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In studying the architectural remains of ancient civilizations, one category is particularly striking: The pyramid. As Keel says in Disneyland of the Gods:
We know that pyramid building was once a universal practice throughout the world. Over six thousand years ago unknown peoples were assembling great pyramids in Mexico. Gigantic man-made mounds were constructed in China, Great Britain, North America, and on remote Pacific islands while the Egyptians were still living in mud huts along the Nile. During World War II pilots flying "the hump" reported seeing one or more massive pyramids standing silently in isolated Himalaya valleys.30
Of the ubiquitousness and similarity of pyramids, David Hatcher Childress states:
Mayan pyramids are found from Central America to as far away as the Indonesian island of Java. The pyramid of Sukuh, on the slopes of Mount Lawu near Surakarta in central Java is an amazing temple with stone stelae and a step pyramid that would match any in the jungles of Central America. The pyramid is in fact virtually identical to the pyramids found at the ancient Mayan site at Uaxactun, near Tikal.3
In speaking of the global civilization, Keel elucidates the weaknesses of the current archaeological paradigm:
All these things seem to be interrelated, as if they were once part of some great civilization-a common culture that spread throughout the world and then died.... We have a reasonably complete history of the past two thousand years, and a halfbaked archaeological reconstruction of the past five thousand years. But there are so many gaps in our knowledge that most the popular archaeological theories really have very little merit. Indeed, we can't even be sure that the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid ... 32
In fact, the Great Pyramid is admittedly much more ancient than the Egyptians of history, as Hotema relates:
When the most ancient Egyptians first saw the mysterious Sphinx and the great Pyramid of Gizeh, only their tops projected above the wind-blown sand of the desert. They knew no more about the purpose of these structures, their builders, or when they were built, than we do. . . . [The Great Pyramid] could not possibly have been the work of the Egyptian natives, nor has any one ever claimed that it was.33
In the word "pyramid," Anderson has detected "pyr-a-met," which he translates as "grand central fire."34 The pyramid is the celestial "altar in the midst of Egypt." The pyramid, thus, was a worldwide symbol of an altar, being an encoder of "sacred knowledge."
Based on the "Records of the Past," A. Churchward stated that the Great Pyramid "must have been built at least 269,870 years ago."35 Of course, the current paradigm dictates that such a date is absurd. What is not absurd is that the dates of artifacts worldwide are steadily being pushed back.
Although such a date is not allowed by the current paradigm, which places all civilization after the time of the SumeroBabylonian cultures, the pyramid at Cuicuilco, Mexico, is evidently at least 2,500 years older than the earliest known Sumerian finds, as the Mexican structure was apparently unearthed under a lava field created by a volcanic eruption 8,500 years ago.
The city of Tiahuanaco on the shores of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia is one of the most enigmatic and stunning places on Earth. Lying in a desolate spot some 12,500 feet above sea level, Tiahuanaco has astounded and perplexed travelers for centuries. Although orthodox scholars deem this megalithic mystery an Inkan construction, the Inkas themselves insisted it existed long before their culture came into being. The city is dated by the orthodoxy to no earlier than the 5th century CE, but unorthodox scholars have opined that it may be as much as 15,000 years old. A number of observations lead to the conclusion of such antiquity, not the least of which are the astronomical alignments as found in