Marand
There is a passage in the Bible in which Ezekiel narrates the vision he had, together with the other deported Jews, on the banks of Chebar, when he lived in Babylon.
In this episode and in others, the prophet is the protagonist of flights on flying vehicles identified in the Bible as visions and expressions of divine power.
In passage 40, 1-4 he illustrates a journey of around September 573 BC.
In the 35th year of our deportation, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, fourteen years after the conquest of the city (the fall of Jerusalem, which occurred in 587), on that very day, the hand of Yahweh He placed me on me and transported me there. He transported me in divine visions to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, where something like the building of a city stood before me. So he transported me there, and behold, a man who from He looked like bronze, with a linen cord and a canand to measure in his hand and he was standing at the door. He spoke to me: "Son of man, look carefully, listen carefully and pay attention to all the things that now I will point out to you, you have been, in fact, brought here for me to show you."
The prophet describes in detail the construction he saw, mentioning all the measurements. He mentions four main gates oriented towards the four cardinal points and a stream, flowing next to the temple, which becomes an immense river in the valley.
"Then he led me to the eastern gate. I saw the glorious presence of the God of Israel coming from the east. Its noise was like the roar of a huge body of water, and its bright light illuminated the land. This vision was similar to that that I had seen when Jerusalem was destroyed and on the banks of Chebar......The Glory of Yahweh entered the temple through the door that faces east." (43, 1-4)
Daniken and Blumrich were fascinated by this passage and even investigated to find the exact place where Ezekiel was taken.
Daniken hypothesizes in one of his books that a possible site, on the advice of a certain Karl Maier, could be Marand, 30 km from Srinagar, upper Kashmir valley, an area full of temples, including one known as the "Temple of the Jews ", also referred to as "Temple of the Sun" or "Temple of the Jews".
Among the existing buildings in Kashmir it appears to be among the tallest, it has four doors, a "pronaos" and right next to it flows a stream, which swells to become a river in the valley, while in the background rises the Himalayan mountain range , the "highest" mountain described by Ezekiel.
Daniken went to the site, visited the temple, verified the measurements, analyzed the ground with instruments capable of detecting alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation. The needles of the devices recorded traces of radioactivity in an area, measuring 1 and a half meters wide, of an imaginary straight line drawn starting from the main door. According to some experts, it felt like walking over a deposit of radioactive metals.
Inside the temple there was a large stone parallelepiped, resembling a simple concrete cast, 2.80 meters long, of an unspecified height as its base sunk into the ground. The needles of the instruments pointed above the stone block began to oscillate frantically, due to this characteristic, it is thought that there may be a metal core inside the parallelepiped. With as many stone blocks similar to this one, there are now three other temples in ruins near Srinagar, in Parhaspur.
"The Lord spoke to me from inside the temple: 'Man, look! Here is my throne, the place where I place my feet."
Daniken then asks this question:
What if the lord had thus specified the place where his feet left his mark? What if there was something bricked up in the block? A sort of announcement to future generations? Maybe destined for a future humanity capable of understanding it?
We will then discover, by looking at a geographical map, that around Srinagar there are many places with various testimonies of ancient civilizations such as Kailash, a pyramidal peak sacred to many cults; Choistan, where 15,000-year-old sky charts were found; The Tacla Macan desert with the vitrified remains of ancient cities, and the Gobi desert with the famous Shamballa. The Srinagar river, the Jhelum, which flows into the Chenab, a tributary of the Indus, in whose valley Moenhjo Daro is located; the ancient Lanka of Ravana, mentioned in the Ramayana.
