UBAR

Can there be two Atlantis’s? Well, there was probably about ten Alexandria’s at one time, but there is only one Ubar. Ubar is the Atlantis of the sands. Ubar has been in the Koran, the Bible, and in legends and even a movie! The mythical portion of this legend, taken from a translated Koran, is there was a great trading city, an incense trading city, in the most fearful of the deserts. These fortunate people fiddled in the dark arts, and ignored the warning of the almighty god. He soon destroyed them (in a VERY similar way in the bible, when the Christian God destroyed the dirty city, and the one lady turned back and tuned into salt; only these people were turned into stone) and their spirits encased themselves into creatures of the blackest arts. That is a fairy tale, and yes, it has been stuffed up to teach people a lesson, but this city has been a lost myth…until recently. There are two ways to look at Ubar, the pagan way with the fearful desert, or the archeologist way, of a sad, sad tragedy.

The Rub Al’Khali is dangerous by all means. The nomads, somewhere, somehow, must have made a pact with the subversive spirits to live such a non-crazed life. By all means, living in the Rub Al’Khali is absolutely outrageous. For those of you who believe in Azazel, this is the desert where he has been asleep. The most powerful of demons (if you don’t believe in Azazel) Pzuzu, makes his home here. Geology, speaking, sink holes randomly pop up and suck in a poor fellow every now and than (there is NO way to predict these monstrosities, and they can suck up a lost city or probably even a freight liner). Ubar has been lost, mostly, to the sands. We really do not know what happened. From a pagan perspective, no natural human could thrive in the Rub Al’Khali, even with the highest wall built up. So, to say, perhaps these were far advanced people in magic, or a sub-species of human, or another Atlantis. We cannot deny it was a trading city, there are old trade routes picked up by satellite, a incense quarry was close by at one time, and everywhere the myth was being told to children, the word “trade” was in play. But you do have to remember, this is the most sacred, and the most deadliest of places on this planet, realm, and dimension; rumored to be in other dwellings as well. So, it is very possible, Ubar can be anything and everything your imagination makes up. Perhaps it was never lost.

There is also a more organized way to look at this. No archeologist can correctly identify the time period of this city. It was already lost by the time the Koran and the Bible was written, so that can give you a little bit of an idea. Archeologists have only dreamed of Ubar as they have dreamed of Atlantis. Than somewhere between 1980-1993, a filmmaker and a rich enthusiast paid NASA to use their satellites over the Rub Al’Khali. By chance, they found old caravan, or trade, routes. NASA made a map for them, they borrow some extreme weather survivalists, and they set out. Now, this is a very stupid idea, if you ever plan to dig into an extreme desert, you need to plan well ahead for all disasters, the sand (especially sand made out of tiny particles of rock) can ruin an archeological dig and there needs to be some kind of cover. Now, they had actual NO proof this was in fact Ubar, looking at this in an archeologists eyes, so what? There can be a dozen trade spots across the desert, but everyone else swallowed it down quickly as Ubar. Unfortunately, all the found was a few silverware, some broken pottery, little stuff that is often overlooked. There have been rumors of the British Museum unleashing a new excavation, but this is highly unlikely due to political warfare. All American archeologists’ Vista’s for the Middle East are denied by the government since year two of Bush’s reign, and some of the BU’s top archeologists are located here.

 

The destruction of Ubar is also viewed many ways. Geologists claim a random sink hole, archeologists an earthquake (where they have evidence I have yet to find) and fanatics say the “Hand of God”. Of course, if you are a pagan, the answer is simply: the Rub Al’Khali. The destruction of anything needs no name in such a place.

 

That is basically a simple diagnostic of the myth and legend of Ubar. It is still myth and legend, even though archeologists are so sure they have it all figured it out. I am sorry, but there is no reliable information I can send you to if you want to learn more. You will have to dig into books and decide which is the truest.

 

One hint for you, is Arabians will not enter a section of the Rub Al’Khali, they fear the spirits of Ubar.

Sources

http://www.datadubai.com/rubart3.htm

A website filled with Rub Al’Khali information (not all of it reliable or updated)

Koran

Just…that.

High Priestess Sarah R. Goettge