GUATAMA, SON OF NOAH, IN THE AMERICAS
The Ihin fleet that reached America was named Guatama: Stephen Oppenheimer has people entering the New World 22,000 to 24,000 years ago, and they are Caucasian, as seen in the California specimen LA Man who is dated 24,000 BP.21 In one AmerInd tradition, the only flood survivors were “little men of the mountains” (mounds), a lost race, but indeed they were groups of Ihins—the little people, with white and yellow hair.
The same date, 24,000 BP, obtains for the fine engravings and AMH (anatomically modern human) skulls found at Flagstaff, Arizona, as well as for the Basket Makers, in their small-sized burial vaults, uncovered in southwestern Pennsylvania. These engravers and artisans were also in Peru—made famous by the Ica stones, some of which depict the submerged lands from which their forefathers had been saved.
There were made images of stone and copper, and engravings thereon of the children of Noe, and of the flood, and of the sacred tribes.
OAHSPE, THE LORDS’ FOURTH BOOK 2:20
The striking resemblance between China’s Choukoutien Man and America’s Plains Indians, especially in cranial morphology, does not necessarily mean a migration of Siberians across that old saw, the Bering Strait. Rather, let us consider that they both are from a common source—Pan. DNA analysis tells us that the ancestors of Asians and Americans separated earlier than 15,000 years ago (a fairly standard date for the Bering crossing). And if that earlier time be 24,000 years ago, it marks the great diaspora, after the sinking of the continent of Pan.
It has been asked: Why did the very earliest American Indian skulls “look like present-day Caucasians with an Indian cast”?22 It is because the Ihins settled the New World 24 kya, and proceeded to blend with the native stock. Thus did the early AmerInds in Washington state (near the Columbia River) end up with somewhat Caucasian features. The morphology of 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man’s skull is also non-Native, resembling the Ainu and Polynesian type—not Siberian. Walter Neves (University of Sao Paolo) found links between the skulls of Polynesians and North American Paleo-Indians, just as anthropologist Marta Lahr matched Patagonian skulls to South Pacific islanders. Barry Fell, the Harvard paleontologist, was able to match skulls of Tennessee’s ancient little people with lookalikes among the Negritos of the Philippines: all H. sapiens pygmaeus.
“The dwarfishness [of the world’s little people] . . . who have retained so many traits in common . . . suggests that all of these far-flung groups may be linked in a common ancestry.”23 Workers have connected the prehistoric Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio mound builders to populations in Malaysia, Fiji, and the Sandwich Islands, their common artifacts “clearly of a Polynesian character. . . . The North Americans, Polynesians and Malays were formerly the same people, or had one common origin.”24
Forensic evidence may bear this out: blood types indicate a strain of DNA in American Indians that shows relationship to Pacific Islanders,25 not Siberians or Europeans. Why is there scarcely any B blood type among AmerInds, which is so common in Eastern Asia, whence their supposed ancestors made the trek across a Bering land bridge? Neither does Inca blood type have Old World affinities, even though the royal Inca looked like white men. Rather, a genetic clan in South and Central America has been found to be closely associated with Polynesians and curiously*8 absent in Siberia and Alaska. Tools, too: On the California coast, adzes and ax heads of Pacific origin were found.
Engravings of animals in Mexico, dated 22 kyr, are curiously “very much like the Cro-Magnon [art] in France.”26 (And we won’t need the Bering Strait to make this connection.) Indeed, Europe’s Solutrean spearheads are almost identical to the Clovis points in the American Southwest, and they are nothing like Siberian ones. These European cousins (and cousins they are) produced the cave art of France between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago. Cro-Magnon people appear to have had knowledge of a decimal system that we mistakenly believe was invented only a few thousand years ago,”27 just as their Mayan cousins, according to the Popul Vuh, were “the true race of men . . . who possessed all knowledge, and studied the four quarters of heaven and the round surface of the earth.” In Peru “the shy, furtive and gentle” white people with beards are considered “the oldest race now alive,”28 like the white Tapuyos who were thought to be refugees from a former civilization.
Up against twentieth-century academic opinion, Brown proposed that a lost continent in the South Pacific inhabited by white men had lent its culture to Peruvian civilization. Notable are similarities in language; significantly, it is the oldest Peruvian languages that have the greatest affinity with Polynesian ones, just as the statues from the earliest period on Easter Island bear a striking resemblance to the huge statues at San Agustin, Colombia, whose Stone Age temples and tombs also have counterparts on Easter Island: South American ceremonial platforms are almost identical to those on Easter Island.
The migration, it has been surmised, must have taken place in very early times; “and there can be no question of these immigrants having transmitted a higher civilization.”29 Would the influx of these proto-Caucasians explain the presence of “white Indians” throughout the Americas? Pierre Honore, like Brown, thought that people from Polynesia (not Africa or Asia) must have reached America, remains of which migration he found in both Brazil (Xingu River) and Ecuador. All along the upper tributaries of the Amazon one hears reports of pale-skinned tribes still inhabiting the ruins of cyclopean cities. Ten-thousand-year-old skeletons in Brazil show different skull types than modern Indians or people of Northern Asia. British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett photographed white Indians all across Brazil’s back villages, including the big, hand-some, red-haired Tahuamanu people, their tallness answered by the white, bearded dwarfs (four-foot-tall pygmy men) along the Amazon, this tribe, said to be “Greek” in type, living near one of the dead cities of the interior.
The ancient songs of the Tupis of Brazil recount “destruction by a violent inundation . . . a long time ago . . . only a very few escaping.”30 The Tupi people are leptorrhine and brachycephalic (narrow nosed and round headed, like the Ihins), as are other “people of higher culture in North America.”31 This race, thought Fawcett, was of Pacific origin. Did they survive that overwhelming disaster known as the great deluge? The name Tupi, we might note, corresponds to Tapi in Aztec tradition, which recounts that the Creator taught this pious man, Tapi, to build a boat in order to escape a great flood of waters.
Daniel Brinton, the esteemed American folklorist and linguist, reported that the Tupis of Brazil “were named after the first man, Tupa, he who alone survived the flood . . . an old man of fair complexion [e.a.], un vieillard blanc.”32 Paul Radin, who together with Brinton was among America’s outstanding early ethnographers, described the Arawak tribes of the Caribbean and coastal areas as “men of light color with long hair and beards.”33 Harold Gladwin adds that the Arawaks “may have been Polynesian,” just as comparative analysis suggests that “the Polynesians have, at some remote period, found their way to the [American] continent.”34
Figure P.6. Arawak. Arawaks are sometimes thought to be Polynesian in origin.
Figure P.7. Filipino Negrito. Negritos, as we go on, will prove to be a stunning blend of the second and third races of men.
Figure P.8. As a graduate student I did my fieldwork among an Arawakan tribe in Venezuela: the Guajiros. These pictures were taken in 1969.
THE JAPANESE CONNECTION
Why is 42 percent of Japanese vocabulary Malayo-Polynesian? Why is the practice of tattooing so widespread: found in Sumatra, Polynesia, ancient America, and Africa (the Nigerian Yorubas practice this art, which along with their short bow, is non-African in provenance)? Prehistorian Leo Frobenius thought that these related customs came from a lost Pacific center, whose survivors spread to Asia, then to the West.
Why does Japanese mythology include so many elements reminiscent of Polynesia?35 Here on the western side of the Pacific, local traditions recall that the islands of the Pacific arose after “
the waters of a great deluge had receded.”36 The hazy outline of that early period comes into better focus with the archaeological discovery that the population of Japan swelled at least 20,000 years ago; (more like 25 kyr, according to Jeffrey Goodman37). It was at this time that all the arts of Japan improved, as seen in excellent microblade tools and the “elaborate and sophisticated” ware of the acclaimed Jomon potters.
These Jomon people were the dominant race in the Japanese islands during the “reign of the gods.” In fact, they were the gods, or rather, the deified ancestor, appearing in sculptures with European features. Their fine carvings, done in relief, are considered the oldest in all the world: “and of all people, ye [the Japanese] shall be reckoned the oldest in the world.” Intriguingly, Jomon ware has been compared not only to the work of the Alaskan Ipiutak (pre-Inuit) across the pond, but also to identical work along the upper Amazon and Ecuadorian coast.38 Jomon pottery has also been found in the Pacific itself (at Melanesia).
The earliest people, say the Japanese, were the white-skinned Yamato (Yamato later became the name of a Japanese dynasty). “Many thousand years ago, the islands of Japan formed a distant colony of Lemuria. . . . The Yamato enjoyed a sophisticated culture.”39 In the prehistoric tombs of Japan are found images of the Yamato, called haniwa, curious clay figures of little people, with faces of a Caucasian nobility, said to have brought with them from the motherland a developed civilization. The Japanese flag, the Rising Sun, still embodies the sacred emblem of that drowned land.
These Jomon or Yamato folk, who also built megalithic stone circles, were diminutive (tsuchigumo): remains, four and a half feet tall, have been found in association with their wares.40 Some of their genes survive today in the little Ainu people, a living remnant of those long-lost whites (whose original name Ihin/Ine permutes to Inuit and Ainu).
The “undersized” Ainu stock occupied much of Asia at one time; today only a few remain—occupying northern Japan (Yezo). Although there has been a lot of intermarriage, the Ainu are quite different than Mongoloids, sporting luxuriant beards and wavy hair, their faces of a Caucasian cast. Neither were the ancient Jomon of typical Asian descent; “they were proto-Caucasoids, fair-skinned with prominent noses and full, light-colored beards.”41
The fleet of two ships [from Pan] carried to the north was called . . . in the Wagga [Panic] tongue Zha’pan, which is the same country that is to this day called Japan, signifying, Relic of the continent of Pan, for it lay . . . where the land was cleaved in two. . . . Thus was settled Japan.
OAHSPE, THE LORDS’ FIRST BOOK 1:55
The Japanese have their own recollections of a golden age and its ancient deity who gave happiness to the people of Okinawa “from beyond the sea.” The western shore of that homeland was recently rediscovered beneath the waters off Okinawa. Along the East China Sea, a startling discovery was made in 1994, spread over more than three hundred miles of ocean floor: the remains of an ancient city, “a civilization lost in the sea,” containing stone circles (à la Jomon), shafts, and massive monuments. To prehistorian Frank Joseph, the ruins are a remnant of a large continent in the Pacific Ocean, with counterparts on the Peruvian coast. He compares the sunken buildings off Okinawa to Pachacamac (near Lima) with its broad plazas and sweeping staircases.
Figure P.9. Underwater ruins off Japan at Yonaguni, Ryukyu Islands. This formation is called The Turtle.*9
Is it sheer coincidence (the skeptic’s primary weapon) that the most striking facsimiles of Japan’s lost horizon appear at the other end of the vast and empty ocean? Hugging the western shores of the Americas, sites in Peru, Ecuador, and California have provided some of the richest sources of early H. sapiens (see appendix F). The same time depth of 20,000 to 25,000 years BP (that archaeologists estimate for the flourishing of Japan) obtains at Peru’s earliest toolmaking site. Are we satisfied calling this a coincidence? Parallel evolution?
Some stone circles like those of the Japanese Jomon (rediscovered in the Yonaguni ruins) are found in the British Isles as well as in North America at Lake Michigan, where calendrical/astronomical devices were built, according to the Ojibway, by the ancient ones. Such circles are also found in Peru. The entire gestalt of “Stone Age” masters is found in Peru, witnessed by highly skilled masonry, megalithic ruins, bridges, canals, wonderful temples, a Great Wall (not unlike China’s), and the extraordinary “Nazca lines.” Now with Jomon-style pottery found on the coast of Ecuador, and early Ecuadorian skulls resembling those of Melanesia (where Jomon pottery has been found), one can reasonably suppose that both coasts of the Pacific were settled by refugees from sunken Pacifica (Pan). “Words cannot express adequately the degree of similarity between early Valdivia [Ecuadorian] and [Japanese] Jomon pottery,” marveled archaeologist Clifford Evans. “Many fragments of both are so similar . . . that they might almost have come from the same vessel.”42
The Asian elements found in the Americas “are common to the Aztec, Incas and Mayas, and to many other people, not because they were borrowed from China, but because all these people inherited them from a great, vanished civilization.”43
The subject of Pan (Panology) requires a book, really, not a chapter or short prologue. But absent that book, let us consider this foreword an appetizer. More to the point, it is the necessary backdrop to the chapters that follow, for without an understanding of the children of Noah, our own lineage remains truly a “mystery.”
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OUR KNOWLEDGE IS SKELETAL
The Truth behind the Bones
O ye of little wisdom; how ye are puffed up in judgment, not knowing the race whence ye sprang!
OAHSPE, BOOK OF APOLLO 5:11
MEET PROTOMAN: ASU
To begin this journey at the beginning may I introduce you to your long-lost ancestor, Asu man?
Naked and unashamed, Asu was the first manlike specimen to walk the Earth, though he might also scamper about on all fours and spend a lot of time in the trees as well. His long arms, curved digits, and upward-facing shoulder joint suited him to arboreal life, while the human angles of his knee joints supported his upright gait. Known as Ardipithecus ramidus to the paleontologist, he was about four feet tall with a biped’s placement of the foramen magnum, meaning neck and head were in line with spine, rather than jutting forward (like apes).
Figure 1.1. Three artists’ impressions of first man. (A) Illustration by Joy Walker. (B) Illustration by Karen Barry. (C) Illustration by Ernst Haeckel.
Yes, Ardi/Asu had a very small brain; he was not a knowing creature, not sapient, not a thinking man and did not use fire or tools. He did not speak and, as one study surmises, was “barely capable of babbling.”1 His diet was of fruit, nuts, seeds, berries, vegetables, roots, and probably bugs. Being the first race of man and in an aboriginal state, he was dun colored and, as the Vedic scriptures of India define the term asu (meaning “animalistic”), “lived and moved in the great phenomena of nature.”*10 He appears again in the Old Testament as Esau, Jacob’s twin, covered with red, shaggy body hair (animal-man). Sumerian Asag may also be a cognate; similar to the Hindu asura, Asag was a demon cursed in a manner not unlike Jacob’s twin Esau.
Concerning this Asu or Adam, the Chukchee (Siberia) have a story of the beginning, when the Creator made the first man—an animal-like, hairy, and four-legged creature with very long and strong arms, great big teeth, and claws. Fearing this man would destroy all living things, the Creator contrived to slow him down a bit, make him less dangerous, so he had him walk upright and shortened his arms: “with Mine Own hands, molded I . . . the arms . . . no longer than to the thighs.”2 Indeed, the first fossil hominid was long armed†11 and powerful—helping him scuttle along on all fours, as the morphology of remains in Africa and Asia attest. These creatures, manlike but rough-hewn, were the very first race of human beings.
Asu man was devoid of the spirit part, just as in Buriat anthropogenesis, where first man was without a soul. “A humanlike being that lacked a soul,”3 he was without the
spark of the divine, “like a tree, dwelling in darkness.”‡12 Hence beings of wood as the Mayan Quiche say, were the race preceding their own, for they had no soul, no reason, and did not remember the Creator. In the same vein the first man in Chaldean memory had “lived without rule, after the manner of beasts.”
Yes, like a beast but not an animal, for all the animals (unlike man) have instinct fully supplied. But Asu man was a blank, “the nearest blank of all the living, devoid of sense.”4
The low condition of the first race of man [Asu] is known; but still he was a man and not a monkey, nor any other animal.
JOHN B. NEWBROUGH,
“COMMENTARY ON OAHSPE”
It is my understanding and the premise of this book that Asu man together with Ihin man (the little people, see chapter 2) are the mother lode, the two Ur races of mankind, our true common ancestors. These chapters are about their offspring—the races of man. To some extent, we all have a combination of Asu-Ihin blood. And Australopithecus, the very earliest hybrid, represents the first infusion of Ihin blood into the Asuan race, accounting for “modern” features appearing even in the most archaic of hominids. Table 1.1 summarizes the mixed features of australopith (Au); for Asu was quickly upgraded by those early gene exchanges with the Ihins.
WAS AUSTRALOPITHECUS OUR ANCESTOR?: ARGUMENTS PRO AND CON
Gridlock: Maybe (hopefully) Neaderthal-as-ancestor has been put to rest, but the jury is still out on Australopithecus.
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