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even to identifying typhon with the wicked dragon of the garden of eden, and this passes as serious and sober science[[vol. 1, page] 400 the secret doctrine. the egyptians hathor, another aspect of isis* and both of these goddesses are shown suckling horus. behold in the egyptian hall of the british museum, hathor worshipped by pharaoh thotmes, who stands between her and the lord of heavens. the monolith was taken from karnac; and the same goddess has the following legend inscribed on her throne "the divine mother and lady, or queen of heaven; also "the morning star" and the "light of the sea (stella matutina and lux maris. all the lunar goddesses had a dual aspect- one divine, the other infernal. all were the virgin mothers of an immaculately born son- the sun. raoul rochetti shows the m

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tchidananda ashram-yogaville, 1976. integral hatha yoga. new york: holt, rinehart& winston, 1970. weiner, sita. swami satchidananda. new york: bantam books, 1972. integratron george van tassel (1910.1978, one of the original flying saucer contactees of the 1950s, also organized the annual conventions of flying saucer believers at property he owned in the california desert. the presence of a large monolith at the place where the meetings were held gave his land its name, giant rock. correlative to his belief in flying saucers and that he was in contact with extraterrestrials, van tassel also developed a belief that he could use some of the ideas of hungarian scientist nicola tesla to create a rejuvenation machine. according to van tassel, he was given the actual design of the integratron, w

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group in the hermetic order of the golden dawn tradition, founded in britain in the 1930s by theodore howard and two technicians, david edwards and robert turner. the order believes in a system of enochian magic and trains students in ceremonial magic. in the early 1990s, robert turner was severely injured in a criminal assault, which has resulted in disruption of the order and its magazine, the monolith. the order is currently attempting a comeback, more information can be found at http/ guildnavigator.demon.co.uk/the_monolith.htm. sources: edwards, david. dare to make magic. london: regal press, 1971. the order of the cubic stone. http/ guildnavigator.demon.co.uk/the_monolith.htm. march 8, 2000. turner, robert, and david edwards. the outer court. woverhampton, uk: order of the cubic sto

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mong these carvings are to be seen the bulbul of iran, the boar of vishnu, the elk, the fox, the lamb, and a number of dancing human figures. in fact all the configurations are not only in their nature and import essentially eastern, but are actually the symbols of the various animal forms under which "the people of the east contemplated the properties of the godhead" carnac, in upper egypt, is a monolith of the same symbolic character. it is hewn from a solid block of black granite and is eighty feet high. henry o'brien, a cultured irishman, who when in london became, in his own line of investigation, one of the chief contributors to fraser's magazine while at its best, in response to a call by the royal irish academy for productions relating to the origin and use of the round towers, dec

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

es. each house was tiny, with just one room fronting directly on to the narrow street, and the architecture was solid and functional but by no means ornate. by way of contrast certain ceremonial areas were engineered to an infinitely higher graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 65 standard and incorporated giant blocks similar to those i had seen at sacsayhuaman. one smoothly polished polygonal monolith was around twelve feet long by five feet wide by five feet thick and could not have weighed less than 200 tons. how had the ancient builders managed to get it up here? machu picchu. there were dozens of others like it too, and they were all arranged in the familiar jigsaw puzzle walls of interlocking angles. on one block i was graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 66 able to count a tot

bylonian figures held unidentified objects in both their hands. if my memory served me right (and i later confirmed that it did) these objects were by no means identical to those carried by el fraile. they were, however, similar enough to be worthy of note.13 the other great idol of the kalasasaya was positioned towards the eastern end of the platform, facing the main gateway, and was an imposing monolith of grey andesite, hugely thick and standing about nine feet tall. its broad head rose straight up out of its hulking shoulders and its slab-like face stared expressionlessly into the distance. it was wearing a crown, or head-band of some kind, and its hair was braided into orderly rows of long vertical ringlets which were most clearly visible at the back. the figure was also intricately c

2 ibid. 13 jeremy black and anthony green, gods, demons and symbols of ancient mesopotamia, british museum press, 1992, pp. 46, 82-3. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 87 assyrian relief of fish-garbed figure. images of extinct species leaving the fish-garbed figures, i came at last to the gateway of the sun, located in the north-west corner of the kalasasaya. it proved to be a freestanding monolith of grey-green andesite about 12 feet wide, 10 feet high and 18 inches thick, weighing an estimated 10 tons.14 perhaps best envisaged as a sort of arc de triomphe, though on a much smaller scale, it looked in this setting like a door connecting 14 figures and measurements from the ancient civilizations of peru, p. 92. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 88 two invisible dimensions a do

scendants of the couple who were saved from the second sun, ate a fruit called tzincoacoc. this third sun was destroyed by fire. fourth sun, tzontlilic: duration 5026 years. men died of starvation after a deluge of blood and fire..9 another cultural document of the aztecs that has survived the ravages of the conquest is the sun stone of axayacatl, the sixth emperor of the royal dynasty. this huge monolith was hewn out of solid basalt in ad 1479. it weighs 24.5 tons and consists of a series of concentrically inscribed circles, each bearing intricate symbolic statements. as in the codex, these statements focus attention on the belief that the world has already passed through four epochs, or suns. the first and most remote of these is represented by ocelotonatiuh, the jaguar god: during that

the new world 2000 years ago, nor did any arrive until the slave trade began, well after the conquest. there is, however, firm palaeoanthropological evidence that one of the many different migrations into the americas during the last ice age did consist of peoples of negroid stock. this migration occurred around 15,000 bc.4 known as the cobata head after the estate on which it was found, the huge monolith in the zocalo was the largest of sixteen similar olmec sculptures so far excavated in mexico. it was thought to have been carved not long before the time of christ and weighed more than thirty tons. tres zapotes from santiago tuxtla we drove twenty-five kilometres south-west through wild and lush countryside to tres zapotes, a substantial late olmec centre believed to have flourished betw

ent s spacious inner chamber, which might have been a tomb but might equally have served some other as yet unidentified purpose. measuring 46.5 feet in length from east to west, and 16.5 in breadth from north to south, this naked and sterile apartment was topped off with an immensely strong gabled ceiling reaching a height of 22.5 feet at its apex. the gable slabs, each a massive 20-ton limestone monolith, had been laid in position at an angle of 53 7 28 (which exactly matched the angle of slope of the pyramid s sides).17 here there were no relieving chambers (as there were above the king s chamber in the great pyramid. instead, for more than 4000 13 ibid, pp. 36-9. 14 ibid, p. 74. 15 ibid, p. 42. 16 ibid. 17 the traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 123; the pyramids of egypt, p. 118. grah

f hard rock jutting at least 30 feet above the general level of the limestone ridge. from this knoll the head and neck of the sphinx had been carved, while beneath it the vast rectangle of limestone that would be shaped into the body had been isolated from the surrounding bedrock. the builders had done this by excavating an 18-foot wide, 25-foot deep trench all around it, creating a free-standing monolith. the first and lasting impression of the sphinx, and of its enclosure, is that it is very, very old not a mere handful of thousands of years, like the fourth dynasty of egyptian pharaohs, but vastly, remotely, fabulously old. this was how the ancient egyptians in all periods of their history regarded the monument, which they believed guarded the splendid place of the beginning of all time

heliopolis at 6 a. m. when it was still half dark. we drank small cups of thick black coffee at a roadside stall and then drove west, along dusty streets still almost deserted, towards the river nile. i had asked mohamed to take us through maydan al-massallah square, which was dominated by one of the world s oldest intact egyptian obelisks.1 weighing an estimated 350 tons, this was a pink granite monolith, 107 feet high, erected by pharaoh senuseret i (1971-1928 bc. it had originally been one of a pair at the gateway of the great heliopolitan temple of the sun. in the 4000 years since then the temple itself had entirely vanished, as had the second obelisk. indeed, almost all of ancient heliopolis had now been obliterated, cannibalized for its handsome dressed stones and ready-made building

gmatic slab of black basalt, because it, too, has not come down to us intact. since 1887 the largest single part has been preserved in the museum of palermo in sicily; a second piece is on display in egypt in the cairo museum; and a third much smaller fragment is in the petrie collection at the university of london.33 these are reckoned by archaeologists to have been broken out of the centre of a monolith which would originally have measured about seven feet long by two feet high (stood on its long side).34 furthermore, as one authority has observed: it is quite possible even probable that many more pieces of this invaluable monument remain, if we only knew where to look. as it is we are faced with the tantalising knowledge that a record of the name of every king of the archaic period exis

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

perhaps an acre's extent, clear of trees and tolerably dry. on this now leaped and twisted a more indescribable horde of human abnormality than any but a sime or an angarola could paint. void of clothing, this hybrid spawn were braying, bellowing, and writhing about a monstrous ring-shaped bonfire; in the centre of which, revealed by occasional rifts in the curtain of flame, stood a great granite monolith some eight feet in height; on top of which, incongruous in its diminutiveness, rested the noxious carven statuette. from a wide circle of ten scaffolds set up at regular intervals with the flame-girt monolith as a centre hung, head downward, the oddly marred bodies of the helpless squatters who had disappeared. it was inside this circle that the ring of worshippers jumped and roared, the

ere beyond description. wild blows were struck, shots were fired, and escapes were made; but in the end legrasse was able to count some forty-seven sullen prisoners, whom he forced to dress in haste and fall into line between two rows of policemen. five of the worshippers lay dead, and two severely wounded ones were carried away on improvised stretchers by their fellow-prisoners. the image on the monolith, of course, was carefully removed and carried back by legrasse. examined at headquarters after a trip of intense strain and weariness, the prisoners all proved to be men of a very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type. most were seamen, and a sprinkling of negroes and mulattoes, largely west indians or brava portuguese from the cape verde islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to

here lay great cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults and sending out at last, after cycles incalculable, the thoughts that spread fear to the dreams of the sensitive and called imperiously to the faithfull to come on a pilgrimage of liberation and restoration. all this johansen did not suspect, but god knows he soon saw enough! i suppose that only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or of any sane planet. awe at the unbe

ters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or of any sane planet. awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith, and at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs with the queer image found in the shrine on the alert, is poignantly visible in every line of the mates frightened description. without knowing what futurism is like, johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing any definite structure or building, he dwells only on

ter the first shewed convexity. something very like fright had come over all the explorers before anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen. each would have fled had he not feared the scorn of the others, and it was only half-heartedly that they searched- vainly, as it proved- for some portable souvenir to bear away. it was rodriguez the portuguese who climbed up the foot of the monolith and shouted of what he had found. the rest followed him, and looked curiously at the immense carved door with the now familiar squid-dragon bas-relief. it was, johansen said, like a great barn-door; and they all felt that it was a door because of the ornate lintel, threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap-door or slantwise like an outsid

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oon assured myself; but i was conscious of a distinct impression that its contour and position were not altogether the work of nature. a closer scrutiny filled me with sensations i cannot express; for despite its enormous magnitude, and its position in an abyss which had yawned at the bottom of the sea since the world was young, i perceived beyond a doubt that the strange object was a well-shaped monolith whose massive bulk had known the workmanship and perhaps the worship of living and thinking creatures. dazed and frightened, yet not without a certain thrill of the scientist's or archaeologist's delight, i examined my surroundings more closely. the moon, now near the zenith, shone weirdly and vividly above the towering steeps that hemmed in the chasm, and revealed the fact that a far-flu

logist's delight, i examined my surroundings more closely. the moon, now near the zenith, shone weirdly and vividly above the towering steeps that hemmed in the chasm, and revealed the fact that a far-flung body of water flowed at the bottom, winding out of sight in both directions, and almost lapping my feet as i stood on the slope. across the chasm, the wavelets washed the base of the cyclopean monolith, on whose surface i could now trace both inscriptions and crude sculptures. the writing was in a system of hieroglyphics unknown to me, and unlike anything i had ever seen in books, consisting for the most part of conventionalised aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopi, crustaceans, molluscs, whales and the like. several characters obviously represented marine things which are unkno

xpected glimpse into a past beyond the conception of the most daring anthropologist, i stood musing whilst the moon cast queer reflections on the silent channel before me. then suddenly i saw it. with only a slight churning to mark its rise to the surface, the thing slid into view above the dark waters. vast, polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. i think i went mad then. of my frantic ascent of the slope and cliff, and of my delirious journey back to the stranded boat, i remember little. i believe i sang a great deal, and laughed oddly when i was unable to sing. i have indistinct recollections of a great sto

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

f perhaps an acre's extent, clear of trees and tolerably dry. on this now leaped and twisted a more indescribable horde of human abnormality than any but a sime or an angarola could paint. void of clothing, this hybrid spawn were braying, bellowing and writhing about a monstrous ringshaped bonfire; in the centre of which, revealed by occasional rifts in the curtain of flame, stood a great granite monolith some eight feet in height; on top of which, incongruous in its diminutiveness, rested the noxious carven statuette. from a wide circle of ten scaffolds set up at regular intervals with the flame-girt monolith as a centre hung, head downward, the oddly marred bodies of the helpless squatters who had disappeared. it was inside this circle that the ring of worshippers jumped and roared, the

ere beyond description. wild blows were struck, shots were fired, and escapes were made; but in the end legrasse was able to count some forty-seven sullen prisoners, whom he forced to dress in haste and fall into line between two rows of policemen. five of the worshippers lay dead, and two severely wounded ones were carried away on improvised stretchers by their fellow-prisoners. the image on the monolith, of course, was carefully removed and carried back by legrasse. examined at headquarters after a trip of intense strain and weariness, the prisoners all proved to be men of a very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type. most were seamen, and a sprinkling of negroes and mulattos, largely west indians or brava portuguese from the cape verde islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to

there lay great cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults and sending out at last, after cycles incalculable, the thoughts that spread fear to the dreams of the sensitive and called imperiously to the faithful to come on a pilgrimage of liberation and restoration. all this johansen did not suspect, but god knows he soon saw enough! i suppose that only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or any sane planet. awe at the unbelie

waters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or any sane planet. awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith, and at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs with the queer image found in the shrine on the alert, is poignantly visible in every line of the mate's frightened description. without knowing what futurism is like, johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing any definite structure or building, he dwells only on

ter the first showed convexity. something very like fright had come over all the explorers before anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen. each would have fled had he not feared the scorn of the others, and it was only half-heartedly that they searched- vainly, as it proved- for some portable souvenir to bear away. it was rodriguez the portuguese who climbed up the foot of the monolith and shouted of what he had found. the rest followed him, and looked curiously at the immense carved door with the now familiar squid-dragon bas-relief. it was, johansen said, like a great barn-door; and they all felt that it was a door because of the ornate lintel, threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap-door or slantwise like an outsid

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

n phoenicia, in sarmathia, in scythia, everywhere where worship was attempted (and in what place where man exists is it not, everywhere where worship was 88 the rosicrucians. practised (and where, out of fears, did not, first, come the gods, and then their propitiation) in all the countries, we repeat, as the earliest of man s work, we recognise this sublime, mysteriously speaking, ever-recurring monolith, marking up the tradition of the supernaturally real, and only real, fire-dogma. buried so far down in time, the suspicion assents that there must somehow be truth in the foundation; not fanciful, legendary, philosophical creed-truth, unexplainable (and only to be admitted without question) truth; but truth, however mysterious and awing, yet cogent, and not to be of philosophy (that is, i

agodas of the chinese (which name, pagoda, was borrowed from the indian; from which country of india, indeed, probably came into china its worship, and its bhuddist doctrine of the exhaustion back into the divine light, or unparticled nothingness, of all the stages of being or of evil, the chinese pagodas, we repeat, are nothing but innumerable gilt and belled fanciful repetitions of the primeval monolith. the fire, or light, is still worshipped in the chinese temples; it has not been perceived that, in the very form of the chinese pagodas, the fundamental article of the chinese religion transmigration, through stages of being, out into nothingness of this world has been architecturally emblemed in the diminishing stories, carried upwards, and fining away into the series of unaccountable d

er of belus, or the fire, to be the monument? when it soared, as a pharos, on. the rock of the traditionary ages, to defy time in its commitment to form of the unpronounceable secret, stage on stage and story on story, though it climbed the clouds, and on its top should shine the ever-burning fire, first idol in the world, dark save with neglected stars, what was the tower of babel but a gigantic monolith? perhaps to record and to perpetuate this ground-fire of all; to be worshipped, an idol, in its visible form, when it should be alone taken as the invisible thought: fire to be waited for (spirit-possession, not waited on (idolatry. therefore was the speech confounded, that the thing should not be; therefore, under the myth of climbing into heaven by the means of it, was the first colossa

better fire-explanation. cannot we accept these pyramids as the vast altars on whose top should burn the flame flame commemorative, as it were, to all the world? cannot we see in these piles, literally and really transcendental in origin, the egyptian reproduction, and a hieroglyphical signalling on, of special truth, eldest of time? do we not recognise in the pyramid the repetition of the first monolith? all the uprights constituting the grand attesting pillar to the supernatural tradition of a fire-born world? the ever-recurring globe with wings, so frequent in the sculptures of the egyptians, witnesses to the electric principle. it embodies the transmigration of the indians, the great pyramid. 93 reproduced by pythagoras. pythagoras resided for a long period in egypt, and acquired from

nseric, or broadly shown upon the head-piece of the frankish clovis; whether emblemed in the rude and, as it were, savagely mystic horns of the asiatic idols, or reproduced in the horns of the runic hammerer (or destroyer, or those of the gothic mars, or of the modern devil; all this double-spreading from a common point (or this figure of horns) speaks the same story. the colossus of rhodes was a monolith, in the human form, dedicated to the sun, or to fire. the pharos of alexandria was a fire-monument heliopolis, or the city of the sun, in lower egypt (as the name signifies, contained a temple, wherein, combined with all the dark superstitions of the egyptians, the flame-secret was preserved. in most jealous secrecy was the tradition guarded, and the symbol alone was presented to the worl

h. athwart this, in trances, swept the adepts, leaving their mortality behind them: all, and their earth-surroundings, to be resumed at their reissue upon the plains of life, when down in their humanity again. in the cities of the ancient world, the palladium, or protesting talisman (invariably set up in the chief square or place, was there is but little doubt the reiteration of the very earliest monolith. all the obelisks, each often a single stone, of prodigious weight, all the singular, solitary, wonderful pillars and monuments of egypt, as of other lands, are, as it were, only tombstones of the fire! all testify to the great, so darkly hinted secret. in troy was the image of pallas, the myth of knowledge, of the world, of manifestation, of the fire-soul. in athens was pallas- athene, o

s watch of the unseen over us may be assuaged in the acknowledgment; that the unrecognised presences amidst us, if met with an unconsciousness for which man cannot be accountable, may not be offended with carelessness in regard of them for which he may be punishable. mont st. michel, normandy. trigonometrical effect of the great pyramid. chapter the twelfth. druidical stones and their worship. he monolith, talisman, mysterious pillar, or stone memorial, raised in attestation of the fire-tradition, and occupying the principle square or place, forum, or middlemost or navel-point of the city in ancient times, is the original of our british market-crosses. the cromlech, or bilithon, or trilithon; the single, double, or grouped stones found in remote places, in cornwall, in wales, in various co

iberia. there lies an unsuspected purpose, doubtless of a mysterious (very probably of a superstitious and supernatural) character, in this exceedingly ancient memorial of the mythic british and heroic time at winchester. when spires or steeples were placed on churches, and succeeded the pyramidal tower, or square or round tower, these pointed erections were only the perpetuations of the original monolith. the universal signal was reproduced through the phases of architecture. the supposition that the object of the steeple was to point out the church to the surrounding country explains but half its meaning. at one period of our history, the signal-lights abounded all over the country as numerously as church-spires do in the present days. exalted on eminences, dotting hills, spiring on clif

so something else to which we make reference in other parts of our book. 104 the rosicrucians. closely with religion. the stone tower was only, as it were, a stationary flame, the origin of beacons may be traced to the highest antiquity. according to the original hebrew (which language, as the samaritan, is considered by competent judges as the very oldest, the word beacon may be rendered a mark, monolith, pillar, or upright. at one time the ancient bale, bel, or religious fires of ireland were general all over the country. they have been clearly traced to a devotional origin, and are strictly of the same character as the magic, or magian, fires of the east. during the political discontents of 1831 and 1832, the custom of lighting these signal-fires was very generally revived amidst the pa

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revious next p. 93 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the yoni and phallus were worshiped by nearly all ancient peoples as appropriate symbols of god's creative power. the garden of eden, the ark, the gate of the temple, the veil of the mysteries, the vesica piscis or oval nimbus, and the holy grail are important yonic symbols; the pyramid, the obelisk, the cone, the candle, the tower, the celtic monolith, the spire, the campanile, the maypole, and the sacred spear are symbolic of the phallus. in treating the subject of priapic worship, too many modern authors judge pagan standards by their own and wallow in the mire of self-created vulgarity. the eleusinian mysteries--the greatest of all the ancient secret societies--established one of the highest known standards of morality and ethics, a

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he ability to identify natural-order constraints and inertial factors that influence the trajectory of change. the door late in the work on this essay i "stepped back" from the seal of runa and tried to look at it once again with a fresh perspective. i noticed the simple elements: the geometric star, the trapezoid, and the circle. i recalled the image in 2001, the rising of the sun over the black monolith- which, from the perspective of the viewer, was a trapezoidal form- and a further thought occurred to me. i thought of the daemons of creation in the bond of the nine angles, and recalled that the egyptians used the same word, sba, for three ideas: star, door, teach. this is not the place to delve into a treatment of astro-archeology. but we who speak of the powers of darkness should not

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es fafnir- f hrer, diese verk rperung kommt, welche uns vergr ssert und schl gt jene, die gegen uns sind. o my brothers, study well the stone with planes unrecognized by those without, for within those glaring facets the hounds await that set the world aflame! be the angles small and still or gargantuan in their roaring outrage, the form is that which we know so well. on the grim, gray shore, the monolith prevails, and clutched within the fourfold talons of the ring which fafnir guards, that shape remains to bring forth that which gives us increase and smites those who would oppose us. oh, schwaches mensch, h re meine warnung, versuche nicht gewaltsam das tor zur zukunft su ffnen. wenige hatten erfolg die schranke zu passieren zu der grossen d mmerung. grotte, die vorauscheint. ich kenne s

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ould have required coordinating the labor of hundreds of workers. one test during the 1970s showed that 200 people could move a 30-ton stone two to three miles in a few days by rolling the stone over logs. some monoliths (single blocks or large pieces of stone) are formed naturally and gain mythical importance based on their sublime appearance. in the australian desert stands the world fs largest monolith, uluru (also called ayers rock, which reaches about a thousand feet high. uluru is venerated by aborigines (native people of the area, who believe the ground beneath it is hollow and is a source of energy called tjukurpa dreamtime. according to their belief, all life as it is today is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships that can be traced to the spirit ancestors of the dr

nes (native people of the area, who believe the ground beneath it is hollow and is a source of energy called tjukurpa dreamtime. according to their belief, all life as it is today is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships that can be traced to the spirit ancestors of the dreamtime. the great spirits walked along the earth and literally sang material objects into existence. the uluru monolith extends downward more than three miles beneath the surface. approximately 500 million years ago it was part of the ocean floor at the center of present- day australia. depending on the time of day and the atmospheric conditions, uluru can dramatically change color, from a deep blue to glowing red. the area draws a variety of visitors, from those seeking to tap mystical energy, to tourists

ad that tiahuanaco was founded around 400, and after three centuries of gradual settlement, the city was abandoned around 1000. in the interim, the settlement had grown from a ceremonial center to a major city inhabited by 40,000 to 80,000 people. regular archaeological excavations have been underway in tiahuanaco since 1877. the semi-subterranean temple next to the akapana yielded a 24-foot tall monolith in 1932. that find and the generally arid climate helped sustain the idea that tiahuanaco served primarily as a ceremonial center. later finds, however, showed that it had been a thriving city, and dates for the time settlement and abandonment were established. why the place was abandoned, however, remains a mystery to conventional archaeologists. however, according to posnansky, it was t

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referring no doubt to the ancient priests who moved such stones by will-power and from a distance[[vol. 2, page] 343 the "rocking-stones" in europe. de cornouailles, sur les traces des giants, and of various learned works on the ruins of stonehenge* carnac and west hoadley, give far better and more reliable information upon this particular subject. in those regions- true forests of rocks- immense monoliths are found "some weighing over 500,000 kilograms (cambry. these "hinging stones" of salisbury plain are believed to be the remains of a druidical temple. but the druids were historical men and not cyclopes, nor giants. who then, if not giants, could ever raise such masses (especially those at carnac and west hoadley, range them in such symmetrical order that they should represent the plan

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etween the dimensions of normal time and space, dreaming and waiting for the time when they shall be able to rule the earth once again, as they did in days of old. on the matter of the great old ones, lovecraft wrote in his story the call of cthulhu "in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchers, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, moldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumors picked up in ca

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aces still extant in every quarter of the globe, and through the study of antique art, it is not unlikely that a line of investigation has been marked out whereby a tolerably correct knowledge of the processes involved in our present religious systems may be obtained. the numberless figures and sacred emblems which appear carved in imperishable stone in the earliest cave temples; the huge towers, monoliths, and rocking stones found in nearly every country of the globe, and which are known to be closely connected with primitive belief and worship, and the records found on tablets which are being unearthed in various parts of the world, are, with the unravelling of extinct tongues, proving an almost inexhaustible source for obtaining information bearing upon the early history of the human ra

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ranslated by maria jolas from the critical annotated french edition of alain gheerbrant, pp. 49-50. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 78 tiahuanaco. that was in the sixteenth century. more than 400 years later, at the end of the twentieth century, i shared garcilaso s puzzlement. scattered around tiahuanaco, in defiance of the looters who had robbed the site of so much in recent years, were monoliths so big and cumbersome yet so well cut that they almost seemed to be the work of super-beings. sunken temple like a disciple at the feet of his master, i sat on the floor of the sunken temple and looked up at the enigmatic face which all the scholars of tiahuanaco believed was intended to represent viracocha. untold centuries ago, unknown hands had carved this likeness into a tall pillar

flowing water for washing ores, perhaps? 8 gateway of the sun leaving the western side of the enigmatic pyramid, i made my way towards the south-west corner of the enclosure known as the kalassaya. i could now see why it had been called the place of the upright standing stones for this was precisely what it was. at regular intervals in a wall composed of bulky trapezoidal blocks, huge dagger-like monoliths more than twelve feet high had been sunk hilt-first into the red earth of the altiplano. the effect was of a giant stockade, almost 500 feet square, rising about twice as far above the ground as the sunken temple had been interred beneath it. had the kalasasaya been a fortress then? apparently not. scholars now generally accept that it functioned as a sophisticated celestial observatory

tions revealed two artificially dredged docks on either side of: a true and magnificent pier or wharf. where hundreds of ships could at the same time take on and unload their heavy burdens .3 one of the construction blocks from which the pier had been fashioned still lay on site and weighed an estimated 440 tons.4 numerous others weighed between 100 and 150 tons.5 furthermore, many of the biggest monoliths had clearly been joined to each other by i-shaped metal clamps. in the whole of south america, i knew, this masonry technique had been found only on tiahuanacan structures.6 the last time i had seen the characteristic notched depressions which proved its use had been on ruins on the island of elephantine in the nile in upper egypt.7 1 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 156ff; iii, p. 196. 2 ibid, i, p

central america. serpent sanctuary, moreover, was beginning to look like the name for the olmec homeland, which had included not only coatzecoalcos but several other sites in areas less blighted by development. first at tres zapotes, west of coatzecoalcos, and then at san lorenzo and la venta, south and east of it, numerous pieces of characteristically olmec sculpture had been unearthed. all were monoliths carved out of basalt and similarly durable materials. some took the form of gigantic heads weighing up to thirty tons. others were massive stelae engraved with encounter scenes apparently involving two distinct races of mankind, neither of them american-indian. whoever had produced these outstanding works of art had obviously belonged to a refined, well organized, prosperous and technolo

nded down to the peoples of central america many thousands of years before the second millennium bc, and thereafter entrusted to the safekeeping of a secret wisdom cult, perhaps the cult of quetzalcoatl. much had been lost. nevertheless the tribes of this region in particular the maya, the builders of palenque and uxmal had preserved something even more mysterious and wonderful than the enigmatic monoliths, something which declared itself even more persistently to be the legacy of an older and a higher civilization. we see in the next chapter that it was the mystical science of an ancient star-gazing folk, a science of time and measurement and prediction a science of prophecy even that the maya had preserved most perfectly from the past. with it they inherited memories of a terrible, earth

over 23 inches at course 17, did obey this rule. then suddenly, at course 19, the block height rose again to almost 36 inches. at the same time the other dimensions of the blocks also increased and their weight grew from the relatively manoeuvrable range of 2-6 tons that was common in the first 18 courses to the more ponderous and cumbersome range of 10-15 tons.4 these, therefore, were really big monoliths that had been carved out of solid limestone and raised more than 100 feet into the air before being placed faultlessly in position. to have worked effectively the pyramid builders must have had nerves of steel, the agility of mountain goats, the strength of lions and the confidence of trained steeplejacks. with the cold morning wind whipping around my ears and threatening to launch me in

eel, the agility of mountain goats, the strength of lions and the confidence of trained steeplejacks. with the cold morning wind whipping around my ears and threatening to launch me into flight, i tried to imagine what it must have been like for them, poised dangerously at this (and much higher) altitudes, lifting, manoeuvring and positioning exactly an endless production line of chunky limestone monoliths the smallest of which weighed as much as two modern family cars. how long had the pyramid taken to complete? how many men had worked on it? the consensus among egyptologists was two decades and 100,000 men.5 it was also generally agreed that the construction project had not been a year-round affair but had been confined (through labour force availability) to the annual three-month agricu

pyramid, our eyes were drawn towards its summit. there we noted again the intact facing stones that still covered its top 22 courses. we also noticed that the first few courses above its base, each of which had a footprint of about a dozen acres, were composed of truly massive blocks of limestone, almost too high to clamber over, which were about 20 feet long and 6 feet thick. these extraordinary monoliths, as i was later to discover, weighed 200 tons apiece and belonged to a distinct style of masonry to be found at several different and widely scattered locations within the giza necropolis. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 285 on its north and west sides the second pyramid sat on a level platform cut down out of the surrounding bedrock and was thus enclosed within a wide trench mor

d north to south, its walls and extensively broken and damaged floor were fashioned out of a peculiarly dense, chocolatecoloured granite which seemed to absorb light and sound waves. its ceiling consisted of eighteen huge slabs of the same material, nine on each side, laid in facing gables. because they had had been hollowed from below to form a markedly concave surface, the effect of these great monoliths was of a perfect barrel vault, much as one might expect to find in the crypt of a romanesque cathedral. retracing our steps, we left the lower chambers and walked back up the ramp to the large, flat-roofed, rock-hewn room above. passing through the ragged aperture in its western wall, we found ourselves looking directly at the upper sides of the eighteen slabs which formed the ceiling of

es (or perhaps because they found such tasks simple) the pyramid builders had disdained to provide an adequate working area between the slabs and the bedrock above them. by crawling into the cavity, i was able to establish that the clearance varied from approximately two feet at the southern end to just a few inches at the northern end. in such a restricted space there was no possibility that the monoliths could have been lowered into position. logically, therefore, they must have been raised from the chamber floor, but how had that been done? the chamber was so small that only a few men could have worked inside it at any one time too few to have had the muscle-power to lift the slabs by brute force. pulleys were not supposed to have existed in the pyramid age8 (even if they had, there wou

ding 200 tons in weight, each was heavier than a modern diesel locomotive and there were hundreds of blocks.12 was this in any way mysterious? egyptologists did not seem to think so; indeed few of them had bothered to comment, except in the most superficial manner either on the staggering size of these blocks or the mind-bending logistics of how they might have been put in place. as we have seen, monoliths of up to 70 tons, each about as heavy as 100 family-sized cars, had been lifted to the level of the king s chamber in the great pyramid again without provoking much comment from the egyptological fraternity so the lack of curiosity about the valley temple was perhaps no surprise. nevertheless, the block size was truly extraordinary, seeming to belong not just to another epoch but to anot

o the lack of curiosity about the valley temple was perhaps no surprise. nevertheless, the block size was truly extraordinary, seeming to belong not just to another epoch but to another ethic altogether one that reflected incomprehensible aesthetic and structural concerns and suggested a scale of priorities utterly different from our own. why, for example, insist on using these cumbersome 200-ton monoliths when you could simply slice each of them up into 10 or 20 or 40 or 80 smaller and more manoeuvrable blocks? why make things so difficult for yourself when you could achieve much the same visual effect with much less effort? and how had the builders of the valley temple lifted these colossal megaliths to heights of more than 40 feet? 10 in addition to the three giza pyramids, the mortuary

a marvellous building was located one graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 386 associated with osiris from the beginning of written records in egypt9 and described by the greek geographer strabo (who visited abydos in the first century bc) as a remarkable structure built of solid stone [containing] a spring which lies at a great depth, so that one descends to it down vaulted galleries made of monoliths of surpassing size and workmanship. there is a canal leading to the place from the great river. 10 a few hundred years after strabo s visit, when the religion of ancient egypt had been supplanted by the new cult of christianity, the silt of the river and the sands of the desert began to drift into the osirieon, filling it foot by foot, century by century, until its upright monoliths and

f about 100 feet in length and 60 in width, built with the most enormous stones that may be seen in egypt. in the four sides of the enclosure walls are cells, 17 in number, of the height of a man and without ornamentation of any kind. the building itself is divided into three naves, the middle one being wider than those of the sides; the division is produced by two colonnades made of huge granite monoliths supporting architraves of equal size.13 naville commented with some astonishment on one block he measured in the corner of the building s northern nave, a block more than twenty-five 9 see henry frankfort, the cenotaph of seti i at abydos, 39th memoir of the egypt exploration society, london, 1933, p. 25. 10 the geography of strabo, volume viii, pp. 111-13. 11 margaret a. murray, the osi

paving blocks and was entirely surrounded by water. two pools, one rectangular and the other square, had been cut into the plinth along the centre of its long axis and at either end stairways led down to a depth of about 12 feet below the water level. the plinth also supported the two massive colonnades naville mentioned in his report, each of which consisted of five chunky rose-coloured granite monoliths about eight feet square by 12 feet high and weighing, on average, around 100 tons.16 the tops of these huge columns were spanned by granite lintels and there was evidence that the whole building had once been roofed over with a series of even larger monolithic slabs.17 14 ibid. 15 ibid. 16 traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 391. 17 the cenotaph of seti i at abydos, p. 18. graham hancoc

ypt.20 18 ibid, p. 28-9. 19 e. naville, excavations at abydos: the great pool and the tomb of osiris, journal of egyptian archaeology, volume i, 1914, p. 160. 20 the times, london, 17 march 1914. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 390 reconstruction of the osireion. describing himself as overawed by the grandeur and stern simplicity of the monument s central hall, with its remarkable granite monoliths, and by the power of those ancients who could bring from a distance and move such gigantic blocks, naville made a suggestion concerning the function the osireion might originally have been intended to serve: evidently this huge construction was a large reservoir where water was stored during the high nile. it is curious that what we may consider as a beginning in architecture is neither

ting. this provides an estimate of the time that has elapsed since a rock was first exposed to the atmosphere. in the case of the sphinx and the pyramids this would be when the rocks were first exposed by quarrying activity. in 1994 bowen ran preliminary tests on the famous bluestones of stonehenge in england, hitherto believed to date to 2250 bc. what the tests showed was that these 123 four-ton monoliths could have been quarried during the last ice age perhaps as early as 12000 bc. see the times, london, 5 december. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 479 the queen s chamber. at the same time serious efforts should be made to investigate the contents of the large, square-edged and apparently man-made cavity in the bedrock, deep beneath the paws of the sphinx, that was discovered when

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then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle. there had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in new england for some years; and wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected. upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters "cthulhu fhtagn" this verbal jumble was the key to the

hout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return. in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and the high-priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, mouldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumours picked up

e long. as my uncle went, as poor johansen went, so i shall go. i know too much, and the cult still lives. cthulhu still lives, too, i suppose, again in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young. his accursed city is sunken once more, for the vigilant sailed over the spot after the april storm; but his ministers on earth still bellow and prance and slay around idol-capped monoliths in lonely places. he must have been trapped by the sinking whilst within his black abyss, or else the world would by now be screaming with fright and frenzy. who knows the end? what has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. a time will come- but i must not and cannot think! let me pray t

lid bone. what had happened to the skeleton during its four decades of silent entombment here blake could not imagine. before he realized it, he was looking at the stone again, and letting its curious influence call up a nebulous pageantry in his mind. he saw processions of robed, hooded figures whose outlines were not human, and looked on endless leagues of desert lined with carved, sky-reaching monoliths. he saw towers and walls in nighted depths under the sea, and vortices of space where wisps of black mist floated before thin shimmerings of cold purple haze. and beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of darkness, where solid and semisolid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order on chaos and hold forth a key to all t

ed had led from the steep-roofed farmhouse. suddenly the walls seemed to fall away ahead, and the stench and the wailing grew stronger. willett saw that he had come upon a vast open space, so great that his torchlight would not carry across it; and as he advanced he encountered occasional stout pillars supporting the arches of the roof. after a time he reached a circle of pillars grouped like the monoliths of stonehenge, with a large carved altar on a base of three steps in the centre; and so curious were the carvings on that altar that he approached to study them with his electric light. but when he saw what they were he shrank away shuddering, and did not stop to investigate the dark stains which discoloured the upper surface and had spread down the sides in occasional thin lines. instea

ch resembled these dark, cylindrical towers in basic architecture. around all these aberrant piles of square-cut masonry there hovered an inexplicable aura of menace and concentrated fear, like that bred by the sealed trap-doors. the omnipresent gardens were almost terrifying in their strangeness, with bizarre and unfamiliar forms of vegetation nodding over broad paths lined with curiously carven monoliths. abnormally vast fern-like growths predominated- some green, and some of a ghastly, fungoid pallor. among them rose great spectral things resembling calamites, whose bamboo-like trunks towered to fabulous heights. then there were tufted forms like fabulous cycads, and grotesque dark-green shrubs and trees of coniferous aspect. flowers were small, colourless, and unrecognizable, blooming

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new-flooded lands it flowed again, uncovering death and decay; and from its ancient and immemorial bed it trickled loathsomely, uncovering nighted secrets of the years when time was young and the gods unborn. above the waves rose weedy remembered spires. the moon laid pale lilies of light on dead london, and paris stood up from its damp grave to be sanctified with star-dust. then rose spires and monoliths that were weedy but not remembered; terrible spires and monoliths of lands that men never knew were lands. there was not any pounding now, but only the unearthly roaring and hissing of waters tumbling into the rift. the smoke of that rift had changed to steam, and almost hid the world as it grew denser and denser. it seared my face and hands, and when i looked to see how it affected my c

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sarnath at a spot where precious metals were found in the earth. not far from the gray city of lb did the wandering tribes lay the first stones of sarnath, and at the beings of lb they marveled greatly. but with their marveling was mixed hate, for they thought it not meet that beings of such aspect should walk about the world of men at dusk. nor did they like the strange sculptures upon the gray monoliths of ib, for why those sculptures lingered so late in the world, even until the coming men, none can tell; unless it was because the land of mnar is very still, and remote from most other lands, both of waking and of dream. as the men of sarnath beheld more of the beings of lb their hate grew, and it was not less because they found the beings weak, and soft as jelly to the touch of stones

te grew, and it was not less because they found the beings weak, and soft as jelly to the touch of stones and arrows. so one day the young warriors, the slingers and the spearmen and the bowmen, marched against lb and slew all the inhabitants thereof, pushing the queer bodies into the lake with long spears, because they did not wish to touch them. and because they did not like the gray sculptured monoliths of lb they cast these also into the lake; wondering from the greatness of the labor how ever the stones were brought from afar, as they must have been, since there is naught like them in the land of mnar or in the lands adjacent. thus of the very ancient city of lb was nothing spared, save the sea-green stone idol chiseled in the likeness of bokrug, the water-lizard. this the young warri

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-49. searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. for them are the catacombs of ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. they climb to the moonlit towers of ruined rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in asia. the haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands. but the true epicure in the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteems most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods new england; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous. most horrible of all sights

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wer, three in one, but only in the necessity of being, all dark-being constituting all bright-being in the spirit, and both, and their identity, being one, that these monumental columns are raised being really the mark and the signal (warning on, in time) of supernatural, or magic, knowledge. stones were set up by the patriarchs: the bible records them. in india, the first objects of worship were monoliths. in the two peninsulas of india, in ceylon, in persia, in the holy land, in phoenicia, in sarmathia, in scythia, everywhere where worship was attempted (and in what place where man exists is it not, everywhere where worship was 88 the rosicrucians. practised (and where, out of fears, did not, first, come the gods, and then their propitiation) in all the countries, we repeat, as the earli

doctrine harmonise in the general faith founded in magic. that magic is indeed possible is the moral of our book. we have seen that hercules was the myth of the electric principle. his pillars (calpe and abyla) are the dual upon which may be supposed to rest a world. they stood in the days when giants might really be imagined, indeed, they almost look as impressive of it now, the twin prodigious monoliths, similar in purpose to the artificial pyramids. they must have struck the astonished and awed discoverers gaze, navigating that silent mediterranean (when men seemed as almost to find themselves alone in the world, as the veritable, colossal, natural pillars on which should burn the double lights of the forbidden baal: witness of the ever-perpetuated, ever-perpetuating legend of the fire

, as bladed, sworded, or scimitared (as with the guard of waved or sickle-like flames; the lowly, single candle at the bedside of the povertyattenuated dead thus by the single votive light only allied (yet in unutterably mystic and godlike bond) as with the snake, serpent, and dragon. 111 greatest of the earth; the watch-lights everywhere, and in whatever country; the crosses (spiry memorials, or monoliths) which rose as from out the earth, in imitation of the watching candle, at whatever point rested at night, in her solemn journey to her last home, the body of queen eleanor, as told in the english annals (which flamememorials, so raised by the pious king edward in the spiry, flame-imitating stone, are all, we believe, obliterate or put out of things, but the well-known, magnificent, rest

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was of atlantis, and he built up a case for this till having been splattered all over the atlantic hemisphere of the earth by collision with a comet. in this splash were transported the erratics of the till which are so annoying to geologists. maybe this nail was one of these erratics. the learned rep. was right, save that it was done by many "comets" in the great war. under the title "mysterious monoliths" fate magazine, march 1950, shows a photograph of some spherical sandstone balls which were blasted out of solid rock by a highway crew near hornbrook, california. the balls appear incredibly ancient. sandstone balls of nearly spherical shape are not especially rare, and they are oblate spheroids which used to be sought after for garden ornaments throughout the middle west. they were cal

oncern ourselves at the moment only with the gigantic stone masonry which remains in almost all parts of the world. certain characteristics of some of the stone work bespeak origin in a single, widespread civilization, highly developed in some way, but not mechanical in the same sense as ours of today. we will presently limit ourselves to one phase only: the massive size and weight of the various monoliths. the manner or method of their carving is material for another report, but it can be confidently said that the first civilization had simple and effective methods of working and moving stone which are unused today, and which were more effective than anything which we of the second civilization have developed( red is a& b) cut with over sized measure-marker on all-power, i.e. cutter in ma

f hundreds of thousands of huge stone blocks, are thought by some to have been erected by thousands of slaves toiling up long ramps of sand to bring these gigantic masses from the nile. flotation has been considered. no suggestions have been made which really fit all cases, and some of the submissions are so cumbersome and inadequate as to seem ridiculous. let's take a look at some of these great monoliths, and note their size, their geographical distributions, and, where possible, something of their age and any other details which stand out. one such example is that of sacsahuaman fortress, in the high andes of peru, above the ancient inca, and pre-inca city of cuzco. there are several eras of civilization represented in the poorly understood archaeological remains at, and near, cuzco. th

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case of a curse or destruction ritual, it sometimes helps the magician if his desires are intensified by other members of the group (119. lavey s apparent seriousness about ritual cursing is reflected in the liturgical text, invocation employed towards the conjuration of destruction, found in the satanic bible: behold! the mighty voices of my vengeance smash the stillness of the air and stand as monoliths of wrath upon a plain of writhing serpents. i am become as a monstrous machine of annihilation to the festering fragments of the body of he (she) who would detain me. it repenteth me not that my summons doth ride upon the blasting winds which multiply the sting of my bitterness; and great black slimy shapes shall rise from brackish pits and vomit forth their pustulence into his (her) pun

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d was suppressed, tablets destroyed, monuments torn down, and every vestige of available material concerning previous civilizations completely obliterated. only a few copper knives, some arrowheads, and crude carvings on the walls of caves bear mute witness of those civilizations which preceded this age of destruction. here and there a few gigantic structures have remained which, like the strange monoliths on easter island, are evidence of lost arts and sciences and lost races. the human race is exceedingly old. modern science counts its age in tens of thousands of years; occultism, in tens of millions. there is an old saying that "mother earth has shaken many civilizations from her back" and it is not beyond reason that the principles of astrology and astronomy were evolved millions of ye

y seems to have been a plain, unwrought stone, placed in the ground, as an emblem of the generative or procreative powers of nature (see the celtic druids) remnants of stone worship are distributed over the greater part of the earth's surface, a notable example being the menhirs at carnac, in brittany, where several thousand gigantic uncut stones are arranged in eleven orderly rows. many of these monoliths stand over twenty feet out of the sand in which they are embedded, and it has been calculated that some of the larger ones weigh as much as 250,000 pounds. by some it is believed that certain of the menhirs mark the location of buried treasure, but the most plausible view is that which regards carnac as a monument to the astronomical knowledge of antiquity. scattered throughout the briti

ely poised that it swayed back and forth with the wind, but no application of force could overturn it. a number of logan stones have been found in britain, traces of one no longer standing having been discovered in stonehenge (see the celtic druids) it is interesting to note that the green stones forming the inner ring of stonehenge are believed to have been brought from africa. in many cases the monoliths are without carving or inscription, for they undoubtedly antedate both the use of tools and the art of writing. in some instances the stones have been trued into columns or obelisks, as in the runic monuments and the hindu lingams and sakti stones; in other instances they are fashioned into rough likenesses of the human body, as in the easter island statues, or into the elaborately sculp

s from the five sacred mountains sinai, al-jud, hir, olivet, and lebanon. ten thousand angels were appointed to guard the structure. at the time of the deluge the sacred house was destroyed, but afterward was rebuilt by abraham and his son ishmael (for details see a dictionary of islam. it is probable that the site of the caaba was originally occupied by a prehistoric stone altar or ring of uncut monoliths similar to those of stonehenge. like the temple at jerusalem, the caaba has undergone many vicissitudes, and the present structure does not antedate the seventeenth century of the christian era. when mecca was sacked in a.d. 930, the famous black stone was captured by the carmathians, in whose possession it remained over twenty years and it is a moot question whether the stone finally re

o is reproduced the head of an image generally considered to represent quetzalcoatl. the sculpturing is distinctly oriental in character and on the crown of the head appear both the thousandpetaled sunburst of spiritual illumination and the serpent of the liberated spinal fire. the hindu chakra is unmistakable and it frequently appears in the religious art of the three americas. one of the carved monoliths of central america is adorned with the heads of two elephants with their drivers. no such animals have existed in the western hemisphere since prehistoric times and it is evident that the carvings are the result of contact with the distant continent of asia. among the mysteries of the central american indians is a remarkable doctrine concerning the consecrated mantles or, as they were ca

d in europe, magic capes. because their glory was fatal to mortal vision, the gods, when appearing to the initiated priests, robed themselves in these mantles, allegory and fable likewise are the mantles with which the secret doctrine is ever enveloped. such a magic cape of concealment is the popol vuh, and deep within its folds sits the god of quich philosophy. the massive pyramids, temples, and monoliths of central america may be likened also to the feet of gods, whose upper parts are enshrouded in magic mantles of invisibility. next: the mysteries and their emissaries sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 197 the mysteries and their emissaries did that divine knowledge which constituted the supreme possession of the pagan priestcrafts survive the destruction of their temples? is

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of god. this becomes the culdees, the gnostic sectthat spread to the british isles, or perhaps even came from there, forming the druids (see p. 51.)samothracethis great city and peoples, considered by beaumont to have actually been in gotland, sweden, wasreported by historian diodorus to have been destroyed by a terrific deluge (see footnote on p. 60.)dragons teetha term used to describe ancient monoliths and sacred sites, like avebury or canac.the credibility of historian manethomanetho, high priest of the temple of isis at sebennytus, in the time of alexander the great, a man ofthe highest repute for wisdom and versed in both egyptian and greek lore. he wrote in greek in orderthat the world could judge the truth of his statements, and though most of his history is lost, his list ofdynas

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n some cases, the return of comets.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus43 the chief seat of astronomical learning among the hindus, was at benares, but the knowledge of theindians in this science was not equal to their neighbours. the egyptians, however, who erected theirpyramids with mathematical precision, and not unlikely for astronomical purposes, and who erectednumerous monoliths to their sun-god ra, justly receive credit in astronomical history. theremarkable coincidence exists, that through the inclined entrance of the great pyramid, the stardraco, in hesperides, at its upper transit was visible day and night, and marked the period 2170 bcor the period when the chronological mensuration takes 25,868 years to return to itself again. theerection of that pyramid m

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crazed impulse. and when my mighty surge is spent, new wanderings shall begin; and that flesh which i desire shall come to me. in the names of the great harlot of babylon, and of lilith, and of hecate, may my lust be fulfilled! shemhamforash! hail satan! invocation employed towards the conjuration of destruction behold! the mighty voices of my vengeance smash the stillness of the air and stand as monoliths of wrath upon a plain of writhing serpents. i am become as a monstrous machine of annihilation to the festering fragments of the body of he (she) who would detain me. it repenteth me not that my summons doth ride upon the blasting winds which multiply the sting of my bitterness; and great black slimy shapes shall rise from brackish pits and vomit forth their pustulence into his (her) pun

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ve been impressed by them. assuming that lovecraft was an advocate of satanic amorality, what might have been the content of the ritual observances in innsmouth, r'lyeh, or leng? in his work he only goes as far as an occasional lurid line from some "nameless rite" or "unspeakable orgy" celebrated by grotesque apparitions amidst sulphurous caverns of fluorescent, decaying fungi, or against titanic monoliths of disturbing aspect. perhaps he thought understatement to be more effective in freeing the imaginations of his readers, but clearly, he had been influenced by very real sources. whether his sources of inspiration were consciously recognized and admitted or were a remarkable "psychic" absorption, one can only speculate. there is no doubt that lovecraft was aware of rites not quite "namel

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into five categories: 1. alignments, stones placed in rows and other non-circular shapes; 2. burial chambers, underground chambers usually covered by a mound of some kind; t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d objects of mystery and power 195 white witch kevin carlyon working with crystals at stonehenge (kevin carlyon/fortean picture library) 3. monoliths (from the greek; gmono h means single, glitho h is stone, single standing stones, also called menhirs; 4. monument memorials to gods or community leaders; and 5. stone circles. the greatest concentration of aligned megaliths is in the carnac area of brittany, france, where megaliths are aligned in rows in three different fields. le menec has two stone circles at either end of 12 rows of

ately 500 million years ago it was part of the ocean floor at the center of present- day australia. depending on the time of day and the atmospheric conditions, uluru can dramatically change color, from a deep blue to glowing red. the area draws a variety of visitors, from those seeking to tap mystical energy, to tourists bussed in and out for a couple hours f worth of viewing time. among natural monoliths with mysterious qualities are ghealing stones, h usually a large stone with a hole through it. the men-an-tol in cornwall, england, is one of several examples of a stone reputed to have healing properties. according to legend, people can be cured of back and leg pains by passing through the hole in the stone. m delving deeper burl, aubrey. megalithic brittany: a guide to over 350 ancient

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