The legend of Ch'i She Huang Tì
The Pyramid of Ch'i She Huang Tì seems to hide a wonderful world with pearl stars and rivers of mercury.
Ch'i She Huang Tì was one of the most ferocious tyrants in history, reigning in China around 200 B.C. and his name is still linked to two of the greatest mysteries that China has: the terracotta army and the Chinese pyramids. He is remembered as the yellow emperor, whose main objectives were: fame, power, wealth but above all to defeat death and become immortal.
Even in the China of that period there was the idea of a close connection, an almost correspondence, between heaven and earth (this is a common idea in cultures that flourished in different places and eras, which seems like an enormous stretch to consider this equality is a simple coincidence).
The idea was pushed to excess by Ch'i She Haung Tì who believed himself to be an integral part of the cosmos and even its cornerstone. He thus developed the idea that the only way to reach the sky was to build a tomb that rose towards the sky, and what better shape could he interpret this thought than the shape of a pyramid? In 210 B.C., when the Chinese emperor was just 50 years old, the construction of an imposing monument began to house the sovereign's mortal remains, composed of immense walls, gates, various monuments and even the faithful reconstruction of the imperial stables.
The legend of Ch'i She Huang Tì is full of fantastic elements, like the legend which tells that the emperor ascended to heaven riding a glittering dragon after having forged a magical boiler. Precisely the mention of this boiler in the legends of the Chinese emperor posed problems: what actually was this boiler ?
According to legends, inside the pyramid of Ch'i She Huang Tì, one would find the entire reproduction of his kingdom complete with rivers and lakes created with mercury. The use of this metal has - albeit with a certain caution - allowed us to venture some hypotheses on the real nature of the boiler mentioned.
In the ancient Indian text, the Samarangana Sutradhara, the functioning of a mercury aircraft engine is described.
"Inside the vehicle you need to put the mercury engine, under it is best to place the instrument that is used to heat the mercury, an iron instrument. The mercury heats and generates a whirlwind of air that acts as a propellant."
It is not difficult to understand how "the iron instrument used to heat the mercury" could be the famous boiler built.
Jacques Bergier, who hypothesizing that mercury was used to produce nuclear energy, proposed a theory according to which the civilization of the eastern desert was destroyed by a war fought with the aid of vehicles aircraft (vimana) and nuclear explosives. This could be hypothesized on the basis of some analyzes conducted on lumps of earth found vitrified, and therefore exposed to high temperatures.
In conclusion, it is worth explaining why Ch'i She Huang Tì was called the yellow emperor. According to a very ancient, yet umpteenth Chinese legend, there are five celestial emperors who rule the world and who each command a single sector into which the Earth is divided. The Green emperor in the east, the White in the West, the Red in the South, the Black in the North and the Yellow in the Center, once again reiterated the idea of the centrality and cornerstone of this character. An idea that pushed him to seek immortality, finding if not the immortality of the body, certainly that of his deeds.
