Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation

銷售數百萬冊的暢銷書《上帝的指紋》作者葛瑞姆．漢卡克(Graham Hancock)，以續集《眾神的魔法師們》帶我們繼續探尋失落的文明，並且警告世人，我們所處的文明或許也會突然消失。「根據大量的科學與考古新發現，葛瑞姆．漢卡克運用直覺，大膽假設、小心求證，將不同的學科研究與口述傳統交織在一起，把時空的奧秘與當代的科學發現與事證做連結…高度推薦這本《眾神的魔法師們》。」－－《新曙光》(New Dawn)對於人類過去的種種奧秘與地球失落文明的證據，葛瑞姆．漢卡克的百萬暢銷書《上帝的指紋》留下了驚人且極受爭議的廣泛研究。20年過去了，漢卡克帶著這本全新的科學及考古證明的續集回來了。一萬兩千八百年前，接近最後一次冰河時期結束時，來自遙遠外太空的一顆巨大彗星進入太陽系後，分裂成好幾個部分，其中好幾個撞擊了地球，造成了自恐龍滅絕後從未看過的全球性巨大災難。至少有8個彗星碎片撞擊了北美冰帽，同時還有幾個撞上了北歐冰帽。每個彗星碎片大約有1英里寬，以時速6萬英里的速度接近地球，這個衝擊產生了大量的熱，使幾百萬平方公里的冰瞬間化為水，造成了世界各地神話都出現的大洪水。大約在一萬一千六百年前，第二次一連串的衝擊，同樣是災難性的洪水發生了，這次災難，柏拉圖(Plato) 描述為亞特蘭提斯(Atlantis)的毀滅與沉沒。在本書中顯示的證明，不只合理懷疑了在12800年前到11600年前之間的冰河時期曾經蓬勃的先進文明毀滅於全球性的災難中。這些被後來的文化稱之為”聖賢者”、”魔法師”、”發光者”、”天堂的神祕教師” 的文明倖存者，乘著巨大的船隻旅行世界各地，竭盡所能地維持文明的火花持續燃燒。他們落腳的主要地點有：土耳其的哥貝克力石陣(Gobekli Tepe)、黎巴嫩的巴勒貝克(Baalbek)、埃及的吉薩(Giza)、古代的蘇美、墨西哥、祕魯，並且橫跨太平洋到印尼，在那裏最近發現了一座巨大的金字塔。這些”眾神的魔法師”帶著人類和宇宙失去和諧並付出巨大代價的記憶到這些地方，是記憶也是對未來的警告…。12800年前到11600年前彗星所帶來的毀滅或許尚未結束，天文學家們相信，來自原來巨大彗星，超過20英里寬的”黑暗”碎片還隱藏在彗星的碎石帶中並且威脅著地球。印刻在哥貝克力石陣與獅身人面像中的密碼警告世人，”大回歸”(The Great Return)將會發生在我們的時代…。Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light...Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap. The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth's crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world. A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis. The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price. A memory and a warning to the future...For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt,warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time...