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eagna-eilis · 9 months

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Ach-To and Irish Archaeology

The sequels were my entry into Star Wars and I never would have gone to see The Force Awakens if I wasn't an archaeology nerd.

During the production of Episode VII, a decent number of people with an interest in our archaeological heritage here in Ireland were quite worried about the impact of filming on one of our only two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the island known as Skellig Michael down off the coast of Kerry.

I went to the film to see if any potential damage was worth it, or if they'd do something unspeakably stupid with it in-universe. I wanted to see if it was respected.

And holy hell I was NOT disappointed. I think I walked out of TFA sniffling to myself about how beautiful the Skellig looked and how it seemed like its use as a location was not just respectful but heavily inspired by its real history.

See, Skellig Michael was a monastic hermitage established at a point when Christianity was so new that the man who ordered its founding sometime in the first century CE was himself ordained by the Apostle Paul. The fellah from the Bible who harassed all and sundry with his letters, THAT Apostle Paul. This is how old a Christian site the Skellig is. It predates St. Patrick by at the very least two hundred years.

The steps we watch Rey climb were originally cut NEARLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. They have been reworked and repaired many many times since, of course. Still, the path the camera follows Daisy Ridley up is as much an ancient path built by the founders of a faith in real life as it is in the movies.

A hermitage was a place where monks went to live lives of solitude and asceticism so as better to achieve wisdom. The practice is common to many of the major world religions, including the myriad East Asian faiths which inspired the fictional Jedi.

It is said that the hermitage and monastery were originally built with the purpose of housing mystical texts belonging to the Essanes, one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism which influenced some of the doctrines of Christianity. They also, according to what I have read, characterised good and evil as 'light' and 'darkness' and were celibate.

As such, the use of the island in TFA and TLJ does not merely respect Skellig Michael's history, it honours it. It is framed as somewhere ancient and sacred, which it is. It is framed as a place where a mystic goes to live on his own surrounded by nature that is at once punishing and sublime, which of course it was. It shown to be a place established to protect texts written at the establishment of a faith, which it may well have been.

This level of genuine respect for my cultural heritage by Rian Johnson in particular is astonishing. I don't think anyone from outside the US ever really trusts Americans not to treat our built history like it's Disneyland. Much of the incorporation of the Skellig's real past into a fictional galactic history occurs in TLJ, which is why I'm giving Rian so much credit.

It's Luke's death scene which makes the honouring of Irish archaeological history most apparent though.

Johnson takes the archaeological iconography back a further three thousand years for his final tribute to my culture's beautiful historical temples. This time, he incorporates neolithic passage tomb imagery, specifically that of Newgrange, which is up the country from the Skellig.

I think if you understand what the image represents then it makes a deeply emotional scene even more resonant.

The scene I'm referring to is Luke's death.

As he looks to the horizon, to the suns, we view him from the interior of the First Jedi Temple. The sunset aligns with the passageway into the ancient sanctuary, illuminating it as he becomes one with the Force.

As for Newgrange, every year during the Winter Solstice it aligns with the sunrise. The coldest, darkest, wettest, most miserable time of the year on a North Atlantic island where it is often cold, wet, and miserable even in the summer. And the sun comes up even then, and on a cloudless morning a beam of sunlight travels down the corridor and illuminates the chamber inside the mound.

You guys can see this, right? The similarity of the images? The line of light on the floor?

Luke's death scene is beautiful but I think it's a thousand times more moving with this visual context. Luke's sequel arc isn't merely populated by a lore and iconography that honour the place where the end of his story was filmed, I think that incorporation of that history and mythology honours Luke.

We don't know for sure what the Neolithic people believed, religion-wise. We know next to nothing about their rituals. We know that there were ashes laid to rest at Newgrange. There is some speculation that the idea was that the sun coming into the place that kept those ashes brought the spirits of those deceased people over to the other side.

It's also almost impossible not to interpret the sunlight coming into Newgrange as an extraordinary expression of hope. If you know this climate, at this latitude, you know how horrible the winter is. We don't even have the benefit of crispy-snowwy sunlit days. It's grey and it's dark and it's often wet. And every single year the earth tilts back and the days get long again.

The cycle ends and begins again. Death and rebirth. And hope, like the sun, which though unseen will always return. And so we make it through the winter, and through the night.

As it transpired the worries about the impact of the Star Wars Sequels upon Skellig Michael were unfounded. There was no damage caused that visitors wouldn't have also caused. There also wasn't a large uptick in people wanting to visit because of its status as a SW location, in part I think because the sequels just aren't that beloved.

But they're beloved to me, in no small part because of the way they treated a built heritage very dear to my heart. I think they deserve respect for that at the least.

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vacationtripindia · 3 years

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5 Must-Visit Places When In Jaipur- Buy Jaipur Tour Packages Now

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roguenewsdao · 7 years

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North Korea Pyramid Power

"The sites on the world grid might have been nodal points for the interference of standing waves moving over the surface of the earth. So we may also be looking at a very sophisticated knowledge of where those intersecting nodal points of standing waves are." -- Joseph P. Farrell in an interview given to Red Ice Radio circa 2011

In the previous blog of this series #Celestials, I left us hanging with the promise to bring forth some of the information published by Joseph P. Farrell back in 2011 when his book "The Grid of the Gods - The Aftermath of the Cosmic War and the Physics of the Pyramid Peoples" hit the bookshelves. Down further in this blog, I will include one of the interviews he gave to Red Ice Radio that encapsulates his ideas along with some quotes from that book and interview.

The reason why we are considering such a far-out subject is that it is the belief shared by myself, by our Mr. W., by Dr. Farrell, and probably a relatively small number of other forward-thinking people that mankind is passing through a very precarious time right now. For a few thousand years, an elite stratum of self-imposed "priests" have been progressively searching for the lost energy technology of prehistory. The ultimate agenda of these creatures (I hesitate to call them "people") is to do battle with whatever is "out there". This priesthood will not hesitate to use our galaxy, our sun, and even our planetary earthly home as a weapon to engage "the gods," or whomever, in this battle.

On a positive note, it is the theory of Mr. W. and myself that if we can look at this agenda through their eyes, then we might be able to predict the future time that this priesthood has in mind for triggering this galactic showdown. This priesthood is a slave of numbers and of both astronomical and astrological geometry. They know that their use of planets and stars as weapons has to be timed and aligned with precision. So we might ask, "If I was in their shoes, then what year, what month, what date and minute, would work to my advantage in this heinous act of annihilation?"

The insanity of that paragraph above is not lost on me.

Pyramids All Over Korea

However, before diving into Dr. Farrell's well-constructed argument that such a technology has existed in the past, let's focus on the last three words of his book title: the "Pyramid Peoples." For most of us, when we hear the phrase "pyramid people" or "pyramid civilization," what image do we conjure in our mind? Typically, we see the Great Pyramid at Giza or the fabulous pre-Columbian step pyramids in Mesoamerica Mexico, like the one located nearly on top of latitude 19.5N at Teotihuacan.

Did you know that the Korean Peninsula touts an ancient megalithic pyramid history as well?

Yes, from the dolmen sites at the southern tip of South Korea to the ancestral mausoleum of ancient Korean founder Gojoseon in North Korea, the land of Korea is literally riddled with pyramids from top to bottom.

In the south, UNESCO has seen fit to preserve the Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen sites as a world heritage region. According to Wikipedia [linked here], at these sites are found hundreds stone dolmen which were used as grave markers and for ritual purposes during the first millennium B.C. when the megalithic culture was prominent on the Korean Peninsula. Dolmen are those gigantic slabs of rock or granite that people customarily associate with capstones like the ones at Stonehenge. Korea is said to contain more than 40% of the world's dolmen, which are mostly concentrated in these three sites.

Way up in the north, near Pyongyang at latitude 39 degrees north, there sits a magnificent step pyramid that might date back as far as the year 3000 B.C. This places the building of that pyramid around the same time as mainstream history's dating of the much larger Great Pyramid of Giza near 2560 B.C. Now, we don't know if that pyramid in Korea may have been built by an older civilization and then later re-purposed as a mausoleum for Korea's ruling elite 5,000 years ago, long after the original use of the pyramid had been forgotten. Korea, as do so many other cultures, maintains a vigorous global deluge mythology. For all we know, Gojoseon could have descended from one of those deluge survivors.

Alternative historians, of course, date the pyramid era to a time much, much older than the third millennium [linked here]. For example, Dr. Robert Schoch's well known discovery about water erosion on the Sphinx would date that monument back as far as 7000 B.C. Nevertheless, both of those pyramids, and likely dozens of others around the globe, pre-date the Biblical chronology of the flood of Noah's day set in the year 2370 B.C. Regardless of which date is accepted, it is clear that the global era of pyramid-building pre-dates any global deluge which is itself a universally regarded "war of the gods" type of event.

I mention all of this as context for the current events that we see unfolding before us in the news, this supposed tit-for-tat threat of nuclear attack by the presidents of North Korea and the United States that is shoved in our faces daily. The world is told to be on the alert for nuclear war. But I would like to suggest that, as usual, this is merely another Hegelian dialectic in operation, a north-south pole of contention that is being stage-managed by a third unseen hand. That "hand" needs these regular nuclear tests and detonations to get launched because that "hand" is still learning and testing this ancient "grid" technology.

That brings us to the information that Joseph P. Farrell has been publishing. Let's talk about how the destruction wreaked by nuclear bombs is not the end-game itself. Nuclear detonations are merely a way of setting off a chain reaction of energy in a hyperdimensional realm of further unimaginable destruction.

Sluice Gates of Zero-Point Energy

I bring up Korea's historical love affair with pyramids as a counter-balance to the present fascination that Kim Jong-un has with the advancement of North Korea's nuclear program. Mainstream media would have us believe that the North Koreans are crazy people playing with a weapon whose power they don't understand. However, based on the long history that Korea has maintained with pyramids in her ancient culture, I would suggest that the North Koreans know exactly what they're doing.

Moreover, as always, I encourage the reader to think beyond this or that sovereignty. Think mostly about that elite "breakaway civilization" who sits above petty sovereignties and is really running the show in this quest for ultimate power. Based on some of the statements made in Dr. Farrell's six-year old interview below, that "priesthood" has been running nuclear tests all across the world to learn the laws of harmonics.

Here are a few points from the first 10 minutes of the above interview. The next blog will pick up at that point. Dr. Farrell says:

"What they were trying to cover up was the possibility that, when you set off these large thermonuclear devices, that, for a momentary period of time, the geometries within the explosions are literally, kind of, hyperdimensional gateways or sluice gates or whatever you wish to call them. And they are transducing energy from the physical vacuum itself, from Zero-Point energy, if you will."

Per Nazi scientist Richter's discoveries in Argentina, Dr. Farrell explains that Richter learned that plasmas can be used as a mechanism to tap into Zero-Point energy.

"Once you acknowledge the fact that a thermonuclear weapon's explosion will briefly 'gate energy' into the reaction, what we're really saying is that the weapon is a hyperdimensional device. The fusion reactions themselves do not account for all of the reaction that is taking place."

"Let's look at recent entries into the 'nuclear club.' You have France, China, Pakistan, India ... these nations have continued their testing. In France's case, even atmospheric testing up until recently. They are probably noticing that they are getting more YIELD out of devices depending on WHERE they're tested, WHEN they're tested, and, in my opinion, they're probably testing these devices to learn exactly what the laws of this 'gating' of Zero-Point energy into the reaction are."

(The next blog in this series will pick up with more discussion by Dr. Farrell on how this relates to the ancient technology of the "pyramid peoples.")

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