Preston (Unicorn) Cross - Callanish extended

I decided to check the extension of the Triangle line from PUC - Schiehallion - Callanish line north west beyond Iceland through Canada and found it reached the Pacific coast near Kelso in Washington State.  This was a surprise as this is the line which cuts through Kelso in Scotland, to the south east of Preston Cross.

Now, I had guesstimated that the line would pass near to Mount Rainier, and it does, which Bill Buehler had also mentioned in his recent post.  What I had not realized is that Mount St Helens lies between Mount Rainier and Kelso.  So this line also runs between two volcanic areas, Mount Etna and Mount St Helens, and of course also includes Iceland.  Quite staggering!  

In the first image another line can be seen coming down through the Great Lakes to Mexico.  This is the other line of the triangle, that is the Lindisfarne, PUC, Inchcolm, Ben Cruachan to Barra line extended, just to complete the exercise.  This line crosses Enhanted Mountain in Texas, and it also cuts through Arkansas, which another researcher, James Tyberon makes much of due to the crystal beds around Mount Ida, although this line is perhaps too far west.

In the other direction, that is south east of Lindisfarne the line extends through Groningen, mentioned previously as the place I lived in for some three and a half years, through Prague, Budapest, Istanbul to near Baalbek.

In my next post I shall comment on the brown line which can be seen in this image which runs from Mount Carmel to Skellig Michael, prompted by J Rankin previously mentioned, but time being short and my brains being scrambled I need a break.

acknowledgements

I mentioned that I had started 'playing around' on Google Earth a few weeks back, not for the first time incidentally.  I guess I've spent days if not months in total scanning the planet over the years.  I also mentioned in the first post in this series the 33rd degree west of Giza, and this was after reading Jeff Nisbet's article The Pyramids of Scotland Revisited: http://www.mythomorph.com/wp/the-pyramids-of-scotland-revisited/.  Jeff and I have had some discussion concerning his original article and his interesting hypothesis that the Orion belt stars and Sirius have been laid out in the landscape of Scotland, namely the three islands near North Berwick, with Inchcolm being Sirius.  He also plots the other main stars of Orion.  I found it a fascinating idea, but could not confirm or otherwise as I did not have the resources to check it out.  He also makes much of North Berwick Law being pyramidal and close to the same height as the Great Pyramid at Giza.  That Uri Geller has apparently purchased one of these three islands is fascinating!  He also mentions Doggerland in the above article which added to the interest when the BBC article appeared synchronicitously  (I perhaps have just made this word up, spell-check doesn't like it, but I don't really care! lol!)

Anyway I plotted the 33rd degree west of Giza, prior to Bill Buehler's new systems appearing and the connection with one of the Michael ley lines at Stanton St Bernards in the first post of this recent activity.

So I thank Jeff for bringing it to my attention, and apologies for not mentioning this in that post.  Quite honestly I was 'off on so many tangents' by that time my head was spinning!

Also, thanks to J Rankin whose site I came upon when checking the Michael ley, who also mentioned Doggerland and Heligoland in particular.  http://thothistheibis.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/the-bush-barrow-treasures/  A fascinating, informative article I fully intend to return to.  A line from Skellig Michael to Mount Cramel is also mentioned and because of the link to Skellig Michael I also plotted on Google Earth, it's the brown line in some of the images, but I have not had time to write it up yet!


So thanks again to both!   

Google Earth exercise contd.

 The projection of some of the lines in the previous posts left me dumbstruck, and I feel the need to show the most relevant.

The last few weeks certain topics drew my attention, namely new information about Doggerland, in what is now the North Sea, and last week a four night series of programmes on B.B.C., called Volcano Live  .http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00tmqdr

Doggerland
This is a link to the BBC article:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18687504


Doggerland has long intrigued me!  The geometry I have found is restricted to dry land, where sites can at least be marked, checked and visited, and some of these are ancient, and so it is possible that the geometry did cover parts if not all of the land subsequently lost.  There are certain points which do occur in what is now sea, but may once been land, for instance the area around Inchcolm has a few, but presumably the area around the island would have been dry a few thousand years back.

from the BBC article.


A nice blog by J. Rankin: http://thothistheibis.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/the-bush-barrow-treasures/,  in which Doggerland is mentioned and the Michael Ley extended towards Denmark and mention made of the island of Heligoland situated off the corner of Denmark and Germany, which I plotted on Google Earth:

The red line from Mount St Michael, bottom left running north-east to the bottom of Denmark with Heligoland marked (click on the image to get a full screen shot)

Also in this image are extensions to the south-east of the special triangle previously mentioned with its apex at Preston (unicorn)Cross, P.U.C.   The most important at this time is the extension of the Callanish - Schiehallion line through PUC and Kelso which cuts the Michael Ley near Yarmouth and extends down to Mount Etna on Sicily, one of the presently(last week) fourteen active volcanoes listed on the BBC Volcano Live programme.

That was interesting in itself, but the extension to the north-west skirts Rejkyavik(sp) and at least two major volcanoes on Iceland, Katia and Hekla, ending at Snaefelljukull, presumably also volcanic!?.  Very surprising, and raises the question whether this is the reason for that particular line!?

I then checked the blue line which originates at Bugarach mountain and connects with the Barra point of the triangle and was one of the two original plots in the previous post, as it too appeared to be heading for Iceland.  Two volcanoes again, the first the volcano which caused so much disruption to air traffic in 2010, Oraefjelljokull(sp?), and Boroarbunga at an impressive 6000+ft.


Stunned by these findings I happened to zoom out to get an overview and became attracted to a yellow feature appearing on the horizon in the Pacific ocean and guessing this to be Hawai I noticed that the dark blue line may extend to it.  And it did!

    
As can be seen the line crosses Greenland and northern Canada which I have not investigated yet.

The Hawaian islands, like Iceland, owe their existence to volcanic activity, and the BBC team based themselves there for the series.


In his most recent post Bill Buehler had linked Hawai with the Rennes Le Chateau area, and here is a direct connection which I had not even guessed at when I chose this particular line, with Iceland as bonus, and the Barra link to the specific triangle I have made so much of in previous posts, and Iceland and Mount Etna on the Callanish - Schiehallion -PUC hypotenuse of said triangle.  I recall also Bill commenting that the Callanish - Barra alignment was very special in his systems a good many years back.


I await Bill's upcoming website before attempting to describe his work further as I am in no way competent   
to even begin.  What I can say is that for some 13 years now the geometry I have been researching has interlinked in many surprising ways, often in seeming synchronicity, as with this exercise!


Bill also mentioned Antartica in his latest post, and The Volcano Live team had a piece on Mount Erebus, a Cambridge team goes there every year to study Erebus, and I found it in what is described as Hot Point Peninsula.  I extended the line and it does cross Antartica but a good way off Erebus:

As can be seen it passes to the east of New Zealand, also mentioned as having volcanic activity in Volcano Live, and what appears to be a long deep trench running parallel to this line, again I have not yet searched this part.

To conclude this exercise I completed the line back round to Bugarach checking that the projection was accurate, completing a Great Circle:

As can be seen the line is about as long as a line can be drawn across Africa, and includes The Congo which contains another volcano covered in Volcano Live, but I was unable to find it, forgetting its name even, but I did find one in Chad, but not very close.


Completion of the Circle, with Menorca and Girona in line:

There's still more to describe but later.

Four Michaels in Google Earth and William S. Buehler connections

For the past six months or so I've been working with a free CAD system called Cademia, and can plot points accurate to the metre covering the entire Ordnance Survey grid area of the UK and a part of Ireland, important though as the area round Newgrange and Tara can be included.  A pity in that Skellig Michael, Mont Saint Michel and Carnac are outwith the limits of the grid.  (Also, I can only save files in PDF format and I don't quite know how to publish these yet.)

This is unfortunate as recently I have been drawn to these points, and even south as far as Santiago de Compostela and the Rennes le Chateau area, and east to the Baltic, Bornholm and Gotland in particular.  I have had to resort to Google Earth to cover this and was quite happily working on this when a post appeared from William Buehler showing some new systems which interact with what I'd been working on to an astonishing extent, that I need to try and cover this.  As it is so long since I've been posting and the format of Blogger has changed a bit, I'll keep this short and make sure I can post some Google Earth shots.

If this works an overview of the area should show:

Ok, that was simple enough!  Click on the image to open a full screen view, and slideshow of all images used.

The image shows the Uk/Ireland and France down to the north of Spain, and two lines heading east to the Baltic area.

The prominent yellow vertical line is the Greenwich meridian.

The red vertical line to the left is the meridian of a feature I found just south of the stone fields of Carnac, the tumulus Saint Michel, and was originally traced through the UK all the way to Orkney, and runs through my main area of interest namely Edinburgh and Midlothian with many points of interest noted.  I subsequently extended this south to the latitude of Santiago de Compostela, as I had found a line from there through Mount Saint Michael in Cornwall extended north east to the south Scotland area, more on later!

I accurately plotted a line due east to Tumulus St Michel meridian, then extended this east again accurately the same distance which was in the Rennes Le Chateau area  to a point close to the mountain of Bugarach.
(Actually, I had previously noted that visually RLC appeared to be close to the mirror point of St de Compostela.  Drawing the line from RLC to the point where The St de Comp. line had intersected the Tum St Michel meridian, extended to Tinto Hill in the South of Scotland, which is a prominent pyramidal hill and is finally coming into the picture, linking to the Glasgow stuff mentioned previously.)

I decided to use Bugarach mountain as the nearest and best point to use for a large scale projection, being a prominent line of sight point and is a major point in the geometry of both Henry Lincoln and David Wood, if memory serves right!(They both use Bugarach church which is in the village of Bugarach - 13-6-12).  The results were astonishing, in themselves, but they also connect with Bill Buehler's new systems at certain points.
My first two trials proved to be inspired, and connect Bugarach with Callanish and Barra( which also includes the exact summit of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales), both corners of the triangle with Preston Unicorn Cross at its eastern apex.  More on later.

My initial spur was reading recently that Skellig Michael, Mount Saint Michaels and Mont Saint Michel where in a straight line.(see Article 'Lands End or Beginning' - Andrew Gough link in list opposite).  I find them to be in a near straight line, and I have put in the line from Skellig Michael(Great Skellig?) direct to Mont Saint Michel, and also the lines from Mount Saint Michaels to both of these, and at a great scale as in the first image, seem to be the same.  It still is intriguing, (is it not?) that three such impressive rock islands all with structures on their tops dedicated to the same saint, or saints with the same name, should be so closely aligned.

Scanning the Carnac area I then came across Tumulus Saint Michel, and used this as the exact longitude to use for the exercise extending Carnac's longitude north, as it sits roughly between the extremities of the visible stone fields a little to the north.

After this I zoomed out and noticed that the tumulus seemed to be the same distance from Mount St Michaels as Mont St Michel is.  On checking, the distances were 206.11 miles and 206.24 miles, respectively!!  Just one more astonishment!

Four St Michaels showing geometric relationships!

I joined the tumulus and Mont St Michel, and then extended north east to the island of Gotland, finding that not only did it skirt both Amsterdam and Copenhagen, but also the town I lived in for some three years, Groningen in the north of the Netherlands.  Of personal interest, perhaps more later.

The other line heading to the Baltic, Mount Saint Michaels to Bornholm was to see if this correlated with the well known Michael/Mary line much commented on by others.  Bornholm is a major centre of geometry verifiably accurate to within millimetres using the Danish Kort &Matrikelstyrelsen data as shown by Erling Haagensen and Henry Lincoln and looked at by me earlier in the history of this blog.

Although to the south of the Michael/Mary line there is enough to be intriguing. Not least finding the intersection with another line of longitude I had been interested in, again read about recently, the line of longitude 33 degrees west of the Great Pyramid.at an estate/hamlet called Stanton St Bernards which I did not know of previously.  Not only did one of Bill Buehlers lines also pass through this spot, but also the line from Bugarach to Barra,   My 'gast' was truly 'flabbered' by now!

In this image Stanton St Bernard can be seen in relation to the Milk Hill area, and some of Bill's systems with sites of previous crop formations indicated.  The line from Mount St Michael to Bornholm goes directly through one of these formations labelled 'Whale'.

A close up of Stanton St Bernard.

6-6-12 update!

First a couple of shots of what I've been doing in the Rennes Le Chateau area:

this is my first attempt at constructing David Wood's( GENISIS and GENESET) pentagonal system, still not 'right', needs tweaking!

Also I've played around with colours a bit, and there is an additional purple line which is the 'Great Circle' line between Santiago de Compostela and the Rennes area, see the third image !

This second one shows again my first attempt at constructing Henry Lincoln's(The Holy Place etc) pentagon superimposed on Woods system.

The Great Circle, or shortest distance between two points on a sphere, in purple, as opposed to the three points of same latitude I used for initial construction, in red!  The difference is noticeable, and more on later.  I also picked out some points of interest on the way, Montsegur and Lourdes, although not on the lines concerned, but good for future reference!

Now another WSBuehler connection!  I had gone back to the Callanish and Barra areas to construct the triangular system with Preston Unicorn Cross at its apex, desribed previously. plotting relevant points of interest, namely Cruachan, Ben Ledi, Inchcolm and on through to Lindisfarne on the Barra line, and Schiehallion on the Callanish line in particular, and as Mount St Michaels was a prominent spot in this whole story, plotted the line between Schiehallion and Mount St M's to find that it connected with the UK Grail Resh point of WSB's, just off  the Anglesy oast.  It also ran through the Isle of Man, and the centre of Glasgow, including the Science Park, BBC and Kelvingrove Museum, all worthy of note!

Where the two turquoise lines interset is Preston (Unicorn) Cross, (PUC)and the extensions to the east and south-east terminate in this image at Lindisfarne and Kelso respectively.  The return line from Lindisfarne through Kelso extends to Ailsa Craig and is further desribed below.

This image shows the Callanish - Barra section of the PUC triangle as used by me for the calculations described earlier in this blog.  The two different blue lines are from Bugarach.  The red line running parallel to the linking line between Callanish and Barra from the south is from Skellig Michael, just one more link to consider.

A section of the Barra - Lindisfarne line showing Ardchattan with the Bugarach - Callanish line and intersection with the Cruachan massif to the right with Loch Awe spanning the gap between the two lines.

In this image, Inchcolm is to the left and Preston (Unicorn) Cross at the intersection with the Tumulus St Michel longitude, in red, midway between PUC and Arthurs Seat.

Inchcolm with the line passing through both Abbey and highest point.

The extensions of both lines to Lindisfarne, at the end of the Barra line with the 33d west of Giza longitude in the gap between the island and mainland, and Kelso, (Abbey area), on the Schiehallion - Callanish extension,  with the line from Santiago de Compostella - Mount St. Michaels running through to form a near 90d angle with the Barra line!

In the above and below images, the line joining Lindisfarne and Kelso is shown extending south-west and taking in Dryburgh Abbey and also the Eagles Nest point much emphasised in this blog, with the tumulus St. Michaels longitude running just east of Eagles Nest, and with Lee Pen at Innerleithen marked.  This line continues south-east through the Dryhope Tower area to Ailsa Craig, the island where granite Curling Stones are from.

The Kelso area with Kelso Abbey , the octagonal ?bandstand? in the town and Roxburghe Castle ruin to the left.

The Eagles Nest and Dryhope Tower  with St Mary's Loch and the Yarrow valley. with the Tumulsus St Michel longitude in red.

Ailsa Craig.  The red line continues through Donald's Hill in Ireland.

I shall leave this as is for now, although there are a lot of connections to try.  One that I did try was Mont St Michel through Glastonbury Tor another Michael connection, and extended was close to the Callanish area, which did include Goat Fell on Arran, a prominent mountain in west-central Scotland, but the line ran just east of Glastonbury Tor, and clipped the north-east coast of The Isle Of Man.  Trying Snaefell on Man brought The Great Orme on the Welsh north coast into the picture, and a direct line through Glastonbury Tor summit finds the centre of the Great Orme.  I haven't included this yet due to time constraints and developing complexity.

I could include more images/text as and when deemed necessary.

This exercise has been an astonishing journey, but then what's new? TG - 15 June, a week till solstice!

O. S. Open Source API trial

I have just now registered for the OS Open Source facility and hope that it works as my initial trial was very good, in that not only is it a full map of the UK or Britain, but it gives universal grid references instead of the 'coded' form for the map sections i.e. with the two letter suffix followed by six figure references. This new facility gives twelve figure references, which is what I had been doing manually for many years now. It appears to be a new thing, to me at least, and is what I have been dreaming of for yonks now!

What spurred me into action was a recent request asking for any leads into the Glasgow area geometry. I found an interesting site based on the work of Harry Bell, who I knew of, but never met, and he was deceased before I tried to contact him. That was back in 2002/3, but a google search found many sites connecting with his work.

I have started to plot his points and see how it develops alongside my own findings, and the techniques I have developed over the years. This new resource is ideal, if I can get it working.

Here's hoping!

6-6-12 update!

Ok!  I am still using the Ordnance Survey map element but have given up on using the source code stuff, stiking to Cademia and Google Earth for now, though I still haven't tried to publish pdf files which I can save from Cademia.

Roman altar stones at Inveresk, Musselburgh

The B.B.C. reports the discovery of two Roman altar stones at Inverek, Musselburgh:

Two rare, carved altar stones found in East Lothian could shed new light about the Roman period in Scotland, it has been claimed.

The Roman stones were found during the redevelopment of a cricket pavilion in Lewisvale Park, Musselburgh.

Experts said they may help re-write the history books on the Roman occupation of Inveresk.

Although they were found in March 2010, it has only now become safe to fully inspect them.

Archaeologists said the stones were of "exceptional quality".

The experts from East Lothian Council, Historic Scotland and AOC Archaeology Group have been carefully removing the stones for the past year.

Only the backs and sides were visible until this month, when it was finally safe to make a full inspection.

The first stone has side panels showing a lyre and griffon as well as pictures of a jug and bowl, objects which would be used for pouring offerings on the altar.

The front face bears a carved inscription dedicating the altar to the god Mithras - the furthest north that such dedications have been discovered.

Mithraism was a religion in the Roman Empire from the 1st to 4th Centuries and the worshippers had a complex system of initiation grades.

Mithras is often shown slaying a bull with Sol looking on and there is often an association between both deities.

Face of God
The front face of the second stone shows female heads which represent the four seasons.

All are wearing headdresses, spring flowers, summer foliage, autumn grapes and a shawl for winter.

The centre of the stone contains a carving of the face of a God, probably Sol, wearing a solar crown.

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The eyes, mouth and solar rays are all pierced and the hollowed rear shaft would probably have held a lantern or candle letting the light shine through, similar to a Halloween pumpkin or turnip lantern.

An inscription on a panel beneath the four seasons is currently partially obscured, but experts said it was likely to bear the name of the dedicator - who is believed to be a Roman centurion - and the God to whom the altar is dedicated.

Traces of red and white paint are still visible beneath the inscription panel, which experts said suggested it was originally brightly painted.

Ruth Currie, East Lothian Council's cabinet member for community wellbeing, said: "This is enormously exciting and its significance could be huge.

"These beautiful artefacts could reveal a whole new strand of East Lothian's history and possibly even shed light on the way the Romans lived on an international scale."

Dr Fraser Hunter, Iron Age and Roman curator at National Museums Scotland, said: "The quality of these sculptures is remarkable, and they will tell us an enormous amount.

"This is the first evidence for the god Mithras in Scotland, and changes our view of Roman religion on the northern frontier."

Dr James Bruhn of Historic Scotland said: "The discovery of altar stones to the eastern God Mithras adds a fascinating new chapter to the story of Inveresk's Roman past."

Inveresk is an interesting place, with prominent old church, a boundary point visited during the Common Ridng of Musselburgh, and some interesting old houses. I had thought Inveresk would have been more involved in the geometry than it has till present. I only have one alignment for it, and can't even remember what it is at present. I'll give another look.

A few years back a carved stone was found in the River Almond at Cramond, in which a lioness has a man in her mouth, which Bill Buehler found of interest.

Also, the headquarters of Scottish Widows Insurance Company between Melville and King's Gate, the riders neck/shoulder area, are built on the foundations of a Roman fort or villa with attached bathhouse. So, the Romans had a substantial presence in the area, and of course Dere Street runs up into the Lothians and there is also the Signal Station on the Eildon Hills.

Back to the future, or forward to the past !?

It has been many months, eight or so, since I last posted, due to various factors, a new computer allowing greater access to the temptations of the internet, allied to my own lethargy and sheer laziness, and perhaps just life getting in the way.

Anyway, here I am back with the intention of carrying the work further.

My previous post was of the (near) summer solstice photo over the Forth Road Bridge from Hawes pier at South Queensferry. This year I intend to develop this further, and if possible be at Hillend fort for the summer solstice setting. This may not be practical given my lack of transport, but hopefully things will work out!

The photo was taken a few nights after the solstice so I am unsure exactly how the suns setting point had changed, but it would not have been by much. Also the photo was taken a bit after sunset from sea-level. Hillend is the logical point to get an accurate fix from at the point of sunset.