Peet - Disinformation guide to ancient aliens, lost civilizations, astonishing archaeology & hidden history

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Regional Map of Tsunami-Affected Areas 2. Source: UNOSAT Satellite Imagery for All.

Post TsunamiRegional Change Analysis based on Medium Rsolution Satellite data. Source: UNOSAT Satellite Imagery for All.

ON DECEMBER 26, 2004, at 7:58 A.M. local time, an earthquake registering a massive 9.0 on the Richter scale ripped open the sea floor under the Indian Ocean about 100 miles off Northwest Sumatra, Indonesia. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Pacific Basin tsunami warning system did not detect a tsunami in the Indian Ocean since there are no buoys in place there. While the NOAA did try to warn the numerous Pacific Rim nations of the incredibly destructive force heading their way, the tsunami raced across the ocean at speeds up to 500 mph, eventually slamming into coastal communities and tourist havens alike, leaving an eventual death toll that some have estimated surpasses 212,000 people, according to CNN and other news sources. The countries worst hit by the disaster, according to www.reliefweb.int, included India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United Republic of Tanzania, with the wave making no distinction between rich and poor, old or young. It wiped out everything in its path and left a scene of devastation and destruction not witnessed by most human beings within living memory (barring victims of atomic blasts and other shock and awe bombardments, perhaps). Similarly, as of this writing, the Gulf Coast of the United States is being buffeted by waves brought about by the relentless force of Hurricane Katrina, with much, if not most, of New Orleans disappearing underwater.

All of these countries and islands lost substantial amounts of not only life, but also vast swaths of land that disappeared underneath the waves. Where just seconds before stood modern hotels, primitive villages, cites and communities full of people busy celebrating a beautiful Christmas holiday, there was suddenly nothing but water, mud and debriswhat humans had built was forever wiped clean from the face of the earth, now to be remembered only in stories of that horrible morning that shook the entire world.

Just two groups of living creatures managed to avoid the worst of the disaster. CBS News reported, on January 10, 2005, that many different animals seemed to sense the incoming devastation, from elephants breaking their chains and heading for the hills, to flocks of birds all suddenly taking flight, to dive boat leader Chris Cruz's report of his insistence on following what he described as an ocean erupting with dolphins out into deeper water, where the worst of the wave passed harmlessly underneath them. Did these animals sense warnings, emanations from the earth itself, a talent that pre-historic peoples may have been endowed with as well, but which we have since unlearned or forgotten? We will discuss this possibility within this anthology, but for now, let's get back to the wave.

Beside proving how fast and completely land can disappear underneath the waves, there are other important facts about the 2004 Christmas tsunami that relate to Underground!The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History. Throughout the disaster zone, there were small groups of people who saw the receding waters and remembered ancient tales passed down to them by their ancestors, tales which told of how water that disappeared out to sea would return with the same or greater force and bring death and ruin, and how people would run for the hills, often stopping just long enough to pass on a warning to their neighbors before fleeing to safety. On South Surin in the Andaman Islands, the Morgan sea gypsies remembered these ancient warnings, and managed to save 181 people from the incoming wave. No one knows how long these stories have been passed down from generation to generation or where they originated. What's important is that they were remembered and acted upon by these so-called primitive people who had heard the stories all their lives. The Morgan people did not call these stories myths, or allegories, or interpretations of things their ancestors saw but did not understandthey took the stories at face value and hence saved their lives and those of many others when the chips were down and the waves came to claim huge parts of the land and its inhabitants for their own.

There, spread over a mile or more just off the coast of their ancient and historic temple-laden city, lay the ruins of an obviously mud-and-barnacleencrusted city, with refrigerator sized blocks laying all over the place, exposed in the moments just before the sea returned.

Besides the devastation to land and people wrought by the tsunami, something magical happened directly as a result of this wave.

As the water receded prior to the incoming tidal wave, residents of Mahabalipuram, Indiawhere author Graham Hancock (Fingerprints of the Gods) had insisted to archaeologists, back in 2001, that explorations off the coast to search for a sunken city be undertakenstood in awe. There, spread over a mile or more just off the coast of their ancient and historic temple-laden city, lay the ruins of an obviously ancient mud-and-barnacle-encrusted city, with refrigerator sized blocks laying all over the place, exposed in the moments just before the sea returned.

You could see the destroyed walls covered in coral, and the broken-down temple in the middle, said Durai, a fisherman quoted by CBS News on March 17, 2005. My grandfathers said there was a port here once and a temple, but suddenly we could see it was real, we could see that something was out there.

While mainstream reports put the city's submergence at just 1,200-1,500 years ago, Hancock points out on his Web site and in his book Underworld that there are no contemporary reports from that time describing such a disaster. One would imagine that a large part of an inhabited city being swallowed by the sea might elicit some sort of mention in contemporary chronicles, but there are noneyet there are such tales in Indian myths that date back some 5,000 years and more. There is also the evidence from inundation maps created by Dr. Glenn Milne of Durham Universityillustrating how much land was covered by the rising seas in stages at the end of the last ice agewhich seem to prove there has been no land-subsidence in that area over the last 6,000 years, meaning that whoever built that submerged and briefly exposed ancient city did so a long time ago, in a time when human beings were supposed to still be in the very beginning stages of limited agriculture and small communities. If it was built before the seas rose at the end of the last ice age, that civilization would be thousands of years older than any civilization accepted by the current mainstream archaeological view. The same wave action that temporarily brought the ancient underwater kingdom back to the light of day also, by dredging away huge layers of sand from the beaches, exposed a number of ancient and previously unknown sculptures of lions, flying horses and other figures still being studied.