| by Jonathan Gray (New Zealand) |
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| Today you are getting two SHOCKING answers to two outrageous questions… SO HOW OLD IS IT? This whole thing started when Fred (my neighbour) plopped down on my porch. And he asked me, “Did you see that TV program that said the Amazon jungle was several million years old?” “Yes,” I responded. “But, Fred, what if it’s only 3,000 years old?” “You’re having me on,” he laughed. “Why, everyone knows…” No, I’m not kidding. Were you aware that huge stone cities, very ancient, with paved streets and tall pyramids choked with forest, have been sighted in the Amazon jungle by several explorers in recent years? These mysterious cities were built when the climate in the Amazon basin was more temperate and the rivers drained a fertile area, but BEFORE the jungle took over. (By the way, that’s the very climatic situation one might expect in the aftermath of a global Flood.) Did you know that when cities were first built in South America, the whole Amazon basin was a shallow inland sea? And some Brazilian scientists say they have evidence that this Amazon Sea existed AS RECENTLY AS 1200 BC? BEFORE THE JUNGLE GREW In those early days, when South America was still free of jungle, the human race had already settled and built a civilization. Perhaps you have no idea how wonderful and elaborate these cities were. The citizens wall-papered their houses with thin sheets of beaten gold. The cities were built by people with fine features. They used gold coinage and operated fleets. Their buildings were of shining white stone. Their cities boasted magnificent plazas, paved streets, ornamented temples, round-topped pyramids, mansions, and fountains. They erected lighthouses and used lenses and reflectors, the elements of the telescope. And the cities were walled – not against savages, but the mighty gulf, or sea, of the Maranon (the Amazon Sea). Some of their ruins have been seen, so this is not fantasy. Many of their alphabetic letters are identical with those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, 3,000 and 4,000 years ago. According to native traditions, they used a light source akin to our electric bulb. “EXPERTS” IN DENIAL Recently a scientific “expert” wrote that the Amazon jungle has been there for millions of years, that only primitives have lived there. Traditional “experts”, I fear me, often constitute near tragedy. Little of what is known has found its way into textbooks. Our sacred theory of evolution is at risk if this information gets out. The truth is: Overwhelming evidence exists that South America was well known in antiquity. Before the jungle took over, it was resplendent with great cities. Mighty empires spanned the continent. They knew how to write. And global communication in the distant past equaled that of modern times. It is abundantly clear that history needs to be rewritten. CITIES DESTROYED – SURVIVORS DEGRADE This raises THE SECOND QUESTION: why do primitive tribes worldwide have NO traditions of having evolved UP from a sub-human past, but rather that they DE-volved from superior ancestors? Here is the truth. After the cities were destroyed by earthquakes, volcanism or war, the survivors degenerated into a primitive lifestyle. Before long, the green forest covered the whole landscape. Many ancient traditions survive of an advanced culture which flourished thousands of years ago to the north and west of the Brazilian highlands. Their descendants are now scattered as primitive tribes throughout the jungle. PRIMITIVE DESCENDANTS RETAIN LEGACY Again, traditional “experts” tell us that writing was unknown in South America. Wrong again! Books of wonderfully executed paintings and hieroglyphics have been found among naked Panos savages of the deep Peruvian forests near the gorge of the Ucayle, in the Amazon headwaters, in the eighteenth century. The Indians explained that the books, handed down, contained a history of events in the days of their ancestors. The pages of fine cotton, in external appearance resembling modern quarto leaves, were bound with a cover, glued together and fastened by agave threads. One of these ancient books was acquired by Fray Narcissus Gilbar and sent to Lima to be inspected by P. Cisneros, compiler of a periodical called El Mercurio Peruano. A number of people inspected it. Every page was covered in paintings and organized lines of hieroglyphic style characters. So here we have modern savages, living in a primitive state, but with a heritage passed down from superior ancestors. Evolution? No, de-volution. That’s the pattern, worldwide. Oh boy, I’m in for it now! |
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