The Viking Age, the period of great Scandinavian expansion from the late 8th to the late 11th century – is normally associated with violent raids and warfare. But in fact, Viking people were highly civilized, and greatly valued the arts – especially storytelling, about ancient myths, heroic legends, folk tales, and family and local histories.
A massive network of 12,000 year old underground tunnels discovered that stretch throughout Europe. Some experts believe the network was a way of protecting man from predators while others suggest the idea that the linked tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to travel safely regardless of wars or violence or even weather above ground. They could be described as a kind of ancient underground superhighway. Others think the tunnels can be seen as a gateway to the underworld.
One of the most important works of Old English literature, Beowulf is an epic poem consisting of over 3,000 lines, beautifully written in alliterative verse. Set in Scandinavia, Beowulf was the hero of a northern Germanic tribe, in what is now southern Sweden, who comes to the aid of a Danish king, who came under attack by Grendel, a descendant of the Biblical Cain. After Beowulf slays him with his bare hands, Grendel's mother also launches an attack, but is also defeated with a giant's sword that he found.
Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Sweden, and becomes king of a sect of sea-faring Goths, called Geats. Before the consolidation of Sweden, they were politically independent of the Swedes, and have now disappeared into legend and history. 50 years after becoming a Geatish king, Beowulf finds his realm terrorized by a dragon, who he then defeats, but is mortally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower in his memory.
The Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group indigenous to the coastal parts of the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and northwestern Germany. The Oera Linda Book is a manuscript written in a form of Old Frisian, purporting to cover historical, mythological, and religious themes of remote antiquity. The text alleges that Europe was for a large part of their history, ruled by a succession of folk-mothers presiding over a hierarchical order of celibate priestesses dedicated to the goddess Freya. Kulning is an ancient Frisian herding call that was used by women long ago to call home the cows and goats back to the farm in the evenings.
Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, was a Norwegian Viking, remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland. His son, Leif Erikson was credited as the first known European to have discovered North America. Studies have found that almost all ivory traded throughout Europe in Medieval times came from Greenland walruses, which became extinct due to over hunting, contributing to the abandonment of Viking the settlements.
The Maritime Archaic is a North American cultural complex along the coast of Newfoundland and surrounding area, with at least three settlement episodes by distinct cultural groups, that began in approximately 7000 BC, also known as the Red Paint People because of the use of red ochre on their elaborate burials.
Lebus is a small town in eastern Germany, near Frankfort, located on the west bank of the Oder river at the modern border with Poland. In 1850, a mysterious stranger was found wandering around the town, seemingly lost, and speaking a broken form of German. Confronted by authorities, he did not appear to be able to speak or understand any of the European languages, except for his imperfect form of German, and claimed to have come from an unknown country called Laxaria, separated by vast oceans from Europe.
He said his purpose in coming was to seek a long-lost brother; but he suffered shipwreck on the voyage and did not know where the wreck occurred, nor how he arrived in Germany, and he could not trace his route on shore on any map or globe. He said his name was Jophar Vorin, and the historical record of what happened to him ended as inexplicably as it began, but is still used as an example to describe the possibility of parallel universes, alternate realities, or inhabitants from Inner Earth.
Mercury is a god in Roman mythology, the equivalent of Hermes in Greek mythology, Thoth in ancient Egypt, and one of the 12 deities within the ancient Roman pantheon. Mercury is also a shiny, silvery, metal, sometimes called quicksilver, and the only metal that is a liquid at standard room temperature.
The spiritual elite of India have been using and handling alchemically purified and solidified Mercury for thousands of years, and ancient Vedic scriptures describe the use of spinning Mercury to achieve anti-gravitational propulsion for flying craft called Vimanas.
The Lambton Worm is a legend from County Durham, and is one of the area’s most famous pieces of folklore, centered around John Lambton, heir of the Lambton Estate, and his fierce battle with a gigantic worm (Dragon) that had been terrorizing the local villages.
Sometime during the 12th century, two children appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, seemingly out of nowhere, speaking in an unknown language, wearing strange clothing, and their skin was green. When the girl learned to speak English, she relayed the story of their underground homeland, where it was always twilight.
Charles Darwin was the first scientist to propose the “little warm pond” theory for how primitive cells first evolved. Now a new study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggests life actually originated in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, with potentially profound ramifications in the search for alien life.
Can there be light below the surface of the Earth, without any exposure to the Sun? Surprisingly, the answer is YES. Bioluminescent organisms have the ability to glow, almost as if by magic, like in the movie Avatar. http://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com/2016/04/inner-earth-glows-like-in-movie-avatar.html
Some have called Doggerland the Stone Age Atlantis of Britain, while others think of it as a sort of prehistoric Garden of Eden. Doggerland was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 8,000 years ago. Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties. The term Scandinavia in local usage covers the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
The idea that our planet consists of a hollow, or honeycombed, interior is not new. Some of the oldest cultures speak of civilizations inside of vast cavern-cities, within the bowels of the earth. According to certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, secret tunnels connect Tibet with a subterranean paradise, and they call this legendary underworld Agartha. In India, this underground oasis is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, thought to mean 'place of tranquility.'
Mythologies throughout the world, from South America to the Arctic, describe numerous entrances to these fabled inner kingdoms. Many occult organizations, esoteric authors, and secret societies concur with these myths and legends of subterranean inhabitants, who are the remnants of antediluvian civilizations, which sought refuge in hollow caverns inside the earth. Where are the entrances to inner earth, and which races live there?
German Navy Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz stated in 1943: "The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Führer in another part of the world a Shangri-La, an impregnable fortress." This is why Secretary of Defense James Forrestal sent a naval task force to invade Antarctica, including Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Krusen and Admiral Byrd, called “Operation Highjump”.
Over 4,500 military troops from the U.S., Britain and Australia consisting of three Naval battle armadas departed from 3 separate locations in 1946. Byrd was given unlimited funding and 8 months to complete the operation. The mission did not go as planned. Admiral Byrd suffered massive casualties, his fleet was destroyed, and what remained of his armada retreated in disgrace from a humiliating defeat in just under 2 weeks.
In 1947, the Chilean newspaper "El Mercurio" carried an article from its correspondent Lee van Atta aboard the support ship 'Mount Olympus'. The title of the article was: "Admiral Richard E Byrd refers to the Strategic Importance of the Poles."
English translation of the article:
"Admiral Richard E. Byrd warned today that the United States should adopt measures of protection against the possibility of an invasion of the country by hostile aircraft coming from the polar regions. The Admiral explained that he was not trying to scare anyone, but the cruel reality is that in case of a new war, the United States could be attacked by aircraft flying over one or both poles. This statement was made as part of a recapitulation of his own polar experience, in an exclusive interview with International News Service. Talking about the recently completed expedition, Byrd said that the most important result of his observations and discoveries is the potential effect that they have in relation to the security of the United States. The fantastic speed with which the world is shrinking – recalled the Admiral – is one of the most important lessons learned during his recent Antarctic exploration. I have to warn my compatriots that the time has ended when we were able to take refuge in our isolation and rely on the certainty that the distances, the oceans, and the poles were a guarantee of safety".
Hundreds of tiny islands around Scotland didn't arise naturally, but were constructed out of boulders, clay and timbers by Neolithic people thousands of years ago. Researchers have known about these artificial islands, known as crannogs, for decades, but new finding not only shows that these crannogs are much older than previously thought but also that they were likely "special locations" for Neolithic people, according to nearby pottery fragments found by modern divers, the researchers wrote in a new study published online June 12 in the journal Antiquity.
Robert Sepehr is an author, producer and anthropologist.
Thor is the Norse god of thunder, the sky, and agriculture. He is the son of Odin, and the defender of Asgard, realm of the gods, and Midgard, the human realm. He developed from the earlier Germanic god Donar and became the most popular deity of the Norse pantheon. The modern English and German words for the fifth day of the week – Thursday and Donnerstag – both allude to Thor/Donar (“Thor’s Day”/“Donar’s Day”).
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Dr. Wernher von Braun was one of the most important champions of space exploration in the twentieth century. Born in what was then the German Empire and is now Poland, he became enamored as a youth with the possibilities of space exploration by reading science fiction, which eventually prompted von Braun to later master calculus and trigonometry, so that he could understand the physics of rocketry.
From his teenage years, von Braun had held a keen interest in space flight, becoming involved in the German Society for Space Travel, and then, to work for the German army to develop liquid-fuel rockets. in conjunction with Dr. Hermann Oberth, an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer.
In pre-WWII Germany, the sisters of Vril (light) conducted research into psychic phenomenon, advanced propulsion technology and saucer-shaped aircraft. National Socialist Germany claimed the territory of New Swabia in Antarctica, sent an expedition there in 1938, and began building secret deep underground bases below the ice. They defeated a "post WW2" attack by Allied forced in 1946, led by Admiral Byrd, who retreated in disgrace after suffering substantial damage and casualties (see Operation Highjump).
Robert Sepehr is an author, producer and anthropologist. A harsh critic of the out-of-Africa theory, Sepehr puts forth alternative diffusionist arguments often involving advanced antediluvian civilizations, occult secret societies, ancient mythology, alchemy and astrotheology.
In the space of only decades, the continent of Antarctica has lost trillions of tonnes of its ice cover at alarming rates, even in places we once thought were safe. Now, a stunning new void has been revealed amidst this massive vanishing act, and it's a big one: a gigantic cavity growing under West Antarctica that scientists say covers two-thirds the footprint of Manhattan and stands almost 1000 ft tall.
This huge opening at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier – a mass infamously dubbed the "most dangerous glacier in the world" – is so big it represents an overt chunk of the estimated 252 billion tonnes of ice Antarctica loses every year. Researchers say the cavity would once have been large enough to hold some 14 billion tonnes of ice. Even more disturbing, the researchers say it lost most of this ice volume over the last three years alone.
"We have suspected for years that Thwaites was not tightly attached to the bedrock beneath it," says glaciologist Eric Rignot from the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Thanks to a new generation of satellites, we can finally see the detail."
Rignot and fellow researchers discovered the cavity using ice-penetrating radar as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge, with additional data supplied by German and French scientists. According to the readings, the hidden void is but one ice casualty among a "complex pattern of retreat and ice melt" that's taking place at Thwaites Glacier, sectors of which are retreating by as much as 2,625 ft every year.
The complex pattern the new readings reveal – which don't fit with current ice sheet or ocean models – suggest scientists have more to learn about how water and ice interact with one another in the frigid but warming Antarctic environment. "We are discovering different mechanisms of retreat," first author of the new paper, JPL radar scientist Pietro Milillo explains.
While researchers are still learning new things about the complex ways ice melts at the Thwaite Glacier, at its most basic, the giant cavity represents a simple (if unfortunate) scientific actuality.
"[The size of] a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," Milillo says. As more heat and water get under the glacier, it melts faster."
That's important to know, since Thwaites currently accounts for about 4 percent of global sea level rise. If it were to disappear entirely, the ice held in the glacier could lift the ocean by an estimated about 2 ft. But that's not even the worst-case scenario. The Thwaites Glacier actually holds in neighboring glaciers and ice masses further inland. If its buttressing force disappeared, the consequences could be unthinkable, which is why it's considered such a pivotal natural structure in the Antarctic landscape.
Just how long it will stay, nobody knows – which is why scientists are right now embarking on a major expedition to learn more about Thwaites. What they'll find remains to be seen, but it's inarguably among the most important scientific research being conducted in the world right now.
Ancient myths from around the world describe numerous entrances to vast underground cavern-cities, within the bowels of the earth. Many occult organizations, esoteric authors, and secret societies concur with these legends of subterranean inhabitants, who are the remnants of antediluvian civilizations, which sought refuge in hollow caverns inside the earth.
A massive network of 12,000 year old underground tunnels discovered that stretch from Scotland to Turkey.
The prehistoric temples of Malta include many subterranean passageways, including ancient catacombs and chambers, with underground tunnels that have now been closed off to the public.
New Swabia (Neuschwabenland) is an area of Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W in Queen Maud Land. It was explored by the German Antarctic Expedition which discovered ice-free areas with warm fresh-water lakes and vegetation. In 1943, German Navy Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz stated: "The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Führer in another part of the world a Shangri-La, an impregnable fortress."
While the idea of anti-gravity space flight, or a breakaway German colony on the Moon, or a subterranean UFO base in Antarctica, might all sound like science fiction, what can be said for certain is that they are not new ideas, nor do not seem to be easily explained away.
Robert Sepehr is an author, producer and independent anthropologist.
Albert Einstein concluded that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. Is time travel possible? Has anyone built a successful time machine? What classified German UFO technology does the US government posses, and can they manipulate space-time? Is there a Secret Space Program?
Movie scene from: The Yesterday Machine (1963)
Robert Sepehr is an author, producer, and anthropologist.
