Agartha (sometimes referred to as Agartta, Agharti or Agarttha) is a legendary city that is said to reside in the Earth’s core and is the center of the Hollow Earth Theory.
The capital city of Agartha is known as Shamballa, but sometimes known as Shambalah or Shangri-La.
Throughout Asia it is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, meaning “The place of peace, of tranquillity.”
The mythical paradise of Shamballa is known under many different titles. It has been called:
- The Forbidden Land,
- The Land of White Waters,
- The Land of Radiant Spirits,
- The Land of Living Fire,
- The Land of the Living Gods and the Land of Wonders.
Hindus have known it as Aryavartha (literally : The Land or Realm of The Aryans ; the Land of the Noble/Worthy Ones”) – the land from which the Vedas come.
The Chinese refer to it as as:
- Hsi Tien,
- The Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu,
- The Royal Mother of the West
The Russian Old Believers, a nineteenth-century Christian sect, knew it as Belovodye and the Kirghiz people (a Turkish ethnic group native to Central Asia) as Janaidar.
The Entrances to Agartha
There is said to be several entrances to the Kingdom of Agartha throughout the world. Some of the entrances are found on planetary grid points – indwells and outwells of energy.
- Google Map: Kentucky Mammoth Cave, in south-central Kentucky, US.
- Google Map: Manaus, Brazil
- Google Map: Morona-Santiago in Ecuador, discovered by Juan Moricz.
- Google Map: Mato Grosso, Brazil – City of Posid
- Google Map: Iguazu Falls, border or Brazil and Argentina
- Google Map: Mount Epomeo, Italy
- Google Map: Himalayan Mountains, Tibet – the entrance to the underground city of Shonshe is allegedly guarded by Hindu monks
- Google Map: Mongolia – the underground city of Shingwa allegedly exists beneath the border of Mongolia and China
- Google Map: Rama, India – beneath this surface city is a long lost subterranean city, they say, also named Rama
- Google Map: Great Pyramid of Giza
- Google Map: King Solomon’s Mines
- Google Map: North and South Poles
- Google Map: Mount Shasta, California – the Agharthean city of Telos allegedly exists within and beneath this mountain
- Google Map: Diros Caves – Atlantean link
Exact coordinates to any of the above would be appreciated.
THEORY
An early source for the belief in underground civilizations is The Smoky God (aff link) (1908) by Willis George Emerson (1856 – 1918), which claims to be the biography of a Norwegian sailor named Olaf Jansen. The book explains how Jansen’s sloop sailed through an entrance to the Earth’s interior at the North Pole. For two years he lived with the inhabitants of an underground network of colonies who, Emerson writes, were a full 12 feet tall and whose world was lit by a “smoky” central sun. Their capital city was said to be the original Garden of Eden.
While Emerson does not use the name Agartha, later works such as Agartha – Secrets of the Subterranean Cities have identified the civilization Jansen encountered with Agartha, and its citizens as Agarthan.
According to Secrets of the Subterranean Cities, Shamballa the Lesser, one of the colonies, was also the seat of government for the network.
While Shamballa the Lesser is an inner continent, its satellite colonies are smaller enclosed ecosystems located just beneath the Earth’s crust or discreetly within mountains. The many cataclysms and wars that took place on the surface drove these people underground.
The lengthy Atlantean-Lemurian war and the power of thermonuclear weaponry is what many believe eventually sank and destroyed these two highly advanced civilizations. The Sahara, the Gobi, the Australian Outback and the deserts of the U.S. are but a few examples of the devastation that resulted. The sub-cities were created as refuges for the people and as safe havens for sacred records, teachings and technologies that were cherished by these ancient cultures.
INHABITANTS
The Old Ones – In an article entitled “The Hollow Earth: Myth or Reality” for Atlantis Rising, Brad Steiger writes of the legends of “the Old Ones,” an ancient race that populated the surface world millions of years ago and then moved underground. “The Old Ones, an immensely intelligent and scientifically advanced race,” Steiger writes, “have chosen to structure their own environment under the surface of the planet and manufacture all their necessities.”
“The Old Ones are hominid, extremely long-lived, and pre-date Homo sapiens by more than a million years. The Old Ones generally remain aloof from the surface peoples, but from time to time, they have been known to offer constructive criticism; and it has been said, they often kidnap human children to tutor and rear as their own.”
The Elder Race – One of the most controversial tales of inner-Earth-dwellers is the so-called “Shaver Mystery.” In 1945, Amazing Stories magazine under the editorship of Ray Palmer ran a story told by Richard Shaver, who claimed he had recently been the guest of what remained of an underground civilization. Although few really believed the story, and many suspect that Shaver may actually have been psychotic, Shaver always averred that his story was true.
He contended that the Elder Race, or Titans, came to this planet from another solar system in our prehistoric past. After a time of living on the surface, they realized our sun was causing them to age prematurely, so they escaped underground, building huge subterranean complexes in which to live. Eventually, they decided to seek a new home on a new planet, evacuating the Earth and leaving behind their underground cities populated by artificial beings: the evil Dero – detrimental robots – and the good Tero – integrated robots. It was these beings that Shaver claimed to have met.
BUDDHIST
Ancient philosophy states that Agartha was first colonized thousands of years ago when a holy man led a tribe to the underground. The people have scientific knowledge and expertise far beyond that of the people who live on the surface of the planet.
Buddhist theory suggests there to be a race of supermen and superwomen who occasionally come to the surface to oversee the development of the human race. It is also believed that this subterranean world has millions of inhabitants and many cities. The King of this world is believed to have given orders to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, who is his terrestrial representative. His messages are transmitted through certain secret tunnels connecting the inner world of Agartha with Tibet.
NATIVE AMERICANS
Among the Native American peoples, the Navajo legends teach that the forerunners of man came from beneath the Earth. The ancient ones had supernatural powers but were driven from their caverns by a great flood. Once on the surface, they passed on their great knowledge to the human race before once again seeking their great sanctuary.
The Pueblo Indians mythology also places their gods place of origin in the inner earth. The inner world was supposedly connected to the surface people by a hole in the North. The ancient writings of the Chinese, Egyptians, and Eskimos speak of a great opening in the North and of a race of people who live under the Earth’s crust. The writings say that their ancestors came from the paradise land in the Earth’s interior.
INDIA
In India there is an ancient belief, still held by some, in a subterranean race of serpent people who dwell in the cities Patala and Bhogavati. According to the legend, they wage war on the kingdom of Agharta. “The Nagas,” according to The Deep Dwellers, “are described as a very advanced race or species, with highly-developed technology. They also harbor a disdain for human beings, whom they are said to abduct, torture, interbreed with and even to eat.”
While the entrance to Bhogavati is somewhere in the Himalayas, believers assert that Patala can be entered through the Well of Sheshna in Benares, India. Says William Michael Mott in The Deep Dwellers: “According to herpetologist and author Sherman A. Minton, as stated in his book Venomous Reptiles, this entrance is very real, with forty steps which descend into a circular depression, to terminate at a closed stone door which is covered in bas-relief cobras.”
TIBET
In Tibet, there is a major mystical shrine also called ‘Patala,’ which is said by the people there to sit atop an ancient cavern and tunnel system, which reaches throughout the Asian continent and possibly beyond. The Nagas also traditionally have an affinity with water, and the entrances to their underground palaces are often said to be hidden at the bottom of wells, deep lakes and rivers.
The famous Russian channel, Nicholas Roerich, who was a channel for the Ascended Master, El Morya, claimed that Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, was connected by a tunnel with the inner Earth, Shamballa. The entrance of this tunnel was guarded by lamas who were sworn to secrecy. A similar tunnel was believed to connect the secret chambers at the base of the great pyramid at Giza, and Agartha.
