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     In his book 'SHAMBHALA' (1930.  Frederick A. Stokes Co.,
N.Y.), writer and traveler Nicholas Roerich adds some additional
insights into human habitation of underground regions of central
Asia.  In his chapter 'SUBTERRANEAN DWELLERS' (pp. 210-219) we
read the following words:

     "Once on our travels we reached a half-ruined village.
There was a glimmer of light in only two houses.  In a small
room, an old man sat cleaning a utensil.  He became our host for
the night.  I asked him the reason for his isolation.  He
answered, 'Every one has departed.  They have found more suitable
sites for their dwellings.  They were strong and enterprising.
Something new attracted them.  But I knew that nothing new exists
on earth.  And I did not wish to change the place of my death.'

     "Thus the strongest ones depart.  The decaying ones
patiently await death.  Is this not the story of all migrations,
of all enterprises?

     "The subject of the great migrations is the most fascinating
in the history of humanity.  What spirit was it that thus moved
whole nations and innumerable tribes?  What cataclysm drove the
hordes from their familiar steppes?  What new happiness and
privileges did they anticipate in the blue mist of the immense
desert?

     "On rocks in Dardistan we saw ancient drawings.  We also saw
the same kind of drawings upon the rocks near the Brahmaputra, as
well as on the rocks of Orkon in Mongolia, and in the tumuli of
Minusinsk in Siberia.  And finally we discerned the same creative
psychology in the halristningars of Sweden and Norway.  And later
we stopped in admiration before the mighty signs of the early
Romanesque which we found, based on the same creative aspirations
of the great migrators.

     "In every city, in every encampment of Asia, I tried to
discover what memories were being cherished in the folk-memory.
Through these guarded and preserved tales you can recognize the
reality of the past.  In every spark of folk-lore, there is a
drop of great Truth adorned or distorted.  Not long ago we were
too vain to appreciate these treasures of folk-lore.  'What could
these illiterate people know!'  But afterwards we learned that
even the great Rig-Vedas were written down only in the
comparatively recent past, and perhaps for many centuries they
were passed down by word of mouth.  We thought that the flying
carpet of fairy-tales belonged only to the children but we soon
recognized that although each fantasy, in its own individual way,
weaves a beautiful carpet ornamenting life, nevertheless the very
carpet bears the footprints of great reality of the past.

     "Among the innumerable legends and fairy tales of various
countries may be found the tales of lost tribes and subterranean
dwellers.  In wide and diverse directions, people are speaking of
the identical facts.  But in correlating them you can readily see
that these are but chapters from the one story.  At first it
seems impossible that there should exist any scientific
connection between these distorted whispers under the light of
the desert bonfires.  But afterwards you begin to grasp the
peculiar coincidence of these manifold legends related by peoples
who are even ignorant of each other's names.

     "You recognize the same relationship in the folk-lores of
Tibet, Mongolia, China, Turkestan, Kashmir, Persia, Altai,
Siberia, the Ural, Caucasia, the Russian steppes, Lithuania,
Poland, Hungary, Germany, France; from the highest mountains to
the deepest oceans.  You will hear wonderfully elaborated tales
in the Tourfan district.  They tell you how the people, not
willing to submit to the cruelty, closed themselves in
subterranean mountains.  They even ask you if you want to see the
entrance to the cave through which the saintly persecuted folk
fled.

     "In Kuchar you will hear of King Po-chan, ruler of the
Tokhars, and how, when the enemy approached, he disappeared with
all the treasure of his kingdom, leaving only sand, stones and
ruins behind him.

     "...Each entrance to a cave suggests that some one has
already entered there.  Every creek--especially the subterranean
creeks--draw one's fantasy to the underground passages.  In many
places in Central Asia, they speak of the Agharti, the
subterranean people.  In numerous beautiful legends they outline
the same story of how the best people abandoned the treacherous
earth and sought salvation in hidden countries where they
acquired new forces and conquered powerful energies.

     "In the Altai Mountains, in the beautiful upland valley of
Uimon, a hoary Old Believer (Starover) said to me: 'I shall prove
to you that the tale about the Chud, the subterranean people, is
not a fantasy!  I shall lead you to the entrance of the
subterranean kingdom.'

     "On the way through the valley surrounded by snowy
mountains, my host told us many tales about the Chud.  It is
remarkable that 'Chud' in Russian has the same origin as the word
WONDER.  So, perhaps, we may consider the Chud a wonderful tribe.
My bearded guide told how 'once upon a time, in this fertile
valley lived and flourished the powerful tribe of Chud.  They
knew how to prospect for minerals and how to reap the best
harvest.  Most peaceful and most industrious, was this tribe.
But then came a White Tzar with innumerable hordes of cruel
warriors.  The peaceful, industrious Chud could not resist the
assaults of the conquerors, and not wishing to lose their
liberty, they remained as serfs to the White Tzar.  Then, for the
first time, a white birch began to grow in this region.  And,
according to old prophecies, the Chud knew that it was the time
for their departure.  And the Chud, unwilling to remain subject
to the White Tzar, departed under the earth.  Only sometimes can
you hear the holy people singing; now their bells ring out in the
subterranean temples.  But there shall come the glorious time of
human purification, and in those days, the great Chud shall again
appear in full glory.'

     "Thus the Old Believer concluded.  We approached some low
stony hill.  Proudly he showed me, 'Here we are.  Here is the
entrance to the great subterranean kingdom!  When the Chud
entered the subterranean passage they closed the entrance with
stones.  Now we stand just beside this holy entrance.'

     "We stood before a huge tomb encircled by great stones, so
typical of the period of the great migrations.  Such tombs, with
the beautiful remains of Gothic relics, we saw in South Russian
steppes, in foothills of the Northern Caucasus.  Studying this
hill, I remembered how during our crossing of the Karakorum pass,
my sais, the Ladaki, asked me, 'Do you know that in the
subterranean caves here many treasures are hidden and that in
them lives a wonderful tribe which abhors the sins of earth?'

     "And again when we approached Khotan the hoofs of our horses
sounded hollow as though we rode above caves or hollows.  Our
caravan people called attention to this, saying, 'Do you hear
what hollow subterranean passages we are crossing?  Through these
passages, people who are familiar with them can reach far-off
countries.'  When we saw entrances to caves, our caravaneers told
us, 'Long ago people lived there; now they have gone inside; they
have found a subterranean passage to the subterranean kingdom.
Only rarely do some of them appear again on the earth.  At our
bazaar such people come with strange, very ancient money, but
nobody could ever remember a time when such money was in usage
here.'  I asked them, if we could also see such people.  And they
answered, 'Yes, if your thoughts are similarly high and in
contact with these holy people, because only sinners are upon the
earth and the pure and courageous people pass on to something
more beautiful.'

     "Great is the belief in the Kingdom of the subterranean
people.  Through all of Asia, through the spaces of all deserts,
from the Pacific to the Urals, you can hear the same wondrous
tale of the vanished holy people.  And even far beyond the Ural
Mountains, the echo of the same tale will reach you.  Often you
hear about subterranean tribes.  Sometimes an invisible holy
people is said to be living behind a mountain.  Sometimes either
poisonous or vitalizing gases are spread over the earth, to
protect some one.  Sometimes you hear how the sands of the great
desert shift, and for a moment disclose treasures of the
entrances of subterranean kingdoms.  But none would dare to touch
those treasures.  You will hear how, in the rocks, in the most
deserted mountain ranges, you can see openings which connect with
these subterranean passes, and how beautiful princesses once upon
a time occupied these natural castles.

     "From distances one might take these openings for eries,
because all which belongs to the subterranean people is
concealed.  Sometimes the Holy City is submerged, as in the folk-
lore of Netherlands and Switzerland.  And there is folk-lore that
coincides with actual discoveries in the lakes and along the sea
coasts.  In Siberia, in Russia, Lithuania and Poland, you find
many legends and fairy tales about giants who lived at times in
these countries but afterwards, disliking the new customs,
disappeared.  In these legends, one may recognize the specific
foundations of the ancient clans.  The giants are brothers.  Very
often the sisters of the giants live on the other shores of the
lakes or the other side of the mountains.  Very often they do not
like to move from the site but some special event drives them
from their patrimonial dwelling.  Birds and animals are always
near these giants; as witnesses they follow them and announce
their departure.

     "...The endless Kurgans of the southern steppes retain
around them numerous stories about the appearance of the unknown
warrior, nobody knows from whence.  The Carpathian Mountains in
Hungary have many similar stories of unknown tribes, giant-
warriors and mysterious cities.  If, without prejudice, you
patiently point out on your map all the legends and stories of
this nature you will be astonished at the result.  When you
collect all the fairy-tales of lost and subterranean tribes, will
you not have before you a full map of the migrations?"

     During the 'Subterranean World' controversy which filled the
pages of AMAZING STORIES Magazine in the late 1940's as a result
of the writings of Palmer, Shaver and numerous readers who sent
in their own contributions, a couple by the name of John &
Dorothy de Courcy became involved as well.  They had sent in a
fictionalized novelette based loosely on the 'Agharti' legends,
which was published in the magazine.  Sometimes afterwards, in
the Dec. 1946 issue of A.S. (p. 173), they submitted another
letter describing a strange 'response' to their story:

"Sirs.

     "The most singular thing has happened and we are at a loss
to offer an explanation.  It might be a prank, but unless someone
is willing to spend a good deal of money on a prank, it must be
the truth!

     "On July 29, a tall man wearing a long blue or black
overcoat and a dark hat drawn down to conceal his face, went to a
former residence of ours in San Francisco asking for us.  He was
told we had moved and the landlord tried to find a card bearing
our forwarding address.  Try as he might, he couldn't, nor could
he remember even the city, but he said he thought it was
Portland.  When told, the man answered, 'I quite understand.  If
you find the address, kindly write them and say, "the man from
Agharti" seeks them.'

     "On August 5 he reappeared in Portland at an apartment house
where we had once lived.  Again our address was missing and again
he left the same message, adding, 'I bear a message for them from
the King.'

     "In both cases, after we had gone, our forwarding addresses
were found and both landlords wrote to us immediately apologizing
for their oversight.  They said he impressed them so much they
couldn't forget him.  Both of them misspelled Agharti in their
letters.

     "Who is the King?  Can he be referring to the fabulous King
of the World?  The only solution we can suggest is to publish
this letter with our address and hope that this time the man from
Agharti, if he be such, will find us.

     " -- John & Dorothy de Courcy., 665 S. W. 113th Place.,
Seattle 66, Washington."

     As further evidence that not ALL subterran societies are of
the insidious, reptilian or reptilian-controlled variety, we add
the following revelations from 'Commander X', the mysterious
anonymous U.S. Intelligence official who has revealed much about
'inside' government knowledge of alien civilization both beyond
and beneath the earth.  He is the author of the book 'UNDERGROUND
ALIEN BASES', published by Tim Beckley's UFO REVIEW-Abelard
Press, N.Y.  Mr. 'X' was apparently very familiar with the
Subterranean-world controversies that surrounded AMAZING STORIES
and related publications in the early years, which may explain
his present position in U.S. Intelligence.  He reveals the
following subterranea-related accounts from South America:

     "..Of all the countries on the face of the Earth, none is
more mysterious, or less explored, than is Brazil.  Miles upon
miles of this country have never been set foot upon by white man.
In these areas live whole tribes of savage Indians whose
civilizations are said to be akin to those existing at the time
of the Stone Age.  Many of those who have dared venturing into
these pockets of unexplored jungle have never come out.  Perhaps
the case of Colonel Fawcett will be familiar to readers as an
example of what I mean.  He supposedly was captured by a tribe of
wild Indians while in search of a 'hidden city' said to be
located in the confines of the dense jungle...

     "Before his death, Dr. (Raymond) Bernard had sent this
writer many personal letters regarding his findings related to...
underground civilization(s).  We quote from these communications
in the following:

     "'I arrived in Brazil in 1956 and have been carrying on my
research since I met a Theosophical leader who told me about the
subterranean cities... that exist in Brazil.  He referred to
Professor Henrique de Souza, president of the Brazilian
Theosophical Society, at Sao Lourenco in the state of Minas
Gerais, who erected a temple dedicated to Agharta, which is the
Buddhist name of the subterranean World.  Here in Brazil live
Theosophists from all parts of the world, all of whom believe in
the existence of the subterranean cities.

     "Professor de Souza told me that the great English explorer
Colonel Fawcett is still alive, living in a subterranean city in
the Roncador Mountains of Matto Grosso, where he found the
subterranean city of Atlanteans for which he searched (Note:
Bernard refers to the inhabitants of this city as 'Atlanteans',
when in fact other accounts suggest that--like the underground
cities below the east coast of North America--many of these
cavern cities were originally constructed by an ancient
antediluvian race which might have been very similar to the lost
race spoken of in the 'Atlantis' legendary, and were later re-
inhabited after the flood.  In 'this' sense they might be
referred to as 'Atlanteans' although the present inhabitants of
such cities probably do not have any direct 'genetic' ties to the
antediluvian 'Atlanteans'. - Branton), but is held prisoner lest
he reveal the secret of his whereabouts.  He was not killed by
Indians as is commonly believed.  Professor de Souza claimed he
has visited subterranean cities, including Shamballah, the world
capital of the subterranean empire of Agharta.  I then went to
Matto Grosso to find the subterranean city where Fawcett is
claimed to be living with his son Jack, but failed to do so.  I
then returned to Joinville in the state of Santa Catarina, and
there continued my research.

     "Just recently two explorers returned from entering a tunnel
near Ponte Grosse in the state of Parana.  One of them had
recently entered alone and spent five days in the underworld city
there.  It had about 50 inhabitants plus children.  The fruit
orchards were recently planted, and the inhabitants received
fruit from another subterranean city.  During the last visit, the
two explorers were met at the entrance of the tunnel by a
guardian and the chief of the city, who told them that they
should return in two years when the fruit trees will start to
bear, but cannot enter now.

     "The same two explorers entered a tunnel in Rincon, state of
Parana, and finally came to a chimney-like structure with four
chains hanging down.  They descended on the chains but when they
came near the bottom a gas with a chemical odor started to come
up and forced them to ascend.  Obviously the subterranean
dwellers tried to keep them from reaching the city (This seems
often to be the case - Commander X).

     "Our explorer J.D. (name on file - Commander X), who is a
mountain guide of the Mystery Mountain near Joinville (where
there is supposed to be an entrance) said that, several times, he
saw a luminous flying saucer ascend from the tunnel opening that
leads to a subterranean city inside the mountain, in which he
heard the beautiful choral singing of men and women, and also
heard the 'canto galo' (rooster crowing), a universal symbol
indicating the existence of subterranean cities in Brazil.  He
said that the saucer was so luminous that it lit up the night sky
and converted it into daylight.  On one occasion he met a group
of subterranean men outside the tunnel.  They were short, stocky,
with reddish beards and long hair, and very muscular.  When he
tried to approach them, they vanished.  Often he saw strange
illuminations in this area at night which were probably produced
by flying saucers (We use the name 'Mystery Mountain,' rather
than reveal the true name of the mountain, so that unwanted
outsiders will not come here to locate it).  Throughout my many
years of research I have accumulated a vast amount of data which
would indicate that these entrances to subterranean cities abound
throughout the region.

     "An elderly man living in Joinville once told me that he had
visited a tunnel near Concepiao in the state of Sao Paulo, and
saw in the distance a marvelous subterranean city with vehicles
darting back and forth, evidently traveling through tunnels from
one subterranean city to another.

     "Although the following report requires confirmation, it was
told to me by an explorer named N.C. who said that he had visited
a tunnel near Rio Casdor and had met a beautiful young woman
appearing to be about 20 years of age.  She spoke to him in
Portuguese and SAID that she was 2,500 years old.  He also met a
bearded subterranean man (Note: Often humans encountered in
aerial disks or subterranean caverns declare that they are
extremely old by humans standards.  On the surface this might
sound next to impossible, unless a revolutionary scientific
breakthrough on the part of these human 'aliens' has allowed them
to retard the aging process to an extreme degree, or could the
possibly that they are separated from the degenerating radiations
of solar rays explain their allegedly greater longevity?  Another
possibility would be that through bionics/biological
transplants/prosthetics, etc. the lifespan of human beings
possessing advanced biological and technological sciences might
theoretically be increased dramatically.  Incidentally, the
writer and traveler Robert Stacy-Judd in some of his books
described an exploration he and others in his party made of the
peripheral areas of the Loltun caves of Yucatan.  Legend says
that at least one group of people, fleeing persecution, entered
en masse into the massive Loltun caves and were never seen again.
Stacy-Judd tells of his own encounter with a 'cave hermit' deep
in the cavern chambers who claimed to be well over 1000 years
old, and who said he was a guardian of the cave and of the
treasures--and city?--which lay deep below in the unknown depths,
'unknown' that is, except to the strange 'hermit'.  Aside from
photographs of this hermit which appeared in some of his works,
the author also revealed photographs of 'underground gardens'
consisting of areas of the cave which contain small patches of
'jungle', watered and lit through parts of the cavern ceilings
which had collapsed, exposing them to the outer world.  Whether
such claims of longevity are real or whether the "subterranean"
people were just playing with the minds of such explorers who
encountered them, is uncertain - Branton).

     "Still another explorer named D.O. visited this same tunnel
near Gaspar, Santa Catarina, and behind a wonderful fruit orchard
saw a subterranean woman with a child in her arms reading to it
aloud from a huge book written in an unknown language... After
she read each sentence the child repeated the same and in this
way was taught how to read.  All of these subterranean cities are
illuminated by strange light...'"



     In relation to the apparent connection between subterranean
civilizations and unidentified flying objects (Bernard and de
Souza, incidentally, believed 'flying saucers' to be of
subterranean origin), we will here quote from Paris Flammonde,
author of 'THE AGE OF FLYING SAUCERS' (Hawthorne Books, Inc.,
N.Y.), who tends to confirm this hypothesis.  He in turn quoted
Raymond A. Palmer as a major proponent of this belief:

     "...The new decade was not without a new theory, or, at
least, a variation of an old one--that not only were Flying
Saucers not originating from beyond the farthest reaches of our
planet, they were expelled from within it... Ray Palmer wrote a
lengthy article elaborating his interesting and imaginative
thesis, and prefaced it with the assertion that he was prepared
'to prove that flying saucers are native to planet earth; that
the governments of more than one nation (if not all of them) know
this to be the fact; that a concerted effort is being made to
learn all about them, and to explore their native land; and that
facts already known are considered so important that they are the
world's top secret...'  The continuation of his contention reads:

'...is there any area on Earth which can be regarded as a
possible origin for flying saucers?  There are...four...the two
major, in order of importance, are Antarctica and the
Arctic...the two minor areas are South America's Motto Grosso and
Asia's Tibetan Highlands.'"

     Raymond Bernard (actual name 'Walter Seigmeister'), writing
in the Oct. 1959 issue of SEARCH Magazine, p. 48, described yet
another alleged encounter with a subterranean race.  What are we
to make of all these stories?  Are we to assume that some of the
individuals who told Bernard such accounts actually made them up,
as some suggest, in order to receive the 'reward' Bernard was
known to offer on documentable accounts of ancient tunnels?  Or,
are we to accept these accounts for just what their sources claim
them to be, actual encounters with a subterranean world?  Bernard
stated the following:

     "...Last week my investigators returned and said they
visited their city (i.e. the 'city' of a race of dwarf-humans
whom Bernard referred to as the 'Niebelungs', who live in a
subterranean region with it's own system of illumination -
Branton) and are able to bring any of my American friends to
visit it, but I require one condition: absolute secrecy, as I
don't want governments to send armies into the tunnel to disturb
these peaceful people.

     "To reach them requires a 3-day journey of about 40 miles
through a tunnel.  This entire distance is through a tunnel
carefully lined with cut stone blocks below, above and on the
sides.  That was quite an engineering feat.  I think the tunnel
was made long to keep out curiosity seekers, and only the most
determined will travel that distance.

     "Here is the report of my investigations: (They are two
ranchers, father and son, who discovered the tunnel
accidentally):

     "'We left our house 5 A.M. for the tunnel on top of a
mountain and reached it 3 P.M.  We were tired and camped near the
entrance of the tunnel.  For three days we proceeded through the
tunnel.  We told time by our watches, as we could not tell when
it was day or night.  We went to sleep at 10 P.M. and awoke at 3
A.M. and continued walking.  By the third day the tunnel started
to go downward by steps.  It was built of stone blocks on all
sides.  By the night of the third day the tunnel suddenly opened
into a great space covered with what appeared as a sky with a
yellow light that made everything luminous, like daylight.  We
saw a city with many houses and saw many people in the distance.
They were dwarfs with long white beards and long hair and we saw
women and children, and heard them crying.  The third member of
our party got frightened so we had to return.'

     "These men found three such tunnels.  They entered another
for three days, but after hearing voices further in, got scared
and returned.  Now they are entering the third..."