In the Colorado Desert there are some famous remains of a great past civilization.
These remains have been a puzzle to scientists, but they merely substantiate the, old tale of ancient man and his original habitat. The Colorado Desert, like the Oregon and most other deserts, was once fertile land made waterless by the raising of the mountains.
It is conclusively proved, however, that the people who lived where the Colorado Desert now stands lived there before the western mountain ranges were raised.
Nebraska
Professor R.W. Gilder, of Omaha, Nebraska, has made one of the most remarkable and valuable archaeological
discoveries ever made in any part of the world. His discovery shows uncontrovertibly that man was living in North America, in a highly civilized state, back in the Tertiary Era.
Gilder has discovered a civilization that was wiped out by the waters of the Last Magnetic Cataclysm, which was the Biblical "Flood" and the geological Glacial Period.
Gilder reports that "the familiar buffalo wallows of the West were never made by buffaloes; they are, instead, the entrances to ruins of underground dwellings, in which, thousands of years ago, lived a race which has vanished from the earth. There is no indication of who the people were or how they were wiped out."
Among the ruins of these long-filled burrows Gilder has found various works of art of the vanished race. Fig. 1. Is a glazed clay pipe (see halftones).
Fig. 2. Is a fishhook made of bone.
Fig. 3. Is a clay face with prominently sloping eyes.
Fig. 4. Is a small pink soapstone head. Gilder says of it: "The pink head is Egyptian in every feature. It is delicately carved and highly polished. It is Egyptian in headdress, having even the rectangular ear-guards worn by the Egyptians. It is more than Egyptian; it resembles the face of Ramses II himself, if the marble busts in Oriental museums today are images of the Egyptian king."
Fig. 5. Is an ornament made of shell. Fig. 6. Is a comb made of elk-horn.
"The floors of these underground burrows are strewn with charred sticks, reeds, coarse grasses and corncobs. In the floor of every cave is found a cache, where most of the domestic utensils and other valuables were kept hidden. Sometimes there are several in the same cave. The mouths of the caches are always found plugged with layers of burnt clay. On top of this is a layer of ashes. Beneath all, the cavity widens like a jug or bottle, often the size of a hogshead."
These artificial caves were filled in with the soil and drift torn up by the waves of the cataclysm as they rolled down over the plains. In time this filling packed and left a hollow at the entrance, which has been called a "buffalo wallow."
Gilder's civilization was wiped out by the last magnetic cataclysm. Therefore, it was a Tertiary Era civilization.
Kentucky
In Kentucky are the remains of a civilization that was contemporaneous with Gilder's Nebraska civilization.
At Blue Lick Springs, several years ago, an excavation was being made. Twelve feet below the surface of the ground the workmen came across the bones of a mastodon; farther down, they found a stratum of gravel, and underneath the gravel,
a stone pavement. The stones forming this pavement had been quarried. Their upper surfaces had been cut and dressed, while their lower sides were in the rough.
The mastodon in this excavation belonged to the Pleistocene Period, as it lay above the gravel. The gravel was formed by the waters of the last magnetic cataclysm, and the stone pavement, being below the gravel, shows that this civilization, like Gilder's, was a Tertiary Era civilization.
George W. Ranck, the Kentucky historian, in his History of Lexington, wrote:
"The city now known as Lexington, Kentucky, is built of the dust of a dead metropolis of a lost race, of whose name, and language, and history not a vestige is left. Even the bare fact of the existence of such a city, and such a people, on the site of the present Lexington, would never have been known but for the rapidly decaying remnants of ruins found by early pioneers and adventurers to the 'Elk-horn lands.' But that these remains of a great city and a mighty people did exist, there can be not the shadow of a doubt.
"Who, then, were these mysterious beings? From whence did they come? What were the forms of their religion and government? These are questions that will probably never be solved by mortal man, but that they lived and flourished centuries before the Indian, who can doubt? Here they erected their Cyclopean temples and cities, with no vision of the red men who would come after them, and chase the deer and the buffalo over their leveled and grass-covered walls.
Here they lived, and labored, and died, before Columbus had planted the standard of old Spain upon the shores of a new world; while Gaul, and Britain, and Germany were occupied by roving tribes of barbarians, and, it may be, long before imperial Rome had reached the height of her glory and splendor. But they had no literature and when they died they were utterly forgotten.
They may have been a great people, but it is all the same to those who came if they were or not, for their greatness was never recorded. They trusted in the mighty works of their hands, and now, indeed, are they a dead nation and a lost race."
True, the mighty works of their hands, so far as buildings are concerned, "are one with Nineveh and Tyre," but their hands left other records upon the imperishable rocks, and it is by these records we may identify them as colonizers from Mu, the Motherland.
Therefore, by the foregoing facts that I have recorded about discoveries in North America, we have positive proofs that the whole of western North America was peopled by highly civilized races during the latter part of the Tertiary Era and before the geological Glacial Period.
Hundreds of rock writings, confirmed by many legends, also tell us that these first civilizations of North America came from a country called Mu, and that,
"Mu lay to the west of America, beyond the horizon of the great water."
This is positive because the Nebraskan and Kentucky civilizations have now been shown to have existed during the Pliocene Period.
Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico show us civilizations that existed before the mountains were raised. As these civilizations antedate the mountains, they also went back into the Tertiary Period.
How far back into the Tertiary Era they went is not known, as no date has so far come to light to tell us. It remains an open question.
Cliff Dwellers' Guide Posts in Three Forms of Writing
Fig. 1. Arizona. Directions about an overland trail Fig. 2. New Mexico. Directions, land trail
Fig. 3. Utah. Directions, land and water route to a settlement. Not the same people as either I or 2
Those ancient dwellers in our western states known as Cliff Dwellers were represented by several distinct tribes and it is possible that, instead of being merely tribes, the were distinct nationalities.
I surmise this from their rock writings and rock paintings, which show that different tongues were spoken. The writings are also in varying forms of symbols and alphabets.
A close examination discloses that some of the rock writings and pictures that have been assigned to the Cliffs Dwellers of North America are thousands of years older than others which appear within a stone's throw of them. These very ancient writings and pictures were executed before the mountains were raised, which is proved by the fact that some of the rocks on which they are written are fractured and displaced.
In some instances the fracture divides the writing, and in others, characters are found that have been split in two, one part appearing on one side of the fracture and the remainder on the other. This indicates that the rock was fractured and displaced as the ground was being elevated. Other writings as clearly reveal that they were written after the land was elevated.
It is impossible to give here a detailed account of rock writings and rock pictures of North America. I have been compelled to confine myself to a few that cover two important points: First, those that give an approximate date of the civilization; second, those that tell us the origin of the people, where they came from, and how they came to America.
to the Cliff Dwellers were probably written by people who were not Cliff Dwellers at all.
That the Cliff Dwellers came from Mu is certain, for every one of their pictures that are used as guide-posts contains a reference to Mu.
In fact, the rock writings and pictures of the Cliff Dwellers, except those drawn for artistic effect, are permeated with references to Mu, both before and after her submersion. In addition to this, they invariably used the symbols that were in vogue in the Motherland.
Among the rock writings I have found four different branches of the Maya language that were in use; also the evidence that these ancient Americans used three differently arranged alphabets.