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The Dropa Stones The story of the Dropa for us begins in the same place, but the year is 1938. The mountains are the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains on the border that divides China and Tibet. An archaeological expedition, led by Chi Pu Tei, has trudged into the barely accessible mountain range, and has happened upon some caves that had obviously been occupied by a primitive people long ago.On the walls were carved pictograms of the heavens: the sun, the moon, the stars, and the Earth with lines of dots connecting them. Then the team made the most incredible discovery of all. Half-buried in the dirt floor of the cave was an odd stone disk, obviously fashioned by the hand of an intelligent creature. The disk was approximately nine inches in diameter and three-quarters of an inch thick. In the exact center was a perfectly round, 3/4" hole, and etched in its face was a fine groove spiraling out from the center to the rim, making the disk look for all the world like some kind of primitive phonograph record.This one plate, dated to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years old , but the wonder was multiplied manifold. In all, 716 such plates were found. And each held an incredible secret. The groove, upon further inspection, was not a groove at all, but a continuous line of strange carved hieroglyphics - writing!
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Dr. Tsum Um Nui , in 1962, painstakingly transcribed the characters from the disk to paper. The writing was so small he had to use a magnifying glass to see it clearly. But the stones were old - perhaps 12,000 years old, it was estimated - and much of the hieroglyphics were difficult to make out or had been worn away by time and the elements. As he worked, many questions nagged the professor. How did these primitive people fashion these precise stones? How did they manage the almost microscopic writing? Who were they and what was the purpose of these hundreds of stones? Once the characters were transcribed, Dr. Tsum Um Nui began the arduous task of trying to decode its message. Eventually, he began to make progress. A word emerged. Then another. A phrase became understandable, then an entire sentence. He had broken the code. He discerned that the messages on the stones were written by a people who called themselves the Dropa. But what they were saying to him 12,000 years later made no sense. What the Dropa had written must have been one of their cultural myths, or was part of some prehistoric religious ceremony. Or was it? When he had completed the translation the professor wrote up a paper on his findings and presented it to the university for publication. Their reaction was swift and emphatic: the paper would notbe published. The Academy of Prehistory expressly forbade him to publish or even speak of his findings. The world, the academy decided, should not know about the Dropa and their fateful journey to Earth.The Dropa disks tell the story of a space probe from a distant planet that crash-landed in the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains of the Himalayas. The occupants of the spacecraft - the Dropa - found refuge in the caves of the mountains.The stones go on to say how the Dropa were unable to repair their disabled spacecraft and could not return to their home planet, and so were stranded on Earth. If that's true, have their descendents survived?
The Dogons The Dogons are a people well known by their cosmogony, their esotericism, their myths and legends that interest foreigners at the highest point in search for culture or tourism. The population is assessed to be about 300,000 people living in the South West of the Niger loop in the region of Mopti in Mali (Bandiagara, Koro, Banka), near Douentza and part of the North of Burkina (North west of Ouahigouya). The Dogon's (Mali, Africa) homeland has been designated a World Heritage site for its cultural and natural significance. They are also famous for their artistic abilities and vast knowledge about astrology, especially the Sirius star, which is the center of their religious teachings. The Dogons know that Sirius A, the brightest system in our firmament, is next to a small white dwarf called Sirius B, which was not identified by western scientists until 1978. The Dogons knew about it at least 1000 years ago. Sirius B has formed the basis of the holiest Dogon beliefs since antiquity. Western astronomers did not discover the star until the middle of the nineteenth century, and it wasn't even photographed until 1970. The Dogons go as far as describing a third star in the Sirius system, called "Emme Ya" that, to date, has not been identified by astronomers. In addition to their knowledge of Sirius B, the Dogon mythology includes Saturn's rings and Jupiter's four major moons. They have four calendars, for the Sun, Moon, Sirius, and Venus, and have long known that planets orbit the sun. How this Dogon's Enigmatic Scientific Knowledge about Astronomy came from? According to their oral traditions, a race people from the Sirius system called the Nommos visited Earth thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings that resembled mermen and mermaids. They also appear in Babylonian, Accadian, and Sumerian myths. The Egyptian Goddess Isis, who is sometimes depicted as a mermaid, is also linked with the star Sirius. The Nommos, according to the Dogon legend, lived on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed on Earth in an "ark" that made a spinning decent to the ground with great noise and wind. It was the Nommos that gave the Dogon the knowledge about Sirius B ! (Picture: The original Dogon couple.This is one of the greatest symbols of the Dogon civilization. Sculpting represents spouses)
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Re: The Legend of the Dropa - Anthony
From: Gary Anthony <garyant@mithrand.karoo.co.uk> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:28:26 +0100 Fwd Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:55:22 -0400 Subject: Re: The Legend of the Dropa - Anthony >From: Chris Aubeck <caubeck@email.com> >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:31:35 -0400 (EDT) >To: updates@sympatico.ca >Subject: Re: The Legend of the Dropa - Aubeck >>From: Alfred Lehmberg <Lehmberg@snowhill.com> >>Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 15:00:30 -0500 >>To: updates@sympatico.ca >>Subject: Re: The Legend of the Dropa >>>Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 11:22:35 -0400 (EDT) >>>From: Chris Aubeck <caubeck@email.com> >>>To: updates@sympatico.ca >>>Subject: The Legend of the Dropa >>>Hello List Members, >>>Having spent the weekend exploring the net and my archives >>>raiding other people's thanks, everyone, for your letters!), >>>have reached a point in my research that I doubt I can go >>>without some kind of major breakthrough. <snip> >>Erich Von Daniken (be not quick with a reflexive sneer...) >>wrote in "Gods From Outer Space (1970 pp96-98)" the >>following regarding the Dropa... <snip> >Hi Alfred, >Thanks for your feedback. >Now, I don't want to burst your bubble but I found a curious >datum in my archives, and then again during my web search. You >can take a look at where it appears on the Net if you want at: http://www.violations.dabsol.co.uk/weird/weirdpart3.htm >but here it is anyway: >"This story appears intriguing, however what appears historic >fact becomes decidedly fanciful when the author of the book >where this account first surfaced is mentioned. Erich Von >Daniken. >"Yes, the discs are there but little else is based on fact. >Daniken quotes his source for this story as a conversation in >Moscow in 1968 with Soviet writer Aleksandr Kazantsev and >records that the discs themselves and the documentation of their >discovery is preserved at the then Peking Academy of Prehistory >and the Chinese Academy of Sciences at T'ai-Pei in Taiwan. >"However over a period of four years, a journalist and expert in >linguistics and anthropology, Gordon Creighton, studied the >claims made, and on making further enquiries, drew numerous >blanks. Firstly he approached the scientific academies in both >T'ai-Pei and Peking for information, however received no >response to his enquiries. He then approached a number of >Chinese academics for information, but none of them had even >heard of the story. Then he contacted the Soviet writer who had >given the story to Von Daniken to check whether he had given Von >Daniken an accurate account. However the response was not as >expected; far from giving Von Daniken the story, Aleksandr >Kazantsev stated that Von Daniken had given it to him." >There's even a snappy photo of Erich von Darnitman himself which >you can copy, print and paste to your fridge door. >If anyone wants a list of my sources, by the way, I can send >them along in an e-mail. >Chris Aubeck Hi Alfred, Chris and List, Alfred, Chris may be correct here. I have followed this case up to some extent and expense, surprisingly the only thing of any note from the Chinese end is Gordon Creighton's brilliant investigation of this case during the 70's, which is still logged to this day with certain Chinese establishments. In fact, I might venture it was Creighton who initially tried to get at the truth of the Dropa story and in so doing, may have been first to alert the Chinese to the story's existence. On 2 September 2000, I politely emailed Erich von Daniken to try and obtain a clearer picture of his claims about the Dropa and to see if photographs of the alleged stones and hieroglyphs (in broad sense of term) were or could be obtained? Alas, Mr. von Daniken was not forthcoming with a reply, so perhaps we should exercise a bit more diligence in respect of this story. Or else, permit those with better facts to stand forth..! Best Regards Gary Anthony
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