Sipapu, a
Hopi
word, is a small hole or indentation in the floor of
kivas
used by the
Ancient Pueblo Peoples
and modern-day
Puebloans
. It symbolizes the portal through which their ancient ancestors
first emerged
to enter the present world. ---
Wikipedia
Part II
Underground Roots
The Underground roots of North America lays to the South. We also know of the Ancient tunnels of South America
. But, do we find evidence of these ancient tunnels in the United States?
In
Native American Myths & Mysteries
(1991) by Vincent H. Gaddis in chapter IV titled Tunnels of the Titans we find. Throughout all the Americas there are legends of archaic avenues, racial memories of subterranean passages stretching for miles. After the great cataclysm the ancestral North Indians lived in the vast cavern complex until it was safe to return to the upper world. The story is spread through many tribes, from the kivas of the Pueblos to the lodges of the Blackfeet, from the campfires of the eastern woodland tribes before their dispersion.
. . . The Mandan's of the northwestern states, some of whom had blue eyes and silky hair . . . They said the first man to emerge from the tunnels were the Histoppa or the “tattooed ones.” Having left safety too soon, they perished. The rest, who remained below, waited until a bright light dispelled the darkness on the surface.
. . . The Apache's . . . have a legend that their remote ancestors came from a large island in the eastern sea where there were great buildings and ports for ships. The Fire Dragon arose, and their ancestors had to flee to mountains far away to the south. Later they were forced to take refuge in immense and ancient tunnels through which they wandered for years. (Page 39).
As we can see, many of these early Americans knew of these ancient tunnels. Could these tunnels have anything to do with the modern tunnels we have heard so much about in the last few years?
One of the areas rumored to have an underground complex is the area around White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Unfortunately the government have total control of this area and have made it “off limits” to the uninitiated. David Hatcher Childress in his beautifully written
Lost Cities of North & Central America
(1992) descries the secret headquarters of Apache Chief Victorio.
. . .
Victorio Peak
and Hard Scrabble Peak, as well as Geronimo Peak, together known as the Apachie Underground were all honeycombed with tunnels, caves and secret entrances. The Hard Scrabble entrance led down a flight of steps to an underground river. The last step was booby trapped with a deadly arrow device. It is all like out of some 40s cliffhanger serial.
(Page 313).
Mr. Childress writes of his talk with Richard Donnelly, a local resident of Sedona, Arizona and author of the book
Sedona, Power Spot Vortex
.
Donnelly told him, some friends of mine had discovered a tunnel that goes underground for quite a distance in the Superstition Mountains. Yet every time they tried to explore the cave, a strange fear and feeling of dread would overtake the whole party, and they would always turn back. They were sent to a psychic who told them of a man who would lead them into the tunnel without fear. With this man as their guide they were able to penetrate further into the tunnel . . . Deep inside . . . the remains of ancient structures and walls made out of well dressed rock were found. They then discovered at this place a spiral staircase built out of cut stones that down, down, down, down into the earth. . . . After some discussion, it was decided that their guide should descent the stairs. . . . He did so, following the staircase into the deep bowels of the earth. After some time, he came to a large room with more cut stone. A gigantic rock-cut throne, big enough for a giant, or two people sitting together, was in the middle of the room. . . .Artifacts were on the walls, though (he didn't) know what they were. The man returned up the staircase and reported what he discovered. The others tried to convince him to return to the room and bring some of the artifacts back up, but he refused. The team then left the tunnel, and today the entrance is still a secret. (Pages 308-309).
Due to coverage on the nationally long running NBC series Unsolved Mysteries most of us are familiar with the story of
Doc Noss and the Lost La Rue Mines.
David Hatcher Childress covers the story in depth in Lost Cities of North and Central America (1986). He cites a book, 100 Tons of Gold (1978) by David Chandler. Chandler wrote, In 1937 a half-Indian podiatrist named Doc Noss discovered a cache of Apache gold on what is now the
White Sands Missile Range
. . . Much of the treasure was in the form of hundreds of stacked gold bars, plus other artifacts, such as swords, goblets, crowns, statues and other things . . . Doc Noss was shot and killed by his partner Charlie Ryan in March of 1949. . . Noss was known to have taken at least 88 bars of gold out of the hidden tunnels inside the mountain. (Pages 309-310).
Childress continues this revealing report;Because of an article published in the November, 1968 issue of True Treasure magazine there was renewed interest in the fabulous treasure, and a prospector named Harvey Snow was approached by three ranchers who lived in the area west of the Victorio Peak site. Snow had spent 25 years exploring the entire White Sands area, and the ranchers felt that Snow could lead them into the treasure area, bypassing the Army patrols that guarded the missile range. . . . Because of a story told Snow many years before by a cowboy who had followed Doc Noss to a hidden tunnel, he believed that the treasure was not at Victorio Peak, but on another peak, Hard Scrabble Peak which was also on government property.
As Mr. Childress tell us;Snow's incredible story is then related by Mr. Chandler - on the second day I found the cave with the sloping steps. I went down the steps; down and down. I don't know how far. I estimated maybe thirteen hundred or fourteen hundred steps. The bottom step, the last one was rounded at the bottom so that when you stepped on it, it would roll. It was tied to a bow and arrow with rawhide, but the rawhide had rotted a long time ago. I got in there. (Page 310). At the bottom of the steps Snow described a big room with a stream of hot water running through it. Snow followed the tunnel from room to room; sometimes the tunnel would become so narrow that he had to get down on his hands and knees. In one room Snow Reported; I found some things. I found small stacks -- one of gold, one of copper and one of silver.
. . . I figured I would come back for that and went on. I next came to a big room. Here there were a bunch of side tunnels running north and south. They were all natural, nothing man made. Here where they intersected, they made a big W. I did not go down these tunnels; I stayed with the stream going west. . . . At the far end of the main room I found some things I cannot tell you about. . . . (Page 311). . . . Snow's story is fascinating and virtually unbelievable to most people. He walked 14 miles in an underground tunnel. The 1400 steps or so that he walked down to the subterranean river must have been a good 800 or 900 feet below the entrance. The tunnel was crossed at least in one spot by another tunnel running at a right angle to the one he was following. (Pages 113-114).
As we can see from these reports, there exists under the White Sands New Mexico area an extensive system of lengthy tunnels that have been there for ages. It seems to me that if the government wanted underground bases they would make use of these existing tunnels, yet modern researchers never seem to even hint of their existence. Why not?
Mr. Childress made a telling observation concerning government involvement; The gold that was at one time stored in Victorio Peak has been seized by the U.S. government, particularly the Army and the CIA... . . The Army was known to have bulldozed the peak out, and even place a steel door over the entrance to the mountain. . . . The Army assured the state that there was no gold in Victorio Peak and never has been.
Never-the-less Chandler's research shows that a top secret operation took place at White Sands Missile Range on August 10, 1961. On this date the Secret Service, with the help of certain Army personnel at the range recovered the gold, and moved it to various locations for various purposes. Next Childress presents a good second source; These claims are backed up by, of all people, Former White House counsel, John Dean in his book
Blind Ambition(1976). In it he told of CIA operations dealing with bars of gold. Egil Krogh had described to me how, when he was bored with his deskwork, he had carried bars of gold bullion through Asia's Golden Triangle in CIA planes and bargained with drug chieftains. . . . The gold bars used in these illegal, clandestine operations allegedly came from the tunnel system inside of Victorio Peak. (Pages 314-315).
Besides furnishing our corrupt government with the finances to destroy a generation of Americans with dangerous drugs, the bastards had a large tunnel system in place. It stands to reason that this is one of the systems they are using for their nefarious and black deeds. When will the American people wake up to the fact that there are a lot of horrible things going onright below our feet?
The Four Corners
Another popular place for talk of underground activity is the area known as theFour Corners
.
This is the place where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet to share a common border. According to intelligence reports from several of my sources there are at least six underground facilities in this area. This is also the area where a large number of people died a “mysterious” death a few years back. Are there connections?
This harsh but beautiful arid land is also where the government decided to place several Indian Reservations. However, theHopi
Indians have been in this area as long as they can remember and luckily for us, their history of origin contains important details not found in the memory of other tribes. The Hopi believe that this world we live in is the Fourth World and the other three are inside the earth. In stages, and through many hardships, they emerged from a hole called
Sipapu
, entrance to the Hopi underground (Kiva).Bruce A. Walton tells us inA Guide to the Inner Earth (1983): It is a sacred place of pilgrimage for the Hopi, at the bottom of the Canyon of the Little Colorado above its junction with the Colorado River. (Page 66).
But, unlike most of the emergence stories of the other clans, the Hopi describe the city near from which they came. This city is called Palitkwapi,
meaning “legendary Red City of the South.” It is interesting to note that Frank Waters wrote in his definitive book,
The Book of the Hopi
(1965); No one knows where Palitkwapi might have been. Some of our Hopi spokesmen, who are able to read Hopi meanings from symbols and pictographs carved on Mayan stelae and temple walls, believe that the center of the Mayan Old Empire,
Palenque
, in Chiapas, Mexico was the Hopi legendary city of Palitkwapi. (Notes: Page 68).
In support of this theory of Palitkwapi being the same city as Palenque, or the 'Red City' browse through any of the many National Geographic magazines containing photos and paintings of the mysterious Mayan ruins and it won't take you long to realize that the Ancient Mayan cities were predominantly bright red. Plasma Guns & Sub-riders Erich von Daniken in his 1973 photo-journalIn Search of Ancient Gods
included two color photos of the inside of two subterranean corridor on pages 79-80 along with this observation;
Did extra-terrestrial beings give our early ancestors sophisticated tools? When you walk through the caves in Ecuador and other South American countries, you can't help asking the question. The caves were certainly not the work of nature, which does not produce right-angled curves, polished surface areas, extremely accurate grooves and straight corridors. These gigantic caves on this and the following page must have been cut out of the solid rock by tools that are quite unknown to us.
Across the Yucatan Peninsula, throughout Belize and Guatemala; as far south as Northern Honduras, and as far north as the Chiapas of Mexico. This was the land of the Olmec and Maya. Here, just as in South America, we find mysterious abandoned stone cities and stories of strange underground chambers and tunnels.
Fifty miles north of Mexico City in the province of Hidalgo is the town of Tula. Writing in Lost Cities of North and Central America David Hatcher Childress tells of the French explorer-historian Claude Joseph Desire Charney who, with the help of the locals, cleared the jungle away from some overgrown mounds near the town. Mr. Childress wrote; Charney soon came across huge basalt blocks more than seven feet long that appeared to him to be giant feet of statues. Indeed, they were, the incredible Atlanteans, as they are known today, huge figures designed as columns to hold up a gigantic temple. (Page 254)
He then tells of his own observations; Peter and I walked around the site, and were most impressed by the gigantic Atlantean figures that had been erected on top of one of the pyramids. They were indeed huge, more than 30 feet high in four sections with stone plugs neatly fitting into corresponding contacts. Each holds a strange weapon on his side. Zecharia Sitchin in The Lost Realms claims that these devices are plasma guns, used for melting rock in the mining operations that were the main reason for the construction of many of the early cities in North and South America.
A closer look at The Lost Relms called for
. On page 105 Mr. Sitchin tells us; Experts in earthworks, masters of stonework, diggers of trenches, channelers of water, users of mirrors-- what, thus endowed, were the Olmecs doing in Mesoamerica? Stelae show them emerging from "Alters that represent entrances into the depths of the earth (fig 58), or inside caves holding a puzzling array of tools, as on the stelae from La Venta (top illustration) in which it is possible to discern the enigmatic mirrors being attached to the tool holders helmets. . . . All in all, the capabilities, the scenes, the tools appear to us to lead to one conclusion; the Olmecs were miners, come to the new world to extract some precious metals-- probably gold, perhaps other rare minerals too.
[While I agree with Mr. Sitchin, the Olmecs were probably miners; I also believe that they had something to do with the worldwide system of tunnels. There was more to this than just mining. - DGC]
Mr. Sitchin continues; the legends of Votan, which speak of tunneling through mountains, support this conclusion. So does the fact that among the Olden Gods whose worship was adopted from the Olmecs by the Nahautl people were the god Tepeyolloti, meaning "Heart of the Mountain. n He was a bearded God of caves; his temple had to be made of stone, preferably built inside a mountain. His glyph-symbol was a pierced mountain; he was depicted holding as his tool a flamethrower-- just as we had seen at Tula! "Our suggestion that the flame thrower seen there (both held by the Atlanteans and depicted on a column) was probably used to cut through stone, not just carving on stone, is manifestly supported by a stone relief known as Daiza No. 40 after the site in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley where it was discovered. It clearly depicts a person inside a confined area, using the flame thrower against a wall in front of him.
The travels of Votan sometimes called Pacal Yutan or just Lord Pacal by the Maya was covered in Irene Nicholson's book
Mexican and Central American Mythology
(1967). Ms. Nicholson tells us: From some unknown origin he was ordered by the gods to go to America to found a culture. So he departed from his home, called Valum Chivim and unidentified, and by the way of the 'dwelling of the thirteen snakes' he arrived at Valum Votan.
[Snakes are always associated with the underworld. -DGC]
The story continues; from there he travelled up the Usumacinta river and founded Palenque. Afterward he made several visits to his native home, on one of which he came upon a tower which was originally planned to reach the heavens but which was destroyed because of a 'confusion of tongues' among its architects. Votan was however allowed to use a subterranean passage in order to reach 'the rock of heaven'.
1996 by Dennis Crenshaw
Nahautl people were the god Tepeyolloti, meaning "Heart of the Mountain. n He was a bearded God of caves; his temple had to be made of stone, preferably built inside a mountain. His glyph-symbol was a pierced mountain; he was depicted holding as his tool a flamethrower-- just as we had seen at Tula! "Our suggestion that the flame thrower seen there (both held by the Atlanteans and depicted on a column) was probably used to cut through stone, not just carving on stone, is manifestly supported by a stone relief known as Daiza No. 40 after the site in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley where it was discovered. It clearly depicts a person inside a confined area, using the flame thrower against a wall in front of him.
The travels of Votan sometimes called Pacal Yutan or just Lord Pacal by the Maya was covered in Irene Nicholson's book
Mexican and Central American Mythology
(1967). Ms. Nicholson tells us: From some unknown origin he was ordered by the gods to go to America to found a culture. So he departed from his home, called Valum Chivim and unidentified, and by the way of the 'dwelling of the thirteen snakes' he arrived at Valum Votan. [Snakes are always associated with the underworld. -DGC]
The story continues; from there he travelled up the Usumacinta river and founded Palenque. Afterward he made several visits to his native home, on one of which he came upon a tower which was originally planned to reach the heavens but which was destroyed because of a 'confusion of tongues' among its architects. Votan was however allowed to use a subterranean passage in order to reach 'the rock of heaven'.
Temple of the Inscriptipns w/cutaway showing interor and tomb
.
Howard LaFay
in the December Issue of National Geographic's, "The Maya, Children of Time" gave another interpretation: Frozen in a perpetual fall, Pacal, the great ruler of Palenque, drops at the instant of death into the jaws of an underworld monster, just as the sun sinks each day in the west. This interpretation holds that, again, like the sun, he will ascend into the heavens, thus fulfilling a cosmic cycle. (Page 760)