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  1. Mu, Part 6:
  2.  
  3. The oldest fossil evidence for a primate dates back to 55-58Mya, in the form of Plesiadapis;
  4.  
  5. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiadapis
  6. >Plesiadapis is one of the oldest known primate-like mammal genera which existed about 55–58 million years ago in North America and Europe.[2] Plesiadapis means "near-Adapis", which is a reference to the Eocene lemuriform, Adapis
  7.  
  8. Adapis displays all the features which would later be seen in all the branches of the primates;
  9.  
  10. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapis
  11. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adapis_parisiensis.jpg
  12. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adapis_magnus.JPG
  13.  
  14. Plesiadapis is a member of Plesiadapidae;
  15.  
  16. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiadapidae
  17. >Plesiadapidae is a family of plesiadapiform mammals related to primates known from the Paleocene and Eocene of North America, Europe, and Asia.[1][2] Plesiadapids were abundant in the late Paleocene, and their fossils are often used to establish the ages of fossil faunas
  18.  
  19. The Plesiadapidae were defined by not only their possession of traits that would later defined primates, but by many ancestral therapsid traits;
  20.  
  21. >http://www.reptileevolution.com/notharctus.htm
  22. >http://www.reptileevolution.com/images/archosauromorpha/synapsids/mammals/plesiadapis588.jpg
  23. >http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/69%20prosimians.htm
  24. >http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/Ch.%2069--Primates.Prosimians_files/9%20pled.jpg
  25. >http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/Ch.%2069--Primates.Prosimians_files/19%20smilodect.jpg
  26. >http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/Ch.%2069--Primates.Prosimians_files/23%20lemur.jpg
  27. >http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/Ch.%2069--Primates.Prosimians_files/29%20mega%20lo.jpg
  28. >http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/Ch.%2069--Primates.Prosimians_files/31%20lemurs.jpg
  29. >http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/Ch.%2069--Primates.Prosimians_files/35%20skull.jpg
  30. >https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259104043_New_skeletons_of_Paleocene-Eocene_Plesiadapiformes_a_diversity_of_arboreal_positional_behaviors_in_early_primates_In_Rovosa_MJ_Dagosto_M_eds_Primate_origins_adaptations_and_evolution_Springer_New_York
  31.  
  32. Notharctus itself derived from Vulpavus palustris;
  33.  
  34. >http://www.reptileevolution.com/vulpavus.htm
  35. >http://www.reptileevolution.com/images/archosauromorpha/synapsids/mammals/Vulpavus588.jpg
  36. >Vulpavus palustris (Marsh 1871) Bridgerian (Early to Middle Eocene) was a primitive miacid, a mink-like member of the Carnivora. Here Vulpavus was derived from a sister to Nandinia
  37.  
  38. As a miacid, Vulpavus palustris, and thus all it's descendents, are a branch of carnivoria. Yet, it's hands and feet lacked claws, and some resemblance to those of a human. It evolved from a common ancestor of the civet;
  39.  
  40. >http://www.reptileevolution.com/nandinia.htm
  41. >Nandinia binotata (Gray 1830, 1843, formerly Viverra binotata) is a living primitive member of the Carnivora, commonly called the African palm civet. It is an omnivore, eating fruits mainly. Derived from a sister to Vulvapus
  42. >Distinct from Vulvapus, the skull of Nandinia is relatively larger and wider with a larger cranium
  43. >The lumbar region of the spine is longer. The sacral region is shorter
  44.  
  45. Carnivora as defined by miacids dates back to 56Mya;
  46.  
  47. >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/earliest-eocene-miacidae-mammalia-carnivora-from-northwestern-wyoming/83C6DE571B5ED1F0462018E49445FC16
  48. >Fossil carnivorans are described from earliest Eocene localities in the Clarks Fork and southern Bighorn basins of Wyoming
  49. >possibly most basal members of their respective genera
  50. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene
  51. >The Eocene ( /ˈiːəˌsiːn, ˈiːoʊ-/[2][3]) Epoch, lasting from 56 to 33.9 million years ago
  52.  
  53. These early forms could represent Varaha and Narasimha, who gave way to Liujiang man who represents the dwarf Vamana. Narasimha clearly represents Proconsul, and Varaha represents the earlier forms. However, a Manvantara is 306Mya;
  54.  
  55. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manvantara
  56. >The actual duration of a Manvantara, according to the Vishnu Purana is seventy one times the number of years contained in the four Yugas, with some additional years, adding up to 852,000 divine years, or 306,720,000 human years
  57.  
  58. Which is near the 310Mya chimp-human Y chromosomal split. What if, instead of humanity's ancestors, these ancient mammals represent degenerate humans? Mythology records this in the claim that Aditi gave birth to Surya by Kashyapa, and one of Surya's sons was Manu. Kashyapa was the son of Marichi, who himself was the son of Brahma. Various proto-humans could be Vanaras, who're said to have been created by Brahma as battle thrawls;
  59.  
  60. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanara
  61. >Vanaras are created by Brahma to help Rama in battle against Ravana. They are powerful and have many godly traits. Taking Brahma's orders, the gods began to parent sons in the semblance of monkeys (Ramayana 1.17.8). The Vanaras took birth in bears and monkeys attaining the shape and valor of the gods and goddesses who created them
  62.  
  63. From the Ramayana itself;
  64.  
  65. >http://www.valmikiramayan.net/bala/sarga17/bala_17_frame.htm
  66. >Let mighty and guise changing helpmates be procreated to that truth abiding and valorous Vishnu
  67. >Let monkey-shaped progeny equalling Vishnu's valour be procreated from the physiques of prominent apsara-s and gandharva-s, from the girls of yaksha-s and pannaga-s, and also thus from the bodies of kinnaraa-s, she-vidyaadharaa-s, she-riksha-s and she-monkeys, and they shall be wizards of miracles and audacious ones, in travel they shall have air's speed, bestowed with intellect they shall be the knowers of ideation, and with their divine physique they shall be ineliminable, they shall be endowed with all the assaultive aspects of all missiles, and they shall be untiring in their efforts, like you who thrive on amrita, the ambrosia, unmindful of thirst and hunger
  68. >I have already created the eminent bear Jambavanta in earlier times, as he suddenly came forth from my yawning face
  69. >When Brahma addressed them thus, those gods have agreed to his order and accordingly started to parent sons in the semblance of monkeys
  70. >The great-souled celestial groups, namely the sages, siddha-s, vidyaadharaa-s, caarana-s have created valiant sons that are forest rangers
  71. >Thus the gods have procreated many thousands of such valorous and guise changing monkeys who with their immeasurable strength and bravery are manifest for the elimination of the decahedral demon Ravana
  72. >And they with their elephantine, mountainous and prodigious bodies quickly took birth in bears, monkeys, sacred langoors
  73. >Those that are procreated have attained the shape, getup and valour of the god that has fathered them, and thus the monkey race is procreated separately and individually
  74. >Some of the vanara-s endowed with superior valour are born to female langoors, and like that some more to female bears and kinnaraa-s
  75. >Several of the gods, great-sages, gandharva-s, eagles, yaksha-s, and the celebrated reptiles, kimpusha-s, siddha-s, vidyaadharaa-s, uraga-s and caarana-s and even the prominent maidens of apsara-s, she-vidyaadharaa-s, naaga, gandharva-s then gladly procreated all of the thousands of forest-ranging and valiant vanara sons from their bodies that are forest rangers
  76. >All of them are the assaulters with stones, and all are the attackers with trees, and all have their nails and claws as their weapons, yet all are experts in missiles
  77. >They can rock greatest mountains, rip firm rooted trees, and with their speed they can agitate the of lord of rivers, namely the ocean
  78. >They can shatter the ground with their two feet, leap and cross over great oceans, and they can seize the clouds entering arch of heaven
  79. >They can catch ruttish elephants that tumultuously move in forests, and just with the sound of their blare they make sky flying birds to fall
  80. >Thus the gods and others have procreated millions of such noble souled Vaanaras as the chiefs of warriors who can change their guise at their wish
  81. >Those vanara generals who took birth thus became the prominent generals among the principle battalions of monkeys, and they have also procreated brave monkeys on their own
  82. >Some thousands of them stayed on the ridges of Mt. Riskshavat while others reached many kinds of other mountains and forests
  83. >All of those who are well-versed in warfare and endowed with the might of divine eagle Garuda, used to thwart the pride of lions, tigers and great snakes just by their own prideful subjugation while they move about the forests
  84. >He who is adroit, extremely mighty, and highly indomitable, that Vali protected bears, langoors, and monkeys just by the strength of his arms
  85. >The earth with its mountains, forests and oceanward places is overspread with those brave ones that possess diverse physiques and peculiar indication marks of their stock
  86.  
  87. The Ramayana claims that this occurs during the Treta yuga, which lasts 1,296,000 years and ended circa 3114BC, placing it's beginning at 1,299,114BC or 1.3MyaYBP. The fact that proto-humans existed before 1.3MyaYBP tells us that the Ramayana didn't occur during the last Treta yuga, but rather a prior Treta yuga. A complete yuga cycle is 4,320,000 years, and our current Kali yuga age will end on February, 428,886AD - from this date, we can deduct 4,320,000 years to reach the end of the last Kali yuga and the beginning of the last Satya yuga, or 3,891,114BC.
  88.  
  89. 3,891,114 * 10 = 38,911,140, or ten yuga cycles, which places us at the end of a Kali yuga and at the beginning of a Satya yuga. 3,888,000 years later, on 35,023,140BC, a Treta yuga began;
  90.  
  91. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear
  92. >The earliest members of Ursidae belong to the extinct subfamily Amphicynodontinae, including Parictis (late Eocene to early middle Miocene, 38–18 Mya) and the slightly younger Allocyon (early Oligocene, 34–30 Mya
  93. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctoidea
  94.  
  95. Around 30MyaYBP, both primates and bears (Vanara) began to diversify. This diversity was a result of the many branches of divine heritage that were placed upon the Earth to battle Ravana. However, early bears were small - the best fit are animals like the entelodonts, namely Daeodon and Paraentelodon;
  96.  
  97. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daeodon
  98. >Daeodon (from Greek, δαίος, daios "hostile" or "dreadful", and οδον, odon "teeth") is an extinct genus of entelodont artiodactyl that inhabited North America between 29 and 19 million years ago during the late Oligocene and early Miocene
  99. >The type species is Daeodon shoshonensis, the last and largest of the entelodonts; known adults of this species possessed skulls about 90 cm (3 ft) in length. It had a broad distribution across the United States, but it was never abundant
  100. >http://prehistoric-fauna.com/Paraentelodon
  101. >Temporal range: Oligocene through to Burdigalian of the Miocene (Asia)
  102. >Dimensions: length - 3 m, height ~ 200 сm, weight ~ 1000 kg
  103.  
  104. However, many other mammals at the time were also large and strong enough to qualify as Vanara;
  105.  
  106. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraceratherium
  107. >Temporal range: Oligocene, 34–23 Ma
  108. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsinoitherium
  109. >Temporal range: 36–27 Ma
  110. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacerops
  111. >Temporal range: Late Eocene 38–33.9 Ma
  112.  
  113. A clear evolutionary course can be see in the following progression that links primates, carnivorans, hoofed mammals and whales;
  114.  
  115. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyaenidae
  116. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Palaeonictis.jpg
  117. >Temporal range: Middle Paleocene to late Eocene 60.2–33.9 Ma
  118. >Oxyaenidae is a family of carnivorous mammals. Traditionally classified in Creodonta, this group may be related to pangolins
  119. >North American oxyaenids were the first creodonts to appear during the late Paleocene, while smaller radiations of oxyaenids in Europe and Asia occurred during the Eocene.[2] They were superficially cat-like beasts that walked on flat feet, in contrast to modern cats, which walk or run on their toes
  120. >They were capable of climbing trees, which is suggested by fossil evidence of their paws
  121.  
  122. A pangolin can be understood as an armored monkey;
  123.  
  124. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin
  125. >Temporal range: Paleocene–Present
  126. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pangolin_borneo.jpg
  127.  
  128. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonychid
  129. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harpagolestes_immanis.jpg
  130. >Mesonychids first appeared in the early Paleocene, went into a sharp decline at the end of the Eocene, and died out entirely when the last genus, Mongolestes, became extinct in the early Oligocene. They resembled wolves, albeit superficially. Early mesonychids probably walked on the flats of their feet (plantigrade), while later ones walked on their toes (digitigrade). These later mesonychids had hooves, one on each toe, with four toes on each foot
  131. >later mesonychids had four digits that ended in tiny hooves
  132. >These "wolves on hooves" were probably one of the more important predator groups in the late Paleocene and Eocene ecosystems of Europe (which was an archipelago at the time), Asia (which was an island continent), and North America
  133. >Many species are suspected of being fish-eaters
  134. >Mesonychians were long considered to be creodonts, but have now been removed from that order and placed in three families (Mesonychidae, Hapalodectidae, and Triisodontidae), either within their own order, Mesonychia, or within the order Condylarthra as part of the cohort or superorder Laurasiatheria. Nearly all mesonychids are, on average, larger than most of the Paleocene and Eocene creodonts and miacoid carnivorans
  135. >Technically speaking, the term "mesonychid" refers specifically only to the members of the family Mesonychidae, such as the species of the genus Mesonyx
  136. >Relationship with whales
  137. >Mesonychids possess unusual triangular molar teeth that are similar to those of Cetacea (whales and dolphins), especially those of the archaeocetes, as well as having similar skull anatomies and other morphologic traits
  138. >Most paleontologists now doubt that whales are descended from mesonychids, and instead suggest that they are either descended from, or share a common ancestor with, the anthracotheres, the semiaquatic ancestors of hippos
  139. >However, the close grouping of whales with hippopotami in cladistic analyses only surfaces following the deletion of Andrewsarchus, which has often been included within the mesonychids.[9][10] One possible conclusion is that Andrewsarchus is not a mesonychid, but rather closely allied with hippopotamids
  140.  
  141. Or that Mesonychids are related to primates, Cetacea and hippopotamids all at the same time - that is, their common ancestor. The branch that led to rodents and primates emerged 58MyaYBP, which was around the same time as carnivora (59MyaYBP,) rhinos, tapirs and horses (63MyaYBP,) and about 7Mya after the development of hippos and whales (65MyaYBP.) All of this was before the Pakicetids (Which resembled Mesonychids) gave way to the Protocetids around 47MyaYBP;
  142.  
  143. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoceti
  144. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pakicetus_fossil.png
  145. >First identified as cetaceans by West 1980, the Pakicetids, the most archaic of whales, had long slender legs, a long narrow tail, and could reach the size of a modern wolf. They have only been found in sediments from freshwater streams in north-western India and northern Pakistan and were probably waders rather than swimmers
  146. >Dozens of fossils are known, but only of skulls, teeth, and jaw fragments; no complete skeletons have been found. The dentition varied: the smallest species had teeth like modern fish eaters, and the largest were more like modern hyenas. The pakicetids may have been predators or carrion feeders. Neither the skull nor the dentition of pakicetids resemble those of modern whales, but the sigmoid process, involucrum, pachyostotic (compact) and rotated ossicles of their ears still reveal their cetacean nature
  147. >The Protocetids, known from both Africa and America, were a diversified family with hind limbs and a strong tail, indicating that they were strong swimmers that colonized shallow and warm oceans, such as reefs. They greatly affected cetacean evolution 47 to 41 million years ago, because they spread across Earth's oceans
  148.  
  149. Consider this within the context of the Aquatic Ape theory - humans retain traits from when they were breeding with proto-whales. Like hippos, humans have almost no body hair. We accumulate large amounts of fat just beneath our skin, unlike chimps;
  150.  
  151. >http://m.pnas.org/content/112/24/7466.abstract
  152. >Here, we present data on the body composition of 13 bonobos (Pan paniscus) measured during anatomical dissections and compare the data with Homo sapiens. These comparative data suggest that both females and males (i) increased body fat, (ii) decreased relative muscle mass, (iii) redistributed muscle mass to lower limbs
  153.  
  154. We also have webbed fingers, and our most ancient ancestors seem to have been defined by their consumption of seafood - because until 58MyaYBP, the branch of primates that would become humans lived in a common genepool with the branch that would become carnivorans and primates. Pangolins, sharing a common ancestor with carnivorans until 60MyaYBP, displays the common phenotype of the branch up to that time. The flying fox and the bats at 73MyaYBP show that this phenotype had to exist 73MyaYBP, because the flying fox and the bats resemble primates more than any other type of mammal. Older than this and thus proving the antiquity of the primate phenotype is the branch that led to the hedgehog, mole and shrew at 76MyaYBP;
  155.  
  156. >https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Skeleton_of_hedgehog.jpg
  157. >http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/230424/view
  158. >http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/230424/large/H4650299-European_mole_skeleton-SPL.jpg
  159. >https://www.wpclipart.com/animals/S/shrew/Water_shrew_skeleton.png
  160.  
  161. Older than this branch are the sloths, anteater and armadillo at 80MyaYBP - all of whom display traits in common with shrews and primates;
  162.  
  163. >https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/1812-sloth-skeleton-by-cuvier-paul-d-stewart.jpg
  164. >http://pierce.wesleyancollege.edu/faculty/brhoades/woc/mammals/mammalpics/M056.JPG
  165. >https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Dasypus_skeleton.jpg
  166. >https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Anteater_Skeleton.JPG
  167.  
  168. Armadillos link all these groups together, because they share leprosy with primates, rodents and rabbits - the last common ancestor of these groups lived 81MyaYBP. This common ancestor combined the traits of shrews, primates, sloths, armadillos, carnivorans and whales. 70 + 35 = 105MyaYBP - which is thought to be the antiquity of the placental branch;
  169.  
  170. >http://m.pnas.org/content/100/3/1056.full
  171. >Molecular time scale for the orders of placental mammals based on the 16,397-bp data set and maximum likelihood tree of ref. 14 with an opossum outgroup (data not shown), 13 fossil constraints (Materials and Methods), and a mean prior of 105 mya for the placental root
  172. >We used 105 mya, which is the mean of two extremes that were selected from the literature
  173. >Our estimates for a placental root at 97–112 mya
  174.  
  175. Whales are descendents of the order Artiodactyla, which itself is descended from the superorder Laurasiatheria, named after the eponymous continent Laurasia. Laurasiatheria dates back to about 82MyaYBP, and Afrotheria dates back to about 48MyaYBP;
  176.  
  177. >http://m.pnas.org/content/100/3/1056/F2.large.jpg
  178.  
  179. The elephant shrew and tenrec illustrate what Afrotheria looked like circa 48MyaYBP before it specialized into aardvarks and elephants around 42MyaYBP (Which corresponds almost perfectly with the beginning of the Satya yuga 10x cycles ago,) and primates, lemurs and lorises circa 49MyaYBP. The fact that primates are on the opposite of the two main branches and older than Afrotheria, yet have a very human phenotype while Afrotheria is four-legged and more primitive suggests that the common ancestor of both was more like a primate than an elephant shrew, and proof of Afrotheria's source as a late degeneration of Laurasiatheria comes in the form of the Golden mole's blindness - to it's defense, it retains the ancient vanara trait of being immune to thirst;
  180.  
  181. >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1975541/
  182. >Water independence is achieved through efficient renal function while low rates of energy usage and torpor are further effective in reducing overall water requirements
  183.  
  184. Proving the antiquity of the primate form, at 50MyaYBP we get flying lemurs and tree shrews. The flying lemur resembles Adapis;
  185.  
  186. >https://boneclones.com/product/articulated-flying-lemur-skeleton-SC-049-A
  187. >https://boneclones.com/images/store-product/product-1669-main-main-big-1415044321.jpg
  188.  
  189. And so does the Tree shrew;
  190.  
  191. >http://obscurezoology.tumblr.com/post/73303344026/the-armoured-shrew-scutisorex-somereni-or-hero
  192. >http://68.media.tumblr.com/75d3a7e9b04156e2494e284ea40d7096/tumblr_mqhorzivaX1rjdktlo3_500.jpg
  193. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treeshrew
  194. >Temporal range: ?Middle Eocene – Recent
  195. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treeshrew
  196. >Treeshrews have a higher brain to body mass ratio than any other mammal, including humans
  197. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_shrew
  198. >Temporal range: Recent
  199. >Its features are typical of a white-toothed shrew − short legs, slender snout, dense fur − except for a highly unusual spinal column. It has corrugated interlocking vertebrae that are unique among mammals except for its sister species, Thor's hero shrew. This unique adaptation allows the animal to bear a huge amount of weight on its back − 72 kg (159 lb) according to an expedition team
  200. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scutisorex_somereni_Skelett.jpg
  201. >The hero shrew has 11 lumbar vertebrae, in contrast to a typical mammal which has 5 such vertebrae
  202.  
  203. The capacity to lift large weights and survive crushing would be invaluable to the vanara warrior race.
  204.  
  205. However, the goat in fact has 6 or 7 lumbar vertebrae;
  206.  
  207. >http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/178336/goat-anatomy.pdf
  208. >There are 7 neck (cervical) vertebrae, 13 chest (thoracic) vertebrae, 6 or 7 lumbar vertebrae, 4 pelvic (sacral) vertebrae and between 4 and 8 tail (coccygeal) vertebrae
  209. >https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Goat_skeleton.jpg/1280px-Goat_skeleton.jpg
  210.  
  211. Ruminants evolved 66MyaYBP, suggesting that 6 or 7 lumbar vertebrae are ancestral. A reduction in lumbar vertebrae is associated with an African heritage - elephants have 3 to 4 lumbar vertabrae;
  212.  
  213. >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8856763/
  214. >The osteology of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana): vertebral column, ribs and sternum
  215. >There are 20-21 thoracic vertebrae that carry ribs, and three lumbar vertebrae
  216.  
  217. >http://www.asianelephantresearch.com/about-elephant-anatomy-and-biology-p1.php
  218. >The vertebral column of the Asian elephants are divided into basic five regions, cervical (7), thoracic (19-20), lumbar (4-5), sacral (4-5) and coccygial or caudal (24-33), the parentheses is a numbers of each region. The vertebral column is a curved linear, arch-like structure in Asian elephants, but is more nearly a straight horizontal line in African elephants
  219.  
  220. Early humans had 6 lumbar vertebrae, modern humans have 5, bonobos have 4, and chimps and gorillas have 3;
  221.  
  222. >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19688850/
  223. >The vertebral formula of the last common ancestor of African apes and humans
  224.  
  225. The stiff, straight back of gorillas and neanderthals was a derived, not ancestral trait. The fact that goats and ancient hominids both had 6+ lumbar vertebrae, combined with the antiquity of ruminants (66MyaYBP) proves the hypothesis that the evolution of mammals has been defined by the loss of lumbar vertebrae. So, 10 or 11 lumbar vertebrae in the Hero shrew may be ancestral - whales, dating back 65MyaYBP, can have as many as 20 lumbar vertebrae;
  226.  
  227. >http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/skeleton.html
  228. >Lumbar Vertebrae - the third section of vertebrae are the lumbar vertebrae. These are the rest of the spine down to where the back legs connect. Normally there are only 6 or 7 of them except in the toothed whales (Odontoceti) where there can be as many as 20
  229.  
  230. The hero shrew and Tree shrew are probably very ancestral. Such a strange spinal column doesn't evolve in isolation - it's absence from the fossil record is either proof of it's unreliability, or proof of genetic engineering.
  231.  
  232. Related to these groups was Condylarthra;
  233.  
  234. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condylarth
  235. >Due to their primitive characteristics condylarths have been considered ancestral to several ungulate orders, including the living Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Perissodactyla, Hyracoidea, Sirenia, and Proboscidea, as well as the extinct Desmostylia, Embrithopoda, Liptopterna, Notoungulata, and Astrapotheria
  236. >implying that hooves were acquired independently (i.e. were analogous) by at least two different mammalian lineages, once in the Afrotheria and once in the Laurasiatheria. Condylarthra itself, therefore, is polyphyletic: the several condylarth groups are not closely related to each other at all
  237. >In addition to meridiungulates and living ungulates, a condylarthran ancestry has been proposed for several other extinct groups of mammals, including Mesonychia[10] and Dinocerata
  238. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctocyon
  239. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arctocyon_primaevus_skeleton.JPG
  240. >Arctocyon ('bear dog') is an extinct genus of ungulate mammals. Arctocyon was a "ground dwelling omnivore", that lived from 61.3-56.8 Ma. Synonyms of Arctocyon include Claenodon, and Neoclaenodon.[1] Arctocyon was likely plantigrade, that is, walked like a bear
  241.  
  242. As for bird vanara derived from Kinnaras;
  243.  
  244. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropornis
  245. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anthropornis_v1.svg
  246. >Temporal range: Eocene–Oligocene, 45–33 Ma
  247. >The type species, Anthropornis nordenskjoldi, had a bent joint in the wing, probably a carryover from flying ancestors
  248. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachydyptes
  249. >Temporal range: Late Eocene 37–34 Ma
  250. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pachydyptes_ponderosus.jpg
  251.  
  252. There's a recognized trend here;
  253.  
  254. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna
  255. >Starting from just a few kg before the event, maximum size had reached ~50 kg a few million years later, and ~750 kg by the end of the Paleocene. This trend of increasing body mass appears to level off about 40 Ma ago (in the late Eocene), suggesting that physiological or ecological constraints had been reached, after an increase in body mass of over three orders of magnitude.[11] However, when considered from the standpoint of rate of size increase per generation, the exponential increase is found to have continued until the appearance of Indricotherium 30 Ma ago
  256.  
  257. Vanaras are said to be the sons of the gods in the Ramayana, and to have propagated new vanaras with gods, humans, animals, and even each other. The fact that chimp and human Y chromosomes split off 310MyaYBP suggests that either vanara were made 310MyaYBP, or the human line they inherited is that old. Why would the chimp Y lack the information contained in the human Y, if not to erase special paternal signatures such as P91-9T and destroy the human image?
  258.  
  259. Between 310MyaYBP and 35MyaYBP, eight 35Mya cycles have occured. 38,911,140 * 10 = 389,111,400, and 389,111,400 - 77,822,280 (Two 10x Treta yuga cycles) = 311,289,120, or 311MyaYBP. This corresponds to the emergence of amniotes. The general theory is one of Admixture, Degeneration and Mutation. At the 105MyaYBP Treta yuga, the placental vanaras were created. If the chimp and human Y chromosomes split at 310MyaYBP, that implies that the absence of Aquatic Ape traits in chimps may have emerged at that time. This would mean that chimps stopped living near the water 310MyaYBP, while humans continued until 66-47MyaYBP.
  260.  
  261. Or did the aquatic tendencies of humanity stop at 47MyaYBP? The earliest human cultures were defined by their consumption of sea food - the Tanka boat people are said to descend from water snakes, and the 19th Egyptian dynasty was harrassed by the Sea peoples. The Si-Te-Cah lived on boats of tule - as did the Aztecs;
  262.  
  263. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan
  264. >When we saw so many cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land we were amazed and said that it was like the enchantments (...) on account of the great towers and cues and buildings rising from the water, and all built of masonry. And some of our soldiers even asked whether the things that we saw were not a dream?
  265. >Surrounding the raised causeways were artificial floating gardens with canal waterways and gardens of plants, shrubs, and trees
  266.  
  267. Science is in general agreement that seafood played a significant role in early human history;
  268.  
  269. >http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7164/full/nature06204.html
  270. >Here we show that by ~164 kyr ago (±12 kyr) at Pinnacle Point (on the south coast of South Africa) humans expanded their diet to include marine resources
  271. >The earliest previous evidence for human use of marine resources and coastal habitats was dated to ~125 kyr ago8, 9. Coincident with this diet and habitat expansion is an early use and modification of pigment, probably for symbolic behaviour, as well as the production of bladelet stone tool technology, previously dated to post-70 kyr ago
  272. >Shellfish may have been crucial to the survival of these early humans as they expanded their home ranges to include coastlines and followed the shifting position of the coast when sea level fluctuated over the length of MIS6
  273.  
  274. Where are the 312MyaYBP anatomically modern humans, and their cities? Their pyramids were built on rafts, and they either buried their dead on the rafts or at sea - there would be absolutely no remains. Even cut blocks would fall to the bottom of the ocean in a random pile to erode into shapeless masses - but they probably used floating concrete, would would drift away across the entire world ocean and slowly and throughly dissolve.
  275.  
  276. My genetic memory tells me that the Mutians lived in a world that was more artificial than natural - these giant concrete barges were completely artificial. Upon them were built artificial pyramids and palaces, and in their gardens they grew domesticated plants and raised domesticated animals. Their bodies were composed of the same material as their barges - the concrete known as Soma.
  277.  
  278. Mutians never lived on land - only deformed human-vanara hybrids who were rejected by Mutian society were exiled to natural Earth. The Water and Heaven were thus associated, and contrasted with Earth. The arctic and antarctic oceans were the primary locations for the Mutian boat-cities.
  279.  
  280. Evidence exists that the Mutians used ultra-high energy kinetic weapons;
  281.  
  282. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite
  283. >Tektites (from Greek τηκτός tēktós, "molten") are gravel-size bodies composed of black, green, brown or gray natural glass formed from terrestrial debris ejected during meteorite impacts
  284. >Tektites are characterized by: a fairly homogeneous composition; an extremely low content of water and other volatiles; an abundance of lechatelierite; a general lack of microscopic crystals known as microlites and chemical relation to the local bedrock or local sediments; their distribution within geographically extensive strewnfields
  285. >The difference in water content can be used to distinguish tektites from terrestrial volcanic glasses. When heated to their melting point, terrestrial volcanic glasses will turn into a foamy glass because of their content of water and other volatiles. Unlike terrestrial volcanic glass, a tektite will produce only a few bubbles at most when heated to its melting point, because of its much lower water and other volatiles content
  286. >Aerodynamically shaped tektites, which are mainly part of the Australasian strewn field, are splash-form tektites (buttons) which display a secondary ring or flange. The secondary ring or flange is argued as having been produced during the high-speed reentry and ablation of a solidified splash-form tektite into the atmosphere. Muong Nong tektites are typically larger, greater than 10 cm in size and 24 kg in weight, irregular, and layered tektites. They have a chunky, blocky appearance, exhibit a layered structure with abundant vesicles, and contain mineral inclusions, such as zircon, baddeleyite, chromite, rutile, corundum, cristobalite and coesite
  287. >Since 1963, it has been known that the majority of known tektites occur only within four geographically extensive strewn fields: the Australasian, Central European, Ivory Coast, and North American strewn fields
  288.  
  289. Lechatelierite is amorpheous silica, similar to that used in industrial applications;
  290.  
  291. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lechatelierite
  292. >Lechatelierite is silica glass, amorphous SiO2, non-crystalline mineraloid
  293. >Lechatelierite also forms as the result of high pressure shock metamorphism during meteorite impact cratering and is a common component of a type of glassy ejecta called tektites. Most tektites are blobs of impure glassy material, but tektites from the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt, known as Libyan desert glass, are composed of almost pure silica, that is almost pure lechatelierite.[2] High pressure experiments have shown that shock pressures of 85 GPa are needed to produce lechatelierite in quartz grains embedded in granite
  294. >Lechatelierite may also form artificially, a unique example being the trinitite produced by melting of quartz sand at the first nuclear bomb explosion at Trinity Flats, White Sands, New Mexico
  295.  
  296. Beryllium-10 is associated with nuclear blasts;
  297.  
  298. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium-10
  299. >Beryllium-10 has a half-life of 1.39 × 106 years, · and decays by beta decay to stable boron-10
  300. >It is also formed in nuclear explosions by a reaction of fast neutrons with 13C in the carbon dioxide in air, and is one of the historical indicators of past activity at nuclear test sites
  301. >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17904707/
  302. >A preliminary study on the use of (10)Be in forensic radioecology of nuclear explosion sites
  303.  
  304. Elevated beryllium-10 levels occur around 790kYBP within the australasian strewnfield;
  305.  
  306. >http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014E%26PSL.397...67V
  307. >Microtektites from the Australasian impact were found at 0.6 m below the transition (790 ka±5 ka B.P.) and confirm that this large event occurred 12 ka prior to the polarity transition
  308. >The distribution of tektite abundance was used to deconvolve the10Be/9Be signal. The results confirm that the beryllium changes are concentrated during the transitional period, thus likely in presence of a multipolar geomagnetic field (or in the vicinity of a geomagnetic pole) that favored the penetration of cosmic rays and consequently increased the 10Be production
  309. >The absence of 10Be during the precursor indicates that the present site and the Indonesian ones were far away from a geomagnetic pole and that interlatitudinal atmospheric mixing was limited
  310. >The geomagnetic pole positions above the Indonesian sites during the precursor would thus be incompatible with the corresponding inclined dipolar field during this period, and suggest the dominance of low-degree harmonics
  311.  
  312. The highest Be-10 levels are found in New South Wales, Australia;
  313.  
  314. >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703704002741
  315. >Corrected to the time of tektite production ∼0.8 My ago, the 10Be concentrations (106 atom/g) range from 59 for a layered tektite from Huai Sai, Thailand, to 280 for an australite from New South Wales, Australia
  316.  
  317. A map showing the concentration of tektites can be found here;
  318.  
  319. >http://www.tektites.co.uk/possiblecrater.html
  320. >http://www.tektites.co.uk/resources/Earth+Map.jpg
  321.  
  322. Clearly, there were two centers of the war - the Gulf of Tonkin, and southern Australia. At 790kYBP, this event dates back to the last Dvapara Yuga, which ended on 3102BC with the death of Krishna, and began on February 18th, 867,114BC. Since Rama was the avatar preceeding Krishna, and the Ramayana describes a war near Sri Lanka, it's likely that the australasian strewnfield was a result of the war. Based on this, Rama could have been born during the Treta yuga before 867kYBP, which would make him roughly 77,000 years old during the events of Ramayana. Since he could have been born at any time during the Treta yuga, which began 2,592,000 years ago. 2,592,000- 864,000 = 1,728,000 - Rama could have been a million years old during the Ramayana.
  323.  
  324. This last Treta yuga began at 2.592MyaYBP, and at 2.3MyaYBP another Iridium anomaly is observed;
  325.  
  326. >http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v292/n5822/abs/292417a0.html
  327. >A 2.3-Myr-old layer in a sediment from the Antarctic Ocean contains Ir and Au at levels comparable with those at the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary
  328.  
  329. 1296k / 3 = 432k; 867k + 432k = 1299k = Treta yuga birthday of Rama - Fights Ravana,
  330. 1299k + 432k = 1731k = Treta yuga birthday of Parashurama - Fights Kshatriyas,
  331. 1731k + 432k = 2163k = Treta yuga birthday of Vamana - Fights Mahabali,
  332. 2163k + 432k = 2595k = Treta yuga birthday of Narasimha - Fights Hiranyakashipu,
  333.  
  334. At which point, we have to adjust for the longer duration of the Satya yuga;
  335.  
  336. 1728k / 3 = 576k; 2595k + 576k = 3171k = Satya yuga birthday of Varaha,
  337. 3171k + 576k = 3747k = Satya yuga birthday of Kurma,
  338. 3747k + 576k = 4323k = Satya yuga birthday of Matsya.
  339.  
  340. The 2.3MyaYBP Iridium anomaly clearly records Narasimha's war against Hiranyakashipu.
  341.  
  342. Muong Nong tektites are known to include inclusions of Zr, Cr, Ti, Al. An alloy of Ir-Ti-Zr is used for it's improved ductility over pure Ir;
  343.  
  344. >https://www.google.com/patents/US3293031
  345. >Generally speaking, the present invention contemplates a new iridium alloy containing about 0.1% to about 0.5 metal from the group consisting of titanium and zirconium
  346.  
  347. Iridium is allowed with Titanium to produce pipes that are resistant to erosion by sea water;
  348.  
  349. >http://www.azom.com
  350. >Titanium resists corrosion by seawater to temperatures as high as 500°F (260°C). Titanium tubing, exposed for 16 years to polluted seawater in a surface condenser, was slightly discolored but showed no evidence of corrosion
  351.  
  352. Iridium is also used along with graphite to enclose the Pu-238 that fuels radiothermal generators;
  353.  
  354. >https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/ulysses/rtg
  355. >Third, multiple layers of protective materials, including iridium capsules and high-strength graphite blocks, are used to protect the fuel and prevent its accidental release. Iridium is a metal that has a very high melting point and is strong, corrosion resistant and chemically compatible with plutonium dioxide
  356.  
  357. Iridium-Platinum alloys were used to construct the vents of cannon;
  358.  
  359. >https://www.thebalance.com/metal-profile-iridium-2340138
  360. >In the second half of the 19th century, the British firm Johnson-Matthey took the lead in developing and marketing iridium-platinum alloys. One of the initial uses of which was in Witworth cannons, which saw during the American Civil War
  361. >Prior to the introduction of iridium alloys, cannon vent pieces, which held the cannon's ignition, were notorious for deformation as a result of repeated ignition and high combustion temperatures. It was claimed that vent pieces made of iridium-containing alloys held their shape and form for over 3000 charges
  362.  
  363. Iridium anomalies increase Ir levels by 100x;
  364.  
  365. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_anomaly
  366. >Iridium is a very rare element in the Earth's crust, but is found in anomalously high concentrations (around 100 times greater than normal) in a thin worldwide layer of clay marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, 66 million years ago. This boundary is marked by a major extinction event, including that of the dinosaurs along with about 70% of all other species
  367.  
  368. The typical Ir content in ppm is 0.001 in typical crustal rock, 0.5ppm in meteorites;
  369.  
  370. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium
  371. >Iridium is one of the nine least abundant stable elements in Earth's crust, having an average mass fraction of 0.001 ppm in crustal rock
  372. >In contrast to its low abundance in crustal rock, iridium is relatively common in meteorites, with concentrations of 0.5 ppm or more
  373.  
  374. 0.001 * 100 = 0.1ppm, which means that Ir levels are raised to meteoric levels during Iridium anomalies, worldwide. We know however that meteors don't increase Ir levels, since there was no elevation following the Tunguska impact;
  375.  
  376. >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1995.tb01160.x/abstract
  377. >No iridium anomaly after the 1908 Tunguska impact: Evidence from a Greenland ice core
  378. >Iridium was detected in all samples, but we found no excess Ir above the background in the years following the Tunguska event
  379.  
  380. The destruction of Ir-containing devices and infrastructure could explain the elevated Iridium levels. Many other industrial metals are elevated or depleted in tektites;
  381.  
  382. >http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972GeCoA..36.1297C
  383. >The Li content (41-48 ppm) is about the same as that of the Australasian tektites, but the Cs and Rb are lower, being 1.9 to 2.9 and 57 to 86 ppm, respectively. The IVC tektites are high in Cr (260-375 ppm), Co (19-25 ppm) and Ni (101-167 ppm), and particularly in Pb (<10-18 ppm), Cu (13-21 ppm) and Ga (14-23 ppm
  384.  
  385. Typical crustal concentrations are;
  386.  
  387. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust
  388. >Li 20ppm
  389. >Cs 3ppm
  390. >Rb 300ppm
  391. >Cr 350ppm
  392. >Co 30ppm
  393. >Ni 190ppm
  394. >Pb 14ppm
  395. >Cu 100ppm
  396. >Ga 19ppm
  397.  
  398. The Rubidium levels of the Ivory coast tektites are lower than crustal levels - neutron irradiation (For instance, during a neutron bomb blast) of Rb-85 leads to the production of Sr-86 and Rb-86. Sr-86 is stable, and Rb-86 decays into more Sr-86, which makes up 9.86% of Earth's strontium;
  399.  
  400. >https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~apaytan/290A_Winter2014/pdfs/Lecture%205%20Sr.pdf
  401. >86Sr = 9.86%
  402.  
  403. Acantharea uses strontium to produce it's skeleton which doesn't leave fossils;
  404.  
  405. >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC23483/
  406. >Acantharian skeletons, however, are susceptible to dissolution and are therefore absent from the fossil record
  407.  
  408. Radiolaria is also known to deposit silica, and this fact has been used to date their emergence;
  409.  
  410. >http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/286/1/143
  411. >Radiolarian skeletons are known from a limestone concretion collected from a black shale succession and from black cherts of the Yangtze Platform, China. Both occurrences are of earliest Cambrian age
  412.  
  413. These Radiolaria, who used silica and strontium for their skeletons, were degenerate Soma cell cultures. H.P Lovecraft writes about his genetic memories of this in, 'At the Mountains of Madness;'
  414.  
  415. >https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness/full
  416. >Myth or otherwise, the sculptures told of the coming of those star-headed things to the nascent, lifeless earth out of cosmic space—their coming, and the coming of many other alien entities such as at certain times embark upon spatial pioneering
  417. >They seemed able to traverse the interstellar ether on their vast membranous wings—thus oddly confirming some curious hill folklore long ago told me by an antiquarian colleague. They had lived under the sea a good deal, building fantastic cities
  418. >It was under the sea, at first for food and later for other purposes, that they first created earth-life—using available substances according to long-known methods. The more elaborate experiments came after the annihilation of various cosmic enemies
  419. >They had done the same thing on other planets, having manufactured not only necessary foods, but certain multicellular protoplasmic masses capable of molding their tissues into all sorts of temporary organs under hypnotic influence and thereby forming ideal slaves to perform the heavy work of the community
  420. >These viscous masses were without doubt what Abdul Alhazred whispered about as the "Shoggoths" in his frightful Necronomicon, though even that mad Arab had not hinted that any existed on earth except in the dreams of those who had chewed a certain alkaloidal herb
  421. >When the star-headed Old Ones on this planet had synthesized their simple food forms and bred a good supply of Shoggoths, they allowed other cell-groups to develop into other forms of animal and vegetable life for sundry purposes, extirpating any whose presence became troublesome
  422.  
  423. The Shoggoth is the Soma. The Old Ones are also composed of Soma, as shown by this paragraph;
  424.  
  425. >The toughness of the things was almost incredible. Even the terrific pressure of the deepest sea-bottoms appeared powerless to harm them. Very few seemed to die at all except by violence, and their burial-places were very limited
  426.  
  427. Lovecraft even mentions the Old Ones using "certain chemicals" to avoid eating during their migrations through space, and that they have "vast capacities for speed;"
  428.  
  429. >For their prehistoric flights through cosmic space, legend said, they absorbed certain chemicals and became almost independent of eating, breathing, or heat conditions—but by the time of the great cold they had lost track of the method
  430. >For personal locomotion no external aid was used, since in land, air, and water movement alike the Old Ones seemed to possess excessively vast capacities for speed
  431.  
  432. He establishes that this Soma-Shoggoth was enslaved along with early vertebrates;
  433.  
  434. >Loads, however, were drawn by beasts of burden—Shoggoths under the sea, and a curious variety of primitive vertebrates in the later years of land existence
  435. >These vertebrates, as well as an infinity of other life forms—animal and vegetable, marine, terrestrial, and aerial—were the products of unguided evolution acting on life cells made by the Old Ones, but escaping beyond their radius of attention
  436. >It interested us to see in some of the very last and most decadent sculptures a shambling, primitive mammal, used sometimes for food and sometimes as an amusing buffoon by the land dwellers, whose vaguely simian and human foreshadowings were unmistakable
  437.  
  438. The theme is one of Degeneration - these proto-humans evolved from the Shoggoths. Lovecraft remembers that when these Shoggoths rebelled, they were re-domesticated;
  439.  
  440. >They seem to have become peculiarly intractable toward the middle of the Permian Age, perhaps one hundred and fifty million years ago, when a veritable war of re-subjugation was waged upon them by the marine Old Ones.
  441. >Thereafter the sculptures showed a period in which Shoggoths were tamed and broken by armed Old Ones as the wild horses of the American west were tamed by cowboys
  442.  
  443. The Old Ones were opposed by Cthulhu and the Mi-Go, who supposedly had bodies that weren't composed of dumb matter, but a substance like Soma;
  444.  
  445. >It was curious to note from the pictured battles that both the Cthulhu spawn and the Mi-Go seem to have been composed of matter more widely different from that which we know than was the substance of the Old Ones. They were able to undergo transformations and reintegrations impossible for their adversaries
  446.  
  447. The culture of the Old Ones slowly degrades, and progressive generations produce progressively less impressive cities;
  448.  
  449. >it was curious to observe how fewer and fewer replacements were made as the ages wore on. The vast dead megalopolis that yawned around us seemed to be the last general center of the race—built early in the Cretaceous Age after a titanic earth-buckling had obliterated a still vaster predecessor not far distant. It appeared that this general region was the most sacred spot of all, where reputedly the first Old Ones had settled on a primal sea-bottom. In the new city—many of whose features we could recognize in the sculptures, but which stretched fully a hundred miles along the mountain range in each direction beyond the farthest limits of our aerial survey—there were reputed to be preserved certain sacred stones forming part of the first sea-bottom city, which thrust up to light after long epochs in the course of the general crumpling of strata
  450.  
  451. Lovecraft remembers two key motifs - the Sacred Plain and the World Mountain;
  452.  
  453. >Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth's globe. Of all existing lands, it was infinitely the most ancient. The conviction grew upon us that this hideous upland must indeed be the fabled nightmare plateau of Leng which even the mad author of the Necronomicon was reluctant to discuss
  454. >Yet even more monstrous exaggerations of nature seemed disturbingly close at hand. I have said that these peaks are higher than the Himalayas, but the sculptures forbid me to say that they are earth's highest. That grim honor is beyond doubt reserved for something which half the sculptures hesitated to record at all, whilst others approached it with obvious repugnance and trepidation
  455. >It seems that there was one part of the ancient land—the first part that ever rose from the waters after the earth had flung off the moon and the Old Ones had seeped down, from the stars—which had come to be shunned as vaguely and namelessly evil. Cities built there had crumbled before their time, and had been found suddenly deserted
  456. >Then when the first great earth buckling had convulsed the region in the Comanchian Age, a frightful line of peaks had shot suddenly up amidst the most appalling din and chaos—and earth had received her loftiest and most terrible mountains
  457. >If the scale of the carvings was correct, these abhorred things must have been much over forty thousand feet high
  458. >There may be a very real and very monstrous meaning in the old Pnakotic whispers about Kadath in the Cold Waste
  459. >But the terrain close at hand was hardly less strange, even if less namelessly accursed. Soon after the founding of the city the great mountain range became the seat of the principal temples, and many carvings showed what grotesque and fantastic towers had pierced the sky
  460.  
  461. Lovecraft also remembers the Aetheric ocean, and how we used caves to access it;
  462.  
  463. >In the course of ages the caves had appeared, and had been shaped into adjuncts of the temples. With the advance of still later epochs, all the limestone veins of the region were hollowed out by ground waters, so that the mountains, the foothills, and the plains below them were a veritable network of connected caverns and galleries. Many graphic sculptures told of explorations deep underground, and of the final discovery of the Stygian sunless sea that lurked at earth's bowels
  464.  
  465. He also remembers the Sacred River, remembered as, for example, Ganga by the Hindus;
  466.  
  467. >This vast nighted gulf had undoubtedly been worn by the great river which flowed down from the nameless and horrible westward mountains, and which had formerly turned at the base of the Old Ones' range and flowed beside that chain into the Indian Ocean between Budd and Totten Lands on Wilkes's coast line
  468.  
  469. Lovecraft describes how Leng appeared 70MyaYBP, and touches on the sensation induced by Salvia divinorum;
  470.  
  471. >This river, once crossed by scores of noble stone bridges, was plainly the one whose extinct course we had seen in our aeroplane survey
  472. >We could soon reconstruct in fancy the whole stupendous thing as it was a million or ten million or fifty million years ago, for the sculptures told us exactly what the buildings and mountains and squares and suburbs and landscape setting and luxuriant Tertiary vegetation had looked like
  473. >It must have had a marvelous and mystic beauty, and as I thought of it, I almost forgot the clammy sense of sinister oppression with which the city's inhuman age and massiveness and deadness and remoteness and glacial twilight had choked and weighed on my spirit
  474. >Yet according to certain carvings, the denizens of that city had themselves known the clutch of oppressive terror; for there was a somber and recurrent type of scene in which the Old Ones were shown in the act of recoiling affrightedly from some object—never allowed to appear in the design—found in the great river and indicated as having been washed down through waving, vine-draped cycad forests from those horrible westward mountains
  475.  
  476. Lovecraft also remembers where these Old Ones (Soma) went;
  477.  
  478. >Then we saw a series of cartouches—the continuous band arrangement being frequently interrupted in these late carvings—depicting a constantly growing migration to the nearest refuges of greater warmth—some fleeing to cities under the sea off the far-away coast, and some clambering down through networks of limestone caverns in the hollow hills to the neighboring black abyss of subterrene waters
  479.  
  480. And he describes the underground waters as being the main target of colonization, and describes the mountains as "honeycombed" (Be-Hexagon'd;)
  481.  
  482. >In the end it seems to have been the neighboring abyss which received the greatest colonization. This was partly due, no doubt, to the traditional sacredness of this special region, but may have been more conclusively determined by the opportunities it gave for continuing the use of the great temples on the honeycombed mountains
  483.  
  484. He remembers that the Old Ones re-accustomed themselves to Aether, and re-joined their brothers who never left the Aether/Water;
  485.  
  486. >The abyss, it seems, had shelving shores of dry land at certain places, but the Old Ones built their new city under water
  487. >The depth of the hidden sea appears to have been very great
  488. >The beings seemed to have had no trouble in adapting themselves to part-time—and eventually, of course, whole-time—residence under water, since they had never allowed their gill systems to atrophy. There were many sculptures which showed how they had always frequently visited their submarine kinsfolk elsewhere, and how they had habitually bathed on the deep bottom of their great river
  489.  
  490. He remembers the decay of art and culture that defines life on Earth;
  491.  
  492. >By the time total abandonment did occur—and it surely must have occurred before the polar Pleistocene was far advanced—the Old Ones had perhaps become satisfied with their decadent art—or had ceased to recognize the superior merit of the older carvings
  493.  
  494. And he saw the solid Aether itself - the infinitely stiff, infinitely sparse substance that surrounds blackholes, which allows FTL travel;
  495.  
  496. >What had happened afterward we could only guess. How long had the new sea-cavern city survived? Was it still down there, a stony corpse in eternal blackness? Had the subterranean waters frozen at last?
  497. >Those things had seemingly been able to withstand any amount of pressure
  498.  
  499. Curiously, Lovecraft remembers the penguins, too;
  500.  
  501. >For it was only a penguin—albeit of a huge, unknown species larger than the greatest of the known king penguins, and monstrous in its combined albinism and virtual eyelessness
  502. >When we had followed the thing into the archway and turned both our torches on the indifferent and unheeding group of three, we saw that they were all eyeless albinos of the same unknown and gigantic species. Their size reminded us of some of the archaic penguins depicted in the Old Ones' sculptures, and it did not take us long to conclude that they were descended from the same stock—undoubtedly surviving through a retreat to some warmer inner region whose perpetual blackness had destroyed their pigmentation and atrophied their eyes to mere useless slits
  503.  
  504. And he remembers the heat surrounding black holes;
  505.  
  506. >The farther one advanced, the warmer it became; so that we were soon unbuttoning our heavy garments. We wondered whether there were any actually igneous manifestations below, and whether the waters of that sunless sea were hot
  507. >The temperature was rapidly ascending
  508.  
  509. Lovecraft even remembers how the creation (Shoggoths, Soma) tried to imitate the creator by first erasing his creation, then re-creating it with lower (Degenerated) skill;
  510.  
  511. >Upon resuming our direct progress we cast a beam of torchlight over the tunnel walls—and stopped short in amazement at the supremely radical change which had come over the carvings in this part of the passage
  512. >We realized, of course, the great decadence of the Old Ones' sculpture at the time of the tunneling, and had indeed noticed the inferior workmanship of the arabesques in the stretches behind us
  513. >But now, in this deeper section beyond the cavern, there was a sudden difference wholly transcending explanation—a difference in basic nature as well as in mere quality, and involving so profound and calamitous a degradation of skill that nothing in the hitherto observed rate of decline could have led one to expect it
  514. >This new and degenerate work was coarse, bold, and wholly lacking in delicacy of detail
  515. >Danforth had the idea that it was a second carving—a sort of palimpsest formed after the obliteration of a previous design. In nature it was wholly decorative and conventional, and consisted of crude spirals and angles roughly following the quintile mathematical tradition of the Old Ones, yet seemingly more like a parody than a perpetuation of that tradition
  516. >Only when we had come very close to the sprawling obstructions could we trace that second, unexplainable fetor to any immediate source—and the instant we did so Danforth, remembering certain very vivid sculptures of the Old Ones' history in the Permian Age one hundred and fifty million years ago, gave vent to a nerve-tortured cry which echoed hysterically through that vaulted and archaic passage with the evil, palimpsest carvings
  517. >The mad author of the Necronomicon had nervously tried to swear that none had been bred on this planet, and that only drugged dreamers had even conceived them. Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes—viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells—rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile—slaves of suggestion, builders of cities—more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative
  518. >The new sound, as I have intimated, upset much that we had decided; because it was what poor Lake's dissection had led us to attribute to those we had judged dead. It was, Danforth later told me, precisely what he had caught in infinitely muffled form when at that spot beyond the alley corner above the glacial level; and it certainly had a shocking resemblance to the wind-pipings we had both heard around the lofty mountain caves
  519. >It will be remembered that in that fantastic tale there is a word of unknown but terrible and prodigious significance connected with the antarctic and screamed eternally by the gigantic spectrally snowy birds of that malign region's core. "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" That, I may admit, is exactly what we thought we heard conveyed by that sudden sound behind the advancing white mist—that insidious musical piping over a singularly wide range
  520. >Again came that insidious musical piping—"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"Then, noting that we were actually gaining on our pursuer, it occurred to us that the entity might be wounded. We could take no chances, however, since it was very obviously approaching in answer to Danforth's scream, rather than in flight from any other entity. The timing was too close to admit of doubt. Of the whereabouts of that less conceivable and less mentionable nightmare—that fetid, unglimpsed mountain of slime-spewing protoplasm whose race had conquered the abyss and sent land pioneers to re-carve and squirm through the burrows of the hills—we could form no guess
  521.  
  522. Lovecraft then proceeds to describe a Salvia trip;
  523.  
  524. >We had expected, upon looking back, to see a terrible and incredible moving entity if the mists were thin enough; but of that entity we had formed a clear idea. What we did see—for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned—was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist's "thing that should not be"; and its nearest comprehensible analogue is a vast, onrushing subway train as one sees it from a station platform—the great black front looming colossally out of infinite subterranean distance, constellated with strangely colored lights and filling the prodigious burrow as a piston fills a cylinder
  525. >But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the pallid abyss-vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light
  526. >Still came that eldritch, mocking cry—"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" and at last we remembered that the demoniac Shoggoths—given life, thought, and plastic organ patterns solely by the Old Ones, and having no language save that which the dot-groups expressed—had likewise no voice save the imitated accents of their bygone masters
  527. >Danforth and I have recollections of emerging into the great sculptured hemisphere and of threading our back trail through the Cyclopean rooms and corridors of the dead city; yet these are purely dream-fragments involving no memory of volition, details, or physical exertion. It was as if we floated in a nebulous world or dimension without time, causation, or orientation
  528. >Of what had set us fleeing from that darkness of earth's secret and archaic gulfs we said nothing at all
  529. >For this far violet line could be nothing else than the terrible mountains of the forbidden land—highest of earth's peaks and focus of earth's evil
  530. >Beyond doubt the unknown archetype of that dreaded Kadath in the Cold Waste beyond abhorrent Leng, whereof primal legends hint evasively
  531. >If the sculptured maps and pictures in that pre-human city had told truly, these cryptic violet mountains could not be much less than three hundred miles away; yet none the less sharply did their dim elfin essence appear above that remote and snowy rim, like the serrated edge of a monstrous alien planet about to rise into unaccustomed heavens. Their height, then, must have been tremendous beyond all comparison
  532. >Looking at them, I thought nervously of certain sculptured hints of what the great bygone river had washed down into the city from their accursed slopes—and wondered how much sense and how much folly had lain in the fears of those Old Ones who carved them so reticently
  533. >At a very high level there must have been great disturbance, since the ice-dust clouds of the zenith were doing all sorts of fantastic things; but at twenty-four thousand feet, the height we needed for the pass, we found navigation quite practicable. As we drew close to the jutting peaks the wind's strange piping again became manifest, and I could see Danforth's hands trembling at the controls
  534. >I tried to keep all my skill and self-possession about me, and stared at the sector of reddish farther sky betwixt the walls of the pass—resolutely refusing to pay attention to the puffs of mountain-top vapor, and wishing that I had wax-stopped ears like Ulysses' men off the Siren's coast to keep that disturbing windpiping from my consciousness
  535. >He has on rare occasions whispered disjointed and irresponsible things about "The black pit," "the carven rim," "the proto-Shoggoths," "the windowless solids with five dimensions," "the nameless cylinder," "the elder Pharos," "Yog-Sothoth," "the primal white jelly," "the color out of space," "the wings," "the eyes in darkness," "the moon-ladder," "the original, the eternal, the undying," and other bizarre conceptions
  536.  
  537. Sponges are degenerate Shoggoths;
  538.  
  539. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge
  540. >consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. Sponges have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process
  541. >Many sponges have internal skeletons of spongin and/or spicules of calcium carbonate or silicon dioxide. All sponges are sessile aquatic animals
  542. >some host photosynthesizing micro-organisms as endosymbionts and these alliances often produce more food and oxygen than they consume. A few species of sponge that live in food-poor environments have become carnivores that prey mainly on small crustaceans
  543. >Sponges are known for regenerating from fragments that are broken off, although this only works if the fragments include the right types of cells. A few species reproduce by budding. When conditions deteriorate, for example as temperatures drop, many freshwater species and a few marine ones produce gemmules, "survival pods" of unspecialized cells that remain dormant until conditions improve and then either form completely new sponges or recolonize the skeletons of their parents
  544. >Fossils of all of these types have been found in rocks dated from 580 million years ago
  545. >All known living sponges can remold their bodies, as most types of their cells can move within their bodies and a few can change from one type to another
  546. >Like cnidarians (jellyfish, etc.) and ctenophores (comb jellies), and unlike all other known metazoans, sponges' bodies consist of a non-living jelly-like mass (mesoglea) sandwiched between two main layers of cells
  547. >Archaeocytes (or amoebocytes) are amoeba-like cells that are totipotent, in other words each is capable of transformation into any other type of cell. They also have important roles in feeding and in clearing debris that block the ostia
  548. >Glass sponges present a distinctive variation on this basic plan. Their spicules, which are made of silica, form a scaffolding-like framework between whose rods the living tissue is suspended like a cobweb that contains most of the cell types.[16] This tissue is a syncytium that in some ways behaves like many cells that share a single external membrane, and in others like a single cell with multiple nuclei. The mesohyl is absent or minimal
  549. >The syncytium's cytoplasm, the soupy fluid that fills the interiors of cells, is organized into "rivers" that transport nuclei, organelles ("organs" within cells) and other substances
  550. >Although adult sponges are fundamentally sessile animals, some marine and freshwater species can move across the sea bed at speeds of 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) per day, as a result of amoeba-like movements of pinacocytes and other cells. A few species can contract their whole bodies, and many can close their oscula and ostia. Juveniles drift or swim freely, while adults are stationary
  551. >At least one species of sponge has internal fibers that function as tracks for use by nutrient-carrying archaeocytes,[16] and these tracks also move inert objects
  552. >The cave-dwelling predators capture crustaceans under 1 mm (0.039 in) long by entangling them with fine threads, digest them by enveloping them with further threads over the course of a few days, and then return to their normal shape; there is no evidence that they use venom
  553. >Most known carnivorous sponges have completely lost the water flow system and choanocytes. However the genus Chondrocladia uses a highly modified water flow system to inflate balloon-like structures that are used for capturing prey
  554. >Freshwater sponges often host green algae as endosymbionts within archaeocytes and other cells, and benefit from nutrients produced by the algae. Many marine species host other photosynthesizing organisms, most commonly cyanobacteria but in some cases dinoflagellates. Symbiotic cyanobacteria may form a third of the total mass of living tissue in some sponges, and some sponges gain 48% to 80% of their energy supply from these micro-organisms.[16] In 2008 a University of Stuttgart team reported that spicules made of silica conduct light into the mesohyl, where the photosynthesizing endosymbionts live
  555. >A recently discovered carnivorous sponge that lives near hydrothermal vents hosts methane-eating bacteria, and digests some of them
  556. >Most sponges are hermaphrodites (function as both sexes simultaneously), although sponges have no gonads (reproductive organs)
  557. >Adult sponges lack neurons or any other kind of nervous tissue. However most species have the ability to perform movements that are coordinated all over their bodies
  558. >The coordinating mechanism is unknown, but may involve chemicals similar to neurotransmitters.[42] However glass sponges rapidly transmit electrical impulses through all parts of the syncytium
  559. >Sponges contain genes very similar to those that contain the "recipe" for the post-synaptic density, an important signal-receiving structure in the neurons of all other animals. However, in sponges these genes are only activated in "flask cells" that appear only in larvae and may provide some sensory capability while the larvae are swimming. This raises questions about whether flask cells represent the predecessors of true neurons or are evidence that sponges' ancestors had true neurons but lost them as they adapted to a sessile lifestyle
  560.  
  561. Sclerosponges grow a soft flesh over a hard skeleton, similar to our soft flesh over hard bone or the bark on the dead, inner wood of a tree;
  562.  
  563. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerosponge
  564. >Sclerosponges are sponges with a soft body that covers a hard, often massive skeleton made of calcium carbonate, either aragonite or calcite. Because of their long life span (500-1,000 years) it is thought that analysis of the aragonite skeletons
  565. >Brown sponge tissue covers white massive aragonite skeleton
  566.  
  567. The spicules of the sponge not only stiffen and toughen it, but allow it to conduct light throughout it's body;
  568.  
  569. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge_spicule
  570. >Spicules are generally elongated at a rate of 1-10 μm per hour
  571. >Research on the Euplectella aspergillum (Venus' Flower Basket) demonstrated that the spicules of certain deep-sea sponges have similar traits to Optical fibre. In addition to being able to trap and transport light, these spicules have a number of advantages over commercial fibre optic wire. They are stronger, resist stress easier, and form their own support elements
  572. >It has been theorized that this ability may function as a light source for symbiotic algae (as with Rosella racovitzae) or as an attractor for shrimp which live inside the Venus' Flower Basket
  573. >Spicules funnel light deep inside sea sponges
  574.  
  575. And they can live 15k-23k years;
  576.  
  577. >http://genomics.senescence.info/species/entry.php?species=Scolymastra_joubini
  578. >One two meter high specimen in the Ross Sea was estimated to be 23,000 years old, though because of sea level fluctuations in the Ross Sea it is unlikely that such an animal could have lived for more than 15,000 years
  579.  
  580. This is probably related to the fact that all sponge tissue comes from self-directed totipotent cells;
  581.  
  582. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeocyte
  583. >Archaeocytes (from Greek archaios "beginning" and kytos "hollow vessel") or amoebocytes are amoeboid cells found in sponges. They are totipotent and have varied functions depending on the species
  584. >They move about within the mesohyl with amoeba-like movements performing a number of important functions
  585.  
  586. And sponges use pentagon-containing molecules to protect themselves - the molecules dissolve biofilms by disrupting the hexagonal polysaccharide chains that compose them with pentagon inclusions (This is why serotonin stings;)
  587.  
  588. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageliferin
  589. >It often co-exists with the related compound sceptrin and other similar compounds. It has antibacterial properties and can cause biofilms to dissolve
  590. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceptrin
  591. >Sceptrin is a bioactive marine isolate.[1] It has been isolated from the marine sponge Agelas conifera and appears to have affinity for the bacterial actin equivalent MreB.[2] As such, sceptrin may lead to cell wall decomposition and may possess antibiotic potential
  592.  
  593. Lovecraft repeatedly says that the Old Ones were a primarily aquatic species, and so were the Shoggoths. Curiously, he connects them with primitive man in 'Dagon;'
  594.  
  595. >https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Dagon
  596. >they were damnably human in general outline despite webbed hands and feet, shockingly wide and flabby lips, glassy, bulging eyes, and other features less pleasant to recall. Curiously enough, they seemed to have been chiselled badly out of proportion with their scenic background; for one of the creatures was shewn in the act of killing a whale represented as but little larger than himself. I remarked, as I say, their grotesqueness and strange size, but in a moment decided that they were merely the imaginary gods of some primitive fishing or seafaring tribe; some tribe whose last descendant had perished eras before the first ancestor of the Piltdown or Neanderthal Man was born
  597.  
  598. He is of course, as a human, using his genetic memory to trace his human lineage - and he sees a fishing tribe with pre-modern traits. 47MyaYBP, his ancestors were apes who lived in the sea. This mammalian line goes back about 160Mya, and before, circa 312MyaYBP, his ancestors were reptiles or more primitive anapsids. Before that, circa 600MyaYBP, his ancestors were Shoggoths whose bodies were built like a combination of Acantherea and sponges - metazoa (Animals) are a sister group to parazoa (Sponges,) so Shoggoths had to evolve into both. What this means is that Animalia is polyphyletic, and the root is the Shoggoth.
  599.  
  600. Let's be clear here - Shoggoths are fiction based on genetic memory. So what this really means is that sponges evolved from a self-mobile animal, and their sessile behavior is derived, not ancestral. This is actually a fairly old hypothesis, and recent phylogenomics has placed sponges and bilateral animals as two branches off of metazoa;
  601.  
  602. >http://www.cell.com/action/showImagesData?pii=S0960-9822%2809%2900805-7
  603.  
  604. The syncytium is the defining feature of sponge morphology, and is a cell with multiple nuclei that have been fused together. In sponges this tissue makes up most of the body, and the glass sponges use it to conduct light and electricity to contract their bodies. In humans, the syncytium is retained in the form of muscle cells;
  605.  
  606. >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncytium
  607. >Animals Skeletal muscle
  608. >A classic example of a syncytium is the formation of skeletal muscle. Large skeletal muscle fibers form by the fusion of thousands of individual muscle cells
  609.  
  610. So what this means is that sponges are just bodies with no brains, and the molecules they contain that break down biofilms is what allows them to fuse bodies. The common ancestor of humans and sponges certainly had the traits of both, and in sponge larvae a vestigial nervous system is present;
  611.  
  612. >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876816/
  613. >We show that the genome of the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica possesses a nearly complete set of post-synaptic protein homologs whose conserved interaction motifs suggest assembly into a complex structure. In the critical synaptic scaffold gene, dlg, residues that make hydrogen bonds and van der Waals interactions with the PDZ ligand are 100% conserved between sponge and huma
  614. >Among the few post-synaptic genes absent from Amphimedon, but present in Eumetazoa, are receptor genes including the entire ionotropic glutamate receptor family
  615.  
  616. A good question is how sponges control their bodies without nervous systems - could genetic memory be the pilot of the sponge body? Without many of the receptors humans have, their minds would have a far lower resolution connection to the outside world. Lovecraft remembered how his human flesh was related by blood to his ancient aquatic past, and to Mu in, 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth;'
  617.  
  618. >https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Over_Innsmouth/full
  619. >That refinery, though, used to be a big thing, and old man Marsh, who owns it, must be richer'n Croesus. Queer old duck, though, and sticks mighty close in his home. He's supposed to have developed some skin disease or deformity late in life that makes him keep out of sight. Grandson of Captain Obed Marsh, who founded the business. His mother seems to've been some kind of foreigner—they say a South Sea islander
  620. >They always do that about Innsmouth people, and folks here and hereabouts always try to cover up any Innsmouth blood they have in 'em
  621. >But the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice—and I don't say I'm blaming those that hold it. I hate those Innsmouth folks myself, and I wouldn't care to go to their town. I s'pose you know—though I can see you're a Westerner by your talk—what a lot our New England ships used to have to do with queer ports in Africa, Asia, the South Seas, and everywhere else, and what queer kinds of people they sometimes brought back with 'em. You've probably heard about the Salem man that came home with a Chinese wife, and maybe you know there's still a bunch of Fiji Islanders somewhere around Cape Cod
  622. >"Well, there must be something like that back of the Innsmouth people
  623. >Some of 'em have queer narrow heads with flat noses and bulgy, starry eyes that never seem to shut, and their skin ain't quite right. Rough and scabby, and the sides of the necks are all shriveled or creased up. Get bald, too, very young
  624. >Maybe the Innsmouth folks like 'em to look at themselves—Gawd knows they've gotten to be about as bad as South Sea cannibals and Guinea savages
  625. >Even now I can hardly describe what I saw, though it was clearly enough a sort of tiara, as the description had said. It was tall in front, and with a very large and curiously irregular periphery, as if designed for a head of almost freakishly elliptical outline
  626. >All other art objects I had ever seen either belonged to some known racial or national stream, or else were consciously modernistic defiances of every recognized stream. This tiara was neither. It clearly belonged to some settled technique of infinite maturity and perfection, yet that technique was utterly remote from any—Eastern or Western, ancient or modern—which I had ever heard of or seen exemplified. It was as if the workmanship were that of another planet
  627.  
  628. Lovecraft in this story even directly references his genetic memory;
  629.  
  630. >Among these reliefs were fabulous monsters of abhorrent grotesqueness and malignity—half ichthyic and half batrachian in suggestion—which one could not dissociate from a certain haunting and uncomfortable sense of pseudomemory, as if they called up some image from deep cells and tissues whose retentive functions are wholly primal and awesomely ancestral
  631.  
  632. Which probably explains why he was able to describe the pheotype of Mutians so well;
  633.  
  634. >When the driver came out of the store I looked at him more carefully and tried to determine the source of my evil impression. He was a thin, stoop-shouldered man not much under six feet tall
  635. >He had a narrow head, bulging, watery-blue eyes that seemed never to wink, a flat nose, a receding forehead and chin, and singularly undeveloped ears. His long thick lip and coarse-pored, greyish cheeks seemed almost beardless except for some sparse yellow hairs
  636. >His hands were large and heavily veined, and had a very unusual greyish-blue tinge. The fingers were strikingly short in proportion to the rest of the structure, and seemed to have a tendency to curl closely into the huge palm
  637. >As he walked toward the bus I observed his peculiarly shambling gait and saw that his feet were inordinately immense. The more I studied them the more I wondered how he could buy any shoes to fit them
  638. >Just what foreign blood was in him I could not even guess. His oddities certainly did not look Asiatic, Polynesian, Levantine or negroid, yet I could see why the people found him alien. I myself would have thought of biological degeneration rather than alienage
  639. >and groups of dirty, simian-visaged children playing around weed-grown doorsteps. Somehow these people seemed more disquieting than the dismal buildings, for almost every one had certain peculiarities of face and motions which I instinctively disliked without being able to define or comprehend them
  640. >Clearly, as I realised a moment later, it was the pastor; clad in some peculiar vestments doubtless introduced since the Order of Dagon had modified the ritual of the local churches. The thing which had probably caught my first subconscious glance and supplied the touch of bizarre horror was the tall tiara he wore; an almost exact duplicate of the one Miss Tilton had shown me the previous evening
  641.  
  642. He also mentions Soma bodies as the goal of the Esoteric Order of Dagon;
  643.  
  644. >Those churches were very odd—all violently disavowed by their respective denominations elsewhere, and apparently using the queerest kind of ceremonials and clerical vestments. Their creeds were heterodox and mysterious, involving hints of certain marvelous transformations leading to bodily immortality—of a sort—on this earth
  645.  
  646. This firm belief in bodily immortality leads the people of Innsmouth (Lovecraft's own Mutian ancestors transposed in time and space) to a life of sloth, gluttony and swimming;
  647.  
  648. >Perhaps—judging from the quantities of bootleg liquor they consumed—they lay for most of the daylight hours in an alcoholic stupor. They seemed sullenly banded together in some sort of fellowship and understanding—despising the world as if they had access to other and preferable spheres of entity
  649. >They were very fond of the water, and swam a great deal in both river and harbour. Swimming races out to Devil Reef were very common, and everyone in sight seemed well able to share in this arduous sport
  650.  
  651. For some reason, Lovecraft mentions Tahiti (Othaheite;)
  652.  
  653. >Told abaout an island east of Othaheite whar they was a lot o' stone ruins older'n anybody knew anying abaout, kind o' like them on Ponape, in the Carolines, but with carven's of faces that looked like the big statues on Easter Island
  654.  
  655. People have a strange tendency to destroy their own history. Starting in 1815AD, the marae of polynesia were destroyed by the Christanized natives and their western priests, thus destroying the heritage of both native Polynesian and European;
  656.  
  657. >https://www.jstor.org/stable/23209537?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  658. >The Polynesian iconoclasm comprised a series of destructive episodes in which god-images were rendered powerless and temples and associated structures were successively burned or torn down in Eastern Polynesia. Beginning in Tahiti and neighbouring Mo'orea in 1815, it spread rapidly to other Society Islands, the Austral Islands and the Southern Cook Islands
  659. >In this article I suggest that the willingness of Polynesian leaders to follow Tahitian precedence in destroying or unwrapping their god images can be partially explained by the fact that they saw themselves as participants in a large-scale sacrifice
  660.  
  661. Lovecraft reflects this sacrifice;
  662.  
  663. >It seems these Kanakys was sacrificin' heaps o' their young men an' maidens to some kind o' god-things that lived under the sea, an' gittin' all kinds o' favour in return
  664.  
  665. And the mixing of Deep One (Godly) and human blood;
  666.  
  667. >Seems they hankered arter mixin' with the folks, an' havin' j'int ceremonies on the big days—May-Eve an' Hallowe'en. Ye see, they was able to live both in ant aout o' water—what they call amphibians, I guess
  668. >"When it come to matin' with them toad-lookin' fishes, the Kanakys kind o' balked, but finally they larnt something as put a new face on the matter. Seems that human folks has got a kind a' relation to sech water-beasts—that everything alive come aout o' the water onct an' only needs a little change to go back agin
  669.  
  670. Immortality is promised to those who breed with the Deep Ones;
  671.  
  672. >Them things told the Kanakys that ef they mixed bloods there'd be children as ud look human at fust, but later turn more'n more like the things, till finally they'd take to the water an' jine the main lot o' things daown har. An' this is the important part, young feller—them as turned into fish things an' went into the water wouldn't never die. Them things never died excep' they was kilt violent
  673. >Them as was born more like the things changed arly, but them as was nearly human sometimes stayed on the island till they was past seventy, though they'd usually go daown under for trial trips afore that. Folks as had took to the water gen'rally come back a good deal to visit, so's a man ud often be a'talkin' to his own five-times-great-grandfather who'd left the dry land a couple o' hundred years or so afore
  674. >Everybody got aout o' the idee o' dyin'—excep' in canoe wars with the other islanders, or as sacrifices to the sea-gods daown below, or from snakebite or plague or sharp gallopin' ailments or somethin' afore they cud take to the water—but simply looked forrad to a kind o' change that wa'n't a bit horrible artet a while
  675.  
  676. Lovecraft describes the destruction of the macae;
  677.  
  678. >Pious cusses, these was—they didn't leave nothin' standin' on either the main island or the little volcanic islet excep' what parts of the ruins was too big to knock daown. In some places they was little stones strewed abaout—like charms—with somethin' on 'em like what ye call a swastika naowadays. Prob'ly them was the Old Ones' signs
  679.  
  680. And how the Deep Ones (Soma) relate to the humans who worship them;
  681.  
  682. >Everything cleaned up in the mornin'—but they was traces . . . Obed he kinder takes charge an' says things is goin' to be changed . . . others'll worship with us at meetin'-time, an' sarten haouses hez got to entertin guests . . . they wanted to mix like they done with the Kanakys, an' he for one didn't feel baound to stop 'em
  683. >Nothin' was to be diff'runt on the aoutsid; only we was to keep shy o' strangers ef we knowed what was good fer us
  684. >but God, what I seen—they'd a kilt me long ago fer' what I know, only I'd took the fust an' secon' Oaths o' Dago offen Obed, so was pertected unlessen a jury of 'em proved I told things knowin' an' delib'rit
  685.  
  686. The Deep Ones retain Shoggoths as tools;
  687.  
  688. >them devils an' what they brung—an' when they git ready . . . I say, when they git . . . ever hear tell of a shoggoth?
  689.  
  690. And they move by hopping, because their superior muscles make their stride very high and and long;
  691.  
  692. >Two of the figures I glimpsed were in voluminous robes, and one wore a peaked diadem which glistened whitely in the moonlight. The gait of this figure was so odd that it sent a chill through me—for it seemed to me the creature was almost hopping
  693.  
  694. Here, Lovecraft presents a perfect genetic memory of the bipedal marine primates that represent the common ancestor of all mammals;
  695.  
  696. >I could see them plainly only a block away—and was horrified by the bestial abnormality of their faces and the doglike sub-humanness of their crouching gait. One man moved in a positively simian way, with long arms frequently touching the ground; while another figure—robed and tiaraed—seemed to progress in an almost hopping fashion
  697. >And yet I saw them in a limitless stream—flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating—urging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. And some of them had tall tiaras of that nameless whitish-gold metal . . . and some were strangely robed
  698. >I think their predominant colour was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly
  699. >Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed
  700. >At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four
  701. >Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked
  702.  
  703. A long description of the narrator's genealogy follows, and then a genetic memory about Aetheric life and description of evolution into an Aether-man, or Soma;
  704.  
  705. >In the winter of 1930–31, however, the dreams began. They were very sparse and insidious at first, but increased in frequency and vividness as the weeks went by. Great watery spaces opened out before me, and I seemed to wander through titanic sunken porticos and labyrinths of weedy cyclopean walls with grotesque fishes as my companions
  706. >There was much more than I could remember, but even what I did remember each morning would be enough to stamp me as a madman or a genius if ever I dared write it down
  707.  
  708. Curiously, the narrator connects with his grandmother and his grandmother's grandmother, 80,000 year old Pth'thya-l'yi - not his paternal ancestors. This is because the narrator is a daughter;
  709.  
  710. >One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed—as those who take to the water change—and told me she had never died
  711. >I met also that which had been her grandmother. For eighty thousand years Pth'thya-l'yi had lived in Y'ha-nthlei, and thither she had gone back after Obed Marsh was dead
  712.  
  713. And he receives instruction that the non-Soma ("upper-earth men") are to he purged;
  714.  
  715. >Y'ha-nthlei was not destroyed when the upper-earth men shot death into the sea. It was hurt, but not destroyed. The Deep Ones could never be destroyed
  716. >For the present they would rest; but some day, if they remembered, they would rise again for the tribute Great Cthulhu craved. It would be a city greater than Innsmouth next time. They had planned to spread, and had brought up that which would help them, but now they must wait once more. For bringing the upper-earth men's death I must do a penance, but that would not be heavy. This was the dream in which I saw a shoggoth for the first time
  717. >That morning the mirror definitely told me I had acquired the Innsmouth look
  718.  
  719. Instructions which he gleefully accepts;
  720.  
  721. >The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn toward the unknown sea-deeps instead of fearing them. I hear and do strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exaltation instead of terror
  722. >I do not believe I need to wait for the full change as most have waited. If I did, my father would probably shut me up in a sanitarium as my poor little cousin is shut up. Stupendous and unheard-of splendors await me below, and I shall seek them soon
  723.  
  724. Finally, he realizes that he's one of a pair of divine twins;
  725.  
  726. >I shall plan my cousin's escape from that Canton mad-house, and together we shall go to marvel-shadowed Innsmouth. We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever
  727.  
  728. I'm going to conclude Mu, Part 6 here for length. In Mu, Part 7, I'll continue the analysis of Lovecraft with 'The Shadow Out of Time,' and 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.'
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