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FREE FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS PDF Graham Hancock | 592 pages | 02 Apr 1996 | Random House USA Inc | 9780517887295 | English | New York, United States Fingerprints of the Gods - Wikipedia The map, showing the coastline of the east coast of the Americas and the west coast of Africa, the Colonel remarked, also seemed to show the coastline of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica free of ice — a condition it had not been in for some years! In fact, it is only in recent times that modern man has been able to map this coastline using sub-surface surveying techniques that can penetrate the ice sheet that lies on top of it. Ohlmeyer had no idea how a Fingerprints of the Gods existing in the 16th century could have got hold of such knowledge. It is an astronomical code that deals with the position of the stars over vast periods of time — a code that reveals the ancients knew far, far more than they are generally credited with. Traces of the same code appear in Egyptian myth, and it is to this desert land that Graham and Santha travel, finding there haunting parallels in architecture and ritual to the New World sites they have just left behind. Could the Piri Reis maps be evidence for a previously unknown complex maritime civilisation, capable of mapping the globe? A global culture, cataclysmically destroyed at the end of the ice age, remnants of which survived the devastation to pass on their knowledge to the shaken world? Were Fingerprints of the Gods figures of Osiris and Quetzalcoatl survivors of this lost race — passing down not only advanced geographical knowledge, but a secret astronomical code veiled in myth that pointed to the devastation in the Fingerprints of the Gods, and warned of that which is to come? From the mysterious sites of Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, to the enduring enigmatic Sphinx and pyramids Fingerprints of the Gods Egypt, the grandiose Nazca lines of Peru to the stark primal beauty of the Osireion at Abydos, this is a journey both around the globe and into the heart of the true prehistoric origins of man. Part adventure, part detective story, this book will force you to Fingerprints of the Gods your beliefs of the past. By Graham Hancock The Works of Men and Gods Among the numberless ruined temples of Ancient Egypt, there is one that is unique not only for its marvellous state of preservation, which rare indeed! Located at Abydos, eight miles west of the present course of the Nile, this is the Temple of Seti I, a monarch of the illustrious nineteenth Dynasty, who ruled from BC. You have gone, but you will return, you have slept, but you will awake, you have died, but you will live… Betake yourself to the waterway, fare upstream … travel about Abydos in this spirit-form of yours which the gods commanded to belong to you. It was eight in the morning, a bright, fresh hour in these latitudes, when I entered the hushed gloom of the Temple of Seti I. Hovering among the motes of dust Fingerprints of the Gods in those beams, and infiltrating the heavy stillness of the air amid the great columns that held Fingerprints of the Gods the roof of the Hypostyle Hall, it was easy to imagine that the spirit-form of Osiris could still be present. Indeed, this was more than just imagination because Osiris was physically present in the astonishing symphony of reliefs that adorned the walls- reliefs that depicted the once and future civilizer-king in his role as god of the dead, enthroned and attended by Isis, his beautiful and mysterious sister. In these scenes Osiris wore a variety of different Fingerprints of the Gods elaborate crowns which I studied closely as I walked from relief to relief. Crowns similar to these in many respects had been important parts of the wardrobe of all the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, at least on the evidence of reliefs depicting them. Strangely, however, in all the years of intensive excavations, archaeologists had not found a single example of a royal crown, or a small part of one, let alone a specimen of the convoluted ceremonial head- dresses associated with the gods of the First Time. Of particular interest was the Atef crown. Incorporating the uraeusthe royal serpent symbol which in Mexico was a rattlesnake but in Egypt was a hooded cobra poised to strikethe central core of this strange contraption was recognisable as an example of the hedjetthe white skittle-shaped war helmet of upper Egypt again known only from reliefs. In several reliefs of the Seti I Temple Osiris was depicted wearing the Atef crown, which seemed to stand about two feet high. Then Ra proceeded to let out the pus and the blood. All this was stated in a Fingerprints of the Gods way, but-when you stopped to think about it-what kind of crown was it that radiated heat and caused the skin to haemorrhage and break out in pustulant sores? I walked on into the deeper darkness, eventually finding my way to Fingerprints of the Gods Gallery of the Kings. It led off from the eastern edge of the inner Hypostyle Hall about zoo feet from the entrance to the temple. To pass through the Gallery was to pass through time itself. On the wall to my left was a list of of the gods of Ancient Egypt, together with the names of their principal sanctuaries. On my right, covering an area of perhaps ten feet by six feet, were the names of the 76 pharaohs who had preceded Seti I to Fingerprints of the Gods throne; each name was carved in hieroglyphs inside an oval cartouche. Glowing with colours of molten gold, it was designed to be read from left to right and was divided into five vertical and three horizontal registers. At the extreme left stood two figures exquisitely carved in high relief: Seti and his young son, the future Ramesses II. Belonging to the same class of historical documents as the Turin Papyrus and the Palermo Stone, the list spoke eloquently of the continuity of tradition. An inherent part of that tradition, was the belief or memory of a First Time, long, long ago, when the gods had ruled in Egypt. And so it remained, out of sight and out of mind, until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the archaeologists Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray began excavations. In their Fingerprints of the Gods of digging they uncovered parts of a hall and passageway, lying in the Fingerprints of the Gods about feet south-west of the Seti I Temple and built in the recognizable architectural style of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Shortage of cash, however, meant that their theory of a buried building was not tested until the digging season of Then, under the direction of Professor Naville of the Egypt Exploration Fund, a long transverse chamber was cleared, at the Fingerprints of the Gods of which, to the north- east, was found a massive stone gateway made up of cyclopean blocks of granite and sandstone. The next season,Naville and his team returned with local helpers and diligently cleared the whole of the huge underground building:. What we discovered [Naville wrote] is a gigantic construction of about feet in length and 60 in width, built with the most enormous stones that may be seen in Egypt. In the four sides of the enclosure walls are cells, 17 in number, of Fingerprints of the Gods height of a man and without ornamentation of any kind. The building itself is divided into three naves, the middle one being wider than those of the Fingerprints of the Gods the division is produced by two colonnades made of huge granite monoliths supporting architraves Fingerprints of the Gods equal size. The cells are connected by a narrow ledge between two and three feet wide; there is a ledge also on the opposite side of the nave, but no floor at all, and in digging to a depth of 12 feet we reached infiltrated water. Even below the great gateway there is no floor, and when there was water in front of it the cells were probably reached with a small boat. Water, water, everywhere-this seemed to be the theme of the Osireion, which lay at the bottom of the huge crater Yaville and his men had excavated in It was positioned some 50 feet below the level of the floor of the Seti I Temple, almost flush with the water-table, and was approached by a modern stairway curving down to the south-east. Having descended this stairway, I passed under Fingerprints of the Gods hulking lintel slabs of the great gateway Naville and Strabo had described and crossed a narrow wooden Fingerprints of the Gods modern-which brought me to a large sandstone plinth. Measuring about 80 feet in length by 40 in width, this plinth was composed of enormous paving blocks and was entirely surrounded by water. Two pools, one rectangular and the other square, had been cut into the plinth along the centre of its long axis and at either Fingerprints of the Gods stairways led down to a depth of about 12 feet below the water level. The plinth also supported the two massive colonnades Naville mentioned in his report, each of which consisted of five chunky rose-coloured granite monoliths Fingerprints of the Gods eight feet square by 12 feet high and weighing, on average, around tons. Plan of the Osireion. This exercise was assisted by the absence of the original roof which made it easier to envisage the whole edifice in plan.