Ancient Underwater City-scapes, Visible with Google Earth?

[Ed Ziomek]

Momentarily, I am re-engaging on this topic to mention my further discovery of a facial "King" image as photographed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. (And, no, they don't believe me, fine )




It depicts a human profile, with a Ram's head crown, I believe indicating the "Age of Ram", Aries Constellation in the night celestial hemisphere.

This indicates that even floor tiles may have been used to depict Kings and God-like figures.

I am challenging myself on the scientific possibilities, that if this stone figure is 1700+ meters below the ocean surface, as Kim of MBARI indicates, then possibly this ranks as one of the earliest artistic humanoid forms discovered.

MBARI homepage...
http://www.mbari.org/news/homepage/homepage.html

MBARI original picture, claimed to be taken at 1700+ meters below today's sea surface...


Background information from the Web, Aries, the Ram Constellation...

"The origin of the symbol...or glyph...for Aries is unknown. The symbol of the ram appeared for the first time in Ancient Egypt. It was depicted as the head of Amun, considered to be the leading deity whom all other gods followed."

http://www.novareinna.com/constellation/aries.html

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"The ancients needed a marker of some sort to indicate the beginning of spring. The only stars occupying that particular place on the Zodiac at that time were those dim ones we now recognize as Aries. Around 1800 B.C. the position occupied by Aries on the Zodiac band was an important one, and will be again in the distant future. It marked the beginning of spring and was known as the First Point of Aries."

http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/aries.html

[Ed Ziomek]

Continuiing on the subject of Undersea, undersoil images via Google Earth, in the Tokyo area I am surprised to notice the typical ancient megalithic star-cluster arrangements integrated into modern street combinations.

On the River or Canal on the North side of Tokyo is a series of fields on the frontage portions of that River/Canal which include many sport fields and man-made structures, new and old. I have chosen a one-mile stretch that includes a memorial type rectangle, a soccer field and park area.

Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.750448,139.81257&spn=0.016927,0.029354&z=15

I am guessing when I say it may be the burial ground of an ancient Samurai Warrior-King, and if the image-stories are to be believed, he may have been murdered!

I have divided one particular area between two bridge structures, a one-mile canal frontage, into three topics: Stone Circle, King on the Soccer Field, and Altars and Stone Circle.

Today's topic is the first of the three, the "Stone Sun Circle".

Let me start with the first location identifier, of the City of Tokyo, Japan, drilling down to the Canal location I want to explore.



Stone Sun Circle
Second, just to the SouthEast of the double bridges, is a very beautiful location containing a symbol in a Quadrant, a Stone Circle, and a shadowy-smudged area. I derived all the new colors from Photoshop.



The symbol on the left may be the name of the King, or some other explanation, and it is contained in a classic 4-sided garden-quadrant.




In the same image on the right, is a Stonehenge-style Stone Circle, probably a sun circle.

Finally we come to possibly the most artistic piece I have found to date, apparently that of a ...

"Spear thrusting Samurai warrior-King"...



Is the King slaying a dragon-head? I think so!

Detail of images..."Stone Circle" location...



In the following days I will add the "King of the Soccer Field", and "Altars and Stone Circles", all contained in a one-mile canal frontage between the two bridge areas...

And a serious note...I firmly believe that where they bury the King, they also bury the treasure!

[Ed Ziomek]

In the same Tokyo canal area, I am presenting here the obscure, faint, "Soccer Field King", found within the whitish area on the bottom right of the image.



The soccer field normally sits at an angle of 160 degrees, Northwest to Southeast, but for the sake of clarity I am rotating the facial image to an upright position, with the topmost portion being the Southeast end.

Enhancing the image in extreme reds, with difficulty one can see a Death Mask of an individual, eyes shut, with possibly coins on the eyelids and a pearl on the tongue.




Very obscure image, within an image... A Motive?

What is most interesting is in the uppermost portion, say the 1 o'clock position, which displays a masterful assortment of facial images, several overlapping. There is the grimaced look in the 9 o'clock, Female sun goddess or she-devil in the 12 o'clock, an apparent open-mouthed figure in the 2 o'clock, and dead center is an obscurely formed, pig-faced, horned, devil-monster.




Is the message in this faint picture that these profound images governed this King's life, and/or Death? I think so.

With my Dick Tracy hat on, I think it might indicate that this King was murdered by the she-devil woman at the top of the image, next to the southeastern goal post. The Devil in front of the woman, and the grimaced look on the two neighboring images seem to indicate darkness and sinister events.

And adding to this theory is the noted absence of any above ground structure, in effect, there is an invitation almost, to walk on this man's grave, turn it into dust?!

Most flattering geoglyph portraits I have found have a profile of a King facing West. In this case, the image is a full frontal death mask, with head pointing south, which was the traditional underworld and devil position. In effect, the artwork is almost "upside down", and pointing south, and certainly not a Life image, but a stone-cold DEAD image.

Why would the ancients display a DEAD King with his head pointing upside down and South?

Who is to know the truth, as it is fun guessing at these meanings, and possibly a reader has a better explanation.

[Ed Ziomek]

Call this episode, a "1% Tower of Babel, in Dubai?"

Taking a break from the Tokyo area, I swing over to the Middle East, and the Port City of Dubai.



Of course we know the players... United Arab Emirates which includes the Port city of Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Oman, the whole cast of newsworthy names effecting all our lives. Not to be forgotten is the fact that some of these countrymen are even signing many American's paychecks, thank you very much!

On the architecture side are the two incredible new construction areas off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, south of Dubai, called the Palm Jabel Ali, and the Palm Jumeirah.




But let me focus on the area 6 miles to the Northwest of the Port of Dubai to what I have found to be an ancient harbor area, with a spiral figure, and with geoglyphs faintly visible on the Harbor floor. At one time, this area was relatively dry, with human habitats on the harbor floor in what can now be described as an ancient Valley.



Expanding on the spiral area, to the bottom middle of the image, I show a causeway extending bottom left to middle, with an extremely faint geoglyph having been partially buried underneath. What this plausibly indicates is that the geoglyph preceded the causeway, and probably became submerged, isolating the 150 foot-wide, three-level spiral structure.

Could we describe this spiral as being built like a "stairway to heaven", in architectural appearance?




Note: Outside of this viewing area, to the immediate West of the ancient harbor area is what I am calling a "6 square miles of Temple Complexes and Geoglyphs", which increases the vast importance of this particular area, now underwater.

This is where my theories take me over the top, because upon research of this Port, I am led to believe that the ancient name for Dubai is today spelled in English..."Shindagha". And as mythology tells us, the ancient name for the location where the "Tower of Babel" was built was "the Valley of Shinar".

Shinar and Shindagha. Phonetically interesting, but not a perfect match.

Ba-BEL and Du-BAI? Uhhhh, not quite!

However, at least one modern day artistic rendition for this "Tower of Babel" shows three levels to the top, and this satellite spiral-image shows three levels to the top.




Visual coincidence only, I agree!, but warming up.

The second artistic rendering in this comparison (by Abel Grimmer 1570-1619), shows many more levels, but almost as if the outside layer covered up an inside layer of construction.

Location, location, location....Up close Google Map, Port of Dubai

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=25.244075,55.257111&spn=0.30184,0.469666&z=11

Persian Gulf map...
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=25.243454,55.257111&spn=4.828307,7.514648&z=7

The Port of Dubai is in a strategic location in the Persian Gulf, just South of the Straits of Hormuz. In a very real way, historically it sits at a crossroads of hundreds of seafaring cultures, including Indonesian, Chinese, probably Egyptian, certainly Sumerian. Babylonian. Judaic, and Phoenician.

So the location certainly lends itself towards a multiple cultural exposure environment, exactly like was described in the Bible (Genesis 11:1-9). I am comfortable with the opinion that this location has a .001 chance of being the actual "Tower of Babel", mostly because I haven't found any other candidates, and my evidence is only circumstantial at this point.

Biblical Mythology, from Genesis...

"Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words. And it came to pass when they traveled from the east, that they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly"; so the bricks were to them for stones, and the clay was to them for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered upon the face of the entire earth".

And the Lord descended to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built. And The LORD said, "Lo! [they are] one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have commenced to do.

Now, will it not be withheld from them, all that they have planned to do? Come, let us descend and confuse their language, so that one will not understand the language of his companion". And the Lord scattered them from there upon the face of the entire earth, and they ceased building the city.

Therefore, He named it Babel, for there the Lord confused the language of the entire earth, and from there the Lord scattered them upon the face of the entire earth.....in Genesis 11:1-9"

One chance in a thousand, yes, and it seems to me like an exciting possibility to bring to the attention of readers and the Government in the Port of Dubai. (Save this sacred area from new construction, please!)

In the next week or two, I will be presenting some of the remarkable geoglyphs that are present in the 6 square miles to the West of this ancient Dubai Harbor area.

Note: Heritage Shindagha Village, downtown Dubai
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=25.268294,55.290155&spn=0.037722,0.058708&z=14

[Ed Ziomek]

Notes: As I have related before, many ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, and Greek names show up in ancient America with the Amerindian tribes and locations. see... American States, Name Design: Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian
http://fireside.designcommunity.com/topic-9788.html

For this reason, I strongly believe the Dubai City name of Shindagha is plausibly Shenandoah, related to “Shin”, “Moon Goddess” dowager, meaning… “Moon Goddess – Queen”

Also, there may be an etymology-"Babel" reference in Dubai City. The Al Ghubaiba Bus Station, next to “Heritage Shindagha Village” seems to have the same phonetically sounding name, but this might only be a coincidence.

Google Map...
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=25.268294,55.290155&spn=0.037722,0.058708&z=14

Main Story... Identity Match at Stonehenge...???

I may have found the identity of the “Archbishop” portrait figure I found near Stonehenge. In fact, I believe I found three figures, the largest being the "Archbishop" to the East of the convergence of Highways A344 and A303. His name is Nicholas Breakspear, and he was the first and only English Pope, serving between 1154 and 1159.




History recalls that Breakspear “died unexpectedly” in 1159, which is usually the gentle euphemism for “poisoned”. His tormentor was the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick 1, aka “Barbarossa”, and a 17 year schism ensued between the Roman Catholic leadership and the political leadership of Frederick the First. This resulted in subsequent Popes and anti-Popes, finally resolved in the 1177 time frame.

Background references....
Nicholas Breakspear, 1154-1159...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Adrian_IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pope_Hadrian_IV.jpg

Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick 1st Barbarosa... 1155 to 1190, who was the great tormentor of the Pope... (and may have done the dirty deed!)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Frederick+Barbarossa

[Ed Ziomek]

In my satellite research of ancient underwater structures, under-soil geoglyphs and structures, under-vegetation altars and temples, I have come across many interesting architectural, design, and graphic similar comparisons.

What I never prepared for was to find a magazine cover that unlocks possibly another huge mystery. The magazine is last month's Biblical Archaeology Review, and it is in itself, a valuable find.

The cover of the magazine shows the Crusader era's graphic of Jerusalem's city-scape, and I immediately drew the comparison between its outlines and the outlines of Tenochtitlan in the Valley of Mexico.



The premier God of the Valley of Mexico and Tenochtitlan was a "bird snake" character named "Huitzilo Pochtli". The definition of Jerusalem has never been explicitly fixed, and likewise for Huitzilo Pochtli.

I say they are the same names.

The architectural city-scape of Jerusalem matches Tenochtitlan.

And the naming convention of the premier temple of Tenochtitlan is Atzacolaco, aka At-za kah-lee-so, virtually identical to the Al Aqsa naming of the premier temple of present day Jerusalem.




The outside borders of the ancient Jerusalem city-scape are Red-White-Green, and this matches the present day colors of Mexico.

Please correct me if I am wrong on this, but it seems the ancient Jerusalem city-scape shows the premier temple (which became the Al Aqsa Mosque), the Christianized-Crusader version of the temple with a blue-bird's-head entrance, and the colors of Huitzilo Pochtli (Bird-snake or snake-bird of the left/west) are blue green.




So while the experts still wonder the meaning of both "Jerusalem" and "Huitzilo Pochtli", I wonder no more.

Snake-Bird of God. Horus of God. Falcon bird of God.

Jerusalem of the East, and Jerusalem of the West.

Furthermore, if the physical construction of Tenochtitlan is in fact 1325, and the legends are true that "Bearded men, with hair the color of the sun, and with iron tools" helped the Aztecs build the temples of Tenochtitlan, then there is one prime suspect.

The Templars, who escaped France in 18 ships in 1307, are the most likely suspects in this construction.

And note: one French name of "bird" is oesal... "wee-sow"... so close to Hu-it-zi-lo... who-eet-see-low.

In my touristy-amateurish theorizing here, of all the treasures found in the original Templars digging under the Temple of the Mount in Jerusalem, two centuries before, probably the most valuable treasure was a navigation map to the "Jerusalem of the West", in the Valley of Mexico.

[ArchiMotion]

This topic is very interesting.

There is however some effect that we see what we want to see, or imagine to see. Take for example looking at the clouds or stars - we can see all types of geometric figures there, and astrologers arranging them into figurative meanings and then attaching these meanings to astro events on the earth....many a religions have attempted to establish a connection between the stars and man.

Even in the 9/11 images monsters can be seen. Or maybe ghosts?

Granted, the topic is very well researched and presents some very interesting information.

Of course, the possibility still is that much that is being seen is what one's framework of perception brings into our mind, based on patterns that are perceived to be so.... this does not mean there is actually anything there in many of those places....

..and the images posted are not at a close-enough field view to show the actual traces of what is proposed as being there....so further investigation is needed on this....

Beyond this, excellent ideas, and many other valid points drawn.

How those Google images are obscured in sensitive historical areas - very good points, amazing work of research and observation.

For a layman, I would say this is much above the ability of the average layman, and rather the beginning of a more scholarly research.

Haven't seen many participants around these edges of the forum.... so thought I would drop in with a few lines....

Take care now.

[Ed Ziomek]

Back to Japan on this one, I am visiting Hiroshima...

I am visiting Hiroshima today, on the river-front, Northern area of the City, with the Eastern side showing some form of preserve or park.

Virtually every 50 feet of these green areas shows some ancient astronomical alignment, geoglyphs, or altar structures. I have attempted to square off what appears to be a temple complex overgrown by vegetation, to the East and slight North.

Given my limited understanding of what these astronomical markings mean, or when they were constructed, I have to make the observation that they match the ocean floor Venus arrangements and stone circle similarities, with an age deep into antiquity. (I am guessing at 2000 BC or previous)

The bottom line is that every piece of green space, whether in the river channel or in the forest preserve, shows heavy altar or shrine locations, with many ancient human habitat indicators.

First view, large scale, positioning Hirohshima on the southern side of Japan.



Second view, northern portion of Hiroshima, with blue arrows added where I found riverbank altars, shrines, and astronomical alignment points. A University will find much of antiquities and history in this area, I believe.



Third view, riverbend area and Eastern forest Preserve area, showing major concentrations of stellar convergence points, altars, and habitat areas. With such a concentration of stellar alignments, I have deliberately limited marking for an easier view. Note: The "Thuban angle" I have referred to earlier is present in these landscape views, and is in the 50-degree-plus range, indicating a very early construction towards "True North" and the celestial pole star, I believe.




Fourth view, explicit riverbend area, with stellar alignments and stone circle indicators, matching previous “megalithic, Stonehenge-era” stellar alignment points, and apparent Venus grid.




Every naturally green area I look at, in Japan, is similarly marked.

Google Earth map of location…
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=34.443442,132.484474&spn=0.02127,0.037422&z=15

[Ed Ziomek]

My next effort is to decipher the Piri Reis map, and give it a new twist.

Found in 1513, and debated as to its validity, I am here to tell you that it seems absolutely authentic, with a few major additions and changes.

First and foremost, based on Google Earth underwater radar images, I am proposing that the original Piri Reis map is based on 10,000 year old information, much older than anyone has given it credit for.

My idea: the Piri Reis map started out as a land-based map, showing highways in what is now the bottom of the ocean.

At first glance, one can see Spanish Galleons and Roman sloops painted on the top, and I believe these images were added in the last 1000 years, and probably in the 1300 time frame.

Not a conclusive scientific method, but….
Having downloaded the jpeg image of the Piri Reis map, I enhanced the image with manipulation of the color blue to find that the left of the image showing water turned blue. Certain areas within the main image turned blue, indicated lake areas, but the majority of the main image stayed the creamy brown color, indicating land where we would identify the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to be today.



So I am guessing that the original land map, which showed a flat plain from Spain all the way past the coast of today’s Venezuela an into the interior, was modified in more modern times to reflect the fact that what is now the Atlantic Ocean was once cultivated land with roads and land-navigation features, I believe.

Ask yourself, why would an ocean map have Navigation points, labeled A and B in my enhanced image, when the whole world allegedly did not know how to compute longitude in 1513?

My proof of the pudding, though, is that the circular points labeled A and B, I have triangulated and found via Google Earth software on the floor of the Atlantic. Having said this all, I am only an amateur, not a historian, and the Atlantic floor is saturated with “Ley lines”, Thuban alignments, circular stone arrangements, convergent astronomical points, “march of the volcanoes”, and a myriad of faint geoglyphs, all still visible.

Who am I to competently say that I have found these explicit navigation circles, architected on the ocean floor? I can’t, but I am tabling these amateur observations.

Conclusion: The Piri Reis map is originally a land map, converted thousands of years after the fact into an ocean map, with added European and Roman sailing ships.

To the westernmost portion of the Piri Reis map are water indicators, I believe showing what is now the Amazon jungle growth basin, which at one time may have been an inland sea.

Using Google Earth, I matched up the Piri Reis ancient shoreline and land map with the Atlantic view of the West Coast of Africa and the East Coast of South America, highlighting the Amazon basin in yellow, the ancient South American coastline in blue and red, the circular navigation points (pillars) in green and white, and alignment roads/ley lines in white.

Piri Reis equivalent, using Google Earth…



With highlight indicators…



Scientific experts have told of this map highlighting Antarctica, and I disagree. The land map simply shows the ancient land shelf line as it once was, North of Antarctica.

I expanded out the A and B navigation circles from the original map, with some visible-interesting, though not conclusive, details of Ley lines, convergent astronomical lines/roads, and some faint geoglyphs. The navigation lines on the Piri Reis map were roads, I believe, from one location to another distant location.

Top circle/island point, Tropic of Cancer location…



Middle location circle, Equator….



Bottom location circle, Tropic of Capricorn…



Those navigation circles I believe became islands when waters began to rise, with navigation pillars/lighthouses built on them, strategically located at what we now call the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, with the equator circle island in the middle.

And yes, I now suggest these are the original “Pillars of Hercules”, which were moved to Gibraltar with the rising waters.

What did those Pillars do, but to help support the celestial heavens, but the mythology was destroyed with their flooding? The Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn were meant to be stellar navigation locations, also indicating where the sun never diminishes beyond a 12 hour/12 hour duration…(am I explaining it right?)

And yes, again, I believe the Temple of Solomon has the equivalent symbolism of the twin pillars at the entrance, Jachin and Boaz, with the tabernacle, the womb of creation, in the middle, where we now call the equator. These two pillars/islands/navigation points, were the guardians to the underworld.

Archimotion note: Yes, imagination only on this one, as who has the tools to prove anything? Certainly I only have a dreamer's eye...but things seem to fall into place, radically different as it is from the accepted dogma.

[Ed Ziomek]

The Piri Reis Map possesses me!

I am finding out now that the Piri Reis Map must have started life as an ancient road map for terrestrial travel (pre-flood ice age), then became an ancient navigational map for sailing purposes, while always being a mythology map synchronizing ancient legends. To me most of all, the Piri Reis Map is a treasure map of hundreds of millions of people’s lives who have disappeared in time, that have no known records of their existence until now.

But let me start with the Straits of Gibraltar, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, and the massive undersea habitats in what is now the coastal Atlantic areas.

Graham Hancock, publisher of so many wonderful books on these matters, mentions this area as his "Atlantis" area. While I disagree on his positioning, I can only add to his theories with these habitat locations.

The coast areas to the West of Portugal and Morocco are saturated with rectangular temple areas and human habitats, and even several road systems, now underwater….
Spain, Portugal, North Africa, Gibraltar…


Gibraltar up-close, showing massive habitat temple/city structures to West (and East)…



To these habitat features under the water, I add the coastline of Spain, Portugal, and North Africa showing multiple cliff-faces carved in a lay-down profile positioning, providing navigational features to anyone walking eastward in dry epochs (10,000 BC ice age, no doubt), or sailing along the coast in the post-flood eras.

As a land traveler, or sailing ship, it would be life-critical to know which coastline you are passing or aiming for, in that competitive ships and tribes and ports might decide if you lived or died upon your entry.

I have plausibly spotted 10 cliff faces along the Portugal/Morocco coastlines, and I have to say, given the enormous re-shaping of the coastlines over the thousands of years, I am amazed at how many of these cliff-faces have survived.

Lisboa, Portugal “Howling Lion”… showing undersea, ancient habitat area to the West…




Lisboa Portugal - Google map
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=38.790498,-10.08328&spn=1.965104,3.988037&z=8

Essaouira, West of Marrakech, South of Dar el-Beida, aka Casablanca


Map of Morocco, south of Dar el-Beida
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=31.713185,-9.360704&spn=4.289132,7.976074&z=7

Massively overwhelming to me: I truly believe that what I have found in the Piri Reis map will take 100 years to understand. These are discoveries 10,000 times beyond my capabilities. I can fully appreciate why Columbia University has not revealed what they knew in 1994.

There is so much more…to be continued.