What is Agartha’s mythical kingdom and what went there to do Nazi Germany in 1938?

A crazy German expedition in search of a secret kingdom and evidence of a theory about 6 Ice moons from Earth have given fewer resorts than fun memories… with some Yetis in the middle.

Ernst Schäfer was born in 1910 in Germany and integrated the SS, the German security forces in the Nazi period. Throughout his career as an explorer, he visited Tibet 3 times (yes, the story has similarity to “seven years in Tibet” film, starring Brad Pitt, who plays the mountaineer Heinrich hall).

But what was it to do? According to, Schäfer would be looking for a mythical kingdom called Agartha, who for many who believed in him is located in the mountainous chain of the Himalayas.

According to Nazi scientific society Ahneenerbewhich sought the origins of the Arian race, it could originated in this secret kingdom.

But in fact the origin of this mysterious kingdom (a kind of Atlantis, the mythical island founded by Plato) remote to the nineteenth and twentieth century, where it was already mentioned by Russian and French occultists.

Years before the German search, the Russians have tinned in 1924 a search for this mysterious kingdom.

Legend has it that Agartha has been founded for hundreds of thousands of years demigod and which is composed of underground coloniesonly accessible through certain input points. It does not amazed, therefore, that when Google Maps allowed to glimpse a strange object in the antarctic environment, many have it for this mysterious kingdom.

Like any kingdom, Agartha has a capital: Shambhalawhich is also mentioned in Hindu documents as the place of birth of the last incarnation of Vishnu, Kalki. Already in Buddhist mythology, it is a metaphorical place of the struggle of good against evil: good wins, and Agartha is a place of virtue.

The explorer Ernst Schäfer wanted, therefore, to confirm his legacy, his ancestry of this prestigious kingdom. This is how it was sent by the Ahnenerbe Esoterism Department, directed by Frederick Hilscher, in search of the city of Shambhala.

But this was just one of the objectives of the expedition. There was another: proving the Welteislehre, or World Ice Theory. This theory attests that Ice was the fundamental substance in cosmic processes. It was one of Ahnenerbe’s beliefs.

The idea, proposed for the first time by Hanns Hörbiger, The solar system formed when a giant star fell into another full of water. In this theory, among other peculiarities that challenge current scientific dogmas, also involves Atlantis… The other lost kingdom.

According to Hörbiger, the gravitational attraction of the land led to the destruction of 6 Earth ice moons and was responsible for the death of the mysterious island. It was also aimed at finding evidence for this theory that the group led by Schäfer went to Tibet.

There were the Tibetan ministers, led by reting rimpoche, who took the opportunity to try to establish a Alliance armed with Germany. But Schäfer wanted to maintain the expedition in the scientific domain.

For a few months, the team explored the territory, took photographs and collected ethnographic information-not to note that Agartha didn’t even see her and evidence of the World Ice Theory were just for theories.

But in the middle the vanglorious scientists still discovered some interesting things, namely a kind of bear, the tahr two Hiraias, And yet the discovery that mythical Yeti was after all the bear of Himalayas.

Among the hundreds of data and objects collected, seeds of more than 1,000 species of cerealswho wanted to cultivate in Germany to achieve agricultural self -sufficiency, 350 skins hunted by Schäfer, and sacred Buddhist texts.

In 1945, at the end of the war, Schäfer was arrested by the allies due to his s). He was imprisoned 4 years, and when he left he published his scientific discoveries. Throughout life, it was a naturalist. The search for Agartha came out goat, but the peculiar images they captured during the expedition were forever.