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INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR:
Duane K. McCullough 3/2026

by Duane McCullough


This 70th interview was written by the author in response to possible questions regarding the book: SPIRIT OF ATLANTIS / The Treasure Adventure. Although there are three fictional reporters asking questions about the many views presented in the book, the questions asked are meant to inspire the public into discovering the truth and reality about Atlantis. The public is welcome to republish this "press conference" -- however, any republication of this interview should include this web site address or a HTML link to the www.spiritofatlantis.com web site.


Dateline: 3/2026 / Place: Rosman, North Carolina

Duane: Happy upcoming Easter and Passover everyone -- I hope everybody is doing well.

As usual, I would like to say a few things before any questions are asked.

The following stories are based on my understanding of why the Christian Holiday of Easter and the Hebrew holidays of Passover are linked to the same ancient time-keeping ceremony event that was once used by our ancestors as a way to mark annual time on a solar calendar.

However, before I link the two holiday event stories together, let me first state the conventional view of these holidays as told by an online Internet search of the subjects.

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Easter is the principal Christian festival celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his crucifixion.

Passover is a seven or eight-day Jewish holiday event that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' liberation from slavery in Egypt. It is marked by a symbolic meal that retells the Exodus story.

Key Aspects of Passover: The Story (Exodus): According to the Bible, God commanded Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery. After Pharaoh refused, God brought ten plagues upon Egypt, the last being the death of the firstborn. The Israelites marked their doors with blood so that the plague would "pass over" their homes, giving the holiday its name.
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Now -- having stated the conventional views regarding the origins of these two important holiday events, let me begin telling a set of stories -- or some may say theories, as to how these events are actually based on a lost timeline ceremonial event formula that has been "overwritten" by religious scholars many centuries ago.

Because both holidays follow the Spring Equinox, the idea of honoring a timely ceremonial event that once used a solar calendar timekeeping formula is what really links these holidays together.

For example, the following answer is from an Internet search question of "When does Easter takes place every year?"
>>>Easter Sunday is determined as the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs on or after the Spring Equinox. <<<

Since Passover also corresponds to the first full moon following the Spring Equinox, these two ceremonial events are related to a solar calendar timekeeping formula once used by our ancient ancestors long ago.

So -- with the knowledge that both holiday ceremonial events are based on an annual count of timekeeping, we can now mathematically explore just how our ancient ancestors counted the days and weeks -- including the seasons, of a solar/annual calendar system.

However, before we explore the timely story of Easter, the timely story of "Passover" should be explained first.

The following excerpt is from one of my online essay pages entitled "Our Times" within the ATLANTEAN COMMUNICATIONS links page that explains the details as to how our ancient ancestors used "Leap Days" to keep accurate annual time over the years long ago:

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Another contributing factor as to the reason annual dates of biblical history were inflated by theologians nearly five-hundred years ago can be found in understanding the true annual value of a time period used to measure ancient history called a Jubilee.
(Counting the Jubilees to measure historical time by historians was easier than counting the complex days and months when measuring long periods of human history -- however, assigning the wrong annual value to the different types of Jubilees caused problems in properly measuring human history.)
[UPDATE: New calendrical research reveals that the original Biblical Jubilee was based on five types of time alignment ceremony events to balance out the annual calendar. The first type of Jubilee was a "pass-over" extra 7-day weekly event every 7-years. The second was a "pass-over" extra one-day event every year -- or "year day" event. The third was a "pass-over" extra one-day event every 4-years -- or "leap day" event. The fourth -- and this is when the Jubilee count event really gets interesting, was a "pass-over" extra one-day event every alternate 4th and 5th year -- with a super "pass-over" extra one-day event every 50-years to account for the True Tropical Solar Year count of 365.2422 days per year.]

It seems that the Hebrews of ancient Phoenicia once employed a calendrical "leap" week formula in which every 364 weeks -- or seven years, an extra week was added to account for a solar calendar based on 365 days a year. This became known as a "Jubilee" event in early time alignment ceremonies -- which was celebrated with the blowing of the ram's horn or the "bell ringing" event -- as in ringing "the bell" -- or "je bel".

However, at some point it was learned that a total count of just 365 days every year would "fall behind" the true seasonal count of annual time -- and extra "leap days" were needed in the calendar to keep up with the timely arrival of the "God" star Sirus every year.

But adding extra days every year to a 7-day weekly calendar count became problematic for some timekeepers because the extra day was not a "week-day" -- and placing an extra day within an annual calendar based on a weekly count created timely issues in counting historical time between places where time was kept.

Notwithstanding the idea of adding extra days onto a weekly system of counting annual time problem, timekeepers invented a way to disregard the 7-year pass-over "week" event and created a new calender count formula with an annual "pass-over" day after 364 days -- or 52-weeks, when an extra day was added to the calendar -- together with an extra leap day every 4-years that equaled 365.25 days a year. But this created a small time problem over the years where the extra leap day every 4-years added too much time to the calendar.

Therefore -- as it turned out, by adding a leap day every alternate 4th and 5th year -- together with adding an extra leap day exactly every 50-years, the value of the True Tropical Solar Year of 365.2422 days was met for true timekeeping.

The novel idea of adding leap days every alternate 4th and 5th year -- together with an extra leap day exactly every 50-years, can be found in Plato's writings when he describes that the Atlanteans would meet every alternate 4th and 5th year -- together with the knowledge that "time monuments" in the New World were "ceremonially enlarged" every 50-years.

Now, when Biblical transscribers were counting Biblical records some five centuries ago in an attempt to "map out the past", they apparently confused a 7-year Jubilee count with the much longer time period Jubilee count of 50 years, and mistakenly inflated the true time values of ancient history.

For example, if there was a total Jubilee count between Christ and the discovery of the New World that equaled about 30 Jubilees -- based on 50-years between Jubilees, then about 1500 years would have existed -- which apparently was believed by scholars some five centuries ago.

However, if the 30 Jubulee count is based on a 7-year period of time between events -- and not a 50-year period of time between events, then only about 210 years would have existed between Christ and the discovery of the New World.
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At this point in today's story, I would like to take a small break to explain that the essay entitled "Our Times" tries to describe the details of why the conventional BC/AD timeline of human history is incorrect for many complicated reasons. However, the following excerpt from the same essay returns to the story of how our ancient ancestors once used "Leap-Day" events -- or "Pass-over" events, for timekeeping reasons:

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THE GRECO-ROMAN ERA

The annual history of the Greeks and Romans have been calibrated to the time unit known as the Olympiad. While historical scholars were "packaging" their interpretation of Old World Governmental History from limited calendrical data nearly five centuries ago, they confused the annual value of a 4-year "leap" day time period from the Julian Calendar, once used by the Romans, with the original time value of the Olympiad.

New research has revealed the original Olympiad, and the governmental rulers of the Greco-Roman Era, belong to an annual time count of the four-seasons.

In other words, the 292 documented Olympiads between the first Olympiad near Mt. Olympus and the last Olympiad (392 A.D.) should not be multiplied by four to achieve a total span of over a thousand years, but instead should be counted as 292 years that contains four seasons each year.

The revival of the Olympiad nearly a hundred years ago as a 4-year event was a nice idea -- however, like the historians of the Renaissance, the group responsible also misunderstood the original annual value of the true Olympiad.

The original purpose of the Olympiad was to mark an annual agricultural calendar of the four-seasons with a one-day festival and athletic event. How historians ever interpreted it as a five-day event every four-years is a short story in itself.

It seems the original Olympiad, like the Patriarchal "pass-over" day, was part of an annual "leap" day event that belonged to a seven-day weekly calendar system of counting time.

However, when the Hellenic Empire took control during the 77th Olympiad, a ten-day weekly count system instituted by the new government corrupted the original value of a one day event into a five day event. The five day Olympiad is linked to a 36 ten-day week annual calendar -- which had five days "left over" every year.

When the Romans reintroduced a seven day week counting system after the last Olympiad in 392 -- which was the same time the eastern Byzantine Empire split from the western "Holy Roman" Empire, the Julian Calendar included a "leap" day event every 4 years that was misinterpreted during the Renaissance as the annual value of the original Olympiad. This calendrical mistake created by historians about five hundred years ago has resulted in a time span four times its original true value.

When the Holy Bible was being assembled into the King James version by historians -- together with another book project from the early printing era called the NUREMBERG CHRONICLE that contained incorrect time values of human history, other historians built upon these calendrical misinterpretation of human history and, as a consequence, the dated history of the Greeks and Romans apparently lasted for over a thousand years -- at least in print.
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So, after learning that the story of how our ancient ancestors once used "Leap-Day" events -- or "Pass-over" events, for timekeeping reasons, it should now be understood the the original story regarding "Passover" may have very little to do with "The Israelites marking their doors with blood so that the last plague would "pass over" their homes" -- but was, in fact, a timekeeping story about how our ancestors marked annual time using a ceremonial event.

Moreover, while we are talking about how "extra days" were once added to ancient solar calendars, it should be remembered that even our modern Gregorian Calendar adds an "extra-day" every four years at the end of February to help keep our solar time counting calendar up to date.

To further understand how our ancient ancestors kept an annual record of ceremonial events that marked human history, we can now explore the greater story of Easter.

Again, the conventional story of Easter tells us how Jesus Christ was crucified on a Friday and rose from the dead the following Sunday -- which became an annual festival event of rememberance and Resurrection for Christian believers.

However, the greater story of Easter includes the idea that the word "Easter" may be founded on when and how Jesus became "anointed" during a "coronation" or "Baptism" event in the early Spring -- some weeks after his birth event in early Winter -- whereby, a "Star" or comet, was seen in the east and marked the event.

In other words, perhaps the story of Christ -- which means "anointed", is based not so much on Jesus' departure from Earth, but his "coronation" or "Baptism" event in the early Spring -- where, according to Biblical records, the nativity scene recorded a bright star in the east with "a tail as big as a kite" -- or so the song story goes.

To help us better understand this new version of what the event known as "Easter" is, let me give the following excerpt from another essay I wrote from my ATLANTEAN COMMUNICATIONS web page link entitled "The Christ Comet":

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jpg image of 76-year period comet in the stagittarius constellation

The 76-year period Christ Comet

by Duane McCullough

Can a periodic comet be used like a "timing light"
to measure true human history?

According to a astronomical program called "Starry Night", the above image is a celestial sight that has occurred every 76 years almost to the day for at least the last millennium. It can be seen in the early morning hours at about 6:00 AM in the southeastern sky from the upper-middle latitudes every 76 years.

Commonly known as "Halley's Comet", this 76-year period comet may have also been the same heavenly event known as the "Star of Bethlehem" because of several scientific reasons soon to be explained.

It should be known that the following information is based on a new annual time-line theory regarding the true dates of Western History. This new annual timeline theory may seem unbelievable to first time readers -- however, it can be conclusive in thought if scientifically understood properly. In order to truely appreciate this new annual theoretical time-line interpretation of Western History, first time readers of this theory should "suspend" all known conventional annual dates of human history they were taught in school regarding the time-line of human history from before the discovery of the New World by Europeans some five centuries ago. A whole new way of knowing the true annual time-line of human history is awaiting discovery for those with an open mind.

The following astronomical data table of calendrical events list the adjusted dates in recording the 76-year period comet while at the same spot in the Constellation of Sagittarius (Sagitta = an arrow).

1986 / March 29
1910 / March 28
1834 / March 25
1758 / March 23
1682 / March 20 (Seen by Halley)
1606 / March 18
1530 / March 17 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)*
1454 / March 15 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)
1378 / March 14 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)
1302 / March 12 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)**
1226 / March 10 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)
1150 / March 08 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)
1074 / March 06 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)
0998 / March 04 (Adjusted to not include 10 extra days at 1582)

* Pope Gregory mandated 10 extra days to the existing Julian Calendar because it was assumed at the time that the Julian Calendar was in error by 10 days.

** If certain influential historians and publishers of the early age of mass printing -- such as the publisher of the NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, who packaged the official timeline of Western History with dates from the birth of Adam to the discovery of the New World, were incorrect in concluding that the Middle Ages lasted a thousand years -- and were also incorrect in concluding that the Greco-Roman time-line lasted over a thousand years, then the conventional recorded dates of human history beyond about five centuries ago are very wrong and need "serious updating".

Moreover, the recent Carbon-14 testing project that dated Christ's burial cloth to only some seven centuries ago, could be significant scientific evidence that proves the date of Christ's birth and the "Star of Bethlehem" event happened in the same year when the 76-year period comet event appeared, on time, in 1302 - or only about seven-hundred plus years ago.

How a celestial event in March became associated with the birth of Christ in late December may be linked to the "festival of lights" event of the Maccabees when religious and governmental scholars "compromised" their calendrical data during the early Renaissance. Perhaps the "three wise men" who saw the "Bethlehem Star" knew that the comet was coming because of earlier astronomical records which, now lost, may have predicted the reoccurring arrival of the comet every 76 years.
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Therefore, the greater story of Easter includes a lot more new information regarding Jesus Christ and his timely arrival and departure on Earth -- which, together with a new understanding of the "Passover" story, should help update our knowledge of ancient human history and lost timekeeping calendar systems.

And one more story about the Christian holiday of Easter -- it should also be realized that Easter Sunday follows a week after Palm Sunday -- which, like the holy days of Passover, suggest the two weekly holiday events were once related to the same timely ceremonial story of marking time on a solar calendar by celebrating the spirit of freedom given to us by God from people who pretend to be gods and enslave us.

In otherwords, the spirit of Jesus Christ -- and the spirit of the followers of Moses, were ceremonially set free long ago from those who wanted to make us slaves in their material world.

And while we are studying and expanding our knowledge of ancient human history using Cometary data, let me share some bran new information regarding recent Comet activity I have discovered.

The are two comets that could give us some serious sky shows next month. The first one known as C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is suppose to graze or crash into the Sun on April 4th -- the day before Easter. If it crashes into the Sun, it could theoretically cause a large "Corona Mass Ejection" event that would change life here on Earth and take us back to the "Stone Age".

Wouldn't that be something -- just when some major world governments are bickering at each other and threatening to destroy our modern world with nasty weapons, here comes a great astronomical explosion from the Sun and shows us humans who really controls our universe.

Well, let's hope those events don't happen... Let's also hope that the bad actors who run the world will go away and the nations of our modern world overcome their differences and make life good again -- if not better.

If the C/2026 A1 (MAPS) Comet survives grazing the Sun, it could be a nice sky event for a week or so. In any case, it may humble us humans into seeing how small we are relative to our celestial neighborhood.

Now, as far as the other Comet expected to shine around the 19th of April -- C/2025 R3 (PANTARRS), this is a very interesting celestial event because, according to the orbit data, the last time this Comet visited the Earth after going out to the "Oort Cloud" and back was some seven-hundred-plus years ago. The technical data suggest that the full orbit of C/2025 R3 (PANTARRS) is somewhere between seven-hundred and seven-hundred and sixty years.

And because new historical data suggest that Jesus Christ existed only some seven-hundred-plus years ago -- what a coincidence it would be if a Comet from when Jesus Christ exsited on Earth will reappear this April.

So, because many want Jesus to return to Earth -- could this Comet embody the Spirit of Christ' return to Earth?

Could this Comet be a "catalysis" for major change in our world?

On one hand that would be fantastic story if a Comet represented the Spirit of Jesus Christ came back to Earth to heal the sick and remove evil from our world. Yet, on the other hand the science suggest that Comet C/2025 R3 (PANTARRS) is just a simple unintelligent rocky chunk of ice and dust -- just like many other comets that orbit the Sun.

Because many believe humans are essentially "energy beings" living a material life of flesh and bones -- would it be hard to believe that Comets represent "spiritual beings" from another part of the universe and that they travel around stars looking for more energy to unite with?

Who knows what will happen with these two Comets -- we can only guess what may happen in the real future -- where facts do not exist yet...


Reporter 1: Happy Easter and Passover to you too. Wow -- you have presented alot of new information to digest. Do you really believe or do you hope that these two Comets you mentioned will cause major changes in our world?

Duane: Well, I hope and believe that these Comets will cause major changes in our world -- in a good way of course. Because some of our misbehaving global governments -- who are acting arrogant and belligerent toward other nations in their mad quest to create a New World Order distopian society, need to change direction asap.

It would be nice to see a peaceful change in the geopolitical landscape of our world in a major way. If a great sky show by a Comet or two can change the minds of some war-like politicians and humble them into backing-off from their evil ways -- I welcome the idea.


Reporter 2: Happy Easter and Passover as well. Its interesting to note that your theory that Comet Halley can be used as a "timing light" to measure and confirm certain event dates within human history. Its also interesting to note that the Comet C/2025 R3 (PANTTARRS) orbit may be related to the 76-year cycle of Comet Halley -- because of its estimated seven-hundred-plus cycle orbit. Do you believe that the 76-year cycle of Comet Halley is related to the seven-hundred-plus cycle of Comet C/2025 R3 (PANTARRS) in some way?

Duane: I checked the orbits of both Comets in the online The Sky Live program -- and apparently there is no relationship between the two Comets. Halley's Comet only orbits just beyond the orbit of Jupiter in the direction of the Sagittarius Constellation and the center of the Milky Way -- whereas the orbit of C/2025 R3 (PANTARRAS) cycles way out to the "Oort Cloud" in the direction of just south of Taurus Constellation.


Reporter 3: Happy Easter and Passover in return. Based on your latest historical research, you believe that Jesus Christ was born only some seven-hundred and twenty-two years ago relative to the current year of 2026. Do you realize just how crazy that belief sounds in the minds of the average person? Have you ever met anyone who also believes in your radical timeline view of ancient human history?

Duane: Yes and No. Yes, I do realize just how crazy my new version of human history sounds to the mind of the average person -- but the crazy label doesn't bother me because it seems that nobody has ever had the time to study human history like I have with an open mind.

And No to your question regarding if I have ever met anyone who also believes in my radical timeline view of ancient human history. Perhaps one day I will find other persons that will understand and wake up like I have to the idea of just how and why human history was manipulated by the TPTB crowd long ago. Until then, I'll just keep paddling up stream...


Reporter 3: All right -- because I also believe the TPTB crowd exist and are always working to control people for nefarious reasons, let's say you are right in your radical timeline view of ancient human history -- and everybody is wrong in believing the bloated timeline still being taught in school and the conventional media venues, what have you learned lately regarding ancient human history?

Duane: I'm glad you asked me that question -- and thank you for being nice about it.

Well, let's see -- I was searching through some of my old research and found something that may place the timely existence of when Muhammad -- the warlord and prophet, may have lived long ago. So, let me post the following entry like I did earlier from one of my online essays entitled "Our Times" within the ATLANTEAN COMMUNICATIONS links page to better understand this latest discovery:

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An example of how Biblical annual unit values can be devalued into lunar unit values is found in the assumed age of the oldest Biblical patriarch known as Methuselah. If his Biblical age of 969 "years" were understood as 969 months, then his real annual age would be about 80 years.

The conventional date of the prophet Daniel may have lived only 625 months or only fifty years before Christ -- and not 625 "years" before.

And if 1250 months were added together at 29.5 days a month, Moses would have lived only about 101 years before the birth of Christ -- instead of c.1250 B.C. as believed by many Biblical scholars.
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So, what I have discovered is that, according to my timeline of Biblical history, there seems to be a situation wherein a major leader or prophet appears every fifty years -- or 625 moons, in the Hebraic records. For example, Moses, Daniel, Jesus and then, apparently Mohammad some 50 years after Jesus Christ.

What this discovery implies is that, knowing what we know regarding how the value of months were once incorrectly recorded as years long ago in ancient writings, the conventional date of Muhammad's life in c.625 A.D. can now be understood as only some fifty years after Jesus Christ -- which would place him living in c.1354@ (or 1354 A.T. -- remember Christ was born in 1304@).

Thus, the Islamic followers of Mohammad in c.1354@ (or 1354 Atlantean Time) are only about 150 years from the dated origins of the Ottoman Empire -- which existed about five centuries ago.



Moreover, as was learned earlier, there once existed a "super-leap day" every fifty years -- which suggest the idea that the followers of Abraham once used a lost leap-day or "passover" event formula from an ancient calendar that was related to the Atlantean Maritime Kingdom in the New World of what is now the American Continents.

The ramifications of this timely discovery are huge and should not be ignored -- but probably will be because its just to hard to understand by simple-minded people who have been programmed to ignore radical views of ancient human history in school.


Reporter 1: Can you give us an update on your "flying kayak" design project you have been working on for years?

Duane: OK -- the following images are a small set of views of the project -- but bear in mind, some changes are expected because, well, change happens.

I have included the same text that I posted during our last INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR to give context to these images.





My problem with the "flying kayak" project is that the design keep changing almost daily before I'm ready to present a working example. On one hand, I'm glad I found a simpler design that answers the needs of the project -- yet, on the other hand, I worry about the constant delays in building a prototype which can prove the concept.

Speaking of the "needs of the project" -- the following goals of my "flying kayak" project are as follows:

* A one design shaped watercraft vehicle that is scalable and capable of carrying an aerodynamic payload safely into the air from the surface of water or the semi-smooth surface of land -- and power-glide through the atmosphere safely at speeds greater than blowing wind speeds of about 20 mph.

* This watercraft vehicle would also be capable of folding or detaching its delta-type foil wings to accommodate a free-standing lateen-type sail rig -- which would allow said vehicle to sail efficiently up wind in moderate winds without the need of motors or deep draft boards.

* The shape of said vehicle's body could be made with connected spars and waterproof skins -- or be made from a composite mold shaped from a jig that was formed from the shape of the original spar & skin watercraft.

* All spars used in said watercraft vehicle are measured at the 61.8% mark with a frequency of 4 or 5 -- and can be made of wood, metal or composites.

* The smallest version of said watercraft vehicle is design to support one person -- and the largest version could be measured in hundreds of feet.

There are other aspects of this watercraft vehicle design that I hope to share when I'm ready to go public.

The two primary versions of this watercraft vehicle design I have created so far include a flat-bottom boxy version and a vee-bottom "speed-boat" version.

At this point of the design project, it seems that asymmetrical electric motors -- either fan-ducted or open prop, could be used to power and steer the "flying kayak" -- however, a single motor system might work together with a rudder/elevon system yet developed.

It is my hope that in this era of cheap drone designs that are used as weapons, this unique watercraft vehicle -- or "flying kayak" project, is not stolen by people who would weaponize the project for nefarious reasons.


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