Any of you familiar with this idea? Basically the idea is that there used to be an advanced civilization, that was destroyed by the ice age
approximately 12,000 years ago. The idea here is that what we consider to be the earliest civilizations, 9-12,000 years ago, were actually created
based on memory by some of the survivors of the earlier civilization. So the mayans, egyptians, etc. One piece of evidence for this is that,
apparently, if you look at 'ancient' egypt's progression through the kingdom's over time, their architecture, sciences, linguistics, etc, all
degraded. So if these civilizations were actually just created, you would expect them to steadily improve over time, but that is apparently not the
case. It suggests that they were remembering the knowledge from the previous civilization, and over time simply forgot.
Another piece of evidence is the erosion of the egyptian sphinx. Now, apparently, erosion from dust and the like look fundamentally different from
water erosion. And, apparently, there is obvious evidence of significant water erosion on the sphinx. Now, the last period in which there could have
possibly been the amount, and duration, of water needed to erode the sphinx, would have been the ice age, appx. 12,000 years ago. Now, if it is water
erosion, it would have taken a long time. And all it means is that it must have existed AT LEAST 12,000 years ago, without saying anything about when
it could have been built.
This idea is just fascinating to me. To think about the idea that we could have actually been very advanced in the past, perhaps more advanced,
perhaps advanced in a different way. So again, the idea is that this civilization was destroyed, and some of the survivors built what we consider to
be the first civilizations. This idea fits in very nicely with theosophy, a major part of western esotericism. Although in theosophy, this would be
just one of many rises and falls of civilization. Theosophy says it is only the most recent lost civilization. What do you all think of this
idea?
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