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In front of the south-east coast of India, there is a 48-kilometre-long abyss right under the ocean. A bridge made of sand and other debris that stretches all the way to the northwest coast of Sri Lanka and separates the Gulf of Manar on one side and the Palk road on the other. This abyss, which is less than 1.20 metres under water in most places, has seriously hindered regional trade for centuries by allowing only small boats and passenger boats to navigate in the area, while large high-speed ships were forced to travel all the way around Sri Lanka. This led to an additional 402 kilometres on each trip. In 2005, the Indian government announced the approval of the monumental Setu Samudram Canal Project, which would excavate the seabed to create a channel for large ships to pass through the area and significantly increase the efficiency of regional trade. There was only one problem. The debris under the water was not some kind of abyss, but it was a place of outstanding spiritual significance for millions, if not billions of people. For Hindus, it is an old dam built by the legendary figure Rama to make it easier for his army to cross from India to Sri Lanka to save his kidnapped wife Sita from the evil king Ravana. Hindus do not see this as a natural abyss formation, but as an old artificial bridge known as Rama Setu, which means the bridge of Rama. Interestingly, historical records show that what is now an abyss was actually a bridge over water, which could be crossed up to 451 metres when it was broken through by a storm and was slowly overcome. In addition, the Islamic tradition of Adam tells of the first human being, who was also a 30-metre-tall giant, who after his exile from heaven fell to the earth in Sri Lanka To escape from the island and find Eva, he built a massive bridge to cross the Asian mainland. Like the Hindus, the Muslims also believe that this is not just another ocean formation, but an ancient building that they call the Adam's Bridge. In fact, one of the highest peaks in Sri Lanka is named after Adam, the Adam's Peak, which is the place in history where Adam landed for the first time on earth. On an altar at the top of the peak, we find a huge footprint, which is assumed to be the footprint of Adam, who attracts pilgrims from all over the world to visit the holy place. Due to this deep religious significance, the Setu Samudram Canal project immediately became a subject of great controversy, which caused a stir among many politicians, religious groups and ordinary people. And yet, if they dare to take a closer look at the bridge and its mysterious origin, it becomes clear that the controversy goes deeper than the religion, that it actually questions the established history of mankind and can reveal mythical secrets that have long been lost. In addition to the Mahabharata, the Ramayana is one of the two most important books in Hinduism. It was written in the course of almost a millennium and consists of about 24,000 verses, which makes it one of the greatest ancient books in world literature. In these verses is the story of the life of Rama, the legendary prince, the old king of the Kosala Empire, which is said to have existed millions of years in the past in the Treta Yoga, a mythological period that began 2,165,000 years ago. The most important part of this story can be picked up when Rama goes into exile with his wife Sita in the forest. During this time, Sita is kidnapped by Ravana, a demon king of Lanka, a rivaling kingdom. In search of his wife, Rama sets up a mighty army of creatures called Vanara, monkeys similar to humans living in the forest, and goes on a search. After some time, Rama and his army reach the coast of India, from where they can see over the ocean to the distant coasts of Sri Lanka, where Sita was taken prisoner. But since the agitated ocean blocks the way of Rama's army and there is no way to get over it, it seems as if their pursuit would fail. But then Rama begins to build a massive bridge with the help of his army of monkeys and a Vanara architect named Nala. With Nala's ingenuity, the bridge is built in just five days from India to Sri Lanka, where Rama's mighty army can cross the ocean. As the Ramayana describes it, this colossal bridge, which is wide, well built, beautifully set up and firmly held together, looked beautiful, like a separating straight line in the ocean. The overwhelming noise of the ocean was overshadowed by the great noises of the terrible monkeys crossing the sea. Arriving in Sri Lanka, Rama Ravana defeats him in battle, kills him and saves his wife, before he returns home, where the incredible story ends. The most important thing about this story is that for many Hindus it is not just a myth, but a record of history, not an allegory or religious doctrine, but a fact. This forms the core of the debate about Ramasettu. Is it a construction that was built by the patriarchs of Hinduism millions of years ago and recorded in the Ramayana? Or is it simply a natural formation, which is explained by ignorance by a myth that is considered to be true? When the Indian government began to build the Setu Samudram Canal Project in the early 2000s, they knew that it would be controversial. For this reason, one year before the project was announced, they asked Dr. Badri Narayanan, the director of the Geological Survey of India, to conduct a study on Ramasettu, probably to collect evidence that it was a natural formation, which could then be used against opponents and critics. However, when Badri Narayanan and his team began to drill holes along the bridge, they were shocked by what they found. Six meters below the sandy surface of the bridge, they found a layer of corals and rocks that lay about four to five meters deeper on another layer of sand, which in turn sat on the hard rock formations below. The reason why this was so shocking was described by Badri Narayanan. There are only corals on rocks and such hard surfaces. Here, under the corals and rock fragments, we get loose sand, which means that it is not natural. In other words, the coral cannot have grown there on its own. It must have been deposited there by someone. With this discovery, Badri Narayanan knew that he had to continue exploring the bridge, so he sent divers down to examine the rock fragments that mixed with corals under the surface. When he did that, things got even more amazing. With the words of Badri Narayanan, on the loose sand that formed at low sea levels, our divers found rock fragments. Rock fragments usually occur on land and are a typical river feature. They are not local sea formations. We feel that someone has unloaded the rock fragments to use them as a dam. The rock fragments on the loose sand are transported to this place. Since they are found above the loose sand, it is quite obvious that they were brought there by someone and unloaded there. All these things make us believe that 2 to 2.5 meters of packed debris or material seems to be a modern dam. No one throws such materials at a distance of 30 kilometers. Obviously, it was unloaded to cross the sea. Far from proving that Rama Setu was a natural formation, Badri Narayanan actually came to the opposite conclusion. The evidence, so his words, clearly prove the fact that Rama Setu was made by humans in a high degree. Another interesting fact that we have to mention is that the bridge of the legend was built of stones that do not sink in the water due to the blessings of Lord Varuna and the name of Lord Rama written on it. Strangely, people discover stones every year in the vicinity that do not sink, as in the legend. Countless YouTube videos are posted of these discoveries and when the stones are put into the water, they always seem to swim instead of sinking. The evidence that Rama Setu was made by humans does not prove that it was built by Rama, as the Ramayana describes, but raises some interesting questions. If it was actually created by man, as Badri Narayanan claimed, then who could have built such an amazing structure, a bridge over the ocean, so far in the past? To begin with the answer to this question, we could go back to the Ramayana, which actually contains a detailed description of Rama Setu's construction. Then, sent by Rama, hundreds and thousands of monkey heroes marched towards the great forest with joy from all sides. These army chiefs of the monkeys, who resembled mountains, broke the rocks and trees there and dragged them to the sea. Huge monkeys with tremendous strength unrooted elephant-sized rocks and mountains and transported them with mechanical devices. Some others strapped hundreds of yajanas long ropes to keep the rocks in a straight line. Some monkeys held poles to measure the bridge and some others collected the material. Reeds and tree trunks resembling clouds and mountains brought by hundreds of monkeys under the leadership of Rama secured some parts of the bridge. This Nala, the strong and famous son of Vishwakarma and an outstanding monkey, built the bridge over the sea. As real as his father had built it. This beautiful and lovely bridge built by Nala over the ocean, the home of the alligators, shone brightly like a Milky Way of stars in the sky. It is an amazing description of an incredible project. But within the description, one line stands out especially. Where the monkeys unrooted elephant-sized rocks and mountains and transported them with mechanical devices. What kind of mechanical devices would have enabled the builders of Ramasetu to transport and place rocks and mountains in elephant size many kilometers over the open ocean? What kind of technology did they have that enabled them to complete the construction of a bridge that would still be extremely difficult today? One thing is certain. Whatever the mechanical devices may be for moving and stacking huge rocks, this is not the only time that seemingly impossible advanced technology appears in Ramayana. When the demon king Ravana kidnaps Ramayana Rama's wife Sita, he does not just grab her and run away. Rather, he kidnaps her with a flying machine, which he stole from the gods, which is known as Pushpakavimana. When Rama finally defeats Ravana, it is the same flying machine in which he flies home with his wife. But what is this Pushpakavimana? In the text, it is described as a caravan, which resembles a bright cloud in the sky, which rises into the higher atmosphere. If they succeeded in building a bridge over the ocean, was it then possible that people at Rama's time also had access to flying machines that could reach the higher atmosphere? Those who are familiar with Hindu texts will know that Ramayana is by far not the only place where these flying machines appear. They are well known as Vimana, which means to measure or cross, and they appear many times in Hindu epics. The most famous description appears in the Samarangana Sutradhara, where it is written, The body of Vimana must be strong and durable, like a large flying bird of light material. Inside, one must accommodate the mercury engine with its iron. Through the mercury-hidden force, which puts the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting in it can move a great distance to the sky. The movements of Vimana are such that it can rise vertically and descend vertically, and it can move diagonally forward and backward. With the help of the machines, people can fly in the air and heavenly beings come down to earth. Think again about the fact that many Hindus consider the information contained in the epics as historical facts. Could there really have been Vimanas, these amazing flying machines? And if so, how could they have been built at that time? What kind of technology could one have, which one apparently does not have today? In modern times, the beginning of an answer begins. In 2003, a Sanskrit teacher from China named Jie Xiaoyong found old, forgotten manuscripts in a Tibetan monastery, when he came across something amazing. There he found a pile of yellowed palm leaves in the middle of mountains of old documents, which were covered with an old Sanskrit script, which was older than he had ever seen. Jie immediately recognized the importance of his discovery. He took the manuscripts and began to work with a team on their translation. Over more than a decade, the words contained in the manuscripts were slowly revealed. Surprisingly, they not only gave new insights into the philosophy and history of India, but according to one of the translators, they even gave instructions for the construction of a functional Vimana. The secret of the incredible abilities of the Vimanas, which are described in the Hindu scriptures, was, according to this translator, an anti-gravity technology, which uses a centrifugal force, which is strong enough to counteract all gravitational forces. Could it really be possible that people had discovered the secrets of anti-gravity? In any case, this revelation was about how Vimanas were built and how they functioned, so groundbreaking that many scholars began to claim that the Vimanas contained in the Hindu scriptures had to be real. As a scholar expressed after a comprehensive study of Hindu aircraft, the descriptions contained in the texts of Vimanas were too detailed and too technical to be called a myth. If this is true, then it is possible that the secrets of this advanced ancient technology remain hidden right in front of our noses. After the discovery of Yeis in 2003, scholars quickly realized that many thousands of previously undiscovered Sanskrit manuscripts were forgotten in Tibetan temples. There were already about 500 bundles of palm leaves with many thousands of lines of ancient texts and were waiting for their translation. If these words are translated, could they reveal the secrets of advanced technology that the people of antiquity possessed? In ancient Hindu texts, there are numerous reports about magic superweapons that were used with terrible effect. The most famous description of such a weapon comes from the Mahabharata. Gurkha, who flew in his fast and powerful Vimana, hurled a single projectile against the three cities of Vrishnis and Andhakas, which was charged with all the power of the universe. A white glowing pillar of smoke and fire, as bright as 10,000 suns, rose from it. It was the unknown weapon, the iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death who put the entire genus of Vrishnis and Andhakas in ashes. There was neither a counterattack nor a defense that could stop him. It was as if the elements had been detached. The sun was swirling around, sunk by the glowing heat of the weapon, the world was trembling in fever. Elephants were set on fire by the heat and ran back and forth in a frenzy to seek protection from the terrible violence. The water was boiling, the animals were dying, the ground was being mowed down, and the fury of the fire caused the trees to fall in rows, like in a forest fire. The elephants made a terrible trumpet and sank dead to the ground in a vast area. Horses and war wagons were burned, and the scene looked like the aftermath of a fire. Thousands of battle wagons were destroyed, then a deep place lay over the sea. The water began to bubble and the earth became bright. It was a terrible sight. The bodies of the fallen were mutilated by the terrible heat, so that they no longer looked like humans. Remember that many Hindus believe that stories like these represent historical records. If people at that time had knowledge of anti-gravity, they could also have possessed super-weapons that are charged with the whole force of the universe. But if an ancient civilization possessed this kind of technology, the question arises who this advanced ancient civilization was and where it came from. Some have an answer. At the end of the 19th century, an English geologist named Philip Sclater published an article entitled The Mammals of Madagascar, which shocked the scientific world. He provided an answer to a question that had long confused scientists. Why were lemur bones abundant in both India and Madagascar, but missing in the Middle East and Africa, an area through which they probably had to travel to get from one place to another? The reason, Sclater suggested, was that India and Madagascar in the past were each part of a large supercontinent before this continent sank in the ocean when the sea level rose at the end of the last ice age. Sclater called this lost continent Lemuria after the lemurs who initiated his work. Interestingly, Hindu texts, including the Ramayana, tell of an ancient continent that was submerged in the Indian Ocean, known as Kumari Kandam, the home of an advanced ancient civilization that was swallowed up by the sea many thousand years ago. When Sclater began to speak about a lost continent called Lemuria, many believed he was actually referring to Kumari Kandam. If such a continent existed in the past, could it have been the home of the civilization that is spoken of in the Ramayana and other Hinduism? Could Rama and Ravana actually have been the rulers of high cultures that sank in the sea? Take a look at Lemuria's map. Was Rama Setu not just a bridge between India and Sri Lanka, but a bridge between continents? If we follow this way of thinking, we can focus our attention on another character in the Ramayana, not on Rama, but on his army, which Rama Setu founded, the Vanara. While Vanara is simply translated as monkey today, some scholars claim that it must be opened in order to reach the true meaning of the word Vana, which means forest, and Nara, which means man. In other words, not monkey, but forest man. Perhaps the Vanara were not really any mythical monkey beings, but an early kind of human being. Consider that at about the same time as the idea of the lost continent Lemuria gained popularity, a German scientist named Ernst Haeckel came up with the theory that the earliest humans may have come from Asian primates and even pointed to Lemuria as the place of these primates. Is it possible that the Vanara recorded in the Ramayana were not monkeys, but early ancestors of humans who lived next to the advanced species of Rama and Ravana before they spread all over the world and became a human species as we know them today? This would be a completely different story of origin than the one we read in our history books today. If Rama Setu was really built 1.7 million years ago, then it would be the time when Homo Erectus roamed the earth. The Homo Erectus was the first species that formed groups, worked with tools and even wore clothes, mainly animal skin. Could Rama's army of human monkeys actually be the species Homo Erectus? Besides, if not humans, which species of beings then belonged to Rama and Ravana? Who were these figures who were further advanced in the early stages of development than humans? If they had airplanes and superweapons, what else did they know? And could they really just have sunk in the ocean? Lost forever? If we take a step back, we can see that Rama Setu has become such a controversial topic for this reason in today's time. The mystery of its origin is not just a religious matter, but one that raises questions about the entire history of mankind, about advanced ancient civilizations and where people came from and whether the history runs linearly or cyclically. The thing is that there could soon be further answers. When the Indian government announced the plans for the excavation of Rama Setu, they knew that this would be controversial. But they may not have fully understood how controversial the project would be. Immediately after the announcement, politicians and religious groups organized protests against the project and launched an international campaign called Save Rama Setu. By 2007, the Indian Supreme Court had issued an order that temporarily stopped the project and called on the government to check alternatives. Shortly afterwards, the government submitted a statement in court that there was no evidence that Rama Setu was constructed by humans, although their own scientist, Dr. Badrinarayanan, had found evidence that this was the case only a few years earlier. At the same time, they admitted that they would follow the instructions of the court to temporarily stop the project while looking for a solution. This temporary pause led to more than a decade-long struggle for the future of Rama Setu, some of which insist that it is a national monument and is protected by law, and others claim that it is not just a natural formation, but that the Supreme Court is not authorized to block the project. In 2017, the fight was raised to a different level when the US-based Science Channel published a documentary about Rama Setu entitled Ancient Land Bridge. The documentary presented a study carried out by scientists from four major American universities that, in addition to pre-saved geological samples, used satellite images to study the site. The results of this study were clear. As one of the scientists involved in the project expressed it, the sandbank may be natural, but what is on it is not. The rocks on the sand are actually older than the sand, so there is more behind this story. These results indicate that the structure on the satellite image is not natural, but is built by humans. After the release of the documentary, many insisted that the dispute was justified. Rama Setu was created by man and should be named a protected national monument. At the same time, others asked why India had its own country declared by the Americans and presented the scientists with typically Western drama. This was the last straw for the Indian government. They knew that the debate could not go on, that they had to solve the puzzle in one way or another. As a result, the government announced in early 2021 that it would start the very first official exploration and investigation of Rama Setu in March of this year. The project would take at least three years, starting with a geological survey and an investigation of the underground structure, before it would go to a more comprehensive laboratory analysis of geological samples from the depth of the water and from the interior of the earth. As the New York Times reported, the purpose would be to determine once and for all whether the formations are actually sandbanks or structures created by humans. This project is underway and many are waiting to find out which conclusions can be drawn from it. Is Rama Setu made by humans? Maybe even more important? If so, what else could scientists find? What other secrets could be revealed? The purpose of the study is not only to determine whether Rama Setu is an artificial structure, but also to search for submerged houses that may be nearby. Indeed, a scientist who is part of the study has already insisted that he is 100% sure that we will find archaeological remains. What did he mean by that? Is it possible for scientists to find the remains of an ancient civilization that has been lost under the waves? Do these remains belong to the lost continent Kumari Kandam? The fact is that the mystery of Rama Setu is just beginning. 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