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REVIEWS megalithic sites like Avebury, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge. Interestingly, microwaves have been recorded within these circles and "megalights" have also been seen in their making. Certainly a thought-provoking thesis. THE STONE ANGLE megalithic sites like Avebury, Silbury was central to the ancient Egyptians' by Jack Wun Hill and Stonehenge. Interestingly, cosmology and survival. The priest- Self-published, 2006 microwaves have been recorded within astronomers observed a cosmic order in ISBN 9628-9286-7-8 (422pp tpb) these circles and "megalights" have also the reappearance of Sirius in late June, Available: http:/Avww.northatlantic Peet seen in their making. ; heralding the annual Nile flood. What books.com Certainly a thought-provoking thesis. resulted was not just a calendar and a "sky ‘ ‘ally scpublished by Jack Win religion" but a massive pangenerational On Stone Angle has been reissued THE EGYPT CODE project to build clusters of "star Pyramids under his Chinese name Wun Chok Bong by Robert Bauval ° relect me heavenly ont and Jane f as The Gods' Machines (Ft0g Books, The Disinformation Co. Ltd, NY, 2008 ie es tl - See tho ce Onan 2008). With a wealth of diagrams and ISBN 978-1-934708-00-2 (328pp he) fom une 8 fives rough the Duct | illustrations to back up his hypothesis, Available: Australia—Tower Books, Bauval ropeces that the slow . Wun proposes that megalithic tel (02) 9975 5566; UK, Eire— precessional ‘ycle is also reflected in monuments were power plants built by Turnaround, tel (0)20 8829 3000, changes in the designs and orientations of an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation for | Amazon.co.uk; USA, Canada— pyramics and temples along the Nile tapping energy to power their craft. Consortium Book Sales, tel 1800 283 Valley over a 3,000-year time frame. As From analysis of clues in carved stone at 3572, www.cbsd.com an engineer, Bauval has a grounded, far Newgrange and placement of four "station n The Egypt Code, Robert Bauval from "new age", approach that adds stones" at Stonehenge, Wun deduced that velops "the Orion correlation theory" astronomy to Egyptology's scope. a "golden rule" governs the monuments' (OCT) that he put forward in The Orion design, marking out a "sacred angle" of Mystery (1994, co-written with Adrian ad 135 degrees that aids the tapping and Gilbert). The book was released in the Betacam sod The Orion Mamasy containment of Earth energies. Each UK in 2006, but this US edition has two I Fl E EGY ll monument housed two conical devices new appendices covering Bauval's that generated rows of "megalights" to the discoveries from his expeditions to the quartz-rich bluestones which served as dry- — sixth-millennium BCE sites of Nabta cell batteries. These beams energisedthe Playa and Gebel Uwaynat in the stones to produce microwave power. southwestem comer of Egypt— perhaps The visiting extraterrestrials, whom he the birthplace of pre-pharaonic culture. C © 1D DIE suggests have been using Earth as a way According to the OCT, the Giza station for 5,000 years, set up these pyramids were emplaced to mirror the ROBERT BAUVAL power plants in the British Isles, Europe __ stars in the belt of the constellation and across the Atlantic in the Maya lands. Orion. While the match is not exact, this The sacred angle permeates all these and other evidence in pyramid and temple designs, and can even be seen in today's designs and art along the Nile Valley crop circles, most of which appear near suggest that the study of star movements 66 ¢ NEXUS was central to the ancient Egyptians' cosmology and survival. The priest- astronomers observed a cosmic order in the reappearance of Sirius in late June, heralding the annual Nile flood. What resulted was not just a calendar and a "sky religion" but a massive pangenerational project to build clusters of "star" pyramids to reflect the heavenly order and "sun" temples that define the ecliptic plane of the Sun-gods travels through the Duat from vernal equinox to summer solstice. Bauval proposes that the slow precessional cycle is also reflected in changes in the designs and orientations of pyramids and temples along the Nile Valley over a 3,000-year time frame. As an engineer, Bauval has a grounded, far from "new age", approach that adds astronomy to Egyptology's scope. EGY Pil €@DE ROBERT BAUVAL www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2009