The shadow of the Rasna: The mystery of the Etruscans
A glorious migration that came from far away arrives on the Italian shores and has always eluded the most in-depth research. Where was their homeland? Why did they disappear without a trace? An analysis of the mysterious and controversial aspects of the Etruscans.
The shadow of the Rasna
The Etruscans are the most enigmatic and fascinating people who belong to Italy, the main territory of their influence. Historical information about them does not cover more than five or six book pages. Not a lot is known.
School textbooks quickly gloss over the powerful Etruscan monarchy that developed over many generations, made up of seven kings that pupils repeat in succession like a nursery rhyme, after which we immediately arrive at the birth of the Roman republic. The scholarly essays, for their part, only add that the Etruscans were natives of our peninsula who spoke an indecipherable language and reached excellent levels in the arts, politics and architecture, avoiding underlining the human and spiritual conquests given to the Roman empire. In recent years, after careful reflection, I begun to suspect, which has gradually become certainty, that a thick veil of silence has fallen over the Etruscan lineage, to hide secrets of vital importance.
They descended from the Giants
The most daring researchers place the origin of the Etruscans in Lydia, east of Smyrna, quoting Herodotus who writes in The Histories, I, 94:
"The Lydians say that under king Atys, son of Manes, there was a great famine; for a while the population coped with it, but then, seeing that it did not cease, ... the king divided the people into two parts... At the head of those designated to remain he placed himself; of the others designated to leave, his son Tirreno. The exiles went down to Smyrna, built ships... and set sail in search of a new land..., until after having skirted many countries, they reached the Umbrians where they founded cities that they still inhabit..."
Manes, analogous to the first Egyptian pharaoh Menes, is the legendary monarch Manu, a collective name that embodies the leadership of the seven mother-races with the corresponding sub-races. The Manu had conducted many migrations in antediluvian times from the primordial White Island in the Gobi Sea, the mythical Thule, a lush tropical territory that extended its borders to the North Pole, up to the formation of the continents of Mu and Atlantis.
The Etruscans called themselves Rasna, from the root ra, similar to Ramu, king-priest of Mu, Rama in India and to the Egyptian Ra, personification of solar energy, the vital heart of the Cosmos. Symbols are the swastika and the winged globe of the Mu tablets, depicted respectively on the walls of Sovana, in Grosseto, and in the Tomb of the Reliefs of Caere. The trade routes of the Etruscans were the Tule which reached as far as the Himalayas, and whose echoes we find in the toponym Caput-tolium, head of the Tule, the Capitoline Hill. Rome, in fact, rises on the Tiber which embodies the Milky Way and has seven hills like the stars of the Big Dipper, close to the polar star mentioned in the Hindu Rg-Veda, the axis of the sky that pulsates in Thule.
Ancestors of the Etruscans are the Toltecs, the third main subrace of the Atlantean lineage, as we learn from Arthur Powell's work, The Solar System. Red-brown in colour, they were prodigious in height and excelled in building art with cyclopean temples, paved streets and bridges. They created a shining empire that lasted several millennia, when a cataclysm struck Atlantis and the Toltecs pushed into the Americas, founding the Inca civilization, while his heirs built Tula in Mexico in the 9th century AD, with their enormous "atlases". The Toltec gene is found intact in the sixth Akkadian subrace, typical of the Etruscans, who also have inextricable links with the Egyptians, the Maya and the Indians of North America, other descendants of the Toltecs.
A regal color
The frescoes in the Tomb of the Triclinium, in Tarquinia, portray red men, while the Tomb of the Auguri presents high-ranking figures of the same color who stand out above common individuals. Yet another holds an egg in his hands, a sign of eternal creation. The Etruscan kings, during ritual ceremonies, dyed themselves red, and red was the favorite color of the emperor Nero. Red, scholars admit, has a sacred character, without however explaining the reason. It symbolizes the ancestral predecessors and refers to the cult of the planet Mars, embodied by the entirely red leonine Sphinx, in Giza, and by the jaguar of the pyramid of Chichén Itzà. The sacred feline reappears again in Tarquinia, in the Tomb of the Leopards and that of the Lionesses, actually jaguars. Finally, the Red Indians of North America
They spoke Sanskrit
But who were the Etruscans in truth? Does their language solve the mystery? Emperor Claudius, fascinated by their world, wrote the Tirrenika in twenty volumes, which disappeared into thin air. The Etruscan Annuals kept in the Tabularium Capitolinum, which narrated the true origin of the Romans, the Etruscan Books and the Tusci Libelli suffered the same fate, with only a few fragments preserved by Latin citations. Strange, given that Roman schoolchildren went to study Etruscan in the prestigious Caere. The language of the Rasna, states the philologist Bernardini Marzolla, reveals an ancient descent from the first language on the planet: Sanskrit. The most complete text is engraved on the bandages of a mummy discovered in Egypt two centuries ago, now in the Zagreb Museum. The strips of canvas, fourteen metres, make up the "Book of the Mummy".
Adepts of the Great Mother
Around 1,000 BC, the inhabitants of Lydia lived on the island of Lemnos with its capital Hephaestia, in the Aegean Sea, dotted with necropolises and sanctuaries to the black virgin Cybele, invoked as the mother of the Indus. The girls practiced sacred theogamy in particular colleges, reminiscent of those of the Inca Mamacones and the Roman Vestals. Etruscan society was matriarchal, like Atlantis, with women attending sacred cults and enjoying influential weight in the most important decisions.
Proof of this is the Regolini–Galassi tomb, discovered in 1836 in Caere, which housed Princess Larthia, wearing a fibula woven with tiny granulated spheres. Revealing, then, is the story of Lucumone, son of a Corinthian noble, who together with his wife Tanaquilla arrived in Rome from Tarquinia in the 7th century BC.
At the gates of Rome, an eagle grabs Lucumone's hat and then returns it to him. A sacred omen, similar to the Aztec myth, and the foundation of the metropolis of Cajamarquilla in Peru, where a condor would have crowned its founder. Tanaquilla is an Inca name, as quilla means moon, suggesting that the woman belonged to an ancient lunar cult. In Etruscan, the same name is Thanakhvil, where than is the female aspect of the god Tin and akhvil is handmaid, in Quechua aclla, meaning "the handmaids of the gods", a sacred order, suggesting that the woman belonged to an ancient lunar cult.
The megalithic outposts
Lucumone entered Rome changing his name to Tarchunies Rumach, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and became king in 607 BC after the death of King Ancus Martius (strange assonance with the Egyptian term Ank–hor). He will be the one to drain the water that will feed the Tiber from the hills around Rome, to create the Forum Boarium, the Temple of Vesta and the Circus Maximus, a place of worship. His is also the magnificent temple of Tinia-Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill. Rome, a territory of poor pile dwellings, became part of the twelve sacred cities that covered the whole of Etruria, while a similar number of metropolises affected Campania. When erecting a site, the Etruscan geomancers traced two lines at right angles in a north-south direction, the cardo maximus, and the decumanus maximus with an east-west trend, placing the omphalos stone at the point of intersection.
The Etruscan metropolises include Cortona, Arezzo, Fiesole, Tarquinia, Vulci and Populonia. The monumental urban complex of Caere, with a necropolis covering 360 hectares, was anciently the most powerful port in the Mediterranean, together with Hatria, and countless others on the Tyrrhenian coast. One of the oldest settlements is Vetulonia, which surpassed Athens with over one hundred thousand inhabitants. Its megalithic stones once stood out on the hill-mound, equally in Ollantaytambo in the Andes. On the cyclopean Cosa, near Orbetello, a stone Sphinx watches over and the adjacent mountain of Ansedonia is sculpted with mythological animals similar to Marcahuasi. Indistinguishable, then, are the 8 km long city walls of Volterra and that of Pisaq in Peru, as well as the polygonal blocks of Alatri and Amelia, weighing hundreds of tons, and Sacsayhuaman, overlying Cuzco. The profound affinities of the Etruscans with the Incas find authoritative confirmation in Zecharia Sitchin, whom we consulted, who responded affirmatively regarding our intuition of a similar bond with distant America.
What is also striking is the homophony of Chianciano (probably consolidated by an Etruscan Clanikiane) and Chan Chan, capital of the Peruvian Great Chimu, which also preserve identical anthropomorphic funerary urns dating back to the 7th century BC. At Poggio Murlo, Siena, a figurine with a false beard of an "ancestor" was also found, equipped with a strange sombrero similar to the headgear of the Warrior of Capestrano. Finally we have Veii, home of the artist Velca, who sculpted the magnificent statue of Apollo, a divinity whose effigy on the Palatine will be 15 meters high. The lineage of the Amhara or Aymarà, who inhabited ancient Ameria (Amelia) with the name of Amr, worshiped Apu Illu, Lord of lightning, on Mount Soracte in Bolivia, while the Romans built on Mount Soracte, sung by Horace in his Odes , a sanctuary to Apollo.
The invisible arteries of Porsenna
The most impressive work is the Mausoleum of King Porsenna in Chiusi, outlined by Varro and Pliny in their books. The structure looks like a Buddhist temple with fifteen pyramids of indescribable height and a bronze sphere in the center, which emitted particular frequencies. Its pinnacles antennas point to the sky to channel cosmic energy. It constituted the mother oracular center in Italy, linked with those of Delphi, Dodona, Thebes, Heliopolis and Metsamor, in Asia Minor. Under the nearby Poggio Gaiella there is a dense network of unexplored underground tunnels that form the labyrinth of Porsenna, the ceremonial heart connected with the twelve city-states and the twin metropolises on the other side of the ocean. The catacombs under St. Peter's, once Etruscan temples, were also part of this design.
The U-shaped tunnels had an initiatory function, such as the very long and disturbing one in S. Valentino and others in Pitigliano, Sorano and Sovana, an archaeological area of considerable interest, dotted with the famous "cuts". These enormous roads in the tuff, which appear to have been carved with a laser, rise dizzily in the vicinity of necropolises, temples, sacred places, and often close to each other. Built to the rhythm of the flute, with which the Etruscans marked every activity, they bring to mind the Greek musician Amphion, who built Thebes "to the music of his lyre", presumably antediluvian sonic science. If the enormous tunnel under Castel Gandolfo, more than 1 km long, is a work of hydraulic engineering, the purpose of the "cuts" is not yet clear. In light of current knowledge, they represent astronomical or telluric alignments of significant importance, historiated by cosmic glyphs. In fact, tuff is a radioactive material, also found in Cuzco and on the Nazca plain.
Guardians of life
The illustrious linguist Georges Dumézil, in the appendix to his work The archaic Roman religion, states in concise tones that the Romans borrowed a solid ritual substratum from an "Indo-European past", which the "Etruscan contribution" modified slightly. A contradiction in terms. For the sake of clarity, we point out that the Etruscans are the Indo-European element, and the Romans limited themselves to adopting their very high conceptions, like the Greeks previously, which were then totally distorted.
The Etruscans were a peaceful people, forced to use weapons only because of the oppression of Rome. They had an animist vision, in which the entire Universe pulsates with life and every organism is connected. Hence the love for the Earth, the woods, the springs, the mountains and the sky, a sublime symphony of the First Energy, which expresses its sacredness in the human body through sexual functions. Their pantheon is made up of numerous characters and auxiliary beings, expressing the multiple aspects of a distant esoteric doctrine, invisible to the profane. Similar to the Gnostics, they believed, in fact, that man was at the center of the light and dark forces, capable of determining for himself which path to take to return to the top.
The language of Nature
The uranic revelations are found in the Acherontic Books, on hidden dimensions, rituales, fatales, and the Haruspic Books concerning hepatoscopy, or liver examination, for the Etruscans a small cosmos in movement. A science defined by the Romans as "Etruscan discipline". The volumes came from the wise boy Tages, who emerged from a clod of earth, information that connects us to the underground kingdom of Agarthi. Mother Earth gave the Etruscans sacred geometry and primordial sound, with which they enchanted animals. Noteworthy is the engraving of the esoteric mandala "flower of life" with six petals, of Indian origin, found on the stele of the warrior Avele Feluske, in Vetulonia. The reticular arrangement of the boulders in the buildings replicates the biological structure of the cell, causing the entire construction to come to life and "communicate" certain frequencies, particularly active near waterways. The liquid element had a purifying function, still appreciated today in the spa centers of Saturnia and Petriolo. Numa Pompilius, whom traditions describe as a peaceful and enlightened monarch, was in contact with the nymph Egeria, who lived in a spring in the sacred grove near the Almene river. Spring water magnetizes cosmic rays, such as infrared, regenerating the earth and life forms. In humans it enhances ancestral memory and floods the hypothalamus with planetary energy.
The glow of Zeus
Numa composed twelve books of "natural sciences" which he hid in an ark in his tomb, later found empty, and introduced the solar calendar of 365 ¼ days. He mastered the "fire of Zeus", electricity, and his temples had lightning rods at the entrance. His successor, Tullus Hostilius, died incinerated by the lightning shocks. The secret of Numa passed to Porsenna, who in the 6th century BC pulverized Bolsena, invoking a celestial bolt, and defeated with an electric discharge a ferocious being with a prophetic name: Volt.
The study of thunder and lightning was codified in the Libri fulgurales, with instructions for evoking, dominating and guiding lightning. Complex rites followed the fall of lightning in a specific place, which was immediately fenced off as a precaution and declared sacred, due to the presence of stellar fireballs in the meteoric iron ground, vital to the Etruscans. The fulguratores, equipped with wax in their ears, removed the residual vibrations by modulating a sacred word. At the Sorgenti della Nova, an ancient metropolis looks down from a staircase at Monte Becco, an Etruscan sanctuary, where strange magnetic phenomena still occur today. Even Constantine, priest of Sol Invictus, secretly consulted the Etruscan soothsayers, willing to launch thunderbolts on Alaric's Goths in 410 AD, under Pope Innocent.
The sonic initiates
Numa established the college of the Lucumoni, made up of 60 high priests dressed in the purple robe, the gold chain, the conical tutulo on the head which acts as a celestial receptor. In his hand was the lituum, the curved scepter surmounted by an eagle, which emitted sound waves. The Lucumoni were doctors-shamans who traveled in the astral worlds acquiring prodigious knowledge useful for guiding the community, as happens in the Siberian and Uralic-Altaic cultures. Among the Incas they took the name of Tarpuntaes astronomers. We also owe the creation of another enigmatic college to Numa, that of the Flamines Dialis, custodians of the earthly breath, who hide in their name the flaming energy of kundalini, at the base of the spine. Forced by very strict rules, they slept in sacred caves above a small opening in the ground.
The lineage of silence
The initiatory center and heart of Etruscan life is the Fanum Voltumnae, in the dense Lamone forest around Lake Bolsena, which extended its borders as far as Tarquinia, forming a sacred place on the border between heaven and Earth. Here, in the sacred Temple, the lucumoni of the twelve sacred cities gathered every year to elect a new priest and celebrate the mystery ceremony of the Paska, in which bread was broken and wine was drunk, while the participants received a pomegranate, the regeneration. The Rasna knew that their task on Earth was coming to an end, like the Incas who read the same warning in the stars. The glorious civilization they had created lasted for ten "saecula", and nothing, not even the most powerful of the lucumoni, was able to oppose it. They disappeared at the dawn of a new Sun.
