Seeking The Truth Of Our Origins.

[Indilwen]

I have been doing some recent research into the information available on the net regarding our origins. There is so much controversy and debunking whether it be fact or theory. Another sad thing is that so many people are caught up in the racial debate and differences that we get lost in argument. We need to research with an open mind, without prejudice and preconceived ideas. We cannot rely on the so called "experts" as such for there are those who do not wish for the mulititude to discover the "real truth" to the answers that we all seek. Where do we come from, why are we here, what is our purpose. We need to focus on what connects us all. I Shall use this thread to add my notes as I discover more information and try to link it all together.

[Indilwen]

Connections to link together I have discovered in my research.
Mana from heaven/gift from the gods, powdered gold, liquid gold/mercury/alchemy, sound waves/levitation, emf/earthgrids/leylines. advanced technology from ancient times, sacred sites,stone circles, pyramids/giant structures/temples etc. This may already have been researched and connected but this is to keep me up to date with my personal research and for those who are not aware, shed light on their research.

[Indilwen]

Some more notes.....

Mercury - Liquid Metal - Conductor - Gyroscope (- VIMANA'S )

Ancient aircraft - Egypt - India - China.

Flying carpet -

Fire breathing flying dragon -

Flying Chariot - Ezekiel - Bible

Pyramid - Hydro Chloric Acid - Hydrogen - Zinc - Power plant?

Belt of Orion - Sirius

The Cygnus constellation -

Moses on the mount - hair turns white - bolts of lightening -

[Indilwen]

Here are some more notes....

Cygnus Mystery... Andrew Collins...
Gobekli Tepe...Turkey
SAbians... Star worshippers
Celestial North Pole
Heaven Symbolised by a bird
Ther Swan Constellation
Spiral Galaxie
The Milky Way..... The Nile...Egypt
Bird Of Life.... Death...Transformation
Denab..Doorway into Sky World... Portal...worm hole..
Avebury...2600bc?...England
Callanish...3000bc? ...Scotland
New Grange...Passage...Ireland
Waylands Smithy..neolithic long barrow chamber..4000bc
Sawn Knights and Maidens

[Indilwen]

THIS IS FROM ANDREW COLLINS WEBSITE...

x. Swan Knights and Swan Maidens




The gigantic passage grave encircled by a massive stone circle to be seen at Newgrange in Ireland's Boyne Valley is famous for its alignment towards the midwinter solstice. Each year the first sunlight penetrates a narrow corridor and enters a womb-like chamber at the heart of the monument, built c. 3000 BC. In it's an enchanting spectacle that befits its former identity as a sidhe, a house or palace, of the Tuatha de Danaan, the mythical first inhabitants of Ireland. In this guise it features in the old Irish tale known as 'The Dream of Angus', concerning a chieftain named Angus Mac Og, whose story relates how he fell in love with a swan-maiden after she visited him in a dream. After she agreed to marry him, they fly off to Newgrange in the form of swans, where they lived happily ever after. In Scottish folklore, Angus was married to the goddess Bride, who was herself a swan-maiden.

All this was knowledge known to two Irish earth mysteries researchers, Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore, who linked it with the fact that each winter flocks of migrating swans settle for the winter in the water-logged meadows of the Boyne Valley. Sensing that this annual spectacle might have influenced the mythology and practices of those who built the Newgrange monument, they wondered whether the passage grave reflected the influence not just of the sun, but also that of Cygnus, the celestial swan.



Newgrange passage grave. Picture credit: Anthony Murphy/Mythicalireland.com
Overlaying the stars on a map of Newgrange, they determined that the monument's interior echoes the arrangement of Cygnus's principal stars (see their site mythicalireland.com). Moreover, if the midwinter sunrise line is extended backwards some 15 kilometres (9 miles), it targets a smaller passage grave known as Fourknocks. This they found to be aligned perfectly to the rising of Deneb in c. 3000 BC. Thus the solsticial sun has to pass through a Deneb aligned site before reaching Newgrange, which is itself a terrestrial form of the swan, reflected in 'The Dream of Angus'.

Similar tales of shape-shifting swan-maidens can be found across Northern and Central Europe. In these one of their number is usually caught and made to marry a mortal man, after he steals her cloak of feathers as she bathes with other swan-maidens. Such stories are linked also with the European tradition of 'Le Chevalier du Cygne ('Knight of the Swan'), descended of a swan-maiden M, creating the archaic belief that certain families and individuals were descended from a mythical swan-knight. These includes the Cleves family, from whom came Annes of Cleves, wife and queen of the English king Henry VIII, and Godfrei de Bouillon, the leader of the First Crusade.

Traditions of this sort hark back to an age when magical flight was thought to be attained by the male or female shaman through wearing either a cloak of swan feathers or other swan paraphernalia, evidence of which occurs in these same countries, and also in many parts of Asia and the Indian sub-continent, where swan veneration was prominent in the past. Moreover, in Denmark archaeologists have discovered a unique burial in a cemetery dating to the Mesolithic age, c. 4800 BC. A young woman was found beneath a small knoll, next to her dead child, who had been laid to rest on a swan's wing. Its striking presence has been seen by some archaeologists as evidence of a link between the swan and the transmigration of the soul. If correct it shows the antiquity of this cult, which preceded even the spread of Europe's megalithic culture, of which both Avebury and Newgrange are prime examples.

Yet the connection between swan-maidens and prehistoric tombs is not confined to Newgrange, for at the Wayland Smithy long barrow situated some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Avebury, a legend connects the founder Wayland, or Weland, the Germanic and Norse divine smith, with the cult of the swan. It was written that he escaped from the labours imposed on him by the wicked king Niðuð by wearing a swan coat, enabling him to achieve magical flight. In some versions of the tale, this was given to him by his wife, who was a Valkyrie. They were female spirits, shape-shifting swan-maidens, who carried the souls of the dead to Valhalla, the Hall of the Heroes in Norse myth. Although Wayland's link with the monument that bears his name post-dates its construction by some 4,000 years, it cannot be coincidence that, quite separately, prehistorian Professor John North determined that Wayland Smithy is aligned to Deneb, suggesting that a swan cult existed here as early as c. 3700 BC, its accepted date of construction.

Wayland Smithy long barrow.


From Wayland Smithy we travel to the Scottish Outer Hebrides, where at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis, we find one of the most impressive stone circles in Britain. Legends speak of it being built by a black-skinned people who arrived in the company of a white priest-king dressed in a coat of mallard feathers, which along with swan feathers was the traditional garment of a Gaelic bard.

Callanish's northern avenue of stones points towards a distant hill in the NNE, and it can be shown that this alignment targets the point in the sky where in 3000 BC Sadr (gamma Cygni), the star at the centre of Cygnus's cross-like design, would climb high enough to return to life after having faded out as it crossed the meridian from left to right. This would have been a magical sight to anyone present, and so makes sense of why the stone avenue was built to mark this remarkable phenomenon. Aubrey Burl argues that Callanish's foundation story associates it with a rebirth cult linked with water and waterfowl. It is a conclusion that adds weight to Callanish's proposed Cygnus alignment, which must now be seen as part of a more widespread religion that embraced the megalithic world with its own unique religious practices associated with cosmic life and death. Yet having established the reality of the cult in megalithic Britain, we now go in search of the Cygnus mystery to Egypt, where we come a little closer to understanding the constellation's greater purpose in the minds of our most distant ancestors.

www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/thecygnusmystery_knights.htm

[Indilwen]

Give Me Shelter:


A Forbidden Archaeology Report from Michael A. Cremo





On March 1, 2000 the New Scientist web site carried a report on a discovery of evidence for a hominid habitation site at Chichibu, Japan. At a hillside at Chichibu, north of Tokyo, Japanese archaeologists reported finding the remains of what the report called "the world's oldest artificial structure." The evidence for the structure took the form of ten post holes drilled into solid rock. The ten holes were arranged in two roughly pentagonal shapes, indicating that poles inserted into the holes formed the superstructures of two huts. Stone tools were also found at the site, which was given an age of 500,000 years.

The making of artificial shelters is something usually considered characteristic of anatomically modern humans. But because anatomically modern humans are thought not to have existed 500,000 years ago (the oldest skeletal evidence for humans of our type goes back about 100,000 years), archaeologists attributed the huts to the apeman Homo erectus. Chris Stringer, of the human origins group at the Natural History Museum in London, England, said, "it is the first good evidence from 500,000 years ago of a hut structure made by these people [i.e., Homo erectus]."

Other archaeologists shared Stringer's sense of surprise that Homo erectus could have achieved this level of culture. "If you have post holes, this is a rather exceptional situation in terms of what we know about hominid archaeology," says John Rick, an anthropologist at Stanford University. "Half a million years ago, we don't have any concept of what our ancestors were capable of doing at all."

But this sense of surprise may be based on incomplete knowledge of the history of our human species. In my book Forbidden Archeology, I have documented evidence for an anatomically modern human presence in Asia at the time represented by the newly discovered Chichibu site in Japan. For example, in 1958 workers found human bones in the Liujiang cave in southern China. In 1985, two prominent Chinese scientists, Han Defen and Xu Chunhua, identified the bones as belonging to the anatomically modern human species Homo sapiens sapiens. On this basis, they assigned the bones a fairly recent date. But the human bones were found in the same layers as bones of fossil animals from the Middle Pleistocene period, which extends from 100,000 to 1 million years ago. From elsewhere in the world, there is abundant evidence that anatomically modern humans were present at 500,000 years ago and earlier. The anatomically modern human skeleton found by German scientist Hans Reck at Olduvai Gorge in 1913 was solidly embedded in Upper Bed II, which is over 1 million years old. An anatomically modern human skull was found at a depth of over 45 feet, in Buenos Aires, in layers also over 1 million years old. This discovery was reported by the Argentine geologist Florentino Ameghino in 1909. These are just two of the many cases that could be cited.

So it is not necessary for archeologists to elevate Homo erectus to human status when they find evidence for huts in Japan at 500,000 years. If we consider all the available evidence, the Chichibu discoveries are best interpreted as evidence for anatomically modern humans in Japan at 500,000 years ago.

For further information visit:
www.newscientist.com