7.8 – THE GREAT FLOOD (12.23.14)

CYCLE OF CIVILIZATION ^[9d]

The Gulf of Khambhat, India. 2001. Scientists working some 25 miles from shore and 125 feet below the surface, stumble across something extraordinary, what appears to be the signs of an ancient civilization.

“Recently, the marine archeologists of India have discovered two cities in the Bay of Khambhat. They are still working on it, you know, going down there and archiving it and taking photographs and videos.” – Deepak Shimkhada, Ph.D. (Adjunct Prof. of Religion, Claremont Graduate Univ.), (Prof. of Hindu Studies, Claremont Lincoln Univ., School of Theology)

“They think that these cities were destroyed in a geological change that happened many thousands of years ago. But you have to wonder, yourself, if there are not more sunken cities all around India. Their own legends and myths say exactly that.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods)

The ruins found beneath the ocean in the Gulf of Khambhat are thought to date back at least 9,000 years, to the time when some researchers believe a comet struck the Earth and caused a global deluge. Could these submerged cities not only be evidence that the Great Flood really did occur, but also that it wiped out an advanced society that existed long before the earliest known human civilization? Scientists say further evidence can be found in archaeological sites around the world that date back to end of the last ice age.

In southeastern Turkey lies Gobekli Tepe, an extraordinary series of circular stone structures with intricately carved pillars weighing as much as 50 tons. Radiocarbon dating indicates parts of the complex were built about 10,000 BC, and at least one archeologist believes there are signs it may have been destroyed by a flood.

“We have evidence there of catastrophic destruction; of pillars being knocked over at the end of the last Ice Age; that things were very severe, people were trying to rebuild it at the time. Eventually, they effectively gave up and covered over the entire site, maybe to come back later to uncover it, maybe to simply bury it for posterity.” – Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. (Geologist / Author, Forgotten Civilization)

In the rain forests of Indonesia is a series of terraces, walls and steps on a hill that the locals call Gunung Padang. When scientists drilled into the Earth to determine its age, they discovered the site dates back to at least 9700 BC.

“Very interestingly, one of the layers of Gunung Padang that’s been exposed seismically shows that there was an entrance to a cave at about 9700 or so BC that was subsequently covered over. Again, I think this ties in with the events at the end of the last ice age. People were going into caves, they had to escape, and then things were covered over after that.” – Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. (Geologist / Author, Forgotten Civilization)

Are these ruins that are found across the world evidence of an advanced civilization that existed before a global deluge? And if so, might we find mention of it in ancient myths?

“If we go back to ancient Greece, one of the myths, one of the sacred narratives that Plato preserves is the narrative that there used to be a great continent, which he calls Atlantis. And Atlantis had a great, advanced civilization. Atlantis was one of the continents that was destroyed by the Great Flood.” – Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D. (Prof. of Anthropology & Folklore, CSU Northridge)

“When does he date Atlantis? To 9600 BC, which is very close to the modern date of the end of the last Ice Age. So, all this, I believe, ties together that we had an earlier cycle of civilization. It was devastated at the end of the last ice age by natural catastrophes. Humanity was driven into a Dark Age that lasted thousands and thousands of years, until civilization reemerged about 5,000 years ago.” – Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. (Geologist / Author, Forgotten Civilization)

Is it possible that the story of Atlantis is really describing a civilization that existed before 10,000 BC, when the Great Flood and the end of the ice age are said to have happened? Did Atlantis suffer the same fate as Gobekli Tepe, Gunung Padang and many other ancient structures that appear to have been hit by some catastrophic event? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes, and suggest that the most compelling evidence can be found not with what was destroyed, but with what survived.

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