America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

by Graham Hancock

STUFF JUST KEEPS ON GETTING OLDER

“Take a standard American football field,” she suggests, “and make it 146 feet tall. It’s that much dirt.”

Football field analogies are the opposite of helpful to me.

IN BOTH ANCIENT NATIVE NORTH America and ancient Egypt the universe was believed to be “layered”—with This World, the everyday material realm, inhabited by humans, sandwiched between an Underworld below (often with powerful Underwater aspects) and an Upper World, or Sky World, above.

Tears of the Kingdom

But in both this apparently celestial setting had contradictory Below World characteristics, including bodies of water and other obstacles to cross, architectural spaces to navigate, and monstrous adversaries to face.

Again, Tears of the Kingdom.

Among the Sambia of eastern Papua New Guinea, as among the Arawete, Jivaro, and Mehinaku of the Amazon, a war leader would traditionally exhibit his erect penis as a sign of his aggression.