More on the Earth

"Signals", 60x60cm, tempura and oil on canvas.

Donut Earth, the history,

by popular request.

As early as 1808, Captain Cleve Symnes of Ohio announced: "I declare that the earth is hollow, shaped like a donut, and is habitable in the interior. It contains several solid concentric shells, placed one inside the other". He undertook to explore the interior of the Earth but was unable to raise the necessary funds.

Later, in 1870, Cyrus Reed Teed, founded a religion called 'Koveshim' based on this theory. In 1914 the idea took root in Germany where Herr Bender brought it to completion by proposing that we were already inside the Earth; in fact, we are just a small bubble inside a Universe of solid rock. A phantom Solar System is suspended in the middle of the bubble, and gets obscured every night by a cloud of bluish gas (See: de Selby, the Peoples Atlas 1921).

Hitler himself adopted the theory and sponsored a scientific expedition to a small island in the Baltic to prove it using infrared rays. Unfortunately the expedition failed. It is estimated that today, 1.7 million people (mainly in Germany and the USA) are followers of Koveshim.

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