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Archaeoastronomy Cherche Désespérément Extraterrestrials

CAROLE NERVIG — THE PETROGLYPHS OF MU, POHNPEI, NAN MADOL, AND THE LEGACY OF LEMURIA — BEAR AND COMPANY — 2022
Since I have been working on the transfer of culture and civilization from Southeast Asia to South and Mesoamerica, I must regret research is not advanced as much as necessary to come to some final theory or even theories. Julien d’Huy gives some elements about mythemes that are common to Southeast Asia and Melanesia on the west side of the Pacific Ocean and then South America on the east side of the same Pacific Ocean but are not present in North America. In South and Mesoamerica, systematically, culture has been moving north like cacao that is archaeologically proved oldest in Bolivian Amazonia some 2,000 or even 3,000 years before it is asserted present in Maya country. In the same way, the oldest pyramids are on the eastern flank of the Andes in Peru, in Caral, and these 5,000-year-old pyramids are the oldest in the world, predating the Egyptian pyramids by 100 years (which is only a time indication but no indication that the Egyptian pyramids and the Peruvian pyramids are connected, except mentally in a shape that seems to be universal) and the Inca or Maya pyramids by an easy 3,000 or 4,000 years. Egypt has little to do here, but the movement from Caral to Maya country just goes that way and not the reverse. What’s more a great number of pyramids have been spotted in Amazonia, under the canopy of the jungle, and are still totally unexplored, which means at least they probably have not been looted. And archaeology has explored the commercial connection of the people in Caral with the fishermen on the coast and the population higher up in the Andes. Then going down to Amazonia is logical. The shift to Maya country is more complicated since we don’t really know where the Mayas and their predecessors the Olmecs come from, though due to their cultural “heritage” they have to be coming from the south, from Amazonia, maybe even from farther south.
So, the hypothesis that around 25,000 years ago, the water in the Pacific Ocean was so low that it was possible to cross from Melanesia to Chile, Campo Verde precisely, becomes possible. So, being curious, I wanted to read about this sunken continent in the Pacific Ocean, Mu or…