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Dalamatia, city of the Planetary Prince

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Dalamatia, city of the Planetary Prince
Dalamatia, the walled brick city of Caligastia's staff in the Persian Gulf region, half a million years ago (66:3).

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66:0.266:3.166:3.266:3.366:3.466:3.566:3.666:3.766:4.1166:5.266:5.566:5.666:5.867:5.473:6.578:7.7

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  • About 500,000 years ago, headquarters in Mesopotamia, about the center of world population (66:0.2)
  • Situated in the Persian Gulf region, in the district of later Mesopotamia; climate and landscape very favorable (66:3.1-3.2)
  • A very simple but beautiful city enclosed within a wall forty feet high (66:3.3)
  • Laid out in ten subdivisions with the council headquarters at their centers; centermost the temple of the unseen Father, with the Prince's administration in twelve chambers grouped immediately about it (66:3.4)
  • All buildings one story except the council headquarters (two stories) and the central temple, small but three stories (66:3.5)
  • Built of brick; very little stone or wood (66:3.6)
  • All colors and strata of human beings lived near by (66:3.7); outside the walls people lived in tree dwellings, stone huts and kept night fires against beasts (66:5.8)
  • Cattle bred for milk, oxen used for burden; the dog long domesticated; the blue man had tamed the elephant; the wheel newly taught; the horse NOT yet domesticated (66:5.5)
  • Carrier pigeons first used; great fandors trained as passenger birds (66:5.6); skins and later weaving for clothing (66:5.2)
  • The tree of life grew in the central, circular courtyard of the Father's temple (73:6.5)
  • The midway creatures were invisible to humans (66:4.11)
  • Later swept by a tidal wave and sunk beneath the sea; vestiges lie under the Persian Gulf (67:5.4, 78:7.7)

Interpreted

  • City placed on a low coastal plain near the sea, since it was later overwhelmed by a tidal wave and lies under the Gulf
  • Surrounding tribes shown with subtly varied skin tones (the Sangik colored races), in skins and simple woven cloth
  • Brick architecture plain and well proportioned, not Babylonian ziggurats (500,000 years predates all known cities)

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  • Exact plan geometry, colours of brick and plaster, the vegetation, the appearance of fandors, the staff's dress

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