Evidence of the Gods (23 page)

This is not some sort of arbitrary search for triangles. The points are connected in precisely the same distances at precisely the same angles. These large-scale examples can be endlessly repeated.

A north-south line runs from the eastern end of Le Ménec. In the south it touches the dolmen of St. Michel, in the north Le Nignol, and behind the village of Beg-Lann, the menhir Crucuny. The straight line lies within the triangle referred to previously, whereby Le Nignol marks exactly half the length. Another 60-degree angle produces an additional isosceles triangle with a side length of 1,680 meters: St. Michel–Le Nignol–Kercado. In doing so, the line Le Nignol–Kercado not only bisects the stone column of Kermario into two equally-sized sections, but the intersection simultaneously marks the halfway point of the hypotenuse of the Le Ménec–Petit Ménec route. As Dr. Kremer writes: “In view of the numerous relationships and alignments, there cannot reasonably be any further doubt that these megalithic complexes were planned in terms of their spatial organization.”
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God did not set to work in Brittany, and we may exclude random chance altogether. What then, in the name of all the planets, were these Megalithic people about? What drove them? Where did their mathematical and geometric knowledge come from? What instruments did they use? What surveyors determined the fixed points in the uneven landscape? To what maps did they transfer their calculations? In what scale? With what string or, if you will, mirrors, did they communicate along the kilometer-long straight lines? How was the transport organized? What kinds of rope did they use—if any? How did the heavy transport function in winter? When it rained? When the ground was soft? What tools were used to cut the monolithic slabs? Why columns of menhirs of varying width and different rows? Sometimes nine, then 11 or 13 columns? What was the purpose of the stone ovals at the start and end of the Alignement at Le Ménec? How important was the way the space was divided, the smaller triangles within the larger ones? Why were stones of different sizes used? (
Image 193
) How much time was spent of planning before building began? What size was the workforce? Who directed the masses? Who had the supreme command and why? What legitimized the boss? Where did the workers and retinue sleep, spend the winter? Where are the remains of the resting places, their food, their bones? How long did the whole megalithic apparition last? If longer than one generation, what writing was used to pass on the instructions to the next generation?

The crazy thing is that it must all have happened in one generation, or else there must have been plans which were stubbornly adhered to over many generations. It is not possible to date Gavrinis, for example, at 4000
BC
but to deny the same age to the large broken menhir or the dolmen of St. Pierre. Why not? All the points lie on one sight line. How were the megalithic people supposed to set a sight on something that did not exist at the time? Consequently, the points were fixed at a specific time before building started.

As we can see, there are huge patches on the research map and no area that could be worked within one discipline alone.

And what about “ley lines” or “geomancy”? These are straight lines that are from 150 to several thousand kilometers long and stretch like a grid across Europe. Never heard of them?

A straight line can be drawn on the map from Stonehenge, which lies northwest of Salisbury in England, to the Stone Age hill of Old Sarum. In its extension, this line runs directly over Salisbury Cathedral, Clearbury Ring, and Frankenbury Camp. All the places are prehistoric; Salisbury Cathedral was built on a heathen
ceremonial site. Now stand on the top of Old Sarum and look northward and southward. A compass illustrates the straight sight line. All points can be seen from the top of the hill. There are masses of such lines and without exception they originate in the Stone Age. The journalist Paul Devereux, who specializes in archeology, and the mathematician Robert Forrest have critically studied these lines and end their contribution in the scientific journal
New Scientist
with the words: “There may be a modern unwillingness to admit that ancient societies once developed activities which we do not understand. That also applies with regard to the stubborn silence of archeology about the lines in the Peruvian Andes and equally to the stubborn resistance against a thorough investigation of ley lines in Europe.”
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As long ago as 1870, William Henry Black (died 1872), a historian in the Public Record Office in London and member of the British Archeological Society, drew the attention of his colleagues to these curious lines: “The monuments, which we know about, mark great, geometrical lines. Lines which run across the whole of western Europe, across the British Isles and Ireland, the Hebrides, the Shetland and Orkney Islands as far as the Arctic Circle.”
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One of these lines runs from Denmark right across the Alps and ends precisely on the ancient Greek sacred site of Delphi. Another starts at Calais in France, runs across Mont Alix, Mont Alet, L’Allet, Anxon, Aisey, Alaise, L’Alex, Alzano, etc. as far down as Sicily. All places on the route possess a Stone Age sacred site. And the name of each location has the same root—even today.

There is detailed literature about this phenomenon.
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Honest people have spent their lives researching these lines. People who were, of course, aware that the curvature of the earth had to be taken into account and who just as self-evidently knew that a straight line on a map will always randomly touch several locations. What remains is the facts, the “adjusted” points on a line. What do the opinionated critics care about that, who do not thoroughly examine anything, yet
a priori
know everything better? One would have thought that the neat analysis of a prehistoric riddle would have contributed to the clarification of some truly exciting facts and would have made the specialist world prick up its ears. Mistake. The scientists in the field of primordial and pre-history are battening down the hatches and sticking their heads in the sand. They do not want to take account of what they think is impossible even if it is served to them on a plate. What has happened to the much-vaunted scientific thinking? Where is the drive of scientific discovery? Where is the pleasure in finding the truth?

I know what the problem is: a lack of moral courage. In Germany, no prehistoric specialist will tackle the subject because it might be connected with the “ancient Germanic peoples” and is thus automatically associated with Nazi thinking. And, in general, the ley lines lead to all kinds of impossible consequences. No maps
and no writing are supposed to have existed thousands of years ago. How, then, can sight lines link Stone Age sacred sites over hundreds of kilometers in uneven terrain? Were they all constructed at the same time? If not, what was the obligation placed on succeeding generations? Generations which, like it or not, linked their later sacred sites in precise lines with the earlier sacred locations—whether or not that fitted with the spirit of the times. And who—one might well ask!—fixed the network of lines
before
the first building phase? That these lines from the Stone Age definitely exist is only disputed by those who do not want to know. Poor, dishonest society.

At least it is not disputed that, in Europe alone, there are several hundred prehistoric stone and wood circles. Mighty progress! That all these complexes are connected with astronomy is gradually also understood by most people. The blockade of reason starts when we ask “why?”
Why
did Stone Age people create magnificent, astronomically significant stone and wood circles?

In honor of those “heavenly teachers.” That, at least, is the claim of the oldest account about the stone circle of Stonehenge.
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In ancient Egypt, the sun was given wings. But the winged sun disk, to be seen in all temples, also existed in ancient Babylon and still earlier among the Sumerians. Soon the divine kings had themselves immortalized with wings—they can be found in any larger museum today. The Christians turned these flying figures into angels. The angel (
angelos
) was a messenger, a mediator between the world of the gods and of humans—hence the wings. And we also brought along from antiquity the helmets—pardon me, the haloes—of those untouchable beings in the pictorial images.

The world of our imagination has changed little over millennia—apart from psychology explaining many things in the wrong way.

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Hambruch, Paul.
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Ibid.

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Danielsson, B.
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Ibid.

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