Legend of the Underground People?
 Hopi legends were said
to describe a race of "Lizard" people who, 5,000 years ago,
built three great underground cities near the Pacific Coast, including
one beneath Los Angeles. In 1934, mining engineer W. Warren Shufeld
took up the cause of researching these legends and locating the
cities. Shufeld reported that the city beneath Los Angeles was laid
out in the shape of a lizard that extened from Dodger Stadium to the
downtown Central Library. It was built used chemicals to tunnel
through rock. The civilization came to an end due to meteors or fire.
Using a device Shufeld called a "radio
X-ray," he claimed to have located tunnels and a treasure
room beneath Fort Moore Hill in downtown Los Angeles. After acquiring
funds to do some excavating, Shufeld obtained permission from the
authorities to drill a 350-foot shaft. The work was interrupted by
cave-in concerns and, shortly thereafter, Shufelt
disappeared from public view. Just prior to the drilling, Pico Rivera
resident and psychic Edith Elden Robinson reported a vision of "a
vast city...in mammoth tunnels extending to the seashore."
Source: Mysterious California by Mike
Marinacci; Panpipes Press
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Probes revealed a
ceiling with a white eagle at the centre.

A camera probe sent
into the cave revealed a ceiling covered in shells,

mosaics and coloured
marble and with a white eagle at the centre.
 

Italian archaeologists say they have
found the long-lost underground grotto where ancient Romans believed
a female wolf suckled the city's twin founders.
The cave believed to be the Lupercal was found near the ruins of
Emperor Augustus' palace on the Palatine hill.

The 8m (26ft) high cave decorated with shells, mosaics and marble
was found during restoration work on the palace. According to
mythology Romulus and Remus were nursed by a she-wolf after being
left on the River Tiber's banks. The twin sons of the god Mars and
priestess Rhea Silvia are said to have later founded Rome on the
Palatine in 753 BC.

"This could reasonably be the place
bearing witness to the myth of Rome - the legendary cave where
the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus".
Francesco Rutelli
Italian Culture Minister

The brothers ended up fighting over who
should be in charge of the city, a power struggle which ended only
after Romulus killed his brother. In Roman times a popular festival
called the Lupercalia was held annually on 15 February.
Young nobles called Luperci, taking their name from the place of the
wolf (lupa), ran from the Lupercal around the bounds of the Palatine
in what is believed to have been a purification ritual

Archaeologists therefore used endoscopes
and laser scanners to study it, ascertaining that the circular
structure was 8m (26ft) high and 7.5m (24ft) in diameter.

A camera probe later sent into the cave revealed a ceiling covered
in shells, mosaics and colored marble, with a white eagle at the
centre.

"You can imagine our amazement - we
almost screamed," said Professor Giorgio Croci, the head
of the archaeological team working on the restoration of the
Palatine, told reporters.

"It is clear that Augustus... wanted his residence to be built
in a place which was sacred for the city of Rome," he added.

The Palatine hill is covered in palaces
and other ancient monuments, from the 8th Century BC remains of
Rome's first buildings to a mediaeval fortress and Renaissance
villas. After being closed for decades due to risk of collapse,
parts of the hill will re-open to the public in February after a
12m-euro ($17.7m) restoration program.

That didn't stop the site from becoming a sacred place to ancient
Romans.

Every year on February 15 ancient priests killed a dog and two goats
and smeared the foreheads of two boys from noble families with the
sacrificial blood as part of the Lupercalia celebration. (Related:
"'Rome'
TV Wardrobe Not Built in a Day" - August 26, 2005)

Perm: beauty and mythology of Kungur ice caves

There is also a number of underground lakes within the caves. These,
too, have legends attached to them. The water dripping into one lake,
legend has it, is the tears of a beautiful young woman tricked into
marrying a cave spirit, so the lake is known as the Lake of Tears.
The
Kungur ice caves are full of myth and legend, as well as being a
perfect example of the beauty that nature can create. But they are not
the only place unique to Perm for tourists to visit.
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