Deep in north central New Mexico is the sleepy
little town of Dulce. Dulce is located on the Archuleta Mesa on the
Colorado - New Mexico Border. It is home to about 3000 residents and is
the capitol of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. For as small and as
insignificant as this remote location may sound, it became the center of controversy
in the early 1980's. Physicist and inventor, Paul Bennewitz claimed he
had discovered an underground base occupied by extraterrestrials near
Dulce. His story quickly spread through the UFO community.
Allegations that surround the base include human abductions ("alien
abductions") by these extraterrestrial beings. He also asserted that
the extraterrestrials were engaging in the development of advanced technology
including genetic manipulation. Their plan, according to Conspiracy
Theorists, is to control the government and gain ultimate control of the Earth
by means of a New World Order. Stories have emerged regarding an untoward
alliance between humans and the inhabitants of the Dulce base which include
ties to shadow governments via secret societies such as the Illuminati, the
Masons, the Bilderberg Group and the Skull and Bones.
Dulce is not the only place on earth where it is
believed underground bases exist, but it is the one which has received the
greatest notoriety in recent times. Subterranean bases, according to
Conspira cy Theorists, can be found around the world with major active outposts
all across the United States, Australia, Antarctica and South America.
These bases are connected to each other via a series of channels which
connect one base to another. There are even assertions that one of these
tunnels leads to an active base beneath the Vatican which has been exerting
control over western civilization for centuries.
A wealth of information regarding this subject has
recently surfaced that seemingly reaches across vast extremes. And as
strange as all of this may sound, could any of what they say be true? We
turn to mythology in the search for answers. It must be stated before we
move on, that mythology, like many of the claims that come from the UFO community
is treated more like science fiction rather than fact. Traditional
mythologists contend that the gods we f ind in myth represent the forces of
nature or the creation of someone's vivid imagination. With that said,
does mythology support these seemingly outlandish claims?
Stories of underground realms occupied by "the
gods" pervade mythology. Depending on the culture, it has been
called Hades, Tartarus, Xibalba, Duat, Patala and Hell. These "homes
of the gods", are not always found deep within the earth, but are sometimes
described as being within a mountain or deep beneath the waters of the
earth. Access to their domain, regardless of locality, is often described
as located through the mouth of a cave. The entrance may appear open at
one time and then disappear from view completely and instantaneously. The
inhabitants of these underground realms did not desire to be visited by
unwanted nor unexpecte d company, yet access was granted to select individuals.
According to ancient texts, entrance into the
underworld was anything but easy. The Mayan Popul Vuh, for
example, describes the route taken by the hero brothers Hunhun-Ahpu and
Vukub-Hunapu. It tells of a steep descent into the home of the Lords of
Xibalba and the many challenges they had to face. Similarly, texts such
as the Egyptian Book Of The Dead, describe the path by which the
deceased god-King must travel to enter Duat. Like the Popul Vuh,
the path is fraught with challenges the individual must pass in order to enter
the realm of the dead, the underworld. The Vishnu Purana states
that the deepest level of the underworld, Patala, can be found 70,000 yojanas
beneath the surface of the earth. Gilgamesh, in the epic bearing his
name, is described as traveling twel ve leagues in the dense darkness until he
arrived in the light filled chamber of the underworld.
The underground domains of the gods are described
as filled with houses or vast halls where thousands of individuals could
assemble. Fountains, plants, tall grasses, trees and animals of all kinds
filled this land. The divine ascetic, Narada, who is featured in the Vishnu
Purana claims to have visited Patala. "Patala was much more
charming than heaven. He exclaimed "What can be compared with Patala where
Nagas (serpents) are adorned with beautiful and brilliant and
pleasure-diffusing gems? This region is embellished with the daughters of
Daityas and Danavas.".
Similar descriptions of the underground/underwater
homes of the gods are scattered through mythology. The home of the
Sumerian fertility god Enki, which is located in the watery deep, is described
as having his house built of gold, silver and lapis lazuli. Even writers,
such as Greek philosopher Plato, echo this notion. He believed that the
earth was littered with a number of hollows that were full of water, air,
trees, fruits and flowers.
Surprisingly, Plato confirms yet another claim made
by modern UFOlogy. Plato goes on to state that these hollows were
connected to one another by subterranean channels. But Plato isn't the
only one who refers to tunnels that lie beneath the surface of the ear
th. Inca legends tell of vast networks of tunnels that crisscross the
length and breadth of the planet, complete with underground cities. When
Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadors entered Peru, they kidnapped the Inca
emperor Atahualpha and held him for ransom. They demanded enough gold to
fill a room in return for Atahualpha's release. Pizarro's men heard
rumors that the Inca gold was being held in a vast network of subterranean tunnels.
The tunnels were thousands of years old and ran for miles beneath the Inca
capitol. In more recent years adventurers who have hazarded into the
caverns beneath Cusco entered but were never seen again. One man actually
did make it out of the tunnels alive and he brought with him two bars of
gold. According to officials he had gone mad. The entrances to the
tunnels were then walled up for safety's sake - at least that is the official
story. The Apache Indians report that their ancestors took refuge in
ancient tunnels during a cataclysmic disaster on the earth. They wandered
these immense passageways for years carrying the seeds for life in the new
world.
But what about the other claim made by UFOlgists
regarding these bases being used for genetic engineering? According to
their assertions it is in the lowest level, the 7th level, of the Dulce base
that the extraterrestrials are engaging in this kind of experimentation.
Again, mythology supports this premise.
Native American tribes across the country are the most vocal when it comes to
this topic. The Jicarilla Apache (whose headquarters is in Dulce), the
Navaho and Hopi Indians have long-standing traditions of man's creation and
emergence from beneath the surface of the earth. The Algonquians recount "Thus
did the lowermost world-cave become overfilled with living things, full of
unfinished creatures, crawling like reptiles over one another in dark
blackness." In this matter they do not stand alone.
Berosus, a Babylonian priest, tells of the hideous creatures that inhabit this
underground realm. He described men who had one body but two heads, some
with the legs and horns of a goat and even some with the hind quarters of a
horse and the body of a man. "In short, there were creatures in
which were combined the limbs of every species of animal."
These genetic experiments are, according to reports
from UFO advocates, being conducted by a grou p of reptilian beings in the
lowest levels of the base. Thomas Castello, a former senior security
officer at the base, testified that the base at Dulce is a seven level
underground facility with the lower levels described as a series of natural
caverns. It was believed by Castello that these caverns were used by
different extraterrestrial races in our remote past. In Hindu cosmology,
the Naga (serpents) once lived on earth, but the great god Brahma sent them to
live under the sea and in the seventh level of their underground realm called
Patala. In the Sumerian Inana's Descent To The Nether World, Inana
is required to pass through seven gates to finally reach the bowels of the
underworld. Aztec legend says that Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent,
went to Mictlan, the Aztec Underworld, and created mankind using his own blood
and the bones of the previous race. Throughout mythology the act of
creating humanity is always associated with a specific group of gods, the
fertility gods. Fertility gods around the world are traditionally
depicted as reptilian or amphibious in nature and appear in art as a blend
between a man and a fish or a man and a snake.
A number of individuals also argue the Reptilian's
true agenda is to control us, with the objective to dominate the planet.
They cite the development of a New World Order. Proponents of this theory
believe that the Reptilians, or the byproduct of their genetic manipulation
experiments, intend to take control of the earth's surface. This takeover
is being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group which
includes many of the world's wealthiest people. Some claim members of
this elite group are actually genetically related to each other. Their
goal is to have every man, woman and child on the earth obedient to their
covert agenda. The Reptilians are also accused of wanting to reduce the
population on the earth and are employing weapons such as chemt rails, GMO's,
vaccinations and man-made viruses to reduce our numbers. It is contended
that it is easier to control 500,000 or a million individuals than it is the 7
billion who currently live on the earth.
A look into mythology relative to this claim does
have a few pillars of support. The idea of culling the human population
on Earth is not a modern concept. In the Sumerian Epic of Atrahasis we
find a story where the gods do just that! Twelve hundred years after the
creation of mankind the number of people who inhabited the Earth grew.
Their "noise" disturbed the Sky god Enlil's sleep. Enlil
decided to send a plague in order reduce the population. This worked for
a while but when another 1200 years passed the population had grown again and
Enlil was once more bothered by the noise. This time, in order to
decrease their numbers, he gets the Thunder-rain god Adad to hold back the
rains and the world suffered from a great drought where vast numbers
died. The population continues to grow, and by the time another 1200
years pass the noise became too much for Enlil to bear. Wanting to
alleviate his problem he tells the gods to hold back all of nature's
gifts. This went on for six years and as the texts describe, the people
of Earth were reduced to cannibalism in order to survive. The Fertility
god, Enki, tried to save the people from starvation. This angered Enlil
even more. Finally Enlil, in an act of vengeance, decided to destroy
mankind once and for all. He planned to do this by flooding the
world. Enki, once again steped in and saved humanity from total
annihilation. He warned Atrahasis of the impending flood and told him t o
build a boat to save himself and his family.
Torrents of theories have come forward as we seek
the truth regarding our place in the universe. Mythology does lend itself
to support a number of these claims. It is difficult to determine if the
creators of these theories based their conjecture using myth as their
foundation, first hand experiences, or, something else. What does seem
evident is that much of the information UFO researchers are bringing to light
does parallel the myths and legends that have passed to us from
antiquity. Bringing this idea full circle; if the stories being unearthed
in the UFO community were not based on mythological sources, yet
mythology supports these claims, then the stories of our distant past may have
a basis in fact. It implies that the gods were living breathing beings
who walked the earth in our remote past, created man and played an essential
role in the development of life and culture on the planet.
