Risen -- Tom Felton

Roman military tribune Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) remains set in his ways after serving 25 years in the army. He arrives at a crossroad when he's tasked to investigate the mystery of what happened to Jesus (Cliff Curtis) following the Crucifixion. Accompanied by trusted aide Lucius (Tom Felton), his quest to disprove rumors of a risen Messiah makes him question his own beliefs and spirituality. As his journey takes him to places never dreamed of, Clavius discovers the truth that he's been seeking.

Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple - The Sixth Door!

Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to god Vishnu maintained by the erstwhile Travancore Royal Family and located inside East Fort in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, South India. The temple is considered to be one of 108 Divya Desams (Holy Abodes), which are principal centres of worship in Vaishnavism. The date of the temple is unknown, but the temple is mentioned in the writings of the Alvars (6th-9th centuries AD), and renovations are thought to have taken place until the 18th century.

The principal deity, Padmanabhaswamy, is a form of Vishnu in "Ananta-sayanam" (Vishnu in the eternal sleep of Yoga-nidra on the serpent Ananta) posture. Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a very ancient temple and the city of Thiruvananthapuram ("Abode of Lord Ananta") derives its name from the name of serpent Ananta.

In July 2011 a review of the temple's underground vaults, by a seven-member panel appointed by the Supreme Court of India, was begun. Estimates suggested that the temple could be the richest in the world; unofficial estimates on the sixth day of the inventory placed the value of contents at close to Indian Rupee symbol.svg100,000 crore (US$22.3 billion). The local rulers (more recently the Travancore Maharajahs) sealed immense riches within the thick stone walls and vaults of the temple, over at least a millennium, as offerings to Lord Padmanabhan.

 Chamber-B

This chamber is being considered by the Trust members and other learned Astrologers of India, as highly mysterious, sacred and risky and dangerous to unveil it. Because the steel door of the Chamber-B is having two big COBRA PORTRAITS on it and this door as no nuts, bolts or other latches. 

It is considered to be fixed to the secret chamber with the ‘NAGA BANDHAM’ or ‘NAGA PAASAM’ ‘MANTRAS’ by the then ‘SIDDA PURASHAS’ who lived during the reign ofKING MARTHANDAVARMA in the 16th CENTURY.

A door of such a secret vault can be opened by a highly erudite ‘SADHUS’ or‘MANTRIKAS’ who are familiar with the knowledge of extricating ‘NAGA BANDHAM’ or‘NAGA PASAM’ by chanting a ‘GARUDA MANTRA’; So except in this way, the door can’t be opened by any means by anyone. At present NO WHERE IN INDIA or in the WORLDsuch a highly sacred and powerful ‘SIDDHAPURSHAS’ or ‘Y0GIS’ or ‘MANTRIKAS’ who does know how to execute highly sacred ‘GARUDA MANTRA’ are EXISTING.

If any human attempts are made with man-made technology to open the mysterious Chamber-B other than by chanting highly sacred and powerful ‘GARUDA MANTRAS’ by a highly sacred ‘SADHUS’ or ‘MANTRIKAS’, catastrophes are likely to occour in and around the Temple premisis or through out India or even through out the world according to VEDIC ASTROLOGERS OF INDIA, who also revealed their inability to open the door by chanting the secret ‘GARUDA MANTRA’.

If ‘GARUDA MANTRA’ is chanted by any powerful ‘SADHU’ or ‘YOGI’ or ‘MANTRIKA’the door proceeds to automatically open and no human effort is needed toopen it in any other way.

Ancestry 

In earlier years Padmanabhaswamy Temple and its properties were controlled by eight powerful Nair feudal lords known as Ettuveetil Pillamar (Lords of the Eight Houses) under the guidance of the Council of Eight and a Half. Later, King Marthanda Varma, the founder of Travancore, successfully suppressed the Ettuveetil Pillais and his cousins. The last major renovation of the Padmanabhaswamy temple was also done by Marthanda Varma. He virtually "dedicated" the kingdom of Travancore to Padmanabha, the deity at the temple, and pledged that he and his descendants would "serve" the kingdom as Padmanabha Dasa, meaning "Servant of the Padmanabha".

The insignia of the Padmanabha, Valampiri Shankhu or Dextral Conch-shell, served as the state emblem of Travancore and it can still be seen on the emblem of Kerala state. Padmanabha is still regarded as regional deity of erstwhile Travancore.

The two annual festivals of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple culminate in a grand procession, in which the three deities (Padmanabha, Narasimha and Krishna) are carried on flower-deck and aesthetically decorated Garuda Vahanas to Shankumugham Beach, for "arattu" (sacramental ablution). The arattu days are declared as local public holidays in Thiruvanathapuram. The Idol is made of Kadusarkkara Yogam, an ayurvedic mixture, with Vishnu sleeping on the serpent Ananta with his head pointing towards south, facing east.

Goseck Circle: The Oldest Known Solar Observatory

In 1991, inspectors from the German government took aerial photographs of a small German town called Goseck and saw something strange.  On the ground, there appeared to be a giant circular ridge hidden beneath a field.  It would take archaeologists 12 years to realize that this ridge was the remains of an ancient solar observatory.  Archaeologists also found the remnants of ritual fires and human bones with cut marks on them indicating that the circle was not just for star gazing but also for human sacrifice.  Curiously, a 3,600 year old bronze disc was discovered just 25 kilometers away from the site and is considered to be the oldest concrete representation of the cosmos.  It shares a striking similarity with Goseck Circle.

Goseck Circle – A Neolithic henge
Goseck Circle or Goseck Henge, is an early Neolithic Henge structure with entrances orientated to the rising and setting solstices.  It was apparently created by Europe's first civilization, long before the cultures of Mesopotamia and the pyramids of Egypt.  Dubbed the German Stonehenge, the structure has been radiocarbon dated to 4900 BC.  Hundreds of similar wooden circular ridges just like it were built during a 200 year period around the same time.  It is one of the best studied of the more than 250 ring ditches identified by aerial surveys throughout Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Croatia.  Previously, archaeologists had thought that these henges might have simply been ancient fortifications.

Constructed by a mysterious culture
The people who built Goseck Circle are known only as the Stroke-Ornamented Ware Culture from the fragments of pottery they left behind.  Various pottery shards belonging to this culture were dug out from the site and date back to around 4700 B.C.  The discovery of the shards also suggests that the site was functional for a period of 200 years and then abandoned.  They represent a transition from Neolithic linear pottery to Stroke-Ornamented Ware Culture.  The jars and bowls had their decorations jabbed into the soft clay with a kind of fork to form zig-zag lines.  Archaeologists know nothing about the appearance or language of the people who built Goseck and can only surmise what their religious beliefs might have been.  Some claim the circle was a calendar that told ancient farmers in the area when it was time to begin counting the days until spring planting.  However, excavations of the 6,000 square-meter site have also found the remains of headless skeletons, human and animal bones, decapitated oxen and ritual fires all pointing towards burial rituals or human sacrifice.

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Connection with the Nebra Sky DiskOne of the most interesting aspects of Goseck Circle is the fact that the roughly 100 degree span between the solstice gates corresponds with an angle on a bronze disk unearthed 25 kilometers (15 miles) away, near the town of Nebra, Germany.  The Nebra Sky Disk, measuring 32 centimeters in diameter, dates from 1600 BC and is the oldest portable representation of the cosmos found to date.  It depicts a crescent moon, a circle that was probably a full moon and a cluster of seven stars interpreted to be the Pleiades constellation as it appeared 3,600 years ago (almost 2,000 years after the Goseck Circle).  Scattered on the object are other stars, three arcs, all picked out in gold leaf from a violet-blue background.

The striking connection between Goseck and the Nebra Sky Disk is the fact that angle formed between the midsummer and midwinter sunrise at Goseck is 82 degrees, exactly the same angle as the horizon lines marked on the Nebra Disk.  Two opposing arcs run along the rim of the disk.  The lowest points are 97.5 degrees apart and signify the sunrise and sunset on the winter solstice in central Germany at the time.  Likewise, the uppermost points mark the sunrise and sunset on the summer solstice.  The sun's position at solstice has shifted slightly over the past millennia, notes Wolfhard Schlosser of the Ruhr University in Bochum, so that the angle between sunrise and sunset is now slightly farther apart than when the Nebra disk and the Goseck circle were made (by 1.6 and 2.8 degrees, respectively).

Puma Punku

Puma Punku (or Puma Pumku), a mysterious site located in Bolivia, has astounded archaeologists. It is part of a larger archaeological complex known as Tiahuanacu, and is considered to be one of the most important sites of Andean history.

An Austrian explorer named Arthur Posnansky performed a study on Puma Punku back in 1926. According to him and his supporters, Puma Punku is considered to be one of the oldest archaeological sites on the face of Earth, dating back to 13,000 BCE. Another group of archaeologists used the (unreliable) carbon dating method to date the site to about 400 AD.

The most intriguing thing about Puma Punku is the stonework. The red sandstone and andesite stones were cut in such a precise way that it’s as if they were cut using a diamond tool, and they can fit perfectly into and lock with each other. Another phenomenon of engineering is that each stone weighs up to 800 tons.  Interviews with modern day stone masons have revealed that even with today’s advanced technology, it would be almost impossible to replicate the precision observed in the stones found at Puma Punka.

According to the local myths, Puma Punku is related to the Gods and the time of the first creation. The legend states that the first inhabitants had supernatural powers and were able to move stones from the ground and carry them through the air using sounds. The Inca tribes accept those legends and deny that their ancestors built it.

It is true that these stones could have been manufactured with either stone or metallic tools, since Andean cultures were skilled with metals. Ropes and wood could have been used to transfer the blocks and put them in place.  Adding to the fact that stones from Puma Punku were later used for churches and houses in nearby cities, the logical assumption that it was built by pre-Andean civilizations becomes stronger.

We still do not have a definite answer as to who the creators of Puma Punku are; however, archaeologists have recently used radar to discover what seems to be an underground chamber. Head archaeologist Domingo Mendoza stated that his team believes the chamber may be a tomb about 10 feet underground.

No excavations have yet been done, but it may answer the question of the site’s origin.

You can read an interesting pre-1900 description of the area here.

Puma Punku is an intriguing place and deserves a visit.

By April Holloway

Ancient Mysteries - Puma Punku in Tiahuanaco
Port Of Puma Punku
Puma Punku
Mystic Places: Tiahuanaco
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Ancient Mysteries - Puma Punku in Tiahuanaco
Port Of Puma Punku
Puma Punku
Mystic Places: Tiahuanaco
- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/puma-punku-002?nopaging=1#sthash.PJ1mCgna.dpuf

10 Mysterious Extinct Human Species

Heidelberg Man:
http://news.discovery.com/history/arc...
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/h...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci...

Java Man:
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Java-man
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man

Homo rudolfensis:
http://archaeologyinfo.com/homo-rudol...
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_ru...

Boskop Man:
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-...
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/...
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Boskop_Man

Denisovans:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/e...
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeolog...
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan

Dmanisi Man:
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences...
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/17/wor...
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blog...
http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Reg...

Penghu Man:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...
http://www.livescience.com/49588-anci...
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/m...
http://www.academia.edu/10399516/Homo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penghu_1

Red Deer Cave People:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/20...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/red...
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2015/12/...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/...

Homo naledi:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/20...
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/10/afr...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/sci...
http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e0...

The Hobbit:
http://www.livescience.com/29100-homo...
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science...
http://www.nature.com/news/the-discov...
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/...

'Planet of the Apes': Scientists believe modern humans lived among other ancient human species

The Evolution and geographic spread of Denisovans as compared with other groups.

By Margot O'Neill 

Modern humans were likely to have been just one human species among many in a real-life version of Planet of the Apes.

Evolutionary scientists believe recent discoveries are rewriting the story of human origins after uncovering new human species and surprising evidence of complex behaviour.

They say at least four other human species survived alongside modern humans and two of them, Neanderthals and Denisovans, interbred with modern humans.

The other archaic human species also believed to have been around at the same time are the 'hobbits' who were discovered in Indonesia, and the Red Deer Cave people from south-west China.

"It's revolutionary and heady stuff," says Darren Curnoe, Associate Professor of biological anthropology and archaeology at University of New South Wales.

"It's changing the narrative of the human evolutionary story very, very quickly."

Associate Professor Curnoe led the team that discovered the remains of the Red Deer People.

While they appear to resemble more archaic human ancestors from 2 million years ago, their bones date back to just 13,000 years ago.

It is now believed that modern humans, or Homo sapiens, emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago and migrated around the globe in multiple waves, settling first in Asia and as far south as Australia before finally getting to Europe about 40,000 years ago.

Associate Professor Curnoe says as new archaeological expeditions focus on Asia, it is likely that more species will be identified.

"Asia has been neglected by archaeologists, but it's an evolutionary cauldron," he said.

This new wave of archaeological finds, combined with new methods of extracting ancient DNA is challenging traditional beliefs about what it means to be human, in particular, the idea that Homo sapiens were intrinsically smarter and more sophisticated than other human species.

It has now been revealed that pre-human species used stone tools 3 million years ago and that early humans like Homo erectus may have carved engravings and engaged in some kind burial practice more than 400,000 years ago.

Associate Professor Curnoe says Neanderthals had brains the same size or even slightly larger than modern humans.

Evidence suggests they used fire and sophisticated hunting weapons, buried their dead, wore jewellery and cared for the weak and elderly.

"Some of this evidence and its interpretation is controversial and is still being debated," he said.
"But I think there's enough new evidence that we should get out of our minds the idea that we were superior, that we were more intelligent or sophisticated than other human species.

"There may be more accidental reasons we are still here and they are not, because they have all gone and we are left alone.

"It might be that we made better use of the DNA they passed on to us. We may have had the mongrel advantage allowing us to survive and thrive."

Genetic testing has shown that non-Africans carry up to 4 per cent of Neanderthal DNA, while Indigenous Australians and Papua New Guineans carry up to 6 per cent of Denisovan DNA.

It is believed that Neanderthals may have passed on red hair and improved immunity.

The Denisovans are believed to have also passed on better immunity as well as providing the gene found in Tibetans for surviving high altitudes.