Middle-earth, Hollow Earth Fingolfin

[shamballa]

His legitimacy as their
king was questionable, since Fingolfin was technically still the acting king
in Tirion. In Middle-earth, What if the earth was hollow?





The Hollow Earth

Agharta, The Subterranean World




The word "Agharta" is of Buddhist origin. It refers to the Subterranean World or Empire in whose existence all true Buddhists fervently believe. They also believe that this Subterranean World has millions of inhabitants and many cities, all under the supreme domination of the subterranean world capital, Shamballah, where dwells the Supreme Ruler of this Empire, known in the Orient as the King of the World. It is believed that he gave his orders to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, who was his terrestrial representative, his messages being transmitted through certain secret tunnels connecting the Subterranean World with Tibet.
Similar mysterious tunnels honeycomb Brazil. Brazil in the West and Tibet in the East seem to be the two parts of the Earth where contact between the Subterranean World and the surface world may be most easily achieved, due to the existence of these tunnels.
The famous Russian artist, philosopher and explorer, Nicholas Roerich, who traveled extensively in the Far East, claimed that Lhasa, capital of Tibet, was connected by a tunnel with Shamballah, capital of the subterranean empire of Agharta. The entrance of this tunnel was guarded by lamas who were sworn to keep its actual whereabouts a secret from outsiders, by order of the Dalai Lama. A similar tunnel was believed to connect the secret chambers at the base of the Pyramid of Gizeh with the Subterranean World, by which the Pharaohs established contact with the gods or supermen of the underworld.
The various gigantic statues of early Egyptian gods and kings, as those of Buddha found throughout the Orient, represent subterranean supermen who came to the surface to help the human race. They are generally represented as sexless. They were emissaries of Agharta, the subterranean paradise which it is the goal of all true Buddhists to reach.
Buddhist traditions state that Agharta was first colonized many thousands of years ago when a holy man led a tribe which disappeared underground. The gypsies are supposed to come from Agharta, which explains their restlessness on the Earth's surface and their continual travels to regain their lost home. This reminds one of Noah, who was really an Atlantean, who saved a worthy group prior to the coming of the flood that submerged Atlantis. It is believed that he brought his group to the high plateau of Brazil where they settled in subterranean cities, connected with the surface by tunnels, in order to escape from poisoning by the radioactive fallout produced by the nuclear war the Atlanteans fought, which brought on the flood that submerged their continent.
The aubterranean civilization oi Agharta is believed to represent a continuation of Atlantean civilization, which, having learned the lesson of the futility of war, remained in a state of peace ever since, making stupendous scientific progress uninterrupted by the setbacks of recurrent wars, as our surface civilization has been. Their civilization is many thousands of years old (Atlantls sank about 11,500 years ago), while ours is very young, only a few centuries old.

Quetzalcoatl is described as having been "a man of good appearance and grave countenance, with a white skin and beard, and dressed in a long flowing white garment. He was also called Huemac, because of his great goodness and continence. He taught the Indians the way of virtue and tried to save them from vice by giving them laws and counsel to restrain them from lust and to practice chastity. He taught pacifism and condemned violence in all forms. He instituted a vegetarian diet, with corn as a principal food, and taught fasting and body hygiene. According to the South American archeologist, Harold Wilkins, Quetzalcoatl was also the spiritual teacher of the ancient inhabitants of Brazil.
After remaining some time with the Indians, and seeing how little they cared to follow his teachings, except his recommendation to plant and eat corn as a basic food in place of meat, Quetzalcoatl departed, telling them that some day he would return. That this "visitor from Heaven" left the same way in which he came - on a flying saucer - is indicated by the following facts. When Cortez invaded Mexico, the emperor Montezuma believed that the predicted "return of Quetzalcoatl" had occurred, because a fireball then gyrated over Mexico City, making the people wail and scream, setting the temple of the war god on fire. This fireball was believed to have been the flying saucer on which Quetzalcoatl traveled.
Osiris was another such subterranean god. According to Donnelly, in his book, "Atlantis the Antediluvian World," the gods of the ancients were the rulers of Atlantis and members of a superhuman race which governed the human race. Before the destruction of their continent, which they foresaw, they traveled by flying saucer through the polar opening to the Subterranean World in the hollow interior of the earth, where they continued to live ever since.
"The Empire of Agharta," wrote Ossendowski in his book "Beasts, Men and Gods," "extends through subterranean tunnels to all parts of the world." In this book he speaks of a vast network of tunnels constructed by a prehistoric race of remotest antiquity, which passed under both oceans and continents, through which swift-moving vehicles traveled. The empire of which Ossendowski speaks and concerning which he learned about from lamas in the Far East, during his travels in Mongolia, obviously consists of subterranean cities inside the earth's crust, which should be differentiated from those existing in its hollow center. Thus there are two subterranean worlds, one more superficial and one in the center of the earth.
Huguenin, whose book on flying saucers and the subterranean world we previously mentioned, believes that there exist many subterranean cities at various depths, between the earth's crust and its hollow interior. Concerning the inhabitants of these subterranean cities, he writes:

"This other humanity has reached an elevated grade of civilization, economic and social organization and cultural and scientific progress, in comparison with which the humanity which lives on the earth's surface are a race of barbarians."


In his book, Huguenin shows a diagram of the earth's interior, showing various subterranean cities at various depths, connected with each other by tunnels. He describes these cities as existing in immense cavities in the earth. The city of Shamballah, the capital of the subterranean empire, he portrays as existing at the center of the earth, in its hollow interior, rather than inside its solid crust. Ossendowski writes:

"All the subterranean caverns of America are inhabited by an ancient people who disappeared from the world. These people and the subterranean regions where they dwell are under the supreme authority of the King of the World. Both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were once the home of vast continents which later became submerged; and their inhabitants found refuge in the Subterranean World. The profounder caverns are illuminated by a resplendent light which permits the growing of cereals and other vegetables, and gives the inhabitants a long life-span free from disease. In this world exists a large population and many tribes."


In his book, "The Coming Race," Bulwer Lytton describes a subterranean civilization far in advance of our own, which existed in a large cavity in the earth, connected with the surface by a tunnel. This immense cavity was illuminated by a strange light which did not require lamps to produce it, but appeared to result from an electrification of the atmosphere. This light supported plant life and enabled the subterranean people to grow their foods. The inhabitants of the Utopia, described by Lytton were vegetarians. They had certain apparatuses by which, instead of walking, they flew. They were free from disease and had a perfect social organization so that each received what he needed, without exploitation of one by another.
It is claimed that the earth's crust is honeycombed by a network of tunnels passing under the ocean from continent to continent and leading to subterranean cities in large cavities in the earth. These tunnels are especially abundant in South America, especially under Brazil, which was the chief center of Atlantean colonization; and we may believe they were constructed by the Atlanteans. Most famous of these tunnels is the "Roadway of the Incas" which stretches for several hundred miles south of Lima, Peru, and passes under Cuzco, Tiahuanaco and the Three Peaks, proceeding to the Atacambo Desert. Another branch opens in Arica, Chile, visited by Madame Blavatsky.
It is claimed that the Incas used these tunnels to escape from the Spanish conquerors and the Inquisition, when entire armies entered them, carrying with them their gold and treasures on the backs of llamas, which they did when the Spanish Conquerors first came. Their mysterious disappearance at this time, leaving only the race of Quechua Indians behind, is also explained by their entering these tunnels. It is claimed that when Atahualpa, the last of the Inca kings, who was brutally murdered by Pizarro, the gold that was being carried to his ransom on a train of 11,000 pack llamas, found refuge in these tunnels. It is claimed that these tunnels had a form of artificial lighting and were built by the race that had constructed Tiahuanco long before the first

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[Ñólendil]

I thought His Holiness the Dalai Lama was conceived as the incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion?

Although what there is of your post (it seems unfinished) is fascinating, and very intriguing on a few different levels, I wonder what it has to do with Fingolfin and Tirion. If you're trying to plug this website of yours, it was done rather oddly and not with much cunning, if you were trying to be sneaky. 'Fingolfin's claim as King of the Noldor in Middle-earth was arguable' (an odd statement in itself), followed by what appears to be an excerpt from a quite unrelated website about hollow-earth traditions. What's up? Maybe you honestly wanted to cf. these fascinating traditions with Tolkien's legendarium with a 'what if' question, but if so you never really got around to discussing it.

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Welcome to the new Middle-Hollow earth, pilgrim!



Tolkien and Middle-earth topic. If you're curious about Tolkien's Hollow world,
online fandom, or how Tolkien's works such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the
Rings, and The Silmarillion, continue to merge with HOLLOW EARTH

The native-born Numenoreans would have been to
their Middle-earth cousins like Noldor fresh-returned from Aman settling
among the Nandor.Concerning the peoples of Middle- Hollow earth, the "Rivers and
Beacon-hills" essay also contains a passage -- crossed out by Tolkien --
which discusses the practice of building temples, which the Numenoreans did
not follow prior to their corruption by Sauron. The Paths of the Dead are
said to contain an ancient temple, which the ill-fated Baldor tried to break
into.
owed something to the Dead themselves, but that is apparently not the
case.These essays provide new insights into Tolkien's vision of Middle-Hollow earth.
But they also raise new questions even as they struggle to answer old ones. A
door has been opened and we cannot help but peak around the corner, for the
treasures which lie beyond that once-forbidden threshold are unimaginable. We
will, of course, never get it all right, because Tolkien himself never got it
fully right. But with each revelation we come one step closer to seeing the
panorama of his heart. The legions standing on the hills and the clans moving
quietly through the woods, the girls laughing in the meadows, the farmers
with their orchards -- even the old mariners mending their nets and
reminiscing about how they first went to sea -- all combine to show us a
world filled with the wonder and delight of man's youth.


The tip of the iceberg: new information about Middle-earth


"Osanwe-Kenta" ("Enquiry into Communication of Thought") has been
regarded as one of the most revealing of the previously unpublished writings
of Tolkien to come along in years. I think "Osanwe-Kenta" may now be set
aside in favor of a more inteersting text. That is "The Rivers and
Beacon-hills of Gondor".Both essays are important to Tolkien research, and
the linguistic aspects are not necessarily primary. One can glean interesting
insights about the philosophies and history of Aman's peoples from
"Osanwe-Kenta". "Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" equally provides new
information and revelations about Gondor's history and constituent peoples.
Given that more people want to know about events in the Third Age than events
in Aman's early ages, I think "Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" will
ultimately prove to be the more important work.

Though I am old from wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands
I will find out where she has gone
And kiss her lips and take her hands
And walk among the long dappled grass
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon
The golden apples of the sun"
Many readers of Tolkien's works are familiar with the faeries of literature and folklore, and the differences and similarities between these and Tolkien's Elves. I believe in Tolkien's Elves we are seeing a reinterpretation of these beings, and by studying them we can glean insights into Tolkien's mythogenic intentions in 'Lord of the Rings'. The idea of an elf, or fairie, is one which can be traced back thousands of years, for in tales of countless folk there appear memories of the fey folk of the hollow hills, and it seems that they have always hovered out there, beyond the light of the fire, and hidden from us by confusing paths in the wood. With this tradition Tolkien was well acquainted, although we can but speculate on the nature and quality of his sources. He seems not to have had a truly deep knowledge of faerie stories, but that can be expectedOn the Celtic side there are those like the Sidhe, inhabitants of hollow hills, dwellers of night and shadow. These are beings seldom seen under the light of the sun and it is of this type that Tolkien is speaking most in 'On Faerie Stories', when he quotes that the road to Faerie is the one 'Where thou and I this night maun gae.' Though two other roads are described, the road to Heaven, and that to Hell, only in this instance is the time of travel defined. So here we have a people who live in a HOLLOW EARTH full of glamour and who remain ever hidden, and indeed it is these faeries we see in early work, such as 'Goblin Feet'. However, the soft sound of feet in the woods is far from the shining glory of Galadriel. In trying to understand how this change came about, we must consider the creation of Tolkien's mythology. Tolkien did not sit down, as some of us do, and decide to design a world, rather, he decided to design a language, and the world which would give birth to it. If we consider the earliest work from the 'Lost Tales' (considered by some to be dragged out from under the kitchen sink by Christopher Tolkien), especially the travels of Aelfwine, we see a traveller speaking to elves from the outside, more a reporter than an actor. Tolkien created, in his early mythology, a race of beings, once great and mighty, who faded, and became diminutive things hidden in a buttercup. So on this basis he rationalised a race he could identify with, through the faerie of Medieval times, into the modern bumblebee sized sprite. It is also important to note that the very earliest of these tales was set in Britain itself. Middle Earth had not been thought of. , but the Elves were in fact the firstborn in more than just a mythological sense. till they came to take the place as the nobility of Middle Hollow Earth. Indeed, even when 'The Hobbit' had been written, Galadriel was not on her throne. (Consider a comparison between the Wood Elves of 'The Hobbit' and the Elves of Lorien.) It was only in the writing of 'The Lord of the Rings' that the Third Age, and Lothlorien, came into being. This growth parallels a shift to the second type of faerie, the elf of Germanic mythology. In Germanic mythology, it is the fertility god Freyr(2) who is linked with the elves, and they live with him in his hall, Alfheim. Freyr, and thus the elves, was linked to the sun, and this explains the brighter aspect of the later Elves. However, the Germanic elves have a lot in common with the Celtic faeries: their beauty for one, and the fact that the elves live in the barrows of the dead, a clear link with the hollow hills of the Sidhe. The Elves of Middle Hollow Earth live in areas of lush forest, bright and green. Though it may seem that the Elves glean their life from the forest, it is the forest that gleans life from the Elves. The Elves tend the forest in a way no man could, forever, since they are immortal. Not the false immortality of the Ring Wraiths, with lives stretched out beyond enduring, but the true immortality of ones whose whole essence is life. For how else are we to interpret Gandalf, when he says "A mortal, Frodo, when he keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow, or obtain more life, he merely continues till at last every moment is a weariness."If this is false immortality, then the true immortality of the elves must mean to gain more life as each minute passes, to be as constant as the earth. For even if Elves die "their spirits go to the Halls of Mandos and eventually return to Middle Earth re-embodied" Beyond their mere immortality, they are, as First born of Middle Hollow Earth, more intimately linked to the world than the mere residents, the Men, the Hobbits(5), and the Dwarves. They are, as it were, the tenders of the land. By nature, they are tied to its very spirit. Thus, by examining the Elves, we examine the very essence of Middle Earth itself. In the link between the Elves and life, we can see a link to Germanic mythology, though here the Elves are the children of Eru, the One, and not of one fertility god amongst many. They are generally, though not always, good, and when they err, it is always towards the side of strength, for they are too proud, too lofty, and reach beyond their station of guardians, into the realms of the Valar themselves. So it was with Feanor and the Silmarils. So also, Galadriel is seen by Frodo as she would appear if given the Ring: "She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful."(6) Though Elves are Man ennobled, Man before the fall, they may yet fall. Adam erred by wishing for the Fruit of all Knowledge, and Satan (along with Melkor) erred by wishing for the creator's place. Though their aspect is that of lords, that is not their place. Thus, Galadriel "will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel". The noble must fade, and the mundane live on. Indeed, in all writings of elves that we know of, the elves fade, and the gates of faerie remain forever closed, making Faerie as unreachable as the Golden Isles. But whereas we look upon the elf of (particularly Celtic) tradition with ambivalence, we may look upon Tolkien's Elf with hope, for he is man unbound, and ennobled. The final glory of the Elves lies in the heart of Tolkien's viewing of Faerie, for he said that after the fantasy of subcreation must come recovery, a returning to reality, and thus an ennobling of our world. "By the forging of Gram cold iron was revealed, by the making of Pegasus horses were ennobled; in the Trees of the Sun and the Moon, root and stock, flower and fruit are manifested in glory."(7) And by the making of Elves Man is ennobled. Tolkien felt the pull of the Faerie Queen even with the humble beginnings of 'Goblin Feet', yet he went beyond that, and chose to build his own private world, where Elves blossomed through the mirror of his mind. And as readers we go beyond that, and the Elves become seeds for still further forays into Faerie. Tolkien's Elves certainly are not the fey inhabitants of the hollow Earth hills

[shamballa]

" ("Peoples of Middle-Hollow earth",
Fingon was also impetuous. He not only rushed to Feanor's aid, he led the
counter assaults against Morgoth's forces, whenever Hithlum was attacked. And
when Gwindor led his company of Nargothrondian soldiers against Morgoth's
army at the Nirnaeth, Fingon could no longer contain himself. Instead of
waiting for Maedhros, as he should, he donned his helmet, mounted his horse,
and charged off toward glory, death, and defeat. Fingon was undoubtedly one
of the greatest warriors of the Eldar, for it required more than one Balrog
to slay him in the end, and his recorded personal accomplishments on the
field of battle out-numbered those of other Elven princes.
Turgon was undoubtedly the wisest of Fingolfin's children, and for a reason
not disclosed he was one of Ulmo's favorites among the Noldorin princes. It
may be that, since Turgon took up rule over the Sindarin Elves of Nevrast,
Ulmo felt Turgon would be most sympathetic to the sea. In the end, Turgon was
the only Noldorin king to commission the building of ships for the purpose of
seeking aid from Aman. The Shibboleth records that Turgon's wife, Elenwe,
perished in the Helcaraxe. She and their daughter, Itaril, fell and Turgon
rescued Itaril but Elenwe was crushed by falling ice. It would appear, from a
cryptic remark in the Shibboleth, that Irisse and Elenwe were very close
friends.
When Fingolgin named Findekano, he did not necessarily use the stem for
"Finwe", an ancient Elvish name given at a time when names were bestowed for
the way they sounded. Nor, the Shibboleth tells us, would it have been
necessary. The use of a similar word honored the ancestral name. Findekano is
described as wearing "his long dark hair in great plaits braided with gold".
Tolkien was of several minds about Findekano's personal life. Although The
Silmarillion tells us that Gil-galad was his son, Christopher Tolkien admits
in both The War of the Jewels and The Peoples of Middle-earth that he was in
error when he incorporated Gil-galad into the book as Fingon's son.
Christopher mentions that all the genealogical tables provide Fingon with an
unnamed wife and two children: Ernis (later Erien) and Finbor. But this
family was stricken from the final genealogy and Tolkien wrote a note saying
Fingon "had no child or wife".
It would undoubtedly have been necessary to construe some depressing fate for
both Erien and Finbor, as Finbor would have to be Fingon's heir. It served
Tolkien's purpose to move Gil-galad to the family of Finarfin. Hence, the
High Kingship passed from the childless Fingon to Turgon, and then from
Fingolfin's family (the male line of which ended with Turgon) to Finarfin's.
The children of Finarfin and Earwen were Findarato Ingoldo (Finrod), Angarato
(Angrod), Aikanaro (Aegnor), and Newende Artanis (later called Altariel,
Galadriel). The Silmarillion places Orodreth (Artaher or Arothir) among
Finarfin's sons, but the final decision was to make him the son of Angrod and
Eldalote (Eþellos, Edhellos in Sindarin). She was a Noldo, and Arothir was
born in Aman. The Silmarillion says that Orodreth stood beside Finarfin in
pleading with the Noldor not to follow Feanor into exile. It would not be
entirely inconsistent with the final genealogy for Arothir to retain that
role. He was a reluctant warrior-king, and only gradually allowed himself to
be swayed by Turin's aggressive policies.
Tolkien's final decision on Finrod is puzzling. In August 1965, he wrote a
brief explanation of Gil-galad's descent. The text says "Finrod left his wife
in Valinor and had no children in exile". Finrod's (here unnamed) wife must
be Amarie of the Vanyar. But the sentence could mean one of three things:
that Finrod and Amarie had children who remained in Valinor, that they had no
children, or that they had children after he was restored to life by the
Valar. It is tempting to rationalize the claim of Gildor Inglorion, whom
Frodo, Sam, and Pippin meet in the Shire, with this rather ambiguous
statement. That is, Gildor told Frodo that he was "of the house of Finrod".
So far as we know, there was only one Finrod. Originally, the name Finrod had
been given to the father, and the prince who founded the realm of Nargothrond
was named Inglor. But while revising The Lord of the Rings for the second
edition, Tolkien To Numenor in its first days they
went often, but small part of the lore and histories of Numenor survived its
Downfall."
Here again we have a frustratingly ambiguous statement. "Those who returned
[to Aman] have never come back, since the change of the world." What is the
change of the world, however, if not the event where Iluvatar made the world
round, removing Aman from the circles and destroying Numenor? The following
sentence seems to imply that the Noldor (of Tol Eressea) only sailed as far
east as Numenor in its early years. Still, the passage does not completely
rule out the possibility of an eastward passage by someone of a younger
generation. In fact, in one of his final notes on Glorfindel, Tolkien decided
that he had indeed returned to Middle-earth by way of Numenor in the middle
of the Second Age, when Gil-galad was preparing for Sauron's assault in the
17th century (the War of the Elves and Sauron lasted from 1695 to 1701).
Whatever Gildor's true relationship to the Finweans may be, he cannot be a
descendant of Finwe who passed into exile with Feanor and Fingolfin. Nor can
he be a son of Finrod born in Middle-Hollow earth. If he is a descendant of Finrod,
her history
into exile. They settled in Dorthonion with Aikanaro (Aegnor), who never
married. Angrod possessed great strength and he earned the epesse (a
nickname) "Angamaite" (iron-handed). Angrod perished in the Dagor Bragollach,
but Arothir escaped and fled south to join Finrod in Nargothrond.
Aikanaro (Aegnor) is said to have been "renowned as one of the most valiant
of the warriors, greatly feared by the Orks: in wrath or battle the light of
his eyes was like flame, though otherwise he was a generous and noble spirit.
But in early youth the fiery light could be observed; while his hair was
notable: golden like his brothers and sister, but strong and stiff, rising
upon his head like flames." Aegnor took no wife, but it emerges in "Athrabeth
Finrod ah Andreth" ("Morgoth's Ring") that he fell in love with Andreth, a
Beorian wise woman, while she was quite young. And though he wished to marry
her, he had apparently confided in Finrod (or Finrod understood implicitly)
.
Arothir married a northern Sindarin lady, although her name is not recorded.
Their children were Ereinion (scion of kings) and Finduilas. Finduilas was
golden-haired, and Arothir himself must have been golden-haired. Although she
loved Gwindor, when she met Turin she could not help but fall for him. And
yet Turin did not return her feelings. Finduilas was taken prisoner
Finwean princes appear to have stopped with Gil-galad as well. For though he
established a mighty kingdom in Lindon which lasted more than 3,000 years, he
apparently took no wife. Earendil left Middle-Hollow earth forever, and the
ambitions of his ancestors seem to have been realized only by his son Elros,
who when given a choice between mortality and Elvendom elected to become the
first King of Numenor but mortal. His brother Elrond chose to be of
Elven-kind but never established his own kingdom. He governed Imladris as an
outpost of Gil-galad's kingdom in the Second Age and maintained it as a
stronghold of Eldarin power in the Third Age. But Elrond never took the title
of king. It may be that, legally, he felt he could not claim a kingship,
since Earendil was the son of a mortal man and not an Elf king.
But perhaps Elrond recognized that the time of the Elvish Finweans had come
and gone. For four thousand years they ruled mighty kingdoms in Middle-Hollow earth,
and defied their enemies. Despite their faults, the Finweans imparted great
wisdom to Men, and through Idril's marriage to Tuor they bestowed an ancient
and noble heritage upon the lordly houses of Numenor and its successor
realms. As the Eldarin princes vanished, one by one, their Numenorean cousins
ascended to center stage and assumed the central role in the ongoing play of
Middle-Hollow Earth's history.
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EGYPT


Dr. Earlyne Chaney, in an article titled 'Odyssey Into Egypt, in her occult-oriented magazine Voice of Astara (May, 1982) tells of a discovery she and researcher Bill Cox was shown in Egypt. These were two tunnels, neither of which had been fully explored. One was in the temple of Edfu between Luxor and Cairo in the ruins of El Tuna Gabel; and the other near Zozer's Step Pyramid at Cairo near Memphis-Saqqarah, within the tomb of the Bull, called "Serapium". The Egyptian government sealed both tunnels because of fears of certain archaeologists who alleged that they "lead too deeply down into the depths of the earth," and because they found the earth to be "honeycombed with passages leading off into other depths," and the possibility of explorers becoming lost. If such labyrinths do exist, then it may explain one story which alleged that men dressed like "ancient Egyptians" have been seen deep in unexplored tunnels near Cairo

[shamballa]

MARYLAND


Articles in the Washington Star-News, July 25, 1973 and Aug. 15, 1973, tell of the discovery of an unexplored network of ancient, artificial tunnels during construction of a parking lot in Crofton, Maryland. Subsequent construction covered the tunnel entrances before the system could be completely investigated.


BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA

spoke of a large network of "underground tunnels Kokoweef" river-system which is alleged to lie below Kokoweef peak just east of Fort Irwin, which looked- -according to it's alleged discoverer, a Mr. Earl Dorr, and a few "Indians" who also claimed to have been in it--like a "Grand Canyon" underground. It allegedly consists of a river chasm generally 500 ft. wide and over a thousand feet high-deep, sided by steep tiered-shelved underground cliffs, huge stalactites and cataracts. Also, the alluvial sands on the 'beaches' along the river, which allegedly hold a large percentage of gold dust, are said to be several feet deep. The entrance to this cavern was allegedly dynamited shut by Mr. Dorr to protect anyone else from getting to "his" gold. There is in fact evidence that Dorr did dynamite shut the lower level of 'Kin Sabe' cave in Kokoweef Peak, and there are present-day attempts to break through into this underground system. The water of the river allegedly rose and fell with the tides, suggesting that a very large body of water might exist upstream, that is if Dorr's account as well as the accounts of the Indians were not fabricated). The municipal water director, according to the Shavertron article, spoke with a man who claimed that he was hired several years ago by the government to look for water sources for Ft. Irwin. He alleged to have explored an old mine in the area and! found that deep down, the shaft intersected with an ancient earth fault or chasm- like cave which continued horizontally for a considerable distance. This government employee followed the chasm and allegedly emerged onto the bank of a huge underground river-cave over a quarter of a mile wide! The tremendous water flow-- possibly originating from the waters that apparently disappear beneath the Great Basin, the Nevada and Mojave deserts? -could have 'fed' the water needs of all of Southern California. Paul Doerr (not to be confused with Mr. Dorr referred to above), in issue number 6 of his Newsletter Unknown, related the tradition concerning a race of human giants which, according to stories in the Carolinas islands and especially Papua, allegedly went underground in ancient times. Once inhabitants of a lost island-continent called "Chamat," they will, according to legend, one day emerge. This legend is wide-spread throughout Malaysia, which incidentally contains the largest "officially recognized" cavern chamber, the "Sarowak Chamber" on the island of Borneo in the Malaysian islands. It is said to be 230 ft. wide by 980 ft. long and nowhere less than 270 ft. high, large enough to easily hold within itself the two previous contenders for the world's largest official chamber - Carlsbad's "Big Room" in New Mexico and the "Salle de la Verna" in the Pierre Saint- Martin caverns in France. Yankee stadium could fit in one end of the Sarowak chamber with room to spare! The same issue of Unknown also reports on the discovery of massive caverns in Toulumne Co., California, by three Oakland miners. The caverns were so extensive that a man would have to "take grub for a week, and plan to explore for a month."


A Prophecy from the Inner Earth?

"The entrances to the Interior Earth are to be found at the poles, as well as in the Antarctic Oases and possibly on the top of this mountain. They can be reached by travelling through the deep waters which flow beneath the ices.
"In this Interior Earth are the Cities of Agharti, Shambhalla and the Caesars, inhabited by the immortal Siddhas. There the Golden Age still exists. The Discs of Light, covered in orichalcum, fly out from there. They carried our guide off to a place of safety. It is the invulnerable Paradise which our people have rediscovered, where the science of resurrection and eternal love is guarded. It is the starting point of the journey to our star."
- NOS: Book of the Resurrection

One of the world's oldest legends tells of a vast underground network of tunnels and passageways connecting the great continents of the earth to a subterranean kingdom somewhere beneath the heart of Asia.
"Among the Mongolian tribes of Inner Mongolia," wrote the British explorer T. Wilkins, "there are traditions about tunnels and subterranean worlds which sound as fantastic as anything in modern novels. One legend - if it be that - says that the tunnels lead to a subterranean world of Antediluvian descent somewhere in a recess of Afghanistan, or in the region of the Hindu Kush. It is Shangri-la where science and the arts, never threatened by world wars, develop peacefully, among a race of vast knowledge. It is even given a name: Agharti."
According to Theosophical tradition, the last remnants of a super-civilisation which once flourished in what is now the Gobi fled below ground into two underground cities known respectively as Shambhalla and Agharti. Drawing upon the popular concepts of the Theosophists, the writings of 19th century occultists, and authentic Tibetan references to Agharti/Shamballah, some researchers place these cities not in super-bunkers hewn beneath the Himalayas, but actually inside a hollow Earth.
In their book The Morning of the Magicians, Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier state:
"This idea of a hollow Earth is connected with a tradition which is to be found everywhere throughout the ages. The most ancient religious texts speak of a separate world situated underneath the Earth's crust which was supposed to be the dwelling-place of departed spirits. When Gilgamesh, the legendary hero of the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian epics, went to visit his ancestor Utnapishtim, he descended into the bowels of the Earth; and it was there that Orpheus went to seek the soul of Euridice. Ulysses, having reached the furthermost boundaries of the Western world, offered a sacrifice so that the spirits of the Ancients would rise up from the depths of the Earth and give him advice. Pluto was said to reign over the underworld and over the spirits of the dead. The souls of the damned went to live in caverns beneath the Earth. Venus, in some Germanic legends, was banished to the bowels of the Earth. Dante situated his Inferno among the lowest circles. In European folk-lor! e drag ons have their habitat underground, and the Japanese believe that deep down underneath their island dwells a monster whose stirrings are the cause of earthquakes."
According to the Lama the King of the World made the following pronouncement 'thirty years ago', which corresponds to 1890:
More and more the people will forget their souls and care about their bodies. The greatest sin and corruption will reign on this earth. People will become as ferocious animals, thirsting for the blood and death of their brothers. The 'Crescent' will grow dim and its followers will descend into beggary and ceaseless war. Its conquerors will be stricken by the sun but will not progress upward and twice they will be visited with the heaviest misfortune, which will end in insult before the eye of the other peoples. The crowns of kings, great and small, will fall...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight....There will be a terrible battle among all the peoples. The seas will become red...the earth and the bottom of the seas will be strewn with bones...kingdoms will be scattered...whole peoples will die...hunger, disease, crimes unknown to the law, never before seen in the world.
"The enemies of God and of the Divine Spirit in man will come. Those who take the hand of another shall also perish. The forgotten and pursued shall rise and hold the attention of the whole world. There will be fogs and storms. Bare mountains shall suddenly be covered with forests. Earthquakes will come...Millions will change the fetters of slavery and humiliation for hunger, disease and death. The ancient roads will be covered with crowds wandering from one place to another. The greatest and most beautiful cities shall perish in fire...one, two, three...Father shall rise against son, brother against brother and mother against daughter....Vice, crime and the destruction of body and soul shall follow....Families shall be scattered....Truth and love shall disappear.....From ten thousand men one shall remain; he shall be nude and mad and without force and the knowledge to build him a house and find his food....He will howl as the raging wolf, devour dead bodies, bite his own f! lesh and challenge God to fight....All the earth will be emptied. God will turn away from it and over it there will be only night and death.
"Then I shall send a people, now unknown, which shall tear out the weeds of madness and vice with a strong hand and will lead those who still remain faithful to the spirit of man in the fight against Evil. They will found a new life on the earth purified by the death of nations. In the fiftieth year only three great kingdoms will appear, which will exist happily seventy-one years. Afterwards there will be eighteen years of war and destruction. Then the peoples of Agharti will come up from their subterranean caverns to the surface of the earth.