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Know_files/FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS.pdf - D Ank Unlimited

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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

Valley and Mortuary Temples? What about the secrets now being teased,<br />

one by one, from the astronomical alignments and dimensions and<br />

concealed chambers of the pyramids?<br />

If these, too, are readings from the metaphorical books of Thoth, it<br />

would seem that the numbers of the ‘fully worthy’ are increasing, and<br />

that new and even more startling revelations may soon be at hand ...<br />

To return briefly and for the last time to our evolving scenario:<br />

1 at the beginning of the twenty-first century of the Christian era, near<br />

the cusp of the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius, civilization as<br />

we know it is destroyed;<br />

2 among the devastated survivors a few hundred or a few thousand<br />

individuals band together to preserve and transmit the fruits of their<br />

culture’s scientific knowledge into a distant and uncertain future;<br />

3 these civilizers split into small groups and spread across the globe;<br />

4 by and large they fail, and perish; nevertheless, in certain areas, some<br />

do succeed in making a lasting cultural impression;<br />

5 after thousands of years—and perhaps several false starts—a branch<br />

of the original wisdom cult influences the emergence of a fully fledged<br />

civilization ...<br />

Of course the parallel for this last category is once again to be found in<br />

Egypt. I would seriously propose as a hypothesis for further testing that a<br />

scientific wisdom cult, made up of the survivors of a great, lost, maritime<br />

civilization, could perhaps have established itself in the Nile Valley as<br />

early as the fourteenth millennium BC. The cult would have been based at<br />

Heliopolis, Giza and Abydos, and perhaps at other centres as well, and<br />

would have initiated Egypt’s early agricultural revolution. Later, however,<br />

beaten down by the huge floods and other disturbances of the earth<br />

which took place in the eleventh millennium BC, the cult would have been<br />

obliged to cut its losses and withdraw until the turmoil of the Ice Age was<br />

over—never knowing whether its message would survive the subsequent<br />

dark epochs.<br />

Under such circumstances, the hypothesis suggests that a huge and<br />

ambitious building project would have been one way cult members could<br />

preserve and transmit scientific information into the future independently<br />

of their physical survival. In other words, if the buildings were large<br />

enough, capable of enduring through immense spans of time and<br />

encoded through and through with the cult’s message, there would be<br />

hope that the message would be decoded at some future date even if the<br />

cult had by then long since ceased to exist.<br />

The hypothesis proposes that this is what the enigmatic structures on<br />

the Giza plateau are all about:<br />

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