Introduction in Secret History

In China until the 20th century the basis of supreme power was the doctrine of the “Mandate of Heaven” or literally “Heaven's command” (Tien-ming) for the emperor (“son of heaven”) to rule on behalf of the celestials. The native tradition associated the first appearance of the first emperor Huangdi with the star Xuanyuan (Regulus or α Leo): “Xuanyuan is another name for Huangdi. The descending spirit of this star gave birth to Huangdi ”¹⁶. The Taoist canon “Daozang” described the final departure of Huangdi to the same star: “Having risen into the sky and become the ruler of the One Greatest, he turned back into the star Xuanyuan”¹⁶. Similar civilizers from the sky are described in the annals of Korea¹⁷ and Japan¹⁸, as well as in the sacred texts of India.¹⁹ 

In particular, the term "avatar", denoting the descent of a deity from heaven to the Earth, is one of the most important ideas of Hinduism. For the ancient Indians, a history was acts of avatars.¹³ Even the founding fathers (manes) of Ancient India went to the star Regulus (α Leo again), which was known to them as the 10th nakshatra or Magha.²⁰

Such motives formally correspond to expectations of a paleo-contact with extraterrestrial cultures. However, traditional explanations such as an animation of celestial bodies and astrological interpretations are not excluded. Nevertheless, humans have received amazing knowledge that our ancestors could not have obtained on their own. The following facts indicate a non-human cultural factor that goes beyond traditional interpretations.

An old book from 1648 with the amazing map of the world, which collects the "the gravest errors of the ancient geographers" (Fig. 4).²¹ There you can see land bridges on the sites of the modern Straits of Gibraltar as well as the Bab el-Mandeb Strait of the Red Sea. Modern geology confirms that there was indeed land on the site of the straits mentioned, but more than 5 million years ago.^22,23  The relics of this pre-human realities are evaporites, i.e., a water-soluble sedimentary mineral deposit that results from evaporation. Similar salt domes on the bottom of the Mediterranean and Red Seas were discovered in the 1970s using seismology and underwater drilling. This obstacle excludes the hypothesis of a human geological insight in ancient times with primitive technology. 

Nevertheless, the first Roman geographer, Pomponius Mela (De Orbis situ, Book 1, Chapter 27), in the 1st century AD reported about Gibraltar Strait: “Ocean, previously shut out by the mole of the mountains, was let into those places that it now inundates.”²⁴ At the same time, Pliny the Elder (Natural History, Book 6, Chapter 1) describes that flood: “It was not enough for it [Ocean] to have forced a passage through the mountains, to have torn away Calpe [Gibraltar] from Africa, and to have

swallowed up a much larger space than it left untouched.”²⁵ However, this flood of 5.33 million years ago²² could not have been observed by people who appeared 3 million years later. 

The same applies to the Red Sea, which was flooded by the Indian Ocean about 5 million years ago.²³ Nevertheless, Strabo (Geography, book 1, ch. 3, §1) wrote: “Eratosthenes himself tells us one of the absurd stories of Damastes, who believes that the Arabian Gulf [Red sea] is a lake.”²⁶  

Another pre-human relic of ancient geography is the Nuba flumine, a great Saharan river falling into the Nile slightly to the south of Elephantine Island at Syene (now Aswan). Many European cartographers shown this river in their maps since the Behaim globe (1492) and, probably, the Dulcert portolan (1339). However, the Nuba River was unknown to the modern geography as well as Ptolemy (2nd c. AD) and even Herodotus (5th c. BC), who visited the Elephantine. Nevertheless, one can see the dry chan­nel of the Nuba River in space images of Google Maps (Fig. 5). Geologists know this paleo-channel as the "Late Qena River", which was formed 16 million years ago, before the Nile²⁷. Last river sediments of the Quena sands are attributed to Late Pliocene, i.e., about 3 million years ago²⁸.

Apparently, Mela, Damastes and Behaim saw some ancient manuscripts that originated from a non-human source of knowledge.

In fact, ancient texts directly refer to celestial informants. In particular, the antique Indian book Surya Siddhanta (1:2; 14:25-27) reports on its origin: “When but little of the Golden Age was left, a great demon (asura), named Maya, being desirous to know that mysterious, supreme, pure and exalted science… So then Maya, having personally learned from the sun that divine knowledge, regarded himself as having attained his desire… Then, too, the sages (rishi), learning that Maya had received from the sun this gift, drew near and surrounded him, and reverently asked the knowledge. And he graciously bestowed upon them the grand system of the planets, of mysteries in the world the most wonderful, and equal to the Scripture (brahman).”²⁰. 

The translator of the cited text explains that the Golden Age is the epoch of krita yuga (or Satya Yuga), which ended 2163102 BC. Therefore, Surya Siddhanta refers us to the mentioned era of the appearance of the first humans (Homo habilis) after the flight of the star HD 7977 through the Solar System. Wikipedia gives an important clarification: „ Satya Yuga is known as the age of truth, when humanity is governed by gods“. 

It is important that the core of ancient Indian astronomical literature is the textbooks (siddhantas) of established truths from various celestials: Brahma (the Universe), Surya (the Sun), Soma (the Moon) and Brihaspati (the planet Jupiter).  No evidence, only revelations from above. Among such statements and algorithms there are some amazing insights. 

Although ground-based telescopes do not have sufficient resolution to image planetary geology, Indian sages knew a thing or two. Thus, the translator of the Surya Siddhanta wrote about Mars: “All his other titles, namely kuja, bhuputra, bhumiputra, bhusuta, bhauma, mark him as ‘son of the earth’ “²⁰.  Really, of all the planets, only Mars resembles the Earth, having traces of former rivers, lakes and, probably, an ocean more than 2 billion years old. 

Moreover, the translator wrote: “Mercury is styled … cacija and sdumya, ‘son of the moon’. The reason of neither appellation is obvious"²⁰. Only the Mariner 10 and Messenger space missions showed that Mercury's surface is covered with impact craters and is similar in appearance to the Moon. However, in early 11th century al-Biruni (India, ch. 19) mentioned one of the Indian names for Mercury - "Chandra", which means "lunar"²⁹.

The "Surya Siddhanta" (ch. 7, § 13) contains data on the overestimated angular sizes of the planets and their underestimated distances from the Earth. However, R. Thompson showed that the combination of these erroneous data leads to approximately correct absolute values ​​of the planetary diameters.³⁰ Therefore, the Indian sages had correct data on the absolute sizes of the planets, but applied them to an erroneous cosmographic model. To measure the sizes of planets in kilometers, our astronomers used a correct world system, celestial mechanics of 18-19th centuries, and telescopes. All these means in late-antique India would contradict the modern view of the history of astronomy.

Abu Rayhan Biruni in his work "India" (11th century) cited the old Indian book “Vishnu Dharma”: “Those stars whose circumference is less than two kurokhs (3 km) are invisible to men and can only be seen by demigods”²⁹. Really, this is the size of a typical black hole of solar-mass, which is the limit of star visibility (event horizon).

When mentioning the Universe, the Surya Siddhanta (Ch. 12, § 20) makes a strange clarification: “Three quarters are immortal, secret; this one quarter hath become manifest”²⁰. In 1860 this sentence was called an “obscure statement”. However, now it takes on an unexpected meaning. In fact, the Surya Siddhanta’s figure 75% for the "secret" portion of the Universe is approximately the latest estimate 72.45±1.26% of invisible "dark energy" deposit in the total contents of our Universe.³¹ The manifested matter of particles is only 27.55% of the Universe content or approximately one-fourth part according to the Surya Siddhanta. Obviously, the astronomers of late antiquity could not have discovered these themselves without our orbital observatories and modern science. The roots of this impossible knowledge are recognizable in the ancient text of the Rig Veda (book 10, chapter 90, § 2-4) about Purusa as a personification of the Universe: “This Purusa is all that yet hath been and all that is to be... All creatures are one-fourth of him, three-fourths eternal life in heaven.”³² 

The idea of ​​a plurality of worlds is widespread in ancient Indian sources. In particular, the Bhagavata Purana (6.16.36-37) reports: “There are innumerable universes besides this one, and although they are unlimitedly large, they move about like atoms”³³. In a general sense, the mentioned concept correlates with the “multiverse” idea in modern cosmology³⁴. Moreover, the idea that the universe is similar to an atom is also considered in both modern science³⁵ and modern Buddhist theology³⁶. Note that the first known mention of the Bhagavata Purana dates back to the early 11th century²⁹. However, the Hindu tradition dates the text to approximately 3100 BC (the beginning of the current Kali Yuga epoch).

It is generally accepted that science arose from the practical activities of ancient people. But whose practice led to the atomism of Greeks Leucippus and Democritus as well as their ancient Indian predecessors of the 5th-6th centuries BC? Mainstream discusses only purely theoretical fictions and "yogic intuition"³⁷. It is quite obvious that this correct idea could not have arisen from the sensory experience of ancient people. Until the 18th century, the standard physical theory was Aristotle's concept of four atomless elements (earth, water, air, fire), including his critique of ancient atomism.   

Nevertheless, Strabo (Geography, book 16, ch. 2, § 24) pointed out: “And if one must believe Poseidonius, the ancient dogma about atoms originated with Mochus, a Sidonian, born before the Trojan times.”³⁸ The Phoenicians of Sidon had connections with India, as reported by Herodotus and Strabo. 

In Ancient India atomism was preached by entire philosophical schools of Nyaya, Vaisheshika and Mimamsa. In particular, the religious doctrine of Jainism teaches that the Universe consists of atoms (pramanu), is infinite and exists without beginning or end.³⁹ This correct view was attributed to the founder of Jainism, the saint Rishabhanatha. The description of this intellectual is worthy of a celestial being, for he was "according to Jain belief, 3,000 feet (900 m) tall and lived for 8 million years"⁴⁰. 

There were units of time measurement that were too short for practical use by the people of that time. In the book of the 12th century Indian astronomer Bhaskarāchārya “Siddhânta-Ciromani” (I. 19, 20) the basic (i.e. the basis for calculating other time intervals) unit of time truti is mentioned, equal to 1/33750 of a second. 20 Formally, the truti corresponds to the period of the ultrasound wave, which humans cannot hear. Surprisingly, the term truti is defined in terms of atoms.

In particular, the Hindu text Bhagavat Purana or Srimad-Bhagavatam, mentioned by Biruni a thousand years ago, uses the Sanskrit concept of parama-aṇuḥ or “ultimate smallness,” which is usually translated as “atom.” The classic translation of the Srimad-Bhagavatam claims: “One can estimate time by measuring the movement of the atomic combination of bodies… The atom is described as an invisible particle, but when six such atoms combine together, they are called a trasarenu… The time duration needed for the integration of three trasarenus is called a truti.”⁴¹ In fact, the Indian sages linked their standard of time with invisible molecular dynamics. But someone used the molecular motion as a standard, according to the definition cited. Tradition attributes the authorship of the Srimad-Bhagavatam to the sage Vyasa (4rd millennium BC), who was considered to be the celestial being Vishnu who descended to Earth.

On the other hand, in the Vishnu Purana of the 1st millennium BC there is a concept of the cycle "kalpa" lasting 4,320,000,000 years, which covers the existence of this world from its creation to its destruction⁴². It is easy to see that the kalpa is close to the real age of the Earth (4.54 billion years). However, the Hindus also had a much larger unit of time, the maha-kalpa, which was four orders of magnitude greater than the age of the Universe.

Obviously, these units of time were devoid of practical meaning for ancient people. This means that their authors were not humans at all.

Charles Fort guessed about the reasons for the interest of galactic neighbors in terrestrials more than a hundred years ago: “If other worlds have ever in the past had relations with this earth, they were attempted positivizations: to extend themselves, by colonies, upon this earth, to convert, or assimilate, indigenous inhabitants of this earth.”⁴³

The experience of colonialism in the recent history of our planet is replete with attempts to civilize the natives: from the elimination of illiteracy in missionary schools to the education of the native elite in the universities of a metropolis. After all, for a colony to function, trained native personnel are needed: servants who understand commands, skilled workers, military personnel, and officials. This implies the need for alien cultural influence, traces of which are preserved in folklore and elements of scientific knowledge as well as in our genetics. 

An illustration of such intercultural contacts is the story about pre-Russian colonizers of unknown identity in the Arctic Siberia. Thus, the Arabian tradition (Al-Tai, 6th century AD) reported that the Qaf Mountains there were the home of the Jinn race and the place beyond which the unseen divine world begins.⁴⁴ The Qaf was described as a place of mineral treasures. The emerald-made cities Jabulqa and Jabulsa, situated in darkness, are said to be contiguous to the mountain Qaf.⁴⁵

In 1666-7 the Turkish traveler, Evliya Chelebi, visited Crimea and the Lower Volga, where he recorded the stories of Kalmyk and Nogai pilgrims to their shrine, the Kaaba, at “at the foot of Mount Qaf”.⁴⁶ The route of such regular pilgrimages was reconstructed from the published notes of Chelebi (Fig. 6).⁴⁷ It turned out that the Qaf Mountains correspond to the Putorana Mountains, the richest deposit of non-ferrous metals. Now, the nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, and coal are mined in this Russian region around the Norilsk town. However, the modern industrial activity and urbanization only began there in 1935.

However, much earlier, in the 16th century, Kalmyk pilgrims saw an amazing artifact there (the Kaaba; Fig. 7): “The dome (cupola) of the Kaaba, which consists entirely of a huge single piece of bronze… It is a huge dome, reaching the top to the heavens, made of bronze, like a green emerald, and it has absolutely no doors or pipes. However, there are windows made of thick iron on its four corners.”^{46, 47} This strange construction had wonderful properties: Kaaba emitted a glow, heat, and static electricity. The Kaaba talked and contained genies "with the seal of the sun" as well as levitating boxes. The inhabitants of the Kaaba communicated with pilgrims, predicted the future and gave advices.  

This collaboration was disrupted by the pilgrims' attempt to explore the mountains behind the Kaaba: «Once upon a time, during Ozdemir Oglu (Turkish Grand Vizier Osman Pasha 1584-1585), the voice of the peoples beyond these mountains was heard. Our grandfathers who were at the Kaaba, their horses and themselves had their heads split from this terrible sound, their horses and their brains flowed out through their ears, and all our grandfathers who were at the foot of that Shining Mountain died.” 46,47  The described symptoms allow us to recall the well-known property of ultrasound to rupture cell membranes. 

The above report about the Siberian Kaaba is confirmed by the old North Russian text “On Unknown Men” (15th century). It mentions a strange city beyond the Ob River (i.e. to the east), which was surprising due to the absence of people and suburbs, as well as wonderful light and sounds.⁴⁸ An indirect confirmation of the problems with access to the treasures of Putorana is the mysterious lacuna in the Taimyr archaeology in 12th to early 17th centuries⁴⁹. 

In principle, the story about the Siberian Kaaba is consistent with colonial behavior, including the control of native societies and the use of weapons to alienate territory and minerals. However, the technical capabilities of the unknown colonizers far exceeded the terrestrial level of the 15th century. 

The presented facts are scattered throughout scientific literature, but do not attract the attention of the historic community. This paradox means that the topic is a taboo. Nevertheless, we hope that the collected material will be of interest to independent researchers.