abundant, in  the  Americas  at  that  time,  and  both  sudden
victims  of a  mass  extermination, 12,500  years  ago, 
thousands  of years,  before  the  traditional  dates,  for  the
invention  of culture.

Pablo  Picasso,  after  examining  the  Lascaux  (France)
artwork  of  twenty-two  millennia  past,  and  comparing  it,
to  advances,  in  twentieth-century  modern  art,  exclaimed,
"We  have  invented  nothing!"  Can  historians  still  insist,
on  man  and  civilization,  as  recently  founded,  in  the
river  valleys?

As  if  to  remind  us,  of  what  has  been  our  past  fate,
and  what  very  likely,   will  be  our  destiny,  we witnessed,
in  the  summer  of  1994,  the  spectacular  collision  of  a
series  of  comet  chunks,  pieces  from  the  disintegrating
comet,  Shoemaker  Levy  9,  with  the  surface,  of  the
planet  Jupiter.

Jupiter,  has  been  described,  as  a  "protective"  planet,
using  its  gravitational  pull,  to  lure  comets,  toward  it,
and  away  from  us.

"Chaos  Science"  has  a  different  model,  one  in  which
Jupiter,  from  a  long  range  effect,  can  steer  comets,  in
our  direction!

And  a  resonance  of  Jupiter,  with  its  moons,  regularly
draws  large  asteroids,  some  a  100  kilometers  in 
diameter,  pulled  out  of  their  fixed  orbits, and  plunged
into  chaotic  Earth  crossing  paths.

Is  Jupiter  a  friendly,  protective  giant?  Think  again!
And  appreciate  why  some  "primitive"  men,  built 
intricate  observatories,  to  watch  the  skies.

How  are  we  to  deal,  with  the  growing  realization,
that  the  ancient  star  temples,  of  Meso America, built 
into their  construction,  a  display  of  knowledge of 
astronomy  and  mathematics,  that  we  are  only  now,
able  to  duplicate and  understand,  in  the  last  decades
of  the  20th  century?

Can  we  continue  to  dismiss  these  people  as  "gifted
savages?"   Can  we  continue  to  ignore,  their  myths  of destruction,  which  spoke  of  conflagrations  and  deluges,
or  their  foundation  myths,  which  spoke,  invariably,  of
arrivals  by  sea?

What  portent,  do  cyclical  periods  of  destruction  and
rebirth,  hold  for  us,  now  that  we  know,  we  are
approaching  the  end  of  a  cycle,  that  is  at  the same
instance,  religious,  astronomical  (scientific) and
astrological  (mythic)?

Plato's  tale,  about  an  advanced  civilization  across
the  great  sea,  that  was  suddenly  and  forever 
destroyed, was  off  target  only  in  one  detail,  albeit 
a  major  one "forever"  was  too  long  a  time.

The  civilization  was  destroyed,  the  capital  and all  the
great  coastal  cities  did  sink,  but  the  continent,  after
great  flooding,  and  great  destruction,  remained.  That
continent,  is  what  we  now  call  the  Americas.   But
then,  it  was  Atlantis,  home  to  a  seafaring  people, 
who had  almost  slipped  from  memory.   Plato  did  not
merely  preserve  their  name.  He  put  them  in  their 
rightful  context,  at  the  heart  of  the  Golden Age of Myth.

Mysteries  Part  2
Deep in the Rainforests and Cloud Forests
of Costa Rica, lurk hidden mysteries, strange
creatures and wonders of nature, never before seen.