Among scientists there are eccentrics who are inclined to believe that in addition to land humanity on our planet, there is also … underwater humanity. One of the followers of this idea is the professor of biology at the University of Calcutta, Rakosh Kafadi. He believes that these two civilizations, for some unknown reason, were divided in ancient times, but retain a certain relationship between themselves. Kafadi reinforces his theoretical constructions with practical experiments.
For one of them, back in 1991, a seventy-year-old yogi Ravinda Mishda was invited, who agreed under the supervision of video cameras, without any technical breathing devices, to spend at the bottom of the lake, at a depth of 19 meters, in a lotus position in a state of deep meditation for the longest possible period. The result was astonishing - 144 hours 16 minutes 22 seconds. How did the virtually impossible succeed? Rakosh Kafadi discovered a secret: Guru Mishda knows how to switch his lungs to gill mode, and this fact has been confirmed by independent scientists.
That is, the lungs of the yogi Ravinda Mishda, completely filled with lake water, extracted oxygen in the same way as in fish. Moreover, after the experiment, the guru said that he had the ancestral techniques that allow anyone who knows the art of yoga to teach breathing in water.
In his conclusions based on the results of the experiment, Professor Kafadi said: “This result is my irrefutable proof that we, if we express a desire, can become double-breathing. We are all native children of the World Ocean, whose ancestors once set out on a mission to develop land."
FEATURES OF THE ORGANISM
We humans are unique among terrestrial mammals in that we are able to breathe with equal ease through our nose and mouth. Equally unique in this series is our lack of the ability to breathe and drink at the same time. This is due to the characteristic feature of the structure of our nasopharynx, which scientists call "drooping larynx."
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All other land mammals, be they a cat, dog, bull or mouse, have a separate channel connecting the nose to the lungs, a separate windpipe. Animals also have another canal, the esophagus, which connects the mouth to the stomach. These two channels are kept separate. Therefore, animals are able to drink and breathe at the same time. This is due to the fact that the mouth and nose are separated by the palate, the front of which forms the bony arch of the mouth. The back of it consists of soft tissues. In all land mammals, except for humans, the windpipe passes through the palate in the form of an annular obturator muscle - a sphincter. Thus, the windpipe is located above the oral cavity and is connected only with the nose.
Under certain conditions, the sphincter can relax and allow the upper part of the windpipe - the larynx - to descend into the mouth. In this case, air from the lungs can either be pushed out or drawn in. It is this feature that allows a dog to bark, for example. At the end of the barking, the windpipe rises again and the sphincter contracts, thereby re-establishing the separation of the air and food channels.
But in humans, the windpipe is not connected to the top of the mouth, but is located in the pharynx, under the root of the tongue. It is this position that is called "drooping larynx." We do not have a sphincter in the palate that separates the windpipe and esophagus. On the contrary, the back of the palate is open, which makes it possible for both air and food to enter both the lungs and the esophagus.
This is what makes swallowing a difficult action, since a person has to make sure that food and drink gets into the esophagus, and not into the windpipe. The loss of control over this process due to, say, illness or severe intoxication, is sometimes fatal.
What is very curious, just like in humans, the nasopharynx is arranged in marine mammals: whales, dolphins, sea lions, and seals. What is disadvantage on land turns into an advantage in the aquatic environment. Having the ability to breathe through the mouth, sea animals are able to inhale and exhale a significant volume of air in a short time.
This is very important in conditions when a living creature has to surface for some time in order to breathe fresh air and again dive into the depths of the sea. It also allows the animal to breathe in or out very slowly with full conscious control over the process. It is possible that it is this feature of the organism that gave rise to a person's ability to lucid speech, which is unique for the animal world.
The English writer Michael Baigent, in his book Forbidden Archeology, draws attention to several more features that make man akin to marine mammals. For example, in the human manner of "face to face" copulation. Land animals do not practice this manner of sexual intercourse, but it is common among whales, dolphins, sea otters and other similar aquatic life.
Again, people have a significant layer of fatty deposits just under the skin. It makes up about 30% of all fat deposits in our body. The same fat layer is the norm for aquatic mammals. It is highly developed in whales, dolphins, and seals. It is he who well protects the body from heat loss, but precisely in the aquatic environment. In the air, it is much less effective than the usual terrestrial method of thermal insulation in the form of a layer of wool.
Our way of sweating is as unique to the animal kingdom as our ability to confidently walk on two legs and speak. This is a strikingly ineffective mechanism for land use: it wastes fluid and salt, starts slowly, leading to the risk of sunstroke, and reacts slowly when the level of fluid and salt in the body approaches a dangerous limit.
Not preventing the deficiency of salts in the body means bringing trouble on yourself. With active sweating, the human body is able to use up the entire supply of its salts in just three hours. This leads to the development of severe seizures, and if you do not take emergency measures, then death. Needless to say, the animals in the savannah, where, as scientists sometimes believe, a person appeared, on the contrary, are able to run under the scorching sun for days on end without the slightest damage to their own health.
Comprehending all these our features, perhaps, it’s time to think about it: maybe a person really does not come from the savannah, but not from a land environment at all?
KTULKHU FROM THE GOBI DESERT
In 1999, a group of English paleontologists worked in the area of Uulakh in the Mongolian Gobi Desert. Their goal was to explore a dinosaur cemetery in a remote mountain gorge. Scientists had a chance to hear a legend about a bony demon living in a gorge from local residents, but they somehow did not attach any importance to it.
Imagine their surprise when a wall with deposits opened before their eyes, on which the skeleton of a giant humanoid creature with a very specific body structure, which had died tens of millions of years ago, was clearly visible. According to a number of signs, his skull indicated a close relationship with the first great apes, who lived 6-8 million years ago. Other anthropological signs clearly forced to associate the find with highly developed homo sapiens. The features of the structure of the skull, undoubtedly, testified that this creature was to a certain extent intelligent, since it possessed the organs of speech and, therefore, could speak.
The only available image of this find that can be found on the Internet
The structure of the skeleton of the creature found by the British was close to a human. Moreover, his growth was about 15 meters. The length of the hind limbs alone reached 7 meters. At the same time, the excessively large hands attracted attention. Their fingers were so long that, perhaps, in many ways they resembled the bones of cetacean flippers. In any case, if there were membranes between such long fingers, the gigantic creature could swim very well.
The find looked so unusual that paleontologists literally didn't know what to say for some time. American Alain Parker said: "It may sound trite, but it cannot be, because it can never be."
The well-known journal Nature has suggested that the find in Uulakh is a highly professional and expensive hoax created by talented specialists and baffled the British. Just another "hand of Moscow"! Dr. Townes from the UK was more modern and said something that made ufologists happy.
“Perhaps, and even most likely,” he said, “we are not dealing with a human race that died out millions of years ago, but with something else, not inherent in our nature. This creature seems to have evolved outside the laws of our evolution."
His compatriot Daniel Stanford in the pages of the Globe newspaper assessed the find somewhat differently: “It seems that we will have to revise the entire history of the planet known to mankind. What we found completely contradicts the scientific picture of the world that has existed until now”.
Attention is drawn to the fact that the hero of one of Howard Philips Lovecraft's novels that have become very fashionable for some time now, namely the water monster Cthulhu, appears to the imagination of artists with very long clawed fingers. Therefore, for fun, we can call the giant found near Uulakh "Cthulhu from the Gobi Desert." But only for the sake of a joke, since he may well be, albeit very distant, but still our ancestor.
OUR NEIGHBORS AND BROTHERS?
To this day, the ocean depths are teeming with many creatures unknown to science. Every year, ichthyologists and oceanologists discover dozens or even hundreds of new ones, and the next discoveries are innumerable. The past XX century has brought many surprises. For example, cross-finned fish, considered long extinct, were found in the ocean. The existence of the giant squid has been disputed for many decades, but for some time it has a scientific name - Architeuthis dux.
In different parts of the world, waves carried its remains, according to which experts were able to determine the size of the cephalopod - up to 30 meters in length, together with tentacles! But the sea sometimes brings ashore, albeit not so large in size, but much more mysterious creatures. Strangely like legendary mermaids! There are also stories about people who turned into some kind of ichthyander.
300 years ago in the Spanish city of Lierganes there lived a certain Francisco de la Vega Casar, who from childhood demonstrated a fantastic ability to swim and a fantastic love for water. In 1674, in front of his comrades, a strong current carried Francisco into the sea. Five years later, in the bay of Cadiz, fishermen caught a creature in a net that was stealing fish from them. It turned out to be a tall youth with pale, almost translucent skin and red hair. Scales appeared on his skin, fingers on his hands were connected with a thin brown film, making his hands look like duck's feet. The captured man was transported to Lier Ganes, where his mother and brothers identified him as Francisco de la Vega Casar. By that time, the young man had forgotten how to speak, and once, hearing someone's strange cry, he rushed as fast as he could to the river, in the waters of which he disappeared. This time, forever.
The Swedish biologist Jan Lindblad put forward a hypothesis that before the appearance of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, ikspitecs, aquatic primates, lived in freshwater bodies of water. Before the appearance of homo sapiens, these ichthyandras belonged to the entire planet, however, when the glacial waters dried up during the warming era, they had to hide in perennial swamps, remote backwaters and deep-water lakes such as Baikal. Perhaps some of them managed to adapt to life in the seas.
In some ways, ancient myths echo this hypothesis. Sumerian legends told of a race of monsters - half-fish-half-humans. Under the leadership of a certain Oannes, they emerged from the waters of the Persian Gulf and settled in the cities of Sumer. They taught people how to write, how to cultivate fields, and how to work metals. A Sumerian written source says about Oannes: “His whole body was like the body of a fish, under the fish's head he had another head, and below his legs, like a man's, but attached to a fish's tail. His voice and language were human and legible; the idea of him is still alive”.
The myths of ancient India also contain information about the intelligent inhabitants of the depths of the sea, called "nivatakavachi", which translates as "clothed in invulnerable shells." God Indra asked the hero of the epic Mahabharata Arjuna for a kind of payment for training in the art of war: “I have enemies - Danavas, they are called Nivatakavachas; but it is difficult to reach them: they live in the depths of the ocean. They say that there are three hundred million of them, as for selection, they are equal in appearance and radiate strength. Defeat them there! Let this be your payment to the teacher. " And the great warrior Arjuna really managed to defeat the Nivatakavacas.
It is known that the famous American cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson has repeatedly spoken out in favor of the existence of an extremely ancient highly developed underwater civilization. Russian and foreign ufologists also pay much attention to the hypothetical underwater civilization, sometimes calling the intelligent humanoid inhabitants of the ocean Poseidonians. They also mention some ancient Tibetan prophecy, which says that at the end of the 20th century, the underwater world will gradually emerge on the surface of the Earth. People will perceive him with hostility and thereby cause terrible damage to their development and salvation.
QUAKERS
It was in the second half of the recently passed century that sailors increasingly began to meet mysterious underwater fast-moving objects, conventionally called "Quakers". Submarine encounters with them began in the sixties. As a rule, these mysterious objects chased submarines, which was accompanied by strange acoustic signals, reminiscent of the croaking of a frog, which is why, in fact, the divers called them "Quakers".
Each time the acoustics had a strong impression of the awareness of the action of unknown sound sources. It seemed that the "Quakers", appearing out of nowhere, persistently tried to establish contact. Judging by the continuously changing bearing, they circled around our submarines and, changing the tone and frequency of the signals, as if inviting the submariners to talk. The impression was that they were behaving quite friendly.
Americans during the Cold War also had to deal with strange underwater objects on several occasions. So, in 1957, a squadron of American strategic bombers, flying over the sea beyond the Arctic Circle, discovered a mysterious steel dome, which soon disappeared under water. It was noted that during the flight over the "dome" on the aircraft, many onboard instruments failed.
In 1963, during naval maneuvers off the coast of Puerto Rico, the Yankees discovered an object at a depth of over five kilometers, moving at a speed of 150 knots (280 km / h). He unobtrusively accompanied the ships for four days, then rising to the very surface of the water, then again plunging into the ocean abyss. A year later, during an exercise south of Florida, instruments from several US destroyers recorded a mysterious object moving at a depth of 90 meters at a speed of 200 knots (370 km / h).
TWO BRANCHES
All this suggests that we are not alone on our planet as civilized beings and that the evolution of mankind went a slightly different path than is commonly believed. It is possible that the creature found in the Gobi desert was an inhabitant of the water element, and that it became the ancestor of both underwater and land mankind. Some of his descendants continued their evolutionary development in the seas and oceans, creating a chain of "Poseidon" civilizations, while others, as they say, went on land and evolved into people.
This process was hardly simple and straightforward, moreover, it cannot be ruled out that people and Poseidonians retained some kind of genetic affinity, allowing, under certain circumstances, to mutate into each other. In any case, the data accumulated by ufologists allow making such an assumption.
Victor BUMAGIN