Lobsang Rampa : SHAMBALLAH’s Gardeners of Earth – LIVING WITH THE LAMAS OF TIBET

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LIVING WITH THE LAMAS OF TIBET
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The Gardeners communicate through suitably
chosen natives such as
Moses, Buddha and Jesus,
who were instructed to institute new religions.
But always the priests perverted
the true teachings for their own power and gain

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tg shares …

Lobsang Rampa wrote in the early 80’s about he and a few other lamas taking a journey into a secret chamber in the chang tang (?) mountains and seeing human bodies being held in stasis and used as vehicles by et’s.

If memory serves me tanaath said that “agartha” was cleaned out because their civilization was responsible for helping to maintain the false reincarnation cycle.

- tg
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The Hermit

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Five years before Sitchin wrote his cult classic The Twelfth Planet, expounding the belief that extraterrestrials had seeded and genetically engineered the human race, Rampa explained the whole process in The Hermit. The story began with a blind old Tibetan hermit imparting his knowledge to “the chosen one”. In his youth he had been abducted by an advanced race who revealed themselves as “the Gardeners of the Earth”.

They took him to another galaxy and performed medical experiments upon his unwilling body, including brain surgery to increase his intelligence. Bluntly they informed him that the Earthlings were a very evil race who threatened to destroy not only themselves but other intelligent life on nearby worlds.
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The Gardeners informed him:

“We travel in universes putting people and animals on many different worlds. You Earthlings have your legends about us; you refer to us as gods of the sky. Now we are to give you information as to the origin of life on Earth… for it is time that people knew the truth of their gods before we initiate the second phase.”

Thie world is the headquarters of a vast empire, where every planet was self-governing but owed allegiance to the Master of the World.

The Gardeners took the monk to an orbiting observatory where nine wise men were in charge of observing the Akashic records of Earth and other worlds. They showed him the history of the world, beginning with a huge comet colliding with a dead world at the centre of the galaxy, sending out gobbets of incandescent gas which eventually became the planets. Two expeditions explored the new worlds while a third dropped biological specimens onto the land and into the seas. Millennia later, a fourth expedition delivered huge dinosaurs to planet Earth. However, after many years the Earth was wobbling on its axis, so a vessel was dispatched to break up the super-continent with a laser beam.

Another expedition brought purple humanoids to the Earth which had eight breasts and long, ape-like arms. They lived in caves and could not use fire, so the Gardeners were forced to exterminate them to make room for more advanced humans. After thousands of years and climate change, these humans developed a mighty civilization. But the Gardeners fraternized too freely with the Earthlings, especially the women. A group stole their technology, attacked them and let off a nuclear device which wreaked havoc upon the Earth, sinking whole cities and continents beneath the oceans.

For centuries the Gardeners stayed away from the irradiated planet but eventually returned with more human and animal specimens, distributing them on different continents. Mankind eventually evolved and built towns and cities, while the supervising Gardeners were worshipped as gods by the Earth inhabitants.

From another galaxy, a warlike race with horny growths on their forehead attacked the empire and laid waste to our solar system. Cataclysmic battles took place in the heavens: atmospheres were blasted away and worlds destroyed. A planet, dislodged from its orbit, struck the Earth, causing a catastrophic loss of life. Only a few humans and animals, aided by the Gardeners, were conveyed to safety in a great ark.

On the Earth, a great ice age developed. The Gardeners now decided to live apart from humans and dwell on mountains. Some inexperienced Gardeners, the “gods of Olympus”, engaged in licentious behavior and were transferred to other worlds. So the Gardeners then decided to communicate only through suitably chosen natives such as Moses, Buddha and Jesus, who were instructed to institute new religions. But always the priests perverted the true teachings for their own power and gain.
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NICHOLAS ROERICH

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The hermit was returned to a comfortable cave in Tibet where he was told a “chosen one” would come many years later to hear his wisdom. The Gardeners decided that even though the auras of the human race were faulty, mankind would be given another chance. However, if humans did not heed such warnings and stop polluting their planet with radioactivity, the Gardeners would be forced to intervene at any time in the future.

Lobsang Rampa wrote extensively of inhabited, underground caverns, tunnels and cities in Twilight, As it Was and “The Subsurface World” chapter of My Visit to Venus. In Twilight, he introduced the topic of the subterranean realm of Agharta (or Agharti) with its capital city Shamballah (or Shambhala) and omnipotent ruler, “the King of the world”.

Tibetan lamas had told him that the thousands of people living underground in Agharta were ruled by “the King of the world”.

The inhabitants of Agharta are believed to possess advanced powers capable of destroying whole areas of the planet, although they choose to live in peace. Roerich, a respected traveler, mystic and Theosophist, also believed in these subterranean lands but was unable to provide any scientific evidence of their existence. In his 1929 book Heart of Asia, his main interest centered on the spiritual dynamics of Shamballah and its importance as a symbol in the coming “New Age” of enlightenment and peace.
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THE GARDENER

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In a booklet titled Agharta (1951), American Buddhist Robert Dickhoff wrote:

“Agharta began some 60,000 years ago when a tribe led by a holy man disappeared underground. The inhabitants were said to number many millions and had a science superior to any found on the surface of the Earth… The few remaining tunnels open to the surface world are in Tibet, Siberia, Africa, South and North America and on remote islands which were once the mountain peaks of Atlantis.”

Rampa was able to study the passages himself, climbing ever downwards through secret doors until he reached a lake which was the remnant of an ancient sea. Years later, he returned to the caverns to undergo the “Ceremony of the Little Death” amongst the mummified bodies of gigantic extraterrestrials who had once walked the Earth as gods.

In Twilight, Rampa introduced Rigden Jyepo, the King of the world who dwells in Shamballah.

“In Tibetan lore there is much mention of Shamballah where the King of all the world lives, the King who is hidden from millions on the surface of the world. Tibetans firmly believe in the King of the world living inside the world, not as some sort of demon but as an extremely good king, a good spiritual ruler who is alive in two planes at once, the physical, where he lives for ever and ever, and the astral plane, where similarly he lives for ever and ever… Tibetans believe that the King of the world gave his first instructions to the first Dalai Lama… who is the outer representative of the inner-world king.” 

The current Dalai Lama has often been asked about Agharta and Shamballah in Tibetan mythology. In a non-committal way, he gave this enigmatic response: “Shamballah exists, yes, but not in any conventional sense.”
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DALAI LAMA

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DISCLOSURE : THE PIT – COVERED UP AGARTHA is being opened … meet the LORD OF THIS WORLD

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SANAT KUMARA

THE DIVINE RIGHT TO RULE … KUMARAS

”Androgenous Serpents”

JUDGING ADAM (HUMANITY)

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CON – FEDERATION OF LIGHT

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The UNDERWORLD and the ABYSS – Both Ruled by “SET” (SANAT) it is said that many of the true bloodlines from SET are sociopath’s and have hard wired Reptilian brains so feel no remorse, forgiveness, love etc. for MANKIND. Set was known in the 1st world as “LORD ABYTH SOL” (Saul), in the second world as “APSU”, in the third as “ANNU” and the 4th world as “AN.” In the 4th world are three Ptolemys the Sumerian, Egyptian and Hebrew coven ages.

We have been subject to many varying experiments over the ages by the Covens of SET.

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THE ”NEW AGE” SAVIOURS

NEW AGE CHANELLERS

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The Great White Brotherhood

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BEHIND THE MASK of ASCENDED MASTERS

INHABITANTS OF THE PIT

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“tall whites” etc…that would be the underworld’s nephilhiem.

They use our dead, as vehicles.

Wear our skin to appear as if they are ‘men’

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CONTACT : DISCLOSURE

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Governments ban commercial airplanes from flying over this area, both the north and south poles,  as they want to protect what is inside our planet.
They say that inside our planet are beautiful forests and oceans…
Tibetan sacred texts speak of a mystical kingdom called Shambhala, hidden behind snow peaks somewhere north of Tibet, where the most sacred Buddhist teachings — the Kalachakra or Wheel of Time — are preserved.
It is prophesied that a future king of Shambhala will come with a great army to free the world from barbarism and tyranny, and will usher in a golden age. Similarly, the Hindu Puranas say that a future world redeemer — the kalki-avatara, the tenth and final manifestation of Vishnu — will come from Shambhala. Both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions say it contains a magnificent central palace radiating a powerful, diamondlike LIGHT.
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THE FALSE LIGHT

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Hamilton, Ohio, located in Symmes’ Park

between 3rd and 4th streets

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Hollow Earth Revealed

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THE ONLY NEW THINGS ARE THOSE

THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN

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Top secret Wikileak government conspiracy

depopulation via fake UFO attacks

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THE Hierarchy of Venus

CULT OF ISIS

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HUMANS ARE NOT THE PARASITES

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WE DON’T FORGET

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”WE REMEMBER”

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WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

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NOT ANGELS OR DEMONS

WORSHIPPED BY THE ELITE

FOR EARTHLY POWER

BADGES AND TRINKETS (BLING)

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AGARTHA MUSIC – INNER EARTH ENTRANCE from the Russian MIR SPACE STATION

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Polar entrance & the powerful Aurora Borealis like energy field that is occurring at the entrance.

This is literally looking into the 5th Dimension from the Russian MIR

ALL PLANETS ARE HOLLOW & inhabited in their inner space: Rare & non-censured images of the other planets of our solar system have been leaked by NASA whistle blowers, clearly revealing large holes at the poles… So this is a natural feature of all planetary bodies seemingly. We must remember that our planet is under occupation from a vile, vicious & insane bunch of highly wealthy & organized criminals. Do the descendants of the great Ages of Light of the far past use Free Energy & antigravity levitation & propulsion, that if it was known, would put an end to the trillions of dollars petroleum economy that is the life blood of this secret cabal mafia.

At the core of every Galaxy, Sun, Planet, and Moon is a Black Hole. In fact it is now known that our Universe is one massive Black Hole. The theory is Black Holes are portals to other worlds and parts of the universe. So it may be possible that our earth is not hollow but harnesses a gateway to another planet. Like Andromeda, Plaiades, Tau Ceti, or whatever… Nasa has images of orbs flying in and out of earth orbit.

The sun itself is used as a dimensional portal where planetoid size UFO access our solar system and enter back into the sun… What is for sure, & is not a theory, is that what we called our science, is in a very infantile stage stage of development. Our pseudo pretend science is deeply censored & perverted by the Cabal, so great discoveries like zero point energy remains censored, & that the genius scientists who still discover it despite all the blockages, receive death threats & their childs & family also, or are killed by the secret service if they dare talk about their discovery.

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MUSIC from INNER EARTH
coming from secret cave in Tibet

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MUSIC from INNER EARTH coming from secret cave in Tibet, recorded by Russian team. This mysterious Celestial Music has started to sound very recently. This is a very secret cave where Monks go meditate since centuries, but there was never any music coming from it before. This Music is part of the intense Dimensional transmutation work going on between the Soul of the Planet, & the INNER EARTH kingdom of Agartha. New high power SOUND frequency technology is generating this Music & healing Earth while the transmutation of the negative energies are modulating themselves into Light.

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TECHNOLOGY ?

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VRIL ENERGY ?

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Abzu ?

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The PIT calling the kettle BLACK I'd say

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Bunch of ''Igigi gods'' are tricksters

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THE GALACTIC CON FEDERATION OF LIGHT

ARE THE SAVIOURS OF HUMANITY

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I DON'T THINK SO

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 - HATTER

HOLLOW EARTH ATLANTIS ORIGINS OF HUMANS ... MAHABHARATA ... ET'S ILLUMINATI NWO CONNECTION

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Humans still recognized that they're a part of god on earth and nothing exists separately from god. They were conscious that if they were a part of the creational spirit, which has been materialized for millions of years, they had to possess in themselves dormant, the almighty powers waiting to be awakened. Thousands of years ago the gods came down to Earth from the stars to initiate a genesis. Human civilization was formed and reached a peak with Atlantis.

A dark age began and the battle of Atlantean gods led to its fall. A secret brotherhood brought Atlantean secret teachings before the fall to Egypt. Through all civilizations and with inspiration from extraterrestrial guards the secret Atlantean brotherhood managed all political systems with an educational mission.

Following the catastrophe in Atlantis all nations were dispersed. A part of the Atlantean brotherhood's secret knowledge survived in Egypt, in India and in Tibet. The heirs of these secret brotherhoods led mankind during the dark age...through Atlantean knowledge and through all ages.

Atlantean secret knowledge tells us the legend of mankind and those souls, who have to undergo cycles. With the fall of Atlantis a high civilization cycle had ended. All prophecies and more recent Earth changes point out that today's mankind has reached the end of the next experience cycle.

Millenniums have passed... since the high culture of Atlantis sank with a catastrophe through power abuse of some corrupt scientists. All humans of that time, who also experienced the descent into the dark age, are being reincarnated today.

For millenniums the secrets of creation were exclusively limited to an elite of secret societies. Now we have entered the so-called Last Days where these secret societies like the Freemasons and the secret political lodges lose their power.

DAWN OF THE GODS

SECRET OF THE BROTHERHOOD

SECRET PROPHECIES

RETURN OF THE LIGHT MASTERS

BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 1

BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 2

ALIEN CITIES UNDERGROUND HOLLOW EARTH AND PLASMA BEINGS

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HOLLOW EARTH

The Hollow Earth hypothesis says that the planet Earth is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has long been contradicted by overwhelming observational evidence, as well as by the modernunderstanding of planet formation. The scientific community has dismissed the notion since at least the late 18th century.

The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as the premise for subterranean fiction, a subgenre of adventure fiction. 

Earth's Subterranean Dwellers

Not extraterrestrial but terrestrial, i.e., inhabiting the Earth for tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years, and possibly living here before humanoids. They are not aliens, they are not extraterrestrials, but they are one of Earths’ earliest occupants.

Massive subterranean colonies found worldwide; these beings not able to survive on Earth’s surface for any length of time and therefore come out mostly at night but they can and do appear during the day but not for a very long length of time. Apparently Earth’s surface climate is not suitable for them, therefore the subterranean caverns around the world.

There are many different varieties and mutations of these underground dwellers.

Alien Base Appears Then Vanishes

A man named Red Elk is one of the only people alive known to have ever seen the mysterious hole.

A Native American Shaman, or medicine man, Red Elk said his dad first showed him the hole in 1961.

"He said 'This is an endless hole,'" Red Elk said.

Red Elk's been back many times and said strange things happen every time he goes near it.

"People get it confused with what I call the devil's hole," he said.

Many locals claim to know about the hole, but it didn't become phenomena until 1997, when Mel Waters went on the Coast to Coast radio show with Art Bell.

"I brought the dogs with me." Waters said on the show. "They wouldn't go anywhere near the damn thing."

Waters said the hole had a three-foot stone wall around it.

It seemed bottomless to him, so he used an old shark fisherman's trick -- sending thousands of feet of fishing line down.

"What I did, was I sent down a roll of lifesavers," he said. "So when it hit water the lifesavers would dissolve."

But the lifesavers came back up whole -- no water -- so how deep was this hole?

Waters said he believed it descended miles into the earth and he heard strange stories about its powers.

"One guy claims that he threw his departed canine down into the hole," he said. "He swears the dog actually came back to him."

Red Elk said it was when Waters went public that the trouble began.

"Now I'm going public on this. And that could land me in a pile of junk," he said.

Red Elk claims the government has a secret base there.

"An underground base, a very small, underground base," he said.

That's how Red Elk explains the white boxes covering the area on some satellite images.

He also said he's seen "alien activity" in the area.

"A huge space craft, one, will appear and hover over the hole," he said.

That's what he said happens during Summer Solstice, when space men load and unload things at the hole before flying away.

At the Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore, Phil Lipson said he's heard the stories.

"Well, I believe there is a hole," Lipson said.

But Lipson's never seen the hole, even though he's led expeditions to find it.

"I think it's actually a true event just something that's never been totally uncovered," he said.

And to this day, no one's been able to find it, since that famous radio conversation.

PLASMA BEINGS

Drunvalo Melchizedec

He works with the angels, with prana and energy. Drunvalo has expressed that healing in these areas are of extreme importance, for the difficulties with one's own body, often stops us from continuing on our spiritual path. His research on the 3rd dimension with natural products and methods to help heal Mother Earth and all life forms is also a major focus in his life.

ANT PEOPLE ... Underground Species and the Hollow Earth

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A Hopi Legend

The First People of Tokpela, the First World, were safely sheltered underground as fire rained down upon the earth. Volcanoes and fire storms destroyed all that was above them until the earth, the waters, and the air itself was all elemental fire.

While this was going on, the people lived happily underground with the Ant People. Their homes were just like the people's homes on the earth-surface being destroyed. There were rooms to live in and rooms where they stored their food. There was light to see by too. The tiny bits of crystal in the sand of the anthill had absorbed the light of the sun, and using the inner vision of the center located behind the eyes they could see by its reflection very well.

Only one thing troubled them: the food had begun to run short.

It had not taken Sótuknang long to destroy the world, nor would it take him long to create another one. But it was taking a long time for the First World to cool off before a Second World could be created. That was why the food was running short.

"Do not give us so much of the food you have worked so hard to gather and store," the people said.

"You are our guests," the Ant people said, "What we have is yours also." So the Ant people continued to deprive themselves of food in order to supply their guests. Every day, they tied their belts tighter and tighter, and this is why ants today are so small around the waist.

Finally, that which had been the First World cooled off. Sótuknang purified it. Then he began to create the Second World. He changed its form completely, putting land where there was water and water where there was land so that the people upon their emergence would have nothing to remind them of the previous wicked world.

When all was ready, he came to the roof of the Ant kiva, stamped on it, and gave his call. Immediately the Chief of the Ant People went up to the opening and rolled back the núta (the straw hatch that covered the opening to the kiva). "Yung-ai! Come in! You are welcome!" he called.

Sótuknang spoke first to the Ant People. "I am thanking you for doing your part in helping to save these people. It will always be remembered, this you have done, The time will come when another world will be destroyed, and when the wicked people know their last day on earth has come, they will sit by an anthill and cry for the ants to save them. Now, having fulfilled your duty, you may go forth to this Second World and take your place as ants."

Then Sótuknang said to the people, "Make your emergence now to the Second World I have created. It is not quite as beautiful as the First World, but it is beautiful just the same. You will like it. So multiply and be happy. But remember your creator and the laws he gave you. When I hear you sing joyful praises to him I will know you are my children, and you will be close to me in your hearts."

So the people emerged to the second world. Its mane was Tokpa (Dark Midnight). Its direction was south, its color blue, its mineral was qöchásive (silver). Chiefs upon it were salvi (spruce), kwáhu (eagle), and kolíchiyaw (skunk).

It was a big land, and the people multiplied rapidly, spreading over it to all directions, even to the other side of the world. This did not matter, for they were so close together in spirit they could see and talk to each other from the center on top of the head. Because this door was still open, they felt close to Sótuknang and they sang joyful praises to the Creator, Taiowa.

They did not have the privilege of living with the animals, though, for the animals were wild and kept apart. Being separated from the animals, the people tended to their own affairs. They built homes, then villages and trails between them. They made things with their hands and stored food like the Ant People. Then they began to trade and barter with one another.

THE HOLLOW EARTH

THE ANT PEOPLE (GREYS) FROM ORION

Inca Creation myth

"Viracocha rose from Lake Titicaca (or sometimes the cave of Pacaritambo) during the time of darkness to bring forth light. He made the sun, moon, and the stars. He made mankind by breathing into stones, but his first creation were brainless giants that displeased him. So he destroyed it with a flood and made a new, better one from smaller stones. Viracocha eventually disappeared across the Pacific Ocean (by walking on the water), and never returned. 

Every underground base has emergency ventilation shafts. They are large and metallic.

When air rushes out of them it's just like blowing a trumpet. Same process, only a lot deeper sounding.

The purpose for them doing this seems to be to create mass panic and fear. It is a powerful sign of how close the NWO are to being defeated.

..... DAVID WILCOCK

The Anthills of Orion: Ancient Star Beings of the Hopi 

Who are the Ant People?

All across the American Southwest we find petroglyphs (rock carvings) or pictographs (rock paintings) depicting entities with spindly bodies, large eyes, and bulbous heads that sometimes project antennae. These eerie figures are frequently shown in a "prayer stance," their elbows and knees positioned at right angles, similar to the ant's bent legs.

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Ancestral Hopi petroglyph located in northern Arizona

Do these rock drawings represent a race of Ant People? Do they actually record ancient encounters between humans and an alien species? Are the creatures truly "alien," like those of the 1947 UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico? Or are they some crypto-biological anomaly native to our planet? If not, then are they merely psychological manifestations -- creations of the collective unconscious? Let's examine the evidence.

Linguistic Evidence

"Those that are of Orion" is the apparent meaning of the term Nephilim from Genesis 6:4 of the New English Bible. Masonic researchers Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas claim that the root Aramaic word nephÓli‚ is one name for the constellation. The Nephilim, of course, are familiar to readers of Zecharia Sitchin. This prolific scholar translates the Sumerian root NFL (not the American football league!) as "...those who were cast down upon the Earth!" The King James version calls them "giants in the earth." Just before the great flood "the sons of the gods," interpreted as either fallen angels or the Watchers, mated with "the daughters of men" to produce these giants. It may be more than a coincidence that Nephilim sounds much like the Hebrew word nemãlãh, which means ant. In this case, morphology rather than size is the primary factor.

If the Nephilim are indeed "of Orion," the Ant People could actually be those who were cast down from the skies, perhaps from Orion itself.

Because the constellation rises due east, one might think that the name Orion was derived from the word orient. In actuality, it is formed by dropping the initial "m" in the Indo-European stem morui. Astoundingly, this word means ant. Perhaps the constellation was so named because its narrow, anthropomorphic waist suggests the insect.

The Hopi term for Orion is HotÚmqam, which literally means either "to string up" (as beads on a string) or "trey." This could refer to the three stars of Orion's belt but also to the tripartite form of the ant: head, thorax, and abdomen. These shiny, bead-like sections of the ant's body may have their celestial counterpart in what the Hopi consider the most important constellation in the heavens. The appearance of Orion through the overhead hatchways of Hopi kivas (semi-subterranean prayer chambers) still synchronizes many annual sacred ceremonies.

Kiva at San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. Ancient Hopi 

kivas were round like this but later became rectangular

As Above...

When Orion dominates winter skies, the ants are deep in their own "kivas" (hills). Although this seems contradictory, the zenith and the nadir are actually one shamanistic axis comprising the Underworld. Two separate realms exist in the Hopi cosmology: the surface of the earth as the site of human activity and a combined sky/underground region as the home of the spirits, in particular the kachinas. (For the Hopi a kachina is a masked spirit that can assume the form of any physical object, phenomenon, or living being.)


Both the ant mound with its dark tunnels and the kiva with its sipapuni (a hole in the floor symbolically linking it to the Underworld) embody the nether plane. This paradoxically arches upward across the skies to serve as home to the star spirits.

Figure adapted from an illustration by Petra Roeckerath, 

Stories of Maasaw, A Hopi God, Ekkehart Malotki 

and Michael Lomatuway'ma, University of 

Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1987

The Hopi god of death, the earth, and the Underworld is named Masau'u. Like the ants, he possesses knowledge of both the surface of the earth and the chthonic regions. He wears a mask with large open eye-holes and a large mouth. His huge, bald head resembles a summer squash, and his forehead bulges out in a ridge. His feet are long as a forearm, and his body is gray. This color is essential, since his name comes from the Hopi word maasi, meaning gray. In fact, this description from Hopi mythology is uncomfortably close to contemporary images of extraterrestrial Greys.

Masau'u is also the terrestrial equivalent of Orion, whose name, as we said, means ant. The Hopi believe that distances are insignificant to Masau'u because he can traverse the entire earth before morning comes. What better way to express Orionís movement from the eastern to the western horizon during the night?

The Hopi word for ant is anu. In the same language naki means friend, prayer feathers, food offerings, or sand--a nexus of concepts pertaining to this insect that sometimes flies. A combination of the two words (anu-naki, or "ant friend") may be related to Sitchinís Anunnaki. The Babylonian sky god was also named Anu. One Sumerian cylinder seal from around 2250 B.C. shows the pantheon of primary deities wearing peaked hats. The Hopi sky god Sotuknang, closely associated with the earth god Masau'u, also wears a pointed headdress. Like their Middle Eastern counterparts, these American Indian divinities were present at the creation of the universe and continued to be instrumental in the cultureís development.

Anu (or Danu) was also the appellation of the Celtic mother goddess and patroness of the dead. In addition, Anu was another name for the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, where the benben stone of meteoric iron was kept. Furthermore, the Egyptian word anu meant not only products, revenues, or something brought in but also gifts, tributes, and offerings. This refers to both the ants' ability to store provisions and the reverence given to the Ant People. In any case, their influence is global.

Mythological Evidence

Ants played a crucial role in the survival of the ancient Hopi. The Ant People's great kiva provided sanctuary during both the destruction of the First World, or First Era, by fire (volcanism or asteroids) and the Second World by ice (glaciers). Only the virtuous members of the tribe following a certain cloud by day and a certain star by night were able to find the sky god Sotuknang. He elected to save these migrating "chosen people" by leading them to the Ant People for protection.Ants are portrayed as generous and industrious, offering the Hopi sustenance when supplies ran short and teaching them the merits of food storage. In fact, ants have such thin waists today, the legend goes, because they once deprived themselves of provisions. In another account of the earliest eras, the Hopi themselves are described as ants when they were "way underneath." The word underneath refers to both the Ant Kiva and the subterranean First and Second Worlds. The previous Third World destroyed by a flood is also conceptualized as being below ground, whereas our present Fourth World is on the Earth's surface.

According to a rather brutal Hopi myth of "Why the Ants Are So Thin," many ants were living east of Toko'navi, or Navaho Mountain near the Arizona/Utah border. These insects are described not in the allegorical manner of an Aesop fable but in an almost humanoid way. During a Kachina Society initiation, two ants had dressed up as fierce, giant Hu kachinas and flogged the ant children so hard that they were almost cut through in the middle of their bodies, hence their slenderness. Is this yet another reference to "giants in the earth?"

Ants are also associated with either warfare or hunting. The Hopi believe that both traits are related to Orion in particular and stars in general. This tribe also connects black ants with witchcraft. The Hopi word Tokoíanu (similar to the mountain's name) literally means flesh ant, the large dark red ant with a painful sting. On the other hand, the Red Ant Society of the Zuni, a tribe that lives near the Hopi, is associated with healing.

In Mesoamerica the Maya, who share many cultural traits with the Hopi, tell legends of ant-like men building stone cities and roads during the First Creation (World). These peculiar beings possessed magical powers and could summon stones into proper architectural positions by just whistling.

Archaeologist J. Eric S. Thompson writes: "Zayamuincob can be translated as 'the twisted men' or 'the disjointed men,' suggesting a connection with 'hunchback.' The word may also be connected with zay, 'ant,' for there is also a Yucatec [Yucatan Maya] tradition of an ancient race called chac zay uincob, 'red ant men.' They were industrious like the ants which take out the red earth and make straight roads through the forest."

The reference to hunchback reminds us of Koko Pilau (Kokopelli), the humpback flute player. This is the ubiquitous, insect-like fertility figure of Southwest petroglyphs.

Kokopelli petroglyph at Homolovi State Park near Winslow, Arizona

Celestial Anthills

Each February the Hopi perform the Bean Dance inside their kivas. The fires are kept continuously ablaze, turning these underground structures into superb hot houses. This ritual may commemorate a time when the Ant People taught the Hopi how to sprout beans inside caverns in order to survive. The Hu kachinas previously mentioned are an integral part of this ceremony to initiate children into the Kachina Society.Ants resonate deep in our psyches as archetypal denizens of dual worlds: the earth plane and the Underworld. Both linguistic and mythological evidence indicates, however, that the image of ant-like anthropoids is more than a psychological reaction to the tiny Formicidae of the natural world. Why else would the mass media consistently give ETs the characteristics of bugs? Unlike the vague phantasms of dreams, Ant People appear terrifyingly real.

If these creepy creatures are an extinct or isolated terrestrial species like Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster, we have yet to uncover any fossil or skeletal evidence of their past existence.

Were the Ant People (nem‚l‚h) actually the progeny (called Nephilim) of women who mated with rebel angels? Did an emissary from Orion, whose name means ant, come to Arizona in order to become Masau'u, the ant-like god of the Hopi? Were the Ant People willing to save the virtuous humans from two different natural cataclysms because the former saw the genetic reflection of themselves in the latter? Were the kiva-like caves in which the Hopi found refuge really the anthills of ancient star beings? These questions may in the end be unanswerable. Nevertheless, the implications keep us intrigued.

Petroglyph at Cottonwood Creek Ruin near Homolovi State Park