The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars [CD-ROM]

George J. Haas (Author), William R. Saunders (Author)

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Publication Date: December 2003

Analysing NASA photographs of the planet Mars, Haas and Saunders offer unprecedented evidence (300 images and illustrations) of monumental edifices from a prehistoric Martian civilisation which parallel the sculpture and mythology of ancient cultures from Mesoamerica, Asia, Mesopotamia and Egypt. The implication is staggering - Earth's history and mankind's origins could be very different than previously believed.

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"I applaud the authors' cross-cultural approach to investigating possible Martian archaeological sites. By suggesting that a priror technological civilization might have been driven by aesthetic agenda, The Cydonia Codex offers a new arena for speculation--which is precisely what's needed to further the investigative process."
-Mac Tonnies, author of After the Martian Apocalypse: Extraterrestrial Artifacts and the Case for Mars Exploration

"This book gives unique insight into the many questions surrounding man's origins and in my mind establishes stunning evidence for a direct connection between us and a forgotten culture found on the planet Mars."
-Jim Miller, founder of the Mars research group Anomaly Hunters

"The authors have obviously done a great deal of research not only into the Martian structures but also into ancient Mesoamerican and other cultures and have shown how the images from Mars are repeated in the religious and cultural artifacts from those ancient civilizations. The information is well laid out and overall an excellent informative work."
-Shane Bowden, geologist in Alberta, Canada --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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George J Haas and William R Saunders

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 501 pages
• Publisher: Granville Island Publishing (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1894694147
• ISBN-13: 978-1894694148
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,499,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Asks the questions that need to be asked, January 3, 2004

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This review is from: The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars (CD-ROM)

In May of 2001, high-resolution imagery of the famous "Face on Mars," taken by the Mars Global Suveryor satellite, was finally released, confirming a well documented decade-old prediction made by Richard C. Hoagland that the Face on Mars (which NASA keeps insisting has been disproven by study to be more than a "trick of light and shadow," but when pressed to actually name a single study, cannot) is a deliberately asymmetrical artform, composed of distinct hominid or humanoid, and feline, halves. In spite of a tendency for early Cydonia researchers to cite parallels to Egyptian culture in a singularly dramatic pyramid and a "Martian Sphinx" in the form of The Face, perhaps the best parallel that can be drawn, in part, is to the extensive use of asymmetry and feline motifs in ancient Mesoamerican art.

From a stone cousin of Ohio's Great Serpent Mound in at Loch Nell in Scotland, to the extensive earthworks of the Great Lakes Region, to enormous effigies and intaglios of humans and animals in the Southwest to South America, mankind has devoted great energy to creating nearly countless large scale artworks that are by far best appreciated from aerial views, and unless we accept astral projection on the basis of ancedotal evidence and on top that, the notion that shamans flying "out of body" actually required such artworks as the landmarks for their astral navigation, the purpose and intent of these artworks remains very much a mystery. In the premise that their purpose is somehow kindred to the surmised and rigorously examined purpose of engimatic landforms of Cydonia, may yet lie the most plausible sort of reason for the existance of these artworks- these "geoglyphs"- on both worlds.

A "Mars-Mesoamerican Connection" may yet also provide the most plausible rationale for the ancient rejection of certain technologies; numerous working examples of the wheel are found in ancient Mesoamerican and South American children's toys, but the well-known rejection of the wheel by these cultures tends to almost imply cultures that, having had previous experience with such "modern" technlogy in some missing chapter of human history, were well aware of the pitfalls of their abuse, and may have declined their use on those grounds.

The authors of the "Cydonia Codex" take on the formidable challenge of taking these observations to the next logical level, and the greater challenge of looking for the minute details to fully authenticate the proposed Mesoamerican character of enigmatic Martian landforms, as they explore the premise that symmetry analysis is not intended purely as an analytical tool for the verification of artificiality, but as a fundamental tool for their actual decoding, just as with The Face on Mars at Cydonia.

There are few who've spent any comparable number of hours actually pouring over the Mars satellite image data with any semblance of an open mind and the freedom to speak uncompromised by restrictive institutional affiliations, who can deny the basic premise of remnants of a Martian civilization. There are few with equal experience and liberty who can deny that Mars seems to show us (complete with corroborating redundancy to help set it apart from random geology or pariedolia) the remains of a civilization who wisely used the very landscape to write- and draw- in stone, what Earth's civilizations have too often written on mere parchment, only to have it put to flame.

While the interpretation of eroded landforms must categorically contain some small degree of subjectivity, the authors are rarely if ever alone in their perceptions of artistically-designed Martian landforms similar to those on earth, and while this work may reflect only the beginning chapters of filling in the large number of pages that may have been torn from human history, it represents a very important and very necessary step on the way. This work is true progress, and an exciting adventure.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A codex of pictographic structures on ... Mars, January 23, 2004

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John (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars (CD-ROM)

I found this Adobe Reader, CD ROM book to be easy to use, very well written, and beautifully illustrated. The book features forwards by two of the "pillars" of Martian anomaly research, Richard Hoagland and Dr. Mark Carlotto, both of whom have also written books about the Face on Mars. If that isn't enough to get your attention, the book also has Keith Laney's enhancements of NASA photographs, which are of the highest quality. It is no wonder NASA has decided to make Laney one of their own and now use his work in their own research and publications. In my opinion Mr. Leney's enhancement of the 2001 image of the Face on Mars is surely a national treasure. One look at this image and you'll be convinced that the Face on Mars is real. If Mr Laney has any influence over at NASA/JPL, maybe he can open the door and tell NASA they need to read this book.

Moving on to the illustrations, Haas' drawings are fine but, the use of famous Mayanist Linda Schele's drawings as comparative source material was surprising; however the correlation between the Mesoamerican and Martian inscriptions that they support are truly amazing. Throughout the book the authors present a highly probable hypothesis that there was once a highly evolved civilization that left a codex of pictographic structures on Mars and through an amazing display of side by side comparisons they trace the source of these images all the way back to earth. The book also touches on a connection between the mythologies of the Sumerians and Asians with those of Mesoamerica. The most astonishing thing is that the authors of The Cydonia Codex not only reveal the Face on Mars to be a gigantic two-faced geoglyph, of a human and feline mask, they provide overwhelming evidence that it's related to a two-faced style that was utilized by the ancient Maya. Although some of the "mirrored" images push the envelope to the extreme, most of their discoveries are stunning and display recognizable features in great detail. One of my favorite images in the book is the one on the cover, which features the bust of a bearded and helmeted Viking. If you are interested in the origins of man and the Face on Mars and the idea that there may be evidence of ruins on another planet that may be connected to "us"... this book is for you.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intersting Earth - Mars connection, June 18, 2004

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Shane Bowden (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars (CD-ROM)

When I first got this book it was to read more about the faces that have been seen on Mars. The authors have done an excellent job of identifing and describing not only the faces but numerous other structures that I wasn't aware even existed. I think if someone was only interested in the Face on Mars the book is well worth it. What I found really fascinating however was the connection between the images seen on Mars and the images found in ancient cultures here on earth. The authors have obviously done a great deal of research not only into the Martian structures but also into ancient Mesoamerican, Egyptian and other cultures and have shown how the images from Mars are repeated in the religous and cultural artifacts from those ancient civilizations. Its very thought provoking.

If I have any criticism its that the authors sometimes delve too deeply into some of the details regarding the ancient civilizations, however I'm sure that a reader who has an interest or some knowledge of that subject or is hungry for more information will appreciate the detailed work that they have done.

The information is well laid out and while the authors resist forming a conclusion the reader can judge for themselves how it all ties together.

All in all an excellent informative work. I hope they do a follow up book.