Podcast # 2: Why Tolemac?
Scott: My name is Scott Paton. I am talking today with Allan Colston. He is the author of the book “The Last Days of Tolemac”. This is a book dealing with prophecy.
For those listeners who may be new to this topic, this Podcast is the second in our series, and is titled “Why Tolemac”. Hello Allan and welcome.
Hello Scott. It’s great to talk to you again.
Scott: Allan, your book is called “The Last Days of Tolemac”. So tell me, what does the word Tolemac mean?
Well Scott, a lot of people have asked me about the name Tolemac. They want to know what the word means and why I used it in the title of the book. Tolemac is an interesting word, and as many people have already figured out, the name Tolemac is actually CAMELOT spelt backwards.
CAMELOT has all sorts of associations linked with its name, especially that of the legendary King Arthur and his lost kingdom of the knights of the Round Table. So the word Tolemac (or CAMELOT spelled backwards) is both a symbol of a forgotten time, and of a kingdom that once accomplished great things.
The name Tolemac also brings to mind the legendary peoples of Central America called the TOLTECS.
Scott: Who were the Toltecs?
The Toltecs were a mysterious people who lived in Central America several thousand years ago. The Aztecs who came later considered the Toltecs to be the highest form of civilization to have existed before them. The Toltecs were renowned for their architecture, particularly their imposing avenues flanked by soaring pyramids.
An example of their enormous structures can still be seen today just outside of Mexico City at the ruins of the ancient city of Teotihuacan. So the word TOLEMAC seemed to me an appropriate symbol of an ancient culture that had once risen to great heights, only to be destroyed in a series of cataclysms, and sink below the surface of the sea.
Scott: So does the word Tolemac represent a sunken civilization?
Yes it does. In fact I use the word Tolemac to identify the ancient culture that once lived in that area, but was destroyed and sank below the ocean. Researchers today continue to find ruins of advanced civilizations that once thrived, but now rest under the sea.
Examples of these can be found off the coasts of Japan, such as the underwater pyramids of Yonaguni near the island of Okinawa. Also off the coast of India where the ruins are similar to the vanished culture of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. Also in Egypt where underwater ruins have been found off the coast of Alexandria.
And In July 2000, a team of Canadian and Cuban explorers recently discovered the ruins of what appeared to be an ancient city submerged in the deep ocean waters off the western coast of Cuba. The Canadian team consisted of the Soviet-born Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky and her husband Dr Paul Weinzweig.
They belonged to the Advanced Digital Communications Group based in British Columbia. They used a miniature submarine with sophisticated side-scan sonar equipment to probe the sea floor. And what they found was not only unexpected. It seemed to defy the accepted history of human culture in the region.
Scott: What did they find?
They found mysterious stone structures at a depth of around 2,100 feet below sea level. These megalithic structures were laid out like an underwater city, complete with roads, buildings and pyramids. When he was interviewed later, Dr Weinzweig said that they appeared to have been built by an unknown human civilization thousands of years ago.
Quoting from this interview, he said: “They were like what you’d find at Stonehenge or Easter Island. Some of the structures within the complex may be as long as 400 meters wide and as high as 40 meters. Some are sitting on top of each other. They show very distinct shapes and symmetrical designs of a non-natural kind. We’ve shown them to scientists in Cuba, the U.S. and elsewhere, and nobody has suggested they are natural”.
Dr. Weinzweig went on to mention that these stone structures bore a remarkable resemblance to the pyramids of the Mayan and Aztec temples in Mexico. Furthermore, the photos taken from the videotape appeared to show “symbols and inscriptions” in a language that has yet to be deciphered.
Scott: Were there any other ruins in the area?
Yes there were. Other underwater ruins have also been found neighboring areas such as the Bay of Batabanó. When Dr Weinzweig was asked if there was any geological evidence to suggest that the islands that exist in the Caribbean today might actually be the mountain tops and high ground of a landmass that sank beneath the sea as a result of cataclysms in ancient times, he said:
“Yes, geologists tell us that the Yucatan, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico were all connected at one time. There is still much to learn about the geological history of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.”
The fact that ancient underwater ruins of a previously unknown origin have now been found off the coast of Cuba, seem to confirm the legends of past destruction as a result of cataclysmic earth changes taking place at the time. This is also beginning to be accepted by mainstream science.
A National Geographic News report dated May 28, 2002, had this to say about the ancient flood myths:
“Ancient stories of massive floods pass from generation to generation and in many places in the world are integral to a people’s spoken history. The tales differ by locale, but commonly feature either torrential rains or a hugely destructive wall of water bursting into a valley, destroying everything in its path.
“In many cases, the flooding is an act of retribution by displeased gods. Scientists, historians, and archaeologists view many of these enduring tales as myth, legend, or allegoric tales meant to illustrate moral principles. Recent findings however, indicate that at least a few of them could be based on real floods that caused destruction on an enormous scale.”
Commenting on this undersea discovery off the coast of Cuba and its link with the local legends, Andrew Collins ( who was the author of the book “Gateway to Atlantis”) wrote in a Special Report:
“Myths and legends told by the indigenous peoples of the Bahaman and Caribbean archipelagos, when the Spanish first reached the New World, spoke of just such a cataclysm. They said that the waters suddenly rushed in and drowned the great landmass, breaking it up into the individual islands seen today.”
Collins went on to point out that this discovery would also have profound implications for the prehistory of the region.
“If Paulina Zelitsky and her oceanographic colleagues are right in their belief that ‘pyramids, roads and buildings’ do lie off Cuba’s western coastline, then it is clear that the prehistory of the Caribbean, and its influence on the rise of Mesoamerican civilisation, will have to be revised dramatically. Moreover, it could well be that at long last the mystery of Atlantis, mankind’s greatest historical enigma, is about to unfold in a most spectacular fashion.”
These sunken ruins could also provide the key to the origin of the mysterious structure of Teotihuacán in central Mexico. According to Collins:
“The Teotihuacán culture, which thrived in Central Mexico from around 400 BC through until around AD 500, remains an enigma to archaeologists. Its origin is unclear. What we do know is that legends once told by the Totonac peoples of eastern Mexico spoke of the founders of its sacred city of Teotihuacán, with its mighty Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, as having arrived on the Gulf coast from an island homeland which lay beyond the sea.”
There is an eerie similarity between the description of the ruins of the undersea city (roads, buildings and pyramids) given by Paulina Zelitsky, and the enigmatic remains of Teotihuacán that can be seen today.
Scott: Why are these undersea ruins important?
Well Scott, if undersea ruins have been found under the ocean off the coast of Cuba, as well as in other places around the world, then they form a powerful confirmation that the ancient legends about cataclysmic disasters followed by the destruction of entire civilizations are true.
And if such things have happened in the past, then they can certainly happen in the future. And as my book points out, this is exactly what all the ancient prophecies say. They say that ours is the civilization that is about to be destroyed, and that most of the places where people now live are about to sink below the sea.
And if this is true, then it is we who are the real inhabitants of Tolemac, for it is our civilization that is in peril, and we are all at risk in the destruction that is coming. In my next Podcast I will be talking about the nature and purpose of prophecy.
And just a reminder for those people who would like to read my book, it can be reached here
Scott: Thanks Allan. You have been listening to Allan Colston, author of the book “The Last Days of Tolemac”. Do join us for our next Podcast, which will be titled “The Purpose of Prophecy”.
