CHAPTER ONE
VISIONS OF A PARALLEL WORLD
The Mayans are supposed to have vanished without having invented even the rudiments of a technology. Some archaeologists doubt that they knew the wheel, and yet the design on the Palen-que sarcophagus appears to show a very complex and sophisticated device, with a man at the controls of an intricate piece of machinery. Noting that the man is depicted with his knees brought up toward his chest and his back to a complicated mechanism, from which flames are seen to flow, several people, among them Soviet science writer Alexander Kazantsev, have speculated that the Mayans had actually been in contact with visitors from a superior civilization visitors who used spaceships. Kazantsev’s interpretation is difficult to prove. However, the only object we know today closely resembling the Mayan design is the space capsule.
The demigod for whom sarcophagus, crypt, and pyramid were built with such splendid craftsmanship by the Mayan artists is something of a puzzle, too. The body is radically different from the morphology of the Mayans, as we imagine them: the corpse is that of a man nearly six feet tall, about eight inches taller than the average Mayan. According to Pierre Honore,’ the sarcophagus was made for the “Great White God,” Kulkulkan, but no final clue to the mystery has yet been found, and the tropical jungles of Central
America where dozens of temples and pyramids are still buried under the exuberant vegetation have not yet yielded the secret of the Palenque sarcophagus.
THE AGE OF THE GODS
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of
angels: the Lord is among them .,3
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