by Bo Olsson
During recent years the research on ancient history has been radically strengthened by modern technology -- including satellite-cameras and geo-radars as well as biological, bio-chemical and techno-chemical analysis. Together with the latest progress in genetic analysis, it's quite clear that the sciences of archaeology and history have taken a major step from the "social sciences" towards the "natural" or "technical sciences".
With a rapidly growing number of new archaeological sites and projects all over the world, the speed in which new discoveries and scientific break-thoroughs happen has rocketed. One of the astounding new issues on the horizon is a number of large, even enormous underground cave-systems from ancient cultures. Thus, I was indeed surprised to learn that there has just recently been discovered some enormous cave-systems under the pyramids of both Egypt and Meso-America. Now -- before a clarifying, but demanding excavation is done -- we still have time to wonder just what they are, what they contain and why they have been built.
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Meanwhile it may be possible to shed some light on the issue, since there are two similar and indeed mind-boggling discoveries of larger megalithic underground structures in the arctic hemisphere. The oddest thing about these discoveries is that they were foretold and explained by an ancient myth and a connected history called Saga -- that has survived during centuries in the provinces of rural Finland and Carelia.
Hidden History
Protected by the cold climate and hidden in the deep
forests of northern Finland and Carelia, a small group of people has been
able to preserve their ancient traditions and their language as well as
a complete and incredibly extensive history about themselves, going back
to the roots of all arctic people and originating in an ancient culture
of humanity that existed before Ice-Time. Though the memory and history
of our (human) evolution have obviously been lost, we may seek information
and investigate these matters again, under the paradigm of free speech,
open research and factual science.
During centuries of strife and war, superstition and distortion, the history of mankind as everybody once knew it was lost. Fortunately there have been provincial minorities who have managed to keep parts of their authentic traditions -- their cultural "world inheritance". Thus we may still find old myths and stories kept by memory and communicated orally by native people in both South and North America, as well as in Europe, Asia and Australia.
In today's Europe the Nordic countries have enjoyed an especially rich literature of ancient myths and stories from ancient times. Only in Finland may we still find a complete and alive Saga or history from "hedonic times onwards". Through centuries of religious regimes these traditions where prosecuted and thus eradicated all over Europe and most of Asia. Fortunately, a set of stories, a complete Saga, as well as poems, songs and fairy-tales came to survive in limited areas at the edge of the Eurasian world. And -- miraculously -- an ancient history, and it's language (!) have survived the last centuries where brutality and greed have spread into homes as well as institutions; resulting in material, political and cultural conquests as well as tyranny, genocide and cultural devastation.
After some 4,000 years of warfare during which national leaders started to use massive violence in brute conquest, it obviously became an issue to protect cultural and material treasures. Thus we may better understand why these underground facilities where made and finally hidden to avoid the theft of national treasures.
With the Roman invasion under Caesar, organized crime or the "Trade of Murder", was conquering France, Belgium and England. Some centuries later the Roman-Catholics where able to enhance the Empire. By 800 AD they took over Germany and by 985 the cultural head of ancient Europe, Denmark, became subject to the Roman rulers. By 1008 Sweden followed suit and in 1030 Norway -- for the first time in it's 8,000 year history -- was invaded and subdued by "foreign masters". By 1050 the "Holy Empire" directed an attack to the core of the old Nordic culture, the land of Oden itself - the capital of old Finland. According to old legends the King of The Aser was the richest of all heathen kings. But although the "crusading" mercenaries massacred all the "heathens" and destroyed absolutely everything in the county of Oden-ma, they where not able to find the entrance to the underground "city of gold".
Following this there was a crisis in the Greek-Roman alliance and by 1054AD the Christian church was split. Numerous attacks of war volleyed between Christians of east and west. After two hundred years of strife, the catholic Sweden found peace with the orthodox Russians, defining the border between east and west, Europe and Asia. Thus Finland, the oldest and the last heathen kingdom of Europe, came under Swedish rule when the last King of the Aser, who had been in hiding since 1050 in the north in Kajaani, abdicated to the Swedish ruler Birger Jarl in the summer of 1249
Thus northern and eastern Finland (Carelia) became the border area between the Greek-orthodox and the Roman-catholic regimes. Consequently the people of this area managed to keep their own language and their authentic culture to a much greater degree than the rest of the conquered i.e. religious Europe.
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Revealing Times
In 1919 Finland finally became free and independent
by restoring it's own political state. By then a number of people who
still kept the knowledge of the ancient history started preparing to publicize
their Saga. But this preparation was not concluded until 1984 when the
Archive of Folklore and Legends at the Swedish Institute for Literature
in Helsinki, Finland, interviewed Mr. Ior Bock of the Bockström family,
an old native Finnish family-line.
At the time of these interviews Mr. Bock was the last living representative of the family of Strømsø, the old administrative centre of western Oden-ma, the central county of old Finland. And, after centuries underground, the old Saga of the Finnish people, as well as the history of all Eurasians and the roots of mankind, finally returned to the public eye.
After some years the complexity and magnitude of this story is getting more known and understood, but there is still a great deal of disbelief and resentment upon hearing about a common society and a world-wide culture in which the essential values were "hedonistic", although they also explain how peace, tranquillity and cultural growth were maintained over a time span of many thousands of years.
Pagan Eurasia
Currently with as much as we know about Finnish history,
it is evident that a Swedish, or actually; "rot-speaking" part
of the population has inhabited the southern and southwestern coasts of
Finland ever since the stone-age. In this area, as well as in neighbouring
mid-Finland and Carelia, the old folktales are richer than anywhere else
in the western hemisphere. Since Finland managed to be a distant province
both to the Romans and to the Greek and Arabs, there was no religian-based
conquest taking place in Finland during the first half of the medieval
times. Thus the old "headen" culture survived longer there than
anywhere in the Eurasian continent.
By 1030AD however, the Catholics had conquered England, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. With their complete rule of the East Sea there was only one remaining unconquered target for the mighty catholic army of 30-35,000 mercenaries to complete the northern "crusades", the bloody and bestial conquest of the northern countries and people, their freedom, resources and treasures. As we now may say openly: the first warfare on Scandinavia was inflicted and directed by the new dictators in Rome, and conducted by "christianised" Franks ("Charlemagne", etc.).
When the crusaders finally reached Finland in the summer of 1050, the core of the old, eastern sea civilisation was destroyed in what the Norse epics and sagas describe as a ragnarøk, i.e. complete destruction. After a three month massacre and a six month plunder and devastation, there was absolutely nothing left, above earth, of the heart land of the old Nordic culture.
Proof
Since the last 15 years we do know that one very ancient
culture existed in the arctic hemisphere! During 1993-98 a group of Russian
and Norwegian researchers of geology, archaeology and palaeontology researched
the area around the White Sea, where they found the remainders of a socially
well developed, modern, arctic man, older than 40,000 years! This implies
that the development of the arctic man (Caucasoid) has happened in a limited
area between the Gulf of Finland and the Kara Ocean, during Ice-Time.
This may also explain how a highly adapted human, with a strong, refined
and specialized social culture could emerge all over Fenno-Scandia and
Russia immediately after Ice-Time was gone.
See: "The Pechora Project"/Univ. of Bergen, Norway. Introduction, "Nature" Sep 6th 2001.
In 1996 Finnish archaeologists found a 70,000 year old habitat, inside a cave in southwest Finland. Today Susihuola (Wolf Cave) outside the city of Kristinestad is under research by both Finnish and international experts. In 2001 it was concluded by both Finnish and German laboratories that the (hereto) oldest traces from human activity inside this cave were about 300,000 years!
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