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The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars

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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.

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.

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.

This book looks at the mysteries of the Maya civilization and proposes a connection to monuments and geoglyphs found on Mars. Regardless of what you might currently believe about the possibility of the existance of ancient civilizations here on Earth or on other worlds and their possible interactions, this book gives solid theories and backs them up with images provided directly by NASAs current orbiting satellites.

At the least this book is a great lesson in Maya history and culture at the best it is a difinitive explanation for the connections between ancient civilizations and the origins of our own modern times.

I've read several of the books about the "Face" on Mars and other possibly artificial Martian features and thought this would make an interesting addition.

Mr. Haas discusses several Martian and Terrestrial features, and mentions the writings of other Martian Object authors such as Carlotto and Hoagland. It seems to me that, in my reading so far, that he is of the opinion that the people who did the ancient Mayan and Olmec carvings down in Central & South America also operated on Mars. Where Richard Hoagland sees pyramids or other ruins George Haas seems to keep seeing C & SA petroglyphs on a giant scale- after a few shots of that I began to loose interest in his book. I don't know what's up with Mars, I don't like NASA's take (sometimes I don't like Hoagland's either)on it but this guy is way too strong on petroglyphs I think. I may not get around to finishing the book.

I'm a person who likes answers. This books provides a possible answer to a very real question. What relation do we have to Mars. The information provided makes it very hard not to see a connection between Earth and Mars.

I really want to believe. I've followed the Face on Mars saga right from the start in the 1980s up till now, and own various editions of Hoagland's Monuments of Mars book. I've read Mac Tonnie's "After the Martian Apocalypse'' and Carlotto's "The Cydonia Controversy'', the latter probably presenting the best summary currently available. All along, I had high hopes that there IS something there, that all these experts can't have got it wrong. But I have to say that The Cydonia Codex is a huge disappointment. Why? In a nutshell - using a dubious reflective technique, the authors see a rabbit, dolphin, turtle, jaguar, bat, bottle-nosed whale etc etc etched on the Martian surface. To me, this is stretching the bounds of credibility to breaking point - I mean come on guys, gimme a break! Whales? A swimming turtle? A fish? A face and a couple of pyramids I might swallow but come on! I ploughed through almost 160 pages of this before finally throwing in the towel. Still, I'll give it 2 stars for effort - clearly, the writers take their theory seriously and who knows, there's probably a fringe community out there that might buy it as well.

I really liked this book. It is the fist book I ever read about NASA photographing the Face on Mars and all the other faces. Everyone should read it. The authors make a strong case that who ever built these structures on Mars had somekind of connection with the ancient Olmec and Maya cultures here on Earth.

The pictures of the two-faced masks on Mars really do look like they are copies of masks found in Mexico. This book is so cool it should be offered in most school libraries and it should be talked about on CNN. People should read this book because the images are just amazing. Because of this book, I am now reading as much as I can about the Maya and Olmec.

If everything in this book is right, maybe we all came from Mars.

Shenandoah

I was at first hesitant to purchase this book based on all the other information available out there. I read Hoagland's version and wasn't convinced, though I was intrigued. This book "slam dunked" me into believing that there is more to Mars than meets the eye. The farther I read into this book and researched it, the more logical it seems that there are structures on Mars that directly relate to Earth mythologies that need to be investigated.

While the concept is interesting the theories included in this text are not well rooted in science. There is a lot of conjecture, and huge leaps between supposed evidence and theory. If you are examining possibilities to write a SciFi novel, it's an interesting research stop.