More about the inner earth cultures are being revealed. Russian painter Nicolas Roerich is one of my favourite artists - On an expedition he observed - ’The concept of a subterranean realm is common throughout the world’s religions and mythologies. With regard to the present study, we can identify a powerful antecedent to the legends and rumours still extant today in the mythology of Tibet. In his 1930 book Shambhala, Roerich describes his attempts to understand the origins of underworld legends ‘to discover what memories were being cherished in the folk-memory’.’
