The Dragon's Mirror: The Magic of Angkor Wat VII
Part 7
Diego Antolini
22/06/2022 14:11:56
THE CONSTELLATION OF THE DRAGON
In 1998, in a book entitled Heaven's Mirror (written by Hancock and Faiia,) comparing the pattern of the celestial North around the ecliptic of the North Pole with an illustration of the major temples of Angkor, researchers Graham Hancock and John Grigsby showed a relationship between the temples around Angkor Thom and the Draco constellation.
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On the ground level, the position of Angkor Thom matches the position of the North Pole’s ecliptic in the sky. Mebon West, Mebon East and Ta Som have the same spatial relationship to Angkor Thom of Deneb, Thuban and Kochab if compared to the North Pole’s ecliptic.
The movement of the celestial pole is another aspect of the 26,000-year cycle theory (actually 25,776 years,) known as the Precession of the Equinoxes, which Hancock and other researchers have claimed to mark periods of major changes on a planetary level.
Since Angkor is located in the tropics, the northern stars are low on the northern horizon. In our time, the North Star is close to the north celestial pole; when the Draco constellation is aligned with the temples of Angkor, it is under the polar star below the horizon line. During its nocturnal rotation around the celestial North Pole, when Draco is above the North Star and therefore visible at the latitude of Cambodia, it is in an inverted position with respect to the line of Angkor temples.
But in 11,500 BCE, Vega was the polar reference of the north and the Draco constellation was perfectly aligned with the temples and above the horizon.
Vega is incidentally the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere, and by far the brightest Northern Star. Canopus is the brightest star along the south celestial pole and the second in brightness after Sirius. Canopus and Vega were both polar stars to their respective hemispheres and around the same time, i.e. about 13,500 years ago.
Most likely the area north of Angkor was at that time without trees, while today it is entirely covered by a thick jungle. Satellite images have shown some ruins North-East of Angkor Thom, in the correct position and distance to represent the North Star (below,) while Kok Chork is in the position to represent Vega.
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If what Hancock suggests is true, then the age of the temples would be
much older than the official dating and this would be in line with the symbolism present at Angkor Wat as well as in other minor temples: symbolism that recall ancestral eras where "The gods walked the Earth"
in Egypt, in Central America, and Asia.
We believe that the
observations we made in the previous paragraph make sense if we follow
the "reptilian" symbology that abounds in the Hindu tradition, and
connect it to the Khmer empire and its gods. In this case, as well as for
other symbols seen in other ancestral cultures, the serpent is used as
an instrument of knowledge or more properly as a "vehicle for the
transmission" of knowledge.
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Let's take the myth of the Churning of the Sea of Milk, so much prominent in Hindu mythology as it is in the Khmer tradition.
Legend
has it that Indra, the king of the Devas (a kind of gods), met the sage
Durvasa while on the back of the elephant Airavata. Durvasa offered him
a special garland given to him by the god Shiva. Indra accepted the
wreath and placed it around the elephant's trunk as proof that he was
not a selfish god. But Airavata, knowing that Indra was unable to
control his ego, threw the wreath to the ground. This infuriated the
sage, for the wreath was a symbol of Sri (fortune) and had to be treated
with religious respect. Durvasa cursed Indra and all Devas, stripping them of all strength, energy and luck.
In fact, in
subsequent battles the Devas were defeated and the Asuras led by the god
Bali, who took control of the Universe. The Devas asked for help to the
supreme god Vishnu, who advised them to treat the Asuras with diplomacy.
The Devas formed an alliance with the Asuras to reshuffle the ocean in
order to create the nectar of immortality, and share it among them.
However Vishnu intervened saying that he would make sure that only the
Devas could obtain this drink.
The churning was a very elaborate
process. Mount Mandara or Mandar Parvat was used as a support pole, and
Vasuki, the king of the serpent race who dwells upon Shiva's neck, was
taken as a rope for the mixing. The Asura demons demanded to hold the
serpent's head, while the Deva gods (advised by Vishnu,) agreed to hold
the tail. As a result, the Asuras were poisoned by the fumes emitted by
Vasuki; despite this, both sides pulled back and forth several times,
spinning the mountain, which in turn made the ocean swirl. When the
mountain was placed on the ocean it sank but Vishnu, in the form of the
turtle Kurma, came to the rescue and placed the mountain upon its shell.
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The
Samudra Manthan process produced a number of "secondary" elements from
the Sea of Milk: a lethal poison called Halahala that terrorized gods
and demons, because the poison was so powerful to destroy all creation.
Then
the gods approached Shiva to protect themselves, and the supreme god
consumed all the poison in order to protect the Universe, while his wife
Parvati grabbed Shiva's throat in an attempt to stop him from
swallowing the poison, which was so powerful to harm him. The result was
that Shiva's throat turned blue.
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The Hindu myth of the Churning
of the Sea of Milk was analyzed by Georges Dumezil, who linked it to
various Indo-European myths up to the medieval legend of the Holy Grail,
reconstructing an original myth (the "Ambrosia cycle") about a
deceitful deity that steals the drink of immortality to give it to
mankind, but fails in an attempt to free man from death. Dumezil later
abandoned this theory, but the basic idea was taken by Jarich Oosten who
incorporated it into his Hymiskvioa, an ancient Norse poem in which a
sacred drink is prepared by the joint effort of gods and giants, with
the former who eventually obtain the drink. The snake Jormungandr
replaces Vasuki.
We believe that the comparative analysis of Dumezil
as well as of other researchers (above all, Zecharia Sitchin) always
leads to only one direction: the creation of man could have occurred by
means of a chemical formula with a high destructive potential (probably
radioactive,) and through the combination of opposing and contrary
cosmic forces. A catalyst could have allowed the formula to be
successful: the creation of the genetic code for DNA replication,
therefore allowing the birth of man. "Waste" elements could have been
released into the cosmos as a result of this operation.
And that all this happened somewhere along the Milky Way, is something quite difficult to ignore.
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