Thursday Excerpt

ARRIVAL TO HYPEREARTH

The girls found themselves walking through what seemed to be the outskirts of a village, along the main road, but without a person in sight.

“This place gives me the shivers,” Mary commented. Suddenly, to their surprise, the two girls caught site of people motionless all around them—some on the street, some on the sidewalk.

“They seem to have been turned into statues!” Mary remarked.

As they examined the human statues, they suddenly heard the low but firm voice of a man dressed in a dark coat and hat. “What are you doing here? Are you crazy? Do you want to end up like these people? Come here!” Shocked, the girls abided by his advice and followed him into his house.

“What’s wrong?” Mary asked.

“Hmm, where are you from? Sathon the sorcerer has cast a spell on these people and you can’t go outside. If he sees you, he’ll turn you both into pillars of black stone!” It was only at that point that the man decided to introduce himself. “My name is Ron Mulley,” he said with a bow, taking off his hat. “And I know how Sathon can be cheeky!”

“Sorry, sir! We didn’t know. We’re new here,” Martina replied.

“And where do you come from? Another dimension?” Mulley asked.

The girls looked at each other, feeling awkward. “Well, we are from Earth.”

“Aha, I knew it! People on Earth are careless and superficial, and it’s been a long time since we met one.”

“What an arrogant man,” Martina whispered to Mary.

“What was that?” Mulley asked in suspicion.

“Nothing, nothing,” Mary insisted.

“Well, let me bring you to Bear. He knows about people from the dimension of Earth. Follow me,” Mulley instructed.

The girls followed him into a cellar and then through a well-lit tunnel. “When Sathon turns wicked, we move into these tunnels,” Mulley remarked. They arrived at a door displaying a carving of two wolves, and as the door opened, a towering man with a giant moustache appeared. It was Bear. Mulley showed the girls to a couple of chairs to sit down, and then left them.

“I’m Bear Kolos. First of all, I want to tell you congratulations! It’s been a long time since people from Earth came this far.”

“Nice to meet you Bear,” Martina responded, polite but still apprehensive of their surroundings. “I’m Martina and this is Mary.”

“You’ll see that this dimension is a bit different from Earth, but you’ll get used to it,” Bear said in a friendly tone.

“Get used to it? But we already want to go home!” Martina answered resolutely.

 

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The mysterious Annunaki

The Legend of the Anunnaki and Planet Nibiru

The Anunnaki (also transcribed as: Anunna, Anunnaku, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian deities.
Zecharia Sitchin was an Azeri-born American author of books promoting an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he states was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune, called Nibiru.
He believed this hypothetical planet of Nibiru to be in an elongated, elliptical orbit in the Earth's own Solar System, asserting that Sumerian mythology reflects this view. Sitchin's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 25 languages.

Sitchin's theories are not accepted by scientists and academics who dismiss his work as pseudohistory and pseudoscience Sitchin's work has been criticized for flawed methodology and mistranslations of ancient texts as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific claims.
Similarly to earlier authors such as Immanuel Velikovsky and Erich von Däniken, Sitchin advocated theories in which extraterrestrial events supposedly played a significant role in ancient human history.
According to Sitchin's interpretation of Mesopotamian iconography and symbology, outlined in his 1976 book "The 12th Planet" and its sequels, there is an undiscovered planet beyond Neptune that follows a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system roughly every 3,600 years. This planet is called Nibiru.
According to Sitchin, Nibiru (whose name was replaced with MARDUK in original legends by the Babylonian ruler of the same name in an attempt to co-opt the creation for himself, leading to some confusion among readers) collided catastrophically with Tiamat (a goddess in the Babylonian creation myth the Enûma Eliš), which he considers to be another planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.

This collision supposedly formed the planet Earth, the asteroid belt, and the comets. Sitchin states that when struck by one of planet Nibiru's moons, Tiamat split in two, and then on a second pass Nibiru itself struck the broken fragments and one half of Tiamat became the asteroid belt.
The second half, struck again by one of Nibiru's moons, was pushed into a new orbit and became today's planet Earth.
According to Sitchin, Nibiru (called "the twelfth planet" because, Sitchin claimed, the Sumerians' gods-given conception of the Solar System counted all eight planets, plus Pluto, the Sun and the Moon) was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis.
He wrote that they evolved after Nibiru entered the solar system and first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals, especially gold, which they found and mined in Africa.
Sitchin states that these "gods" were the rank-and-file workers of the colonial expedition to Earth from planet Nibiru.

Sitchin wrote that Enki suggested that to relieve the Anunnaki, who had mutinied over their dissatisfaction with their working conditions, that primitive workers (Homo sapiens) be created by genetic engineering as slaves to replace them in the gold mines by crossing extraterrestrial genes with those of Homo erectus.
According to Sitchin, ancient inscriptions report that the human civilization in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of these "gods," and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki (creating the "divine right of kings" doctrine).
Sitchin believes that fallout from nuclear weapons, used during a war between factions of the extraterrestrials, is the "evil wind" described in the Lament for Ur that destroyed Ur around 2000 BC. Sitchin states the exact year is 2024 BC.
Sitchin says that his research coincides with many biblical texts, and that biblical texts come originally from Sumerian writings./p>
Criticism of Sitchin's work falls primarily into three categories: 1) translations and interpretations of ancient texts, 2) astronomical and scientific observations, and 3) literalism of myth.

When Sitchin wrote his books only specialists could read the Sumerian language, but sources such as the 2006 book Sumerian Lexicon, have made the language more accessible to non-experts.
Ancient language scholar Michael S. Heiser, states that he has found many inaccuracies in Sitchin's translations and challenges interested parties to use this book to check their validity.
Prof. Ronald H. Fritze, author of the book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions," mentions the example of Sitchin's claim that the Sumerian sign Din-Gir means "pure ones of the blazing rockets," adding that "Sitchin's assignment of meanings to ancient words is tendentious and frequently strained."
Fritze also commented on Sitchin's methodology, writing that "When critics have checked Sitchin's references, they have found that he frequently quotes out of context or truncates his quotes in a way that distorts evidence in order to prove his contentions. Evidence is presented selectively and contradictory evidence is ignored."

Sitchin bases his arguments on his personal interpretations of pre-Nubian and Sumerian texts, and the seal VA 243. Sitchin wrote that these ancient civilizations knew of a twelfth planet, when in fact they only knew five. Hundreds of Sumerian astronomical seals and calendars have been decoded and recorded, and the total count of planets on each seal has been five.
Seal VA 243 has 12 dots that Sitchin identifies as planets. When translated, seal VA 243 reads "You're his Servant" which is now thought to be a message from a nobleman to a servant. According to semitologist Michael S. Heiser, the so-called sun on Seal VA 243 is not the Sumerian symbol for the sun but is a star, and the dots are also stars.
The symbol on seal VA 243 has no resemblance to the hundreds of documented Sumerian sun symbols.
In a 1979 review of The Twelfth Planet, Roger W. Wescott, Prof. of Anthropology and Linguistics at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, noted Sitchin's amateurishness with respect to the primacy of the Sumerian language.
Sitchin's linguistics seems at least as amateurish as his anthropology, biology, and astronomy. On p. 370, for example, he maintains that "all the ancient languages . . . including early Chinese . . . stemmed from one primeval source -- Sumerian."
Sumerian, of course, is the virtual archetype of what linguistic taxonomists call a language-isolate, meaning a language that does not fall into any of the well-known language-families or exhibit clear cognation with any known language.
Even if Sitchin is referring to written rather than to spoken language, it is unlikely that his contention can be persuasively defended, since Sumerian ideograms were preceded by the Azilian and Tartarian signaries of Europe as well as by a variety of script-like notational systems between the Nile and Indus rivers.

Sumerian literature is the literature written in the Sumerian language during the Middle Bronze Age. Most Sumerian literature is preserved indirectly, via Assyrian or Babylonian copies.
The Sumerians invented the first writing system, by about the 30th century developing Sumerian cuneiform writing out of earlier proto-writing systems. The earliest literary texts appear from about the 27th century BC.
The Sumerian language remained in official and literary use in the Akkadian and Babylonian empires, even after the spoken language disappeared from the population; literacy was widespread, and the Sumerian texts that students copied heavily influenced later Babylonian literature.
Sumerian literature has not been handed down to us directly, rather it has been rediscovered through archaeology. Nevertheless, the Akkadians and Babylonians borrowed much from the Sumerian literary heritage, and spread these traditions throughout the Middle East, influencing much of the literature that followed in this region, including the Bible.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Hello writers and readers, 

I would like to wish Happy St.Patricks day to my U.K.and Irish fellows and also to the north America ones! 
We don't celebrate it in Italy, but I know it is a tradition holiday that Irish and Americans like to celebrate over English too.  

Since i like to write fantasy stories and books, i like the phrase "Luck of the Irish"  and that when end the rainbow you can find a glod pot ! 
And also the shamrock is a sign of luck (most for me) also if according to legend, Saint Patrick used the three-leaved shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish pagans.   

Monday Excerpt

Hello writers and readers, 

Here is another excerpt about my book Hyperearth: 

“It’s Darden!” Kestrel exclaimed, trembling in fear.

“One of Sathon’s relatives, maybe?” Martina asked softly.

“Yes,” Kestrel replied, still shaking. “He was his grandfather, and was the most evil of the whole lineage.” Martina approached him to try to calm him a bit.

Meanwhile, the noise persisted. Mary called Martina over. “Look at this! The drawer under the puzzle is moving!”

The drawers were flying out of the desk, and the girls waited impatiently for the chaotic movement to cease. The last drawer stopped halfway open, only about eight inches. The girls peered in it but were disappointed to find that it was empty.

“Amazing!” Martina grumbled. “All this trouble for nothing, just an empty drawer?”

“Shhh, listen!” Mary quieted her. They heard the noise of something rolling, slowly approaching them. Then suddenly, something appeared in the drawer!

“Hurray!” Martina exclaimed, uncontrollably happy. “I knew there had to be something in there.”

Inside the drawer was a sealed envelope, fastened by two red ribbons that held a tiny key. Instead of a hole at the head of the key, there was a symbol of a rampant dragon and a cornucopia. “I wonder what this envelope has inside of it, and what the key opens,” Martina mused aloud.

“The best thing would be for Bear to take a look at it,” Kestrel suggested. “Then we can see here what the key is used for.”

“I guess you’re right,” Mary agreed. “Anyway, I see that you’re better. You were really in a daze for a while.”

“You don’t know Darden,” Kestrel began. “All of his wicked deeds have been talked about for centuries. Even though he died hundreds of years ago, his brutality affected a lot of people. That’s why, when I saw his picture, I nearly had a heart attack.” His voice quivered with nervousness. 

Puma Punku Mystery

Puma Punku is truly a wonderful Place, not only is it an incredible temple complex filled with mysteries that baffle one’s mind, it is a place where one loses the notion of space and time. This temple complex located near Tiwanaku, Bolivia is one of the most incredible ancient ruins you will find in South America.
At Puma Punku or “The Door of the Puma” as the Aymara people call it, we find incredible evidence of precision cuts, precise engineering, and evidence of high level of geometry and mathematics. It is a treasure for anyone who has knowledge in Mathematics, geology, engineering and astronomy.

Surveys done, using ground-penetrating radar, magnetometry, induced electrical conductivity, and magnetic susceptibility reveal the presence of numerous man-made structures such as wall foundations of buildings and compounds, water conduits, pool-like features, revetments, terraces, residential compounds, and widespread gravel pavements all of which now lie buried and hidden beneath the modern ground’s surface and all that within a kilometer between Pumapunku and Kalasasaya — another incredible archaeological structure.

 Perhaps the biggest mystery involving Puma Punku is, how did ancient mankind manage to transport these huge blocks of stone from quarries within 10 to 100 km. How did they manage to achieve this type of precision cuts and how did they place the blocks in such a perfect manner. Engineers and constructors around the world today cannot answer nor replicate these achievements done by ancient mankind thousands of years ago.

Archaeologists cannot come to a conclusion and answer how were these amazing blocks of stone transported. Some of them believe that it was accomplished by the large labor force of ancient Tiwanaku. Several theories have been proposed as to how this labor force transported the stones from the quarries to Puma Punku but these theories remain speculative. It is believed that the builders of Puma Punku used llama skin ropes and ramps and inclined planes to move these incredible blocks to the site. But this explanation is not accepted widely, at least in our opinion it takes more than llama skin rope and ramps to move stones of block that weigh over 100 metric tons through distances of 10 – 100 kilometers.

Among the largest stone blocks found at Puma Punku we can find one with the following characteristics: 7.81 meters long, 5.17 meters wide, averages 1.07 meters thick, and is estimated to weigh about 131 metric tons. Incredible right? And this was done with ropes and ramps? OK, right. The second largest stone block found within the Puma Punku is 7.90 meters long, 2.50 meters wide, and averages 1.86 meters thick. Its weight has been estimated to be 85.21 metric tons. Researches believe that these two blocks of stone were quarried near Lake Titicaca approx. 10 km from Puma Punku. Other stone blocks found at Puma Punku have been quarried  near the Copacabana Peninsula about 90 km away from and across Lake Titicaca. So perhaps this is one of the biggest mysteries at Puma Punku. How did Ancient man do this?

Another puzzling mystery at Puma Punku is the assembly of the walls. Each stone was finely cut to interlock with the surrounding stones and the blocks fit together like a puzzle, forming load-bearing joints without the use of mortar. The precision challenges today’s engineering abilities. A common engineering technique is to cut the top of the lower stone at a certain angle and placing another stone on top of it which was cut at the same angle. What baffles scientists, engineers and archaeologists is the precision with which this was achieved. The precision with which these angles have been utilized to create flush joints is indicative of a highly sophisticated knowledge of stone-cutting and a thorough understanding of descriptive geometry. 

Some of the joins we find at Puma Punku are so well placed, and so precisely locked into place that you wouldn’t be able to fit a paper in between them. The level of masonry we find at Puma Punku is just amazing. These stones look like as if they were cut with a “laser”. They are so precise and so smooth that you cannot come up with a logical explanation on how ancient man could have achieved this without the use of modern day equipment. It is a mystery.

Ancient Engineers at Puma Punku and Tiwanaku should be considered masterminds. Their knowledge in mathematics, geometry and geology is something that most of today’s engineers lack.  These Ancient Engineers were truly great, they developed complex civic infrastructure, they invented waterproof sewage lines, hydraulic mechanisms and functional irrigation systems.

Wednesday Excerpt

Hello to all, here another excerpt from Hyperearth:

“After Sathon cursed the land, we couldn’t come here anymore, but now we finally can again,” Hennig said.

The two girls were puzzled, though, and didn’t understand how the spell could be broken so quickly. At the end of the gravel road, they reached a gate that was half iron and half shrubs, surrounded by high hedges. It was green and lush, and a bit strange in appearance. After Hennig opened the gate, Mary and Martina stopped to carefully behold the huge gardens. It was full of flowers and plants – some familiar and others unlike anything they’d ever seen before – and a maze of hedges twining around statues. Suddenly, Mary’s feet levitated in the air at least six feet.

“Help! What’s going on!” she exclaimed, afraid.

Hennig and Danni smiled. “Don’t worry,” Danni assured Mary. “We told you it was a magic garden.”

“Easy for you to say,” Mary grumbled, a little annoyed. “You’re not in the air.” Hearing that, Danni looked at Hennig, and they both floated in the air next to Mary.

“Now you can’t complain,” Hennig said.

“Okay, but I want to come down,” Mary protested.

“Close your eyes and imagine lowering down,” Danni advised, who was now already standing on the ground with Hennig. Mary nodded and closed her eyes. Slowly, she lowered down, and the others looked at her, pleased at her ability to do as they had. Even after Mary’s feet met the ground, she kept her eyes fastened shut.

“Mary, you can open your eyes,” Danni finally instructed.

“Am I back down already?” Mary asked, surprised.

“Come on, let me show you the maze,” Danni invited.

“But this maze is too easy!” Mary commented, looking at the low hedges.

“When you enter it, you’ll change your mind,” Hennig replied. “If you get lost, just close your eyes and think for a moment.”

Mary and Martina entered the labyrinth, confident in their ability to find their way to the exit. But, after they turned the first corner, the hedges rose several feet. Martina covered her mouth in disbelief. While at first it was easy to look over them, now they couldn’t and the girls realized that finding their way out would be more challenging than they anticipated.

“Okay, we must go on,” Mary encouraged her friend. “It’s not like we should give up as soon as it looks harder than we thought.”

Meanwhile, Danni and Hennig looked at them with intrigue, because from the outside the hedges looked as short as they had before, but the tall hedges that confounded Mary and Martina were only a mirage. As they explored the maze, they caught site of a man with a strange hat, who quickly disappeared.

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Ancient alien landing strip

ANCIENT ALIENS AIRPORT?

THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY AND THE NAZCA LINES OF PERU

The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca
Desert of Peru.  Archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists have
studied the ancient Nazca culture and the complex to try to determine the
purpose of the lines and figures. One theory is that the Nazca people created
them to be seen by their gods in the sky.  Swiss author Erich von Däniken
suggests the Nazca lines and other complex constructions represent higher
technological knowledge that he believes existed when the glyphs were
created. Von Däniken maintains that the Nazca lines in Peru are runways of
an ancient airfield that served ancient aliens from another culture Von
Däniken's claims.  Researchers concluded the lines were made by the Nazca
Pre-Incan culture between 300 B.C. and 700 A.D. Since the Nazca pampa has
an almost complete lack of windy weather or rain, the stone piles that make
the lines have withstood the elements for thousands of years.

Looking at the Nazca lines, many have begun to understand what Swiss
Author Erich von Däniken has theorised about ancient aliens using these
air lanes like a modern day airport.

Ancient Civilizations Possessed The Knowledge of Flight 

Could it be possible that ancient civilizations possessed the knowledge for
flight and that technology has been lost in history. These questions
continue to bewilder many, and as we search deeper into history it seems
that something must have been flying in our skies for these ancient
civilizations to depict, create, and forever stamp into history the proof that
perhaps ancient aliens or ancient technology allowed for the possibility of
flight!  Nazca Lines could have been an elaborate construction of runways
for past civilizations to land and take of in their aircraft.  Obviously little
evidence exist of past flying machinery constructed by ancients, however,
little evidence exist of how the Great Pyramids of Giza were built yet they 

stand tall as a world wonder. Another popular theory that the Nazca people 

did have the technology of flight to construct such great geoglyphs. 

Helium balloons could have allowed these people to view their work form 

great distances in the air; however, little evidence exist to back this claim.

Erich von Däniken Makes A Startling Prediction: Aliens From Another 
World Used The Nazca Lines 

Erich von Daniken’s 1968 book “Chariots of the Gods” suggested that Nazca was

made as a landing strip for visitors from outer space.  Looking at a modern day

landing strip, it is easy to see the similarity that the two (Nazca Lines & Modern

day Runway) have. Since his theory proposed in his book, Daniken has continued

his research to prove that these lines were used for the landing of alien beings.

Why would aliens land in South America? 

If a race of alien beings wanted to know what Earth's mineral content was, they

would use the Peru for a base of operations.  Filled with Earth's minerals, Peru

would be a perfect location to do any kind of research about Earth and what it

would have to offer.  Building an Airport would certainly be advantageous for

such a venture by an ancient civilization.
With a continued effort by many, we begin to see that challenging our beliefs

about history could lead to discoveries about our ancient past. With airport like

lines spread across the Peruvian Desert and ancient model planes built by the

Inca people, we see that something was indeed flying over the skies of Peru,

but who and what they were will still remain a mystery. 

 

Amazing books

Hello writers and readers, 

I got lot of new writers friends on twitter, and i have created a photo of my book among them. 

Glad to have found somebody that like to help new authors like me, also if there is still some authors that are snob... well nobody's perfect !  

 

They are over than my book Hyperearth  

K.K. Allen  author of: Summer of Solstice  The Equinox 

Mark Shaw   author of : The keeper of the wind

Mistral Dawn author of: Taken by the Huntsman

Chess Desalls  author of : Travel Glasses


Thanks to them and also to other that i didn't mention for the help for twitter retweets and other more

Thursday Excerpt

Hello  writers and readers, good Thursday to all, here one excerpt of Hyperearth : 

Hennig nodded in agreement. Bear was the first to set foot on the bridge, followed by Mary, Kestrel, and the lynx. Even if it swayed at times, the bridge seemed rather secure. The wood that they walked on creaked, causing them some apprehension, but they managed to reach the end.

Bear raised his hand to signal for the others to cross. Only, while the others had set foot on the bridge, Kestrel stepped on some branches that momentarily woke the gatekeeper. He opened his eyelids a crack several times, still sleepy. However, he then caught sight of Bear and Kestrel, who both looked petrified. The gatekeeper woke up at once. He had yellow eyes and shouts that sounded more like a wild animal growling. Frightened, Mary screamed. The man was ready to leap at Kestrel, but the lynx attacked him just in time, throwing him to the ground. As soon as the rest of the group reached the other side of the bridge, Hennig helped to pick up the fainted gatekeeper and put him back in the chair.

“Let’s put him back how he was before, so as to not arouse suspicion,” Bear ordered. “Give me a white mushroom.”

“Since he’s fainted, it’s best to give it to him in powder form,” Hennig suggested.

Bear crushed the white mushroom with a stone, poured it in the man’s mouth, and then washed it down with water. “Good. For a day he’ll be just fine, and beautifully rested,” he said.

“Beautiful?” Mary exclaimed. “Are you kidding, Bear? With those eyes, he scares the wits out of me.”

“I’m sorry you’ve had to go through this,” Bear apologized. “But luckily we managed. Let’s take his keys.” 

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