Secrets Of Ancient Circles And Discs Revealed
By: Leonard Farra - MessageToEagle.com - On 24 June 1947 something extraordinary happened which suggested that we might not be alone in the universe.
Private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing a string of flying shiny flying objects passing Mount Rainier and he estimated their speed to be at least 1200 m.p.h. His report resulted in an interest in U.F.O's and the term 'flying saucer' was born.
Since then there have been thousands of reported sightings of disc-shaped objects passing through our skies and many of them were credible sightings from pilots and military personnel. Ufologists believe that this is evidence that we are being visited by aliens but sceptics suggest they are sightings of the planet Venus or maybe secret military projects. They also scoff at the idea that our world was visited by extra-terrestrials in the distant past.
Could it be, though, that the evidence has been around for thousands of years and that its been misinterpreted ?
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Why ,we might ask, are people obsessed with the circle? We talk about our 'circle of friends' an inner political circle, a theatre's dress and upper circle etc.
In parts of the Early World, such as among European Celts, people lived in circular houses.
Some folk also lived in circular villages. Black Elk, of a branch of the North American Sioux, says that 'everything that an Indian does is in a circle' and the middle of a circle ' is called Hocoka- the centre.
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Native North Americans ,in common with many other people, have circular dances. They often camped in a series of concentric circles and left thousands of circular marks in the ground .
Most of them were marks from their tepees but many were from their circular ceremonial enclosures. Some Native Americans lived in towns, such as the Peublo people, and in Chaco Canyon, and Mesa Verde, there are circular enclosures (kivas) where sacred rituals were enacted.
Kivas are still used in the secret rituals of the Hopi and other Native Americans. Many years ago, an acquaintances of mine visited the New Mexico Indian town of Taos and she told me that the Indians associated their circular kivas with the 'sky-people' whom, I believe, were the sky gods in many early religions and who appear to have visited us 5,000 years ago.
Avebury Mounds
From around 5,000 years ago, the custom of building circular earth mounds, of various sizes, began to spread across the Northern Hemisphere and, probably by contact, into North America where there were large numbers of them.
The Vikings built them over their burial ships and so did early Anglo Saxons in England the most famous one being the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship at Woodbridge in Suffolk. If we saw some of the small circular earth mounds passing through the sky we would call them ' flying saucers or u.f.o's '.
Could it be that these mounds were representations of the craft of the 'sky-gods' ?
The most famous circular earth mound in England, which is completely different to all other mounds in the country, is Silbury Hill which is part of the amazing Avebury stone complex near Marlborough in mystical Crop Circle country. The significance of this 30 m high mound has alluded scholars and, at various times, archaeologists have excavated it hoping to find a burial of an important person. The reason why they were unsuccessful ,in their projects, is that Silbury was not a burial mound as were the other mounds the reason being that this mysterious hill seems to have been a symbolic monument in the Early World 'sky-god' religion as were the Great Pyramid, in Egypt, and certain important pyramids in Babylon, Assyria, and Tiahuanaco in the Andes.
There was also a similar circular version of Silbury in Mexico.
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A few isolated stone circles were built before Silbury, but from around 3,000 b.c.e. they began to appear in many countries and sometimes in unexpected places such as on Easter Island ,in Miami, Peru, and on the south coast of New Guinea, and they all appear to have been used for ceremonial purposes.
The British Isles had more stone circles than any other European country and special emphasis was placed on the centre where there was a single standing stone. Evidence from surviving Stone Age cults suggests that they were associated with the sky-god religion. The most famous English circle, Stonehenge ,which also appears to be star-god related, began its life as a circular earth enclosure bounded by a ditch and a raised bank.
Drombeg Stone Circle
Over the years more circles were created around this site so that it finished up as an amazing stone structure surrounded by a series of concentric circles reminiscent of the concentric circles found in early rock art carvings.
The huge Avebury stone complex is also surrounded by a deep circular ditch and both it, and Stonehenge, were sacred areas where people built domed earth burial mounds.
The World In Upheaval , 3000 B.C.E
There's a trail of stone circles , dating to a later era, along Africa's Atlantic coast. The best known ones are in Gambia and Senegal but those which deserve our attention are the Ikom monoliths, at Cross River state in south east Nigeria, where there are stones of various heights ranging from two to up to five feet.
They might not be nearly as impressive as Stonehenge but what's remarkable about them is that they are carved with the face of a 'bearded' man who appears to be a god.
Around 5,000 years ago, when the world was in upheaval, as a result of the Great Flood, reputedly caused by the gods, peoples' attention turned to the heavens and the Earth Mother goddess ,who had been worshipped for thousands of years, was joined by 'a bearded, civilising, male sky-god'.
This being was alleged to have been the great teacher of mankind and in many early religions he was associated with a circle. In Assyria, the bearded god Ashur was depicted in a winged disc and so was his counterpart the Persian god Ahura Mazda.
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Some people, such as the North American Natchez, were so amazed when they saw him that they thought that he came from the sun. However, he was generally associated with the Pleiades-a constellation of stars which featured in worldwide religious traditions. Legends suggest that he had several companions and stories in the Old and New Worlds imply that this group of beings arrived on Earth in 'an identical number of circular craft'.
For thousands of years, these craft have been alluded to in religious rituals, and sacred architecture, their original meaning having long since been forgotten.
Silbury Hill
Who were these star-people? Zacharia Sitchin popularised the story of the Sumerian Annunaki but it was lesser known scholars, Christian O' Brien in the 1980's,in 'The Genius of the Few' , Zenaide A Ragozin, in 1900 in ' The Story of the Nations , Chaldea' and Francois Lenormant, in 1877, in 'Chaeldean Magic, its Origin and Development, who reported several important things about the Annunaki which Sitchin completely overlooked.
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What I have discovered , in my many years of research, is that the Annunaki leaders were revered as gods, or the creators, in many parts of the Early World . Numerous stories were told about them ,and about gods and heroes who were based on them, and these have influenced numerous traditions, and popular stories, for thousands of years right through to the present.
With regard to their connection with a circle, the English artist John White ( 1540-1593) made several drawings of the North American Algonquin and in one of their ceremonies, that he witnessed, he saw several Indians dancing around a circle of posts carved with the heads of a group of civilising spirits.
What he didn't realise was that the origin of these 'spirits' appears to have been the leaders of the Annunaki who were also revered as creator gods in some Central American Native cultures .
So, for those astronomers in the SETI programme, who are searching for evidence of life in other worlds, why not read, in my Pleiades Legacy books, what the Ancients said about this subject and which suggests that there was an extra-terrestrial visit to our planet 5,000 years ago.
It will save a lot of time and expense. However, I doubt if any astronomers will take my suggestion seriously because it contradicts what we have been led to believe about the early history of civilised man. But for those readers who are prepared to consider a revolutionary explanation of man's past , they will find, when they are presented with the 'key,' that this fascinating story is alluded to in star lore, astrology, early religion and creation legends, sacred architecture, early calendars, the astronomical alignments of many early sites, place names, folklore and customs etc. Readers might also find some other sources that I have missed.
Written by Leonard Farra - MessageToEagle.com Contributor
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