The Mudflood, Queen Califia and the Gold Rush

Queen Califia, Griffins and the Gold Empire

After investigating Hidden History of Old World Maps and realizing they reveal evidence of Lost Civilizations in the Americas, I was left with some interesting loose ends to consider.

For example, could the tales of Queen Califia’s Empire of Gold published in the California Journal of Mines and Geology (Page 8) have any relation to the evidence I found of a devastating Mudflood west of the Mississippi culminating in the New Madrid earthquake of 1811-12?

Did this series of geological events destroy or engulf these legendary Golden Empires, leaving their locations known only by a select few who had obtained pre-Mudflood 16th century maps?

Map of 5 California island transformations

When consulting the official timeline for the Gold Rush, the first fact that made me suspicious was that the whole thing began when the Mormon settlers arrived in San Francisco in 1847, even before it was a state.

The sailing ship Brooklyn, carrying 246 Mormon settlers, arrives in San Francisco, which is at this time a tiny Mexican village known as Yerba Buena. Sep 1847

Well for one thing, Yerba Buena wasn’t really a village, it had a population of 1,000 by 1847.

Something else rarely disclosed is that the founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, was originally from a family of “money diggers” who claimed they could locate treasure by looking at a stone in a hat.

I kid you not.

Statement of Isaac Hale – Affirmed to and subscribed before Chas. Dimon. J. P., March 20, 1834.

“I first became acquainted with Joseph Smith, Jr., in November, 1825. He was at that time in the employ of a set of men who were called ‘money diggers,’ and his occupation was that of seeing, or pretending to see, by means of a stone placed in his hat, and his hat closed over his face. In this way he pretended to discover minerals and hidden treasure. His appearance at this time, was that of a careless young man, not very well educated, and very saucy and insolent to his father. Smith and his father, with several other money-diggers boarded at my house while they were employed in digging for a mine that they supposed had been opened and worked by the Spaniards many years since. Young Smith gave the money-diggers great encouragement at first, but, when they had arrived in digging to near the place where he had stated an immense treasure would be found, he said the enchantment was so powerful that he could not see. They then became discouraged, and soon after dispersed. This took place about the 17th of November, 1825.

So what if the Mormons had a detailed 16th century map that gave them clues to the locations of these ancient buried cities?

It would certainly account for Smith’s uncanny ability to find treasure, lead his followers to antiqui-tech structures and even unearth giant bones!

Might also explain why Salt Lake City has all those suspicious looking Old Empire structures with dubious narratives — did they know where to find some left-over Antiqui-Tech???

Although Joseph Smith was lynched in Nauvoo in 1844, the future church leaders could certainly have used the information in such a map for their benefit.

They did direct Samuel Brannan to take a batch of settlers via ship to California  in January 1847. Within a year, Brannan had set up a general store at Sutter’s Mill near modern-day Sacramento.

Just a few weeks after he opened on February 2, 1848 (Groundhog Day!), his foreman James W. Marshall discovered gold on the American River east of Sacramento.

Right by the Mother Lode

Turns out this discovery went unnoticed while the first wave of prospectors quietly collected massive amounts of gold.

Type of gold nuggets recovered at Sutton’s Mill

Get this… the  newspaper The Californian ran a story about the strike on April Fools day in 1848 — so no one took it seriously at first!

Then on May 12, 1848, Samuel Brannan makes a spectacle of himself running through the streets of San Francisco waving a quinine bottle full of gold while shouting “Gold, gold, gold from the American River!“

That did the trick — the very next day most of the male population of San Francisco abandoned their businesses and families to go stake their claim.

But first they had to stop at Brannan’s store, conveniently supplied with everything they needed for their gold prospecting at sky-high prices.

Consequently, Brannan earned more in that first six weeks than any single gold miner  ($36,000—the equivalent of $750,000 today) and became California’s first millionaire.

Even more coincidentally, that very same day the San Francisco newspaper the California Star, also owned by Brannan, distributes a six-page special edition exclusively for the East Coast describing “immensely rich” gold mines in California.

The stage is set.

However, it’s not until November 28, 1848, when winter has squelched any hope of travel, that the New York Herald becomes the first major East Coast newspaper to verify the discovery gold in California.

Their story includes the report by investigators sent out by President James Polk to confirm initial rumors about the strike in the recently acquired California territory.

1848 newspaper announces: DISCOVERY of GOLD 

The officers bring back a cupful of gold dust and he urges them to publish the account in the east coast newspapers.

Gold Rush Fever officially begins.

It is also worth noting that early gold rush photos show they were not having to dig very deep for gold, it was either just under the surface or washed into the streams.

Apparently those early gold harvesting efforts quickly paid off, because by December 5, 1848 — less that one year after the initial strike — the first ship bearing $500,000 worth of gold set sail from San Francisco bound for the United States Mint in Philadelphia.

By the time the settlers were able to cross the thawing muddy Great Plains the next spring by wagon — or take the ships around South America — most of the easy pickings were gone.

But there were still mines to be worked and streams to be panned.

So let’s return to the tale of Queen Califia and her Golden Empire in California. Her story goes that her all-female tribe had control over Griffins (who were trained to eat men).

When examining this fascinating headpiece being offered at an auction, I learned about the Arimaspos and the Griffins.

4th Century BC Headdress with the Arimaspos and the Gryphons.

Many authorities, the most distinguished being Herodotus [Greek historian C5th B.C.] and Aristeas of Proconnesus [Greek poet C7th B.C.], write that these people wage continual war with the Grypes (Griffins), a kind of wild beast with wings, as commonly reported, that digs gold out of mines, which the creatures guard and the Arimaspi try to take from them, both with remarkable covetousness.”

Legends tell how Griffins literally line their nests with gold — just like in dragon lore! They are characterized as having intelligence, loyalty and fiercely guarding valuables.

This is why we see them in front of financial institutions. 

Griffin Guarding a Bank

So, if Queen Califia’s tribe were using Griffins not only for defense but to collect gold, no wonder they had accumulated so much precious metal even their armor was reportedly made from gold!

Makes me wonder if old American empires like Queen Califia’s kingdom had defenses that repelled invaders until the mudflood/reset was unleashed, burying any surface structures and flooding her cave cities with mud?

Calvaras County Cave in California

It could also explain why the Spanish never found all that gold lying around and why Polk unleashed the Mexican/American War from 1846-1848 to insure the acquisition of the Desert Southwest from Mexico.

Only those select few with these pre-mudflood maps were able to position themselves to plunder the accumulated wealth of Queen Califia’s Kingdom.

So if the prospectors were just recovering a scattered treasury, I had to ask myself if there was a naturally occurring element that would disfigure gold ornamentation?

Native Gold from California

Sure, the answer was Mercury (Quicksilver) — which coincidentally was also reported in the above article as being mined in exactly the same area as the gold!

Famous Bear Nugget

So here are my suspicious based on this accumulation of information.

After the Mudflood devastated Queen Califia’s golden civilization, the Mormons sent a contingent off with the old maps of California to find the mother lode and set up shop.

Once they had gathered up the obvious hoard, the Controllers publicized the find, whipped up a Gold Fever frenzy and enticed a huge labor population to rush out of the East Coast cities that were plagued with race riots.

This Gold Rush strategy would also accelerate the eradication of the Mudflood survivors (Native Americans) who managed to escape the natural catastrophe and were now living rough.

By the way, Polk’s platform was Manifest Destiny — he promised to annex and colonize the West.

Imagine that…a fulfilled campaign promise!

Too bad those gold-hungry prospectors were so focused on California that they didn’t notice they were passing right by quite a few juicy hoards laying around in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada.

What you want to bet the Map Guys saved those sweet spots to plunder  while everyone’s efforts were focused on the West Coast?

So yeah, I’m pondering just how many gold strikes were actually the result of finding the remains of Old Empire Cities whose existence was kept hidden from the populace but shared with select groups willing to keep the secret to strike it rich.

Certainly the same kind of blatant destruction of Old Empire clues I uncovered when researching Those Damned Dams!

Once you contemplate those early American maps and consider the possibility they really did lead treasure hunters to lightly buried cities filled with treasure, the Gold Rush narrative begins to reek of opportunistic manipulation!

Here’s hoping we wise up to these kind of tricks from now on. Please.

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~ by weewarrior on February 4, 2019.