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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

the deluge was unleashed, the fish god Vishnu warned his human
protégé that he ‘should conceal the Sacred Scriptures in a safe place’ to
preserve the knowledge of the antediluvian races from destruction.
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Likewise, in Mesopotamia, the Noah figure Utnapishtim was instructed by
the god Ea ‘to take the beginning, the middle and the end of whatever
was consigned to writing and then to bury it in the City of the Sun at
Sippara’. After the waters of the flood had gone, survivors were
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instructed to make their way to the site of the City of the Sun ‘to search
for the writings’, which would be found to contain knowledge of benefit
to future generations of mankind.
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Strangely enough, it was the City of the Sun in Egypt, Innu, known by
the Greeks as Heliopolis—which was regarded throughout the dynastic
period as the source and centre of the high wisdom handed down to
mortal men from the fabled First Time of the gods. It was at Heliopolis
that the Pyramid Texts were collated, and it was the Heliopolitan
priesthood—or rather the Heliopolitan cult—that had custody of the
monuments of the Giza necropolis.

More than just Kilroy was here

Let us return to our scenario:
1 we know that our late twentieth-century, post-industrial civilization is
about to be destroyed by an inescapable cosmic or geological
cataclysm;

2 we know—because our science is pretty good—that the destruction is
going to be near-total;

3 mobilizing massive technological resources, we put our best minds to
work to ensure that at least a remnant of our species will survive the
catastrophe, and that the core of our scientific, medical, astronomical,
geographical, architectural and mathematical knowledge will be
preserved;

4 we are of course aware how slim are our chances of succeeding on
both counts; nevertheless, galvanized by the prospect of extinction,
we make an almighty effort to build the Arks or Vars or strong
enclosures in which the chosen survivors can be protected, and we
focus our considerable ingenuity on ways to transmit the essence of
the knowledge we have accumulated during the 5000 years of our
recorded history.

The Bhagavata Purana, cited in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, p. 88.
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19 Berossus Fragments cited in The Sirius Mystery, p. 249.
20 Ibid.

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