This story began on July 26, 1924, when the expedition of the famous English archaeologist and traveler F. Albert Mitchell-Hedges began work on clearing the ancient Mayan city in the humid tropical jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula.
Barely guessed ancient buildings swallowed up the impenetrable jungle, so they were simply burned out to facilitate excavations. When the smoke cleared, an amazing sight opened up to archaeologists: the ruins of a stone pyramid, the remains of city walls and something like a huge amphitheater for several thousand spectators. With the light hand of Mitchell-Hedges, the name of Lubaantun was fixed to the ancient settlement, which in translation from the Mayan language means "City of fallen stones."
Three years later, a second expedition was organized, in which Mitchell-Hedges took his adopted daughter Anne. It was April 1927, excavations were in full swing, the next in line was supposedly the altar of an ancient temple. On the day when an amazing find was made, which still haunts scientists, Anne just turned seventeen. It was she who discovered a life-size model of a human skull made of the most transparent quartz and perfectly polished. Its weight was 5.13 kg. The girl was delighted with the amazing “gift of fate”. “I dug up the skull under the altar,” Anne Mitchell-Hedges said of her remarkable discovery. "And after about three months, at a distance of 7.5 m from the place of the first find, they found the missing lower jaw." It turned out that this part was not originally attached to the skull,but it is suspended on hinges ideally smooth, like the entire skull, and comes into motion at the slightest touch.
The skull from Lubaantun was kept in the Anne family for many decades. The venerable lady until the end of her days (she lived exactly one hundred years) was firmly convinced that the crystal skull belonged to the Mayan culture. In 1970, she confessed: “Sometimes I sincerely regret that I did not fulfill the wishes of my father - he wanted me to put his skull in his coffin. This would probably be the most appropriate place for such a strange thing, because in the wrong hands it will start to do evil."
Why was she so sure of it? The fact is that strange things began to happen to those who touched this skull. This was the first time that happened to Ann herself. One evening, she put the amazing find next to her bed. And all night long she had strange dreams. Waking up in the morning, Ann was able to tell in detail everything she saw. And she saw - no less - the life of the Indians thousands of years ago. At first, she did not associate these dreams with the skull. But strange dreams continued to haunt the girl whenever the crystal skull was next to her headboard. And each time these were new details of the life of the ancient Indians, including those previously unknown to scientists. Anna heard the conversations of the Indians, watched their daily activities, the rituals of sacrifices …
In the early 60s, after the death of her father, Anne decided to donate the skull for research to specialists: it was painfully perfect even for such skilled craftsmen as the Indians of the pre-Columbian civilizations were considered.
At first, the art critic Frank Dordland took up the study of the skull, and he did it for six years - from 1964 to 1970. He found that the structure of the skull is so balanced relative to the center of gravity that from the lightest breath of wind the lower jaw starts to move. Dordland made several plaster copies of the skull and a huge number of photographs using a microscope and special attachments. He was amazed that on perfectly polished crystal, even under a microscope, no traces of processing were visible. He decided to seek advice from the famous firm "Hewlett-Packard", which at that time specialized in the production of quartz oscillators and was considered the most authoritative for the examination of quartz.
Research carried out in 1964 in a special laboratory of this company showed that the skull was made long before the appearance of the first civilizations in this part of America. The Mayan civilization is believed to have originated in 2600 BC. e., and the crystal skull, according to experts, was created already 12 thousand years ago! True, today science does not have methods for dating ancient crystals, so it will most likely not be possible to establish the exact date of the manufacture of the skull of fate.
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The place where the skull was made was also a mystery: neither in Mexico, nor in the whole of Central America there is not a single deposit of rock crystal; its only source could only be quartz veins in California, but rock crystal of such high quality is not found in these places at all.
But the most striking discovery was that the ancient skull was made from a single crystal! Moreover, contrary to all known laws of physics. Here is what one of the best experts of the firm, engineer L. Barre, said about this: “We studied the skull along three optical axes and found that it consisted of three or four joints. Analyzing the joints, we found that the skull was cut from a single piece of crystal along with the lower jaw. According to the Mohs scale, rock crystal has a high hardness equal to 7 (second only to topaz - 8, corundum - 9, and diamond - 10), and it is impossible to cut it with anything other than diamond. Nowadays, rhinestone is processed on special high-tech equipment, but the basic rules for working with crystals have remained the same. To preserve the integrity of the crystal, it is necessary to direct the movement of the cutter along the growth axes. The creators of crystal skulls contrived to manually process rhinestone without observing this rule, and it is not clear why their crystals did not crumble into small fragments.
Moreover, the ancients managed to cut out not only the skull itself, but also from the same piece the lower jaw and the hinges on which it is suspended. With such a hardness of the material, this is more than mysterious, and here is why: in crystals, if they consist of more than one intergrowth, there are internal stresses. When you press on the crystal with the head of the cutter, the stress may cause it to split into pieces. However, the manufacturers of the mysterious find did not seem to care about this problem at all - they triggered the skull, ignoring all laws and regulations. Someone crafted this skull out of a single piece of crystal so carefully that they never touched it at all during the cutting process.
When examining the surface of the skull, we found evidence of exposure to three different abrasives. The final finish is made by polishing, but there are not even microscopic scratches from polishing. To polish this extremely hard material this way, it would have to be polished continuously for three hundred years! For hundreds of years, no matter what changes took place during this time in social conditions and religion, artisans would continue their unthinkable work. We can hardly imagine that the work on one thing was passed down from generation to generation for many centuries.
We also found a kind of prism carved into the back of the skull, at the base of the skull, so that any ray of light entering the eye sockets is reflected back into them. Look into his eye sockets and you can see the whole room in them. Frank Dordland, by the way, himself, upon close examination, discovered in the skull a whole system of lenses, prisms and channels that create unusual optical effects. It was thanks to her that the eye sockets began to glow when, for example, a torch or a candle was installed under them (a similar effect is observed in some other, more perfect finds, in which skillfully made prisms and lenses are also present).
All in all, the professionals at Hewlett-Packard were bewildered: “This damn thing just shouldn't exist! Those who created it have no idea about crystallography and fiber optics. They completely ignored the axis of symmetry, and this thing inevitably had to fall apart during the initial processing. Why this did not happen is impossible to imagine. " As another expert said, “Today, when people landed on the moon and mastered the secrets of thermonuclear fusion, we cannot repeat the achievement of the ancients. It is not a matter of skill, patience and time. It's just impossible. " However, the fact, as they say, is there: a crystal skull is a reality that anyone can see in the Museum of the American Indian.
One of the most respected researchers of crystal skulls, Frank Joseph, wondered whose model the Mitchell Hedges was? And what would the owner of this skull look like? For the purity of the experiment, this task was assigned to two independent groups of the New York police laboratory specializing in the reconstruction of faces from skulls (according to the Gerasimov method). Both stated that the prototype of the crystal skull was the skull of a young girl, and that it has an anatomically correct shape. The fact that the skull belonged to a young girl was also indicated by psychics serving in the FBI, who "connected" to the skull in a trance state. By the way, experts and psychics worked independently of each other and did not know about each other's existence. The portraits obtained by both groups turned out to be very similar (the only difference is the hairstyle).
Historians and ethnographers, interested in the Lubaantung find, began to look for everything that could shed at least some light on it. The fact emerged that in 1943 in Brazil, after an attempted robbery of a local museum, agents of the German society Ahnenerbe were detained. During interrogations, they testified that they had been brought to South America by a secret Abwehr ship by the yacht Passim with a special mission: to find and "confiscate" the crystal skulls of the "Goddess of Death". What kind of goddess is she? It soon became clear: something about her was preserved in ancient Indian legends. For example, they said that there were thirteen crystal skulls of the "Goddess of Death" and that they were kept separately from each other under the watchful eye of the priests and the strictest guard of special warriors. And they were once given to people by gods.
Naturally, their search began, which soon yielded results. Similar skulls were found in the storerooms of some museums and from private individuals. And not only in America (Mexico, Brazil, USA), but also in Europe (France), and Asia (Mongolia, Tibet). There were considerably more than thirteen skulls. But not everyone was as perfect as Mitchell Hedges. Most of the skulls looked much rougher. In the process of searching, it even turned out that Midgel-Hedges was not the first to find something similar: back in the late 80s. XIX century. In Mexico, one of the soldiers of Emperor Maximilian found a crystal skull, now on display in the British Museum. This specimen differs significantly from the Lubaatun specimen - despite the similarity in size, it is less transparent, less detailed, and the lower jaw is fused with the skull. Another rough "copy" of the crystal skull is in the Museum of Man in Paris. She appears under the name - "the skull of the Aztec god of the underworld and death."
So it was concluded that all the other skulls were later and not very skillful attempts to create something similar to ideal skulls, those that were once "given to people by the gods."
The method in which the skull was made does not leave alone the researchers. The idea was even put forward that it was not machined, but cast. But cast from rock crystal ?! Impossible! What is possible? These questions flared up with renewed vigor after the winter of 1994, when a rancher near Creston, Colorado, USA, while riding her horse, noticed a shiny object on the ground. (The FATE magazine wrote about this find in August 1994.) The woman lifted the object and saw that it was a copy of a human skull made of transparent glass or crystal. However, the extremely hard material is crumpled and twisted as if it were previously very plastic. Where did it come from and why is it so disfigured? By the way, an interesting detail: it is in this area of the state that UFOs are most often observed and cattle are inexplicably mutilated.
The fact that there are so many mysterious phenomena around the skulls has interested psychics in recent years. They found that the skull changes color and degree of transparency, and sometimes it suddenly surrounds itself with a 45-centimeter luminous "halo", emits quiet high-pitched sounds, very similar to the ringing of silver bells, from time to time it starts to smell incomparable - from this smell, people have a feeling of thirst. When psychics touch its surface in different places, they experience distinct sensations of heat, cold, or some vibrations, as if some source of energy is hidden inside the skull. And if you pour water into it, you can see the life of ancient civilizations on its surface. Strange spectral rays periodically appear inside the crystal, and the skull itself can project a holographic image. In room,where the artifact is located, objects begin to move spontaneously, and various sound effects occur - in addition to the "bells". Psychic Star Johnson several years ago conducted a series of sessions with the skull "Max", during which he telepathically communicated with an extraterrestrial civilization. ("Max" is another mysterious crystal skull, whose owner Joan Parks inherited it from a Tibetan monk who previously used it to heal people.)whose owner Joan Parks inherited it from a Tibetan monk who previously used it to heal people.)whose owner Joan Parks inherited it from a Tibetan monk who previously used it to heal people.)
How these skulls are made, especially "Mitchell-Hedges" (or "Skull of Destiny"), do not break their heads anymore - what's the point? But they break about who made them, and how. A great many versions are being put forward. From the assumptions that these are the tricks of Satan to the "trace" of the Atlanteans - supposedly the "Skull of Destiny" was made by the Atlanteans, and then transferred to the Maya tribe. Objects of this kind allegedly had some purpose in the culture of the Atlanteans, which created a high civilization 12 thousand years ago. According to another hypothesis, the first earthly civilizations arose 36 thousand years ago, when our planet was inhabited by twelve alien races, and it was they who easily polished hard quartz crystals. Aliens from distant worlds possessed technical capabilities that we never dreamed of. With the help of these crystals, they allegedly maintained "spiritual contact" with their home planets. By the way,the hypothesis of the use of a crystal skull in magical rituals was expressed by Mitchell-Hedges.
Even psychics have not yet figured out whether this is true or not. We can only say with confidence that the "Skull of Destiny" is not the only one of its kind. Several strange objects (not skulls) have been found in various places on the planet, and they are created from materials similar to quartz. Among them is a whole skeleton of jadeite discovered in the region of the border between China and Mongolia, made on a smaller scale than a human, and, according to estimates, around 3500-2200. BC.
We can also say with confidence that "Ahnenerbe" and the ministers of some secret cults will not be interested in such artifacts without good reason. This is evidenced by the above-described fact of the detention of Ahnenerbe agents in Brazil, and the fact that the so-called Rose Quartz, a skull that is not inferior in its perfection to the Skull of Fate, has disappeared without a trace from under the noses of archaeologists in Honduras. He also had a removable lower jaw. An investigation established that prior to his disappearance, priests of some secret cult tried to steal him several times. Apparently, the last attempt was crowned with success.
Those who were interested in the secret history of the Third Reich, today know something about its mystical roots and about a particularly secret goal - to seize power in the invisible, metaphysical world. They also know about the main research structure of the SS - the elite order "Ahnenerbe" ("Legacy of the Ancestors"), which had more than fifty research institutes under its jurisdiction. Especially "Ahnenerbe" was interested in the magical methods of the priests of Atlantis. The Nazis hoped that this knowledge of the "progenitor of the Aryan race" would allow them not only to create a "superman", but also to subdue the rest - "subhumans" with the help of magic. If we take on faith the hypothesis of the making of skulls in Atlantis, then it becomes clear why the "art critics" of the SS were so actively interested in them.
And what does official science say? Oh, she's in her repertoire! Fake - period! Like, in Mexico at the end of the 19th century. a whole industry of fraud was developed, when silly tourists were handed modern crafts under the guise of pre-Columbian artifacts. That "crystal skulls" were sold literally in bundles. Yes, in fact they were sold, and in fact in packs. But the size of those "skulls" was about a fist and they were made roughly. Nobody takes them seriously - it's not about them. The fact that the "Skull of Fate" was recovered from the excavation in front of many archaeologists from a layer that had not been touched before is not a fact for official scientists. Dad planted a bright trinket as a birthday present for his daughter - that's all the answer. The fact that the trinket was created contrary to all the known laws of physics is not an argument for them. Yes, even if he did,but where did you get it before ?! Did you saw it yourself? It gets to the point of ridiculousness: skeptics accuse Mitchell-Hedges of buying this skull at Sotheby's in … 1943 !!! And what then did his daughter find in 1927 ?!
Although in the case of the "Skull of Fate" for scientists - a complete expanse. Explore - I don't want to! After all, crystals have a remarkable property: they have their own memory. This is largely due to the fact that the crystals have a rigid structure. Each mineral has its own, purely individual spatial lattice. The arrangement of particles inside this lattice, although quite stable, is not ideal and unstable. They can shift from external influences, and from this the crystal lattice takes on a unique shape, that is, it becomes a kind of chronicle of the events that took place during the formation and growth of the crystal. And if there was a "gramophone" on which it was possible to reproduce what was recorded, then the "chronicle" would be decipherable.
In addition, energy transitions in a crystal can be used in a similar way. The simplest energy memory of crystals is demonstrated to us by the effect of luminescence, that is, the ability of a crystal to glow under the influence of external energy that excites it.
Scientists might be interested in that "kind of prism" at the base of the skull, described by Frank Dordland. In all respects, this resembles the working body of a laser device. Of course, this similarity is extremely distant, but still … There is room to move in research.
The optical properties of the skulls and the lenses and prisms contained in them are also prompting the idea of the possible use of holographic technologies. It is easy to check this: it is enough to irradiate the skull with a laser beam at different angles with variation of the laser frequency and analyze the output signal. If the skull plays the role of an information carrier, then at some directions of the laser beam, this information can appear in the output signal. Although it is not at all necessary that this information will have the form of a holographic image. It is possible that the analysis of the output signal will require additional decryption efforts.
By the way, about information. Independent researchers have a hypothesis that it is not for nothing that psychics in a trance state observe strange pictures from the distant past, and possibly from the future. Moreover, not only psychics, but also just especially sensitive people claim that at times they saw how the skull in the dark began to glow or fill with a "white fog", and then "mysterious images of people, as well as mountains, forests, temples and … darkness. " Incidentally, Frank Dordland claims that he and his colleagues, who have worked with the Mitchell Hedges skull for several years, saw a lot in it: “other skulls, bony fingers, stones, distorted faces and mountains”. Moreover, Dordland admitted that while working with the skull, he often heard mysterious sounds: the same ringing of silver "bells", quiet but distinct, people's voices,chorus singing strange songs in an incomprehensible language, whispers and various tapping. Dordland also recounted a mysterious incident that happened when he once brought the skull home. At night, he and his wife woke up from an incomprehensible source of growls and cries of jaguars - sacred animals of the ancient Maya. What is this - the memory of past events, forever imprinted in the crystal? Special resonance properties of crystal skulls? Or maybe both?..forever imprinted in a crystal? Special resonance properties of crystal skulls? Or maybe both?..forever imprinted in a crystal? Special resonance properties of crystal skulls? Or maybe both?..
There is also a version that the skulls acted as recipients and conductors of the collective unconscious, that is, that heritage of feelings and knowledge that always circulates in space in the form of energy.
Admirers of paleocontacts with aliens and hidden human capabilities hypothesize that crystal skulls once served as a kind of transceiver. But not ordinary, but working in the range of psychic energies and mental images. And that for them there are no distances, no time barriers. It is also believed that they were used for secret communication between initiates who were at a great distance from each other - not only on different continents, but even on different planets. Moreover, they claim that the skulls are still functional today. The same Star Johnson, during his sessions of "space communication", sometimes began to speak in some unknown language, which was recorded on the tapes. The psychic assures that this is the language in which the ancient Atlanteans communicated with extraterrestrial civilizations.
The famous American researcher Joshua Shapiro said that in 1990 in Las Vegas he met an interesting man named Jose Indiquez. This respectable and very wealthy gentleman said that in his youth, in the ruins of the ancient Mayan city, he found a crystal skull with incomprehensible symbols carved on it. He kept the find all his life, honoring it not only as a relic, but also as a magic talisman. The fact is that Indikesus accidentally discovered an amazing property of the skull: if you squeeze it tightly in your hands and at the same time clearly formulate your desire, it will certainly come true. It is as if someone, having received a “request,” in the subtle world organizes its execution. This is how Indyquez achieved everything he wanted in life. Including considerable wealth. Interestingly, three years after this conversation with Joshua Shapiro Indikez died,but the heirs never received the miraculous skull: it mysteriously disappeared.
Is it possible that the official science will achieve the fact that the skull of Mitchell-Hedges will also disappear, "grabbed" by some cleverer people from some secret societies who will solve the mystery of the skull and put it to serve their purposes. It's good if you're kind, but if not?..
O. BULANOVA