How Martians Give Cats Baths...

I'm gaining a great affection for Richard C. Hoagland's theories of the Monuments of Mars. His videos are favorites, and repeated enjoyment time and again bears out that his arguments are sensible, well constructed, and powerful.

I've also greatly enjoyed what has been done that you can see in his video, "The Terrestrial Connection", that links the geometry and morphology of the face on Mars to monuments on earth, including the Sphinx. The resemblance has earned the face on Mars the title of the "Martian Sphinx", and there appears to be plenty of good reason for that.

What I've most enjoyed about such gestures is that they resemble the iconographic work I've done with the elements of the peculiar ancient fascination with animal symbols. These symbols, however else they may be applied, such as in modern shamanism and magick, are convincing representations of natural forces, and particularly those that are familiar to us, electricity and magnetism. Many pages at this site detail how the ancients universally employed birds as symbols of magnetism, and snakes and felines as symbols of electricity, and some of the reasons they found these choices of symbols to be meaningful.

I have included a page at this site devoted to the face on Mars, and to some extensions of Hoagland's work, including further linking the ancient wisdom found in the Martian clues, to some typical occult sources, and of course, many more may follow... but I'd like to try here to connect Hoagland's work to another aspect of ancient cultures, one that is touched upon on the "Water for the World" and "Snake Mother Medicine" pages, and that is of course, identifying the markings and the means that pertain to how the ancient people approached the human need for water.

There still seems to be no telling When the Martian artifacts were built, and there seems to be no telling if Mars did or could support life at the time they might have been created. We may have yet to address, within this incredible fabric of ancient wisdom now surfacing, whether those who may have created these artifacts had transcended human concerns such as food and water, or whether another possibility arises...

And that possibility is that, even before we are able to fully discuss the potential of the hyperspatial physics to be derived from the Martian geometry can provide limitless power and electricity for various human needs that by many standards may be superficial and contrived...

That the most important message of the geometry and the physics is refers to, addresses our primary concerns, not of having light to read by or power for our hair dryers, but the ability to acquire breathable air, drinkable water, food, and water for crops.

If we set aside for a moment the broader possibilities, like how close materialization science may be to the level of technology we are seeing, or the development of human potential to indeed transcend such basic needs...

Consider that the upwellings of energy that occur at 19.5 degrees north and south on bodies throughout the solar system, including the red spot on Jupiter, and the Hawiian volcanoes may lend irrefutable validation of the theories to surface from the Martian structures, but it remains energy we're hard pressed to harness.

Could we cause similar, smaller upwellings of water from the earth, bypassing the complexities of drilling and pumping water, we would indeed be connecting this fabulous science to our most basic human needs.

Our question may now become, did the ancients also master this?

The possibilities this raises, and the questions, are stirring.

Many of the locations on the earths where smaller upwellings of energy, such as the sites on the grid maps by Hoagland's associate, Carl. P. Munck, might have been associated with such a function, and many of them happen to be pyramids. Many pyramids do indeed manage to be associated with vegetation and vegetation deities, and with weather, fertility, rain and water deities.

The fact is, we may not only be able to associate ancient needs for water with square formations, as explained on this sites page, "Snake Mother Medicine", but those symbolic square formations may indeed include the square bases of pyramids.

One of the most striking publications concerning air wells is Popular Science, Oct. 1992, the article "Pyramid Power". In this case, the power of pyramids in question is their ability to provide drinking water. Here's a sample:

"Squeezing blood from a stone is beyond the scope of modern science, but a trio of engineers in Seattle claim they have figured out how to get water from rocks. Jose Vila, a retired Boeing Co. engineer, says that pyramids made of loosely piled stone can be used to capture enough moisture to provide ample drinking water for a small community. Such pyramids, called aerial wells, use the daily cycle of solar heating and night-time cooling to create condensation.

Aerial wells are actually a centuries-old idea. In the late 1800's, archaeologists at the site of the ancient Greek city of Feodosiya, in what is now Ukraine, discovered the 2,500 year old ruins of a water supply system consisting of 13 limestone pyramids, each nearly 40 feet tall. Based on the size of its tile pipes, the system may have produced as much as 14,000 gallons of water a day."

Do tell. We should hardly be surprised, in fact. The physics of condensation have long been an integral part of desert survival. The glass covers of watches have been placed in shaded holes in the sand to produce drinking water. If we bear in mind that various peoples have made ice in the desert, by putting water into molds in the cold of night, the potentials should be obvious here.

We can also extrapolate well. Let's presume the technique was widespread and popular. We'd want to put these things along roadsides for travellers to drink. In fact, history tells us that piles of stone called "hermax" were to be found along ancient roads, and with the same air that we are told that ancients were superstitious cannibals, were are told they were "sacred to Hermes, patron of travellers"; we are not given a real reason for them. This may indeed be their purpose, and in addition to the correct association with the patron of travellers, Herme's partial association with canines may alert us to the danger of leaving these sources of water open to be contaminated by wild, disease-carrying animals.

An anecdote of Apollonius of Tyanna and an Ephesian plague may make the most sense if we twist its fabulous, idiosyncratic elements a little into a warning about this: Aaplague is "magically" brought by a vagrant who, upon being stoned to death, is found when the pile of stones [they threw a whole pile!?!?!] are rolled back, to have transformed into a dog! This may have precipitated any leaps in ancient magickal technology which allowed ancient standing stones to "magickally" produce water for the traveller, if he or she did a certain universally known "ritual" act, so any artificial intelligence introduced into the operating fields of such devices could distinguish that the petitioner was a human.

Alternately, certain herbs may have been used to protect these water sources.

But the account of Feodosiya's ancient air wells, made of limestone, easily conjures up visions of the Egyptian pyramids in their former glory, cased in gleaming white limestone, before, we are told, the casing was plundered for Roman construction projects. Even if this history isn't believable at face value, it may well be telling us something.

So here is a possibility, and while it may easily be overturned by the progressive research and discoveries of John Anthony West and Robert Schoch of the erosion patterns of the Sphinx and contested by the age for the ancient Mars and Mars-related structures suggested by Hoagland's identification of the Martian face as a composite of feline, human, and simian faces, it may have yet to be considered, and for the sake of deductive reasoning, that is, conceiving the full range of possibilities and then eliminating them until one remains, maybe it should be thrown into the mix for the sake thereof.

The possibility may remain that the erosion patterns of the Sphinx were made by the man-made engineering of water, and that its enclosure was once perhaps a pool.

With typical tongue-in-cheek wit, the Egyptians might have used the thirsty but reluctant cat, not only as a physics symbol capable of describing favorable conditions for the generation and use of static electricity, but taken the animal which has such a reputation for the hatred and aversion of water, and whimsically placed it in the center of a fountain!

One reason such a notion is so striking, is because if you look in the index of the fabulously comprehensive, "be-all, end-all" book on the Egyptian pyramids, you will not find "causeway". You will not find "Kunkel, Edward. J", and the only reference you will find to "water" is several mentions of the clepsydra, the water clock. Something is missing. It's as if having water pumped into our homes, we are no longer capable of thinking of it as a human need, of factoring it into our studies of ancient people. (Several years ago, the only book on water purification listed in "Books in Print" was a twelve-hundred-dollar book on civic engineering!)

Edward J. Kunkel is the author of "The Pharoah's Pump" . The very idea that he is putting forth is remarkable because it is indeed addressing this fundamental concern of human existance, water. His complete accuracy isn't even at issue here, for the subject has barely been attempted by anyone.

I wouldn't care to trifle with West and Schoch's findings, and even more because Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval have done nothing but add much more weight and credence to them. But there may be an important element here that could somehow overturn some of the dates that are coming out of the work.

If we lose the clarity of that work, we may gain something more valuable in return.

Looking again at Hoagland's remarkable photos of mirrored halves of the Martian face, showing the hybridization of feline and hominid, and of "lower" primate, and how the feline nature of the Sphinx has proven to fit perfectly in dating the Sphinx to the age of Leo, I can't help but think since we are seeing the application of astrological symbols in this ancient language, maybe we should embark on a thorough rendering of that very subject.

So where would that put us? The simian can be used as a symbol for Gemini, lower primates are generally thought of as bright, imitative, "man's twin". While there would immediately be conflict between a marker that suggests the Martian Sphinx was created in the age of Leo and an element within it that may accordingly contrarily suggest that it is a product of the age of Gemini, perhaps it's significant to note that between the houses of Gemini and Leo in our horoscope, there is only one house, and that is Cancer, the sign of water.

Such reasoning may tamper with our ability to properly date the structures, (which we may not truly possess in the first place- a Sphinx twice as old as previously thought is only half as old as a Sphinx from the last age of Leo- in other words, there is undeniable brilliance in the theories of the researchers mentioned, but there may not be perfect resolution in the collective results) but if there is truly a firm foundation to it, it may open a lot more doors than it seems to close.

What we may be looking at may also dwell on the inherent blurring of the distinction between the progressing houses. In other words, while the "monkey in the mirror" may be a perfectly apt symbol for Gemini, having to bend the context a little advises us that the reflective character of Cancer is perfectly appropriate to our own reflection not in the human-like behavior of lower primates, but as we see it in water.

The lower primate, like the cat whose house of Leo also blurs back on to the preceeding house of Cancer to serve as a sign of water, may be amongst the most appropriate of creature-signs for water.

What we may have, then, is a face on Mars that asks three times, "What will we do for water on Mars?".

The snail-like Martian tholus may add a fourth water symbol, one used often by ancient peoples.

Since the structures on Mars so conveniently and rapidly answer for us the very questions they inspire, perhaps this need of ours has been anticipated as well. The answers to this, too, may be found in face on Mars, or in the geometrical, mathematical, and physics messages that it conveys.

Maybe, just maybe, it says to us, "water is awaiting you here". More likely, it tells us how to get water when we get there, and if it accurately reveals the presence of underground water resources on Mars that we have yet to confirm, we'll refrain from being shocked.

Perhaps, though, there's also a message that the hyperspatial physics we are trying to understand will be far more clear to us if we bother to better understand the physics of clean water- of electrochemistry, of phase transitions, of--?

After all, Hoagland has made it quite clear in his videos, starting with the very first, time and again how the physics of vorticular flows on various planets at the magic latitudes of 19.5 degrees north and south, etc. are expressions of fluid flow and fluid dynamics. Fluids. The physics of fluids.

Fluid what? The fluid state counterpart to our solid-state electronics? State-space related to the state of matter? Magnetohydrodynamics? Something. Definitely something.

Perhaps it will occured to some wild-haired, Einstien-like genius while he's bathing his cat. Meanwhile, we can giggle a little, and wonder if the greatest answer of all won't be found in some clue that it takes a healthy sense of humour to appreciate, like Egyptians giving the Sphinx a bath. After all, whoever our mysterious benefactors are, that may be their best criteria for who is worthy to receive all of this potentially serious technology, is that it best goes to someone who can laugh at themselves and life a little, as opposed to the types to hoard and abuse it. Not that Native American stories are any different as a manner of teaching, come to think of it, or any ancient myth. Once upon a time, those Greeks had a sea goddess who couldn't even swim... but that's another story...