Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines & Places in Alignment – Part 15 Valletta, Malta

In the last post, I took a close look at the Strait of Messina, particularly the narrowest point between the eastern tip of Sicily, and the western tip of Calabria in Italy; the city of Messina, a major port andthe third-largest city in Sicily; then across to Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanos in the world; and ended at Catania, a city on the Sicilian coast that lies at the foot of Mount Etna.

From Sicily, the alignment I am tracking crosses over the island Republic of Malta, in the vicinity of its capital, Valletta…

…and located in the Southeastern Region of the main island…

… one of the five regions of Malta…

…between the Marsamxett Harbort and the Grand Harbor.

Marsamxett Harbor is described as a natural harbor generally more dedicated to leisure use than the Grand Harbor…

…and is bounded to the north by Dragut Point and Tigne Point…

…where we find Fort Tigne…

…said to have been built by the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John between 1793 and 1795 and claimed to be one of the oldest polygonal forts in the world.

We are told the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John ruled Malta from the time when the Emperor Charles V (who was also King Charles II of Sicily) gave the islands of Malta and Gozo to the Order in 1530, as well as Tripoli in Libya, until the time the Order surrendered to Napoleon when the French landed in Malta in 1798.

Known usually by the shorter Order of St. John, the Maltese Cross was said to have been officially adopted by the Order in 1126.

And today’s Order of St. John was chartered by Queen Victoria in 1888 as a British Royal Order of Chivalry.

Interesting to note that I have found two different portraits of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire between 1500 and 1558, each having similar facial structure and tilts of the chin, and wearing similar clothing.

Manoel Island is a small island in Marsamxett Harbor, situated close to Tigne Point…

…and the location of Fort Manoel…

…said to have been built in the 1720s by the Portuguese 66th-Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Antonio Manoel de Vilhena.

We are told the British military took over the fort in 1800, and renamed it HMS Phoenicia, who used it until 1964…relatively recently.

Manoel Island is connected to the town of Gzira, in Malta’s Central Region, by a bridge…

…where we find an Orpheum Theater, said to have been built in 1932.

There are two points I would like to make about this finding.

This is the first point.

Orpheus was a musician and poet in Ancient Greek legend, said to have had the ability to charm all living things, and even stones, with his music.

In the course of my research, I found numerous early theaters called “Orpheums,” like the one in Gzira in Malta, including the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, California…

…the Orpheum Theater in Boston, Massachusetts…

…in Memphis, Tennessee…

…and in Phoenix, Arizona.

What, exactly, caused us to go to sleep, and forget who we are, and what we were? How has the false information we have been taught in school been reinforced?

Why would this be important to whoever was responsible for removing the ancient advanced civilization from our collective awareness to begin with?

The second point that I would like to make about the Orpheum Theater in Gzira is its street-corner style of architecture…that I have found worldwide, like in Merida, Mexico in the top middle; Juarez, Mexico, on the top right; and on the bottom left, in Kherson, Ukraine; bottom middle, Summerside in Prince Edward Island; and on the bottom right, in Conakry, the capital of the African country of Guinea.

Fort St. Elmo stands on the seaward shore of the peninsula that divides Marsamxett Harbor from the Grand Harbor…

…and said to have been built in its present form as a star fort in the 1550s.

It was the target of aerial bombardment on the first day Malta became involved in the conflict of World War II.

Fort St. Elmo is situated in the middle at the entrance to the two main harbors, between Fort Tigne at the entrance to the Marsamxett Harbor, and Fort Ricasoli at the entrance of the Grand Harbor.

Fort Ricasoli was said to have been built by the Order of St. John between 1670 and 1698.

Fort Ricasoli was said to have seen use during the French invasion of Malta, led by Napoleon himself, in 1798, which was part of the Mediterranean Campaign in the War of the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

After the British Royal Navy destroyed the French Mediterranean fleet at the Battle of the Nile on August 1st, 1798, the British were able to initiate a blockade of Malta, assisted by an uprising of the native Maltese against French rule. The blockade effectively ended the French Occupation of Malta in 1800, and replaced it with British Protectorate, returning control of the central Mediterranean to Great Britain.

Malta held the status of British Protectorate for 164-years, until it gained its independence from Britain in 1964.

Though Fort Ricasoli, like Fort St. Elmo, was bombarded during World War II and parts of it destroyed, today the fort remains largely intact.

It is used as a filming location…and tank-cleaning facility for the Malta Drydocks, treating liquid waste from ships arriving in the Grand Harbor, removing oil and other chemicals prior to releasing the waste into the sea.

These are the pair of lighthouses, one at Fort St. Elmo and the other at Fort Ricasoli, located on man-made breakwaters at the entrance to the Grand Harbor.

The Maltese language is spoken in the islands, in addition to English and Italian.

Maltese is related to Arabic, but written in the Latin alphabet.

The Maltese word for a lighthouse is “fanal.”

Back on Kefalonia in the Ionian Islands of western Greece, I found a lighthouse at a place called “Fanari Point.”

I looked up the Arabic word for lighthouse, and apparently it is al-Manarah, similar in sound to Fanari, as well as the same word for minaret in Arabic.

There are two more forts along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea next to Fort Ricasoli.

The first is Fort Rinella, described as a Victorian battery.

It was said to have been built by the British between 1878 and 1886.

Fort St. Rocco is found just a short distance down the Mediterranean coast from Fort Rinella.

It is described as a polygonal fort, and as part of a complex of shore batteries built by the British to defend the coast east of the mouth of Grand Harbor between the 1870s and 1900.

These three forts are part of Kalkara…

…described as a village on Kalkara Creek, which is shown in this photo…

Here’s another view of Kalkara.

We are told that the name Kalkara derives from the Latin word for lime, “Calce,” and that the village developed as a small fishing community around the sheltered inlet of Kalkara Creek.

Some historians believe, we are told, this was one of the first places in Malta to be inhabited by people who came from the nearby island of Sicily.

I can make, at the very least, a circumstantial case here.

I did not include it in the last post, but I read information saying that Catania in Sicily…

…was a colony of Chalchis, and could also be spelled as Kalkis, an ancient city on the Greek Island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea.

At one time, the island of Euboea was known by another name…Negroponte, and I marked the location of Chalchis on what we are told was a 1620 map.

…and part of what was known as the Kingdom, or Realm, of the Morea, which was the official name of the Peloponnese Peninsula of southern Greece…until the 19th-century.

Not only that, we are told the Romans referred to the coastal areas of southern Italy and Sicily as Magna Graecia, or “Great Greece” because these regions were extensively populated by what were called Greek settlers, starting in the 8th-century BC…

…and Malta lies between Sicily and the country of Tunisia in North Africa.

All of these places are relatively close to each other.

How big of a stretch is to see all of these places connected to the same ancient advanced civilization, other than we haven’t been taught about it?

Places and names have been changed and obscured instead of being taught about it. Why?

Let’s see what other secrets Malta has to reveal!

Moving from a short distance west from Kalkara, we come to Birgu, also known as the “Victorious City”…

…and described as the oldest of an area in Malta referred to as “The Three Cities” – three fortified cities in very close proximity to each other, which also includes Senglea and Cospicua.

The city occupies a promonory of land in the Grand Harbor, with Fort Saint Angelo at the head…

…and the city of Cospicua at the base.

Fort San Angelo served as the base of the Order of St. John, and we are told the de facto capital of Malta between 1530 and 1571…

…and the British garrisoned the fort between 1800 and 1979.

We are told the date of its original construction is unknown, but has large ashlar blocks, the finest stonemasonry unit…

…and an Egyptian pink granite column at the top of the fort inside a chapel.

Fort San Salvatore is also in Birgu…

…said to have been built in 1724 on one of the bastions of the Cottonera Lines.

It was said to have been used as a Prisoner-of-War Camp during the Greek War of Independence between 1821 and 1830, as well as during World War I; and during World War II, as a kerosene depot and internment camp, which were used to imprison large groups of people, without charges, or the intent to file charges.

The Cottonera Lines were said to be a line of what are called fortifications in Conspicua and Birgu that were constructed in the 17th- and 18th-centuries to form the outer defenses of the Three Cities…

…and built around an earlier line of fortifications known as the Santa Margherita Lines.

Before leaving Birgu for the neighboring city of Senglea, I would like to point a place that caught my attention on Google Earth.

I noticed the Inquisitor’s Palace, and as it turns out, this was the seat of the Inquisition in Malta between 1574 and 1798, which was the first year Napoleon’s forces occupied Malta. It has been the National Museum of Ethnography since 1966, with permanent displays on Malta’s religious traditions as consolidated by the Inquisition.

The arrows are pointing to the building’s windows that are not level with the steep street beside it, which is a classic indicator for mud flood evidence.

The Inquisitor’s Palace was said to have been originally constructed as a courthouse in the 1530s.

The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church with a stated aim of combating heresy, defined as the formal denial of the orthodox beliefs of the church, which is defined as the adherence to correct or accepted creeds in religion.

It started with the French Inquisition in the 1200s in France, which over a period of about 20-years saw the Cathar Crusade and the genocide of the gnostic Cathars, which had been labelled as an heretical sect.

The Inquisitor’s Palace became the headquarters of the Inquisition in Malta in 1574, serving as tribunal and prison, as well as the palace of the Inquisitor.

So we are taught that all of this is normal and matter of fact in history in school, like there is nothing out of the ordinary or wrong about the Inquisition…which was, by its very nature, violating basic Human Rights and dignity, including torture in the name of Christianity just for having dissenting views?

And the Office of the Inquisition it is still in existence to this day?

Only it is now called the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.”

The city of Senglea is a fortified city as well, we are told, and is also known as the “Civitas Invicta” or “Unconquered City.”

We are told there weren’t any buildings here until 1311, at which time St. Julian’s Church, or Chapel, was built, said to have been the first building constructed on what later became Senglea.

Then in 1552, we are told, the foundation stone was laid for Fort St. Michael, and its construction was said to have been completed in 1553.

Then construction of the walled town of what at the time was known as St. Julian’s Island in the decade following the completion of Fort St. Michael, subsequently became known as Senglea…

…in honor of the Grand Master Claude de la Sengle, of the Order of Malta, for giving St. Julian’s Island its city status.

The Gardjola Gardens are located within the bastions of Fort St. Michael, also credited to Claude de la Sengle…

…and named for what is called the “Guard Tower” – “Il-Gardjola” – which has various symbols sculpted on it, such as an eye, ear, and crane bird, said to represent guardianship and observance protecting Maltese shores.

Now I am going to start a walking tour around the walls of Valletta…

…starting at the Triton Fountain, just outside the main City Gate of Valletta.

What exactly is a Triton?

For one, in mythology, Triton was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Amphitrite, a sea goddess and Queen of the Sea.

Triton’s lower-half was that of a fish, and his top-half was that of a human.

We are told that at some time during the Greek and Roman eras, triton became a generic term for a mer-person in art and literature.

So some connections of interest to me from what I have found in my own research are, first, that in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, between the Philippines and south China’s Island of Hainan, we find an Amphitrite Group and a Triton Island…

…and that Poseidon’s Golden Palace was said to have been at Aegae, on the large Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea, mentioned previously in this post in relationship to the city of Kalkala on the other side of the Grand Harbor from Valletta.

Aegae was said to be located on the west coast of Euboea, north of Chalcis, and said to have been located near the modern town of Politika Kafkala…

…under the sea.

And there were sculptures of tritons, or mer-people, in the Amenano Fountain back in Catania in Sicily from the last post.

What is the meaning of the tritons?

Could they really have existed at one time?

How are they connected to these places?

Perhaps they still exist today as mer-people, who remain mostly hidden away, and were not mythical as we are taught to believe.

The Triton Fountain is located in front of the main city gate of Valletta.

This was the main city gate of Valletta, called the King’s Gate, circa 1871.

It was said to have been designed by Lt. Colonel Francis Ringler Thomson, about whom I can find no biographical information, in 1853…and this gate was demolished in 1964.

This is what we find at the main city gate today.

Directly upon entering Valletta, immediately to the right is what remains of the city’s Royal Opera House, though the site was developed into an open air theater which opened in August of 2013.

The Royal Opera Theater was said to have been designed by the English architect Edward Middleton Barry in 1866…

…and with windows and columns that are not level with the sloping street beside it, like what we saw back at the Inquisitor’s Palace.

Then, only 76-years later, it took a direct hit in April of 1942 from German Air Force bombers, and was almost completely destroyed.

Making a right turn after entering the city through the gate, onto Pope Pius V Street, we come to the Church of Our Lady of Victories, or La Vittoria…

…said to have had its foundation stone laid in 1566, and built to commemorate the Victory of the Knights of the Order of St. John and the Maltese over Ottoman invaders in 1565.

Directly across from La Vittoria Church is the St. James Bastion, where the two places dove-tail with each other in shape.

It was said to be one of the first bulwarks to be completed after the initiation of the construction of the fortified city in 1566.

The St. James Bastion forms one of the four important and massive bulwarks, and was carved largely out of bedrock.

The Sphinx on the Giza Plateau of Egypt was also carved from bedrock.

The bastion is said to contain to low “batteries” in its flanks, each protected by a massive rounded orillion.

The next place we come to continuing around to the right from the main city gate are the Upper Barrakka Gardens.

Check out the height and depth of the stone work seen here!

The Upper Barrakka Gardens are located on the upper tier of the St. Peter and Paul Bastion, and are a public garden…

…offering a panoramic view of the Grand Harbor.

It is the highest point of the city walls.

The gardens are linked to the Valletta Ditch and the nearby Lascaris Wharf by the Barrakka Lift, which was said to have first been constructed in 1905, closed in 1973, and dismantled in 1983…

…then a new lift was inaugurated in 2012.

This is the Fort Lacaris Battery, said to have been built by the British in 1854, and connected to the Peter & Paul Bastion that the Upper Barrakka Gardens are located at the top of…

…and this is a view of the Lacaris Bastion Gardjola, or Guard Tower, like what we saw earlier at Fort St. Michael in Senglea.

Before I move further along the city’s wall, I would like to show you the Auberge de Castille, which is directly across from the Upper Barrakka Gardens.

It was said to have been built in the 1740s on the highest point in Valletta…

…and has been the Office of the Prime Minister of Malta since 1972.

Getting back to the city’s wall, the Victoria Gate, the main entrance to the city from the Grand Harbor area, is situated next to the Lacaris Bastion.

It was said to have been built by the British in 1885, and named after Queen Victoria.

It is the only surviving gate within the fortifications of Malta, as all of the other gates, like the main city gate as I mentioned previously, were demolished between the 18th- and 19th-centuries.

The St. Barbara Bastion comes next, and is situated in the historic center of Valletta…

…and boasts of magnificent views of the Grand Harbor and the Three Cities.

Noteworthy churches near the St. Barbara Bastion are the Church of St. Paul’s Shipwreck, said to have been completed in 1582, is directly across the street from it and said to be one of the oldest churches in Valletta.

St. Paul the Apostle is considered to be the spiritual father of the Maltese, and his shipwreck is described in the New Testament, in the Book of Acts Chapter 28, verse 1, where St. Luke wrote: “Once safely on shore, we found out the island was called Melita (Malta).”

Across the street on the other side of the Church of St. Paul’s Shipwreck, we find St. John’s Co-Cathedral.

It was said to have been commissioned by the then Grand Master of the Order of St. John, Jean de la Cassiere; built by the Order between 1572 and 1577; and dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

The interior of the church is considered to be one of the finest examples of high Baroque architecture in Europe.

The Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta is located close to the St. John Co-Cathedral…

…and was said to have been built the 16th- and 18th-centuries for the Grand Master of the Order of St. John, who was the ruler of Malta. It currently houses the offices of the President of Malta.

Going back to the city wall, the next place I am going to take a look at are the Lower Barrakka Gardens, which is twinned with the Upper Barrakka Gardens…

…offering a view of the Grand Harbor and its breakwater.

There is what is described as a neoclassical temple in the Lower Barrakka Gardens, said to have been constructed in 1810…

….as a monument to Sir Alexander Ball, a British admiral who was the first Civil Commissioner of Malta.

Located adjacent to the Lower Barrakka Gardens is the Siege Bell of Malta on the St. Christopher Bastion.

This is a view of the Siege Bell War Memorial from the Lower Barrakka Gardens.

This view catches my attention because I find buildings framed perfectly by arches around the world, like this view of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican…

…of the Debre Libanos Monastery in Ethiopia…

…of the Hungarian Parliament from the Fisherman’s Bastion in Budapest, Hungary…

…of the Ecole Militaire through the arches of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France…

…and at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.

The Siege Bell War Memorial was said to have been erected in 1992 to honor the 7,000 people who lost their lives in the World War II Siege of Malta between 1940 and 1943.

Between the Siege Bell War Memorial on St. Christopher’s Bastion and St. Lazarus Bastion, we find the Sacra Infermeria.

The Sacra Infermeria, or Holy Infirmary, was said to have been built as a hospital by the Order of St. John, and one of the leading hospitals in Europe until the 18th-century.

Today is the Mediterranean Conference Center, and used for banquets, exhibitions, international conventions, and theatrical shows.

Next along the wall, we come to the St. John, also known as Abercrombie’s, Bastion, the entrance to Fort St. Elmo discussed earlier in this post…

…then we come to Ball’s Bastion in the upper part of Fort St. Elmo…

…and it is next to St. Gregory’s Bastion.

St. Gregory’s Bastion is in close proximity to the Jews’ Sally Port.

We are told the history of the Jews in Malta can be traced back to 62 AD. The Jews’ Sally Port is a gate where free Jews were said to have entered the city.

Next we come to the St. Sebastian Bastion…

…which is in close proximity to the Auberg de Baviere.

The Auberge de Bauviere was said to have been built as the Palazzo Carneiro in 1696, and was the residence of the Grand Master Marc’Antonio Zondadari in the early 18th-century.

Next we come to the St. Salvatore Bastion and the nearby St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, also known as St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, one of three cathedrals of the Anglican Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, and said to have been built between 1839 and 1844.

Moving along, we come to St. Andrew’s Bastion…

…a popular wedding venue in today’s day and age.

The Biaggio Steps are directly across from St. Andrew’s Bastion, and which are described as run-down.

Next we come to St. Michael’s Bastion…

…where apparently there used to be several windmills overlooking Marsamxett Harbor, but the only reminder of this is a nearby street named “Windmill Street.”

The place I would like to look at around the city walls of Valletta, before returning to the main city gate, are the Hastings Gardens.

The Hasting Gardens are a public garden on top of St. John’s Bastion and St. Michael’s Bastion, located to the immediate west of the west of the city gate.

Three more things to look at before departing the relatively small islands of the Republic of Malta in the the Mediterranean Sea, before heading out from here.

The first is bringing the megalithic Tarxien temples to your attention, located a short distance south of Valletta.

There is a significant megalithic presence in Malta. The Tarxien Temples are just one example of many in Malta.

The temples’ large stone blocks were discovered in 1914 by a farmer ploughing a field, and excavation was begun immediately by the director of the National Museum after the report of the finding was made.

So apparently the temple complex was completely buried underground. We have come to see places being completely buried as a natural occurrence over the passage of time, but was this really the case?

The Tarxien temple complex has rich and intricate stonework decorated with spiral designs and other patterns, and was dated to 3,150 BC.

The second is speculation about the Knights’ Templar themselves.

Given that Valletta appears to be a veritable Disney World of stone masonry, and that the Maltese Cross and the Templar Cross are virtually identical, I am thinking that Malta was at the very least a major Templar Center, if not the main headquarters of the Templars.

I do seriously question what we are told about who the original Templars were, also known as the Order of the Temple of Solomon.

We are told it was Catholic military order recognized in 1139 AD by Pope Innocent II’s papal bull Omne Datum Optimum.

I personally think there is a lot of information missing from the historical record about who the Templars really were, and about what their actual historical association with the Temple of Solomon was.

Were they actually Moorish Master Masons?

Whatever the Truth was about the original Templars, information is simply not available in the written historical record to make a connection directly to the Moors, and a connection in turn with the Temple of Solomon and the Lost Tribes of Israel.

Lastly, I have stated in previous posts my belief that I think places on the Earth, like Valletta in this example, with numerous star forts concentrated in close proximity, were significant power centers for the energy system of the planetary grid, and that star forts represented the definition of battery meaning “a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit…”

…and were not originally military in nature as we are led to believe in our current historical narrative, like the Lacaris Battery we saw earlier in this post.

Like the many star forts I found that were bombarded in World War I’s Gallipoli Campaign in the Strait of Dardenelles in Turkey when I was looking at the Aegean Sea, the star-city of Valletta, and its surrounding star forts and star cities, appear to have been deliberately targeted for bombardment during the Siege of Malta between 1940 and 1942 in what was called the “Mediterranean ‘Theater’ of World War II.”

I wonder why the word theater, defined as a building or area used for dramatic performances, also used as a term to describe an area in which important military events are occurring.

In the next post, I am going to be crossing from Valletta in Malta over to Sousse, a city located on Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast in North Africa.

Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines & Places in Alignment – Part 14 Strait of Messina to Catania, Sicily

In the last post, I tracked the alignment from Delphi on Mount Parnassus, an important religious, cultural and social center of ancient Greece, to the Ionian Sea, and the islands of Atokos, Ithaca, and Kefalonia, the largest of the Ionian Islands of western Greece.

I am picking up the alignment at the Strait of Messina, a narrow strait between the eastern tip of Sicily and the western tip of Calabria in Italy.

The narrowest point of the Strait of Messina is between the Punta del Faro in Sicily…

…and the Punta Pezzo in Villa San Giovanni in Italy’s Calabria region.

Punta del Faro in Sicily, located northeast of Messina, has a lot going on in a small space.

Let’s start with the Torre Faro Pylon.

The Torre Faro pylon is one of two free-standing steel towers…

…with the other one, the Santa Trada pylon, being in the Villa San Giovanni across the strait, and standing on top of what looks like one of the more common star fort features.

We are told that they were built in 1955, and used between 1955 and 1994 to carry first 150-kilovolt, and then in 1971, a 220-kilovolt power-line across the Strait of Messina to respective sub-stations on both sides of it. They were decommissioned in 1993, and the conductors were removed a year later.

The Faro Point Lighthouse, also known as the Faro di Capo Pelori, is an active lighthouse that is completely automated, powered by mains electricity, or general purpose Alternating Current (AC) electric power supply.

It was said to have been first built in 1853, with periods of disuse in-between. It is operated by the Italian Navy.

I want to make the point that the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. At one time, at 330-feet, or 100-meters, in overall height, it was one of the tallest manmade structures in the world.

It was said to have been heavily damaged over time by earthquakes, and that in 1477, the Citadel of Qaitbay was established by the Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa’it Bay, and we are told the remaining stones of the Pharos Lighthouse were used in the building of it.

Bey is one of the five noble titles of the Moors. I just wonder if the name Qa’it Bay was changed from Qa’it Bey to obscure who we are really talking about here.

I also want to make note of the fact that, at least in the Romance Languages, the word for lighthouse, like the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria, includes the root sound of “Far”:

Italian – Faro

Spanish – Faro

French – Phare

Portuguese – Farol

Romanian – Far

And phonetically sounds like the word Pharaoh, which we are told was the common title for monarchs of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty, starting in 3,150 BC, up to the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Empire in 30 BC.

Are they telling us something without telling us they are telling us?

I mean, after all, this is the emblem of the Shriners.  This organization is comprised of 32nd and 33rd degree Freemasons.  With a sword over the head of a pharaoh, this is an image of oppression.

There is what is described as a fortication adjacent to the Punta del Faro lighthouse in Sicily…

…that is now part of the Lido Horcynus Orca Park.

The fortification gets used for things like cinematographic festivals held here.

Lido Horcynus Orca Park is primarily a beach resort.

Does that look like a beach resort you would like to go to?

And Lido Horcynus Orca really has some interesting features surrounding the beachfront. Like, what the heck are these squares covering the landscape?

…and what are those two white column-looking things?

It brought to mind the square shapes I saw on Google Earth when I was looking at the coast of Iran across from Hormoz Island in the Strait of Hormuz…

…and both lay-outs in the landscape resemble chips on a circuit board.

As the most northeastern point of Sicily, where the Ionian Sea meets the Tyrrhenian Sea…

…Capo Peloro or Punta del Faro was supposedly the lair of Charybdis, one of the two beautiful women who had been turned into grotesque monsters by jealous goddesses in Greek mythology.

In one version of the myth, she would partially hide herself beneath a fig tree there, amd would frequently leap out into the sea in order to swallow huge quantities of water, creating a whirlpool that would suck down passing ships, and she would belch the water up afterwards.

Garofalo, otherwise known to the world as Charybdis, is found in the Strait of Messina. While not technically a whirlpool, it occurs when the winds and tides meet at cross-purposes in the strait, producing rough seas that are hazardous for vessels.

One more thing before moving across the Strait of Messina to Calabria.

As the ancient Pelorus, Punta del Faro is one of the most celebrated promontories of Sicily, and one of three promontories which were considered to give it the triangular form. Trinacria, the ancient name of Sicily, is said to derive from an ancient Greek word meaning “three legs” and is synonymous with the sun and said to convey motion.

When I looked up the word “Trinacria,”versions of this image popped up all over the place. This particular version includes a human head with serpents and wings…

…similar to the winged disk symbol, most commonly associated with Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures…

…and the caduceus, the staff of Hermes in Greek mythology, and an emblem of the medical profession in today’s world.

This version of the Trinacria is on the flag of Sicily. The head still has wings, but the serpents aren’t clearly defined as in the first head, kind of looking more like ropes, and the addition of what looks like three ears of wheat.

Why was the image modified?

The Trinacria itself is a symbolic representation of the zenith of the soul in its present state of existence, and the setting of the spiritual essence in its totality. It represents self-realization and ascension.

This is the flag of the Isle of Man, with a shape called the Triskelion…

…which is located in the Irish Sea between Ireland and Great Britain.

Interesting that there is information like this about ancient knowledge to be found in flags, as well as information about the true identity of the missing civilization.

This is the flag of Sardinia, a large island region of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea, northwest of the Strait of Messina. It is also called the flag of the Four Moors…

…and this is the flag of Corsica, an island region of France, just north of Sardinia, with one Moor’s head.

Now changing focus to look at Punta Pezzo, the closest point between Italy’s Calabrian shore in the Villa San Giovanni, and Punta del Faro in Sicily.

The city of Villa San Giovanni faces the city of Messina across the strait.

This part of Calabria was a focal point for Napoleon Bonaparte, after he proclaimed himself emperor of France in 1804.

He made his older brother, Joseph-Napoleon, the King of Naples and Sicily between 1806 and 1808, who we are told, implemented administrative reforms in 1806 that abolished the ruling system that was in place here, and the Lordship of Fiumara disappeared.

Then, starting in June of 1810, we are told the new King of Naples, Joachim Murat, and the brother-in-law of Napoleon, ruled the southern Kingdom from the heights of Piale for four months, during which that short period of time he was given the credit for having built the fort of Punta Pezzo, or Piale, with a telegraph tower…

…the Torre Cavallo…

…and the Castello Altafiumara…

…with the Castello Altafiumara and Torre Cavallo both being in close proximity to the Santa Trada Pylon we saw earlier.

This particular geographic location appears to have been a particularly important place on the planetary grid system, similar in scope of what’s here to what I found in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, situated across from each other with the Saint Mary’s River in-between them.

See my blog post “Sault Ste. Marie – A Microcosm of the Advanced & Global Moorish Civilization” for an in-depth analysis of the region nicknamed “The Soo.”

Just a short distance north of Calabria’s Punta Pezzo , we find the Ruffo Castle of Scilla, described as an ancient fortification, and situated on a promontory in the Strait of Messina in the town of Scilla…

…and which houses the Scilla Lighthouse, also operated by the Italian Navy, like the Faro del Cape Peloro in Sicily.

Scilla is also the traditional site associated with the sea monster Scylla of Greek mythology, with its location right at the entrance to the Strait of Messina.

The linguistic idiom “between Scylla and Charybdis” means having to choose between two similarly dangerous situations, like the more common idiom “between a rock and a hard place.”

Other places of interest in Calabria, known in antiquity as Bruttium, include Tropea, an ancient seaside town built on top of a cliff, with a legend of having been founded by Hercules when returning from his labors at the Pillars of Hercules (in the Strait of Gibraltar)…

…and Reggio di Calabria, known as Rhegium in ancient times, located on the toe of the boot of the Italian peninsula.

It is interesting to note the presence of the same design pattern in the architecture of Reggio di Calabria that you find at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC; at Leconte Hall at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia; and at the National Library of Greece in Athens, Greece.

Reggio di Calabria is located on the Aspromonte, a long craggy mountain range that runs up through the center of the region, and described as resembling a giant pyramid.

This is Mount Consolino in the Aspromonte…

…and within the boundaries of Aspromonte National Park, you find places like the ghost towns of Pentedattilo…

…as well as waterfalls, like the multi-storied Maesano waterfalls.

Back across the Strait to take a look at Messina proper, with a population of over 230,000, and the metropolitan area of Messina, which includes Punta del Faro, is around 650,000, making it the third-largest city in Sicily, and the thirteenth largest in Italy.

The Messina Cathedral is said to be an example of Norman architecture, built on the orders of the Norman King Ruggero II in 1120 AD.

For comparison in appearance, this is the Igreja Matriz da Expecacao in Ico, Brazil, on the right.

We are told the current Bell-Tower next to the Messina Cathedral was inaugurated in 1933, after having been designed by the firm of Ungerer of Strasbourg, and is famous for having the biggest and most complex astrological clock in the world.

Every day at noon, a complex system of counterweights, leverages, and gears moves gilded bronze statues located in the facade.


The Fountain of Orion is in front of the Messina Cathedral, and said to have been finished in 1553, commemorating both the city’s mythical founder, and the completion of the first aqueduct of Messina in 1547.

Messina is a major port city.

…and the said-to-be 16th-century Forte del Santissimo Salvatore is located at the port’s entrance.

The Stele of the Madonna Lettera, erected on the fort, was said to have been consecrated and inaugurated in 1934.

I see the Torre Faro pylon in the distance.

It looks like there could be a triangulated relationship between the Stele, the Torre Faro pylon, and the Santa Trada pylon…

…just like the triangulated relationship I found in the first part of this series between the lighthouse at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, and the Fort Point Light on the Presidio side of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Lime Point Light on the other side of the bridge

The next place we come to on the alignment is Mount Etna, on the east coast of Sicily, in what is called the Metropolitan City of Catania, formerly the Province of Catania.

It is located between the cities of Messina and Catania.

It is a stratovolcano that is one of the most active in the world, and is in an almost constant state of activity.

I learned several years ago in a Megalithomania presentation by Antoine Gigal about pyramids around Mount Etna, and I am drawing from her research in the next slides about this obscure subject.

Antoine Gigal is a French writer, researcher and explorer, and the founder of Giza for Humanity who went to Sicily when she heard about 12 pyramids there.

Instead of finding the 12 pyramids she was told about, she found 23 pyramids around Mount Etna, and proceeded to literally do field research, as the pyramids were in the middle of fields.

She found pyramids of different shapes and sizes…

…like an oblong step pyramid between the towns of Passopisciaro and Francavilla…

…which has a standing stone…

…a rectangular pyramid between Linguaglossa and Randazzo…

…and this rectangular pyramid on Mount Etna’s north side.

In Antoine Gigal’s presentation, she demonstrates that the construction style of the Sicilian pyramids is like that of the Guimar Pyramids of Tenerife in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and also like that of the pyramids of the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

The last place I am going to be looking at in Sicily is Catania…

…located at the foot of Mount Etna.

This illustration is said to be of a 1679 eruption of Etna that impacted Catania and also shows what looks to be a star fort around the city or a star city.

This prompted me to look for historic maps of Catania, and I found this old map of the city which confirms the finding.

Beneath the surface-level city of Catania, there are said to be several layers of underground cities…

…and an underground river, named Amenano…

…and in the Piazzo del Duomo, the main square of the city, is the Amenano Fountain of the Amenano River, said to have been sculpted in 1867 by Italian sculptor Tito Angelini.

The Catania Town Hall, also known as the “Palace of the Elephants” is also in the Piazzo del Duomo…

…with the U Liotru fountain, the elephant symbol of Catania, said to have been carved from ancient lava stone and topped by an obelisk from Syene (now called Aswan) in Egypt.

As with everywhere else, there is much more to find in Catania, but I am going to end this post here, and pick up the alignment on the island of Malta.

Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines & Places in Alignment – Part 13 Delphi, Greece to the Ionian Islands

In the last post, I explored the various features of the Aegean Sea, called an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea, including the Strait of Dardenelles, which connects the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara, as well as the Black Sea by the Strait of Bosporus; the location of ancient Troy, near the entrance of the Strait of Dardenelles; Crete; the Dodecanese Islands, which includes the islands of Rhodes and Patmos; the Cyclades Islands, which includes Santorini and Delos; the island of Chios; and the island of Euboea and its neighbor Skyros.

Now I am tracking the alignment to Delphi, an important religious, cultural and social center of Ancient Greece…

…the seat of Pythia, depicted here in a sculpture at the Paris Opera attributed to the female Swiss sculptor Martello in 1870, and who was the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, as well as the oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world…

…and believed to be the center of the World. This is the Omphalos stone, inside the museum at Delphi, a symbol for Delphi’s status as the navel of the Earth…

…with markings reminiscent of a dorje, the symbol of Vajra in Tibetan Buddhism, a Sanskrit word which is said to mean “thunderbolt,” in a reference to a follower achieving enlightenment in a single lifetime in a thunderbolt flash of indestructible clarity….

…and the Omphalos stone at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

Omphalos also had a meaning as a geodetic point of a master grid of electromagnetic energy around the Earth.

In Greek mythology, the King of the Gods, Zeus, was said to have released two eagles at opposite ends of the world, and commanded them to fly across the Earth, and meet at its center. It was at Delphi where the two eagles finally met.

Zeus was the god of sky and thunder…and wielder of the thunderbolt.

So what’s the message being communicated here, with the connection of the thunderbolts to Delphi, Zeus, and the dorje?

It might have something to do with understanding of the Ancients of the Electric Universe and our direct relationship to it…

…studied in-depth in the present day by the Thunderbolts Project…

…and others who have studied the topic of the Electric Universe and the related topic of free energy.

Ancient theaters can be found all over Greece, and Delphi was no exception, where it overlooks the ruins of the Temple of Apollo.

Interestingly, there are similar looking amphitheaters in North America, like the amphitheater on Cameron’s Bluff at Mt. Magazine in Arkansas, which the Works Project Administration of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal gets the credit for building in 1939.

There is also what is described as a gravitational aqueduct in Delphi that carries water to Athens.

This stone bridge is located in a town in the vicinity of Delphi in Greece…

…as are these waterfalls.

Out of curiosity, I looked up Delphi, in the State of Indiana, to see what I would find.

Well, for one thing, it’s the home of the Wabash & Erie Canal…

…which was said to have been in use starting in 1840…

…with at least one beautiful old stone bridge crossing it…

…and this is an old post card of the Deer Creek Dam in Delphi, Indiana.

The Assion-Ruffing City Hall in Delphi, Indiana was said to have opened in 1865 (which was the last year of the American Civil War), and about 20-years later, the third-floor of the building was turned into an opera house.

Then we are told the Opera Hall shut down in 1915, and fell into a state of decay…

…until its renovation, and re-opening 100-years later in 2015.

Back to Delphi in Greece, it was the location of one of the four Panhellenic Games, which included both athletic and non-athletic events, and were called the Pythian games.

We are told this was the starting line of the stadium of Delphi…

…which was located northwest of the theater, in the highest part of the city, and called one of the best-preserved monuments of its kind.

I remember first learning about black-figure Greek art in the 6th-grade (1974 for me) when we studied Ancient Greece, where we are taught that the white Greeks had a style called black-figure in their pottery art, said to be reminiscent of silhouettes.

So here’s what this style looks like.

Could this possibly mean something else quite different from an artistic style?

Like, the Ancient Greeks were actually black, and not white as we have been taught?

The ancient city of Delphi, and its modern-counterpart is situated on Mount Parnassus, described as a mountain of limestone.

Limestone is classified as a carbonate sedimentary rock composed primarily of calcite and aragonite.

Is this limestone a natural rock formation…or ancient masonry?

The etymology of the word Parnassus is said to be Luwian, the hieroglyphic language of the Lycians of southwestern Anatolia, derived from a word meaning temple.

The Phaidriades are the pair of cliffs on the lower southern slopes of Mt. Parnassus which rise above Delphi.

There is polygonal masonry at Delphi…

…like what you find in Cuzco in Peru, another place called the navel of the world, at the Coricancha…

…and Sacsayhuaman, just outside of Cuzco…

…as well as at Edo Castle in Tokyo, Japan.

This is also at Edo Castle. Polygonal masonry is defined as a technique wherein the visible surfaces of the stones are dressed with straight edges or joints, giving the block the appearance of a polygon.

I first learned about Amphictonyes – associations of twelve neighboring states or tribes formed around a religious center – from a presentation given by Christine Rhone titled “Twelve Tribe Nations – Sacred Number and the Golden Age” at the 2009 Megalithomania Conference in Glastonbury, England.

She and John Michel co-authored a book of the same name.  Among other things, they followed the Apollo – St. Michael alignment across countries and continents all the way to Jerusalem in Israel.  They discuss records and traditions of whole nations being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months of the year.  All formed around a sacred center.

It stands to reason that these people would apply the same concepts of Harmony, Balance, Beauty, Sacred Geometry, and aligning heaven and earth, to building their communities and themselves that they applied to building all of the infrastructure of the earth.

The most important amphictonye, we are told, was the Delphic Amphictonye, or Amphictonyic League, centered around the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

What if we are talking about an arrangement like what you see pictured here of the Twelve Tribes of Israel  occurring in a flower of life pattern, from macro to micro, covering the surface of the Earth?

This information about amphictonyes helped to inform my belief that the Twelve Tribes of Israel were the basis for how civilization was laid out all over the Earth, as well as finding information about Lost Tribes of Israel in diverse places, like the South Pacific…

…the Kuki in India…

…the Pashtun of Afghanistan and Pakistan…

…and Madagascar.

There is another place near Delphi I would like to take a look at before I move on.

The Hosios Loukas Monastery is southeast of Delphi, and close to, if not on, the alignment I have been tracking.

Hosios Loukas Monastery is one of three monasteries in Greece listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, along with Nea Moni on the island of Chios, which I looked at in the last post, and Daphnion, northwest of Athens.

It is located on the slopes of Mount Helicon…

…the home in Greek myth of the nine muses, the inspirational goddesses of literature, sciences, and the arts.

This vaulting is in the interior of the Hosios Loukas Monastery…

…compared with vaulting in the catacombs under the Paris Opera…

…and the underground vaulting that is found at what is called the old Portuguese fort on Iran’s Hormoz Island in the Strait of Hormoz in the Persian Gulf.

After leaving Delphi, I started to track a circle alignment instead of a linear alignment.

These cities and places in alignment are based upon sacred geometry contained within the Flower of Life pattern as depicted in this overlay…

…and can be found in lines and circles, as all sacred geometric shapes are found within the Flower of Life.

The alignment I am now tracking enters the Ionian Sea and crosses over the islands of Atokos, Ithaca and Kefalonia, which is the largest of…

…the Ionian Islands of western Greece.

The small island of Atokos is privately owned, but visitors are allowed to come here and it is visited frequently by yachters…

…and is located just off the main shipping channel between Brindisi in Italy and Patras in Greece.

Just like I found on the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, the water is so crystal clear on Atokos, it looks like the boats are floating on air.

The island of Ithaca comes next. It is a regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and its population in 2011 was a little over 3,000 people.

Its capital is Vathy, also the main harbor of the island, and which looks to be artificially made…

… with its masonry banks…

…and artificial island.

Modern Ithaca is generally identified as the home of Odysseus, whose ten-year-long adventure in returning to Ithaca after the fall of Troy is the subject of Homer’s “Odyssey.”

Kefalonia, just southwest of Ithaca, is the largest of the ionian Islands and also a regional unit of the Ionian Islands region.

The capital of Kefalonia is Argostoli, which it has been since 1757, and called one of the busiest ports in Greece, with its shaped shoreline…

…and masonry banks, like those of Vathy on Ithaca.

The ancient Greek-temple-looking Fanari Lighthouse, or Lighthouse of Saints Theodore, in Argostoli was said to have been built by the British in 1829…

…and the De Bosset Bridge in Argostoli was said to have been inspired in 1813 by the Swiss engineer Charles de Bosset, who became governor of the island in 1810 when the Republic of the Ionian Islands was under British patronage.

The obelisk on an artificial island beside the bridge was said to have been erected to commemorate the British builders and patrons of the bridge.

The Castle of Saint George is 4-miles, or 7-kilometers, southeast of Argostoli, above the village of Peretata.

It was said to have been built in the 12th-century A.D. by the Byzantines, and improved by the Venetians. Apparently, Peretata as Agios was the capital of Kefalonia until it was moved to Argostoli in 1757.

Assos Castle or fortress is on Kefalonia, and was said to have been built on top of the Assos Peninsula by the Venetians in the 16th-century A.D. to protect Assos village from pirates and/or a naval invasion.

Before I close-out this particular post, I would to share what I found about the history of the Ionian Islands, of which there are seven main islands, in the last few hundred years.

I will start when the Ionian Islands were said to have become part of the Venetian Republic in 1500 A.D., also known as La Serenissima, or Most Serene Republic of Venice, described as a sovereign state and maritime republic.

Then in 1797, the Treaty of Campoformio was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzi, as representatives of the French Republic and the Austrian Monarchy respectively.

This treaty disbanded and partitioned the Venetian Republic by the French and the Austrians, and the Ionian Islands were awarded to France.

At that time, the Ionian Islands became the short-lived French Department of Ithaque, as it fell to the Russians in 1798, and was officially ended in 1802.

Between the years of 1800 and 1807, the Ionian Islands were known as the Septinsular Republic under Russian and Ottoman rule after the Russian/Ottoman fleet defeated Napoleon Bonaparte.

Then in 1807, Napoleon signed two agreements in the town of Tilsit in what was the Prussia in East Germany, one between Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and the second treaty was signed with Prussia, and the Ionian Islands were returned to France, becoming a French Protectorate.

Then, in 1809, the British blockaded the Ionian Islands as part of the war against Napoleon, in September of that year, hoisted the British flag on the island of Zakynthos, with Kefalonia and Ithaca soon surrendering. The British installed provisional governments here.

The Treaty of Paris of 1815 recognized the United States of the Ionian Islands, and established them as a British Protectorate.

Then, in 1864, the Ionian Islands were transferred back to Greece to become a full member of the Greek State when the British-backed Prince William of Denmark became King George the I of the Hellenes in 1863.

When he was nearing the 50th-year of his reign, he was assassinated in 1913 in Thessaloniki, near the White Tower…

…by a Socialist named Alexandros Schinas, who said, when he was arrested, that he killed the king because the king had refused to give him money.

So, all along the alignment, I have found wars, treaties, partitions, regime changes, and assassinations by individuals of highly questionable mental health, or politically-motivated, in our historical narrative. In a future post, I will be putting all of the information I have found regarding this subject along the way into one post because it illustrates some of the modus operandi by which the old world order was taken down, and replaced with a new one.

In the next post, I am heading for the narrow strait of Messina between the toe of the boot of the Italian Peninsula and the island of Sicily, and the location where Odysseus would have encountered Scylla and Charybdis on his adventurous trip home from Troy.

Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines & Places in Alignment – Part 12 The Aegean Sea

In the last post, I took the opportunity to venture off the alignment and explore the ancient Anatolian Plateau, from the western Taurus Mountains and the Antalya Province, and the Turkish Riviera; east across the Taurus Mountains to Lake Egirdir, Konya Province, Mount Nemrut, and Sanliurfa Province. Then I looked at the city of Kars, in northeastern Turkey, and situated on the country’s closed border with Armenia; Munzur National Park in north-central Turkey; the capital of modern Turkey since 1923, Ankara; the former imperial capital, Constantinople, known since 1923 as Istanbul; and I ended at the coastal city of Izmir in Western Anatolia, where the alignment leaves Turkey and enters the Aegean Sea.

The Aegean Sea is called an elongated embayment, or bay, of the Mediterranean Sea between the Anatolian and Greek Peninsulas.

In the North, the Aegean is connected to the Sea of Marmara, entirely within the borders of Turkey, and which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and separates Turkey into its European and Asian parts…

…and said to take its name from Marmara Island, from the Greek word for marble, and it is rich in sources of marble…

…between the Straits of Dardenelles and Bosporus.

The Strait of Dardenelles was the location of the Gallipoli Campaign, one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.

The Gallipoli Campaign took place between April 25, 1915, and January 9, 1916. A joint British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (known as Istanbul since 1923) and secure a sea route to Russia.

While the Ottomans were victorious at the end of this campaign, they ultimately lost the war. At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and lost its Middle East holdings, which were divided between the Allied Forces.

The first thing I am finding in researching information about the Gallipoli Campaign are the presence of many forts on both sides of the entrance to the Strait of Dardenelles, including, but not limited to the places circled here: Cape Helles and Kilid Bahr on the European side of the Strait; and Kum Kale and Chanak, or Canakkale, on the Asian side.

Fort Sedd-el-Bahr, said to mean “Key of the Sea,” was on Cape Helles at the entrance to the Straits.

This is a view of the Sedd-el-Bahr from the bow of the SS River Clyde, a collier, at the start of the joint-British-and-French amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula at Cape Helles on April 25th, 1915.

Its location was designated as “V Beach” of the Gallipoli Campaign.

The Royal Navy bombarded the Sedd-el-Bahr, also known as Fort #3, along with Fort Ertugrul, known as Fort #1 on the other side of “V Beach.”

The Fort at Kum Kale was on the opposite side of entrance to the Strait of Dardenelles from Cape Helles

The Battle of Kum Kale was said to have been fought on April 25th, 1915, between Ottoman defenders and French troops as a diversion from the main landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

The fort at Kum Kale was completely destroyed by naval gun fire early in the operations.

Further up, we find the Fort of Kilitbahir and Cimenlik Castle situated across from other on the Strait of Dardenelles.

Kilitbahir, or “Lock of the Sea,” was said to have been built by Sultan Mehmet II in 1463 in the form of a clover…

…and Cimenlik Castle was also said to have been built in the same year as Kalitbahir by Mehmet II to be defenses, we are told, to ensure the protection of the Dardenelles, and to control the maritime traffic to-and-from Constantinople.

I have consistently found star forts paired together, among other things, like here in the Strait of Dardenelles…

…and many other places around the world, like the two star forts in Puebla, Mexico, the Fort of Guadalupe…

…and Fort Loreto…

…that are situated relatively close to each other, on a hill not far from the city center of Puebla.

The Battle of Puebla is where the legendary Cinco de Mayo battle took place on May 5, 1862, where poorly-equipped Mexican forces were said to have defeated superior French forces.

I have also found clusters of star forts in the same location.

As I alluded with the numbering of Fort Sedd-el-Bahr and Fort Ertugrul earlier, there were at least 24 numbered forts in the Strait of Dardenelles…because Fort Anadolu Hamidiye was number 24, said to have been built by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I between 1393 and 1394.

I found this map of what are described as the Dardanelles defenses circa 1915, showing the places I have shared with you, and many more, situated in pairs, or clusters in alignment with each other.

Along the same lines, I can make a case that there were four pairs of star forts along the Lower and Upper New York Bay, with each pair situated along various points starting from Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook island in New Jersey and Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York at the entrance of the Lower New York Bay, up through the pair of Fort Jay on Governors Islands and what was Fort Amsterdam in Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.

The physical structure of what was called Fort Gibson on Ellis Island is long buried and gone, but the Statue of Liberty stands right on top of Fort Wood.

Another shared feature of the Strait of Dardenelles and other places is that there seem to have been certain locations with a high concentration of star forts, like the island nation of Bermuda, which is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, 665-miles, or 1,070-kilometers, east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

This is a 1624 map depicting numerous star fort looking structures that were found at one time throughout Bermuda, and said to have been made by Captain John Smith of Pocahontas and Virginia fame in our historical narrative.

Another place in the Atlantic Ocean with a high-concentration of star forts is Fernando de Noronha, off the coast of Brazil near the coastal city of Natal. Here are historic drawings of eight of the ten I found out about within an archipelago whose area totals 10-square miles, 26-kilometers squared.

Then I found what appears to have been at least thirteen star forts in the city of Kars at one time, the largest city on Turkey’s closed border with Armenia.

I think places like these were significant power centers for the energy system of the planetary grid, and star forts represented the definition of battery meaning “a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit…”

…and not the definition of battery meaning “The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target” that we are led to believe in our current historical narrative.

Before I move on from the Strait of Dardenelles where it meets the Aegean Sea, I would like to point out that ancient Troy, the location of the famous Trojan War between the troops of King Priam of Troy and King Agamemnon of Mycenae, was situated between the mouth of the Strait of Dardenelles…

…and Mount Ida, the location in Homer’s Iliad where the Olympian Gods gathered to watch the progress of the Trojan War.

I found this old stone bridge in the Mount Ida region in Turkey…

…that looks similar to the Rakotz stone bridge in Gablenz, Germany.

And you can’t make this stuff up. One of the first Royal Navy battleships to bombard the Fort Sedd-el-Bahr, and other places in the Strait of Dardenelles, starting in February of 1915, two-months before the official start of the Gallipoli Campaign in April of 1915, was the HMS Agamemnon, the name of the Mycenaean King who victoriously led the attack against Troy as described in Homer’s Iliad…near the actual geographic location of ancient Troy!

It makes me wonder if the reason for World War I was not the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and a network of interlocking alliances between countries, but another reason entirely: to assist with the destruction and complete takeover of the ancient and advanced Moorish civilization.

There are numerous islands and island groups in the Aegean Sea, including:

…Crete, the largest and most populous of the Aegean Islands, and a place where the Venetians, Genoese, Byzantines, and Turks were all said to have built forts to defend the island from enemies and pirates, with 15 Genoese forts alone, like the one at Rethymnon…

…and Candia was said to have been built by the Venetians, known today as Heraklion, the capital of modern Crete…

…the Dodecanese islands, which includes the Island of Rhodes, which is the place for which the State of Rhode Island was named when Giovanni da Verrazzano likened an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay to the Island of Rhodes in 1524…

…the island of Patmos, where John the Apostle was given the vision in the Book of Revelations…

…the Cyclades Island group, which includes Santorini, known for having one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and by the way, what an interesting lofty, rocky spot to built on top of…

…and Delos, one of the most important mythological, historical and archeological sites in Greece, and once considered a holy sanctuary.

The alignment I have been tracking from San Francisco goes across the island of Chios in the North Aegean Sea. While it is separated only a relatively short distance from Turkey by the Chios Strait, it is part of Greece.

The Nea Moni Monastery on Chios was said to have been constructed during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachus, starting in 1042 AD, with the main building having been opened in 1049 AD…

…and the complex having been completed in 1055 AD, after Constantine’s death.

Nea Moni was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990, one of 18 in Greece.

Chios is the main population center of the island, and apparently what is called the Chios Castle, called a medieval citadel said to have been built first by the Byzantines, and then finished by the Genoese…

…next to what looks like an artificially made port facility, with its straight lines and angles, and the Chios Citadel contains a portion of the city within its walls…

…and appears to be one of the many shapes a star fort takes.

Not only that, there are Turkish, also known as Ottoman, baths at Chios Castle.

Just north of Chios Town is the town of Vrontados…

…which claims to be the birthplace of Homer, the blind poet of ancient Greece best known for the epic poems of the Iliad, about the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, about Odysseus’ ten-year voyage trying to get back home after the Fall of Troy.

Pyrgi Village is south of Chios, known for the decoration of its houses…

…and as being the traditional seat of the Mastic Villages, where the residents engage in mastic agriculture, farming the resin of the mastic tree, used as a chewing gum, treatment for things like digestive problems, and for making a liqueur and oil.

As of 2018, there were twenty-four Mastic Villages on the island of Chios dedicated to the cultivation and production of mastic.

From the island of Chios, the alignment crosses the Aegean Sea to the island of Euboea, which is administered as part of Central Greece.

Euboea is the second-largest Greek island, after Crete, and separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait.

Euboea’s main city of Chalcis is situated around the narrowest point of the Euripus Strait.

The Karababa Castle is situated on a hilltop right next to this narrow point, and said to have been built by the Ottoman Turks in 1684 to protect the city from Venetians.

And this is the waterfront of Chalcis…with its masonry banks.

…compared with the masonry banks of the Providence River in Providence, Rhode Island.

At one time, the island of Euboea was known by another name…Negroponte…

…and part of what was known as the Kingdom, or Realm, of the Morea.

The island of Euboea is long and narrow, with a mountain range, we are told, traversing the length of it.

The island of Skyros is a regional unit of Euboea, and is the southernmost of the Sporades Islands.

Around 2,000 BC, we are told, Skyros was known as the Island of the Magnetes, identifying their homeland in Thessaly, in a part that is still known as Magnesia.

Well, that information caught my attention because awhile back I remembered reading something about Plato describing Magnesia in “The Republic” as an ideal city and society living in harmony.

There were two prosperous cities in western Anatolia with the name of Magnesia. They were Magnesia-on-the-Maeander…

…and Magnesia ad Sipylum.

Given that I believe the ancient advanced Moorish civilization lived in peace, balance, and harmony, the information that Plato described Magnesia as an ideal society really resonates with me as having existed at one time, and wasn’t just a fictional, idealized society.

I will end this post here, and pick up the alignment in Delphi, Greece.

Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines & Places in Alignment – Part 11 The Anatolian Plateau

In the last post, I tracked this alignment which originated in San Francisco through Van, the name of a city and province in eastern Turkey, and taking a close look at the history of this region in the Armenian Highlands; to the Valley of the Chimney Fairies in Goreme National Park in the historical region of Cappadocia, as well as taking a look at the region’s underground cities and above-ground rock complexes.

The Anatolian Plateau is called the central upland region of the ancient region of Anatolia, known as Turkey today. The region of Cappadocia and its Valley of the Fairy Chimneys in Goreme National Park from the last post is centrally located on the Anatolian Plateau.

Anatolia is said to mean something along the lines of “Rising Sun” or “the East” in ancient Greek, and has been a bridge between Europe and Asia for thousands of years.

In a similar fashion, Khorasan, the name historically given to the northeastern Persia Empire which came up in previous posts on this alignment, is also said to mean the “Land where the Sun Rises” or the “Eastern Province.”

The Anatolian Plateau is hemmed in by two mountain ranges – the Taurus to the South, and the Pontic Mountains in the northeast & the Kure Mountains in the northwest.

While I am here, I am going to take this opportunity to venture off the alignment and explore this ancient place because I know there is a lot to find.

The Taurus Mountains separate the Mediterranean Coastal Region of Turkey from the Central Anatolian Plateau, extending in a curve from the Province of Antalya in the West…

…to the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the East.

Antalya Province, also known as the Turkish Riveria, is the center of Turkey’s Tourism Industry, and its capital, Antalya, is the fifth-largest city in Turkey.

It is the largest city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, with a population of over one-million.

This is Kaputas Beach on the Mediterranean Sea in Antalya…

…compared with Green Sand Beach on the big island of Hawaii…

…Vaja Beach in Korcula, Croatia…

…and Grama Bay in Albania.

These are just a few of many examples I have found that demonstrate similar shapes and angles of beach and rocky coastline in very different places.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Xanthos is in Antalya Province, said to be an ancient Lycian city.

This is what remains of the Nereid Monument in Xanthos, with its megalithic base, and believed to be a tomb…

…that was discovered by a British explorer of Turkey, Charles Fellows, who led the archaeological excavation of Xanthos in the early 1840s and shipped an enormous amount of antique monuments to London, where they were reconstructed in the halls of the British Museum, including the Nereid Monument.

Charles Fellows was knighted in 1845 for his services in the removal of Xanthian antiquities to Britain.

This is a surprisingly plain tombstone for him at London’s Highgate cemetery ~ I wonder what that signified!

The Lycian Nereid Monument was said to have inspired the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, said to have been built between 353 and 350 BC as a tomb for King Mausolus, ruler of Caria, a region of western Anatolia north of Lycia…

…and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was said to have been the inspiration for the old Standard Oil Headquarters in Manhattan…said to have been built between 1884 and 1928??

Lycia was a geopolitical region in Southern Anatolia, populated by speakers of the Luwian Language group…

… said to have been a language with a hieroglyphic script in use between 1,300 BC and 600 BC…

…and here are the Lycian rock-cut temple tombs of Dalyan, said to date back to the 4th-century BC.

…which are reminiscent of rock-cut Petra in Jordan, attributed to a people called the Nabateans.

Once considered part of ancient Lycia, the Olympos-Beydaglari National Park is located in the Taurus Mountains in Antalya, along the Mediterranean coast, near the Kemer and Kumluca Districts. It is also called Olympos-Bey National Park.

Hmmm. There is that “Khem” sound again. And Bey is one of the five noble titles of the Moors, along with Dey, El, Al, and Ali. Just a coincidence?

Let’s take a closer look at Olympos-Bey National Park.

The Olympos-Bey National Park contains the ruins of what was called the city of Olympos…

…and the park includes Mount Olympos, the highest mountain in Turkey.

This is not to be confused with Mount Olympus in Greece, on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia.

It is the highest mountain in Greece, and notable in Greek mythology for being the home of the Greek gods.

But wait…in North America, there is a Mount Olympus in Washington State, the highest mountain on the Olympic Peninsula there…

…and there is a Mount Olympus in Utah, near Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Range.

Named after Mount Olympus in Greece? That’s certainly what we are led to believe by historical omission, but what if these two Mount Olympuses in North America, and the ones in Greece and Turkey, are representative in some way of the ancient advanced civilization worldwide that we have not been told about?

Lake Egirdir is located in the Taurus Mountains.

The ancient town of Egirdir on the lake shore looks to have an artificial island, called “Yesil Ada” or “Green Island,” attached to it by a causeway.

There is also a protected harbor here at Egirdir…

…that looks like protected harbors I have seen around the world, like Olafsvik harbor in Iceland…

…Funchal Harbor on the island of Madeira…

…the harbor at Chichi-Jimi in Japan’s Bonin Island group…

…and the ports of Dover, England and…

…and Calais, France in the English Channel, to name a very few.

Heading east across the Taurus Mountains running along the southern part of the Anatolian Plateau, we come to the province and city of Konya.

The Mevlana Museum is in the city of Konya.

The Mevlana Museum is also the mausoleum of the Sufi Mystic Rumi…

…whose followers founded the Mevlevi Order based there, better known as the Whirling Dervishes, who practice a spinning dance used to connect with the Divine.

The Turkish rug on the left from Konya has similar design patterns to the Persian rug from Mashhad, Iran, on the right.

The heavy masonry of the Taskopru, or Stone Bridge, is a combined regular dam and bridge in Konya Province, a flood barrier said to have been built between 1908 and 1912 on what was called a ruined arch bridge…

…and Catalhoyuk is located in Konya Province, a neolithic city that is dated back to origins in 7,100 BC…

…and Lake Tuz, pictured on the top, is in Konya Province, the second-largest lake in Turkey, and one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world. It is compared with the world’s largest salt flat on the bottom, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

Both are incredibly reflective!

Lake Tuz is situated on this alignment I have been tracking starting in San Francisco, California.

Further east, we come to more interesting places, like Mount Nemrut…

… in Commagene, a historical kingdom of Armenia located in what is now Turkey.

Mount Nemrut is described as a tomb-sanctuary built by King Antiochus I Theos, ruler of Commagene from 70 BC – 36 BC.

On the eastern side of the complex, there are what appears to be just colossal human and animal heads.

The question is: broken heads, like we are told, or buried heads…

…because, on the western side of the complex, there is a row of intact colossal full statues with similar heads…

…as well as a large relief with a lion superimposed with an arrangement of stars, and said to depict the planets of Jupiter, Mercury, and Mars as a star chart that gives us the date of July 7th in 62 BC, and is surmised to be an indication of when construction on the complex began.

At any rate, this is what the available information has to say about it.

Heading further along towards the eastern end of the Taurus Mountains in the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, we are close to the province of Sanliurfa in southeast Turkey near the country’s borders with Syria and Iraq.

The capital of Sanliurfa Province, is Sanliurfa, also known as Urfa. It is also believed to be Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldeans, the hometown of Abraham, and is approximately 50-miles, or 80-kilometers, east of the Euphrates River.

The location of Abraham’s birthplace, with the entrance pictured here, is generally believed to have been in Harran, less than 20-miles, or 32-kilometers, from the city of Sanliurfa.

The Pool of Abraham, or Balikli Gol, in the city of Sanliurfa is believed to have been where Nimrod threw Abraham into a fire, but God turned the flames into water, and the logs into fish.

The carp in the Pool of Abraham are held sacred, and protected to this day.

Gobekli Tepe is an archaeological site approximately 7-miles, or 12-kilometers, northeast of the city of Sanliurfa.

In 1994, Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute reviewed an archaeological survey done in 1963 conducted jointly by Istanbul University and the University of Chicago.

The site was buried, and the following year, in collaboration with the Sanliurfa Museum, Klaus Schmidt unearthed the first of many huge T-shaped pillars.

More than 200 stone pillars in about 20 circles are known through geophysical surveys, with heights up to 20 feet, or 6-meters, and weighing up to 10-tons, and fitted into sockets hewn out of bedrock.

It is dated back to the 10th-century BC, or 12,000 years ago, and is considered the oldest man-made temple complex yet discovered.

Interestingly, there are animal reliefs carved onto the pillars like this one…

…compared with similar-looking carvings found at Cutimbo in Peru, near Lake Titicaca…

…and at the Lore Lindu National Park on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Moving northeast, close to the Pontic Mountains, is the city of Kars, in eastern Anatolia.

Kars is the largest city along Turkey’s closed border with Armenia, and a settlement that was historically a crossroads of Armenian, Turkish, Georgian, Kurdish, and Russian cultures.

As such, apparently it was of great interest, and the history we are told about it is filled with battles and sieges for control of it.

The Siege of Kars of 1855, for example, was the last major operation to took place during the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856, between the Russian Empire, which ultimately lost the war, and an alliance between the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain, and Sardinia.

Interestingly, in 1854 a British general had been sent to Kars by the supreme commander and chief of British Expeditionary Forces in Crimea to assess the situation.

When I look at this map depicting the siege, I see what appear to be at least thirteen star forts, and which appear to no longer exist in modern times.

Here is an antique map of Kars which also appears to show shapes that could indicate the presence of star forts.

I believe that star forts functioned as part of the circuitry of the original grid system of the earth, and were not military in nature as we have been told. I find them all over the alignments I have found, and they seem to have been prime targets for explorers and European European colonial empires.

The Kars Citadel is still here, though apparently only seven of the original 220 towers remain.

It was said to have been built by the Saltuks in 1152 AD.

There were canals in Kars…

…and these next two photos taken in Kars show classic mud flood evidence of like steep streets with disappearing windows at ground-level, and below-ground level.

Next, I would like to look at Munzur National Park on the Anatolian plateau, situated between the Taurus and Pontic Mountains, and the Armenian Highlands.

It is the largest national park in Turkey, and was established in 1971.

This is a bend of the Munzur River in the national park in Turkey…

…compared with Horseshoe Bend in Page, Arizona…

…this riverbend in the Hulunbuir Grasslands of Inner Mongolia…

…and the Yellow, or Huang He River, the Mother River of China.

The capital of Turkey was moved to the Anatolian Plateau in 1923, when the city of Ankara was chosen as the capital of the new state to remove it from the former imperial capital of Istanbul and to place the capital it in a more central location in the country.

It appears that Ankara is quite the mix of ancient and modern infrastructure!

Within Genclik Park, which is a public park just across the street from Ankara’s main train station…

…we find Ankara’s Luna Park amusement park.

I also found that Mashhad, Iran has a Luna Park as well, in its Mellatt Park.

Mellat Park in Mashhad has amazing hydrological features and beautiful fountains…

…as does Genclik Park in Ankara.

Ankara was one of the main tribal centers of the Galatians, we are told. Galatia in Anatolia was part of the ancient Celtic World.

So interestingly, when I see Ankara Citadel, the foundations of which were said to have been laid by the Galatians in more ancient times (no date was given but prior to Roman times) on a prominent lava outcrop…

…I am once again reminded of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland, which was said to have been built starting around 1100 AD on the plug of an extinct volcano…

…which is what I thought of when I was looking at the rocky outcrop Van Castle is situated on in Van, Turkey, in the last post, said to have been built by the Urartian King Sarduri in 900 BC…

…and the Kars Citadel, circa 1152 AD by the Saltuks, that we just visited looks similar to these other three places.

Yet all built by different civilizations at different times?

When Ankara became the capital of the new Republic of Turkey in 1923, it had been moved from Istanbul, the country’s imperial, historic, economic, and cultural center straddling the continents of Europe and Asia across the Bosporus Strait.

Prior to the capital’s move to Ankara, Istanbul was known as Constantinople, at one time the capital of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Latin Empire, and from 1453 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire.

I am immediately drawn to look into Galata, situated between the Bosphorus Strait and what is called the Golden Horn, directly across from the main part of historical Constantinople.

In this history I read about Galata, the name is said to have come from the Greek “Galatai, referring to a Celtic tribe of Gauls who were said to have camped here during Hellenistic times before moving on to the Galatia region in Central Anatolia.

Why would they name a place permanently for temporary inhabitants that were only passing through?

The Galata Tower there absolutely dominates everything in its surroundings!

However, we are told the Genoese get the credit for building it in 1378, when they had a colony here between 1273 and 1453, at the apex of the walls of the citadel, also said to have been built by the Genoese, that no longer exists.

Here are more photos of the outside of the Galata Tower…

…and of the inside of the Galata Tower.

This picture of inside the Galata Tower…

…looks like the Basilica Cistern, the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath Istanbul, and said to have been built during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I between 527 to 565.

The Basilica Cistern is located…

…490-feet, or 150-meters, from the Hagia Sophia, also said to have been built during the reign of Emperor Justinian I, between 532 and 537 AD.

I found this diagram showing the geometric lay-out of the Hagia Sophia…which contains an eight-pointed star.

The last place I am going to look at is the city of Izmir, a city on the western edge of the Anatolian Plateau.

The alignment I have been following passes through here on its way towards the Aegean Sea and Greece.

Known in times past as Smyrna, from ancient times to around 1930, at which time it became predominantly known by its Turkish counterpart, Izmir.

Izmir has more than 3,000 years of recorded urban history…

…and up to 8,500 years as a human settlement since the Neolithich area, with Yesilova Hoyuk being continuously inhabited at least between 6,500 BC and to 4,000 BC.

Discovered in 2003, the Yesilova Hoyuk site was at some point in its history…

…covered in silt.

Silt is defined as a fine sand clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment.

Izmir’s Metropolitan area extends along the outlying waters of the Gulf of Izmir, where we see what appears to be a shaped, masonry shoreline…

…and inland to the north across the Gediz River Delta, which has a shape similar to the Connecticut River along the Vermont – New Hampshire border in the United States.

The last place I am going to take a look at in Izmir is Konak Square.

This is the clock tower there, said to have been built in the Moorish style in 1901 by the Levantine French architect Raymond Charles Pere.

Levantine refers to the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Middle East, in the Levant, which included the country now called Turkey.

This is the Konak Pier on the eastern end of Konak Square.

Gustav Eiffel is credited with its construction in 1890, a French civil engineer and architect most famous for the tower in Paris bearing his name.

Konak Pier is now an upmarket shopping mall in Izmir.

There is so much more to find, but I am going to end this post here. 

It is clear that this geographical region known since 1923 as Turkey, for less than 100-years, and known as Anatolia for far longer, has a very ancient and storied and obscured past, which goes back at least 12,000 years with the dating of the Gobekli Tepe Complex, and with many places showing evidence of having been covered over massively with silt, or mud, or whatever would have caused things like needing to be dug out from the earth.

In the next post, I am going to be picking up the alignment leaving Izmir to where it enters the Aegean Sea.

Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines & Places in Alignment – Part 10 Van, Turkey to the Valley of the Fairy Chimneys

In the last post, I tracked the alignment from Mashhad, the capital of Iran’s Razavi Khorasan Province, the second-largest city in modern Iran, and at one time a major oasis on the ancient Silk Road; across the Elburz Mountains, and Mount Damavand, the highest peak in Iran; through Sari, capital of Iran’s Mandarazan Province, and situated between the slopes of the Elburz Mountains and the Caspian Sea; to Tabriz, a historical capital of Iran, and capital of the East Azerbaijan Province; and ending at Lake Urmia in Iran, the sixth-largest salt lake on earth.

I am picking up the alignment in Van, the name of a city an province in eastern Turkey, and on the eastern shore of a lake of the same name.

Van has a long history a major city.

It was the capital of the Kingdom of Urartu of ancient Armenia from the 9th-century BC to the 6th-century BC, when it was called Tushpa.

Tushpa was situated on the steep-sided bluff now known as Van Fortress or Castle (Van Kalesi in Turkish)…

…which is similar in appearance and location to the Edinburgh Castle, said to be somewhere around 1,100-years-old in Scotland on top of Castle Rock, which is called the plug of an extinct volcano.

Van Castle was said to have been built in the 9th-century BC by King Sarduri I, the third monarch of Urartu,who was said to have moved the capital of Urartu to Van.

King Sarduri used the title of “King of the Four Corners of the World,” a title of great prestige claimed by powerful monarchs in ancient Mesopotamia.

As a matter of fact, there was a time when Armenia was considered the center of the world, as depicted in this map.

So, in the case of Van Castle, almost 3,000 years ago we were capable of building massive stone fortresses on top of solid rock, not an easily location to built on by any stretch of the imagination…

…and apparently working with huge stone blocks was not a problem!

This is described as a bronze sphinx dated to the 7th-century BC, and said to be from either Tushpa…

…or Toprakkale, southwest of Lake Van.

Some interesting things I found about Toprakkale when I looked it up is that there is a high fortress there as well (and I find the flat landscape surrounding the hill and fortress to be noteworthy)…

…and it is known for being the place where the Toprakkale Shuttle was found, which was taken out of display in Istanbul because some believed it to be a hoax.

Others believed the Toprakkale Shuttle to be over 2,000-years-old.

I think it is important to spend some time looking throughout at the history of this geographical area because it seems to have great importance.

What was this place historically?

Who were the People of Ar?

They identify with that eight-pointed star symbol as well that I keep seeing everywhere…

…including, but far from limited to, the Gumti Monument in Faisalabad, Pakistan…

…and at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran.

This six-pointed star tetrahedron is found carved throughout Armenia

…also known as the Star of David…

…and the Merkaba, the geometric shape of the Human Lightbody.

Some psychically-gifted people are able to see the Human aura, or energy body, but most are unable to see it without the help of Kirlian photography.

This is because the natural psychic abilities of Humanity have been deliberately deactivated by not teaching us about them, and by active efforts to close down our primary psychic organ, the pineal gland, also known as the third-eye, by doing things fluoridating water supplies, which leads to the calcification of the pineal gland.

Back to the Lake Van region, and historical Armenia.

The Armenian alphabet at one time was hieroglyphic…

…and in 405 AD, the introduction of the Armenian alphabet still in use today was credited to Mesrop Mashtots and Isaac of Armenia.

Isaac? A prominent Old Testament name in Armenia?

We are told that the Armenian alphabet was carved in stone in 2005 by Armenian architect Jim Torosyan in Artashavan, Armenia, on the eastern slope of Mt. Aragats, on the northern end of the Ararat Plain, near Mashtot’s final resting place to celebrate the 1,600th-anniversary of its creation.

Mt. Ararat, the legendary landing place of Noah’s Ark, was located in Urartu, and now it is part of modern Turkey.

The Sumerians called Ararat “Arrata,” and they tell of this land of their ancestors in the Armenian Highlands in their epic poems of Gilgamesh and Arrata, which also both describe a great flood which fell…from the highlands of Armenia.

The ancient metallurgical and astronomical center of Metsamor, near Armenia’s modern-day capital of Yerevan, gives its name to the Metsamor Civilization, believed by some to be the world’s first civilization.

This is Carahunge Stone Circle in southern Armenia, an astronomical observatory marking the movement of the sun, moon and stars.

It is believed to be 7,500-years-old.

Great Britain is much better known for its standing stone circles with archeoastronomical correlations.

The two photographs on the left show Armenian stone crosses, and on the right are two stone crosses found along the River Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland. Not identical, but similar stylizations.

Interestingly, I found this map referencing the Kingdom of Iberia in Armenia’s part of the world, the Transcaucasia, a geographical region in the southern Caucasus Mountains that corresponds to modern Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

I knew about Spain and Portugal being called Iberia, and occupying what is called the Iberian Peninsula.

I know there is a province of Galicia in Spain…

…and the region of Galatia in Turkey…

…and there was a Kingdom of Galicia & Lodomeria, located historically between what is now Poland and Ukraine, and which was dissolved in 1918.

This research led me to this map of the Celtic World circa 400 BC.

How and why did the history of this part of the world get so obscured? What are we not being told?

And when was what was historically part of Armenia was absorbed into modern Turkey?

What happened?

This is what we are told about Turkey’s history.

Ancient Asia Minor, or Anatolia, consisted of the majority of modern-day Turkey, which is a country in both Asia and Europe.

What is now modern Turkey was once part of the Byzantine Empire…

…until the Seljuk Turks started coming into Anatolia in the 11th-century.

They defeated the Byzantines in battle in 1071, and reign of the Seljuk Turks is said to symbolize the founding of Turkey.

The Seljuk Turks fell to Mongol invasions, which started in 1241.

The Mongols ruled as the “Ilkhanate” in Anatolia between 1243 and 1335.

Then, we are told the Ottoman Empire was founded at the end of the 13th-century in northwestern Anatolia and existed as a vast empire and center of interactions between east and west until the end of World War I, when it was defeated as an ally of Germany and occupied by Allied forces.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and lost its Middle East holdings, which were divided between the Allied Forces.

Thus, at the end of World War I, the victorious powers sought to divide up the Ottoman Empire, and the 1920 Treaty of Sevres promised to maintain the existence of the Armenian Republic and to attach the former territories of Ottoman Armenia to it.

Ottoman Armenia was referred to as Wilsonian Armenia because the new borders were to be drawn by U. S. President Woodrow Wilson.

The Treaty of Sevres never came into effect because it was rejected by the Turkish National Movement, which used the occasion to declare itself as the rightful government of Turkey.

Turkish Nationalist Forces invaded Armenia in 1920 from the east, ultimately forcing most of the Armenian military forces to disarm, cede back the former Ottoman lands granted to Armenia by the Treaty, and to give up “Wilsonian Armenia.”

And during the same time frame, the Soviet Eleventh Army invaded Armenia, and ultimately took complete control of it in 1921.

Thus, the Turkish War of Independence initiated under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk against the occupying powers resulted in the abolition of the monarchy in 1922, and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. Ataturk was the first president of the new republic, moving the country’s seat of power from Istanbul to Ankara.

Obviously this region of historical Armenia was highly prized, and its people were persecuted and many were killed.

There’s a lot more to look at here, but I am going to move on to the next place on the alignment.

The next place I am going to look at is what is called “The Valley of the Fairy Chimneys”…

…. in Cappadocia, a historical region of Central Anatolia known for its unique cultural and historical heritage.

These fairy chimneys are in Goreme National Park, part of the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site.

I find it noteworthy that shapes like these are found around the world, including what are called “hoodoos” in Bryce Canyon in southwest Utah…

…in Alberta’s Drumheller Badlands in Canada…

…the Torre Torre in Huancayo, Peru…

…in Renon, Italy…

…in Zaragoza, Spain…

…in Euseigne, Switzerland…

…and in the Puy-de-Dome region of central France.

Here are more in the Pasabag Valley of Goreme National Park in Cappadocia.

So we are told that these phallic shapes were all created by natural geologic forces.

Okay. Well, maybe, but I really don’t think so!

Besides so-called fairy chimneys, the region of Cappadocia has been determined to have 40 underground cities, of which 6 are open to the public:

The underground city of Tatlarin, considered one of the most important of Cappadocia’s underground cities, discovered in 1975…

…Derinkuyu, an ancient, deep multi-level underground city said to be large enough to shelter 20,000 people together with their livestock and food supply, and opened to visitors in 1969…

…the underground city of Ozkonak, discovered in 1972, which had a water well, pipe communication system, winery…

…and moving stone doors…

…and there’s Mazi Underground City, opened to visitors in 1995…

…Kaymakli Underground City, opened to the public in 1964…

…and Kaymakli is the widest underground city…

…and the last one that is open to the public is Gaziemir Underground City, which was discovered in 2006.

So not only is all of this massive stone-work going on underneath the surface of Cappadocia, it was also going on above ground.

Cappadocia is known for its cave-homes and cave-hotels…

…and places like the Keslik Monastery in Cappadocia appear to be carved right out of the solid rock…

…or was it built to look like it was?

The tourism center of Urgup is not far from Keslik Monastery, and here are dwellings found there.

And then there is Uchisar, located on the edge of Goreme National Park, with its 197-foot, or 60-meter, high castle-mountain, criss-crossed by passageways and was said to have 1,000 people living inside it at one time, but apparently not anymore.

I am going to end this post here, and pick up the alignment where it crosses the Anatolian Plateau in the next post.

The Relationship between Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines, and Places in Alignment – Part 9 Mashhad, Iran to Lake Urmia, Iran

In the last post, I tracked the alignment from Pakistan’s Waziristan region in the Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province; through Ghazni, an ancient city with a rich heritage in Afghanistan; to Herat, the third-largest city in Afghanistan, and referred to in literature as the “Pearl of the Khorasan.”

Mashhad is the second-most populous city in Iran, and the capital of the Razavi Khorasan Province.

Khorasan was a province in northeastern Iran from 1906 to 2004, but historically referred to a much larger area comprising the east and northeast of the Persian Empire, including, besides northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan and much of Central Asia.

While Khorasan is said to mean “The Eastern Province,”it is also said to mean “The Land of the Sun.”

During the Qajar Dynasty and Empire, of what was then called the Sublime State of Persia between 1789 and 1925, Britain supported the Afghans to protect their East India Company.

I have encountered the very active hand of the British East India Company in the take-down of the old empires of this part of the world while tracking this alignment.

So Herat in Afghanistan, which I visited in the last post, was separated from Persia, and the King of Persia, Nasser-al-Din Shah was unable to defeat the British to take back Herat.

Nasser-al-Din Shah was born in 1848 and assassinated in 1896 while in prayer at the Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine in Rey, what is called the oldest existing city in Tehran Province.

Persia was compelled by treaty not to challenge the British for Herat and other parts of what is today Afghanistan. Khorasan was divided into two parts in 1906, with the eastern part coming under British occupation, and the western section remained part of Persia, shown here.

Seems like dividing and partitioning were used as weapons in the dismantling and reorganization of once mighty empires.

Persia historically was part of the vast Persian Empire, which in more ancient times, as we are told, included all of the following present-day countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

On the Nowruz, or New Year, of 1935, the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran in formal correspondence.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was deposed in September of 1941 as a result of the British and Soviet Invasion of Iran during World War II because he was seen as a German ally even though Iran had maintained neutrality in the conflict, which took place purportedly to secure Iran’s oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines along the Persian Corridor.

This also changed the usage of the country’s national identity from Persian to Iranian.

He was replaced as Shah by his young son at the time, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi…the last Shah, or Emperor of Iran.

Shah Reza Pahlavi was overthrown as Iran’s Head-of-State on February 11, 1979, after which time the country became the Islamic Republic of Iran, with what is called a unitary theocratic-republican authoritarian presidential system subject to a Supreme Leader, or Grand Ayatollah.

So things changed considerably for the people in the Islamic Republic of Iran after 1979. This picture of the citizenry was taken in 2012…

…and these pictures were before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

So what has been going on here?

How did Islam in Persia/Iran morph from the Sufi Islam of Rumi, a 13th-century Persian from the Greater Khorasan…

…who was an Islamic jurist, scholar, theologian, mystic and poet…

…into the radical fundamentalist Islam that came into power in Iran?

I think it has something to do with this quote from Albert Pike, described as an American author, poet, orator, jurist, and prominent member of the Freemasons.

And, by the way, how did he know about a first and second World War?

Albert Pike was also a senior officer of the Confederate Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. Hmmm. I have never heard of this. I will have to look into it.

Regardless of what happened, or how it happened, this is what has been happening on the streets of Iran more recently.

So back to Mashhad. Let’s take a closer look, and see what is found there.

The city of Mashhad in modern Iran was a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road…

…connecting with Merv in present-day Turkmenistan to the East, once a major city in Central Asia, and said to have been one of the largest cities in the world during the 12th- and 13th-centuries.

An ancient city near Mashhad, called Tus, is the location of Ferdowsi’s Tomb, said to have been built in 1934 in time for the millenium of the birth of…

…Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi, born in 940 AD and died in 1020 AD, and the author of the “Shahnameh,”or “Book of Kings,” the National Epic of Greater Iran and called one of the world’s longest epic poems created by a single poet.

This is a Google Earth screenshot of Mellat Park, the largest park in Mashhad…

…which includes on its grounds what is described as one of the best and most famous amusement parks in Iran, the Mellat Luna Park, and one of several amusement parks in Mashhad.

Interestingly, Luna Park was the name of numerous historical trolley and amusement parks in the United States and around the world.

This is a photo of the original Luna Park in Brooklyn, New York, with Moorish-looking buildings.

It was in operation from 1903 to 1944, at which time it was destroyed by fire.

Some other things I would like to point out in the greater park of Mashhad’s Mellat Park is its amazing hydrological features and beautiful fountains…

…and canals, with fountains included.

This canal is in Torqabeh, a short distance east of Mashhad.

I have found canal systems throughout Asia…and elsewhere…including, but far from limited to, Quorgonteppa in Tajikistan…

…and the Kanali Varzob in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan…

…as well as the Ankhor Canal in Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

These places were all once part of the Greater Khorasan of the Persian Empire as well.

There are beautiful hydrological works at Mashhad’s Vakil Abad Park, like this one…

…and this one.

I have seen a similar hydrological design with the water course built into the steps in Xalapa, Mexico.

Mashhad has been called “Iran’s Spiritual Capital,” and is the location of the Imam Reza Shrine, the largest mosque in the world by area.

This is a comparison of the front of the Imam Reza Shrine on the top left, compared with the Jama Masyid Mosque in Delhi, India on the right, and the front of the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea.

We are told the Scots Baronial and Moorish Revival styles had been introduced to the Crimea, located on the Black Sea, with the Vorontsov Palace in the 1820s by British architect Edward Blore. Blore was also said to not have any formal training in architecture – his training was in “Antiquarian Draftsmanship.” 

This photo shows the exquisitely-crafted interior of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad.

Mashhad is a prominent center of the carpet-weaving industry, having been a major producer of Persian rugs for centuries…

…and it is not hard for me to see the shapes made by a kaleidoscope in this particular rug.

Mashhad has a reputation for creating some of the best items on the market.

And immediately I see a cathedral window pattern in this Mashhad Persian rug.

This is a comparison of the star-shapes found in an antique Mashhad Persian rug on the top left, with a window in the facade of the Central Synagogue of New York in the top middle; and a design found on a wooden partition at the entrance of the Coricancha in Cuzco Peru on the top right; and on the bottom left, notice the design patterns on what appears to be a wooden screen in the background of what was a photograph of Prince Andrew and Queen Elizabeth; a star-design found at the Alhambra in Grenada Spain on the bottom middle; and what is called a Turkish Iznic pattern on the bottom right.

These are just some examples of incredibly similar design patterns that I have found worldwide.

Mashhad is connected to three major rail lines: Tehran – Mashhad running west; Mashhad – Bafgh running south; and Mashhad – Sarakhs running east.

The interesting thing is how inter-connected the railways of Asia are with each other.

I mean, doesn’t that take incredible planning and coordination across all of these different countries?

With regards to Iran, we are told that the first Iranian rail lines were established in 1886 and 1887, albeit on a limited basis.

Then the 865-mile, or 1,392-kilometer, Trans-Iranian Railroad was opened during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1939, which would have been two years before he was deposed by Allied British and Soviet forces in 1941, and replaced as Shah by his son.

We are told this railway traverses many mountain ranges, and is full of spirals and steep grades, and that much of the terrain was unmapped when the construction took place in unknown geology. Yet, this rail line was supposedly completed ahead of schedule?

We are told the Trans-Iranian rail line was part of the Persian Corridor during World War II after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of 1941, and used a supply route for war material for the Soviet Union.

Supposedly completed by the Iranians in 1939, just in time for the start of, and use during, World War II by the Allies?

Like the Panama Canal opening on August 15th, 1914…

…just in time for the beginning of World War I, which started on July 28th, 1914.

Just a coincidence? I really wonder about that….

In addition to the above ground rail system in Mashhad…

…there is also an underground system there as well…

…just like underground systems found around the world like in Budapest, Hungary…

…in Hamburg, Germany…

…in St. Petersburg, Russia…

…and Sydney, Australia.

I have found incredible similarities between all rail systems around the world, which are integrated train, streetcar, and subway transportation systems in urban areas, and I find this in places that I would not otherwise expect to find it, like, for instance, subways in Mashhad.

While not identical lay-outs in all these places, there are definite similarities across countries and continents in how rail-lines are laid out, right down to color-coding all of them.

Then when I looked into electric circuitry, I found the same colors, with each having a different function in circuitry. They feature exactly the same colors as the different rail lines of underground systems .

I have speculated that rail systems in general function as electrical circuitry on the planetary grid system. See my post “Going Deep into Underground Railway Systems” for more information on this type of rail system.

I don’t believe for a moment that the people we are told built all of this transportation infrastructure were the actual builders of it. I believe the Master Builders of the original advanced, ancient worldwide Moorish Civilization deserve the credit for all of these massive and integrated transportation engineering projects.

It makes a whole lot more sense to me than miraculous, practically overnight engineering wonders!

Humanity got knocked off the original positive timeline by a cataclysm causing a worldwide flood of mud, I believe deliberately-caused, and someones were shovel-ready to dig out enough infrastructure to restart the “New World” civilization for the “New World Order.”

Heading out of Mashhad towards the Elburz Mountains, the Akhlamad Waterfall is located in the village of Akhlamad, 52-miles, 85-kilometers, from Mashhad in the Razavi Khorasan Province. Nicely cut stone-block there in the foreground.

While we are told the waterfall dates from the late-Jurassic geologic age of roughly 163-million-years ago to 145-million-years ago, this sure looks like an ancient wall to me…

…of which I have seen many waterfalls flowing from what also look like ancient walls, like the Tequendama Falls near Bogota, Columbia…

…the Wentworth Falls in New South Wales, in the Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range in Australia…

…and the Twin Falls in Seneca, New York, to name a few of many such examples of what looks like ancient masonry.

These stone walls are found at Akhlamad as well.

Compare the high stone walls at Akhlamad in Iran with these at Virginius Island near Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia…

…and Sungbo’s Eredo, said to be a massive system of defensive walls in Nigeria.

Next, the alignment comes to the Elburz, a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from its border with Azerbaijan, along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea, and then runs northeast and merges with the Aladagh mountains in the northern parts of Khorasan.

This picture was taken in the early 1970s of a road-trip across the Elburz Mountains on one of the main road between Tehran and the Caspian Sea.

These are the Elburz Mountains at Salambar Pass on Alamut Road in Northern Iran…

…and this picture was taken at the Kopet Dag in Turkmenistan in the eastern end of the Elburz Mountains.

I see ancient masonry stone blocks in these places, but this is definitely not what we are taught. How could it even be possible? Well, there’s this, and a lot more things we have never been taught about what Humanity was capable of.

Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran, located in the Central Elburz Mountains.

We are told it is a stratovolcano, built up of alternate layers of lava and ash, and is the highest volcano in Asia.

It is a popular climbing destination as one of the Seven Volcanic Summits mountaineering challenge, the highest volcanoes on each of the seven continents.

Sari, the capital of Iran’s Mazandaran Province, is on the alignment, between the northern slopes of the Elburz Mountains and the Caspian Sea.

This is what I found looking into Sari.

This is the official logo of the Municipality of Sari City. There is an eight-pointed star contained within this design.

I have found eight-pointed stars in a lot of places, including, but not limited to, the Moorish Kiosk in Mexico City…

…the Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin…

…and above the chandelier in the abandoned Loew’s Canal Street Theater in Manhattan.

As well, there are eight-pointed stars on the chest of the uniform of King Kalakaua of Hawaii, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii from February 12th, 1874, until his death on January 20th, 1891, in San Francisco.

Sari’s Clock Tower and Square is one of the notable landmarks of the city…

…and there are clock towers everywhere, like Faisalabad, Pakistan…

…Gisborne, New Zealand…

…and the Apia Clock Tower in Samoa.

Clock towers similar to these are a thing everywhere I look.

They are quite frequently attached to something, and not always in the middle of the street.

For example, the clock tower in Wick, on Scotland’s northeast coast…

…this historic clock tower in Hong Kong…

…and this one in Vyborg, Russia.

Other notable structures in Sari, Iran include the Resket Tower, with a noticeable magnetic energy pattern in the bricks…

…and the Lajeem tower, also with a noticeable magnetic energy pattern.

We are told both of these towers were built as tombs.

Next on the alignment is Tabriz, one of the historical capitals of Iran, and the present-day capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province.

It is the most populated city in northwestern Iran.

It is located on the Quru River.

Is it just me, or does this look like a canal?

This is the Saat Tower in Tabriz, also known as the Tabriz Municipality Palace…

…which not only bears a resemblance to the Victoria Tower at the Houses of Parliament in London…

…the Saat Tower has windows which bear a distinct resemblance to…

…to cathedral windows in the West.

The last place I want to look at on this alignment in this post is Lake Urmia, located between the provinces of East Azerbaijan in Iran and west of the southern portion of the Caspian Sea.

Lake Urmia is described as an endorheic salt lake, or a limited drainage basin with high concentrations of salts and other minerals. It is the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth.

There might be a connection with the name of Urmia to the ancient Urartu, also known as the Kingdom of Van, centered around Lake Van in present-day Turkey, but historically part of the Armenian Highlands.

Lake Van in Turkey is where I will be picking up the alignment in the next post.

The Relationship between Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines, and Places in Alignment – Part 8 Waziristan Region, Pakistan to Herat, Afghanistan

I started out in Lahore Pakistan in the last post, the capital city of the Punjab Province of Pakistan; through the cradle of the ancient Harappan Civilization of the Indus River Valley, which was largely in Pakistan; to Faisalabad, also in the Punjab Province, and a major industrial and transportation center of Pakistan.

I am picking up this alignment in Waziristan, a mountainous region of Pakistan on the country’s border with Afghanistan…

…and of which North and South Waziristan are districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province, formerly known as the Northwest Frontier Province.

Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province is the location of the Khyber Pass, a mountain pass in the northwest of Pakistan, and an integral part of the ancient Silk Road. A translation is “On the Khyber side of the Land of the Pashtuns.”

This is the Bab-e-Khyber, a gate that stands at the entrance to the Khyber Pass…

…said to have been constructed in 1965.

The turreted and crenellated appearance of the Bab-e-Khyber brought to mind the style of architecture seen on this old Merovingian textile from France on the top, and the Cajun flag of Louisiana on the bottom.

The Jamrud Fort is adjacent to the Bab-e-Khyber. We are told that the foundation of the fort was laid out by the Sikh General Hari Singh Nalwa on the 18th of December in 1836, and that the fort was completed in 54-days, after Jamrud was lost to the Afghan Durrani Empire and conquered by the Sikh Empire.

This is a screenshot of the Jamrud Fort on Google Earth…

…looking similar, especially with regards to the shape of the outer walls to the Lahore Fort in Lahore, Pakistan…

…as well as the rounded corners of Fort Loreto in Puebla, Mexico…

…and rounded corners are seen at Dubai’s Al Fahidi Fort.

While most star forts have more angled configurations, making them look like stars, not all do, and I believe they were originally part of the electrical circuitry of the planetary system, and not military in nature as we are taught to believe.

As a matter of fact, the Jamrud Electrical Grid System is located very close to Jamrud Fort, as is at least one other structure with the arrow pointing towards it, and possibly more, that looks like it could be connected to this system. It is typical to find star forts in clusters of two or more.

For more information about this finding, see my blog post “The Consistent Finding of Star Forts on Planetary Alignments.”

Khyber-Pakhtunkwha Province was the historical location of the ancient kingdom of Gandhara, including the ruins considered to be 2,000 years old of its capital city Pushkalavati, near modern-day Charsadda.

Pushkalavati was originally a stronghold of Buddhism.

These Buddhist ruins are found in the Khyber Pass of Afghanistan…

…compared in appearance to the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves in Turpan in northern China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region…

…and Borobudur on the island of Java in Indonesia.

Here is what Borobudur looks like from above.

Ancient Gandhara in present-day Pakistan was said to have attained its height from the 1st- to the 5th-centuries AD, flourishing as the “Crossroads of Asia” under the Kushan Empire.

Could there have been a connection between the Kushan Empire, in this region which includes a mountainous region known to this day as the “Hindu Kush,” and the Kushite Empire of northern Africa with its capital of Meroe (also sounds like “Merovingian” mentioned previously in association with the French textile design) in Sudan near the Nile River, pictured here?

I don’t know the answer to that question. That information is long-gone. I do find quite often, however, that the memory of the people was retained in place names, like the Moors of Great Britain. This is Scales Moor in Yorkshire…

…and places like the Ouachita (pronounced Washitaw) Mountains of Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. This picture was taken at Mt. Magazine of the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. The Washitaw Mu’urs were the inhabitants of the ancient Washitaw Empire in North America, with its imperial seat near Monroe, Louisiana.

All of this is a lead-in to the Pashtun tribal peoples.

They are the primary inhabitants of a region including North and South Waziristan, the Khyber-Pakhtunkwha and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan, and the Pashtun are also found in Afghanistan, in a region regarded as Pashtunistan, split between two countries since the Durand Line border between the two countries was formed in 1893 after the second Anglo-Afghan War.

The name sake of the line, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, was a British Diplomat and Civil Servant of the British Raj. We are told that together with the Afghan Emir, Abdur Rahman Khan, it was established to “fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve diplomatic relations and trade. Well, that certainly sounds good…but what was really going on here?

The Durand Line cuts through the Pashtunistan and Balochistan regions, politically dividing ethnic Pashtuns and Baloch, who live on both sides of the border.

But, really, why divide a people in this fashion?

The Pashtun are a tribal nation of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who also have a strong oral tradition that they are descendants of lost ten Tribes of Israel, and they refer to themselves as Bani Israel. 

Here is an example of a Pashtun textile piece showing the sacred geometric shape of a star tetrahedron in the center, also known as the Star of David…

…and a recognizable symbol of what is called Judaism today, as seen on the flag of Israel.

This symbol of the star tetrahedron is also the sacred geometric shape of the Human Lightbody, known as the Merkaba.

So, according to the history we have been taught, how can the Pashtun be Hebrew Israelites and Muslim at the same time?

For many reasons, this is a good opportunity to share why I think there was one original spiritual tradition, and that organized religion came in with the hijack of the original timeline for the purposes of control and serving an agenda not in Humanity’s best interests.

At first I was puzzled by seeing references to the twelve tribes in different places besides the Pashtun in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

I found the Tribe of Naphtali in the South Pacific…

…the Tribe of Reuben in Australia…

…the Kuki of India say they are of the Tribe of Manasseh…

…and on Madagascar, there is a resurgence of what they say the original faith of the island. The Jesuits were said to have arrived here in 1845, and entrusted with the Prefecture Apostolic of Madagascar in 1850. There’s 1850 again!

I think a good explanation of this finding of the same tribal name in different parts of the world is contained in a Megalithomania presentation by Christine Rhone on “Twelve Tribe Nations – Sacred Number and the Golden Age.”

She co-authored a book with John Michel called:   “Twelve Tribe Nations – Sacred Number and the Golden Age.” 

Among other things, they followed the Apollo – St. Michael alignment across countries and continents all the way to Jerusalem in Israel.  They discuss records and traditions of whole nations being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months of the year. 

All formed around a sacred center, and sacred centers.

It stands to reason that these people would apply to the same concepts of Harmony, Balance, Beauty, Sacred Geometry, and aligning heaven and earth, to building their communities and themselves that they applied to building all of the infrastructure of the planet.

So what if we are talking about a civilization arrangement like what you see pictured here (and in which you see the eight-pointed star contained within this configuration)…

…occurring in a flower of life pattern, from macro to micro, covering the surface of the Earth?

Researchers have looked into zodiacs that have been revealed in features in the landscape, like the Glastonbury Zodiac in England…

…and the Kingston landscape Zodiac in Surrey, England.

I recently realized that earth’s true history was not about organized religions, which was a stumbling block for me because of what we have been taught. 

The controllers didn’t rewrite history from scratch – they rewrote the historical narrative to fit their agenda. And from the new official historical reset year, which I believe was 1850 or 1851, we are immersed in learning their history of what has taken place here from a very young age.

The identity of the true Israelites was replaced with a false identity and hidden away, and many were relegated to an existence of slavery, degradation and marginalization, if they weren’t killed.

This subjugation allowed for the identity of the Israelites to be co-opted by the Khazarian Jews and Zionists.

The Rothschilds purchased Jerusalem in 1829, and subsequently acquired considerable land in Palestine in the 1800s and early 1900s.

And what about all the Buddhists I have been finding here?

The Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, for example, is located not far from Kabul, the country’s capital…

…was known for two colossal statues of Buddha there, carved into sandstone. 

Both statues were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.  

This is a poignant example of how dark forces are hell-bent on physically destroying this civilization, and its memory and legacy.  

And here is what ISLAM was originally all about: I-Self-Law-Am-Master.

It did not start out as the weaponized belief system we see today that was developed to divide and conquer.

There is so much we haven’t been told about the True History of the planet, including how all organized forms of religion connect back into the Advanced Ancient Civilization, and and are not mutually exclusive as we have been taught to believe, and are actually different aspects of one and the same spirituality.

Originally, all of Humanity was being taught the knowledge of who we really are as spiritual beings and holograms of the Universe, and how to reconnect with Higher Self by raising kundalini energy from the base of the spine up to the pineal gland.

Does this statue at the Vatican represent a pine cone as we are taught…

…or the human pineal gland?

They definitely don’t want us to know who we really are, and try to keep most of Humanity stuck in their lower selves in every way possible, including addictions, distractions, and consumerism that huge, in many cases multinational, corporations are making a heck of a lot of money from.

It has been clear to me travelling through this part of the world how what we know as the European Colonial powers, starting in the 18th-century, just tore up this part of the world through so many partitions, for one example, along religious lines when in fact there were no differences between the original people and their spirituality.

While a very clear example of this took place in what is called South Asia…

… it was only one of many examples around the world.

Race and religion were manipulated by European colonialism to create divides over almost the entire landmass of the earth into new countries from lands that were taken, and creating divisions and discords between peoples that originally existed in harmony worldwide.

It also diagrams the means by which power and control were consolidated worldwide, mostly starting out as “trading” companies that ended up being very powerful in their respective regions, and after gaining complete control, transferring power and control of the regions to their respective European empires.

With regards to the efforts to establish one universal, hierarchical, organized religion, in which Humanity was taught it needed an intermediary to reach the Creator, the main Catholic missionaries were the Jesuits, Benedictines, Franciscans, and Dominicans (as in the Dominican Republic) were also quite busy in their world travels…

…and most likely involved in many activities of cultural obfuscation we will never know about.

The main foundational piece for the Catholic Church’s claims for dominion over all of Humanity was the Unam Sanctum papal bull, which are told was issued by Pope Boniface VIII in 1302. 

At the end of it, he writes “Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”

A papal bull is an official papal letter or document, named after the leaden seal used to authenticate it.

They figure prominently in the effort to authenticate what has taken place on earth in the historical narrative we have been taught, but which in actuality was a hostile take-over of Humanity and the earth’s grid system without our knowledge and consent.

Back to the alignment I am tracking.

After leaving the Waziristan districts in Pakistan, the alignment comes to Ghazni in Afghanistan.

It is stategically located on the main Highway 1 between Kabul and Kandahar, which has served as the main road between those two cities for thousands of years.

Ghazni is an ancient city with a rich heritage.

The Ghazni Citadel was said to have been built in the 13th-century to form a walled city.

This is a lithograph painting of the Ghazni Citadel in 1839 by James Rattray, a soldier and artist serving in Afghanistan in the 1st Afghan War of the same period as an officer of the 2nd Grenadiers of the Bengal Army.

The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought for three years between the British East India Company and the Emirate of Afghanistan starting in 1839, after the British had successfully captured Kabul, and they capitalized on a succession dispute between a current and former Emir there, at which time the British exiled the Emir at the time, Dost Mohammed, and installed the former Emir, Shah Shujah. There’s that 8-pointed star again on this book cover.

The British forces subsequently attacked the Ghazni Citadel in 1839, a battle in which the British claimed victory.

When the main British forces occupying Kabul retreated in January of 1842, they were almost completely annihilated by Afghani tribesmen. In retaliation, the British sent what was called an “Army of Retribution” to Kabul to avenge their defeat and demolished parts of the city, recovered prisoners, and left Afghanistan, with the exiled Emir Dost Mohammed returning from India to Kabul.

Destruction that was done in retaliation for people who were defending their own land from invading foreigners who wanted to take it.

Also at that time, in 1842, Edward Law, the 1st Earl of Ellenborough, and Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844, issued what was called his famous “Proclamation of the Gates,” in which he ordered the British Army in Afghanistan to return via Ghazni and bring back to India the Sandalwood Gates from the tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni.

They were returned to the Somnath Temple in India, where they had been allegedly taken from by Mahmud 8-centuries previously from Somnath, and for which the British used as justification to the Indians for the destruction of Ghazni .

The First Anglo-Afghan War is called one of the first major conflicts of what was called “The Great Game,” the 19th-century competition for power and influence in central Asia between Britain and Russia.

Calling all of that creation of destruction and deviseness “The Great Game” tells me something about what sounds like the ultimately malevolent intent of those behind all of this new empire-building.

The last place I am going to look on this particular alignment in this post is Herat, the third-largest city in Afghanistan, and linked to Kabul, Ghazni, and Kandahar, and other main cities in Afghanistan, via Highway 1, also known as the “Ring Road.”

It is one of the largest cities in Afghanistan with a population of almost 500,000 people.

It is located in the fertile Hari River Valley, with a history that goes back thousands of years. In some literature it is referred to as the “Diamond of Asia,” as well as the “Pearl of Khorasan.”

The Khorasan was a historical region that formed the northeast province of Greater Iran, comprising the present territories of northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan, and much of Central Asia.

The meaning of Khorasan is said to have signified “Land of the Sun.”

Like so many other places along the alignment, there is also a citadel in Herat. It was said to have been built in 33o BC, when Alexander the Great arrived in Herat after the Battle of Gaugamela, which was close to the city of Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan.

It was said to have been saved from demolition in the 1950s, and restored by UNESCO between 1976 and 1979.

The National Museum of Herat is housed in the lower part of the Citadel.

It was established as a museum in 1925 by order of King Amanullah, one of the kings of modern Afghanistan.

Here are just a few examples of similar brick or stone archways in other places.

The Buenos Aires History Museum in Argentina…

…these archways in Mandu, India…

…this passageway in Pompeii, Italy…

…and the House of Vans Skate Park in the Waterloo District of London.

I am going to end this post here, and pick up the alignment in Mashhad in Iran in the next post.

The Relationship between Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines, and Places in alignment – Part 7 Lahore, Pakistan to Faisalabad, Pakistan

In the last post, I tracked the alignment from Lucknow, the capital of India’s State of Uttar Pradesh, and an important regional center of North India, through Bareilly, also in the State of Uttar Pradesh, and called the Main Gate of the Himalayas, to Amritsar, in northwestern India’s State of Punjab, close to the country’s border with Pakistan.

Next on the alignment is Lahore, the capital city of the Punjab Province of Pakistan, and only 51-miles, or 31-Kilometers from Amritsar in India’s Punjab State, and directly connected to each other via the railroad.

The Punjab is a historical region of South Asia, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent…

…and was the cradle of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, which was largely in modern Pakistan. More about this shortly.

The Great Exhibition of the Works of All Nations, held in the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851 was also known as “The Great Shalimar” a reference to the Mughal Garden complex in Lahore…

…where you see the eight-pointed star and similar design-patterns on the Great Exhibition brochure.

I think these design patterns of eight-pointed stars were significant ones for the ancient advanced civilization, because I find them everywhere, including, but far from being limited to, the Mabel Tainter Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

The Shalimar Gardens are located at the Lahore Fort, described as a citadel on the northern end of the Walled City of Lahore.

This is a view of the Alamagiri Gate of Lahore Fort…

…from the Badshahi Mosque, called an example of Mughal architecture, with its exterior of carved red sandstone and marble inlay.

Lahore Fort passed to British Colonialists when they annexed the Punjab region following their victory over the short-lived Sikh Empire, which lasted from 1799 to 1849, and which had replaced the Mughal Empire here, in the Battle of Gujrat in February of 1849.

The Battle of Gujrat was part of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, a military conflict between the Sikhs and the British East India Company that took place in 1848 and 1849.

The last Mughal Emperor in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was deposed by the British East India Company in 1858, and exiled.

Through the Government of India Act of 1858, the British Crown assumed direct control of the British East India Company-held territories in India in the form of the new British Raj, and in 1876, Queen Victoria assumed the title of Empress of India.

Lahore was central to the independence movement of India, with the city being the site of Lahore Congress and the promulgation of the Declaration of Indian Independence.

Nehru hoisted the new tri-color flag of India on the banks of the Ravi River in Lahore on December 31st of 1929, resolving the Congress and nationalists to fight for Poorna Swaraj, or self-rule independent of the British Empire.

But when independence from Britain came about, it was definitely not a smooth and harmonious process.

The 1947 Boundary Partition of what was British India into two independent dominion states – the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. Today they are called the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

It involved the division of two provinces – Punjab and Bengal – based on district-wise non-Muslim or Muslim majorities, and resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj.

The partition displaced 10- to 12-million people along religious lines and created overwhelming refugee crises in the newly constituted dominions, and large-scale violence and deaths.

Why was this even done this way in the first place?

The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the Old City, forms the historic core of Lahore, and was the capital of the Mughal Empire at one time.

Here’s a view of the Walled City of Lahore on the left showing what looks to be very similar to a star city configuration, like the example of the Imperial City of Hue in Viet Nam on the right.

Here are some sights in the Walled City of Lahore.

This is Lawrence Hall of what is now the Quaid-e-Azam Public Library in Lahore, said to have been built in the Neoclassical style in 1866 during the time of the British Raj in the Victorian era…

…and Montgomery Hall, part of the same public library complex, and said to have been built in the 1870s…

…with the White House in Washington, DC for comparison of appearance with Montgomery Hall in Lahore.

We are told that Neoclassical architecture began in the mid-18th-century in Italy and France, and that its roots date back to the 17th-century when Claude Perrault decided to revive ancient Greek architecture with his design of the east facade of the Louvre in Paris.

This is a comparison of the Colonnade Claude Perrault is famous for having designed on the top as the winner of a competition, said to have been completed between 1667 and 1670, with the Great Facade of Buckingham Palace, with the design attributed to British Antiquarian draftsman Edward Blore in 1847, and completed in 1850, on the bottom.

How could they have built massive architecture like this during a time of low technology according the history we have been taught? We can’t even build like this now.

The Indus Valley Civilization flourished in the basins of the Indus River, which originates on the Tibetan Plateau near Mount Kailash, and ultimately flows along the entire length of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.

There is terrace-farming along the Indus River as well.

The ancient civilization that flourished here was also known as the Harappan Civilization, after Harappa considered the type, or model, site of the civilization.

Harappa is on the Ravi River, southwest of Lahore.

There is said to be a legacy railroad station in the modern village of Harappa, dating from the British Raj…

…on the Lahore-Multan Railway, construction of which was said to have begun in 1855.

I don’t believe this is truth.

I have come to believe for numerous reasons that all transportation infrastructure was built by the ancient advanced civilization, including rail- and canal-systems, and not by the people we are told built it. They are all integrated, massive engineering projects, and the same around the world.

The discovery of Harappa, and soon afterwards Mohenjo-Daro, was said to be the culmination of work beginning in 1861, with the founding of the Archeological Survey of India during the British Raj.

Mohenjo-Daro was one of the largest cities of the ancient Harappan civilization of the Indus River Valley, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site, said to have been built starting in 2500 BC and one of the world’s earliest major cities.

Here’s the thing about the cities of the Harappan Civilization.

They were known for their urban-planning, baked-brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water-supply systems, clusters of large, non-residential buildings, and metallurgy. I even read where they even had street-lights, and extremely accurate systems of weights and measures.

Between 3300 and 1300 BC?

Moving along the alignment, Faisalabad is next, the second-largest city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, after Lahore.

We are told that historically it was one of the first planned cities in British India.

It is a major industrial and distribution center because of its central location in the region, and connecting roads, rail and air transportation…

…as well as a major center of industry, with major engineering works, like the Faisalabad steam-powered grid station…

…and mill-works of all kinds.

There are canals in Faisalabad.

This is the Lyallpur Galleria on East Canal Road in Faisalabad, with its combination ancient Eastern- and Western-looking appearance. Faisalabad was formerly known as Lyallpur.

Among many other things, the Galleria is a shopping mall.

The following pictures are associated with Citi Housing of Faisalabad, described as a high-end housing society with a gold standard lifestyle.

They look more like Ancient Egyptian temple ruins and an archeological site than a residential neighborhood.

This is called the Gumti Monument in Faisalabad’s Chenab Colony.

…which has similar characteristics to western infrastructure, like the World War I Memorial said to have been erected in Washington, DC, in 1931, which would have been during the Great Depression.

This is a close-up view of the Gumti Memorial, where we find the same two design patterns I highlighted at the beginning of this post – the eight-pointed star and what I am going to call an infinity pattern for lack of a better description.

Like I said before, I have found these patterns together in places across countries and continents, like the Moorish Kiosk in Mexico City…

…and eight-pointed stars in the designs of the ceiling above the chandelier of the abandoned Loew’s Theater on Canal Street in Manhattan.

This journey on the alignment through Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan has revealed much about the workings of the British East India Company to create the conditions for the complete downfall of the high Moorish civilization which was here, around the 1850s.

It brings to mind the Opening of Japan, starting on July 8th, 1853, when Commodore Matthew Perry led four U. S. Navy ships ordered by President Millard Fillmore to Tokyo Bay with the mission of forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade by any means necessary.

After threatening to burn Tokyo to the ground, he was allowed to land and deliver a letter with United States demands to the Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyoshi.

The Shogun Ieyoshi died a short time after Perry’s departure in July of 1853, leaving effective administration in the hands of the Council of Elders, though nominally to his sickly son, Iesada, who was the Tokugawa Shogun from 1853 to 1858.

The Tokugawa Shogunate is called the last feudal Japanese Military Government…

Perry returned again with eight naval vessels in February of 1854, and on March 31st of 1854, the Japanese Emperor Komei signed the “Japan and United States Treaty of Peace and Amity” at the Convention of Kanagawa under threat of force if the Japanese government did not open the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels.

Histories like these in Japan and throughout historical India really make me wonder if there were places that were not affected by the global mud flood, and were quite literally taken by force.

I am going to end this post here, and pick up the alignment in Afghanistan in the next post.

The Relationship between Sacred Geometry, Ley-Lines, and Places in alignment – Part 6 Lucknow, India to Amritsar, India

In the last post, I tracked this alignment from the Ganges Delta in the Bay of Bengal, where it enters the country of Bangladesh, through its capital city of Dhaka, and into India to the Holy City of Varanasi, a spiritual and cultural center for thousands of years.

In this post, I am picking up the alignment in Lucknow, the capital of the State of Uttar Pradesh in India.

It is an important center of governance, administration, education, aerospace, commerce, finance, pharmaceuticals, and technology, and a hub of North Indian culture and art.

The Bara Imambara complex was said to have been built by the Nawab of Awadh, Asaf-ud-Daula, in 1784.

The complex includes the Afsi Mosque…

…a labyrinth of approximately 1,000 interconnected corridors and doors called the Bhul-Bhulaiya that circles around the upper part of the Bara Imambara, compared on the right with brick archways having the same geometric effect found at Fort Jefferson, on Dry Tortugas State Park on Garden Key in the furthest west part of the Florida Keys…

…and the Bowli, a step-well with running water.

The main chamber of the Imambara, which contains the tomb of Asaf-ud-Daula, consists of a large, vaulted central chamber, which is 50 x 16-meters, or 164 x 52-feet, wide, and over 15-meters, or 50-feet, high, and is one of the largest arch constructions in the world without beams supporting the chamber.

The construction of the Bara Imambara was said to have been conceived of by this Nawab of Awadh to provide employment for people in the region for almost a decade during a time of famine.

I found this story in more than one place. We are consistently told starving, unskilled labor, built this amazing complex.

Not only is the architecture of the Bara Imambara in Lucknow colossal and beautiful, there are said to be passages beneath the complex leading to places like Agra 180-miles or 291-kilometers away, where the Taj Mahal is located, and for comparison on the right is the Hui Mosque in Yinchuan, China…

…and to New Delhi, the national capital of India, and 259-miles, or 417-kilometers, from Lucknow.

La Martiniere College in Lucknow has a college for boys that was founded in 1845, and a college for girls in 1869.

We are told Major-General Claude Martin, the wealthiest Frenchman in 18th-century India…

…endowed the founding of the La Martiniere Boys College, and that the building which houses it today was originally built for him as his country residence starting in 1785 and completed in 1802.

Martin was an officer in the French East India Company…

…and later in the British East India Company…

… where he rose to the position of Major-General in the Bengal Army, the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of three presidencies of British India within the British Empire, and the Bengal Presidency was formed following the dissolution of Mughal Bengal in 1757.

Inserting an interesting, historical side-note here.

The Bengal Presidency was the economic, cultural, and educational hub of the British Raj, and its governor was concurrently the Viceroy of India for many years.

In 1905, Bengal Proper was partitioned, separating largely Muslim areas eastern areas from largely western Hindu areas.

In 1912, British India was reorganized and the Bengal Presidency was reunited with a single Bengali-speaking province.

Could this first partitioning of Bengal have been a human- and social-engineering project, and a practice run for the 1947 Boundary partition of India, where Bengal – primarily in the form of Bangladesh – and India, into West Pakistan and East Pakistan?

The Partition of India in 1947 divided British India into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan along religious lines, displacing 10 – 12 million people and creating overwhelming refugee crises in the newly constituted dominions, as well as large-scale violence. This created the conditions for suspicion and hostility between these two countries into the present-day.

A couple of more things about Major-General Claude Martin before moving on.

First are the facial similarities between Claude Martin on the left; in the middle, Thomas Gilbert, captain of the British East India Company’s East Indiaman vessel Charlotte, and for whom the Gilbert Islands were named; and on the right John Molson, Canadian brewer and entrepreneur, who looks like an older version of the other two men.

There are only two possibilities I can reasonably come up with to explain the similarity of their eyes, noses, and chins.

One possibility is that they were very closely related.

The other is that the artists that were providing the faces in these portraits for the new faked history were using some kind of universal template as a model face.

Second, Claude Martin was said to have acquired his fortune in the service of the Narab of Awadh, Asaf-ud-Daula, and that he arrived in India as a common soldier. Having never married, he willed his estate to the establishment of three La Martiniere schools in his memory. Besides Lucknow, there is one in Lyon, France, his birthplace…

…where the Lumiere Brothers, two of the first film-makers in history, were said to have attended (see my post “Following the Money & Influence – Part 2 The Ways We Were Kept Asleep ~ Distractions”)…

…as well as a third La Martiniere School in Kolkata (previously Calcutta), the capital of the Indian State of West Bengal.

By the way, Kolkata is the only city in India with a public tram service that is still in operation.

We are told that Tram Transport in India was established in the late 19th-century by the British…

…and that between the 1930s and 1960s, the other acknowledged electric tram services in Madras, Cawnpore, Delhi, and Bombay were discontinued.

Since Bombay, which is now called Mumbai, came up, I would like to bring up places there that were recommended for me to look into by someone in a comment. Mumbai is not on this particular alignment. Sometime in the future, I will have to do a post dedicated to India by itself as there is a treasure trove to see and find out here about the ancient advanced civilization.

The first was the Hotel Taj Palace in Mumbai, which is shown here located next to a massive stone archway called the “Gateway of India.”

The Hotel Taj Palace in Mumbai was said to have opened in 1903, as India’s first luxury hotel, and the first hotel to have electricity, American fans, German elevators, Turkish baths, and English butlers.

The Gateway of India next to it was said to have been erected starting in 1913 to commemorate the landing in December 2011 of King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary at the Apollo Bunder pier in then Bombay.

King-Emperor and Queen-Empress were the titles used by the British monarchs in India between 1876 and 1948

The other place I would like to bring up in Mumbai per recommendation is the Victoria Terminus Railway station, officially now called the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The terminus was said to have been designed by British architectural engineer Frederick William Stevens in the style of Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture, with construction starting in 1878 and completed in 1887, marking the fifty-year anniversary of Queen Victoria’s rule.

Back in Lucknow, this is the Charbaugh Railway Station, one of the two main railway stations in Lucknow, on the left, said to have been designed by J. H. Hornimen (for whom I can find no biographical information) and built between 1914 and 1923.

For comparison of similaries in architectural style is firstly the historic Birmingham Terminal Station in Alabama, said to have been designed by Georgia-based architect P. Thornton Marye, who does have biographical information available, and completed in 1909, only to be demolished in 1969…

…and secondly the Atlanta Terminal Station, also said to have been designed by P. Thornton Marye, with a 1905 opening-year, and a 1972 demolition-year.

Next on the alignment is the city of Bareilly, also in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh, and 157-miles, or 252-kilometers, northwest of Lucknow.

It is called the main gate of the Himalayas.

Bareilly is also known as Nath Nagri, or the city of temples, due to the location of seven ancient Shiva temples here. Some of the temples include the Dhopeshwar Nath, of which this is the gate…

…the Trivati Nath Temple…

…and Tapeshwar Nath Temple, said to be the oldest temple in Bareilly.

The folklore says that Gautama Buddha had once visited the ancient fortress city of Ahichchhatra, the ancient capital of Northern Panchala in the Bareilly region, where what is popularly called the fort there looks like a step-pyramid to me.

The Tulsi Math temple in Bareilly is dedicated to Tulsidas, a Hindu spiritual author who translated the Ramayan, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of Ancient India along with the Mahabharata, into the language of the masses.

Tulsidas was said to have lived here in the 1600s.

Bareilly was a center of the ultimately unsuccessful Indian Rebellion of 1857.

At this time a major uprising took place in northern India, which lasted between 1857 and 1859 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

Bareilly is a railway junction, with six rail-lines intersecting the city.

This 1909 map of the railway system in India shows Bareilly as a junction.

One of the earliest railways said to have been constructed in India was the Solani Aqueduct Railway in 1851, which we are told was built for…

…the purposes of tranporting construction materials for the Solani River Aqueduct.

Proby Cautley, an English engineer and paleontologist, and an officer in the British East India Company, was given the historical credit for the building of the Solani Aqueduct…

…as well as the 350-mile, or 563-kilometer Ganges Canal between 1843 and 1854,which the aqueduct crosses, said to have had the greatest discharge of any irrigation canal in the world at the time of its construction, and described as an engineering marvel.

I am going to move along the alignment from Bareilly to Nanda Devi, called the second-highest mountain in India, and the highest that is completely within the country’s boundaries.

This is a view of Nanda Devi from Kausani.

Nearby Kausani is described as a picturesque hill-station in India, and contains wonderful terrace-farming like what is seen around resorts there…

…and which look like the rice terraces in places like the Phillipines, like these at Banaue, for one example of many in diverse places

Baijnath Temple is near Kausani, with one reference saying that it was built thousands of years ago…

…and another reference saying it was built starting in 1204 AD by two merchants, one named Ahuka, and the other Manyuka, and dedicated to Shiva as Vaidyanath, “Lord of Physicians.” This particular reference does say there was a previous, older temple to Shiva here.

Someshwar Temple, also dedicated to Shiva, is also near Kausani, said to have been built by Raja Som Chand, founder of the Chand Dynasty in the 10th-century AD in the…

…Kumaon Region of Uttarakhand.

Chand and Kumaon sound close to Cham and Khem, as well as places on this map with actual Cham-prefixes, like Chamoli and Champawat, which was the capital of the Chand Dynasty rulers of Kumaon, and Champawat is where the Baleshwar Temple is located, also either said to be ancient, or built during the Chand Dynasty in the 10th- to 12th-centuries.

The last place I am going to look at on this alignment in this post is Amritsar, in northwestern India in the State of Punjab, close to the country’s border with Pakistan.

Amritsar is home to the Harmandir Sahib, or the “Abode of God,” otherwise known as the Golden Temple…

…where it sits on an artificial island in the middle of a perfectly square, definitely manmade-looking, water configuration.

For Sikhs, it is the holiest Gurdwara, a place of assembly and worship, and most important pilgrimage site, with construction initiated in 1581 by Guru Ram Das, the fourth of the ten gurus of Sikhism, and founder of the Holy City of Amritsar in Sikh tradition.

The Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, an historic garden and memorial of national importance located in the vicinity of the Golden Temple complex, was the location of the famous massacre in Amritsar in 1919…

…when a British commander ordered troops of the British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed civilians during a festival time, killing at least 400 and injuring over 1,000.

Some historians considered the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh a decisive step towards the end of British rule in India.

Khalsa College was established in Amritsar in 1892 during the British Raj as an educational institution in the State of Punjab for Sikhs and Punjabis.

Its architectural design was said to have been created by Ram Singh, a prominent Punjabi architect, and built between 1911 and 1912.

The main building is considered a gem of the Indo-Saracenic style.

I am going to end the alignment portion of this post here.

I would like, however, to further share some thoughts and ideas about different pieces of information I have picked up along the way, and how they might tie into some of the mysteries of our existence on Earth.

I bring these forward for your consideration as points to ponder, and not necessarily as definitive answers. I am not an expert in the following subjects, but I am intuitive, and this information resonates with me. It is out there to look into if you are interested in finding out more for your own research.

First, I came to this level of awareness by following sacred geometrically-based alignments, and I have received a ton of information in return. I already understood there was a missing ancient advanced Moorish civilization from our history books…

…and that something major in a negative way towards Humanity has taken place here. Humanity is far from the positive evolutionary path that it once on.

Several years, before I discovered the key which unlocked the physical lay-out of the planetary grid system and the suppressed ancient global civilization, which was finding a star tetrahedron when I connected major cities of North America I saw lining-up in lines, extending the lines,following up on what I found, and which forms the basis of all of my research…

…I learned about the holographic Universe, primarily from Gregg Braden’s work, but also from Drunvalo Melchizedek’s work, the man who brought sacred geometry back into the collective awareness starting in the late 1970s, as well as Humanity’s direct connection to the Universe and Earth. It was from Drunvalo’s work that I learned about Sacred Geometry in around 2007 – 2008.

Our energy bodies contain heart- and brain-toroidal fields, of which the heart is by far the stronger of the two, and which are shaped like a torus, like that of the Earth and the Universe.

We are intrinsically connected with all that is in existence. For the purposes of this post, I will leave it at this level, yet the reality of who we really are goes so much deeper than that.

The torus is a core-level sacred geometry form, and a process by which all energy, when correctly aligned is perpetually cycling – up, down, and around – without stopping, between Spirit and Matter.

I came to this level of awareness in the process of discovering how sacred geometry relates to earth’s ley-lines and ancient advanced civilization.

My interest is in bringing back the gridlines and knowledge about the ancient advanced civilization to the collective awareness.

I did not start out from a flat earth perspective. As such, proving or disproving whether the earth is flat is not the focus of my research. However, I have been comfortable with the concept of earth as a torus, which can be pictured as a sphere…

…or as a plane. More on this shortly.

In the research for my last post, I found what I would consider the first hard evidence for me that supports flat earth.

The depiction of ley-lines on land and sea were present on the flat projections of the Catalan Atlas of the Majorcan Cartographic school, said to have been made by a cartographer named Abraham Cresques in 1375.

Then in the 1500s, Gerardus Mercator comes along with a world map that is considered to be the first where sailing courses on the sphere were mapped to the plane map, allowing for a “correction of the chart to be more useful for sailors…”

…and that looks a lot like the Catalan Atlas with the exception there are no ley-lines on land, only on water. The ley-lines were starting to disappear from Earth’s maps.

And, oh by the way, Mercator was a globe-maker as well.

Within the same century, in October of 1582, the Gregorian Calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII for the given reason of correcting the Julian calendar on stopping the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes, and included the addition of leap years.  It took 300 years to implement the calendar in the west, and nowadays used in non-western countries for civil purposes.

Indigenous calendrical systems like the Mayan calendar were involved with the harmonization and synchronization of human beings with natural cycles of time, and not linear time.

In the year of 1583, only one-year after the introduction of the Gregorian calendrical system, Joseph Justus Scaliger, called the “Father of Modern Chronology…”

…published the “Opus de Emendatione Tempore” or “Study on the Improvement of Time,” a study of previous calendars.

In it, he was said to compare the computations of time made by the various civilizations of antiquity, and in the process of doing so, correcting their errors, and placing chronology for the first time on a solidly scientific basis.

Do all of these things – globe-makers and a new calendrical-system – represent deliberate manipulations for control of our perception of space and time? And does a new chronology exist to provide the rationale for explaining the discrepancies between the systems?

I came across David LaPoint’s work on Primer Fields on Youtube several years ago, and his theory, which has been extensively tested by physicists in laboratory vacuum chambers, is that every component of matter has a double-toroidal-shaped magnetic field that radiates from its core…

…including the structure of our Universe…

…and the Earth.

Then there is the Electric Universe Theory, which generally states that electricity is the engine behind a long list of natural and astrophysical spectacles, and supports the idea that electricity powers the sun and the stars…

…and that cosmic occurrences are electrical in nature.

This is a good segue for me into the Dogon, who live in the country of Mali in northern Africa.

The Dogon have a very sophisticated spiritual, astronomical and calendrical system, as well as extensive anatomical and physiological knowledge. They also have a systematic pharmacopeia, which means directions for compound medications.

Perhaps they are best known for the accurate knowledge they possess about the Sirius star system.

Yet it is mainly an agricultural society.

They say they were visited in the distant past by amphibious beings from Sirius called the Nommo, who were their teachers.

Who is to say they weren’t?

The Dogon have such incredibly advanced and sophisticated knowledge that the only explanation for it is that they are telling the truth!

The Dogon perform elaborate ceremonies with masks, headdresses, and dance.

Compare the Dogon headdresses in this ceremony…

…with the flag of the Tuareg people, who also live in this part of West Africa…

…and with this image on the left, the well-documented laboratory electric discharge form of plasma next to a form called the “stickman” that is found in rock art worldwide.

Think the ancient peoples of the earth might know something we don’t?

One more thing before leaving Dogon Country.

I have made the comparison of the similarity between Bandiagara Escarpment and Mesa Verde in Colorado in past posts.

Not only because of this similarity between these two places on different continents, but in the many other places I have encountered as well, I wonder if there were much closer physical connections between continents.

For one thing, this is what the world looked like when it was called Pangea on the let, before whatever caused continental drift, depicted on the right.

There are certainly submerged ruins found around the world, like Dwarka in the Gulf of Cambay off the West Coast of India, north of present-day Mumbai…

…Yonaguni, off the coast of Okinawa in the western most part of Japan…

…and underwater ruins off the western coast of Cuba, to name a few.

This next thought is purely speculative on my part.

Could the land-mass known as Pangaea have been intact until much more recently than over 200 million years ago, as an explanation for the occurrence of the same, and interconnected, infrastructure world-wide, from ancient to modern, than what we can imagine now with vast oceans between continents? Just a thought. This I definitely do not know.

Regardless of anything, there are huge chunks of information missing from the historical record that we no longer have access to by conventional means. We just have mind-boggling mysteries that we can’t explain by conventional means.

In the next post, I will be picking up the alignment in Lahore, Pakistan.