After the Deluge

THERE WAS A GREAT FLOOD that covered the whole world with raging waters. Nobody can say how long ago it happened. Many, many thousands of years ago - that much is certain. Before that, the old legends say, the earth was connected to the sky. There was a great ladder or stairway used by the gods. A few humans with magical charms or secret knowledge were said to have climbed the heavenly stairway. The gods were our creators and they once walked on Tanah Tujuh, which is the name of this world. Then something terrible happened and the stairway was broken or sealed off. From then on the gods could only speak to us through dreams.

Diap & Minah with Mary Maguire (cleverly disguised as a White
Woman), producer of "Guardians of the Forest"

Diap Anak Ketum was the Keeper of the Tribal Archives. After his death, his sisters Indah and Minah told me this tale which they heard from their brother (whom they reverently addressed by the magical name Seri Pagi, meaning Morning Glory):

“At Gunung Pelului you can still see the petrified remains of our divine ancestors - Mamak and Inak Bongsu and their youngest child - surrounded by huge stone bolsters, thrones, beds, and bowls. When the child overdosed on the delicious but deadly fruit of the bertam palm and died (puking profusely and leaving a trail of fast-sprouting thorny palms whose leaves we now weave into thatch for our roofs), Mamak and Inak Bongsu realized they no longer enjoyed immortality. Experiencing grief for the first time, they fell into a deathly swoon and became part of the landscape.”

What terrible thing happened that caused the connection between Heaven and Earth to be severed?

“Please don't be offended,” Indah and Minah said, “but the gods found that humans had soiled the stairway with menstrual blood.” 

Menstrual blood? Herein lies that old patriarchal fascination with and fear of the secret workings of women's wombs: the origin of all sexual taboos, the fall from grace precipitated by the knowledge of carnality, of “good and evil.” Herein lies the dualism and schizophrenia engendered by the animality of biological reproduction, the famous fig leaf syndrome. Was humanity's “loss of innocence” merely our entry into psychic puberty and self-consciousness, our initiation into sexual awareness, and the accompanying moral confusion which has marred (or at least marked) our evolution to this day? 

        

FOR A VERY LONG TIME everything was underwater. Then, very slowly the waters subsided. Eventually the top of the tallest gaharu (eaglewood) tree on Gunung Rajah was exposed. Two figures clung to the tree. They were Mamak Bongsu and Inak Bongsu, brother and sister, also husband and wife. They were the Father and Mother of all human beings. Feeding on the soggy pulp of the gaharu tree, they waited for the waters to reveal the land below. Only when they could see dry ground did they descend. 

For a while they made their home on the slopes of Gunung Rajah. As more land appeared around them, they decided to explore the next hill. While resting near the top of this hill, Inak Bongsu felt an itch on her head. She began to scratch and two large ticks (kutu) fell out of her hair. They were busy mating. Intrigued, she called to Mamak Bongsu, who came over to watch. “That looks like fun,” Inak Bongsu said. Mamak Bongsu wasted no time carrying out the experiment. Emulating the copulating ticks, he mounted his sister-wife. That's how there came to be so many people in this world. And that hill is known as Bukit Kutu.

After a few generations had passed, it occurred to Tuhan (God) that some sort of edict against incest was required, to minimize the negative effects of genetic regression. And so it came to pass that incest was outlawed.

THE GREAT DELUGE is a mythic tale told by almost every tribe on Earth. It has been recorded on Sumerian cuneiform tablets dating back more than 6,000 years and subsequently paraphrased in the biblical story of Noah's Ark. Peruvian and Mesoamerican legends speak of gods and giants who - “in a single night and a day” - erected colossal cities and vast metallurgical and astronomical complexes. And in a single night and a day, the legends say, these divine artifacts were destroyed by the Great Waters.

Around 560 B.C. the Greek lawgiver Solon visited Egypt where he heard the tale of a mighty civilization called Atlantis, which was destroyed in a series of violent cataclysms culminating in 9,560 B.C. Plato recorded Solon's account in his Timaeus and Critias. It is certain that such an event would have been linked to geophysical upheavals on a planetary scale: massive earthquakes, tidal waves, unprecedented floods, and the wild fluctuation or temporary collapse of the earth's magnetic field.

Geologists estimate that the Pleistocene Epoch lasted from 2,500,000 to approximately 10,000 years ago - with several interglacial periods during which sea levels rose dramatically as a result of melting glaciers and polar ice caps. Recent geological evidence indicates a specific period around 10,800 B.C. when horrific magnetic storms and unimaginable geophysical changes were visited upon the planet. This “catastrophe theory” - first publicly propounded in 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky (Worlds in Collision, Ages in Chaos, etc.) - corresponds more or less with arcane knowledge revealed in recent decades, when Andean and Himalayan mystery schools (supervised by the Melchizedek Order, guardians of the portals of initiation into universal mysteries) felt it was time to operate more openly.

Spiritual Messengers suddenly emerged in Peru and the Maya lands, proclaiming the end of the Nine Hells - nearly five hundred years of Spanish Catholic rule - and the beginning of a new Solar Age. Esoteric knowledge began to be widely disseminated through best-selling paperback books and on countless internet websites. Housewives, secretaries, real estate agents, lawyers, and CEOs suddenly became interested in their own etheric bodies, studying alternative healing methods like Aromatherapy, Qiqong, Reiki, Holistic Pulsing, and Emotional Releasing. 

The world seems to be in for another Great Flood - this time of hitherto “classified” information.