The Whale Culture in the Pacific -The Truth of the Lost Continent of Mu E-Book

Vito de la Vera

• Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Seitenzahl: 85

Beschreibung

My search for the origins of the whale culture has now taken me from the first findings on the East coast of Greenland across the Arctic Ocean and down the Bering Sea to the Aleutian Islands. Here I have found evidence that they originated in the Pacific, which brings us to Japan and the Yonaguni monument. Here it becomes evident that the Whale culture originated from hunter-gatherers, on the Eurasian Mammoth step, who have begun to hunt seals and whales in the Sea of Japan and have then crossed over to Japan from where their culture has adapted to the rich hunting waters of the Pacific during the ice age. The abundance of hunting game has led them to be very successful in the Pacific and to have the resources to develop their unique culture, where they lived on and hunted from the ice cover on the Ocean. On the journey from Japan across the Pacific we find evidence on Hawaii that causes us to take a detour to Kiritimati. There we find evidence that very specific ocean currents during the ice age created a continent of ice in the pacific during the ice age with very rich waters both to the north and south of this ice continent on which the whale culture established a civilization that must have been the real lost continent of Mu. From this continent the whale culture of Mu could cover the entire pacific in their airships based on whale skin and bone. In our continued search we come to Tahiti and New Caledonia to find the source of the specific conditions in the ocean currents that led to the formation of the ice continent of Mu and how these conditions started to collapse and led to the decline of the Whale culture in the Pacific. We thus end up following the whale culture to New Zealand, where it tries to adapt to the missing sea ice and follows the ice south towards the Antarctic before disappearing.

Leseprobe

Indholdsfortegnelse

OSAKA, JAPAN

YONAGUNI, JAPAN

HAWAII, USA

KIRITIMATI, KIRIBATI

TAHITI, FRENCH POLYNESIA

NEW CALEDONIA

NEW ZEALAND

OSAKA, JAPAN

How far your exploration can take you! My investigations began at a rock with petroglyphs on the east coast of Greenland, and now l’Aguila is sailing through the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean. I have followed the limited traces of whale culture from Greenland through Canada's Arctic Archipelago, along Alaska's coast across the Bering Sea down to the Aleutians. Here I could confirm that they really had come to the Arctic Ocean via the Bering Strait. If I had been able to explore the Siberian coast, I would undoubtedly have found traces there as well. There are at least references to rocks with petroglyphs from Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition. The Aleutians also clearly show that the whale culture has been here.

What clearly shows that the whale culture on the Aleutians is much older than what I found in Greenland is that there are petroglyphs under the surface of the sea. When we dived, we found far more and larger petroglyphs under the sea than above the sea. This suggests a more intensive activity over a longer period than on the rocks that are now above the surface of the sea.

This also brings the history of whale culture back to the Ice Age, and this is what we want to investigate further down in the Pacific. If the whale culture was here, their petroglyphs will be below the surface. Fortunately, the warm water means that there have been far more dives and investigations here. Our dives in the Aleutians showed many petroglyphs that clearly connected to the whale culture. Both the petroglyphs that were above the sea in the Aleutians and also to the petroglyphs that I have found along the Arctic Ocean all the way to my first discoveries in Greenland. There is a clear connection all the way back to the underwater petroglyphs in the Aleutians, which must date back to the Ice Age, when the Bering Strait was closed and the whale culture therefore existed in the northern Pacific by the surface of the sea.

Now my goal is to investigate how far down in the Pacific the whale culture existed during the Ice Age, and this can naturally best be investigated under the sea, as the whale culture, like the Polynesian cultures, was oriented towards the sea and therefore left their traces along the coast. A coast that for the whale culture is now below the surface of the sea, as the sea level is considerably higher than during the Ice Age.

So, it's just a matter of having a starting point. The Pacific is enormous, but it turns out that I got a starting point served on a silver platter. Alain and André, who were my fellows on the test flight of our airship around Greenland, co-own an antique shop in Osaka, Japan, where they supply Osaka's wealthy with rare and special artifacts.

We visited their shop, which they run with a lovely Japanese lady, Yumiko Nakaumi, who turned out to be very knowledgeable and courteous.

It was a really exciting store with a wealth of special artifacts on 3 floors. A large space, considering the house prices in Osaka. They must be doing well.

One thing that caught my eye was a chest standing in a corner, looking very much like the one I had on l’Aguila, just older and more worn. It gave me a strange feeling, but I decided I shouldn't spend more time on it.

Yumiko served exquisite green tea and mochi. And they told us about a trip they had taken to the southern part of the Ryukyu Islands, where Okinawa is the main island. These southern islands are near Taiwan. Here they dived down to the controversial Yonaguni Monument to find artifacts that would be in demand among their clients.

During their dive, they also found petroglyphs, which they thought would interest me.

They showed us where we could find the petroglyphs and gave us 3D models that we could take pictures of to help us further. They had also taken pictures of the petroglyphs, and there were motifs that I recognized, especially the whale tail stood out. It was clear that there was something to investigate further.

During our conversation, it became clear that our friends were preparing an expedition to some of the Japanese islands in the Pacific. They didn't give details, but it was clear that they were excited. They clearly believed there was something of serious value to be found. I got a clear sense that it had something to do with the strange chest in the corner, which I kept glancing at now and then. Something I noticed our hosts also picked up on, with a strange understanding. However, we got no more from them. Business secrets, I suppose, when you have to live off your findings.

YONAGUNI, JAPAN

We spent a few good days with our hosts in Osaka before we said our goodbyes and set sail for the Yonaguni Monument. The Japanese island chain is quite long. The monument, also known as the Yonaguni Submarine Ruins, lies off the coast of Yonaguni, an island near Taiwan, and is actually disputed but under Japanese control. It took us some time to get there, but we arrived in beautiful weather for diving. It is very fitting that our investigations of the whale culture in the Pacific begin here so close to Taiwan, as it represents the starting point for the great Austronesian migration to the Pacific and thus the origin of the Polynesians in the Pacific.

When you stand on deck and look down into the clear water with a few forested islands in the background, it all looks very untouched, but beneath the surface lies the enigmatic Yonaguni Monument, which some consider to be man-made. Since the monument was last above water during the Ice Age, it was particularly interesting because it would necessarily mean that a civilization existed in such a distant past. Petroglyphs in the Aleutians also show that there was culture in such a distant past, but images from that age are known from other places.

What sets Yonaguni Monument apart is the question of whether it is natural or man-made. If it is man-made, it pushes the art of construction many millennia back into the past. When you see a 3D representation of the monument, it does resemble structures like the South American pyramids in Peru or some of the keyhole-shaped Japanese kofun burial mounds. For our purposes, it is not initially important whether the monument is man-made or natural, as long as it has been treated by human hands. If the monument is built and has petroglyphs from whale culture, it raises a whole new set of questions since there has so far been no evidence that the whale culture built in stone. In my view, it is more likely that it is a natural rock that has been shaped to a greater or lesser extent to serve a purpose.

Especially since depressions have been found in the rock, it reminds me of what I found at the whale culture’s hunting sites. These depressions then served to set up tent structures. Something similar, just larger, might be the case here. An interesting thought of a large rock structure covered by large whale-skin tents. An ancient culture can identify itself in many strange ways.

However, we had to see the monument to get a firsthand idea, so it was just a matter of getting into the diving gear. The Yonaguni Monument lies at about 26 meters depth, so there is a bit of a descent, but what a sight that met us when we reached it. Before us stood a structure with straight lines and angles. It really looked like something that had been deliberately carved out. I was completely stunned; it was like seeing a monument from another world emerge before my eyes. I had to just look at it for a while. It simply filled me with awe.

After taking in the sight, we continued over the monument. We had studied the maps and 3D models, so we had a good idea of where we could find what we were looking for. First, I very much wanted to see the depressions said to be carved into the monument. After some searching, we found them. They were much larger than the depressions on the surface in Greenland, larger than I would have expected for whale culture tent poles made of whale bone. It could perhaps be for totem poles. However, we soon found smaller depressions that resembled the holes I have seen at the whale culture hunting sites. This confirms to me that the whale culture had a connection to the Yonaguni Monument, so the large depressions could be for totem poles or something else that was inside the tent structures. This might have been a ceremonial center where people gathered for cultic activities, so there must have been a larger population in the surrounding sea that could gather here.

It's interesting to imagine groups from the whale culture from the Philippines in the south to Japan in the north gathering here in a cultic community. What might they have celebrated here?

The next stop was to dive to the place where Alain, André, and Yumiko had indicated that there were petroglyphs. We swam down on the eastern side of the monument. They were obviously not easy to see, as they are just scratches in the stone. So, we had to look for a while. It took some time, but Angelo indicated first that he had found something. I hurried over.

It was indeed petroglyphs, and many of them. There was a whole gallery here. What pleased me was after some time finding the familiar whale tail symbol, which I recognized from East Greenland. It had not changed much over the millennia.

That was the evidence I needed! Along with several other motifs that I recognized; it showed that the whale culture really had been here long before it spread to the Arctic with the receding Ice Age.