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Dr. Saitsew's Paper on the Dropas
The text below is a translation of the original paper written
by the Russian scientist, Dr. W. Saitsew, and has not been altered in any way.
THE DROPAS:
In the borderland between Tibet and China there is the cave
region of the Baian-Kara-Ula Mountains. 25 years ago, remarkable finds of
tablets with writing and hieroglyphics were made there. Several thousand years
ago a people whose looks Chinese archaeologists are only vaguely familiar with,
had been cutting phonograph record like stone disks out of the hardest granite
with a set of completely unknown tools. The 716 stone disks found so far also
have a hole in their center just as phonograph records do. From there, spiraling
out towards the rim, are double-grooves. These grooves of course are not like
sound tracks but rather the most peculiar writing-system that has ever been
found in China and possibly even the world. It took archaeologists and
scientists over two decades to decipher it. The contents are so fantastic that
the academy of pre-history in Beijing didn't want to publish the report of the
scientist Prof. Tsum Um Nui at first. Backed by four colleagues, archaeologists
Tsum Um Nui stated "the groove-writing tells of aerial vehicles, which,
according to the stone disks, existed 12.000 years ago". In one place it
says literally: "The Dropa came down from the clouds with their air
gliders. Ten times the men, women and children of the Kham hid in the caves
until sunrise. Then they understood the signs and saw that the Dropa came in
peace this time."
Finds of the Dropa and Kham races have been made earlier
already in these mountain caves. Archaeologists were and still are unable to
ethnologically assign these only up to 4 ft. 4 in. tall humans. There are no
similarities with the Chinese, Mongols or Tibetans. One could of course suggest
that a few thousand years ago a Kham literate was playing a joke, or that it was
mere superstition when he was talking about aircrafts. But then, what does one
do about the statement, all sensations excluded, reported in other groove
hieroglyphics of a great mourning about the own airfleet's destruction during
landing in the very inaccessible mountains and the lack of means to rebuild it.
The hieroglyphics of Baian-Kara-Ula appear to be so mysterious
to the Chinese archaeology that only very careful scientific use has been made
of them. On one occasion a sensational discovery had been made. The disks
contain a lot of cobalt and other metals. When testing a disk with an
oscillograph a surprising oscillation rhythm was discovered, just as if the
disks with their groove writing had once been charged or had functioned as
electrical conductors. Nobody can tell what's behind these 12.000-year-old stone
disks. Assumptions would be too risky and not objective enough. But one is
reminded of the ancient Chinese tale of the small and slender yellow people who
came from the clouds and were shunned by everyone due to their ugliness - large,
wide heads and very slender bodies - and hunted by the "men with the quick
horses" (Mongols?). In fact there had been finds of grave- and skeleton
remains in the caves from 12.000 years ago and it's also a fact that these
finds, classified as remains of the Dropa and Kham race, carried the signs of a
small body frame and very large heads. The very first archaeological reports
tell of an extinct mountain gorilla species. But has anyone heard of ordered
monkey-graves and writing-tablets? In 1940 the archaeologist Chi Pu Tei was
widely mocked at for making such a claim. But Chi Pu Tei defended himself by
declaring that the stone disks had been added to the caves by later cultures.
This is all rather confusing, but it does not change anything
about the hieroglyph-mystery of Baian-Kara-Ula, which gets even more complicated
by the fact that the cave walls show carved pictures of the writing tablets, in
several places the rising sun, the moon and stars in between whole swarms of
pea-sized dots that are descending towards the mountains and the earth in
graceful curves.
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