Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary #5: Greece & Crete (Pt.

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Posted on June 10, 2012 by Phillip Lindsay

The “Lion Gate” at mighty Mycenae (Author’s pic)

Mycenae and the Cyclopean Giants

Delphi, Apollo and Pythia
Introduction
Each travel blog lately has required some more recent news before back-tracking to catch up on overdue
blogs. And so at this point in June 2012, I have recently returned to my native Australia, although that
is a strange phrase these days as I feel more like a visiting backpacker!

Nevertheless, as mentioned in the introduction to

Travel Blog #4, my knee had been giving me trouble
on my second Saturn return, forcing me eventually to
put my South American sojourn on hold, to return to
Australia and utilise the medical facilities there.

It was MRI’d and analysed by various experts who

recommended knee replacement surgery or a lesser
version known as arthroscopy. I decided to put this
drastic option on hold for a few years and then review
it again!
Saqsaywaman, Cusco, Peru.
Before returning to Australia, I managed to catch six
weeks back in Peru (I visited there three years ago),
where I stayed mainly in Cusco, studying and filming the famous Saqsaywaman ruins (pronounced
colloquially, ‘sexy woman’.) It was from here that the Aries 2012 newsletter was written, exploring some
of the esoteric history of the area. More on Peru in the forthcoming Travel Diary #7.

I have now replaced my video equipment for the HHH documentary with more lightweight and adaptable
gear that allows me a whole array of lenses – with broadcast ‘cinematic’ quality. After being an amateur
photographer since the age of 14, I am still learning the art of videography – its a bit like doing Tai Chi
when filming, panning and focusing. I am glad that in film editing, the sound track can be removed
easily, you would not want to hear some of the epithets borne from technical mistakes!

The HHH video proceeds slowly but surely – the script and narration were recently completed (after one
year) en route through L.A., professionally recorded in a studio. (Many thanks to Francis, Justin, James,
Gustavo and Sharon!) The 18′ preview is now available, but the video as a whole make take another few
years to complete, due to the time it will take to visit many places and obtain footage.

Another factor that governs this process is that a somewhat intricate and esoteric video needs to be
carefully planned in order to be evocative and understood. As I have said to my co-workers, ‘I am not in
a hurry, it took 20 million years for human consciousness to unfold, a couple more years will not hurt!’

I may have mentioned in other blogs, that besides the fact that ‘stock footage’ from various companies
is very expensive, it is imperative in this project to visit and connect with all the locations. Just in the
recent several weeks in Peru, I obtained a pile of information about various sites that I would not have
gotten otherwise, really quite extraordinary connections and insights were made. I hope to somehow
communicate and incorporate it all in the HHH documentary.

Mycenae and the Cyclopean Giants

Mycenae is an extraordinary place! First impressions for me were two-fold: First, the consciousness
behind its construction was very advanced. Second, that it is very ancient, an Atlantean city to be sure –
in esoteric chronology, at least 800,000 years.

One of the fruits of my labours in Greece was an essay, “Greek Mythology, The Secret Doctrine and the
Rootraces”. (It is published here The Destiny of the Races and Nations II.)

In that essay I discuss the roots of ancient Greece and its ‘Pelasgian’ origins in one of the latter
subraces of Atlantis, held in common with the nearby Egyptians – a bridge between the Atlantean and
the Aryan rootraces. When the Ancient Egyptians and Mayans migrated from India 860,000 years ago
during the second major flooding of Atlantis, parts of the Mediterranean Sea may have well been land.
This geographical situation may account for the scattered remnants of the Pelasgians throughout
mainland Greece, its islands and surrounds.

In exoteric archeology, Mycenae belongs to the ‘later’ Bronze Age, also known as the Dvapara Yuga in
the Hindu system. This Dvapara Yuga for the Fifth Rootrace started about 860,000 years ago at the
second major flooding of the Atlantean continents. Mycenae is known as an ‘Cyclopean’ structure,
meaning that giants built it – not figuratively or
metaphorically, but literally- and many others like it
around the world – from Saqsaywaman in Peru to
Stonehenge in Britain. They also had some help from
(now lost) sonic technologies possessed in those times,
but their brute force was a probably a prime factor in
construction.

The Ruins of Mycenae surrounded by protective

ravines.

Yuga Greek Yuga Dates Manu/Cycle

Period Duration

Satya Gold 1,728,000 3,893,100 Noah (Manu 5.0)

Treta Silver 1,296,000 2,165,100 Asuramaya

Dvapara Bronze 864,000 869,000 Menes (Manu 5.2)

th
Kali Iron 432,000 3,102 BC Kali Yuga 5 R.R.

Technically, the Cyclopes are the giants with one eye and
belong to the third rootrace or Lemurian period. It is not
known if ‘Cyclopes’ referred to in Mycenaean times is a
generic reference to giants or to actual surviving Lemurian
giants; either way, according to esoteric chronology there
were still plenty of giants around in those days. Blavatsky
comments:

“It is difficult … not to suspect in the structures of Tiryns

The Walls of Tiryns, Greece (Not far from
Mycenae)
only seventy-seven in all …
and Mycenae, planetary forces supposed to be moved by
celestial powers analogous to the famous Dactyles.”
(Pelasgians and Cyclopes). To this day science is ignorant
on the subject of the Cyclopes. They are supposed to have
built all the so-called “Cyclopean” works whose erection
necessitated several regiments of Giants and—they were

… They are called “Builders” and Occultism calls them the

Initiators, who, initiating some Pelasgians, thus laid the
foundation stone of true Masonry. Herodotus [Greek
historian] associates the Cecrops with Perseus … Anyhow
he was the builder of the sacred columns of Gadir covered
with mysterious characters – to which Apollonius of Tyana
[Jesus’ next incarnation], was the only one in his age to
possess the key; and with figures which may still be found
on the walls of Ellora [India] the gigantic ruins of the
temple of Viswakarma, “the builder and artificer of the
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Gods.”

Cyclopean erections notwithstanding, Mycenae was the Viswakarma Temple, India.

capital of the famed king Agamemnon who destroyed Troy,
another important Atlantean city, only recently discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in the late 1870’s.

Schliemann also made significant breakthroughs at Mycenae; he had a

Mask of Agamemnon remarkable life, being fluent in 8-13 languages (Moon in Gemini), a self
made multi-millionaire (Capricorn Sun), originally from a poor family,
‘retiring’ at the ripe old age of 36 to pursue his love of finding lost cities – as
described in the epic poems of Homer.

Homer says that Mycenae was set, “in a nook of Argos” (as in Argo-nauts, Jason
etc.), a natural citadel created from plunging ravines; its co-creators were the
Cyclopes, probably much larger than the following description, possibly 15ft [5
metres]:

“…there was a time when 9ft. and 10ft. [3+

metres] was the average height of humanity,
Tomb at Mycenae
even in our latest Indo-European race… [5th
rootrace] the old Greeks knew of these early
races … The great nation mentioned by the Egyptian priests, from
which descended the forefathers of the Greeks of the age of Troy, and
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which, as averred, had been destroyed by the Atlantic race.”

The four yugas or the gold, silver, bronze and iron ages in the Greek
Under the walls of Mycenae tradition, are also allegories for the rootraces. Hence the Third
(Author’s pic)
Rootrace or third age of bronze is depicted,

“The men of the age of Bronze are robust and violent (the third race); their strength is extreme. They
had arms made of bronze, habitations of bronze; used nought but bronze. Iron, the black metal, was yet
unknown. The fourth generation (race) is, with Hesiod, that of the heroes who fell before Thebes … or
under the walls of Troy.”3

‘Arms made of bronze’ is most likely some poetic licence! Yet likewise, the third subraces of subsequent
rootraces would exhibit this strength. The ‘fourth generation’ is of course the Atlanteans, a further proof
(esoterically at least), of the antiquity of both Troy and Mycenae.

Delphi, Apollo and Pythia

Delphi was considered to be the centre, or ‘navel of the world’ by
the ancient Greeks, containing a stone called the omphalos
(navel), that was kept in the Temple of Apollo. It was a highly
venerated location, site of the famed Delphic oracle and initiation
into the mysteries.

Apollo is the Sun god, or the

Solar Logos. The third
initiation is regarded as the Delphi, Greece (Author’s pic) Delphi was
undoubtedly the most powerful site I
first ‘solar initiation’ by the
visited in Greece; a spiritual radiation
Masters, hence it is highly persists since ancient times, combined
likely that this initiation was with sublimely beautiful temples, some
of the contents of which reside in the
conferred upon likely Delphi Museum. (See some Delphi
candidates here. Tradition Museum pics in previous blog.)

Delphi. (Author’s pic) has it that the Oracle of

Delphi was guarded by Python the serpent, who Apollo is killed,
founding his own oracle. Yet ‘Pythia’ was the name applied to the
woman who acted as the oracle:

“A Pythia, upon the authority of Plutarch, Iamblichus, Lamprias, and others, was a
nervous sensitive; she was chosen from among the poorest class, young and pure.
Attached to the temple, within whose precincts she had a room, secluded from every
other, and to which no one but the priest, or seer, had admittance, she had no
communications with the outside world, and her life was more strict and ascetic than
that of a Catholic nun.

Sitting on a tripod of brass placed over a fissure in the ground, through which arose
intoxicating vapors, these subterranean exhalations penetrating her whole system
produced the prophetic mania. In this abnormal state she delivered oracles. She was
sometimes called ventriloqua vates, the ventriloquist-prophetess.4

Delphi means ‘dolphin’ and tradition has it that Apollo arrived in the guise of a
 dolphin swimming into the Corinthian Gulf, bringing with him
priests from Crete. Amphibious gods as teachers of humanity
are universal stories repeated in other traditions such as the
Babylonian Oannes.

Sun gods are often referred to as ‘serpents of wisdom’ or

‘dragons of wisdom’. Both the Sun and wisdom are always
associated with the second ray of Love-Wisdom, the primary ray
of this solar system. This ‘2’ symbolism is highly significant as it
relates to other 2’s, such as the second round, or vast cycle,

“The secret of the reptile kingdom is one of the mysteries of the

second round, and there is a profound significance connected with the expression “the serpents of
wisdom” which is applied to all adepts of the good law. The reptile kingdom has an interesting place in
all mythologies, and all ancient forms of truth impartation … When the real nature and method of the
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kundalini, or serpent fire, is known, this relation will be better understood.”

Hence the high

priests and
others who had
achieved this
initiation were
called ‘sons of
the dragon’ or
‘serpents’,
symbols of
immortality,
The Temple of Apollo, Delphi. (Author’s pic) wisdom and the Temple of Athena Pronaia. A sacrifice was
secret required here before consulting the oracle.
knowledge that
is imparted to those who had prepared themselves sufficiently.

In Egypt and other parts of the ancient world, there were

underground passages for the sacred mysteries called
Serpent’s catacombs, where the candidate would go
through various rites of passage pertaining to certain
initiations. (This is where the phrase ‘running the gauntlet’
originates.)

The second rootrace or Hyperborea, is where Apollo was

said to visit because all the beloved priests and servants of
the gods resided there.
Delphi. (Author’s pic)

Phillip Lindsay © 2011.

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Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#6 – Greece & Crete 3. 2010 (Spanish Version)

Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#1 – Britain 1. 2010 (Spanish Version)

Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#2 – Britain 2. 2010 (Spanish Version)
Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#3 – Costa Rica, Greece 2010 (Spanish Version)
Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#4 – Greece & Crete 1. 2011 (Spanish Version)
 Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#5 – Greece & Crete 2. 2011 (Spanish Version)
Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#6 – Greece & Crete 3. 2012 (Spanish Version)
Origins Odyssey: Travel Diary#7 – India-Sri Lanka. (Prequel 1: 1992)

1. The Secret Doctrine II, H.P. Blavatsky. p.345. [↩]

2. The Secret Doctrine II, H.P. Blavatsky. p.749 [↩]
3. The Secret Doctrine II, H.P. Blavatsky. p.271. [↩]
4. Isis Unveiled II, H.P. Blavatsky. p.xxxix. [↩]
5. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Alice A. Bailey. p.893. [↩]

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