Science versus Mythology

Ancient Mer History

Acarathena Bonavendier, PhD
Founder, Archaeological Research Consortium (ARC)
Mobile, Alabama

Like my elder cousin (and, in the spirit of disclosure, ARC’s largest financial donor) Lilith Bonavendier, I fully support the idea that Mers and Landers share extensive genetic, sociological, cultural, and historical roots, in essence, being separate branches off the same family tree. However, unlike (but with all due respect to) Lilith, I prefer hard science to fanciful mythology when it comes to the ancient origins of Mer culture. Fables of Atlantis-like kingdoms, of half-human, fish-tailed beings, et cetera, are simply that: Fables. Without going into volumes of detail about the artifacts and fossils gathered by Mer scientists for hundreds of years, I will sum up the indisputable conclusions briefly:

Mers and Landers diverged from a common ancestor at least six million years ago. Mer scientists excavating submerged sites off the coast of  Africa in the late 1970’s recovered the bones of numerous aquatic hominids, known in the research vernacular as “aquatic apes” (i.e. chimp-like head and torso, broadly splayed feet with fossil imprints of webbed toes.)

According to Lander archaeologists and ancient Lander historians, Sumeria was the site of the first advanced human civilization, existing 6,000 years ago on the coast of modern-day Iraq. Yet Sumerian mythology speaks of earlier civilizations that predate that time by thousands of years and insists that half-man, half-fish “gods” came out of the ocean after a catastrophic worldwide flood that wiped out most of mankind (i.e. Landers.) According to Sumerian texts, these gods were mentors and teachers from the lost cities. They restored civilization.

Yet Landers insist that no evidence of pre-Sumerian civilization exists. Why haven’t Lander researchers found such evidence? Because it is now hidden on the ocean floor.

Without dispute, all scientists, both Mer and Landers, agree that the last ice age ended approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. At that time, the melting of the glaciers raised ocean levels, worldwide. It is accepted fact that the modern day Persian Gulf was once a vast, fertile plain fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. According to Sumerian legend, this veritable real-life paradise was home to an advanced civilization with numerous great cities along the ancient Mesopotamian coast.

Until the waters rose.

Geological evidence indicates that while this gradual flooding of each sections of the continental coastlines, worldwide, occurred over thousands of years, research also indicates that turbulent climatic changes also may have caused sudden, catastrophic increases in ocean level. In league with evidence of massive volcano eruptions, such as those suspected in the ancient Greek islands, one can easily picture shocking floods and enormous, deadly tsunamis. Indeed, since virtually ancient culture on Earth – on every continent – includes legends of a “great flood” that destroyed most of mankind, it is accurate to believe that such legends date to specific, real, cataclysmic events associated with glacier melting. 

How does this prove that Mer civilizations pre-date all known Lander civilizations, or, at the very least, openly co-existed alongside Lander civilizations at one time?

The lost cities have been found.

While a few Lander scientists and curious sport divers have long reported finding mysterious, megalithic ruins in waters off the coasts of the world, their contention that those ruins represent human civilizations lost to glacier flooding, therefore pre-dating the earliest known civilizations by 10,000 years or more, have been laughed off by mainstream Lander archaeologists as bizarre conjecture.

Mer scientists, however, are under no such narrow presumptions. Working in deep waters, guided by ancient Mer texts, Mer researchers have gathered a treasure trove of extraordinary fossils, artifacts, and engraved writings from Mer and/or Lander civilizations at more than thirty major sites, worldwide.

How then, if Mers once ruled empires of both Mer and Lander, may we explain the current state of affairs, i.e. that the end of the last ice age began a swift period of decline in Mer influence and population, so that our entire branch of the human race dwindled to a tiny, elite minority lost to legend and cloaked in secrecy?

Sadly, it  has taken until recent decades for science to develop the tools that could answer that question definitively, i.e. the combination of forensics and genetic testing that have identified heretofore unsuspected clues.

Unfortunately, at this point in time, due to investigations and allegations being pursued by the Council in regards to the UniWorld situation, I’m constrained from elaborating on those clues.

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