Dangerous Adventures (Part 1)

Was there ever really an age of mythical legends and fantastic adventure? A distant bygone era when fearless adventurers, dared terrible dangers, battled monsters, and faced the darkest forces of antiquity?

Indeed, "Once upon a time", such an age did exist. When you ask? Only a handful of us know of some inexplicable artifacts unearthed by explorers, and the existence of these controversial specimens questions the very tenants of the world’s established history.

In 1930 a flood washed away a riverbank exposing a labyrinth of mysterious caves in Nasca Lines, Peru. This subterranean maze contained thousands of fantastic Stones. Known as the Ica Stones, these stones have drawings of T-Rex, a Stegosaurus, and Pterodactyl along side images of man.

In 1945 a German archeologist, Waldemar Julsrud, discovered, at the base of the El Toro Mountain near Acambaro Mexico, a find of 33,000 extraordinary clay figurines depicting bizarre creatures, some resembling dinosaurs, some stranger. An astounded Archeological establishment wondered, how could ancient man have known what dinosaurs looked like?

Do you know of the Paluxy Riverbed in Glen Rose Texas where human footprints were found fossilized along side those of a dinosaur? Or the Kayenta Formation in Glen Canyon on the Colorado Plateau, that also show footprints of man along those of dinosaurs? And the Meister print discovered on a hillside near Antelope Springs Utah that shows sandaled human feet along side the remains of prehistoric trilobites?

Legend and religion are teeming with tales of a great mythological flood that destroyed everything on a massive scale. In the fifth century B.C. Plato relayed in his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, the events surrounding the lost empire of Atlantis; the great kingdom that was the marvel of the antediluvian world. Plato writes of its tragic destruction in an enormous flood.

Then there’s the Sumerian legend of, Ziusudra, the Babylonian ruler of Shuruppak. Ziusudrea reigned as king for ten years until a cataclysmic flood, consumed his realm bringing Shuruppak to an end.

Everyone knows the story of Noah and the Genesis Flood. A flood that covered the entire world.

In the Bible it tells us Noah’s time was the time of " Heroes of old, Men of Renown", and that, "There were giants in the earth in those days;" Also "Nephilim roamed the land". According to Genesis, Nephilim were the progeny of fallen angels who had lain with the daughters of Adam. Beings of great size, the Nephilim were vile, wicked, and superhuman.

I know of a tale from that lost and forgotten, distant past. A legend that has, like the Ica Stones of Peru, the Paluxy man tracks, and the figurines of Acambaro Mexico, managed to have survived the great cataclysm that destroyed the creatures of our prehistoric past.

How long ago exactly does this epic fable take place? Perhaps during the time of Noah, or in the time of the rise of Atlantis, it is not known truly. Nor does it matter. The chronology is hazy, however the account is true.

During those times the earth was a very different, strange and dangerous place before the coming cataclysm that would metamorphosis the world into the tame world we now know. Back then indeed giants did roam the land. Some giants were abominations of the most gruesome kind.

Those were days of terror, for the good of, the world for they were sparse, living in perpetual danger. Peril lurked, and slinked, everywhere, from ravenous creatures, hostile terrain, extreme weather, to the malevolent forces of a netherworld that, if not for the hand of God, threaten to engulf the earth, and drive mankind beyond the brink of extinction.

Though in our distant past, even then the earth was old by the standards of mortals. Before the coming cataclysm, lost undiscovered continents with craggy coastlines blanketed earth. These landmasses of mystery were covered with vast expanses of primeval forests and jungles bifurcated by treacherous jagged mountain ranges towering to the trouble skies. These mountains gradually sloped into great rolling steppes where many a creature born of legend and nightmare hunted and haunted.