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across a pile of granite rubble, either the remains of a great boul- _ with the primitive means that scholars suggest were available to der which had crumbled away with age or else the remains of a _ man of those times. collapsed structure. But we can be certain that, whoever the builders were, they Continuing in the north-westerly direction I soon found myself worked with advanced building techniques which to this day looking at three huge balancing rocks, each placed upon its own _ remain largely unknown to modern science.* platform. A natural enough sight, I thought at first—that is, until I A good example of their abilities exists nearby the westemmmost measured the distance between each to find they formed a perfect of the two one-mile-long stone alignments. Upon a hillside we triangle, each stone being 60 yards by 60 yards by 60 yards apart! found a ‘water hole’, 1 foot wide by 2 feet long by 3 feet deep, During our third expedition to these structures I was to discover, which had been cut out of a solid granite rockface. But how? The a few hundred yards further on again, a large granite rock, 15 feet granite in this area blunts any modern engineer's drill! Surely, no tall with 33-foot circumference, a menhir erected upright upon a _ known stone artefact could have done the job—and we certainly base of carved granite blocks partly covered by soil. Excavating have yet to learn how these ancient stonemasons carved the other the soil from the southern end of the platform, we discovered it to artworks hereabouts. To date, not one stone adze of any kind has be composed of three blocks. The largest of these measured 8 feet been found anywhere in the entire region covered by this mighty long by 4 feet wide by 3 feet thick; the other two were each 4 feet —_ observatory. by 4 feet by 4 feet. The ‘water hole’, we soon realised, was a libation bowl for some Nearby, over another hill, I found four smaller granite stones —_ obscure rite associated with these star-worshippers’ religion’ Such forming a perfect square. bowls are found at many stone arrangement sites around the world But it was in the vicinity of the north-west alignment of stone — wherever the old Earth-worship religion spread. structures that I was to find what I consider to be the most remark- It is now 19 years since our investigation of the "Bathurst able of the entire series of megalithic marvels hereabouts. Stonehenge" began, and our work hereabouts continues. We have There before me they stood, like sentinels guarding the works of heard of a number of other apparent astronomical stone arrange- this vanished race: three carved human heads! The largest, a20- ment sites in central Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western foot-tall by 15-foot-circumference 7 = “= and South Australia, Victoria and head-and-torso figure, was badly Tasmania. It is obvious the ‘lost weathered with indistinct facial civilisation of Australia’ was features; the other two each mea- ..there is reputedly a 100-mile-long nationwide in extent, and in time sured 6 feet 10 inches tall by 6 spread beyond these shores. feet in circumference. series of large standing stones, spaced However, it is the growing num- One weathered figure appeared at irregular intervals, crossing the ber of reported megalithic sites female and had what remained of that remains of prime importance a hairline, whereas the other desert country i in a remote region of before any thought should be appeared male. Each displayed a the Northern Territory; and a mighty given to those already well- very high forehead with eyes, "Stonehenge" circle of monolithic researched monuments outside nose and mouth being close to the . oe es Australia. For example, there is base. boulders in the Kimberley region of Teputedly a 100-mile-long series We believe these heads depict rs ie of large standing stones, spaced at the Earth Mother and Sky Father Western Australia. irregular intervals, crossing the deities of the old Earth-worship- desert country in a remote region ping megalithic peoples of Europe of the Northern Territory; and a and Asia. But what were they mighty "Stonehenge" circle of doing here? Had that civilisation had its beginnings right here in — monolithic boulders in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Australia? But where and how did the creators of these monoliths live? But, we asked ourselves, who built these megalithic formations? By their very appearance, the ancient megalithic formations of Certainly not the Aborigines who were never stonemasons. It was Australia are remarkably similar to, but far older than, any mega- obvious to us that the Aborigines had once shared this continent _ lithic sites of the old European-Asian Earth-worshipping peoples with a highly developed race of people. found beyond our shores. This leads us to the proposition that in As the months passed we came to realise that the many forma- _ dim antiquity the megalithic civilisation (the earliest known to tions of standing stones, stone circles, dolmens, numerous align- mankind), together with its Earth Mother/Sky Father/Sun god reli- ments of varying lengths, etc., covered an area of approximately gion (mankind's first religion), began in Australia from where its 10 square miles. The entire site was nothing less than one great _ originators spread it out across the Earth. open-air astronomical observatory. With this civilisation also came the oldest known form of writ- Some of these structures included massive blocks of granite, ing, from which grew the ogham script of the megalithic people of one about two storeys in height and almost that in width, beneath Europe and the Mediterranean region and from which other scripts which passed a lengthy alignment. developed. One day while exploring the countryside at a point between the In Chapter 14, I suggested how the first modern Homo sapiens two one-mile-long alignments mentioned earlier, I came across evolved in Australia, eventually spreading out across the Earth. two massive menhirs, a couple of hundred feet apart on an east- These humans, it appears, were our mysterious megalith-builders west axis. I measured them at 21 feet and 19 feet in height respec- | who developed the earliest form of civilisation right here in tively, and estimated they weighed at least 8 and 10 tons each. Australia—the pale-skinned (i.e., white) “culture heroes", the "old The eastern menhir had a small altar-stone at its eastern base. ones" whom the Aboriginal traditions say preceded them on this These, and many more often massive stones making up the vari- _ continent. ous formations, presented us with the problem of how such mono- Continued ae lithic stones could have been dragged into place and erected even 36 ¢ NEXUS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1995