The Vanara

"The edibles, tubers, and fruits are all so pure... golden are the aircrafts... mansions silver... ventilators golden and encased in jeweled laces... the trees are all golden, resplendent like the young sun... where are we?"

—Hanuman, in the Black Cave, Ramayana, Book 4, Ch. 51

Ancient India has had a culture that is distinctly different from the rest of the world, which is a characteristic signature of a Transplant Race. Being a highly peaceful and advanced group from the Pleiads, this race hopped on to Earth nearly 55,000 years ago, to learn some lessons of individuality, something that had been sorely missing in their home planet. However, they were not alone, and had some indigenous company, the Vanaras.

The Vanaras, literally means "residents of the forests". The Vanara race of Ancient India formed the Elder Race in that part of the world. They were a versatile bunch, being of Great Ape descent, with a good number of them still possessing tails and having great physical resilience. Occupying the underground network of caves, their capital was Kishkindha, a gigantic city completely hidden inside a mountain.

The Vanaras were well versed in the arts and sciences of the day, and were keen observers, with an almost photographic memory. Some of them, like Hanuman, knew the siddhi-s pretty well, and could metamorph and change size quite efficiently. Being very well connected with the Earth, the Vanaras had a level of cooperation with nature which was unsurpassed by their contemporaries. All was well for thousands of years, before the arrival of those mighty conquerors: the Atlantean Race.

The Ramayana

An account of one of the major wars between India and Atlantis is laid down in astonishing detail in the epic of Valmiki—the Ramayana (The Story of Rama) The Atlantean Land is referred to as Lanka, which lay about 800 miles off the coast of India at the time. The Vanaras promised their help to Prince Rama, whose wife Seeta was abducted, and got involved in searching for her and also waging a war with the Atlanteans, also known as the Asuras. The Asuras were headed by a powerful metamorph, Ravana.

It was during the search for Seeta that the Vanaras, headed by Hanuman, found a Starway in central India. Built by another scion of the Elder architects—Maya—this was situated in a great underground City of the Black Cave which could be entered through a point in the Vindhya Range, and led the Vaanaras from central India to the southern tip of the continent. Having access only to the Elders, it was possible for Hanuman and his counterparts to enter it easily.

The war was fought by the Vanaras with the cooperation of rocks and trees, utilizing their Earth connection. This was the last incarnation of the Treta Yuga taken up by many of them, and they can be seen in the Social Memory Complex to this day.