Talk about the underground country of Agartha, which is hidden from the eyes of most of humanity, has been going on since the century before last. True, those who believe in the legend of the land, akin to Shambhala, argue that the truth about Agharti is recorded in ancient undeciphered texts, whose meaning only a few can comprehend.
Agharti - the land where the people of Atlantis went
Modern mythology is in no way inferior to that that occupied the thoughts of the ancient Indians, Persians, ancient Greeks and Romans. As a matter of fact, if you trace the history of the legends about Shambhala, Atlantis and the lesser-known refuge of the ancients - Agharti, Belovodye, the island of Tula - you can see a lot in common among the myths of different peoples and different eras. Does this mean that this wonderful country is not a fiction, but echoes of memories of real worlds that once existed, and maybe even now existing worlds?
The legend of Agharti is told in different variations, often interspersed with theses from different theories and religions, but the essence boils down to the following. A long time ago, about sixty thousand years ago, a certain Asiatic ruler Om took his tribe underground, fleeing the invaders who came to his land. Later, those who were hiding from Genghis Khan, as well as the American Indians, who sought refuge with the arrival of the colonialists, joined the underground people. The country that occupied the space under all the continents of the Earth was called Agartha, or Agartha - this name is associated with the Sanskrit "inaccessible", "invulnerable".
The surviving inhabitants of Atlantis and Hyperborea are also our refuge in Agharti, which has become the spiritual center of the Universe. There is no division into castes and estates, no punishment is practiced, the inhabitants are almost immortal - so long is their life expectancy. And besides, the people of Agharti have the highest knowledge, they can travel to the stars and rule mankind in a mystical way.
Allegedly, the only people who left Agharti were the Gypsies, who were expelled from the underground country, but brought to the "upper" world the art of seeing the future through fortune telling. Sometimes people are allowed to get a small part of the knowledge that Agharti keeps, in general, travelers who accidentally wandered there, who begin to chat about what they saw after returning to earth, according to legend, cut off their tongues.
Agharti is ruled by the King of the World, who lives surrounded by his two assistants and can influence the future of humanity together with them. Sometimes he goes out into the world - attending solemn services in India and Tibet. The gate through which the path to Agharti lies is located, according to various versions, either in the Himalayas, or in the Gobi desert, or even in South America.
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Who helped the Agharti myth to take its place in history
If you trace the history of the myth about the country of Agharti, it all comes down to actually one source - the work of Alexander Saint-Yves d'Alveidre, who wrote about a wonderful country in his book "Mission India" in 1866. True, in 1922, during the civil war in Russia, a scientist, traveler, writer, who served for some time in the Kolchak government, A. M. Ossendovsky, discovered, either in Siberia or in Mongolia, "the smoky gates leading to the kingdom of Agharti." He wrote about this in his book "And animals, and people, and gods."
In addition, it is believed that the country of Agharti is also mentioned in one truly ancient text, the Book of Dzyan: supposedly it is the “source of the right hand,” from where the King of the World directs all the events of human history. "The source of the left hand", according to this text, is hidden in Shambhala. True, the existence of the "Book of Dzyan" is known for the most part from the works of Helena Blavatsky, the author of works of esoteric and occult literature.
Everything that myths and legends tell about Agharti is inextricably linked with Shambhala. These two countries seem to be the forms of existence of an ancient great people who were forced to hide after some great catastrophe. And if Agartha was assigned contemplation and spiritual progress, then Shambhala assumed control of the elements and the material development of mankind. Unlike the underground country of Agartha, Shambhala is located on the surface of the Earth, it is supposedly hidden by the surrounding mountain ranges or is simply invisible to the uninitiated.
There is much more information about Shambhala in ancient texts; it has been mentioned since the 10th century, including in the context of Hindu beliefs. Shambhala is a country in the existence of which the Dalai Lama himself, the head of Tibet, is convinced, while the spiritual leader of Tibet is said to be unaware of the country of Agharti.
Agharti is sometimes also mentioned in connection with the abode of the gods from Scandinavian mythology - Asgard, the heavenly city inhabited by the gods-asses.
It is known that scientists, politicians, and ordinary enthusiasts have made more than one attempt to discover mythical countries allegedly lost in the east. Some - like Roerich - were looking for the highest wisdom there, others - like the government of the Third Reich - sought to find traces of the ancient Aryans and their connection with the modern German people. These searches did not produce any tangible results. However, according to Buddhists, Shambhala must be sought within oneself - as a source of energy, a state of union with divine power, enlightenment. Perhaps the country of Agharti carries the same meaning.
Secrets of Humanity Hidden in Underground Cities
Where do the myths that excite the consciousness of, including the modern person, come from, in an era when there were no blank spots on the map of the Earth, and digital technologies seized power?
If we turn to history, it is not difficult to find evidence that certain peoples resorted to this method of protection - they went to hard-to-reach areas or underground - in a network of caves. This is how Petra appeared, the city of the Nabateans on the territory of modern Jordan, and this is how an underground city appeared in Turkish Cappadocia, where a whole "cave country" was created under the present village of Derinkuyu about three thousand years ago, a multi-tiered city, the area of which was several square kilometers.
Rumors of peoples going into voluntary exile in the bowels of the earth, perhaps, became the reason for the emergence of the theory of a hollow planet and myths about underground cities. Back in the 17th century, astronomer Edmund Halley proposed a version according to which the world consists of four spheres, embedded one into another. There were frequent sudden disappearances of entire peoples - such stories can be found in the ethnographic material of many peoples of the world.
Apparently, the emergence of the legend about the underground country of Agartha was predetermined by the very course of human development, when the incoming information required comprehension through such myths - too much unknown was revealed to humanity in the process of cultural development. As for the scientific world, the versions of esotericists and occultists are treated with great skepticism here, considering the legends about mythical countries comparable to works of fiction.
Umberto Eco in his review of the myths that mankind keeps - the book "The History of Illusions", expressed the idea that it is precisely such mysterious lands, or rather their searches, attempts to conquer, represent the driving force that leads the world forward. In any case, it is thanks to romantic legends that expeditions to search for artifacts of antiquity become possible and are being implemented, caves and underground tunnels are being explored - for example, in Ecuador or in the Gobi Desert, where, by the way, there is still much to be discovered, since they have been little studied at the moment.