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It has been impossible to adequately summarize even a fragment of this land of material here. Perhaps someday some scholar will systematically assemble all of these records and establish some order out of the chaos. The evidence is not as flimsy as this kind of summary might make it seem. Statues of strange. Oriental looking figures bearing a striking similarity to the appearance of our contemporary Men in Black have been found in the ruins of the Olmec civilization in Mexico. We really don't know very much about the Olmecs. The first traces of their'lost culture were uncovered in 1939, when archaeologist Matthew Stirling found five gigantic basalt heads on the island of La Venta. These heads weigh from twenty to thirty tons each and are up to nine feet high. Each is wearing what looks like a football helmet. Since then, cities and irrigation systems dating back to at least 1200 B.c. have been discovered. An Olmec calendar carved into the stomach of an eight-inch jade statue begins with the year 3113 B.c. 'It is a masterpiece of mathematical and astronomical knowledge, and it was the Olmecs, not the Maya, who developed it," Jeanne Reinart noted in Science Digest in September 1967. Archaeologists have come up with an interesting theory for the sexless Oriental-Eke statues. They suggest that the Olmecs worshipped deformed children and that the statues represent Mongolian idiots. But would a people capable of creating a masterpiece of a calendar worship abnortnal babies? The statues also feature a distinctive cleft in their foreheads, and this falls in line with the third eye lore of European occultism, Tibetan beliefs, and even the mysticism of the Hop! Indians. The third eye is supposedly the part of the brain which is linked to ESP and cosmic consciousness -or direct communication with God. The third eye symbol, an eye inside a triangle, is an ancient symbol for the deity found in many cultures from Egypt to Micronesia. It appears on the Great Seal of the United States atop the pyramid (found on every dollar bill). The Kachina Clan taught the Hopis that an opening in the head existed so they could talk with God. At one time trcphination (cutting a hole in the skull was a common practice throughout the world, perhaps as part of some religious rite. Hundreds of trephinated skulls have been found in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific islands. Many of them date back to 3000 B.c. Some show signs of healing, indicating that the patient must have survived what is even today an extremely delicate operation. Three hundred and seventy such skulls have been found in Europe, but the finest examples come from Peru. The very thought of thousands - or even millions - of early humans voluntary submitting to having holes bored in their skulls with primitive flint instruments is enough to make anyone's flesh --1 crawl. Some anthropologists speculate that trephination was used as a treatment to get rid of possessing spirits. But the universality of this very sophisticated operation makes this unlikely. Were all those people seeking to open the door in their heads so they could communicate with the supernatural? If so, who or what taught the entire human race this process? And why? In legend after legend from every part of the world we are told that early man was primitive and stagnant until the appearance of the god-kings. These mysterious beings introduced writing,