EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGINS [15b]
December 12, 2012. Miami, Florida. Just days before the Mayan calendar is set to end, hundreds converge here at the Miami circle, an archaeological site that was once a sacred center for the native American Tequesta Tribe. They are gathered to witness a native ritual involving an ancient relic known as the crystal skull. Similar events centered around these mysterious crystal artifacts continue to draw large crowds. But why? What is it about the crystal skulls that has fascinated mankind for centuries?
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“Part of the lore or prophecy of the crystal skulls is that at certain times of strife or perhaps impending catastrophe, people will be able to use the power of the skulls to forestall that cataclysm. Maybe events like we see throughout the world at specific dates are times when these skulls can be brought back together and their power can be amplified.” – William Henry (Author / Investigative Mythologist), |
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“And according to the legend, the skulls are containers of great knowledge, great wisdom, information. Common to all of these legends is that these crystal skulls are something particularly special and actually, they believe, very important to humanity.” – Chris Morton (Author, The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls) |
Although there have been literally hundreds of crystal skulls found throughout the world, according to legend, there are only 13 which are believed to possess an awesome, mystical power.
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“The crystal skulls have become so famous that the field has been flooded with dozens of modern skulls, and on a number of occasions, people who have possessed these skulls are trying to pretend as if their skull is ancient. And this, of course, is very difficult because, at the same time, we have the skeptics, the scientists, who basically say it is all fake. And so, as a result of which, we’re really confronted with a mixture of crystal skulls and a very difficult situation.” – Philip Coppens |
According to crystal skulls enthusiasts, as many as 12 of the 13 authentic skulls have been discovered and are in private collections. But where did these so-called authentic skulls come from? And how were they discovered? In the late 19th-century, museums in London and Paris displayed crystal skulls as genuine Mesoamerican religious relics. But today, mainstream scientists argue they are all modern creations. They also insist that any analysis of the skulls is incomplete, as quartz crystal cannot be carbon-dated.
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“Quartz has no carbon. Quartz actually has no radioactive elements in it. It’s pretty much pure silicon, so the quartz itself has no real signature that can be used to do dating. Even getting within 1,000 years or 10,000 years, it gets almost impossible to actually date it.” – Michael Dennin, Ph.D. |
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“Authenticity is something difficult to determine when they’ve been analyzed using modern scientific techniques. In some cases, there are suggestions that modern tools were being used. Other people have suggested, however, they were using very sophisticated tools back in ancient times.” – Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. |
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“Some people believe that because there are tool markings on the teeth of some of the crystal skulls that therefore they are relatively modern fakes. However, there are others who point out that actually the ancient Maya had wheel-carving technologies.” – Chris Morton (Author, The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls) |
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“But to jump to the conclusion that simply because there are tool marks that somehow this means it is a 19th-century fake is simply unscientific.” – Philip Coppens |
Like crystal skulls enthusiasts, many Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe that the 12 known ancient quartz skulls do, in fact, have ancient origins and believe they may possess a great, perhaps even otherworldly power, one that has yet to be fully revealed.
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“There is something definitely ancient about these skulls, and they’re not modern carvings. There were suggestions that these skulls may have been from a nonhuman source. The evidence for this is scarce, but the-the mythologies and the legends do suggest they were known about in prehistoric times and they were revered.” – Hugh Newman (Author, Earth Grids) |
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“Several native American tribes have similar stories about ancient crystal skulls that were said to have been left behind by the earliest ancestors way back in the mists of time. Some believe that these are ancient artifacts left behind by extraterrestrials or that they were remnants left over from the lost civilizations.” – Chris Morton (Author, The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls) |
According to legend, the secret of the skulls will be revealed when the original 13 skulls come together to form a global grid. In fact, there are many who believe that this so-called “reunion of the skulls” will awaken sacred knowledge of the gods, knowledge that has been hidden from mankind for thousands of years.
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“According to some native American myths, there are and each one of those skulls contains the information from one of these planets, including earth. And the reason why there’s a skull contains the knowledge of all those planets. It’s basically a backup.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“It’s genuinely possible that some of these crystal skulls are many, many thousands of years old. People have suggested, too, that some crystal skulls aren’t from this planet and that they have been brought here from other solar systems. And, of course, if that were the case, they would have been brought here by extraterrestrials.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
Crystal skulls with extraterrestrial origins? Is such a profound theory even possible? Perhaps the answer can be found by examining one of the oldest and most enigmatic crystal skulls ever found.
Lubaantun, Belize, Central America. Here in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula lay the ruins of an ancient pre-Columbian city that thrived in the 8th-century AD. In 1924, explorer Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter Anna discover a human-sized skull made of clear quartz crystal. It has a detachable jaw, making it one of the most unique and anatomically accurate of all the crystal skulls.
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“Mitchell-Hedges was told by the Mayans that his skull was over 3,600 years old. This is fascinating because this would predate Mayan civilization.” – William Henry (Author / Investigative Mythologist), |
When Mitchell-Hedges passed away in 1957, the skull was bestowed to his daughter Anna. She guarded the skull for more than a decade before allowing it to be studied.
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“And it was studied by a guy named Frank Dorland, and what he found was that the skull was completely baffling to him. He would come down at night to find the room completely glowing, and the crystal skull was literally lighting up itself a dark room like it was a light. All kinds of strange phenomena would happen around the skull, including people would hear strange sounds and smell things like sudden flowers and things like that in the room with no explanation but that it was coming from the skull. So, all kinds of unusual things were happening around the skull, and Dorland himself couldn’t figure out how the skull had been made.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
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“When it comes to the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull, it has been analyzed on a number of occasions. Frank Dorland in the 1960s did it as a private individual; Hewlett-Packard did it as well; and the British Museum did a very short analysis in 1980 as well. So, this skull has been subjected to a number of detailed scientific analysis. In all of those occasions, what was found was that it was almost impossible for a human being to make this.” – Philip Coppens |
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“One of the scientists that examined the skull actually said, “this skull shouldn’t even exist.” And that is really what led to the idea that perhaps these crystal skulls were not made by humans at all. And many people to this day still believe that to be the case.” – Chris Morton (Author, The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls) |
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“The entire mythology of the Mayans is based on extraterrestrial encounters in the past. Mitchell-Hedges was told by the locals that their ancestors gave that skull to them. My question is, who were those ancestors, and is their origin out there? And the answer, of course, is yes.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
Could the Mitchell-Hedges skull really be an ancient, extraterrestrial relic, as Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest? And if so, might this skull and others like it around the world really possess supernatural powers? Perhaps further evidence can be found by examining the history of another crystal skull, one linked to an ancient aboriginal tribe half a world away.
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