“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Give us a moment. We have you in Africa. First of all, in 4 BC, as a woman. Now it is not generally known that there was a civilization at that time, rather well developed, in the southwestern corner of the continent. I will attempt to get at the name—Mabunda—Mabunda. You were black and a craftsman, for there were crafts. You were what is called a “chief hunter.” And on the land, which you then inherited, there were artifacts from a still earlier civilization. And in your hunting expeditions you sometimes came upon these. And in one of your excursions you came upon the image of a small god, long since forgotten by that civilization, and the god was called “Marumba.” It was a small black image—something like the stereotyped Buddha image—but with several differences. The object was of ivory. The civilization, even then long forgotten, had lost all of the knowledge that that earlier civilization possessed. The eyes of the image were like dowels. And from the pupils, lines came outward so that the pupils appeared to be like a half-seen sun or moon, and the lines like rays.

Now these eyes were actually means of telling not only the time but also the circumference of the earth. The idol used to be placed in the center of a circle, and carefully watched. The rays in the eyes were uplifted. Sticks were placed on the ground in those approximate locations as extensions of the rays in the eyes. And as the shadows fell past these sticks, the time of the day was deduced. Eyelashes were clearly shown on the face of the idol, and small sticks were placed outward as extensions of these eyelashes.