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Indiana Jones in the land of pet theories by Philip Coppens
It is Indiana Jones, but you would think it is Don Quichote. In the run-up to the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, the establishment media has launched its crusade against crystal skulls. Archaeology has published a particularly bad article (no doubt because it had to be rushed into print) by Jane Walsh of the Smithsonian, while the Paris and British Museum skulls are being brought out with the specific notion that they are “fake”.
On April 18, the Quai Branly museum felt it had to release a press statement that the skull was “probably” made in the 19th century. Still, from May 20, coinciding with the Indiana Jones movie, the Paris skull goes on view. In the statement, the Quai Branly said results of an analysis of its skull in 2007-2008 by the country's C2RMF research and restoration centre "seem to indicate that it was made late in the 19th century." Note the word “seem”. Another article read: “The London skull was examined twice, in 1996 and 2004, and both studies tended to prove it was a fake, though the final conclusions have not been made public.” What are we to make of statements like “tended to prove”? There is either proof, or there isn’t.
All of the articles sing from the same hymn-sheet: how evidence of wheels “proves” they are not pre-Columbian; the Boban connection; the speculation about possible German origins. All of this “evidence” has been countered conclusively in my current article in NEXUS Magazine 15.3. Furthermore, the “German connection” is so unsubstantiated that even the newspaper and magazine articles use words like “may” or “could” – but there is no evidence for it. It is purely a theory by Jane Walsh, unsupported by any evidence.
The various stories that have been published, and no doubt will be published in the near future, highlight how badly one-sided the debate has become. And what are we to make of the “Skull of Doom” – also known as the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull – being labelled the “skull of destiny”?
AFP also decided it would invent its own variation of the “gathering of the skulls” legend, highlighting it either got that from a new age webpage, or just invented it altogether. Note no-one is quoted: “Each skull was supposed to correspond to 12 worlds in which human life was present. They were brought by the Itza, the ancient people of Atlantis, to their civilisation in order to pass on their knowledge to man. The 13th world, the land, also had its own crystal skull, and all 13 skulls were kept in a great pyramid by the Olmecs, the Mayas and ultimately the Aztecs. The Aztecs are said to have been responsible for the dispersal and loss of the skulls, which when brought together possessed great powers, including being lined up on the last day of the Maya calendar - December 21, 2012 - to prevent the earth from tipping over.” And one wonders why no-one is buying newspapers anymore!
On an altogether happier note, it appears, based from the press material that has gone out, that the Indiana Jones movie will be using the Akakor legend. For those familiar with the story, Akakor was indeed a “lost civilisation”, which was also linked with extra-terrestrial mythology, another theme that runs central in the new Indiana Jones movie.
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