- Easter Island -

Also Know as Land of the Long-Ears

Easter Island is the world's loneliest inhabited locality, found SW of the Galapagos Islands in the south Pacific.

The island was first known to the world when it was discovered by Admiral Jacob R on 5 April 1722, which was Easter Sunday, hence the island's Western name.

Since then, Easter Island has attracted great scientific interest, owing to its giant statues (moai), numbering a thousand. Who made them, and why ???

Researchers believe that the island was first settled in C.AD 400, and for several centuries, the islanders carved sun-oriented terraces and small statues.

They then converted the terraces into ceremonial platforms (ahu), and were using the crater walls of Rano Raraku, a dormant volcano to carve the stone giants.

Their functions remain controversial, but are thought to be monuments to dead rulers and were once infused with supernatural powers (mana), by the modern-day islanders.

The statues were thought to vary from each other but later examples all depicted the same man (whose identity unknown).

Each was carved only as far down to the top of his legs, with a heavy brow, lantern jaws, jutting chin, aquiline nose, long ear-lobes and a red topknot (pukao) on his head, which was carved from a small volcanic cone called Puna Pau.

Most of these statues weigh 25-40 tons and stood 3.5-7.5 metres tall, but they could have been larger: one incomplete example still lying inside the crater at Rano Raraku weighs about 270 tons and is around 21 metres long.

One of the reason why these were never completed was a civil war on the island between the Long-Ears, who were the ruling class, and the Short-Ears, who were their underlings, in which the Short-Ears won, killing all but one of the Long-Ears.

In 1774, Captain Cook arrived and found the stone giants lying haphazardly on the ground due to outbreaks of war.

Then, in 1862, a Peruvian slave ship abducted most of the islanders to Peru to work in the mines, where the majority died, and the surviving few that were return to Easter Island were infected with smallpox.

One of the many consequences of this terrible saga of suffering was the death of every islander who could read their unique picture writing (called rongo-rongo and carved on wooden slabs), which remains undeciphered even today.

Where did the very first inhabitants of Easter Island come from and why was the giant statues built ???

Ironically, the answer to this riddle may already exist, locked away in the various surviving samples of Easter Island's crytic rongo-rongo language, but until the key to its linguistic secret is uncovered, we shall never know for sure.

- Pyramids -

Pyramid power

In the 1940s, Czech engineer Karel Drbal placed razor blades inside a model pyramid and found that blunt ones can become sharp again.

Drbal was so impressed that in 1949 he applied to the patent office in Prague to register his own pyramid as an invention for resharpening razor blades (the pyramid must be oriented NS).

So firm was his faith in the secret energies of pyramids that he applied for - and eventually won - a patent for his invention though it took the office's scientists 10 years of approve it.

For the ancient Egyptians, the pyramid was the burial place of the king, and it may have represented a staircase that he could climb to join the gods after his death.

However, studies shown that pyramids might have healing potential, food preservation, and much more.

The true purpose of pyramids are still unknown to mankind but like the Easter Island, the answer may be found in the hieroglyphs (pyramid text) found in the pyramids.

- Stonehenge -

Who built them ??? Why ???

This ancient monument of huge stones solitarily standing on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England has captured imaginations for centuries.

Theories about who built it have included the Druids, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Atlanteans.

Speculation on the reason it was built range from human sacrifice to astronomy.

Investigations over the last 100 years have revealed that Stonehenge was built in several stages from 2800 - 1800 BC and includes of bluestones, heelstones and trilithons.

It seems to have been designed to allow for observation of astronomical phenomena - summer and winter solstices, eclipses, and more.

While scientific study of the site continues, Stonehenge remains shrouded in folklore.

According to local legend, the gigantic bluestones were brought from Ireland through the magical powers of Merlin, wizard to King Aurthur.

Whereas the great Heel Stone is associated with a legend in which the devil once found a monk hiding among the stones. Before he could escape, the devil threw a giant boulder, which pinned him by the heel.

What could Stonehenge really been used for ???

Perharps as Man becomes more dependent on Science for answers, we have lost the ancient knowledge that had once been bestowed on us.

- The Rollright Stone -

The King & His Men

The Rollright Stones lies about 28 km NW of Oxford.

Legend has it that a King with ambitions to conquer all of England had got as far as the

Rollrights when up popped a witch. According to some accounts she was Mother Shipton of Shipton-under-Wychwood (c.1488-1551).

She challenged the King with these words - "Seven long strides shalt thou take
And if Long Compton thou canst see,
King of England thou shalt be."

On the king's seventh stride the ground rose up before him in a long mound sometimes known as the Arch-Druid's barrow. The witch laughed and declared - "As Long Compton thou canst not see
King of England thou shalt not be.
Rise up stick and stand still stone
For King of England thou shalt be none;
Thou and thy men hoar stones shall be
And I myself an eldern tree."

And so it was that the King became the King Stone, his men the King's Men Stone Circle, and his treacherous and conniving knights the Whispering Knights (the photo on the right), although some say that the knights were actually at prayer.

Tradition has it that one day the spell will be broken. The King and his men will return to life and continue with their conquest of England.

There is a great deal of folklore associated with the stones. Young women were rumoured to touch the King stone with their breasts at midnight for fertility. Fairies live under the stones. The stones dance. They go down to the stream to drink. The witch bleeds when cut in blossom. Witches have met there since time immemorial.

It has also been claimed that these stones actually have the ability to heal, move, or even cause electric shocks.

Researchers have found that some ancient stone like the Rollright Stones pulsated with low-level magnetism that could be detected only with special instruments, and even ultrasound can be found from these stones.

In a recent case, a four year old girl who visited the Rollrights for the first time had a recurring dream in which she sees a woman entering a cavern underneath the Circle and turning into a serpent. This child had never been told about the stories of the Stones but maybe children possess a knowledge or intuition that we lose as we get older ???

If U see closely, don't U think that the photos really resemble a King marching his men ???

The King stone is the bottom picture on the right.

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