The Lost Kingdom of Agharti or our memories of the Underground World. Part 2

  • 2017

In this article we will continue analyzing the myth of Agharti. For a better understanding, the previous reading of the first part is recommended.

Eastern Traditions

One of the most primitive and curious traditions about the Kingdom of Agharti is in the East, where an old report states that the first man, Adam, actually came from an underground world . According to San Efrén, Adam's home was " in the middle of the Earth " and his words when he died were that " his redeemer and his posterity " came from that underground place.

The Eastern tradition goes on to say that Adam's body was embalmed and then preserved until a priest named Melchizedek arrived from the underground world through a tunnel to take him away and bury him properly in his home country, beneath the surface.

This story is again alluded to in the Qur'an, which describes Adam as a beautiful man " as tall as a palm tree, " while Hindu popular knowledge says he was the king of a group of firstborn who had gone underground in time. of a cataclysm and then returned to oversee the restoration of life in the surface world.

There are several references to the underground world in classical texts, including that of Hanno, a Carthaginian navigator who made a trip along the west coast of Africa around 500 BC. In his work " Periplous, " he tells us that he has heard stories of underground inhabitants who were superior in intelligence to other men and " ran faster than horses ."

Plato, the great historian of lost Atlantis, also speaks of mysterious passageways in the powerful continent and in its surroundings, " both wide and narrow tunnels, inside the earth ." He also mentions a great rulerwho sits in the center, in the navel of the earth; and it is he who interprets religion for all mankind . ” In fact, the legend of Atlantis is directly intertwined with that of Agharti.

Agharti in the Roman tradition

The Roman Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny) refers in his " Natural History " to the underground inhabitants who had originally fled inland after the destruction of Atlantis. However, unlike their predecessors, it grants them very little intelligence, since since the cataclysm "they have fallen below the level of human civilization, if we can believe what is said ." Pliny believes, however, that these troglodytes have hidden in their tunnels a " large and ancient treasure ."

When talking about hidden treasures, the attention of many rulers was naturally attracted, and the Roman emperor Nero came to send expeditions to try to locate these hidden riches. It was commonly thought that Africa was the place where the treasure was, to be precise, and in a network of underground passageways . For eight years, between the 60s and 68s of our era in which he died, Nero sent several armies of legionaries to find those treasure tunnels. Fearful of the mad emperor's anger, the soldiers traveled frantically through Africa from the coast to the burning deserts, preferring to die rather than return empty-handed. Until they received word that Nero had died, the half-crazed remains of the armies did not dare to return to Rome . Although they had found neither tunnels nor treasures, this did not prevent the legend of an underground kingdom from continuing to flourish.

Stories of Mythical Kings

Possibly, the first detailed account of a real visit to this underworld appears in the remarkable collection of stories and memories De Nugis Curialiym, gathered by the poet and historian Gal 12th century Walter Map. In his book he tells the story of a visit by King Herla, one of the oldest British kings, to one of those places. Many authorities have suggested that it is simply a fantasy about fairyland, but the description is so detailed that it seems unlikely to be invented. For believers in Agharti, it refers to a royal tunnel inhabited by a race of subways.

In the story, King Herla approaches one day to a beautiful man who says: " I am the king of many kings and princes, and innumerable people ." The stranger invites Herla to accompany him on a trip to his kingdom, which he says is underground. Walter Map's narrative continues like this:

They entered a cave that was in a high cliff, and after an interval of darkness, they were illuminated by a light that did not seem to come from the sun or the moon, but from an infinite number of lamps, and continued there until the king's mansion . This was as beautiful in everything, as the palace of the Sun described by Nasón

King Herla enjoyed the hospitality of his host for what appeared to be a short period of time, and then he let him return to the surface world, conveniently loaded with gifts and presents. He was escorted " to the place of the tunnel where darkness begins " and the two monarchs said goodbye. Walter Map ends like this:

In a short space of time, Herla once again came into the sunlight and her kingdom, where she approached an old pastor and asked her news about her queen, naming her. The pastor looked at him in amazement, and said: 'Lord, I can barely understand what he says, for you are a Breton and I am a Saxon; but I have never heard the name of that queen, except that they say a long time ago there was a queen of that name over the very ancient Britons, who was the wife of King Herla; and he, says the old story, disappeared in this same cliff and was never seen again on earth, and it has now been two hundred years since the Saxons took possession of this kingdom and expelled the old inhabitants. ' And at his words, the king, who thought he had only been there for three days, could barely hide his astonishment. ”

Another legendary king who is associated with Agharti is Preste Juan, who in the twelfth century said " reigned with splendor somewhere in the dark East " according to Sabine Baring-Gould in his "Curious myths of the Middles Ages (1894) " . Although some stories claim that Preste Juan was a powerful Christian emperor who dominated much of Central Asia, all attempts made by Christian kings and priests in Europe to make contact with him proved futile. In spite of this, wonderful stories about his reign, his powers and his wealth, traveled all over Europe, and for a time he circulated a letter that was claimed to have been written by the powerful ruler himself.

Although it was later proven to be false, it contained a strange phrase that has focused the attention of myth scholars.

In it, Preste Juan says: “ Near the forests, between arid mountains, there is an underground world that can only be reached by chance, since the earth opens only occasionally, and whoever descends must do so with precipitation, before the land close again . ”

This statement, plus the one that Preste Juan was " the lord of the lords, surpassing all those who are under heaven in virtue, power and wealth ", has given rise to the belief that he was really the acclaimed "King of the World "From Agharti.

Belief in this mythical King, and his relationship with other spiritual myths such as Shamballa or the Norse Valhalla, will be the result of research in successive articles.

I hope you enjoyed reading and that knowledge guides your path.

SOURCE; "The Lost World of Agharti" by Alec McClellan

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