--The "step-wells" of India--

    Here is something i posted to my instagram, and facebook, a while ago...i am posting it here for everyone's inspection at this time...here goes--


John Kruschke

January 18 via Instagram--

   I figured out something i believe India knows, yet does not want anymore...the "step-wells"...do they know that the steps generate the water at the bottom though?? I am certain they must know...but do we know?? So, i am mentioning it...the fact that the steps of the wells generate "condensation", from the shaded area of the steps, creating a "temperature-differential", that makes "condensation" collect, due to the water vapor "dropping out" of the air...and running down the steps, to collect at the bottom, is the way i believe the "step-wells" provide fresh water( it's a "distilled water generator")...some are so large, i can't believe it...the amount of distilled water we are talking about is vast...allowing water to be available in large amounts, in a place that did not drill wells, or have lakes( i feel that the "water table" is likely very, very, far underground...deeper than the bottom of any "step-wells" found in India, in fact)...


The question--

  So, could they have forgotten that there was no water at the bottom of a "step-well" the first day it's built, before the steps could fill it, from the collection of the next mornings dew, having run down the steps to the bottom?? I am starting to suspect they have...So, i am presenting the concept here, and my "nay-sayers" may attempt to prove me wrong...I believe they will discover i am correct in the process though...In my opinion, the steps make the water, from "condensation"...the same way the "channels" cut into the cliffs, in the city of Petra work, from managing a "temperature-differential", to gain "condensate"...with vast surface area, to make a little thing per-foot, amount to a lake of water at the bottom, after all the steps contribute to the pool...I wonder if they know...??


Was it "aliens"??--

   A tv show i was watching was saying it was "aliens", that made a special temple somewhere in India, it had steps on the outside, with a room below them...basically, an open area, below the steps of the temple... a cool area...I suggest that these steps were curved, on purpose ( and not "sunken" from an earthquake, coincidentally), to direct the morning "dew" collected each day, on the steps, to a small water bin...located a distance in front of the steps...I suggest, that the upward curve of the steps, at each end, induce a downward flow of "condensation", to the center of the steps, and i feel this directs the flow of "condensation", to the pool, located in front of the steps...Meaning, the pool fills each day, from the mornings "condensation" formed, on the steps...indicating that the purpose of the entire structure, is the generation of "distilled water", for survival, in an area that does not drill wells...I am reading that most of them are currently being used for garbage, to be dumped in...a practice that might possibly prove to be an unwise idea...Since the "step-wells" require none of the issues of the depth to drill a well, to be overcome, to reach the "water table"...Also, this might indicate that the people of India may have ties to the lost city of Petra??


Navitian city of Petra/"step-well" correlations--

   I have found an image of a small simple carving, of a Roman/Egyptian arch( like the "Parthonon"), with steps like those found in the "step-wells" of India, on top...Indicating, that the Navitians of Petra were utilizing the "step-well" system, long before India...In addition to this, i am seeing the same "Roman arches", stacked on top of each other, for bathing...due to my contention that these structures are also "distilled water generators", for bathing...A women could stand between the arch, on either side, and bathe, with the completely clean "distilled water", that runs off the bottom of the ceiling, at a certain time of the day, each day, due to the "temperature-differential", between the shade under the ceiling of the arch, and the hot air of the desert, surrounding it (if you look closely, the arches have a "water-channel" cut into their ceilings, to concentrate the flow of the "condensate", into a "bathing stream")...I believe this concept displays the images we see in Petra, and India, carved as statues, or other artwork, showing a happy women, standing under the archway...Depicting the act of "taking a shower"...and possibly explaining why we see carvings, and artwork, that glorifies the elephant, in India...They bathe by spraying water onto themselves, with their trunks...Indicating that the cleaning techniques of this creature may be the origins of the idea that sparked the development of the archways, to bathe with, in ancient times...

A note (about Maya)--

   I submit for the inspection of science, the notion that every set of large stairs, in all of the cultures they are found, are actually, partly, about the generation of water, from condensate...I contend that a pitcher will be found in the Mayan culture, and others, that has a strange "flat" lip, to pour from...and if this object is indeed found to exist, i believe it was used via placing the "flat" lip of the pitcher, up against one of the steps...so that water could run into it, and be taken away, when full, to be used for daily life, to survive...probably a row of pitchers, every so many steps, so that there was a large enough volume of "condensate" running down the steps, to fill the pitchers all the way.??..time will tell the tale if i am correct...or mistaken...??

Summary( "Step-wells" continued...)--


  Perhaps filling them with garbage is not wise...so they remain if there is a drought?? No rain is required for fresh water with a "step-well" system...i am hazarding a guess this is the primary reason for there being no wells drilled in ancient times...they pulled it out of the air, the same as the lost city of Petra did...with the same basic principal, being utilized on a massive scale, to provide civilization...where no water was present...if India is unaware that the steps were creating the water, i hope they choose to restore, and preserve them, all...each one was built to allow the area it was constructed in, to have more people/greater numbers...For this reason, i feel that preserving the "step-wells" could be wise...if the modern "water table" fails, from lack of rain...the old way will remain, of generating "distilled water", from "condensate", to stop a massive loss of life, from drought...

--I feel that this B.S., is good B.S., of use to start a conversation with someone thirsty, and nothing more--


Best wishes, John Kruschke--


--looks like i have to retype the whole thing, since there are some changes to the blogs posting program, it comes out a bit weird from moving it from facebook to my blog...i will fix it tomorrow...

--The lost city of Petra--

  Here is a discovery i made a few weeks ago, i am working on my book, so i have not posted it until today, i will edit it more tomorrow--

The skinny--


    John Kruschke
January 13 via Instagram

   I made an important discovery, about the Navatian people, and the lost city of "Petra"...also known as "the city of the canyon of the crescent moon", in the "Raiders of the lost ark" movie...I suggest, that the channels cut into the base of the rock, in the winding sliver of rock, where the city's most famous "monolith" is located...were not only to move water...no, they were where all of the water was coming from, in the first place...In modern society, we call it a "gutter-buddy"...meaning, the circular trench, carved into the base of the rock walls, where the air is cooler naturally, creates an area of shade, at the top of the circular "channel" cut into the stone wall, at the base, and this shade makes the "roof" area of the "channel" cooler...generating a good "temperature-differential", between the shaded "roof" of the "channel", and the air immediately outside the "channel"...that is not in the shade...and so, there is "condensate" generated, on the "roof" of the "channel", cut into the rock wall...which runs down the side of the curve of the "channel", cut into the rock, to the bottom of the "channel" (picture a letter "C", to get the idea...meaning...we have a "distilled water generator", that is a long trench, that goes to a large holding tank...the point is, the little "channels" cut into the base of the cliffs, generates the water, i suggest all of the other trenches, move the water around, for agriculture, bathing, or other domestic purposes...the key is understanding "condensation", and the fact that the "thermal-differences" in temperatures, is what creates it...once you understand the way it's naturally formed, a distilled water generator is easy to spot...

best wishes, John Kruschke--

   Below is a second post, from my facebook page, about the concept...


John Kruschke
January 13 via instagram

   Here is a diagram of the "water generator", as i feel it works, at the Navatian city of "Petra"...I believe that the covers are not to generate high pressure, but are instead, to prevent dehydration of the "condensate", that the water generator produces, pooled at the base of the "channel", cut into the cliff wall...As well as keeping dirt/dust from filling the "channel" at the bottom, hindering water flow, and allowing it to be evaporated, by heat from the sun...And this would also explain, all of the pottery found there, to move water around...I suggest, that if they sweep the entire "channel" clear, and make new covers for the base of the "channel", that the water generator will begin to provide water again...and this indicates to me, that the discovery thousands of years ago, in regards to this "distilled water generator", is the true reason that this site was chosen for a massive civilization to be erected...it has the purest water in the whole desert...from out of nowhere...could it be, this civilization was lost due to the understanding of how "condensation" works, being lost??...I feel that the covers broke, one at a time...and eventually, enough broke that the water ceased to flow from it...in fact, the system is likely so trouble-free, that i am beginning to suspect that no one knew how to make new covers, or why they even needed them, for the water generator to function, by the time the system ceased to function, from broken covers, and "channels" filled with dirt, in too many places, along the entire generator's length...Low tech is cool, it lasts a long time...if it's a secret, there is a danger of loosing the knowledge, entirely, if the system can go 800 years without any service...

Note (the proof in the pudding)--

  I believe the serrated edges on the side of the covers, of the "channels" cut into the base of the cliffs at the site, are the proof of my contentions here, about the "channels" being the source of all the water at Petra...due to the need for water to easily enter the troughs, at the bottom of the "channels", while the covers still are keeping sunlight/heat out, to prevent the collected "condensate" from evaporating...it fits...just right...In hindsight, i have to pause, and wonder, how they kept disease ridden rats/mice, or other small creatures, from dying while living in the area under the covers??

  best wishes, John Kruschke--

P.S. : i will work on this more tomorrow...i have to go to work, washing dishes...so, hi to everybody in the anthropology sector of the work-place...hope this is of use to somebody in the profession...