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Awakened Epochs asks if the Ramayana hides a world chart older than European or Near Eastern maps, in the routes Sugriva gives his searchers. Sky software, fed solstices, lunar phases, and planets, puts the winter turning point in the star group the poem names, near 12,000 BCE rather than the fifth century BCE of many textbooks. The directions then become an ice age chart. Seas sit hundreds of feet lower, Sri Lanka joins the mainland, and Southeast Asian islands form one coast while ice covers the far north. Eastward, gold and silver islands are tied to Sumatra and Java, and a seaside trident is matched to the Paracas hillside figure, read as Indra’s mark at the eastern rim. Yamapuri, darkness and death, is set against an Antarctica some call partly ice free, as on certain readings of a 1513 chart. Westward names are heard as ranges in Pakistan and Turkey. Lights in the sky and a day without night are the aurora and the polar day. The close treats the poem as geographic memory from a society later ages forgot.
Key points
- The proposed date is a winter solstice star group in the poem, said to fit a sky near 12,000 BCE.
- Lower seas in that age are used to join Sri Lanka to India and to fuse the islands of Southeast Asia into one shore.
- A trident on a Peruvian hillside is offered as Indra’s eastern boundary stone.
- Yamapuri, described as dark and deadly, is lined up with Antarctica, and the northern lights with the Arctic.
- Ranges named on the westward march are presented as real mountains in Pakistan and Turkey, so the passage is more than scenery.
Short quotes
Sri Lanka was connected to India by land.
Awakened Epochs, Sugriva's routes as an ice age atlas
On his ice-age reading, the island and the mainland were one shore. Watch at 2:00
These are unmistakable references to the aurora borealis and the polar day and night phenomena that only occur in the Arctic Circle.
Awakened Epochs, Sugriva's routes as an ice age atlas
He takes lines in the poem as the northern lights and the long polar day. Watch at 5:10
Video by Awakened Epochs. Watch on YouTube.