THE MEGALITHIC GRID Graham Hancock, author of "Fingerprints of The Gods," has gathered documentation for a very simple, but very important observation: Massive stone structures, built out of stone blocks generally larger than any used in modern construction, are arranged around the world on a grid structure which is 36 degrees of longitude apart, making ten equal-spaced segments world-wide. Hancock has shown that nearly all of these structures are either entirely "pre-historic" (ie before 3500 bce), or are built on a base or in the vicinity of remnants of a pre-historic culture of unknown origin. Moreover, there are indications that the culture that produced these megalithic temples, cities and other giant constructions may have existed over 10,000 years ago, or in a 'pre-Deluge' era, a time Hancock equates with the age of the lost civilization of Atlantis described by Plato as having sunk in a cosmic flood event some 11,600 years ago. Hancock has recently added to this list of megalithic sites a huge underwater complex off the coast of Okinawa, south of Japan. The last time this structure was elevated above sea level was over 11,000 years ago. The huge steps and terraces of this stone 'city' imply that it was built by a race of giants. And it sits on the grid. Graham Hancock, of course, has come rather late to this game. Many others have written about megaliths and grids for over a century. Hancock is a reporter who is creating a "legitimacy" around this subject, covering it in the way the media likes stories covered, with lots of pictures and juicy sound-bites of credible observations that stay just a bit shy of outright sensationalism. And so, for the first time, serious scientists are going to these sites and pondering the possibility that mankind's level of sophistication during the last ice age, which they believe ended 11,000 or so years ago, may have been rather higher than the crude barbarism credited to our ancestors by 19th-century paleontologists and accepted as dogma ever since by all subsequent scientists and scholars. It now appears that not only did "ice age man" possess a technology of construction that enabled him to build truly spectacular megalithic edifices, but could travel globally and align them with respect to one another and the overall dimensions of the earth, perhaps using celestial navigation skills. This implies the existence of a single global and linguistic culture with an advanced scientific understanding not believed to have existed until modern times. There are so many contradictions with modern assumptions in such a theory that it is violently resisted by custodians of history and science. Perhaps the biggest hurdle is the implication that there must have been a GLOBAL CATACLYSM (or several) in order to explain how mankind could have "forgotten" all of the things the ancient megalith-builders seem to have known. Scholars have been unwilling to accept the idea that any knowledge of the earth's size or any global civilization existed at such an early epoch. With the new find off Okinawa, however, there seems to be no more room for doubt on the matter. The real question now is: WHY did the ancients build this grid of megaliths? TAPPING EARTH'S INNER ENERGY One of the most consistent explanations for the grid is that it somehow provided energy for ancient civilizations. The idea is that the earth's electro-magnetic field could be "tapped" by the alignment of huge stones along geo-magnetic field lines. The trouble with this idea is that the field lines appear to be available anywhere on the earth, not just on the grid, and magnetic flux varies in significant ways in local areas, often pointing well away from true north and the grid lines. So there is some question about exactly what the ancients may have used the grid for. It does appear the grid had an alignment with the earth's axis of rotation and that it thus may have had a link to the earth's magnetic field or another energy field of unknown type. But how it worked is still a mystery. BLOOD ON THE GRID One thing that does seem clear is that dead bodies and other indications of human sacrifice are found around these megalithic sites. The oldest myths and legends associated with them appear to confirm that people were thought to have been sacrificed in connection with these structures. Bodies of children, roughly 8-12 years old have been found, as well as adolescents and adults. Virgin sacrifice generally meant killing a child around 12 years old. In Peru, near Cuzco, high in the Incan mountains, a boy of 10-12 years of age was found dressed for sacrifice, lying in a cave, where he had been left to die by the priests when something put a halt to their "civilization" and its rituals. Some 4000 skeletons are estimated to lie under Stonehenge after partial excavations at the site. The building of the stone circle is currently thought to have ceased prior to the time of the Exodus, some 3500 years ago. It appears to have been built in stages over several thousand years. It's only one of a number of stone circles and megaliths all over the British Isles, France and Spain, and on islands in the Mediterranean Sea and out into the nearby Atlantic. This is the area "beyond the Pillars of Hercules" (supposedly beyond the Straits of Gibralter between Spain and North Africa that separate the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean) that Plato said was the location of the lost civilization of the island of Atlantis, from which the Atlantic Ocean may have derived its name. All this raises a question: Was human sacrifice carried out all over the world on these ancient megalithic sites? We cannot yet answer that question. Nevertheless, we do know one thing: The widely-separated megalithic complexes on grid lines were situated in often very inconvenient places, out in the middle of the ocean, high atop mountains, in deserts, and it appears, in the case of Atlantis itself, on artificial, man- made islands where no suitable island fell on the gridlines. The strange locations of these complexes implies that the purpose of the megaliths was not to derive power from a grid for local use, but rather, to do something to the earth grid by coordinating local actions on a global basis. In other words, the megaliths appear to be used to put energy into a global grid, rather than to extract energy from it. This would explain why we cannot find any use for a grid- produced energy in many of the megalithic sites. In some of the complexes, the only activity appears "religious" or, at least, sacrificial. Could blood sacrifice have been performed on the stones in some strange expectation that it might empower the grid? HAUNTED STONES One of the most common experiences people report around these stone structures is spiritual manifestation. It is sometimes nothing but a strong feeling. Other times beings are seen or speak to the witnesses. Strange glowing lights or eerie sounds are noted. Dowsers claim they can detect the presence of mysterious forces around some of the sites. The Great Pyramid is legendary for its bizzare occurrances. Even the "natural" monolith of Petra--a single giant stone in Jordan--had apparent human sacrifice on top and is known by the Bedouins as "the place of the Ghoul" and is haunted by a strange presence on its summit. One of the creepy things about the human sacrifices that were conducted at some of these sites, at least in the more recent period, is that the victims were conscious when they had their hearts cut out of their chest atop stone pyramids and other megalithic altars. These people may have taken a psychedelic drug just before they were killed. While it is likely to have made them more pliable so that they might be able to endure the grisly ritual while semi-conscious, the psychedelic effects could also have increased the vividness of their final experience. It is common knowledge that houses are often haunted if there has been a violent or traumatic death in them. There seems to be a relationship between the intensity of victim trauma and the intensity of the haunting. In other words, the psychic energy or spiritual power of the haunting is apparently proportionate to the number and severity of the traumatic deaths at the site. Not only are houses and mountains haunted, but battle- fields where thousands died are so haunted that the battle is sometimes "replayed" for centuries thereafter, a whole army of "spirits" haunting the site for generations. It follows that sacrificial pyramids and other megaliths should still be haunted by the ghosts of their past victims --and that is precisely what the witnesses report. It also follows that because the megaliths were drenched in the blood of thousands of innocent victims--at least one a year for thousands of years--there would have been a huge build-up of psychic energy in the stones. In short, back when the sacrifices were underway around the world, the megaliths would have been super-charged with spiritual power. And that could have caused the whole grid to become haunted...that is, the whole earth. It surely must have been apparent to the megalith people that their sacrifices were energizing their temples with a massive amount of psychic power. And since they had sited these structures on a global grid, it seems unavoidable to conclude that they did so deliberately in order to infuse the grid with this spiritual energy. Therefore, the ancient megalithic grid-builders appear to have set out to haunt the earth with the spirits of the children and others they sacrificed. They must have sought to energize their stone grid with the mass-murder of their own children. What could have prompted such slaughter? GLOBAL BLOOD-LETTING The victims, we are told by the more modern sacrificers, considered it an honor to give their lives. The blood was poured out on the stones, it was drunk by the priests, and it was removed from the bodies along with the vital organs. The hearts would be eaten too. And all this was done for the "benefit" of the so-called "gods" they worshipped. Who were these "gods" in the pre-Deluge world? If one looks at the Greek myths, the pre-flood world was the time when the "gods" came down and intermarried with men. The Sumerians said the same thing. Even the Bible asserts that the "Nephilim" or "fallen ones" came to earth and interbred with human women, producing a race of giants or "mighty men of old, the men of renown" [Genesis 6]. While many myths actually mention sacrifices to the gods before the flood (which nearly all of them take as a given), the Biblical account merely says that "the earth was filled with violence through them" and that this had turned into a GLOBAL problem requiring a GLOBAL solution, namely a Flood. Genesis twice repeats the curious expression that these pre-Deluge people had "FILLED" the earth with violence. Is it possible these passages should be taken literally? That is, that the planet had literally been "filled" or infused with the violent psychic trauma of millions of sacrificial victims? Were the megalith-builders using their stones as a kind of violent-trauma storage-battery? That might help explain why the megaliths used all those giant stones in the first place. The big stones could be a way of concentrating the traumatic haunting energy; and the great effort to minimize the joints to less than the width of the EDGE of a razor-blade, and to fill even that slender sliver with a super-fine mortar, could be a way to glue the huge stones into one gigantic monolith, a megamass of stone that might be able to store fabulous quantities of trauma-- the kind of horrendous haunting energy needed to empower a global grid system. And if they were charging the earth with violence, how did this serve the "gods" purposes? Did the "fallen ones" or "anunaki," as the Sumerians called them, design the grid and the megaliths? For what reason? HELPING THE "GODS" ESCAPE THE FLOOD The legends relate that the giants or Titans helped to build the megaliths and then found themsleves left behind when the "gods" fled the earth before the Flood hit. They rebelled as they realized their fate. A war broke out. It became a battle to see who would be able to escape and the giants lost. Their "parents"--the Nephilim or "gods" of the myths--defeated the Titans and managed to flee before the Deluge. The giants were swept into the sea and died, but some traditions say one clung to Noah's ark and stayed alive because Noah fed him. After the Flood, the Nephilim returned and tried to re-establish their rule over earth. What happened then is most illuminating. The legends say they built the Tower of Babel--another megalith built in the same area the anunaki had once dwelt. The effort to reinstate the old ways came to a disastrous end, but it is the reason why the Tower was destroyed that may explain what the megaliths before the Deluge were used for. The Biblical account says they were building the Tower in order to get into Heaven, and that if they had not been halted, nothing that they imagined to do would be too hard for them [Genesis 11]. And this had something to do with a GLOBAL language and a GLOBAL project [verses 4-9]. The elements of this post-Deluge story are remarkably similar to the pre-Deluge situation: The Nephilim are in charge of a global project that involves building a great megalithic structure with the potential of accomplishing anything they "imagined to do" [verse 6]. And one thing we know they "imagined to do" was get into Heaven. It certainly seems clear enough: The megaliths had the power to reach into Heaven somehow. The stepped pyramid of the Tower of Babel was not terribly high, and it could be ascended by a flight of steps. Similar structures over in Central America were used for human sacrifice. We may wonder if the Nephilim intended to revive human sacrifice in order to power up the Tower as a transport device. The Bible lets us know a few pages later that there is another place on the earth, over near Jerusalem, where the idea of earth-to-heaven transport was still in some sense surviving in Jacob's day. Jacob lies down atop a mountain and dreams of "angels [the Nephilim were "fallen angels"] ascending and descending" to and from Heaven [Genesis 28]. "Surely this is THE GATE OF HEAVEN," Jacob exclaims. Something about a MOUNTAIN TOP involves the ability of "angels" to "ascend" into Heaven. What else can we see in Jacob's story that might relate to the megaliths? Jacob sets up a "bed" out of the "stones" of that place and then "stands" one of them on its end and makes a stone pillar out of it. It looks like the stones of that place were BUILDING STONES. At least one of them had a shape of an artificially cut stone. Tradition says that the stone in the British coronation throne is that very stone, and that stone is clearly man-shaped. There is a growing school of thought that identifies the mountain of Jacob's "ladder" [steps?] as the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. [We will detail the reasoning behind this another time.] In 1982, Israeli archaeologists found a massive hewn-stone block atop the Mount of Olives. They believe this ancient stone was the Miphkad Altar where the Red Heifer sacrifice was conducted and where Abraham was to have sacrificed Isaac. If the Miphkad megalith is near the spot where Jacob's "Gate of Heaven" was located, could there have been other stones on Olivet when Jacob was there, but which are not there now? Across the Kidron Valley from Olivet are the walls of Jerusalem--built out of some of the most massive stones ever set on earth, some even bigger than those of any of the megaliths we have been discussing. A mystery exists about how the largest such stones could have been cut out of a quarry and hoisted up and dragged through the hills around Jerusalem and set into position with the tools we NOW have, much less the technology of Solomon's & Herod's times. One of these stones is 42 FEET LONG: The size of a railroad boxcar. No one can explain how it got there. If there had once been a megalithic structure atop the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, then that mountain may have once looked more like some sort of stepped pyramid than a natural mountain. That is not as fanciful as it may sound. Aside from a long series of wars that have afflicted Olivet, which has a higher summit than Jerusalem and is therefore an ideal place to lay seige to the city, we have a specific story in the writings of the historian Josephus, an eyewitness, who relates that the Romans levelled the top of Olivet in their seige of 70 AD. So Olivet looked much different in the days of Jesus than it now does, and it probably had a far different profile when Jacob was there. But it is clear that even in Jacob's day, Mount Olivet had already suffered some sort of destruction to all the stones he found; they were just lying around in some sort of ruined condition for him to rearrange. What could the Mount of Olives have endured that would have ruptured the stone structures there? The Deluge? If the Deluge had disorganized Olivet, then it would suggest Olivet had been "built" sometime before the Flood for some purpose. Jacob felt it was the Gate of Heaven-- a device for travelling into Heaven and back. It may be relevant that Jesus is said to have ascended into Heaven from the top of Olivet and is prophesied--or rather it was announced by angels atop Olivet--to return from Heaven to Olivet at the end of this age. Abraham is also said to have encountered an angel atop Olivet. The angels after the resurrection greeted the women atop the Mount of Olives. During the agony in the Garden, there was said to be an angel strengthening Jesus [Lk 22:43]. Elsewhere on this website [see link below], we discuss the evidence that the Garden of Eden was atop Olivet. If so, then at least two more angels [Satan and the Cherubim who guarded the East gate] were seen on Olivet. So there was a continual series of angelic vistors on the top of Olivet. This alone would make it a candidate for Jacob's Gate of Heaven. It appears more "good" angel visitations occurred at Olivet than anywhere else in the Holy Land. Was the "Garden" of Eden really a stepped pyramid type of structure, complete with a stairway that could only be ascended from one side? Genesis says that an angel was placed at the east gate of the Garden to prevent Adam and Eve from returning, but why couldn't they simply sneak in the back way? If is is just a mountain, and Ezekiel 28 identifies it as being on a mountain, then why is there only one way in and out? Obviously, the sides of this Garden were too steep for Adam and Eve to climb in, but there was a ladder or steps on the east side which allowed entrance. So this was the only way in or out and, hence, the only place the angel needed to guard. Therefore, it seems the Garden of Eden did indeed look very much like a stepped pyramid, with groves of trees on each level and a stairway on the east side. And this was also the Gate of Heaven with a stairway or ladder up into Heaven that angels could go up and down upon. The Bible seems to make a distinction between angels who intermarry with mankind and build sacrificial towers to storm Heaven with, and the obedient good angels whose transport location is Mount Olivet. Jesus tells a story about a "sheepfold" and "thieves" who attempt to sneak in by "another way" than the front gate. The parable might be a reference to the Nephilim attempting to get back to Heaven by creating some kind of alternative technological device outside Eden that would use inter-dimensional and spiritual powers to transport them from the earth. But where did they go? During the Deluge, as the legends and the Bible also imply, the Nephilim did manage to get off-earth. Those megalithic sacrifices did energize the grid sufficiently to allow a few of them to escape somewhere. Then they returned. Why come back to a devasted earth if they had achieved their true goal of reaching Heaven itself? Why come back to a place covered in mud, with few survivors, most of whom were hostile to them? Could the place of "escape" have been less ideal than even the devasted earth? PYRAMIDS IN THE GROVE OF ARES The Greeks tell a strange story about a quest for the Golden Fleece. Jason and the Argonauts sail off to the "Grove of Ares" guarded by a dragon in a place he calls "Colchis" where a life-giving spring is found. Jason is accompanied by Hercules on this journey. At first the story sounds suspiciously like the story of the Garden of Eden. The grove of fruit trees guarded by a dragon who is also an angel, the spring of living waters, even the name "Colchis" that is reminiscent of the name "Golgotha" at Olivet: All seem to echo elements of the Garden of Eden's traditions. In fact, there is also a Golden Vestment similar to the Golden Fleece associated with the Garden of Eden. In Ezekiel 28, the fallen cherubim [Satan] of the Garden is said to have once had a Golden Vestment or "covering" to wear, and which he had possessed prior to his fall from grace. This Golden Vest or Mantle is lost, possibly at the time he is cursed in the Garden, but possibly at an earlier time; the text does not say. One is almost tempted to assume that Colchis is Eden, but there are a couple of problems. First, the Garden is called "The Grove of Ares." The literal meaning of that phrase is "The Fruit-Tree Garden of Mars." Hardly what we expect. The Greek tale is apparently saying in a rather direct way that this Garden in Colchis had been planted by Mars...or was on Mars. The second problem is that the guide to Jason is the mighty giant Hercules. In Phoenicia, where some Greeks had their stories they said, Hercules was known by the name "Melkart" or "M'L'K-AR'T"--which means "Angel of Ares [Mars]." So Jason's GUIDE on his quest for that Garden of Mars was the Angel of Mars. Also, keep in mind that if the "Dragon" was guarding the Garden of Mars, then it could not be Eden, since the Dragon of Eden, Satan, was banished from the Garden and would certainly not be appointed to guard it. One might be asking if the Greeks had gotten confused and jumbled up the story? Did they simply not know what had happened and were all mixed up about the details? It is unlikely that the Greeks got this story from a Biblical source. Not only are the details very strange in a Biblical sense, but the Martian references at first seem totally alien to the Bible. But that's not true. The very passage in Ezekiel we have been citing calls Satan "the King of Tyre"--a city in Phoenicia, which worshipped Mars. Moreover, "Tyre" itself was a name for Mars. Thus, the cherub of Ezekiel 28, the "Dragon" called Satan, is "the King of Mars." Now suddenly we see two independent traditions--the Greek myths and the Bible--confirming one another. Yet the confirmation is unsettling. Was the Garden of Eden on Mars? Or, to put it more correctly, was there another Eden on Mars? A second stepped pyramid used for inter-planet transport? Was the Garden of Eden on the earth only one end of a two-way inter-dimensional transportation gate- way or portal that allowed beings--angels--to move back- and-forth freely? And did Satan violate the rules of his official duty in some way at Eden? There is an ancient Jewish legend that says Eve was "seduced" by an angel named "Samael" who fathered Cain and an identical twin sister by her at the same time she had Abel and his sister by Adam: Two sets of twins by two fathers at the same time. The legends say this angel "Samael" had previously been the angel of the planet Mars. He was later called Satan, the one who accuses or sits in judgment, from the idea that having fallen into sin, he spends his time in an effort to point out the sins of others so that his own sins will seem less serious by comparison. Here we begin to see the dim outlines of what appears to have happened: The angel of Mars, Samael, came to earth by the Gate of Heaven atop Eden-Olivet, where he saw Eve and seduced her. Adam mated with her shortly thereafter, producing a dual pregnancy; she is "cursed" by having both sorrow and her "conception...greatly multiplied": She has two sets of twins at once, one pair of whom are very likely giants [Cain and his sister, who is called "L'L-H'W'H": "Lil-Woman"--a variation of "Lil-ette" or "Lilith"]. If Cain and Lilith are giant offspring of an angel, it goes a long way toward explaining his behavior and the tales about Lilith seeing herself as "preceding" Eve and being of a "higher" or "angleic" status. Having left his former station on Mars, Samael lost his Golden Mantle, which may have been returned to Mars by the Gateway. Now trapped on the earth, he began to make plans to go to Mars and retrieve his Golden Mantle. The legend of the quest for the Fleece shows Hercules as the Angel of Mars attempting to return to the Garden on Mars, the other end of the Gateway, in order to regain the lost Golden Mantle. In order to do this, having been banished from Olivet in Eden, Samael must convince Cain and his descendents to build a new transport system. It was comparatively crude, erected with slave labor supplied by a race of giants bred for the purpose, but it worked. As the project reached Mars, they detected the signs of a coming Deluge--one of a series of solar upheavals that periodically swept the earth. The chief transport up to Mars was Atlantis ["Between the Two Lands"] which was accessed by passing between the Pillars of Hercules --that is, by passing through the Gateway of the Angel of Mars: Hercules/Melkart/Malek Ares/Samael/Satan. Global deception led people to believe that if they sacrificed their children on the megaliths, they could escape the coming Deluge. The Titans thought they too would be saved. Everybody expected to be among those who went to Atlantis and took the Gateway to Mars. But there was never enough psychic energy in their megalithic grid to save everybody, nor was there time enough to transport everyone, even those at Atlantis when the end came. The concentric circles of Atlantis indicate that it was an artificial island placed in an especially ideal spot in the ocean where the grid had the ability to beam the elite "gods" to Mars. Earthquakes shook Atlantis, Plato says, giving them warning of the impending doom. Yet they did not flee. Why not? Apparently Atlantis was their hope of going to Mars before the Flood struck. Those caught there at the end must have believed they would be able to get transported through the Gateway, but either they had been lied to like the Titans, or time ran out. Some of the people did escape. The myths confirm that the leaders--the "gods"--managed to get to Mars, but most did not. Once on Mars, the elite constructed as earth-like a "Paradise" as they could. Cities were built and these self-made "gods" struggled against the rigors of the weak Martian atmosphere. Having a much weaker gravity made construction on Mars easier, but they still longed to get back to earth when the Flood event was over. Bred of angelic stock, these descendents of Cain and Lilith made plans for the reconquest of the earth. In their minds they were gods. That is what the myths record them telling mankind, not surprisingly. What technologies they developed in the pre-Flood era can be imagined from ancient accounts of UFO-style craft and laser-like weapons. There's ample modern evidence that the remnants of the old grid are being restored by UFO's today. One of the puzzles of modern UFO activity has been the increasingly obvious inter-dimensional nature of the craft and their occupants, combined with a strange set of biological characteristics remarkably similar to our own for a supposedly "alien" race. How could such beings be so much like us--humanoids with fingers and toes, two eyes and two ears, elbows and knees? It reveals a close affinity (closer than monkeys!)--yet they appear to pass through walls and act more like a kind of spirit than like aliens. But if they are in fact descendents of angels and are using an interdimensional transport system, then the mysteries make sense. That raises a more sinister issue, however. If the aliens are in fact the remnant of Cain's line, and if they are attempting to restore the global grid, where are they getting the human sacrificial victims? Millions of people are supposed to have been taken on board UFO's for bizarre experiments in which their body fluids are extracted. Women are inpregnated and the products look like "hybrids" when young, but may grow up to be standard "greys" at maturity. They are using our women as surrogate mothers to breed a host of fake "aliens" to trick mankind into accepting them as "saviors" who are here to rescue us. Other abductees are never returned; the body parts feed fake aliens--human goo dumped as waste in fields. Cattle are mutilated. Thousands of children vanish. The Nephilim are recharging the grid. Why?