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Graham Hancock: Maya Knew about 5,000 Year Cycle of "Bureaucratic" Civilization

9/28/2012

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I know this goes against the tenets of skepticism, but I really want to like Graham Hancock’s work. He is an engaging writer who makes the wonder of the past come alive like few other writers on ancient history. His Fingerprints of the Gods is enormous fun to read, and when I was a teenager it had me convinced that there was a lost civilization in the deep past. But the trouble is that Hancock is largely oblivious to fact and has adopted a postmodern, New Age approach to knowledge that imagines that there is no objective truth to be discovered in archaeology, only data points that can be endlessly reconstructed to fashion “alternative” narratives that are somehow equally valid.

What is perhaps surprising is that more than 15 years after Fingerprints of the Gods (and twenty years after his first “alternative” foray, The Sign and the Seal), Hancock is still pushing the same revisionist theories, though mercifully he is now confining them to fiction, where they belong. However, a recent interview in Veritas magazine (September/October 2012) shows that Hancock hasn’t changed his tune, although he is increasingly upset that the “mainstream” refused to accept his “radical” hypotheses, discouraging him from proposing more.

He begins the interview by stating that he believes that history is merely “a story” or “a narrative” imposed on the public by “the large-scale media” and the “education system.” This would be the same media that broadcasts Ancient Aliens with comments from Graham Hancock, the infamous NBC Mysterious Origins of Man documentary with comments from Graham Hancock, and, let’s say, Graham Hancock’s very own Quest for the Lost Civilization series? Instead, he says, the historical narrative is “an interpretation” for which valid alternatives exist. The fact that these alternatives lack, let’s say, evidence doesn’t bother him so long as there are “traditions” (i.e. myths) that can support them. He references global flood myths as “evidence” that a lost civilization was destroyed by the rising seas at the end of the Ice Age.

This is where Graham Hancock’s view is simultaneously more interesting than ancient astronaut theorists and more dangerous than them: He is not completely wrong. At the end of the Ice Age, sea levels did rise, and they did wash away the villages located on what is now the continental shelf. It is even possible that some stone monuments on the order of Göbekli Tepe might have been built and lost to the seas. But this isn’t the same as an Atlantis-style advanced civilization that bestrode the world like a colossus. There is, though, just enough truth in the scenario to make it seem possible, even though no proof of advanced Ice Age civilization exists. Maddeningly, Hancock still claims to be a rigorous searcher after truth despite his refusal to actually investigate the Mexican pyramid he claimed via secondary sources to be the only real proof of his lost civilization ever found.

Similarly, Hancock’s more recent investigations—prompted by boredom with his imaginary lost civilization—are also just shy of accepted truth. Hancock, who recently confessed to more than 20 years of moderate to heavy marijuana use, has become an advocate for ayahuasca, a South American hallucinogen. Since taking the drug for his 2005 book Supernatural, Hancock has supported the concept that mind-altering substances give their users access to a spirit world where one can commune directly with the “gods.” Or, as he put it to Veritas, “the brain may not be so much a generator of consciousness, but a receiver or a transceiver that manifests consciousness into the material plane.”

This is a question for philosophers more than scientists. Strict materialists will disagree, on principle, but the “simulation” hypothesis (that our “reality” is a virtual construct of a higher order of being) has had a long and respected run in philosophy despite the recognition that it could never be conclusively proved from within the simulation. However, Hancock’s views in Supernatural are only the New Age flip side of David Lewis-Williams’ masterful The Mind in the Cave (2002), which also posited that altered states of consciousness give rise to religious and creative feelings and the archetypes of human culture. Lewis-Williams, however, believes this to be the result of evolution and the wiring of the human brain, while Hancock ascribes trans-dimensional meaning to the same process.

But here’s the rub: Hancock’s newer views about meeting the gods on the spirit plane all but negate the foundation of his earlier work in Fingerprints of the Gods and its sequels. Those books argued that the “coincidences” in ancient cultures far removed across time and space—the architectural styles, the patterns in mythology, the love of numbers generated from multiples of 2 and 3—all pointed to an original, physical, ancient super-culture. But if you allow for the realm of the gods (or access to archetypical images shared by all humans, as per Lewis-Williams), you eliminate the need for a 12,000-year-old, global super-culture. The myths may well be more or less literally true. Shamans worldwide went off to the plane of the gods (an altered state of consciousness) and retrieved those archetypical shapes, colors, or thoughts. No Atlantis needed. This more parsimonious explanation neatly eliminates any need to hypothesize a physical connection standing behind widespread cultural similarities.

This is why it is disappointing to see elsewhere in the interview that Hancock now claims that the Tamil legend of Kumari Kandam represents proof of a global Atlantis myth. 

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Ancient India, for example, has an almost identical tradition about a great civilisation that existed on an island and on extended land masses, far to the south of India, that was destroyed in a great flood, that there were survivors and that those survivors passed on the seeds of civilisation to the rest of mankind.

But Hancock is being deceptive, or ignorant. The story of Kumari Kandam is nowhere near as old as Atlantis, dating back perhaps to the early centuries CE. Nor is it any more than superficially similar to Plato. The myth—as pieced together from scattered fragments in Tamil literature—tells of an island at the tip of India that was gradually lost to the sea, forcing the inhabitants to conquer parts of Sri Lanka and India to replace their lost empire. Atlantis did not have “survivors” who passed on “seeds of civilization.” That was Ignatius Donnelly’s interpretation. Worse, the Kumari Kandam legend Hancock reports is found not in ancient literature but in Theosophy-influenced nineteenth century Tamil literature, where the island becomes identified with Lemuria and takes on the characteristics of Donnelly’s Atlantis! Even the very name Kumari Kandam is a modern invention retroactively applied to scattered fragments of the ancient story.

Hancock also makes a frankly bizarre statement that the 5100 years of the Mayan calendar cycle (from 3114 BCE to 2012 CE) represent the period of the “bureaucratic” civilization, in which hierarchical, bureaucratic governments and corporations and religions control the lives of the masses. This, he feels, began in dynastic Egypt and will end with us, with “a new mood and a new consciousness emerging in the world.” I can’t express how vastly this oversimplifies the astonishing diversity of the human experience over the past 5,000 years, not to mention the inconceivable problems of attributing to the Maya—and only the Maya—a predictive understanding of the “cycles” of human civilization.

Hancock is no longer interested in researching the “facts” of history but in becoming a prophet of the New Age. Just listen to his thoughts on the Maya, whom he views as privy to the ultimate fate of humanity:

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This is the new birth that is coming about through difficulty and pain and problems. But, ultimately, my view is hopeful, and a positive one. We are going to pass through a period of transition in the human story, and we are going to give birth to a new way of living in the world. A way which is more nurturing, more positive, more healing to the individual and to the planet and to the ecosystem that sustains us, more reverent of the meaning and purpose of life, and more spiritually oriented. I see all of this coming to birth now. Huge forces are resisting it, but it’s going to happen and somehow the Maya knew that.

Sure they did. The Maya knew about Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, the Eurozone crisis, and Google. And of course, rather than writing any of this down, they instead left us a number that would be useless until after it was too later to do anything about it.

But this apocalyptic strain in alternative thinking is not unique to Hancock. Recall the Erich von Däniken’s most recent tome also predicted an upcoming, world-changing revelation (the arrival of the aliens) and keyed it, too, to the Maya calendar. In 1999, before the Millennium fever and before 9/11, Frederic J. Baumgartner issued a history of millennial thinking, writing that “Longing for the endtime is far too deeply ingrained in Christianity and Western civilization, and indeed all human culture… It helps to make sense of the evil that seems to pervade the world and promises that a perfect society without evil is close at hand. It explains why ‘good people’ have to suffer persecution and the malice of the wicked.” Hancock's view is in keeping with this centuries-old tradition.

What all millennial prophecies have in common is that all of them have failed. Von Däniken’s and Hancock’s stand no better chance.

26 Comments
terry the censor
9/28/2012 03:28:18 pm

It seems there is usually an external locus to these things:

Times are tough, society is degrading, people are not what they used to be...but something we can't sense or know unambiguously is coming to judge/save/destroy us yet I know it to be true without reservation (not much anyway).

Since these always fail, why don't people just take some responsibility for the observable, measurable, mundane world?

Why does "hope" have to be a sysnonym for "delusion"?

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Peace
8/31/2013 02:06:32 am

It is not just based on Hancock's research but also by a very well known Vastu expert of India called Ganapathi Staphathy who went to Mayan ruins and studies their structure an concluded based on his research that Mayans have had origin not just India but from South India, no wonder they were short. Check out https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-lost-continent-of-Kumari-Kandam/257607124295548 as well for more proof. But reading the book by Late Dr. Ganapathi Staphathy will clear all your doubts. Best wishes.

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zee
9/29/2013 08:09:17 am

dear mr. Jason, If you want to search your genealogy you will have go by your or that of your mother's or that of your mother's husband's genealogies. But do you know something, Tamils can trace their genealogy by just their names. Do you know this? And tamils are the only ones who can do this by just their names despite having spread across all the continents because all the languages of this 20,000 years old human civilization started from Tamils and this is why tamil words are there in every language across the continents. What does this mean?

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Jason Colavito link
9/29/2013 08:13:43 am

The claims you cite cannot be demonstrated by science or archaeology; the 20,000-year-old date is nothing more than a faith-based myth.

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zee
9/29/2013 08:20:14 am

why not jason, the existence of the earth is about millios of years old which you would accept only because it was in your academic's question and you needed marks to score to get grades :)?

zee
9/29/2013 08:20:51 am

why not jason, the existence of the earth is about millions of years old which you would accept only because it was in your academic's question and you needed marks to score to get grades :)

Jason Colavito link
9/29/2013 08:21:35 am

It's a myth because there is no evidence of such a civilization.

zee
9/29/2013 08:15:27 am

let me ask you a simple question, what is the definite year or calender difference between so many calenders and measures and how many were tried, tested and got lost before arriving to BC and AD? ;) what is the gap period and how many years or centuries it devour? and how accurate is your carbon 14 dating? how accurate is it? and why doesn't your carbon dating work with LOBSTERS? and how come the paleontologists could recreate dinosaur but not a face of a small girl who is a victim of an acid attack?

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Jason Colavito link
9/29/2013 08:23:36 am

Calendars don't make time; they are just conventions. There is no "gap" a la Fomenko. Carbon dating works because it has been tested on trees whose rings we can count to test accuracy. I have no idea what the rest of your questions mean. Are you suggesting that an artist's impression of a dinosaur is somehow the same thing as a surgeon rebuilding a face?

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zee
9/29/2013 08:38:03 am

I don't think you know about carbon dating. i am a VFX consultant and hailing from two generations of medical family. counting rings and radioactive carbon dating are two different things jason. my major was astro physics in my graduation. So i know what you know and how much you know about what we have been sharing till now so have a good day jason. i don't wanna spoil your ignorant day. have a nice day. bye.

Jason Colavito link
9/29/2013 08:41:46 am

Sigh. Carbon dating works by counting the amount of radioactive carbon remaining in an organic object and using math to project back to when the full amount of such carbon would have been present using a standard rate of decay. This was calibrated to calendar years by correlating the results to objects of known date, as well as trees whose age could be determined by dendrochronology--tree ring counting.

zee
9/29/2013 08:29:39 am

Not really jason, there is evidence not only from graham hancock but from other people also. since you claim yourself to be an author i am sure you have an open mind at times too :). Rongo-Rongo tablet was written in Tamil search since you are a blogger too :). search for the tablets that came to some place where there are only huge human face sculptures remain but no people. Do you know which island i am talking about? :)

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Jason Colavito link
9/29/2013 08:39:07 am

Easter Island, a Polynesian culture. Rongo-Rongo remains undeciphered. You are welcome to your beliefs, but we will have to agree to disagree that any evidence supports the idea of ancient Tamil world travelers.

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zee
9/29/2013 08:46:17 am

i can upload a research document on the rongo-rongo and tamil. can you give a general email? i can transfer thru wetransfer.com only if you are willing jason.

zee
9/29/2013 08:50:34 am

Do you have any public email ID to which i can send you the pdf jason? please let me know. i will be more than glad to have it sent to you.

zee
9/29/2013 09:09:51 am

It is ok about you not giving me the email and remain ignorant :) but only because you call yourself to be an author and do the blogging and you talked about rongo -rongo remains undecipherable i give you this link. If you really what you claim to be you are jason then you would read this research document by not a tamil but an SZALEK :)

Jason Colavito link
9/29/2013 09:18:39 am

Believe it or not, I'm not available to read comments on all 1,000+ blog posts every minute of the day. It took me a bit to get to this. My email is all over my website, as you might have notice: JasonColavito@outlook.com

zee
9/29/2013 09:40:05 am

This is the link about rongo -rongo and tamil. read it if you want. http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b60_122.pdf

zee
9/29/2013 09:46:27 am

it is rather a big pdf for a normal read jason. Below is the link of the document by Benon ZB SZALEK who is not a Tamil. He is from poland. Next time you speak about tamils, please be informed and read and have some common sense. here is the link http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b60_122.pdf.
cuz kuruvi in tamil means sparrow - small bird. in tamil kuru=small wi=speed and force. puravi = horse. means the animal that runs faster. aruvi = the waterfalls means the water near you is fast. so download and read this pdf then you may know how ignorant you had been during your conversations and about graham hancock :)

zee
9/29/2013 08:30:53 am

mayan civilization is nothing compared to Tamil from kumari kandam jason.

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zee
9/29/2013 09:21:54 am

Below is the link of the document by Benon ZB SZALEK who is not a Tamil. He is from poland. you can simply click the link or copy and paste it in your browser depending on windows or mac machines you use jason but next time you speak about tamils, please be informed and read and have some common sense. cuz kuruvi in tamil means sparrow - small bird. in tamil kuru=small wi=speed and force. puravi = horse. means the animal that runs faster. aruvi = the waterfalls means the water near you is fast. so download and read this pdf then you may know how ignorant you had been during your conversations and about graham hancock :)
http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b60_122.pdf

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zee
9/29/2013 09:24:52 am

Jason, it is your day time and you are an author :) read that pdf from the link i sent you by a polish benon, can we talk after you give a read to it? :)

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Alexander Duncan link
6/15/2014 10:56:29 am

Hancock's idea of a "bureaucratic civilization" is not original. It is consistent with, and perhaps based on, a similar idea by Jeremy Rifkin in his massive 474-page tome, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2009), pp. 195f., which he identifies with the Sumerian civilization. Wikipedia places the development of Sumerian civilization between 5000 and 4500 BCE. Wikipedia further associates the historical rise of bureaucracy with the development of writing circa 3500 BCE, not that fair from 3102 as Hancock, following the traditional Indian chronology, suggests. Essentially this corrsponds with the rise of the Neolithic, a period in which we now are. Rifkin suggests that this period of history is now being superseded by what he calls the emphatic civilization. Whatever you may think of this theory, to suggest that it is "bizarre" and "oversimplified, or that it is an aberration of Hancock's brain, is rather unfair. Hancock is far more intelligent and better read than you are giving him credit for being.

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zebra
5/13/2015 06:21:12 pm

Nice article Jason. I stumbled on this while googling for more info after watching Graham's lost kingdom documentary and a russian television interview. He did seem like an intelligent guy for an hour and a half. Then I saw he going on endlessly about etiopian arc of the covenant etc. Easy to suspect he is just a (very good) storyteller. I did wonder if another ice age flood happens now and a subset of us who are ignorant of fine details of silicon chip manufacturing only remains, probably all we will have is stories of a mighty past while we survive and battle against nature.

@zee Arguing about things you believe in and trying to reach more audience is OK, but be polite. It is always good to give some respect. You are making yourself look silly.

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Mamuka Maghradze link
5/6/2016 01:07:31 pm

Tamils can trace their genealogy by just their names. Do you know this? And tamils are the only ones who can do this by just their names despite having spread across all the continents because all the languages of this 20,000 years old human civilization started from Tamils and this is why tamil words are there in every language across the continents. Take the time to visit the me http://whistory.org , and say that the change in design and meniu?

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11/10/2017 03:43:20 am


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I have written a book on Tamil Vedham which existed 4 million years ago. I have also recorded and posted over 70 episodes in YouTube for viewing. Tamil is way beyond just being a language, it is a gateway to the universal truths and that is why the civilisation with this knowledge flourished 4 million years back. All this knowledge was lost when Lumeria submerged into the sea and now it has been brought back through the book “Tamil Vedham” as revealed to me through meditation for the last 45 years. It is very important to understand the greatness of our amazing Tamil language so that our future generations take pride in learning, preserving and flourishing through this ancient knowledge.
I am grateful to the divinity for giving me the opportunity in bringing back this lost gem which will give an insight about the greatness of our ancestors.
My attempt here is to share and take this amazing wealth of knowledge and the technology of sounds received through Tamil Vedham to as many people as possible and I would be most grateful if you could help me in anyway possible in this endeavour.
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