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Astrology/Astronomy
Thus, we see the mythos and ritual around the world. We also know that this knowledge constitutes not only religion but also science, representing detailed observations of the skies and their relationship to Earth, as well as natural forces upon the planet itself. In fact, in order for any civilization to have been global, it would have needed to possess the mythos, since such is in reality the story of astronomy. The detailed knowledge of astronomy, along with that of ocean currents, weather patterns and migratory routes of birds and fish, allowed early peoples to navigate all over the globe. In fact, the so-called primitive peoples of Polynesia are considered the "greatest navigators in the history of mankind" and successfully colonized a number of Pacific islands as early as 30,000 years ago. Such a feat required extensive knowledge of the stars, demonstrating that these peoples were master astronomers tens of thousands of years ago. This detailed knowledge is also exhibited in the celestial "computers" in stone the navigators left all over the world.
The evidence of a global civilization is found in shared astronomical and astrological peculiarities, such as the reverence for the Pleiades, the Great Bear and the constellation of Scorpio or "scorpion stars," a designation found from India to Greece and in Central America. Furthermore, as Walker states:
Chaldeans believed the world would dissolve and return to its primordial elements when all the planets lined up in the constellation of the Crab. The same doctrine appeared in India, Egypt, Persia, China, northern Europe, and pre-Columbian central America. 19
The antiquity of astrological/ astronomical knowledge is in fact great. The zodiac in the temple of Denderah in Egypt begins with the sun in Leo, which would make it 10,000 years old, although the temple itself is evidently only a couple of thousand years old. Dupuis traced the origins of the zodiac to north Africa 15,000 years ago, and Volney pushed it back to 17,000 years ago. It is reasoned that Egypt at the time had excellent soil and a clear sky, serving as the perfect place for devising such a complex system. In addition, Massey stated that the astronomical mythology dates back 30,000 years at least.20 A. Churchward thrusts it back much further than that.
Symbols
As noted, there are numerous symbols shared globally, including the cross, which, like so many others, was a symbol of the sun. One of the most ubiquitous symbols is the now-infamous swastika, or crooked cross, also an emblem of the sun, "termed the oldest symbol known to the world" and found around the globe, such as in Alaska, North and Central America, India, Russia and China.21 The swastika was even a Christian symbol many centuries before its revival by the devout Roman Catholic Hitler. As Walker says:
Swastikas appear on Paleolithic carvings on mammoth ivory from the Ukraine, dated ca. 10,000 B.C. Swastikas figure on the oldest coinage in India.... [The swastika] also represented many other deities from Iceland to Japan, Scandinavia to North Africa. ... Early Christians adopted the swastika to represent Christ ... 22
Language and Etymology
As to the importance of linguistical evidence in detecting the origins of man, James Churchward says, "Language is admitted to be the most accurate guide in tracing the family relations of various peoples, even when inhabiting countries which are separated by vast expanses of water and extents of land."23
The linguistical/etymological evidence that connects the world is startling and has been demonstrated throughout this book. Mainly, however, our analysis has been confined to the "Old World." We have already seen some dazzling examples of how the languages of both worlds are related. As a