M.J. Rose

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE MUSEUM OF MYSTERIES!

And now for some more mysteries…

From gold funeral masks, nearly identical religions, obelisks with hieroglyphics, and so much more, the astounding similarities of the Incan/pre-Incan and Ancient Egyptian cultures is not to be denied. How did two cultures separated in antiquity by a vast ocean co-evolve in so many inexplicable ways? The following article delves into a huge list of coincidences that will no doubt stun you while also convincing you that there simply had to be some sort of connection between these cultures. Was there a seafaring global mother culture such as Atlantis that informed the customs, architecture, and religions of both the Incans and the Egyptians?

The Mystery Of Twin Cultures On Opposite Sides Of The Atlantic

“The ancient Egyptians (in Africa) and the ancient pre-Incas/Incas (in South America) evolved on opposite sides of the globe and were never in contact; yet both cultures mysteriously possessed the same strikingly identical body of ancient art, architecture, symbolism, mythology and religion. The Victorian-era scholars, faced with this enigma, concluded that both cultures must have been children of the same Golden Age parent civilization, “Atlantis.” Today, Egyptian/Inca parallels are not only being ignored by American and Western scholars, they’re being suppressed.

Many baffling and unsolved similarities link the ancient Egyptians and the ancient pre-Incas/Incas – even though both cultures evolved on opposite sides of the planet, separated by oceans.

Victorian-era scholars, faced with this enigma, believed both cultures inherited the same high wisdom from the same exceedingly older source—a shared “parent civilization” now lost to history. For the Victorians this common parent hypothesis explained the parallels well. These Victorian scholars called this common parent “Atlantis,” following Plato and the Classical historians…”

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Sometimes I imagine stepping into a homemade time machine, assembled from old car parts and bits and pieces from the broken washing machine, and landing somewhere in the past to see how people really behaved and looked back then. Short of that, it’s the artists and the writers who act as our witches and sorcerers of time travel – they are the ones who give us the satisfying glimpses into other realms and other times that we desire.

Some are better at it than others. This photographer has done an excellent job of it – blending the past and the present in a way that soars the imagination…

To view the entire gallery of wonderments, click here.

Mermaids have occupied the realm of myth for as long as myth has existed. I recall being surprised and intrigued when the infamous pseudo-documentary about mermaids came out, how many people were temporarily fooled by it. Is the mermaid so compelling a symbol of freedom and otherworldliness that humans refuse to give up on the possibility that they may in fact exist?

In the meantime, we continue to create fantasy mermaid worlds to entertain us and satisfy our longing…

Professional Mermaids Are Lost Treasure of Florida Park

By Jakob Schiller

“The mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs were one of Florida’s main attractions in the ’60s. Celebrities like Elvis would join nearly a million other visitors a year to take in their show. Drawing air from plastic hoses that flowed out of the bottom of their underwater theater in order to avoid fantasy-disrupting scuba gear, the mermaids could dazzle sold-out crowds with their acrobatics and performances for up to 30 minutes.

Today, while not as well-known as they used to be, the mermaids still perform.

“They are still local celebrities to many people,” says photographer Annie Collinge, whose recent photo project documents the performers…”