Baffling Mysteries of Ancient Sri Lanka in a Book of Miraculous Origin:
“Alien Mysteries in Sri Lanka and Egypt, the 4th Edition” was launched recently. It is authored and published by Mihindukulasuriya Susantha Fernando, the veteran author/publisher, journalist, historian and researcher. It is a very rare book born of an amazing miracle of Ruvanweli Mahaseya, Anuradhapura.
The author was mysteriously inspired in 1996 to crack a 2000 year old Orion mystery shrouding three stupa at Anuradhapura, namely, Ruvanweli, Mirisavati and Jetavana. The mysterious chain of events started, when work began in 1938 on a new pinnacle for the sacred Ruvanweli Mahastupa.
The massive pinnacle was initially made of brass. But it was gold-plated due to the generous patronage of Susantha’s father, the late M.R.E. Fernando of Chilaw. He was a Catholic by birth, whose philanthropy supported several Buddhist and Catholic causes. He even built a Catholic church at Hettipola and conducted the annual feat there.
Exactly one year after the pinnacle unveiling ceremony at Anuradhapura in 1940, Susantha the discoverer was born. Two years later his father passed away. at Chilaw. 56 years later in 1996 Susantha got a sudden inspiration to reveal the Orion mystery of the very same stupa, which his father helped restoring. “
The gilded pinnacle of Ruwanweli stupa was ceremonially unveiled at the summit of the Mahastupa on the Poya Day of January 17, 1940. The august ceremony, known as ‘Swarnamali Abhshekaya’, took place at Anuradhapura with all the glitter and glory of an ancient coronation, which was made colourful with the traditional customs and rituals.
It was attended by a massive concourse of Buddhist devotees and dignitaries led by Rt. Hon. D.S. Senanayake, the Prime Minister and Sir Baron Jayathilake, the Minister of Home Affairs. The late Mr. M.R.E. Fernando was among those invited to the ceremony by the Ruvanweli
Mahasaya Restoration Committee headed by Sir Baron Jayathilake. The book describes the historic event with many photos.
“Alien Mysteries in Sri Lanka & Egypt, the 4th Edition” focuses new light upon the author’s ground-breaking discovery of the mysterious correlations between the ground layout of the three main stupa at Anuradhapura (Mirisavati, Ruvanweli and Jetavana) and the celestial layout of three stars in the Constellation of Orion (namely, Rigel, Mintaka and Bellatrix). Such heaven-ground duplicity or mirror
image of heaven is similar to the Orion phenomenon in the three Great Pyramids of Egypt, namely, the pyramids of Cheeps, Chephren and Myscernius.
Fernando’s discovery has gained commendable credibility by the recent findings of two British scholars, who describe in their “Heaven’s Mirror”, published in London in1998 (after Susantha’s book was first published in 1997) that they too had found Orion phenomenon in the ancient monument of Cambodia, Peru, Mexico, Egypt, based upon the different cults prevalent in those lands at the time the monuments were built.
Susantha conjectures that the Orion mystery discovered by him in the Anuradhapura stupa is nothing but a work of gods (mentioned often in our chronicles) to bring the eternal message of the Dhamma.
The three stupa align themselves with three of the seven stars of Orion, in representing two Buddhist symbols: numbers three and seven. THREE signifies symbolically the Triple Gem, while SEVEN represents the seven steps taken by the Buddha in his infancy.
There are many archaeological, epigraphical and Buddhist mythological references to the numbers THREE and SEVEN. It is an elaborate, thought-provoking subject explained in the book.
“Alien Mysteries in Sri Lanka & Egypt” provides mystery, excitement, wonder and historical insight into the most colorful and curious aspects of two mystic peoples of Sri Lanka and Egypt.
The present publication is an updated, lavishly illustrated version of the 1st Edition published in 1997. The 568 pages of the new book offer enhanced reading pleasure to the reader, because of the well-researched text and over 600 b/w and colour photos, maps and line drawings. There are stunning aerial color photos of the Anuradhapura stupa.
