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Trans-Himalayan Stonehenge More Strange Phenomena in Tibet In 1928, and at an altitude of 4,572 metres (15,000 Peculiar happenings have occurred in this vast feet) in his Trans-Himalayan journey, Roerich was _ territory, and some of those events reveal the presence stunned to see three long straight rows of tall, vertically of superior spiritual beings. standing, inscribed stones distinguished from the Madame Alexandra David-Néel, in her book The surrounding environment by their peculiar shape and = Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling (published by Claude design. This huge stone complex ended with a large — Kendall, New York, translation by Violet Sydney, 1934, circle of standing stones with three menhirs in its first published in 1931), relates a personal and curious centre. He described the structure as a combination of | episode that took place in the small town of Jyekundo, Stonehenge in England and located in a desolate district in Carnac in the ancient Celtic northeastern Tibet. While world of Brittany, sites that he there, she met a Tibetan lama had visited previously. His | Roerich was stunned to see three who had the reputation o caravan was destined to stop long straight rows of tall occasionally disappearing into overnight near this stone : . . am a snowcapped mountain region enigma, but he stayed for three vertically standing, inscribed where no villages existed and days and discovered four stones distinguished from the where a person could easily additiona rows of vertical stone surrounding environment by starve or quickly freeze to dea formations in surrounding . . . Inevitably he would return to areas. their peculiar shape and design. civilisation after some time, and in reply to curious questions he would only say that he had Amazed by what he was witnessing, Roerich asked his Tibetan guides, "Pray tell me, who been with "gods in the set these stones?” He was told: "Nobody knows ... but — mountains" (ibid.). this district from ancient times has been called Doring One day, Madame David-Néel half-seriously asked the ... the place of the sacred standing stones. Our Ancients __ lama if, on his next trip, he would present a small gift o say that an unknown people passed here a long time a bunch of Chinese paper flowers to "the Ruler of the ago; they stopped for several generations but it did not Mountains" (ibid.). become their permanent abode" (N. K. Roerich, Some months later, returning from his journey into Himalayas, op cit., passim). Roerich marvelled at the fact — that mysterious domain, he handed the French savant a that travelling through the heights of the Trans- souvenir given to him by that very person. It was a Himalayas he came across "the embodiments of beautiful blue flower that blooms in southern Tibet in Stonehenge and Carnac" (ibid.). July. David-Néel was stunned, saying that in Jyekundo at slate tian th tan nent een en long straight rows of tall, vertically standing, inscribed stones distinguished from the surrounding environment by their peculiar shape and design. areas. —--- eee errr weet mountains" (ibid.). One day, Madame David-Néel half-seriously asked the lama if, on his next trip, he would present a small gift of a bunch of Chinese paper flowers to "the Ruler of the Mountains" (ibid.). Some months later, returning from his journey into that mysterious domain, he handed the French savant a souvenir given to him by that very person. It was a beautiful blue flower that blooms in southern Tibet in July. David-Néel was stunned, saying that in Jyekundo at that time the temperature was 20 degrees below zero, the river was covered with a layer of ice two metres deep and the ground was frozen solid. "Where did you get this from?" she asked in amazement. The lama answered, "Maybe from a warm valley in the north" (ibid.). Roerich also recorded a series of extraordinary supernatural happenings, one being the sudden appearance of Rigden Jyope (or Djapo), the Ruler of Shambhala. It is said that when he entered a particular lamaist temple, the candles all suddenly lit themselves. Roerich relayed this story: There was a case of a sudden appearance of an exquisite perfume, as if from temple incense, right in the heart of the Gobi with the stony desert extending for hundreds of kilometres in all directions. qundreds of ancient Himalayas near the (Note: Beautiful | from the Nicholas This painting by Roerich, titled The Black Gobi, shows a few of hundreds of ancient inscribed vertical standing stones on the barren heights of the Himalayas near the Gobi Desert. © Nicholas Roerich, 1928; private collection (Note: Beautiful reproductions of many of Roerich's paintings can be purchased from the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York; visit http://www.roerich.org.) 60 ¢ NEXUS Roerich was stunned to see three www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2009