Flights of Fantasy?
Throughout the world there are stories and legends of buildings and monuments being constructed with “flying stones”. Such tales have readily attached themselves to ancient enigmatic monolithic and megalithic structures like Stonehenge, Nan Modal and the Great Pyramid. One version of Stonehenge’s origin, totally at odds with the archaeological evidence for its development, tells how Merlin, aided by the Devil, lashed the stones together and flew with them over the Irish Sea to Salisbury Plain, re-erecting the henge according to Merlin’s plan. Terry Pratchett, in The Light Fantastic, gives us some idea, albeit tongue firmly in cheek, of a journey aboard a thousand ton monolith ‘piloted’ by a druid like a mahout guiding an elephant. The ineffectual wizard Rincewind asks the druid “what’s keeping us up?” The druid’s nerve-racking “persuasion” does little to instil confidence. Positive thought power is the only thing keeping it airborne [a kind of psychokinesis, I suppose], though runes and iron pendulums also play a part in its navigation. A druidic ground controller guides it into position, and “Belefon skilfully brought the massive slab to rest across to giant uprights with the faintest of clicks.” [He was acting as ballast, as well as pilot/navigator.]
Unlike Stonehenge, though, the building of Nan Modal is shrouded in mystery. According to local legend Olo-chipa and Olo-chopa effortlessly flew blocks by magic “through the air like birds” one at a time to their destination. The more orthodox explanation, though, is that the material was shipped, as a recent seaborne attempt with a bluestone tried to prove. These Stonehenge monoliths actually came from the Prescelly Mountains, South Wales, by sea and land. [Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his History of the Kings of Britain [c.1139], claimed Stonehenge was once the Giant’s Dance, erected by African giants on Mount Killaire, Ireland. The stone was carried from Africa.]
One bizarre theory concerning the Great Pyramid’s construction was that the blocks were “levitated” into position.
In Pratchett’s Pyramids,
“At the site of the Great Pyramid the huge blocks...floated into position like an explosion in reverse. They were flowing between the quarry and the site, drifting silently across the landscape.”
One of the younger architects said that the rope and roller idea was “old hat”! [The flying stones were guided in by a similar method to The Light Fantastic.] The same architect mentioned positive and negative “temporal nodes” in “flows” and “loops” [“Just like ... a tiny whirlpool, only it’s in the flow of time”] dictating the distinctive pyramid shape. The nodes formed “during construction” - “must be something to do with mass”. His father said that Pyramid Energy, which built up during construction, was “flared off” via the capstone.
But is there any scientific basis to the “flying stones”? Pratchett’s druid calls stone circles as “A triumph of the silicon chunk”. They are thought to be ‘Cosmic Computers’ once used to calculate the movements of heavenly bodies. It maybe no coincidence that we use liquid crystal and silicon in computers and calculators, as our ancestors used quartzite and silicate rocks in so many structures. The Egyptians used granite and sandstone on a grand scale in temples and pyramids, while Nan Modal contains a staggering 250 million tons of basalt! Stonehenge was built from micaceous limestone, sandstone and dolerite. The mysterious skulls are solid rock crystal and seem to fortell the future in a manner that crystal balls are said to do.
Have you ever noticed how extinct volcanoes around the world, such as Mt. Fujiyama and Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, and even Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh, have attained ritual, religious and symbolic significance? Anthony Roberts noted that most “power centres” are sited in areas of high quartzite concentration. Glastonbury Tor is one example. John Michell made a link between leylines and “geological faultlines ... and veins of terrestrial magnetism”. David Childress said that basalt is “not only a crystalline rock but magnetic.” It comes as no surprise then that Roberts found 4 leylines passing through Arthur’s Seat. The reason for this lies in the formation of granite and basalt. Areas with a high degree of iron ore create their own “geomagnetic fields”, while iron-cored planets like Earth have a magnetic field and radiation belts.
Roberts called quartz “piezoelectric”, which means that it a prism with positively and negatively charged edges, like Pratchett’s “nodes”. Like a ‘tuning fork’, quartz has a resonant frequency of vibration. Roberts said that, cut a certain way, this could be “millions of vibrations a second”, and that the level of “vibrational pulsation” [through conduction and transmission] dictated the supernatural/parapsychic strength of those “power centres”. Hence the strange “atmospheres”. Childress said gravity may be a frequency, “part of Einstein’s Unified Field”, not a force, estimated by physicists to be “1012 hertz, or the frequency between short radio waves and infrared radiation.”
Resonating at this frequency, the basalt blocks of Nan Modal could’ve become weightless. Then “the centrifugal force of the earth’s spin” [Childress] levitated them. Returning to Stonehenge, Professor Hoyle in Antiquity claimed that its builders used musical instruments to tune the stones and lift them. Once airborne, they followed leylines, hidden geological faults, ancient earthworks and tunnels, and avenues of stone circles [Michell’s “veins” channelling the earth’s magnetic field] to their required destination. Once in position, the stones and blocks regained their weight.
With no written records [blueprints and plans would be nice] left to posterity and only stories to go on, it’s a case of science vs. superstition. But which do we believe? The so-called experts [archaeologists, architects, engineers, et al] with their theories and experiments, or traditions passed down from our ancient ancestors, the very people who built them?
