The Dragon's Mirror: The Magic of Angkor Wat IV

Part 4

William Van de Bogart wrote a series of diaries on his travels to Angkor Wat, later published as Stones in the Sky. Like many other researchers, he too noted the Cosmic energy that radiates from the sacred place of Angkor. He writes,

"... the predominant thought is to return to a place where the intention of paying homage to the Cosmos was a priority in the minds of the Khmer kings ..."



In 2003, ten years before our visit to the temples, Angkor was targeted in a series of political attacks when a mob of furious Cambodians roamed the streets of Phnom Penh and destroyed the Thai Embassy, Thai hotels and shops. This unrest was allegedly caused by actress Suvanan Kongying who declared that Cambodia has stolen Angkor Wat from Thailand. Others, however, believe that behind this event there may be the hand of Hun Sen, the authoritarian prime minister of Cambodia, who could have used the crowd for his political advantages prior to the July elections of that year. In fact this hypothesis seems the most probable, for such a strategy has been widely used by the Hun Sen regime both in the past and in the following years.
What struck Van de Bogart more than anything else, beyond the archaeological discoveries and Hancock's theory of the astronomical alignment of the temples was the realization that the Khmer civilization had its own place in the cosmos, and had built Angkor Wat to celebrate celestial dynamics such as equinoxes, solstices, eclipses, planetary passages, etc.

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The Khmer people, like the Mayan and other ancient civilizations, gave enormous significance to the Precession of the Equinoxes.
After 12,500 years, calculated according to the baktuns of the Mayan calendar which started with the “Golden Age” of 10,500 BCE until about 2012 CE, the second half of the 26,000-year precessional cycle reached its conclusion.
In Angkor Wat, the representation of Vishnu “churning the ocean of Milk,” for example, is one of the most important clues leading to the connection between the Khmer culture (which was Hindu, therefore Brahminic) and the astronomical elements. Following this trail, how can we not see the Milky Way in the Ocean of Milk and the Cosmic energy in the Serpent? The Asura and Devata could symbolize the opposing forces that regulate the movements of cosmic bodies.
The main question when visiting the sacred area of Angkor is why was deemed so important to build that many temples in the jungle? And what had prompted thousands and thousands of men, generation after generation, to mine, cut and transport millions of tons of rocks hundreds of miles across an unfriendly terrain?



When Angkor Wat was erected, Europe was steeped in blood, amidst persecution of the Merovingians, knights Templars and fights between absolute States. In Central America, the Maya civilization of Guatemala was in decline (it would disappear in the 10th Century); but in Cambodia, as late as the 14th Century, the massive gold of Angkor Wat's central tower (symbolizing the northern polar axis of the Earth) could be seen for miles and miles while war elephants followed by scores of sensual dancers were exhibited in front to the Khmer rulers at the royal palace.
On March 21, at the Spring Equinox, the sun will rise exactly above the main tower to mark the midpoint of its long journey from the Winter Solstice to the Summer Solstice. Van de Bogart writes,

"Brahma and Vishnu are about to awaken ... from the abode of the gods on Mount Meru ... The gods live, and maybe we can talk to them..."
 Nowhere else except at Angkor Wat could such a statement be more realistic.
Angkor Wat is yet another proof that all cultures of the ancient world possessed astronomical knowledge: in this case too the Khmer knew that, at the end of the Precessional cycle, our Solar System would be aligned to the Galactic center. This has become evident in the 21st century; 2012 is past and whatever changes it brought, did not result in the destruction of the world as many catastrophists expected. However, the fact that the civilizations of over 10,000 years ago knew about the situation of stars and planets does not seem to interest the academia that much, lest it would be forced to review a good part of the chronology of the world. There are principles, however, that have now been accepted as facts (although "appropriately" neglected within the official scientific circles:) that the Great Pyramid of Giza was an astronomical temple, that Cichen Itza was an astronomical temple, and that Angkor Wat was an astronomical temple.

The key to understanding these ancient architectural splendors must therefore not only be found in the archaeological analysis, that is, the value of the finding per se, but it must extend to an astronomical and anthropogenetic thorough investigation. It should be clear by now that ancient temples were not erected only as a place of worship for the faithful, as a home for priests or as a tribute to the gods, but were real instruments for the understanding of the Universe.
If one can accept this, then it can be easily understood that the ancient world possessed an advanced knowledge of the movement of the stars and all related natural phenomena of Earth.
If this is accepted, we can take another small step towards our real origins, towards those stars that perhaps were not, in those times, so far away from us.