The mummies of Ra: where did Egyptians come from?
With mummification, the ancient Egyptians chased one of Man's most longed-for dreams: immortality. However, upon detailed analysis, the use of the pharaoh's body preservation arises questions that lead us back to a developed culture even if very ancient and to possible links with pre-Columbian cultures.
In 1996, at the Bahariya oasis, more than two hundred mummified and well-preserved bodies were discovered by pure chance, bringing the myth of the mummy back into vogue.
It was later discovered to be a site from the Greco-Roman era, never violated by tomb robbers, whose golden sarcophagi have amazed Egyptologists with their splendor.
Zahi Hawass and Ashry Shaker, chief of the Superintendence of Antiquities of Bahariya, preferred to keep the news quiet for three years (this tactic may have already been employed by Hawass for the underground chambers under the Sphinx and the chamber discovered by the German Rudolf Gantembrink in the canal leading from the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid) in order to study the place away from the public spotlight.
One of the first archaeological discoveries related to mummies that caused unprecedented fervor among members of European high culture, dates back to 1881.
On June 6 of that year an excavation was carried out near Deir el Bahari.
Following for months some grave robbers, Emile Brugsch discovered the hiding place of forty mummified bodies, some of these belonging to great pharaohs of the New Kingdom (1567-1090 BC) such as Amosis, Tuthmosis III, Seti I and his son Ramses II.
In 1898, inside the tomb of Amenhotep II, followed the discovery of 16 other bodies including that of the pharaon Tuthmosis IV - the same king who was the protagonist of the magical dream under the Sphinx - and of Amenhotep III, father of heretic Akhenaten. In both cases, the mummies had been placed on that site by the Egyptian priests themselves already in the Pharaonic era, as a prevention for the continuous desecrations. In this way the priests hope that the Pharaoh would survive the passage of time, thus achieving immortality, which in some way they actually achieved.
Ultimately, one of the Egyptian's most fervent hopes came true: that their name would be pronounced, so that they could return to life.
False mummies or mutant beings?
The performance of this ancestral rite on a human body was therefore due to the desire to preserve the physical support of the soul for eternity. This logical hypothesis is opposed to other, more risky, although scientifically rejectable, conjectures.
According to the Swiss Erich von Däniken the embalming was an attempt at hibernation, in the hope that the celestial Gods would return to bring the pharaohs back to life in the distant future. Very similar is the explanation of Robert Temple, author of The Mystery of Sirius, which traces it back to the memory that the Egyptians had of the suspended animation techniques of the fish-men of Sirius.
Despite these extreme conjectures, the real reason for mummification now seems clarified but the mystery remains as to why the Egyptians mummified humans and animals by fusing them into a single being.
Two headed-mummies have been found in several places in Egypt; half child and half crocodile whose explanation has yet to be provided. One of these is exhibited at the Topkapi museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
Furthermore, there are no logical answers to the discoveries made in numerous Egyptian necropolises. The first surprise happened to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette on 5 September 1852, after discovering the Serapeum in Saqqara, the place where tradition placed the tomb of the oxen sacred to the god Apis. Once opened, the gigantic sarcophagi discovered in the underground chambers were either empty or contained a foul-smelling bituminous mass that disintegrated upon touch and at the slightest pressure.
The mummies of the oxen were not there.
Later, the British archaeologist Sir Robert Mond discovered bones of jackals and dogs in the sarcophagi of oxen (remember that jackals and dogs were the representation of Anubis, God of mummification, and mythological aspects of the star Sirius).
Are mummies still able to kill humans today?
Although the main legend surrounding mummies, the so-called "curse of the pharaohs" was scientifically explained with the presence of a fungus, Aspergillus Niger, which caused the death of those who came into contact with it, other experts declared themselves inclined to think that the curse was due to the radioactive power of some objects preserved together with the mummified bodies which after 3000 years had retained their deadly emanations unchanged. At least that's what some scientists in the city of Oakridge believe.
The hypothesis is not far-fetched, as in gold mines (gold is a metal found in sarcophagi and widely used by the ancient Egyptians) it is common to encounter minerals such as Uranium and Thorium.
Furthermore, in 1949, Professor Bulgarini stated that
"the ancient Egyptians knew the laws of the disintegration of the atom. Their sages and priests knew about Uranium. It is possible that they used radioactivity to protect their sanctuaries."
Peter Kolosimo, the late Italian essayist and scholar of "archaeological anomalies", also addresses this topic. In his "Timeless Land" he reports the words of Professor Ghoneim who declared, summarizing the results of the research carried out by a large group of Egyptian scholars
"that the pitch with which the corpses were preserved through mummification comes from the shores of the Red Sea and from some regions of Asia Minor and contains highly radioactive substances. Not only that, but radioactivity is also present in the bandages used to bind mummies. And the entire mortuary chambers were probably filled with the same dust."
Everything suggests that the Egyptian priests voluntarily requested the use of that specific pitch, as they possessed advanced knowledge bequeathed to a pre-diluvian civilization.
Perhaps the Egyptians knew that the disintegration of the atom is associated with the Sun (stars are based on the principle of nuclear fusion), and therefore considered it a manifestation of Ra and therefore expressly required the use of radioactive materials in certain cases. Solar symbolism is in fact linked to the Heliopolitan cult of Ra, the oldest in Egypt, which considered the Sun as a dispenser of life. Let us remember that the Pharaoh was assimilated to the Sun and radioactivity, being a symbol of vital energy, could have symbolically represented the pharaoh's life after the death. In the bas-reliefs of Tell-el-Amarna, which portray Akhenaten adoring the solar disk Aton, the latter dispenses radiation-like rays, which offer the Ankh, the key to eternal life, to the pharaoh, thus blessing him for the eternity.
Mica discovered in the pyramid of the Sun
The Egyptian's knowledge of the infinitely small and its laws would in fact be supported by esoteric studies on ancient texts carried out by several Egyptologists, including Schwaller de Lubicz and John Antony West. According to the Egyptian texts, the creative principle of everything was Atum, the primordial God, from whose every substance was created. In this description it is inherent that Atum is precisely the atom or protomatter, from which everything takes shape.
The similarity of the words Atum and Atom is clarifying in this sense.
All this presents interesting analogies with some discoveries made in Mexico.
In 1906, an extensive layer of Mica, a mineral from the aluminum silicate group, also present in the Temple of Mica, also in Teotihuacan, was discovered between two levels of the pyramid of the Sun of Teotihuacan in Mexico. Even for the Mica, as for Egyptian pitch, importation took place from far away, precisely from Brazil.
Mica, as Graham Hancock writes in his Footprints of the Gods
"is not an obvious universal flooring material. (...) We are led to think that the two layers of Mica (...) were destined to play a specific role. Mica has characteristics that make it particularly suitable for technological applications. In modern industry it is used to build capacitors and is an excellent thermal and electrical insulator. It is also opaque to fast neutrons and can function as a moderator in nuclear reactions."
It is no coincidence that, according to what Laurence Gardner writes in his book "Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Pendragon Legacy of Adam and Eve", in the sarcophagus in the King's chamber was found by the first explorers, not the mummy of Cheops, but a white powder later identified as a compound of grains of Feldispato and Mica. Pyramids, Egyptian mummies, and some Toltec temples therefore presented characteristics that had links with atomic energy, underlining a strange yet indicative coincidence.
The blond Pharaohs
The parallelism between Egypt and America finds further confirmation in the discovery cited by Murry Hope in his book "The Secret of Sirius". Upon analysis, the royal mummies of the 18th dynasty would present blood group A. Considering that the most widespread blood group in Egypt was, and it is still today, group 0, which is quite unusual.
The strangeness increases if we consider that group A usually accompanies the light-skinned, blue-eyed or Caucasian type. What were Nordic-looking individuals doing among the pharaohs of New Kingdom Egypt?
Furthermore, some Inca mummies, preserved in the British Museum in London, have given the same results (group A and Caucasian appearance) completely unrelated to the pre-Hispanic populations of the New Continent.
Blond, light-skinned individuals among the dominant castes of Egypt and America. Professor WC Emery, author of Archaic Egypt is convinced that are people who came from outside, not indigenous, kept at a distance from the common people, united only with the aristocratic classes.
Greater knowledge of the DNA of the pharaohs and its links with this people could come from a genetic identification of the available mummies. Furthermore, blond mummies with Caucasian features have also been found in China.
It seems that in ancient times, a population of this type established colonies all over the globe, keeping its genetic mix rather limited. Who were these blond peoples completely unrelated to the local ethnic groups? What connection did they have with the Shemsu Hor, the demigods followers of Horus and the blond Viracochas of American mythologies?
Akhenaten
Perhaps they were Atlanteans, as Egyptologist John Antony West hypothesizes. Interestingly, Emery himself writes:
"towards the end of the 4th millennium BC the people known as the 'Followers of Horus' appear to us as a highly dominant aristocracy who ruled the whole of Egypt. The theory of the existence of this race is supported by the discovery in tombs of the pre-dynastic period, in the northern part of Upper Egypt, of the anatomical remains of individuals with a skull and body size larger than the indigenous people, any hypothesis of a common racial strain is impossible. The fusion of the two races must have occurred in such times as to have been more or less completed at the time of the Unification of the two kingdoms of Egypt"
Even in Mexico, elongated or deformed skulls, larger than normal, have been found, and this increases the ties between Egypt and America, as well as increasing the possibility of a common racial strain underlying the two cultures.
The discovery of the presence of tobacco and cocaine in the hair and in the bandages of Egyptian mummies is a notable indication of this, whereas tobacco and cocaine are plants native to South America and there are no signs of them cultivations in ancient Egypt.
Furthermore, in the XVIII dynasty, affected by blood group A, reigned the pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, who loved to be portrayed in statues and bas-reliefs (and with him the entire royal family) with an elongated skull and a stocky build, characteristics found in the pre-dynastic stock mentioned by Emery.
Trace of a possible link can be found in the blood group of his successor Tutankhamun, son of the heretical pharaoh, who, like other members of the XVIII dynasty, was type A. Akhenaten is remembered for his religious reform, inspired by monotheism of the Sun God Aton. Considering that the solar cult is the oldest that humanity remembers (along with that of the Great Mother), it is not science fiction to hypothesize a cultural and perhaps genetic link between this pharaoh and non-Egyptian racial strains, whose genealogical line perhaps belongs to an advanced culture pre-existing the Egyptian one.
Secrets of a thousand-year-old art
With more than half a century of research and at his own expense, the Spanish anthropologist José Manuel Reverte Coma is, without a doubt, one of the greatest international authorities in the field of mummies. His works on embalming ancient cultures such as Egypt and South America have been published ed appreciated everywhere. For 20 years Professor Reverte ran the unusual museum that bears his name. Located in the medical faculty of the Complutense University of Madrid, surrounded by unusual objects of Spanish medicine, the professor has an exceptional collection of mummies from the most disparate places on the planet.
Reverte is a perfect expert on the mummification process used in South America, a continent in which he worked for several decades. In his museum there are several Peruvian mummies of around 2,500 years old.
"Religious circumstances, such as the belief in an afterlife, and natural circumstances, such as the high aridity of the country favored the excellent technique of Egyptian mummification. Totally different circumstances favored mummification in America. For example, at great heights bodies could freeze due to the cold, and in tropical countries fluid loss was achieved by placing bodies in the sun during the day and near a bonfire during the night. In this way, the fats rose towards the extremity, drying out the corpse"
However, according to Professor Reverte Coma, there are similarities between the mummies of the Guanches (an ancient people of the Canary Islands - Editor's note) and the Egyptian ones.
"Although the methods used are broadly different, there are some points in common, especially if we take how I compare the primitive Egyptian mummification which consisted of simply wrapping the corpse in an animal skin. It is therefore not impossible that the two cultures had some sort of contact."
