I am pretty impressed to see that there's a lot of hits on this section but very little answers!!!
What does it mean?
I'm not being facetious, but serious, in saying that the answer is in the name of the sub-forum. If historical phenomena are not a mystery, then they are known history. 😉 The whole point, then, is that there are ancient mysteries. It's the unknown quality about them, especially when we intuitively feel that the answer would be something extremely important, that makes ancient mysteries so fascinating.
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To me, an ancient mystery is something like the Nazca Lines (though it's becoming less and less of a mystery now that people have created similar pictures without the need to be 'up in the sky' to see how they're doing; it can be done by basic maths and geometry...). The Ica Stones - now there is a mystery; 15,000 stones allegedly and even if a few folk admitted carving them - that is fifteen thousand stones! The German laboratory concluding the carvings on those they tested went back many thousands of years... it all adds up to a classic ancient mystery.
The remains of a building on the top of one of the higher US mountains with no clues as to how and why it was built...
The small doorways beneath the Giza pyramids ventilation shafts... visited by the robot with its camera but no (admitted and published) further information about that...
The enigmatic standing stones and stone circles with subtle solar energy channels entering them and traveling all the way down to Earth's core - but whether the channels were there first and Man then marked them with the stones - or the stones were there first and the Solar channels formed afterwards - but why? Its another ancient mystery.
The Piri Reis map of 1513 showing the northern coastline of Antartica - yet it has been under considerable depth of ice for the last 6000 years... How did he get the data? How did those before him get their data? Now that's probably the greatest ancient mystery of all...
Kind regards
A.
Hi Apollo! It's been a while. I think I know well what you refer to here:
The remains of a building on the top of one of the higher US mountains with no clues as to how and why it was built...
It's first mentioned in "A Dweller On Two Planets" by Phylos the Thibetan, written through a young man in the 1800s. In the book, claiming to be true and I have no reason to doubt it as it's a true classic, there are the remains of a building on the near-top of the incredibly steep Grand Teton mountain in the Teton Range, Colorado, USA. In the book, past-life recollections say that it was a monastery in Atlantean times 12,000 BC only reached by "vailix" or flying craft using anti-gravity technology we have not yet reproduced today.
I was there to check it and other things out in 1984. I'm not a climber and hadn't the equipment, but the mountain was right there in front of me. I asked the park rangers and they confirmed that still today there are the foundations of a building, or at least some man-made and man-placed foundation stones, near the summit. It's incredible that nobody ever wonders how they ever got there, or has tried to date them - as I think their placement goes back maybe over 20,000 years.
Here's the Grand Teton. Reputedly there's a physical "Retreat" inside it, still in use, and the whole place is extremely important spiritually:
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I hiked in 1984 around the back of this mountain and camped alone in the valley behind. That was extraordinary, as the wildlife had no concept of being afraid of man. A moose stuck its head out of the almost-tropical greenery to look at me just two yards away. I was the first to do the hike after the Spring thaw when the snow was going, and I could have done without the park rangers telling me that there were plenty of Grizzlies around, and would I report sightings if I got back? 😮 That freaked me when I camped alone overnight.
But talking of Retreats, physical ones of the Masters (I know you know what I mean, Apollo), I was to my satisfaction able to confirm a legendary other one, the Cave of Symbols, does exist around the back of the Grand Teton in the photo link. Until the 1930s it had a clear opening, but with the rise in hikers and climbers the once-obvious opening has been hidden and sealed. I'm pretty sure I found it though, and the vibration was just awesome: I felt too humble to approach the entrance to more than several tens of yards. You know, I'd guess, whose "home" or "Retreat" that is?
P.S. It's why many "ancient mysteries" remain mysteries, to answer the first post. Here we have, on the near-top of a precipitous mountain in the mid-USA, the remains of a building reputably having been there for untold thousands of years (nothing at all to do with American Indians and pre-dating them). How was such a building ever constructed on that site? Why not date the construction? Why not map it? (I know the very basic answer: conventional archeologists are naive and don't know of it, but also are afraid to make the ascent. I now wish I had!) It would IMHO prove that a civilisation existed with astonishing technology in North America well beyond 10,000 BC. After all, we've already found their sophisticated mines, dating back over 10,000 years, but rarely mentioned. In a nutshell, conventional archeologists are just not up to the task: they are mere products of universities and have no sense of the extraordinary or the revelatory.
That's partly why things remain as - mysteries - from the past.
Sermon over! :p
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Very interesting Venetian. I hadn't heard of this place before so did a quick Google and came up with this link http://www.darkstar1.co.uk/gregjenner10.html that is quite fascinating, although the start is a bit new age for my liking, but read on and there are lots of 'quotes' and 'stories' (I add the ' ' because, as usual, you have to take these with a pinch of salt until they can be proven).
I agree with some of that link but can't vouch for it all. Interesting, though.
The Teton Range is spectacular (but rendered a bit less mystical when told they were named by a Frenchman who came across them, and felt they looked like breasts, or frankly "tits"!). They rise straight up out of a flat plain with a lake in front. And I do mean straight up. You can stand with one foot on the flat plain and another foot on a 45-degree slope.
Behind the Grand Teton - and I am not a "sensitive" person - I felt in awe, the feeling you get if in the most spectacular, ancient, and holy of cathedrals. There's an aura of immense holiness all around.
As said, esoteric tradition has it that the Grand Teton is pretty hollowed out, with a huge network of chambers inside where initiates live. The same re Table Mountain behind it.
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