I was recently looking at images of the Yonaguni Monument.
1. [cdn1.collective-evolution.com]
2. [www.human-resonance.org]
I've been thinking about this thing since I was in my teens. It always reminded me very much of the gouache films of Jean François Laguionie and another in particular: [www.youtube.com]
By sheer chance I was driving home from a job interview when I passed a house where someone had erected a standing stone. It was very deliberately placed so that a bore hole could be seen through the top middle of it; a common feature of many in the British Isles. I was in Pennsylvania. Assuming this had to be someone's New Age art work I continued driving for several miles before turning around and driving back to the house. I got out of the car and began to look the stone over. It had not been shaped by any tools. This was something else than art.
I knocked on the door, but no one was home. Knowing I would not be passing back through area again I was frustrated. This was important, but I needed more information to understand what I was seeing. I noticed a horse ranch nearby. Seeing people outside I drove out to it and spoke with the rancher. He said that the stone had been found a creek bed. A water vortex had been slowly grinding through the stone for years to make the hole as it had, whereupon it was taken from the creek and placed as I had seen it. The instinct of the owner had been to make the stone visible for precisely the reason it had caught my eye: it looked like so many of those in the British Isles.
There are number of important things I take from all of this.
- Perhaps we are misinterpreting what these monuments are; though I personally feel that they are indeed proof of some sort of engineering
- The Yonaguni monument might be a quarry that was washed clean of its soil.
- What remains of this monument is not a temple complex, but an incomplete series of sculptures and more practical cuts for large stone masonry
You can see in the videos above, as well, that if one removes the bias of our modern values and approaches to stone work what is deemed practical can take on bizarre qualities.
- For ourselves, we see stone as an item of gratuitous abundance, but of very little practical utility as-such.
- For the ancient peoples of the world perhaps the find of such a large area made of a continuous stone block was as important to them as discovering a great concentration of copper, silver, gold, platinum, or palladium site.
We may just be looking at the picture all wrong.
Perhaps Stone Age and Ice Age builders (here separated to make the distinct between those of the Marine regions and those of the truly frozen icy regions) could have come to the idea that stone tended to last a great deal longer than everything else. So, if you're going to engage in a large scale building project the best thing for you to do is convince them the effort will be worth it. What's going to do this? Not wood; not unless it's alive. Not metals; someone will just steal that. Not crystals; too rare and someone would steal that too. Stone? ...Stone would work. Hard steal. Lasts forever. Readily abundant just about everywhere.
1. [cdn1.collective-evolution.com]
2. [www.human-resonance.org]
I've been thinking about this thing since I was in my teens. It always reminded me very much of the gouache films of Jean François Laguionie and another in particular: [www.youtube.com]
By sheer chance I was driving home from a job interview when I passed a house where someone had erected a standing stone. It was very deliberately placed so that a bore hole could be seen through the top middle of it; a common feature of many in the British Isles. I was in Pennsylvania. Assuming this had to be someone's New Age art work I continued driving for several miles before turning around and driving back to the house. I got out of the car and began to look the stone over. It had not been shaped by any tools. This was something else than art.
I knocked on the door, but no one was home. Knowing I would not be passing back through area again I was frustrated. This was important, but I needed more information to understand what I was seeing. I noticed a horse ranch nearby. Seeing people outside I drove out to it and spoke with the rancher. He said that the stone had been found a creek bed. A water vortex had been slowly grinding through the stone for years to make the hole as it had, whereupon it was taken from the creek and placed as I had seen it. The instinct of the owner had been to make the stone visible for precisely the reason it had caught my eye: it looked like so many of those in the British Isles.
There are number of important things I take from all of this.
- Perhaps we are misinterpreting what these monuments are; though I personally feel that they are indeed proof of some sort of engineering
- The Yonaguni monument might be a quarry that was washed clean of its soil.
- What remains of this monument is not a temple complex, but an incomplete series of sculptures and more practical cuts for large stone masonry
You can see in the videos above, as well, that if one removes the bias of our modern values and approaches to stone work what is deemed practical can take on bizarre qualities.
- For ourselves, we see stone as an item of gratuitous abundance, but of very little practical utility as-such.
- For the ancient peoples of the world perhaps the find of such a large area made of a continuous stone block was as important to them as discovering a great concentration of copper, silver, gold, platinum, or palladium site.
We may just be looking at the picture all wrong.
Perhaps Stone Age and Ice Age builders (here separated to make the distinct between those of the Marine regions and those of the truly frozen icy regions) could have come to the idea that stone tended to last a great deal longer than everything else. So, if you're going to engage in a large scale building project the best thing for you to do is convince them the effort will be worth it. What's going to do this? Not wood; not unless it's alive. Not metals; someone will just steal that. Not crystals; too rare and someone would steal that too. Stone? ...Stone would work. Hard steal. Lasts forever. Readily abundant just about everywhere.