Lost Civilizations: 12 Societies that Vanished

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Why would a flourishing civilization, advanced for its time, suddenly cease to exist, its inhabitants gone and its architecture abandoned? Conspiracy theorists offer all manner of offbeat explanations including alien abduction, but in the case of these 12 societies, the causes were likely more mundane: natural disasters, climate change, invasions and economic irrelevance. Still, we don’t know – and likely never will – exactly what happened to bring about the end of the Khmer Empire of Cambodia, the Minoan society of Crete or two ancient civilizations right here in the United States. The Indus Valley Civilization, Pakistan (images via: national geographic) Home to one of the greatest man-made architectural wonders of the ancient world, the Indus Valley Civilization (known at the height of its influence as the Harappan Civilization) was among the largest early urban settlements on any continent. Located in modern-day Pakistan, the Indus Valley Civilization thrived 4,500 years ago and was then forgotten but for local legends until ruins were excavated in the 1920s. Sophisticated and technologically advanced, this civilization, including the famous Mohenjo Daro, featured the world’s first urban sanitation systems as well as evidence of surprising proficiency in mathematics, engineering and even proto-dentistry. By the year 1500 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization was virtually abandoned, possibly after invasion by Indo-European tribes or a collapse in agriculture due to climate change. The Khmer Empire, Cambodia (images via: tourism object, christian haugen, christoph rooms) Once one of the most powerful empires of Southeast Asia, the Khmer civilization spread from modern-day Cambodia out into Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Malaysia and is best known today for Angkor, its capital city. The empire dates back to 802 CE. Other than stone inscriptions, no written records survive, so our knowledge of the civilization is pieced together from archaeological investigations, reliefs in temple walls and the reports of outsiders including the Chinese. The Khmers practiced both Hinduism and Buddhism and built intricate temples, towers and other structures including Angkor Wat, dedicated to the god Vishnu. Attacks from outsiders, deaths from the plague, water management issues affecting the rice crops and conflicts over power among the royal families likely led to the end of this empire, which finally fell to the Thai people in 1431 CE. The Anasazi, New Mexico, United States (images via: erik anestad, national geographic, puroticorico) ‘Anasazi’ is the modern name for the ancient Pueblo Peoples who inhabited the ‘Four Corners’ area of the southwestern United States at the junction of the states of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Their civilization emerged around the 12th century BCE, and remains best known for stone and adobe structures built along cliff walls including Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, the White House Ruins and Pueblo Bonito at the northern rim of Chaco Canyon. This architecture evolved into amazing multi-story dwellings that were often only accessible by rope or ladder. The ancient Puebloans did not necessarily “vanish”; they did, however, abandon their homeland for reasons unknown in the 12th and 13th centuries CE. Many experts as well as modern Puebloans, who claim the ancient Puebloans as their ancestors, believe that deforestation and droughts caused internal conflict and warfare, causing these ancient people to disseminate. The Olmec Civilization, Mexico (images via: wikimedia commons, bernt rostad) In what is now Veracruz and Tabasco in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico was once a grand Pre-Columbian civilization that constructed incredible ‘colossal heads’, practiced bloodletting and human sacrifice, invented the concept of the number zero and essentially laid the foundation for every Mesoamerican culture that was to follow. The Olmec civilization might even have been the first civilization in the Western hemisphere to develop a writing system, and possibly invented the compass and the Mesoamerican calendar. Dating to around 1500 BCE, the Olmec civilization wasn’t ‘discovered’ by historians until the mid-19th century. Its decline is blamed on environmental changes caused by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or possibly damaging agricultural practices. The Aksumite Empire, Ethiopia (images via: wikimedia commons) A major participant in trade with the Roman Empire and Ancient India, the Aksumite Empire – also known as the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum – ruled over northeastern Africa including Ethiopia starting in the 4th century BCE. Theorized to be the home of the Queen of Sheba, the Aksumite Empire was likely an indigenous African development that grew to encompass most of present-day Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, Yemen, southern Saudi Arabia and northern Sudan. The empire had its own alphabet and erected enormous obelisks including the Obelisk of Axum, which still stands. It was the first major empire to convert to Christianity. Axum’s decline has been variously blamed on economic isolation due to the expansion of the Islamic Empire, invasions, or climate change which altered the flood pattern of the Nile. The Minoans, Crete (images via: wikimedia commons) Named after the mythical king Minos, the Minoan civilization of Crete wasn’t rediscovered until early in the 20th century, but since then we have uncovered fascinating puzzle pieces of an ancient civilization that began flourishing over 7,000 years ago, hitting its zenith around 1600 BCE. Centers of commerce appeared around 2700 BCE, and as the civilization advanced, palaces of greater and greater complexity were built and rebuilt following series of disasters – likely earthquakes and eruptions of the Thera volcano. One of these palaces was Knossos, the ‘labyrinth’ associated with the legend of Minos, which is now a major archaeological site and tourist attraction. But sometime around 1450 BCE, there was an unknown disaster that the Minoans apparently weren’t able to recover from, and the civilization met its downfall. In moved the Mycenaeans – who would later join the Minoans in the void of vanished empires. Fun fact: the Minoan script, known as Linear A, remains undeciphered. The Cucuteni-Trypillians, Ukraine & Romania (images via: wikimedia commons, germanici) The largest settlements in Neolithic Europe were built by the Cucuteni-Trypillians of modern-day Ukraine, Romania and Moldova. This mysterious civilization, which flourished between 5500 BCE and 2750 BCE, is characterized by its uniquely patterned pottery and by its bizarre habit of burning its own villages to the ground every 60 to 80 years. The villages were rebuilt again and again, on top of the ashes of the old ones. About 3,000 Cucuteni-Trypillian archaeological sites have been identified including what may be the world’s oldest saltworks. Like so many other civilizations, the Cucuteni-Trypillians may have been wiped out by climate change, but other theories suggest that they gradually blended with other groups until their own culture was lost. The Nabateans, Jordan (images via: wikimedia commons) The ancient Nabatean civilization occupied southern Jordan, Canaan and northern Arabia starting in the sixth century BCE, when the Aramaic-speaking Nabatean nomads began gradually migrating from Arabia. Their legacy is epitomized by the breathtaking city of Petra, carved into the solid sandstone rock of Jordan’s mountains, and they are remembered for their skill in water engineering, managing a complex system of dams, canals and reservoirs which helped them expand and thrive in an arid desert region. Little is known of their culture and no written literature survives. They were overtaken by the Romans in 65 BCE, who took full control by 106 CE, renaming the kingdom Arabia Petrea. Sometime around the 4th century CE, the Nabateans left Petra for unknown reasons. It’s believed that, after centuries of foreign rule, the Nabatean civilization was reduced to disparate groups of Greek-writing peasants who were eventually converted to Christianity before their lands were seized altogether by Arab invaders. Cahokia, Illinois, United States (images via: wikimedia commons) Few Americans realize that we have the remains of a lost ancient civilization right here in the United States – in Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. The Cahokia Mounds Historic Site is all that is left of an indigenous civilization of the Mississippian culture, settled around 600 CE. The inhabitants of Cahokia did not seem to keep written records, but preserved at this World Heritage Site are a series of grass-covered man-made ‘mounds’ as well as pottery and other artifacts. Cahokia was once the largest urban center north of the great Mesoamerican cities of Mexico and may have once been home to as many as 40,000 people – greater, in the year 1250 CE, than the population of London, England, or that of any American city that was to come until Philadelphia around the year 1800. Cahokia was abandoned around 100 years before Europeans arrived in North America, possibly due to environmental factors or invasion of outside peoples. The Mycenaean Civilization, Greece (images via: clairity, wikimedia commons) Unlike the Minoans before them, the Mycenae didn’t flourish by trade alone – they set out to conquer, and expanded into an empire that overtook much of Greece. Hitting its peak right around the time the Minoans disappeared, the Mycenaean civilization enjoyed five centuries of domination before vanishing sometime around 1100 BCE. Hellenic legend holds that the Mycenae defeated the possibly mythological Troy, and the empire’s artifacts have been found as far away as Ireland. In fact, this culturally and economically wealthy civilization has left behind a wealth of art, architecture and artifacts. What happened to the Mycenae? Natural disasters are possible, but most experts believe that it was either foreign invaders or internal conflict that brought about the end to this once-great empire. Moche Civilization, Peru (images via: national geographic, inkanatura) More of a collection of peoples that shared a similar culture than an empire, the Moche civilization developed an agriculturally-based society complete with palaces, pyramids and complex irrigation canals on the north coast of Peru between about 100 and 800 CE. While they had no predominant written language, leaving us few clues as to their history, they were an extraordinarily artistic and expressive people who left behind incredibly detailed pottery and monumental architecture. In 2006, a Moche chamber was discovered that was apparently used for human sacrifice, containing the remains of human offerings. There are many theories as to why the Moche disappeared, but the most prevalent explanation is the effect of El Nino, a pattern of extreme weather characterized by alternating periods of flooding and extreme droughts. Perhaps this explains the Moche’s bloody efforts to appease the gods. Clovis Culture, North America (images via: clovis in the southeast, wikimedia commons) Very little is known about the Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-Indian people that were thought to have been the first human inhabitants of North America. Archaeologists have tentatively dated artifacts found at an archaeological site near Clovis, New Mexico at 11,500 RCYBP (radiocarbon years before present), equal to about 13,500 calendar years, but dating beyond 10,000 years is considered unreliable. The artifacts, bone and stone blades known as Clovis points, are among the only clues we have that this group – technically not a civilization – ever existed. In the last thirty years, remains of possibly older human activity have been discovered, calling the Clovis’ status into question, but whether or not they were first, they did disappear rather abruptly. Some speculate that the Clovis overhunted, compromising their own food supply, or that climate change, disease and predators took their toll. Others believe that the Clovis didn’t disappear at all, but simply dispersed into the beginnings of early Native American tribes.

Higher Self WTF!?

Is anyone else confused about, Higher Self, Knowing Self, Jesus Awareness, God Self....Oh my god. I don't know about you all but this stuff is so complicated how is one to find inner peace when most spiritual newagey people are so in there heads. Have you heard them talk about this? OMG! I just fall asleep when they go about explaining what's higher and what's lower self and Jesus or God Consiscouness WTF!? I don't know when it happened but western spiritual culture at some point in there enlightened awakening made a huge Left and disconnected from there bodies, right into there heads. Well not me. Is it me or do most New Agers seem to all appear to be recovering catholics, or survialists of chrisianity (not going to win any popularity contests for saying that) and make everything about spirit in what they know from.....CHURCH. Exibit A "Christ Consciouness" And as soon as they get in a postion of New Ager power ie: leaders of Talking Circle, or Yoga Groups or dare I say it make everything into some sort of God, Jesus reference WTF. They suddenly create Priest qualities. Ie: If you want to know anything about spirit ask me because I am the door way to....Your higher self. Hello...really!? Then they proceed to complicate a simple process into a mind bloggaling diatribe of the ins and outs of Christ Cousiness and Your Higher Self. LOL. Crazy?..Hell yeah. In my humble opinion...Higher Self turns into mind numbing, soul sucking separation. The Head takes off into the stratosphere, leaving the rest of the body to the human experience. Which goes into ego, that goes into most folks thinking they're are some sort of Ascended Master. Really. So okay Duende, Mister Smarty Pants what do you listen too, when struck with a deep ethral question? My go to is this: Your heart. Duende is that it? Yep. Don't not separate you Body, mind and Soul. And your soul is Aka: Your heart. Simply put, its the best thing to follow and it doesn't get intellucally complicated where you figure you need a PHD to understand it. If you don't believe me, then go ahead and listen to the New enlightened Agers...most are in there HEAD. Why? Cause if they can complicate it so much that you're having trouble with the concepts they've complicated then ultimately you'll...follow them. Does this sound like...Church Cult Mentallity. Hell yah. (I am so, not going to be popular lol) Step 1 look at your shit and deal with it. Which is easier said then done. Step 2 The heart will never lie, so are you ready to hear and follow your truth. Step 3 Listening to inner guidance is not complicated and if it is, don't follow it, because then you'll go right into your head and...separte from...you guess it, separation of life the universe and everything. My Uncle was a prime example of that. He could complicate the simplist concepts into PhD material when its ultimately "Childs Play". Here's a basic rule, if a 5 year old can't get it then it ain't worth listening to hours of "Verbal Diarehia". Follow Your Heart. That's the answer to understanding what, where, how and why to the Universal Questions or to following your own path. Wether it be God, Jahovah, Buddha, Alah, Creator, Great Spirit, Geometrics, or the Grand Nothingness of Being of Atheisist. Whatever floats your boat. But most of all through your journey, my best advice is get outta your head, and spot trying to figure out what's higher or lower or inner self. Its messed up and will fuck with your head. Simply put....Follow your Heart. It'll never steer you wrong. And side note...Its been scienctically proven that your Heart has as many brain cells as your Brain! PS. When in doubt, children have got this down, look to them for guidance. Watch them play and know the universe. Duende Nadderd (c)2023

Fear of Death, and Dieing

Lets start off right away that there is "Life After Death". Duh. Of course there is. Don't buy the "Pop Culture" narative. If they can keep you busy being worried about only living for 75 on average years then you will only think about your own needs and greater control over your spiritual exsistance. And look around you, in nature, your garden, life after death happens all the time. Why would our lives be any different. For me because of who I am, and being in other worlds and seeing so many impossible things...its a no brainer. We exist over millions of years, if not billions. So how long have we been around, our spirit selfs? Millions if not billions of years, I kid you not. Oh and not just humans. Sorry to burst your bubble but humanity is not the be all end all of life. You mostly likely have been aliens, and animals and birds and bugs. I know I know, not you, you're enlightened and have been Princesses, and Kings and slaves and....OMG! Let it go. WTF. You r human now but not always from my experience of 60 plus years of being an clairvoyant and I'm okay with it. I have giving alot of thought to the concept of Heaven and Hell put forth by the Western Christian Anglo Culture, and I began to notice that God and the Devil are so similiar. Like what now Duende? Have you gone mad? No no, hear me out. The Devil is a scarey guy and if you mess up you visit him in Hell and God is a scarey guy and if you mess up you go to Hell. WTF. So you be good and if you are afaird of going to Hell, just make a donation to the church and you'll go to Heaven? Really? Which means by these terms, the Gangster Elite 1% get to go to heaven cause they gots tons of cash and the rest of us poor sods....ah no...right to hell. But what if we where real real good and did everything right, with no screw ups and where like Mother Teresa and Gandi? I think even they had faults. LOL so did they go to Hell? I believe that Heaven and Hell are here on earth. In my life I have lived and seen both and I'm a really good person. Its what you make it. So what do I believe....right at the moment...and it might change, I believe in Karma. Not the new agey christian anglo Karma but the Eastern Karma but in order to believe that then you have to believe in rencarnation. Will be continued....

Human Revolution

When I was little my "Wise Old Dead Friends" had asked me to find a "Revolution" that would work. I searched history to find one "Revolution" that did work. None ever did, it just got replaced by greater tranny, time and time again ad nauseam. And after forty years of searching I found a better way, I found the answer: The only "Revolution" that workS is if you, me, we, dropped the "R" out of the equation. Where "Revolution" becomes "Evolution". I have the gift of knowing, and I can tell you, everyone, us, we: HUMANS EVOLVE. Duende Naddred (c) 2022 Duende

Destroying Your Magic, Keeping You Normal

I was in a Health Food store getting herbals instead of Pharma, for my Health. I know, I know that's radical lol. When I was there the NaturalPathic young lady was having a very tough time. So, naturally I wanted to Assist Support Lift her up and then let her follow her own heart. While I was doing this she broke down in tears. "What's wrong?" I asked her, "Are you okay?" "I want to see more" she answered "YOu see from your heart, not your eyes." She looked at me confounded. "And how's that possible?" Blutering out, even more confused. "Your heart is the big Brain, and your eyes and mind are data collection." She just stood there with this "Deer in the headlights" look on her face. "You know when your in your house, late at night and your talking with your partner or watching TV and suddenly, for a split second you see a tall man standing in the corner, but when you look its just a tall free standing lamp? What was it?" "A lamp!" She replied confidently, like an excited student, first to put her hand up. "Really?" I asked her. "Well what do you think it is?" "I think it was a man posing as a lamp and a lamp posing as a man." "Isn't that just the imagination?" "I said, "Of course it is....where else would it come from." She stood there so puzzled. Like Duende how can you say that just your immagination, everyone knows that its not real. And here in lies the problem, the brain washing, the pop culture of NORMAL. Where did we learn what reality is and isn't? From the school system mostly. And if you find that hard to believe, go back to your year book and see all the student pics, everyone had there head the same straight forward direction with the same smile, in the same way, row after row, page after page. And this is just the tip of the ice berg! And what are we taught....fit in and don't be different. We are also taught to COMPARE....Who's better looking, who's got the best grades, who's in the coolest group and has the coolest friends. Who straight, who's gay, who's smart, who's dumb. Comparing = Desparing. So most of us conform and very few of us even question why. I've been studying this phenomina for the past 30 years and its epidemic porotions. Question? Why is it that we all had a vivid imagination up from birth until the ages 2 (or probably before) to 10 and then loose our connection to the other worlds? If you where to ask anyone from the ages 2 to 10 who they are staring at?....they'd say "A tall man in the corner." And they'd point him out. So WTF happened? When and Why. This is what I'm going to help to explain in this post.

Duende Naddred 2021 (c) More to come.....

Awakening

"THE JOY OF AWAKENING" * You will feel pain. * You will doubt yourself a thousand times. * They will tell you that you are going crazy. * You will lose friends. * Your family will sometimes not understand you. * People will hate you for no reason. You will develop strange habits. You will fight with your monsters (fear, ego and ignorance). * You will not care what they think of you. * You will feel like you don't fit in this world. "But it will all be worth it ... No one lights up fantasizing figures of light, but making aware of the darkness that surrounds us and the that dwells within us. " The true spiritual awakening is not a caress, but rather a bucket of cold water. What use would it be to you, to caress your ego, with whispers, fantasies or longings. When what you need is a strong shake, so that you really assimilate what life is. Shared by Alberto Marquez I found this and had to share This is so helpful for me and I hope so for you, my readers out there. Awakening is not a bliss out uforic 24/7 state. It is what has been said...Its a cold bucket of water. I know its not appealing thinking of it like that but it is closer to the truth. I liken wakening to...to child birth, its amazing, incredible, extremely intense, glorious, tear filled, terrifying, life changing, brillant, painful, calming, awe inspiring, peaceful, and full of Joy. In a nut shell awakening is like Nature....its everything, its a journey with many ups and downs, hills and valley's and all wonderful and good in the end. LOl. Duende Nadderd 2021 (c)

Rabbit Hole Ramblings: They Walk Amongst us

These Two Women are just examples (not the real deal) for the Stories below. 12 years ago, I was hanging out with a friend of mine for coffee, in downtown Vancouver. We were at our usual haunt which happened to be "Star Bucks" (Sadly) and this peticular coffee shop is situtation acroos from a Sky Train entrance. And Boys being Boys, or mostly Men being Men we were checking out all the beautiful people coming off the train and walking down the street. People watching on this corner was most exspetional, all the color of the rainbow, men and women rushing from work, back home and or, into restaruants. Yes we were checking out women mostly but love to watch all peoples. We were sipping our coffee and this couple comes out of the station. The gentlemen look dazed and confused, not really with it but looking and dressing like he really should be alert. He was not it was so odd. And his lady was a stunner, but with something different about her, some sort of? I was not sure at the time. There was something so right about her but not here, something odd that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Everytime I tired to go deeper on who, what and why it would slip outta my thoughts. I watched them both walk outta the station and hang a right just in front of us. I thought I'd been blessed. She was Sandy Blonde and TALL, unusually TALL and then she had heels on. Wow! He appeared not entirely there but she was so confident and self assured. Beauty but something deeper I couldn't put my finger on, something different. She was walking enjoying the world and I was enjoying her unabashed carefreeness and then she turned and winked at me! Wow! I'd thought I was watching subtely in my invisable commando mode. Mostly I'm subtle (well at least I think I am.) and had my cloaking device on and she turned and wink at me. Not in a you old prew way but in a more mechivous manner. Like "HAHA Gotcha". All of our interaction was quiet, and I don't even think my friend saw her. Who, what, where, why? No answers to these questions. Usually because of who I am I get readings on people. Unintrusives ones, ones that just tell me if they're happy or sad or In a good relationship or not. Knowings like that. We this Woman, I had absoutely no clue. I also knew I wouldn't be able to let go of her signature impression (we all have them, alive and dead) but with her I couldn't. There was no impressions at all. This for me was a first. With any human being I have incountered in the past. Even while retelling this story I loose all track of time and its hard to focus on which is not the case with me. Fast Forward to present day. I was in our local grocery store and I was shopping for dinner. It was approximately 430 in the afternoon. It was very busy that day (must have been Senoirs day lol I live in a retirement community and if theres a bargin the Seniors come out in droves. I walk into the store and a man past me oblivous to everything except the women he was with. That woman was a stunner! Usually Tall and she had heels on too. I kept an eye on the both of them as I shopped through the store. Neither of there energies where normal to a human signature, there was something very odd about these two. He was totally gobb smack over her and she was indefferent to him but enjoying him, sort of. Like you would a toy as a child with a room full of toys. You know, its your favorite Toy, for now. Again I couldn't figure her out, or him or the both of them, they seemed incongruent to there enviroment. No one else seem to notice them too, this made everything about them even more unreal or there but not? The other thing is that they had no awareness of other people, and it wasn't just like to people in love. No it wasn't that it was something again I couldn't quite put my finger on. It is also hard to focus on her. I think she had no idea I was studying her and her partner. There but not there. The second encounter happen 2 months ago. Finally I decided to go for a second opinion and rang up my friend who has some rocking clairvoyant skills. Here's the deal, if I can't SEE I'll contact this friend because she can see what I can't and visaversa. I described the two ladys that I encountered and everything about them and how similiar they seem but how old there signatur was, like they didn't really have any. It was then my friend said, "Oh they are FAE!" I was floored. Of course!! It made so much sense. "They were using Glamour." Wow! Really!? I thought. "And Glamour won't work on you, cause of who you are and your already exsisting with the Wee Folk. "But they were so TALL how's that work!? Aren't fairies WEE?" She laughed at me, and well so she should that was a not so smart reply. Okay it was a total of fail. "There are TALL FAE." OMG! I had the extreme pleasure in witnessing, not one but two of the Tuatha de Duana! Wow! I feel Blessed. Ive met the FAE before and interacted with them in the Dream World but never ever live and unfront in person. And Here on this physical plain. So cool. The next time: Was in a Mall taking a selfie and this tall striking black woman walks up with "Life" bursting through he eyes. Wow. We interacted a wee bit and I swear you could see her soul through her eyes and i thought: "Another Faye?" I swear she was. There is just something different about her and the same thing happened to me. My whole being was taken off balance. My clairvoyant sonare went crazy and spun me towards forgetting. Its hard to describe, I've met alot of women in my life, and pretty ones but what I always look for is the magic, the inspirational joy, the twinkle coming out of there eyes if not there whole being. And this incrediblely tall black woman had it all, it was breath taking and head spinning. However as I walked away I thought...."Is this Woman, who appears human, really faye?" and I would say yes. Again not alone and with a man who did not equal her level of extrordinary. I'm getting closer to asking/saying: "Your not from here are you." Well there you go. It an outlandish story. You can decide if its true or not, that matters little to me. I know what my experience was and I wanted to share. The impossible is most certainly POSSIBLE! Duende Nadderd 2021 (c)