The Era of the Vimanas
Once, gods appeared to humans in vimanas, splendid vehicles resulting from impressive technology. Ancient Indian texts hold the secret to their construction and the catastrophic events that changed the Earth.
It is now established that the earliest terrestrial civilizations achieved high accomplishments in the literary, artistic, political, and metaphysical fields, reflecting a high degree of intellectual growth over the years. Several powerful kingdoms succeeded in ruling vast territories of the known world, annexing other peoples under their aegis, a sign of a determined and efficient state apparatus.
It is another thing to claim that our predecessors possessed advanced technology reminiscent of the scientific achievements of the third millennium. Such a thesis would completely overturn today's society, suddenly nullifying a slow path of conquests dotted with sacrifices that have granted our species the status of Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
The first step is to embrace ancient sacred texts with an open mind in a scientific key, revealing in this sense the obscure terminology of individuals who witnessed phenomena beyond their comprehension. However, if in the same books we find detailed technical descriptions in a modern language of strange machines powered by an unknown energy, things take another perspective. The writer, even unaware of aeronautical principles, mastered specific knowledge that allowed him to unveil an ancient science. Admitting this leads to the next step, the comparative search for evidence that reveals the secret of the vimanas.
The Art of Dominating the Sky
The Sanskrit word vimana is formed by the prefix vi, "bird" or "to fly," and the suffix man, which indicates an "artificially constructed inhabited place." The word thus assumes the meaning of "artificial inhabited bird." In 1875, an ancient manuscript from the 4th century BC was discovered, composed by the sage Bharadwaja (presumably based on Vedic-era sources), the Vymaanika-Shastra or Science of Aeronautics, which details the construction and flight characteristics of a vimana, which differs in four main models with different functions: Shakuna, Sundara, Rukma, and Tripura. The drawings that emerge based on the descriptions show genuine spacecraft.
The text opens with this statement: "Experts in aeronautical science say: 'What can fly from one place to another is a Vimana.' The experts say that what can fly through the air, from one island to another island, from one world to another world, is a Vimana." The possibility of reaching other planets in the cosmos was normal at that time, the result of advanced science that explored the boundaries of the solar system and asserted the habitability of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon. A star chart from 4000 BC, owned by scholar David Davenport, shows contacts between Earth and other distant star systems, home to advanced civilizations. The same yogis, by enhancing the mind, cross unknown transdimensional realms.
The Vymaanika-Shastra, after providing instructions on the equipment and diet of pilots similar to that of astronauts, continues by listing 32 secrets that the pilots must adopt in flight, the most important of which is the transfer of latent spiritual powers in man to the machine itself. These include: invisibility, shape alteration, hypersonic speed, radar, spy cameras, and sound detection devices, infrared rays, creation of holograms to confuse enemies, concentration of sunlight over vast areas, temporary darkness, ultrasonic and bacteriological weapons. There are few differences from modern spy aircraft.
Scientists of the Universe
But the Vymaanika-Shastra is not the only work in circulation about vimanas; in Indian literature, almost all the sacred texts mention them, from the four Vedas, to the Brahmanas, to the Srimad-Bhagavatam, appearing in numerous treatises of various kinds, classified as documented chronicles. Among these, the Samarangana Sutradhara establishes that the aircraft had mercury propulsion and could also move thanks to sound. The Drona Parva, a part of the broader Mahabharata, illustrates the mode: "The Mind became the ground that supported that vimana, the Word became the track on which it wanted to proceed... And the syllable OM placed in front of that chariot made it extraordinarily beautiful. When it moved, its rumble filled all the points of the compass."
The need to keep the ways of the sky hidden from the uninitiated for the good of humanity was the purpose of King Ashoka, a Buddhist emperor of the Maurya dynasty who lived in India from 304 to 232 BC. He created the "Secret Society of Nine Unknowns" with the task of cataloging the science of the time in nine books, including The Secrets of Gravitation, kept in remote places in Asia. Several years ago, the Chinese found ancient Sanskrit documents that dealt with the antigravity energy present in humans capable of levitating everything. The interstellar vehicles called "Astras" had the ability to become invisible thanks to antima energy and to operate deviations in space-time through the ability to "become heavy as a mountain of lead." Note that "astra" in Latin is the plural of star, while antima has given rise to antimatter, etymologically an energy composed entirely of antiparticles. Was such knowledge entirely human work or did it spring from the celestial depths, perfectly known to Hindu scientists?
Vimana, Gift of the Gods
The aerodynamic shape of the devices led to the erection of wonderful sacred structures in the form of pyramids, vimanas for the followers of Tantra, still visible throughout India, indicating the temple of the moving god. Various races of deities, constantly in contact with Indian monarchs, attended ritual sacrifices, scattering flowers from their vimanas, and resumed their way to the sky at the end.
Arjuna, legendary Vedic hero and friend of Krishna, speaks in his interplanetary travels of distant regions where neither the Sun nor the Moon shines, but tiny glittering stars if observed from the blue planet. King Citaketu traveled through space on a bright vehicle given to him by the god Vishnu and encounters Shiva, who quickly disappears from sight in his spaceship.
The Mahabharata describes the tactical use of vimanas in field wars, with the launch of blazing projectiles that vaporize creatures, sowing panic, and tells the stories of King Salva who, eager to annihilate Krishna's city, obtains from the architect of another planetary system a prodigious vimana. The king initially bombards the citadel from above with rocks and tree trunks, and later uses a weapon capable of manipulating weather conditions, but in the end, Krishna obtains his victory by confronting Salva in the sky with an ultrasonic missile that kills instantly. The episode reveals that man, properly instructed, was still powerless in the face of such technology, the prerogative of the gods, which millennia before led to the triumph of the glorious Rama Empire, in a terrible stellar war remembered in the Ramayana by Valmiki.
The Victory of Rama
The famous Indian epic poem tells the story of Rama, the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu, who marries Princess Sita and establishes a vast empire between Iran and Afghanistan, known in classical texts as "The Seven Cities of the Rishi." The evil Ravana, king of Lanka, kidnaps the woman whom Rama sets out to free with the help of Hanuman, kills Ravana, and finally razes his city to the ground. Historically there existed a Ravana dynasty that ruled Lanka for four hundred years, thus outlining a scenario that inspired the subsequent tale of Homer's Iliad, where two empires fight over a woman. What is interesting is the frequent recourse in the poem to flying machines equipped with incredible weapons, which until the last decide the fate of the battle.
In the fifteenth chapter, the Pushpaka Vimana appears, a huge golden aircraft that belonged to Brahma, which Ravana steals from his brother and pilots with the help of a strange humanoid being. In the sky, he wars with a host of enemy spacecraft launching missiles, reaches Lanka, and victorious Rama seizes the vehicle that will eventually take him to his father's residence. During the crossing, Rama points out to Sita the sites of the conflict, indicating Lanka as the dwelling place of the Titans, the name of a race that will be useful in the course of our research. Lanka, in ancient Dravidian "island," is described as a stronghold surrounded by water beyond a vast ocean, a detail that has led scholars David Davenport and Ettore Vincenti to identify it with the opulent Mohenjo Daro, in Pakistan. Lanka was bathed by the Indus River often defined as an ocean and bordered to the southeast by Rama's empire. If the geographical connections correspond, the archaeological discoveries are even more staggering.
The Place of Death
Mohenjo Daro seems to have sprung from nowhere. A flourishing metropolis that housed 30,000 inhabitants, it was designed according to a modern grid architectural plan and boasted an excellent sewer system, as well as a huge pool. Its name, "place of death," derives from the discovery of 44 skeletons in various districts of the city when a systematic exploration of its ruins was undertaken by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1945. Its discovery, however, is due to the archaeologist R. D. Banerjee who eighty years ago unearthed the underlying buildings on which a Buddhist stupa from 300 BC was built.
The skeletons, scattered in a specific area of the metropolis, lay discomposed with contorted limbs, a sign that death caught them by surprise. The attack by Aryan tribes, a literary myth created from nothing, does not hold up, as there are no weapons next to the bodies and, above all, the bones show strange carbonizations and calcinations, due to the effects of a nuclear explosion. Only a fusion bomb can cause such devastations, with an epicenter from which the shockwave radiates, creating three distinct zones in the impacted area, as in Mohenjo Daro. The Survey of India (Institute of Chronology) has so far identified the dates of some crucial battles based on the astrological references of the Vedas, making a comparison on the archaeological finds of the Indus Valley. In the case of Mohenjo Daro, experts have found a leap of over four hundred years compared to the established chronology, suggesting a nuclear contamination of the organic remains. Davenport and Vincenti have found far from the archaeological digs a plain with common use objects vitrified, which upon careful analysis turned out to be irradiated by Uranium, Plutonium, and Potassium 40 at abnormal levels.
Sufficient evidence to support an ancient war between stellar beings, which impressed the memory of the natives. A carved stone artifact shows a helmet with a thin visor completely different from the helmets then in use and closer to that of a pilot, while the Governor's Palace encircles a large courtyard that once hosted, perhaps, the Pushpaka Vimana. Not to mention that only a quarter of the city has been unearthed so far; but the evidence does not end here.
According to ancient legends, the lords of the sky, angry with Lanka, pulverized seven cities with a light that shone like a thousand suns and emitted the rumble of ten thousand thunders. In the Ramayana, the sage Rishi warns the inhabitants of his hermitage to flee far from the Great Thar Desert, for in seven days a rain of ashes would end the reign of Danda, Ravana's brother-in-law. The skeletons found at Mohenjo Daro are few in number compared to the total number of inhabitants, who fled suddenly to avoid the celestial purification. Science and mythology merge and once again the ancient texts confirm today's discoveries.
A Secret to Forget
But was an atomic war aboard the vimanas an episode confined to India alone? Some caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert contained hemispherical devices made of glass and porcelain with a conical end filled with mercury, which Soviet scientists have defined as "ancient instruments for the guidance of cosmic vehicles." Remnants of remote vitrified metropolises lie among the sands of the Gobi, which once was the homeland of advanced civilizations that descended to form man. They were the ones who ruled Atlantis, which had a Vimana-Vailixi used for a battle on the Moon. The Stanzas of Dzyan, an occult text of Tibet, narrate that the Great King with the Dazzling Face hypnotized the Dark Lords aware of the destruction of Atlantis and seized with his people the enemy vimanas, to reach distant lands.
In the underground cities of Akakor, in Brazil, there exist strange maps on which the solar system with several moons, two islands in the Atlantic and Pacific that sank due to a clash in the sky between two stellar races that disturbed the orbits of Mars and Venus (see The Kingdom of Akakor, ACAM Section of Enigmatic Civilizations).
The Hopi Indians of North America remember in their myths the Third World populated by men who with patuwwota (leather shields) waged war annihilating civilization. In the western USA, there are numerous ruins consumed by nuclear radiation as a perpetual memory. The buildings of Sette Cidades, near the Rio Longe, present traces of crystallization that resemble those of Sacsayhuaman, in Peru, spread over an area of 15,000 m2.
On Mount Rano-Kao, on Easter Island, there is a large crack, a sign of intense heat that melted the obsidian on the ground and left a circular crater not far away. Wooden engravings show individuals distorted by strong radiation.
The Middle East also retains evidence of advanced technological developments. The Halkatha, old Babylonian laws, state: "Driving a flying machine is a great privilege. The knowledge of flight is extremely ancient, a gift from the gods of the past for survival." A Chaldean text, the Sifr'ala, meticulously describes the constructive parts of an airplane such as copper coils, vibrating spheres, and graphite rods, focusing on the aerodynamics of the vehicle. The most famous Middle Eastern account of an ancient flight in space features the antediluvian king named Etana who, aboard an eagle, disappears into the sky and observes from above the Earth becoming ever smaller.
Precious for comparison with the Indian epic are the Sumerian chronicles of a furious war that broke out between opposing factions of gods for the possession of the Earth, which causes a radioactive wind from the Sinai Peninsula, still today strewn with blackened stones. Many will remember the Toprakkale artifact, preserved at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, which depicts a sort of shuttle piloted by an individual in a space suit, clear confirmation of ancient technology operating in the Mesopotamian area.
From the nearby Arabian Peninsula, Indian mythology reached Greece, home to a diverse pantheon at whose apex reigned Zeus. The name derives from the Sanskrit Dyaush-Ptr, which originated the corresponding Latin Jupiter Father, later relegated to a mere assistant to the thundering Indra. Zeus was described as a powerful deity who hurled thunderbolts, a distant echo of terrible weapons used in the ten-year war that opposed him to the semi-divine race of the Titans: "Then Zeus...from Heaven hurled his fiery darts. The thunderbolts he threw were powerful in noise and in light...The Titans born from Earth were enveloped by a burning vapor. Countless flames rose up to the clear ether. The brilliance of the stones of the thunderbolts and the flashes blinded even the strongest." These are the last testimonies of the conflict rained from the sky, the work of beings with human features, worshiped by our ancestors as gods. Time erased the memory of their feats, and silence fell on aeronautical technology, born to cross the boundaries of the cosmos. The celestial chariots disappeared from the Earth, leaving a few elect with dominion over the skies. An ageless Nepalese manuscript recounts that an ancient Indian king, unable to pilot a vimana, summons a representative of the Yavanas, a fair-skinned, fair-haired race descended from Noah who inhabited the eastern Mediterranean after the Flood. The monarch soared into the air but never came to know the secret of flight that belonged to the gods and was once kept in his land.
