February 1, 2023
  • About The Author
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  • Book Series
    • Book One Second Sight
      • Theories and Ideas behind Second Sight
      • What Second Sight is About
      • First Four Chapters of Second Sight
      • Route Jordan Takes in Second Sight and Second Birth
      • Maps
    • Book Two Second Birth
      • What Second Birth is About
      • Selected Chapters of Second Birth
      • Updated Maps For Second Birth
        • The First Nation of Atlantis: Atlas
        • The Second Nation of Atlantis: Eumelus
        • The Third Nation of Atlantis : Ampheres
        • The Fourth Nation of Atlantis: Evaemon
        • The Fifth Nation of Atlantis: Mneseus
        • The Sixth Nation of Atlantis: Autochthon
        • The Seventh Nation of Atlantis: Elasippus
        • The Ninth Nation of Atlantis: Azaes
        • The Tenth Nation of Atlantis: Diaprepes
    • Book Three First Earth
      • What First Earth Is About
      • Selected Chapters of First Earth
      • BINARY STAR THEORY
      • Theory on How the Flood Happened. Based on the work by Donald Wesley Patten and Others.
    • Book Four Third Way
      • Thoughts and Ideas Behind Third Way
      • What Third Way is about
    • Book Five Colony
      • What Colony is About
    • Book Six Star of David
      • What Star of David is About
    • Book Seven Nova Child
      • What Nova Child is About
        • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
          • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
  • What Readers Say About Second Sight
  • What People Say About Second Birth
  • What People Are Saying About Me
  • Travel
    • Travel 2001
      • 2001 Ciudad de Este, Paraguay
    • Travel 2002
      • 2002 Belize and Guatemala
        • 2002 Belize Altun Ha
        • 2002 Lubaantun, Belize
        • 2002 Nim Li Punt, Belize
        • 2002 Sea Taxi to Caye Caulker, Belize
        • 2002 Xunantunich, Belize Full Data Download
        • 2002 Belize Cuello Santa Rita Cerros
        • 2002 Belize Xunantunich
        • 2002 Guatemala Tikal
      • 2002 Salem New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge
      • 2002 September 9th Page Museum, Los Angeles, California
    • Travel 2003
      • 2003 August field trip to Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn Pennsylvania
      • 2003 18 May Farmhouse Route 15 near Sellinsgrove PA
      • 2003 November Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
      • 2003 February 23 : Humans Beneath the Coal? A Meeting with Mr. Ed Conrad in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
      • 2003 July Europe Bath England
    • Travel 2004
      • 2004 Europe with Mike Kraxberger ( aka Krax) and San Luis Obispo UMC friends :)
        • 2004 Bath England and the Roman Baths Beneath…and something older beneath them…
        • 2004 Cerne Abbes Giant, Cerne Abbes, England
        • 2004 Europe Wells Cathedral
        • 2004 March Europe Trip Elgin Villa, Bath, England Then driving to London with stops along the way including Stonehenge.
        • 2004 Uffington Horse
      • 2004 Mexico
        • 2004 Balanku, Mexico A tale of three brothers who sailed from the east….
        • 2004 Becan, Mexico
        • 2004 Club Akumal , Mexico
        • 2004 Coba, Mexico Evidence Ancient People Struggled to Survive in a Much More Dangerous World
        • 2004 Dzibilchaltun, Mexico When the steps are twice as steep, the doors are twice as tall. There be giants.
        • 2004 January Chichen Itza Mexico
        • 2004 La Venta Mexico: Here There be Giants and Scientists, Ancient and Advanced
        • 2004 Merida, Mexico
        • 2004 Mexico City, Mexico Zona Archeologica Del Templo Mayor
        • 2004 Mexico…..On the road to Pueblo
        • 2004 Palenque, Mexico King Pacal and the 2012 doomsday that didn’t happen and he didn’t say it would….Got that?
        • 2004 Pamul Resort, Mexico…… Last day of trip :(
        • 2004 Pueblo, Mexico and the Tower of Babel ?
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico and the Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City
        • 2004 Tulum before it got crowded
        • 2004 Tulum vids
        • 2004 Uxmal, Mexico Full Download
        • 2004 Villahermosa, Mexico The strange giant heads and flying bearded “gods” found buried in the Olmec region of Mexico : African Kings? European Explorers?
        • 2004 JANUARY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico
        • 2004 Uxmal Mexico
    • Travel 2005
      • 2005 10 october Stonehenge Salem New Hampshire Follow Up Visit
      • 2005 Death Valley Museum, Death Valley, California
    • Travel 2006
      • 2006 Moscow and Tuymen, Russia
    • Travel 2007
      • 2007 Costa Rica Central West Coast Region
    • Travel 2008
      • Pyramid Mounds in Alabama
      • 2008 Egypt – Day One – Cairo and Orphanage
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Saqqara
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Giza
    • Travel 2010
      • 2010 Haiti – Field Work for New Hospital Project
    • Travel 2011
      • 2011 Carved Stone found by friends near Dover Foxcroft, Maine
      • 2011 Maine home base and then visit to Boston Science Museum
      • 2011 Natural Bridge Virginia
    • Travel 2012
      • 2012 August Algonquin Canada
    • Travel 2013
      • January 2013 Haiti
      • May 2013 Europe
        • 2013 Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
        • 2013 Hallstatt, Austria
        • Welt Museum, Vienna, Austria 2013
      • Summer 2013 Europe
    • Travel 2015
      • 2015 Mexico Day One Arrival, George’s porch, and Chelem ( Chay – LEM )
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Labna (LAB – nah)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Xlapak (shlah – PAHK)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Two Mayapan
      • 2015 Mexico Day Five Oxkintok ( osh kin TOOK )
  • New Stuff
    • 2015 11 28 The Susquehanna Stones
    • 2017 3 21 Updated mapping of earth at the time of Atlantis
    • 2017 6 27 Discovered a possible link between the Inca, the Maya, the Voynich Manuscript, and the last 32,000 years of History.
    • 2018 9 9 Tabor Umc Youth Sunday School Class Creation Talk
    • 2019 1 29 Reference Slides for 1210 AM talk radio discussion with Bradley E. Lacey
    • Lost chapter to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System.
    • Susquehanna Stones Visited
    • History of Civilization
    • 2015 1 10 Pyramids of China
    • 2015 1 12 Pyramids of Mexico
    • 2015 1 18 How I think the Sun might have been born during the death of another star.
    • 2015 1 4 Where Did the Wise Men Come From?
    • 2014 10 18 Exploring Pennhurst
    • 2014 10 19 Did the Ancestors of China Worship God?
    • 2014 12 7 Update on Pyramids That Align with Orion
    • 2014 8 28 Research in Germany Yields Old Globe Showing Antartica Ice Free
    • 2014 9 12: How I Think the Lost Library of Egypt Was Buried, Where it is Located, and How it Can Be Opened.
    • 2014 May 12 Saqqara, Egypt – photos and thoughts
    • 2014 May 12 Update on what people are saying about me
    • 2014 October 9 US Navy developing Elevated Stealth Raft
    • 2013 10 March: Were Obelisks Ancient Time Capsules?
    • 2013 February 15 This may not be the only meteorite that hits us this month
    • 2013 February 24 Does the Sun have a Twin?
    • 2012 December 14: Where I Think Atlantis Was Located
    • 2012 December 15: Jordan and Suri’s route from the Embassy to Baskra
    • 2012 December 19: Jordan and Suri’s Route in Second Sight Continued: Escape Across Algon and The Cut Diago Chapters
    • 2012 December 4 Update on My Study of Manetho’s History of Egypt from 30,000 BC to the First Greek Olympiad
    • 2012 December 5: Manetho Timeline Updated
    • 2012 November 18th: The Mammoth and the Aircar
    • 2012 November 20th: How I Write a Manuscript
    • 2012 November 27: Ancient Advanced Technology. A Strange Conversation I had with a Retired Scientist on an Airplane to California.
  • Old Stuff
  • Presentations
    • 2017 October 31 Indian Crest Middle School Presentation
    • 2019 January 11 Indian Crest Middle School
    • October 11, 2012 Ian Burley’s Science Class Souderton High School
    • November 1, 2012 Presentation at Boyertown Junior High East
    • 2012 November 14th and 15th Christopher Dock Mennonite High School Presentation
    • 2012 November 16 Pottsgrove High School Presentation
    • 2014 March 12 Christopher Dock Presentation Atlantis and New Evidence of Early Maps
    • Comparison of Submerged Temple Ruin near Japan with Machu Picchu, Peru
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  • Home
  • About The Author
  • Purchase Books Here
  • Book Series
    • Book One Second Sight
      • Theories and Ideas behind Second Sight
      • What Second Sight is About
      • First Four Chapters of Second Sight
      • Route Jordan Takes in Second Sight and Second Birth
      • Maps
    • Book Two Second Birth
      • What Second Birth is About
      • Selected Chapters of Second Birth
      • Updated Maps For Second Birth
        • The First Nation of Atlantis: Atlas
        • The Second Nation of Atlantis: Eumelus
        • The Third Nation of Atlantis : Ampheres
        • The Fourth Nation of Atlantis: Evaemon
        • The Fifth Nation of Atlantis: Mneseus
        • The Sixth Nation of Atlantis: Autochthon
        • The Seventh Nation of Atlantis: Elasippus
        • The Ninth Nation of Atlantis: Azaes
        • The Tenth Nation of Atlantis: Diaprepes
    • Book Three First Earth
      • What First Earth Is About
      • Selected Chapters of First Earth
      • BINARY STAR THEORY
      • Theory on How the Flood Happened. Based on the work by Donald Wesley Patten and Others.
    • Book Four Third Way
      • Thoughts and Ideas Behind Third Way
      • What Third Way is about
    • Book Five Colony
      • What Colony is About
    • Book Six Star of David
      • What Star of David is About
    • Book Seven Nova Child
      • What Nova Child is About
        • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
          • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
  • What Readers Say About Second Sight
  • What People Say About Second Birth
  • What People Are Saying About Me
  • Travel
    • Travel 2001
      • 2001 Ciudad de Este, Paraguay
    • Travel 2002
      • 2002 Belize and Guatemala
        • 2002 Belize Altun Ha
        • 2002 Lubaantun, Belize
        • 2002 Nim Li Punt, Belize
        • 2002 Sea Taxi to Caye Caulker, Belize
        • 2002 Xunantunich, Belize Full Data Download
        • 2002 Belize Cuello Santa Rita Cerros
        • 2002 Belize Xunantunich
        • 2002 Guatemala Tikal
      • 2002 Salem New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge
      • 2002 September 9th Page Museum, Los Angeles, California
    • Travel 2003
      • 2003 August field trip to Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn Pennsylvania
      • 2003 18 May Farmhouse Route 15 near Sellinsgrove PA
      • 2003 November Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
      • 2003 February 23 : Humans Beneath the Coal? A Meeting with Mr. Ed Conrad in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
      • 2003 July Europe Bath England
    • Travel 2004
      • 2004 Europe with Mike Kraxberger ( aka Krax) and San Luis Obispo UMC friends :)
        • 2004 Bath England and the Roman Baths Beneath…and something older beneath them…
        • 2004 Cerne Abbes Giant, Cerne Abbes, England
        • 2004 Europe Wells Cathedral
        • 2004 March Europe Trip Elgin Villa, Bath, England Then driving to London with stops along the way including Stonehenge.
        • 2004 Uffington Horse
      • 2004 Mexico
        • 2004 Balanku, Mexico A tale of three brothers who sailed from the east….
        • 2004 Becan, Mexico
        • 2004 Club Akumal , Mexico
        • 2004 Coba, Mexico Evidence Ancient People Struggled to Survive in a Much More Dangerous World
        • 2004 Dzibilchaltun, Mexico When the steps are twice as steep, the doors are twice as tall. There be giants.
        • 2004 January Chichen Itza Mexico
        • 2004 La Venta Mexico: Here There be Giants and Scientists, Ancient and Advanced
        • 2004 Merida, Mexico
        • 2004 Mexico City, Mexico Zona Archeologica Del Templo Mayor
        • 2004 Mexico…..On the road to Pueblo
        • 2004 Palenque, Mexico King Pacal and the 2012 doomsday that didn’t happen and he didn’t say it would….Got that?
        • 2004 Pamul Resort, Mexico…… Last day of trip :(
        • 2004 Pueblo, Mexico and the Tower of Babel ?
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico and the Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City
        • 2004 Tulum before it got crowded
        • 2004 Tulum vids
        • 2004 Uxmal, Mexico Full Download
        • 2004 Villahermosa, Mexico The strange giant heads and flying bearded “gods” found buried in the Olmec region of Mexico : African Kings? European Explorers?
        • 2004 JANUARY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico
        • 2004 Uxmal Mexico
    • Travel 2005
      • 2005 10 october Stonehenge Salem New Hampshire Follow Up Visit
      • 2005 Death Valley Museum, Death Valley, California
    • Travel 2006
      • 2006 Moscow and Tuymen, Russia
    • Travel 2007
      • 2007 Costa Rica Central West Coast Region
    • Travel 2008
      • Pyramid Mounds in Alabama
      • 2008 Egypt – Day One – Cairo and Orphanage
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Saqqara
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Giza
    • Travel 2010
      • 2010 Haiti – Field Work for New Hospital Project
    • Travel 2011
      • 2011 Carved Stone found by friends near Dover Foxcroft, Maine
      • 2011 Maine home base and then visit to Boston Science Museum
      • 2011 Natural Bridge Virginia
    • Travel 2012
      • 2012 August Algonquin Canada
    • Travel 2013
      • January 2013 Haiti
      • May 2013 Europe
        • 2013 Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
        • 2013 Hallstatt, Austria
        • Welt Museum, Vienna, Austria 2013
      • Summer 2013 Europe
    • Travel 2015
      • 2015 Mexico Day One Arrival, George’s porch, and Chelem ( Chay – LEM )
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Labna (LAB – nah)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Xlapak (shlah – PAHK)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Two Mayapan
      • 2015 Mexico Day Five Oxkintok ( osh kin TOOK )
  • New Stuff
    • 2015 11 28 The Susquehanna Stones
    • 2017 3 21 Updated mapping of earth at the time of Atlantis
    • 2017 6 27 Discovered a possible link between the Inca, the Maya, the Voynich Manuscript, and the last 32,000 years of History.
    • 2018 9 9 Tabor Umc Youth Sunday School Class Creation Talk
    • 2019 1 29 Reference Slides for 1210 AM talk radio discussion with Bradley E. Lacey
    • Lost chapter to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System.
    • Susquehanna Stones Visited
    • History of Civilization
    • 2015 1 10 Pyramids of China
    • 2015 1 12 Pyramids of Mexico
    • 2015 1 18 How I think the Sun might have been born during the death of another star.
    • 2015 1 4 Where Did the Wise Men Come From?
    • 2014 10 18 Exploring Pennhurst
    • 2014 10 19 Did the Ancestors of China Worship God?
    • 2014 12 7 Update on Pyramids That Align with Orion
    • 2014 8 28 Research in Germany Yields Old Globe Showing Antartica Ice Free
    • 2014 9 12: How I Think the Lost Library of Egypt Was Buried, Where it is Located, and How it Can Be Opened.
    • 2014 May 12 Saqqara, Egypt – photos and thoughts
    • 2014 May 12 Update on what people are saying about me
    • 2014 October 9 US Navy developing Elevated Stealth Raft
    • 2013 10 March: Were Obelisks Ancient Time Capsules?
    • 2013 February 15 This may not be the only meteorite that hits us this month
    • 2013 February 24 Does the Sun have a Twin?
    • 2012 December 14: Where I Think Atlantis Was Located
    • 2012 December 15: Jordan and Suri’s route from the Embassy to Baskra
    • 2012 December 19: Jordan and Suri’s Route in Second Sight Continued: Escape Across Algon and The Cut Diago Chapters
    • 2012 December 4 Update on My Study of Manetho’s History of Egypt from 30,000 BC to the First Greek Olympiad
    • 2012 December 5: Manetho Timeline Updated
    • 2012 November 18th: The Mammoth and the Aircar
    • 2012 November 20th: How I Write a Manuscript
    • 2012 November 27: Ancient Advanced Technology. A Strange Conversation I had with a Retired Scientist on an Airplane to California.
  • Old Stuff
  • Presentations
    • 2017 October 31 Indian Crest Middle School Presentation
    • 2019 January 11 Indian Crest Middle School
    • October 11, 2012 Ian Burley’s Science Class Souderton High School
    • November 1, 2012 Presentation at Boyertown Junior High East
    • 2012 November 14th and 15th Christopher Dock Mennonite High School Presentation
    • 2012 November 16 Pottsgrove High School Presentation
    • 2014 March 12 Christopher Dock Presentation Atlantis and New Evidence of Early Maps
    • Comparison of Submerged Temple Ruin near Japan with Machu Picchu, Peru

2013 10 March: Were Obelisks Ancient Time Capsules?

As an architect something bothered me about Obelisks. Why were they built? I was told they were memorials to kings. The records of their achievements were inscribed on them for all eternity. But why the shape? And why was the idea common on both sides of the Atlantic? Here is an example from a Mayan city called Nim Li Punt:

 

 

The site is on a mountain in Belize. It is covered with the remains of several Obelisks. Each shows remains of carvings that probably covered the full height.The fact this architectural form was common on both sides of the Atlantic thousands of years ago supports the theory that ancient people navigated the oceans far earlier than archeologists allow.

But the shape doesn’t make sense. If a king wants the world to know about his accomplishments, why carve them on something too high for anybody to read?  Why carve them on something so thin? Why not build a long wall and cover that with myths of achievement?  Maybe this is where the term “Tall Tale” came from. Here is another photo I took at Nim Li Punt, Belize:

 

Professors and authors I studied joke that the shape of the obelisk was derived from something anatomical. Maybe by the time Mayan and Egyptian obelisks were built, their function was meant to imitate a king’s desire to compensate for certain historical short comings. But what if the original intent had been to build something that responded to a more logical, practical functional need?  Was there a more urgent need that required such tremendous effort and expense to cram so much information on such a narrow space that nobody could read without a really tall ladder or pyramid of slaves to stand on?

 

One day I came across a passage in one of my reference books, the Complete Works of Josephus, translated by William Whiston. Josephus was a remarkable man who lived in the first century AD. He was an historian, diplomat, and general who left behind an incredible book that includes information about Jewish history not contained in the Bible or Talmud.

Here is a passage from Josephus book “Jewish Antiquities”  that may explain the original functional reason for building a fifteen story obelisk, covered with writing too high up for anybody to read:

“…He [Adam] had indeed many other children, but Seth in particular. As for the rest it would be tedious to name them; I will therefore only try to give an account of those that proceeded from Seth. Now this Seth, when he was brought up, and came to those years in which he could discern what was good, became a virtuous man; and as he was himself of an excellent character, so did he leave children behind him who imitated his virtues. All these proved to be of good dispositions. They also inhabited the same country without dissensions, and in a happy condition, without any misfortunes falling upon them until they died. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam’s prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on the both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad (Seiris) to this day…”    Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, translated by William Whiston, Book 1, Chapter 3, lines 68 through 71

 

 

 According to Josephus, the pillars were a means of preserving technical knowledge about astronomy. It was designed to survive being buried in mud during a devastating global flood as foretold to Adam. It was built tall enough to stick out of the mud and enable survivors to rediscover it.

The theory that the Obelisk was designed to preserve advanced knowledge after the world flooded or burned is a whole lot more interesting than some king with an inferiority complex.

By the way, the mud left by a giant flood would have preserved the carvings for thousands of years until discoverers exposed the faces during excavation.

Ancient stuff buried under not so ancient stuff isn’t new.

Many foundations under pyramids and temples are being excavated revealing older, larger structures under them. Here is an example I took of a buried mask found under a pyramid base in Tikal, Guatemala:

 

Here is an example I photographed of a buried staircase that was found under a newer staircase in Teotihucan, Mexico:

 

If either of the pillars built by the children of Seth could be found, they could provide an incredible glimpse into the early history of humankind.  Josephus says they inscribed knowledge that had to do with the heavenly bodies.  What did they know that we might not know?

Why all the fuss about trying to learn about the past?  Two reasons:  One I think there might be a big fat warning on one of the pillars about an incoming celestial object that unleashes the destruction by Fire that was foretold to Adam.  The other reason I think it’s important is because the pursuit of reclaiming the past seems to be very important to the Creator:

 

“…That which is has been already,

and that which will be has already been,

for God seeks what has passed by…”

Ecclesiastes Chapter 3: 15

Our future has already been. Our past will one day be restored. Maybe you will be the one who sees the small pointy rock sticking out of the shale, start digging, and make the discovery of the century:  The lost Obelisk of Seth.

Thank you for reading.

JF Althouse

 

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