The Megalithic Builders and the Order of Meonia Part 3
Andrew Collins' Historic Research:
Subsequent research by Andrew Collins revealed, unsurprisingly, that there was nothing to prove Phillips’ hypothesis or belief that nomadic tribesmen from a Megalithic culture from the Far West of Europe had ever reached Egypt. It was undoubtedly true though that many foreigners from the Near East, Asia and the region of Palestine (Canaan) had flooded into Egypt in the age of the Pharaohs. Collins decided to concentrate, therefore, on Yuya-neb, who Phillips had said was one of the figures of the Megalithic bloodline.
Collins discovered that there had in fact been a figure named Yuya who was associated with the reign of Akhenaten who was born circa 1440 BC and died around 1370 BC. He had become the advisor to Pharaoh Thutmose IV (who you may recall had the extraordinary vision described on the Dream Stele at the foot of the Sphinx) and had married a lady called Tuya. Their daughter would become the ‘Great Royal Wife’ to Thutmose’s son and heir Amenhotep III, under whom Yuya retained his position as vizier, and he was also made the King’s Lieutenant of Chariotry and Master of the Horse – a position which was equated with the abilities of a priest magician. It is possible that Yuya lived to see his grandson Akhenaten become Pharaoh, although he may well have died around the time of his accession and was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes (today Luxor). In 1905 his intact mummy was discovered and examined where his remains were found to have prominent features that were uncharacteristic of the Egyptian people. He was fairly tall with long, wavy white hair, a beaky nose and prominent lips and his well-preserved body also sported facial hair, which was highly unusual for that time. Yuya’s physiognomy and the various derivations of his name suggested to some scholars that he may have been of foreign origin. The same also seemed to be true of his daughter Tiya, who also possessed uncharacteristic features for an Egyptian woman of that period. If this were so, then Akhenaten would clearly have been of foreign descent as suggested by the Joanna entity.
It is evident that this Yuya could not have been the Yuya-neb that Graham Phillips saw in Akhenaten’s funerary chamber and later journeying through the British Isles, as he would have been long dead. I would add that insofar as I am aware, nobody has yet identified Akhenaten’s funerary chamber and discovered his remains. The C’s told us that he was deliberately drowned in the Nile but never mentioned whether his body was retrieved from the river and subsequently buried. Hence, there must be a question mark over Phillip’s vision of the events in the funerary chamber. There again, without positive proof to the contrary, we cannot rule out the veracity of what he saw in his vision either and archaeologists are still searching for Akhenaten’s tomb and mortal remains. If such an event did occur, then as Yuya was a family name with the suffix “neb” meaning simply “lord”, Yuya-neb may well have been a direct descendant of his namesake Yuya, perhaps even his grandson.
Collins was able more easily to identify other characters in Phillips’ vision. Mery-re was a high priest of Aten during Akhenaten’s reign and he also held the titles of Superintendent of the King’s Harem and Steward who had a rock-cut tomb cut reserved for him at Tell el-Amarna, although there is no sign it was ever occupied. It is not known when he died. Pa-aten-em-heb was also an historical figure who lived inn the reign of Akhenaten. He seemed to be associated with General Horemheb, with Phillips even thinking that he was the future pharaoh’s brother. However, Collins could not pin down who the fourth figure in the vision was. Collins had a sneaking suspicion it might have been Akhenaten’s mother Queen Tiya who was born around 1410 BC. Although it is not known when she died, she may still have been alive at the end of her son’s reign. That being said, Graham Phillips in his later book Act of God proposed that she had already died of plague before her son met his untimely death in the Nile.
Collins also found it difficult to find evidence supporting the concept of ancient Egyptians coming across to the British Isles over 3,000 years ago. As he points out, the only archeologically accepted evidence that links ancient Egypt to Bronze Age Britain is to be found in Egyptian faïence beads with their distinctive turquoise glaze. Many of these beads have been found at Bronze Age sites in Britain including some specifically belonging to Akhenaten’s era that were found beneath a fallen lintel at Stonehenge. Some archaeologists have proposed that they may have been imported into the British Isles from Minoan Crete, whose thriving sea going culture had strong, direct trading links with Akhenaten’s Egypt (at least before the eruption of Thera). We should also recall that in 1955, archaeologists made an interesting discovery during an excavation of the Mound of Hostages at Tara, the site of ancient kingship of Ireland when Bronze Age skeletal remains were found of what has been argued to be a young prince, still wearing a rare necklace of faience beads, made from a paste of minerals and plant extracts that had been fired. The skeleton was carbon dated to around 1350 BC. In 1956, J. F. Stone and L. C. Thomas reported that the faience beads were Egyptian: “In fact, when they were compared with Egyptian faience beads, they were found to be not only of identical manufacture but also of matching design. The famous boy-king Tutankhamun was entombed around the same time as the Tara skeleton and the priceless golden collar around his mummy’s neck was inlayed with matching conical, blue-green faience beads”. Interestingly, an almost identical necklace was found in a Bronze Age burial mound at North Molton in Devon, England.
Lorraine Evans in her 2001 book, Kingdom of the Ark, revealed also archaeological connections between Egypt and Ireland. Evans argues that the connections between the two distant lands were plausible and there is archaeological evidence to support the theory. In 1937 in North Ferriby, Yorkshire (in the Trent Estuary and thus well within Brigantes territory), the remains of an ancient boat were discovered (see my earlier articles on this). Whilst it was thought to be a Viking longship at first, continued excavation produced additional ships, wrecked in a storm. Further investigation showed that the boats were much older than Viking ships and were of a type found in the Mediterranean. It was concluded that these boats originated from 2000 years before the Viking age and were radiocarbon dated to around 1400 to 1350 BC. Evans then made connections to argue that these boats could have originated from Egypt, as the timeframe fits the dating of the faience beads. You will note that it also fits the era of Akhenaten too. While investigating the origins of the people of Scotland in the famous Bower manuscript, the Scotichronicon, Evans discovered the story of Scota, the Egyptian princess and daughter of a pharaoh who fled from Egypt with her husband Gaythelos with a large following of people who arrived in a fleet of ships. They settled in Scotland for a while amongst the natives (the Hebrides perhaps?), until they were forced to leave and landed in Ireland. Could the people on these ships have been the Tuatha de Danann and was Scota really Princess Meritaten/Hagar/Kore who would subsequently be deified and converted into the divine goddess figure Brigid, also known as Brigantia and Bride (and possibly Elen, Helle, Car and Ceridwen as well)? It seems that Evans thought so.
In her book*, Evans posited the questions: Was the Tara necklace a gift from the Egyptians to a local chieftain after their arrival or was the Tara prince actually Egyptian himself? According to Bower’s manuscript, Scota’s descendants were the high kings of Ireland. In her quest to discover the true identity of ‘Scota,’ as it was not an Egyptian name, she found within Bower’s manuscript that Scota’s father was actually named as being Achencres, a Greek version of an Egyptian name. In the work of Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian, Evans discovered the translation of the name—the pharaoh Achencres was none other than Akhenaten, who reigned in the correct timeframe of 1350 BC. Evans thus believes that Scota was Meritaten, the eldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti and I would agree with her.
*Please note that I have recently purchased Evans’ book and will comment further on this subject should it contain further pertinent information supporting this hypothesised connection.
As
Heather Elizabeth Adams, a writer and researcher specialising in Goddess Mythology has pointed out, “
Ta-ra” reversed becomes “
Ra-Ta”, the priest from an Egyptian past-life of the American seer
Edgar Cayce who assisted in building the pyramids. She also points out that the names of the Egyptian creator god
Ptah and the sun god
Ra combined become “Ptah-Ra”, which is phonetically very similar to Tara. Thus, she speculates whether the name of Tara herself, derived somehow from these Egyptian origins? Moreover, the making of the sun king or Ra was derived from the power of
Tea, the Egyptian Goddess. However, an alternative alias for Scota in Irish folklore is
Tea Tephi who was supposedly a surviving daughter of
Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, who with the help of the
Prophet Jeremiah had escaped and travelled to Ireland where she married a local High King of Ireland in the 6th century BC. Curiously, there is a queen called
Tea in Irish mythology who appears in the
Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland. She is described as the wife of
Érimón a Míl Espáine (Milesian) and dated to 1700 BC (
Geoffrey Keating posited 1287 BC). Hence, it is more likely that this Queen
Tea is our Princess Scota or Meritaten/Hagar, the daughter of Akhenaten, since the Milesians or Gaels are not thought to have arrived in Ireland much before the 6th Century BC.
Following this line of thought, it seems Meritaten/Hagar/Kore/Helle fled Egypt and Canaan for the British Isles, possibly via Northern Spain and Southern France, where she took on the personae of
Scota and eventually became deified as the Tuatha de Danann goddess Brigid or Bride, who became inextricably linked with the Brigantes tribe, and later as the Celtic goddess Elen or Helen in Wales and what today is England. It is worth noting here Graham Phillip’s finding that Irish members of the Brigantes tribe would leave Ireland to seek sanctuary from the encroaching Christian missionaries in the English county of Staffordshire that was then in the old kingdom of Mercia in central England. There they would build a Dark Age monument around the year 500 AD, which in its name of the
Bridestones evidently recalls the goddess Brigid or Bride.
For more on this see
Atlantis, Egypt, and Ireland? (redice.tv)
More Evidence of the Megalithic Builders
Andrew Collins started his analysis of Graham Phillip’s channelled ‘Heritage account’ by pointing out that the Megalithic builders were supposed to have established themselves in the Scottish Northern Isles during the 5th to 6th Millenium BC and gradually spread their influence through the Western Isles into mainland Scotland, Ireland and finally England and Wales.
He notes, however, that this contradicts the commonly held Diffusionist theory, whereby archaeologists assert that the Megalithic builders spread from the Mediterranean during the 5th Millenium BC, first colonising Western Europe before eventually entering the British Isles. Collins points to the grandeur of the Megalithic temple complexes in Corsica, Crete, Malta, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands, which demonstrate the sophistication of the Megalithic culture in contrast to comparative sites in the British Isles, which seem to be no aesthetic match for their design. However, as Collins points out, recent archaeological discoveries in the British Isles have brought the traditional Diffusionist model into question. Radiocarbon dating techniques employed at prehistoric sites across the country have conclusively shown an even distribution of early Neolithic settlements and stone monuments. Intriguingly, Collins tells us that the oldest dates to have been established anywhere in the British Isles have come from sites in the Western Isles of Scotland and in particular the Isle of Arran (see my earlier comments).
It had generally been accepted by archaeologists that the Western Isles of Scotland were unoccupied until Neolithic times, but exhaustive excavations on the Western Isle of Rhum by archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones confirmed the existence of Mesolithic settlements as early as the 7th Millennium BC. Her belief is that Mesolithic man may have migrated across the land belt which existed between Norway and the Northern Isles of the Shetland and the Orkneys until its final submergence in the 7th Millennium. This was at the time when there was still a large landmass in the North Sea called Dogger Land.
Skara Brae
On the Orkneys we find today the sunken stone village of Skara Brae and the stone chamber tomb of Maeshowe. Wickham-Jones proposed that the village evolved from indigenous Mesolithic settlements during the 4th Millennium BC. I would point out that archaeological digs are still on going at Skara Brae in the Orkneys and I have recently watched some fascinating documentaries on the site presented by the likes of the excellent Scottish television presenter, archaeologist, historian and author
Neil Oliver, which includes his programme
Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets of Orkney. Indeed, archaelogists are still making amazing discoveries at the site, which are changing archaeological perceptions about the people who lived there. For a 3D presentation of Skara Brae see:
New digital model of Skara Brae | Historic Environment Scotland.
See also:
Visitor's Guide To Skara Brae: The Scottish Pompeii - The Geographical Cure
Euan Mackie in his 1977 book The Megalithic Builders also points out that archaeologists have discovered at Skara Brae flat-based, groove-decorated pottery with very distinctive reliefs. Similar pottery was also found on the submerged land surface at Clacton on the Essex coast in 1936, which was essentially the same as pottery found at Woodhenge and Durrington Walls in Wiltshire (which form part of the huge Megalithic complex of sites centred on Stonehenge). Moreover, Professor Gordon Childe in 1930 had suggested there were links between the pottery found at Skara Brae and pottery ware found in Iberia. He noticed that late Chalcolithic potsherds found at the cave at St. Joan d’Os in Cataluña were remarkably similar to the decorative patterns on the Skara Brae sherds and the techniques of making them seemed to be the same. It is now known that the primary occupation of Skara Brae was before 3000 BC (Radiocarbon dating puts it at 3180 BC) and grooved pottery ware was used in the first occupation at the village. Pottery found at the nearby Stennes Stone Circle on Orkney has also been carbon dated to 3000 BC. But the fact that similar grooved pottery ware found at Vila Nova de Sao Pedro in Portugal has also been dated to around 3000 BC suggests this was one and the same culture.
Collins finds further support for Phillips’ Heritage account when he notes that in the early 1980’s two adjoining pieces of a Megalithic stone were unearthed in the Orkney Islands, each one being engraved with ornate and complex spiral patterns of a type only found in abundance in the passage graves of the Boyne Valley culture in Ireland, which is thought to date to the last quarter of the 4th Millenium BC. In particular, the designs closely resemble the kerbstone patterns of the Valley’s huge stone and earthen mound known as Newgrange. Due to the immense spread and technology of the Boyne Valley culture in Ireland, it had been presupposed by archaeologists that the Orkney spiral stones were carved by incoming Neolithic settlers from Ireland. However, if Caroline Wickham-Jones’s theories are correct, it implies that the Orkneys’ indigenous culture may have exported its art via the Western Isles of Scotland into Ireland.
Collins also tells us that in 1990, a dig under the direction of Edinburgh University archaeologist John Barber discovered a stone coffin or cist about a mile from Skara Brae. Within it they found the undisturbed remains of a teenager and a child in an urn but also woven reed, something not previously associated with the Orkney’s Neolithic culture of the first quarter of the 4th Millennium BC. The reed fibres were taken away for radiocarbon dating. At the date of Collins book, the results of the preliminary tests had not yet been released pending further tests. However, Collins alleges that the preliminary results had dumbfounded the Scottish archaeological community with a rumoured date for the woven reed being as early as 4,500 BC. I have looked for subsequent verification of this particular date but without success. If this date should be proven correct, it means that the Orkney Isles may have possessed the earliest and most advanced Megalithic culture in the British Isles. As Collins points out this would substantiate Phillips’s psychic information that suggested the Orcadian (Arcadian?) culture spread both its religious and pastoral knowledge southwards into the Western Isles before it fanned out to encompass the rest of Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales.
Skara Brae Abandoned
There is evidence that suggests the village of Skara Brae was uninhabited by 2500 BC. Intriguingly, valuables and other possessions were left behind, suggesting the site was abandoned in a hurry. For example, the remains of choice meat joints were discovered in some of the beds, presumably forming part of the villagers' last supper. The reasons why Skara Brae was abandoned are still unclear. Some experts think there was some sort of apocalyptic event, possibly a huge storm that flooded the village with sand. That would certainly explain the abandoned valuables. Others think that the society was slowly breaking up. The inhabitants moved from communal living to individual farm units over the course of 20-30 years. However, around 2500 BC the climate definitely appears to have changed with conditions becoming much colder and wetter.
Archaeologists know that the site was farther from the sea than it is today, and it is possible that Skara Brae was built adjacent to a freshwater lagoon protected by dunes. Although the visible buildings give an impression of an organic whole, it is certain that an unknown quantity of additional structures had already been lost to sea erosion before the site's rediscovery and subsequent protection by a seawall. Uncovered remains are known to exist immediately adjacent to the ancient monument in areas presently covered by fields, and others, of uncertain date, can be seen eroding out of the cliff edge a little to the south of the enclosed area.
Is it possible that there was a cometary shower in the region circa 2500 BC, which brought in its wake famine and disease, including potentially plague? In a previous post, I pointed out that there is now hard evidence to show that plague had been present in England as far back as 2000 BC. Could there have been even earlier episodes of such plague outbreaks? We should bear in mind here that the Joanna entity had said “But the people who had originally erected these places had decayed and gone.”
Other possibilities include another close flyby of the planet Venus since the C’s had said in the
session dated 30 July 1994:
Q: (L) What year did the Exodus occur counting backward from now according to our calendrical system?
A: 4670. [MJF: This was not the Exodus of Abraham/Moses for that occurred later in the reign of Akhenaten but most probably an Exodus in 2676 BC linked to the Scythian Semites who had settled in Mesopotamia when it was dominated by the Sumerian civilisation.]
Q: (L) At that time did a cometary Venus pass close to the earth and cause disruption?
A: Yes.
[…]
Q: (L) Was Velikovsky correct when he said Venus was on a 52-year orbit during a certain period in our history?
A: Close.
Q: (L) How many passes did Venus make through the solar system before it was precipitated into a regular planetary orbit?
A: 7
As Laura herself commented on this excerpt: “
The fact is, there was some sort of discontinuity of many ancient cultures which occurred at both these periods: 3100-2500 BC and 1600 BC.”
The C’s followed these comments on Venus up in the
session dated 5 October 1994:
Q: (L) You said the Exodus occurred in 2676 B.C., is that correct?
A: Close.
Q: (L) Was that the last passage of the cometary Venus?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Was this activity of Venus interactive with the close passing of the cluster of comets you have mentioned?
A: Close. One of three cataclysms close together.
Indeed, the C’s also mentioned that the planet Venus was responsible for the halting of the building of the city of Baalbek during its first appearance and close fly-past of the Earth in the
session dated 20 October 1994:
Q: What happened to interrupt or halt the building of this city?
A: Venus first appearance and pass.
Q: What year was this project brought to a halt?
A: 3218 B.C.
Since the C’s said Venus’s last close passage was in 2676 BC, this is close enough to the 2500 BC date (allowing for errors in radiocarbon dating) for the abandonment of Skara Brae.
Another more sinister and speculative reason for the settlement’s abandonment is that the Megalithic builder race may have come under attack from alien or inner earth beings, given what the C’s said about Stonehenge in the session dated 19 February 2000:
(A) You asked about these missing stones, and the answer was the multiple shocks registered. (L) Right. What about these multiple shocks. What, in particular?
A: Some were earthquakes; mini-cataclysmic in nature. Some were EM generated smashes, when terran forces clashed with outside "forces".
Q: Are you suggesting that some of these rocks were vaporized, as it were, by some sort of particle beam weaponry?
A: EM activity.
However, I appreciate this damage to Stonehenge may have occurred earlier in time or possibly even later. The presence of mysterious vitrified stone forts in parts of Scotland and Northern England may though testify to the fact that such battles did occur throughout Britain, especially as the C’s once said that Stonehenge was an energy director for all things, being a vector of energy. Indeed, the Cs likened Stonehenge to an energy coil:
Session 9 November 1994:
Q: (L) In many ancient ruins there are found certain symbols which interest me, specifically the coil or spiral which seems to be ubiquitous throughout the world. This is also very similar to one of the Reiki symbols. What is the origin and meaning of this symbol?
A: Energy collector translevel; Stonehenge was one. Stonehenge is a coil. The missing stones form a coil arrangement. People have been "zapped" at Stonehenge.
What the C’s have said in support of the Heritage Account
Let us recall when considering the evidence adduced above that the C’s have in fact given support to aspects of Graham Phillips’ Heritage account when they confirmed that civilisation had indeed been transmitted from Northern Europe (including the British Isles) to Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean in the following extracts:
Session dated 19 February 2000:
Q: What was the connection between the Hyperboreans, including the Celts of Britain, I believe, and the people of Delos?
A: Northern peoples were responsible for civilising the Meditteranean/Adriatic peoples with the encoded secrets contained within their superior extra-terrestrially based genetic arrangement. Practice of which you speak was multi-trans-generational habit.
Session dated 8 April 2000:
Q: Now, I have this book entitled "Arktos." He says something here that echoes a remark you once made. He says:
"It is a very remarkable thing that enlightenment seems to have come from the North against the common prejudice that the Earth was enlightened as it was populated from South to North. The Scythians are one of the most ancient nations; the Chinese descend from them. The Atlanteans themselves, more ancient than the Egyptians, descend from them."
You said that the civilizing influence came from the North to the South. Of course, all the standard texts claim that civilization came from South to North, starting in Mesopotamia. Now, getting...
A: Okay, just a minute here. Thinking Mesopotamia is the beginning is like thinking that the beginning starts at the 12th chapter.
For further reading see:
What Is Meonia? - Its Philosophy And Role In Psychic Questing (bibliotecapleyades.net)
Meonia (andrewcollins.com)
For a critical view of Graham Phillips and Andrew Collins psychic quests see:
Phillips & Keatman, Questers Extraordinaire – Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy (wordpress.com)
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Britain The Key to World History
Another person to advocate the role of the British Isles in civilising the ancient world was the maverick British historian, William Comyns Beaumont (hereafter referred to as “Beaumont”). In his book Britain the Key to World History, which was a companion work to his ‘The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain, Beaumont endeavoured to prove by evidence, gathered over a wide field from ancient and modern sources, that the British Isles were highly civilized from the earliest times, and that Britain was the original mother civilisation. His evidence to support this proposition was derived from various geographical, geological, astronomical, historical, and legendary sources. One reason why we should take Beaumont’s theories seriously is that he seems to have been the inspiration for Immanuel Velikovsky’s works Worlds in Collision and Ages in Chaos, which may have been inspired by Beaumont’s astronomical theories as discussed in another of his works `The Mysterious Comet'. As the researcher Charles Kos (author of “In Search of the Origin of Pyramids and the Lost Gods of Giza”) notes, Beaumont's major legacy is not in history but in the catastrophism of some of his other works. Much of his style was thus a precursor to Velikovsky.
As Professor Mike Baillie writing in his book `Exodus to Arthur' nballparkumont seems to have been a man before his time in his suggestion that the catastrophic event of c.2350 BC, later associated with the Biblical Flood, immortalises the collision of a cometary body with earth [MJF: This date you will note brings this cometary event (Venus?) into the ballpark of the abandonment of Skara Brae].
Beaumont considered that many historical events did not happen in the Middle East, but instead in Britain. Among his many original ideas he claimed that:
* Frisians (North Netherlands) were Phrygians (Western Asia Minor, in conventional theories) [
MJF: Entirely plausible if we follow Iman Wilkens theories’ on where the siege of Troy really occurred and the homelands of the Celtic tribes who fought in it]
* The river Avon, to Bath, is the ditch which circumscribed the Atlantis capital
* Mythical King Sil of Salisbury is Saul of the Bible.
* The year was originally 360 days but cometary impact slowed the rotation of the earth, thence 365. [
MJF: Highly plausible]
* Avaris of the Hyksos = Avebury
* Saxons are Saka (Scythians). [
MJF: Again entirely plausible]
* Continental Europe used to be known as Asia. Sesostris' conquest of Asia was really Europe.
According to Charles Kos, several of Beaumont's more moderate theories do seem to have merit. For example, did the Phoenicians have colonies in the north? The Viking Runes appear to be derived from Phoenician characters, and the legend of Odin is likewise partly Mediterranean. Thence his idea that the Belgae derive their name from Baal (Bel) does not seem an unreasonable suggestion, at first glance, even if there is probably a better explanation.
So, what did Beaumont have to say about Britain? Here is what he said in the forward to his book - with my own added comments in red within paranthesis and key points bolded:
These islands, I showed, were the true Hesperides or Happy Islands of yore, and are known to have been inhabited from the earliest Palaeolithic (or Old Stone) Age onwards and were the original domicile of the sons of Adam, who were the Titans or Giants of classic fame, as well as being the Atlanteans of Plato [MJF: Notice they are giants like the Nephilim, the Mesopotamian Anunnaki and the biblical Sons of Anak, whilst English Folklore has always associated the building of Stonehenge with giants].
My object, may I point out, was far greater than any mere academic effort, as some critics seemed to imagine, to identify Atlantis. The disaster to Atlantis was only indirectly my theme, for what matters is what lay and still lies behind these facts, as facts I claim they are, on the evidence. For if it were the Flood of the Scriptures, it thereby brings into the orbit of Northern Europe the nations related to that event directly or indirectly, such as the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Israelites, Hellenes or Greeks, and many others. It cannot be isolated as such, for it challenges the long-accepted beliefs and dogma that the Flood occurred in the Middle East the supposedly original Chaldea, as to which incidentally, in spite of most careful investigations even within recent, years, there exists not a tittle of solid geological or other evidence to support such a calamity in those regions. Inferentially if correct, it must undermine the long-accepted claims in relation to the lands we term Assyria, Egypt, and Palestine, and I fear necessarily disputes the accuracy of many modernist interpretations from inscribed stones or papyri.
But, let me say, if the further claims I advance in this work are sustained, it must logically signify that the segregation of Bible history as a thing apart from equivalent classic peoples has piled up completely false conceptions and valuations regarding the history of nations in past times. For example, I produce evidence to show that the Uranids of Crete, which Crete was accepted by the Greeks at least as the γετρις or motherland of the original race of mankind, were the equivalent of the people called Ur-of-the Chaldees [MJF: Ur was reputedly the birthplace of Abraham] in the Book of Genesis, and that they dwelt not in the Orient or Mediterranean, but in the British Isles.
If I prove correct in determining that such roads lead originally to that very ancient group of islands, the Shetland-Orkneys, which straddle both Scandinavia and Britain, and that these were largely shattered by a violent natural catastrophe, we begin to perceive that the Gnostics and Curetes of Crete [MJF: see my earlier references in this article to Car, Cer and the Ceretes], close kindred to the Chaldeans, were the sons of Seth or Sheth, the son of Adam from whom apparently Shet-land or Seth-land acquired its name, in the regions of Caledonia, again only a variation of Chaldea, whose sons are probably the most ancient existing race of civilised man.
The account of the last days of Atlantis is particularly valuable in research where we are told by Plato of a great war between the Atlanteans and their blood relations who crossed the sea to reach them, a war lasting thirteen years, and in the fourteenth year, when the Atlanteans were at the point of exhaustion, the city of Athens held out and defeated the enemy, but that all her warriors, like those opposed to her, were drowned. Leaving aside the statement that the original Athens held out and alone defeated the invaders it was, according to Plato, an Atlantean city, situated on that island, and thus, we must assume, the mother city of the later Athens in the Mediterranean Greece, like other early Hellenic sites. Can we, however, synchronise Plato with the Bible references to the Flood? The actual events of these dramatic thirteen years, culminating in the Great Catastrophe, is the main theme of this book.
The true arena of this veiled yet historic event, as I endeavour to show, was the clash between nations known in the Scriptures, including Gog and Magog, in which the invasion and slavery of other Bible peoples in the British Isles was the aim of the invaders [MJF: which Iman Wilkens in his book Where Once Stood Troy viewed as the Trojan War fought at today’s Cambridge in eastern England]. It culminated in extraordinary events both in the celestial spaces and on this unhappy earth. The final celestial disaster itself, as I described fully in my previous work, was on such an immense and concentrated scale, and at the same time so irregular in its distribution, that certain parts were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable for a long period, while yet others escaped with only comparative sufferings. Among its permanent effects were a variation in the earth’s axis, a lengthening of the solar year and a consequent change in climate whereby many nations in the north were forced to emigrate to obtain the means of subsistence [MJF: you will note that this accords with the diffusion of the Northern European Celts in the Balkans, Turkey/Anatolia and the Middle East and also with Graham Phillips’ Heritage account of the Megalithic builder race’s diaspora and eventual settlement in Egypt. Was it the intervention of the planet Venus or a large comet that changed Earth’s previous orbit, length of solar year and Northern Europe’s climate?].
The myth of Phaeton describes how the ill-fated son of Helios, having stolen his father’s steeds, tried to drive the chariot of the sun, but they bolted, whereby they threatened the earth’s extinction, and Zeus, seeing the whole world was thus in imminent danger of destruction, hurled Phaeton into the river Eridanus in the country of the Cimmerians. The explanation of the myth, as Plato himself records it, was the declination of celestial bodies, actually, it would seem, a twin or tandem comet, which struck the earth in the Cimmerian lands. This disastrous event is recorded on certain prehistoric Scottish zodiacs as I showed in my previous work, in which the “chariot” of Phaeton is represented symbolically as wheels with a connecting axle, described by Scottish archaeologists as “spectacles”, they being naturally innocent of the intention of these stones probably erected by the sons of Seth, or, say, Chaldeans, in the Caledonian lands.
The Cimmerians, in whose country this disaster happened, and where flowed the river Eridanus, converts the mythological into reality. They agree with the Cymry of Britain [MJF: today the people of Wales], the Cimbri of Scandinavian lands, the people known to classic poets as the Hyperboreans, dwellers beyond the north wind, the Galatai of Pausanias, the Gauls or Gaels, or Celts, always the tall, fair-haired and blue-eyed Men of the north. So, Phaeton must compel us to understand the myth by making us look to the north of Europe, where he was thrown to earth. In a true revision of the prehistoric past the Mediterranean becomes only a very secondary settlement of the ruling races of mankind from the beginning [MJF: which seems to accord with what the C’s have said].
Britain’s remote ancestors through many centuries erected an advanced civilization, built walled cities, with towns, villages, and ports, and sailed ocean-going ships, being a maritime people of great fame. They erected also chains of powerful fortresses [MJF: Hill Forts] some of which have survived the vicissitudes caused by man and the elements for well over three thousand years, laid long, straight roads, and constructed canals which transported goods from one end of Britain to the other. Her sons faced hazardous voyages, long before deep-sea soundings were undertaken, to the most distant parts of the earth, and established trading centres and commerce while their main search was ever for gold. They manufactured jewels employing gold, silver and bronze, besides precious stones. At an early date they mastered the science of how to manufacture bronze, designed weapons of warfare, and discovered the secret art of how to make and use firearms, otherwise “black magic.”
Solomon [MJF: Who the C’s linked with the Egyptian Pharoah Narmer] built up his wealth and made the Israelites in his age the dominating people by his knowledge of “magic,” an art described by Josephus in these words, “God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons, which is a skill useful and sanative to man.” Incidentally, Solomon was a Grand Master of prehistoric Freemasonry — a very ancient fraternity earlier known as the Cabiri gods [MJF: The C’s told us the Osirians were the progenitors of Freemasonry who were also the origin of the Rosicrucians in the form of the Rosteem? I have also linked the Cabiri gods to the alien Greys – see my earlier posts on this] — its origin often attributed to him, and some of the mystic ceremonies used in the Masonic cult are probably derived from his epoch, yet how many present-day Masons can understand the inner meaning of the two hollow pillars Joachim and Boaz, which they are so fond of symbolising?
In the great migration, induced largely by pre-knowledge of what was about to happen owing to celestial phenomena, judging from certain passages of Jeremiah, the Israelites in their Exodus [MJF: Not the Mosaic Exodus but that of the Aryans – Phillips and Collins’ Megalithic builder race] were led through dark, arctic wastes, “where no man dwelt,” the Siberian lands. Many emigrants found their way to the shores of the Mediterranean, others went by the rivers Volga, Vistula, Dneiper and Dneister to the Crimea, onwards into Asia Minor and thence to the Middle East where we find in Irak [MJF: Mesopotamia – thus accords with Phillips’ Heritage account relating to the Megalithic builder race] what appear to be prehistoric Gothic inscriptions and occult designs as to which much might be said. In a totally different direction, across the North’ Atlantic, others made hazardous voyages and endured terrible privations in search of the sun, and settled finally in America, mostly in Mexico, ages before Columbus discovered that continent. Many again went south-west into France, Spain and Portugal, hugging the Atlantic, or migrating into North Africa.
The land we now call Egypt was colonised then or not much earlier as shown by astronomical evidence and was originally peopled by fair Celts from the shores of Britain. This was the Exodus of the Aryans, some of whom returned later to their primeval homes, and about a century after, perhaps in some cases in less time, when earlier fears had been dissipated — for humanity rarely learns from the past — and the fertile British lands invited newcomers, these islands were again occupied by nations crossing the narrow seas, including especially those whom Geoffrey of Monmouth names the Trojans, and, our modern anthropologists, the Goidels [MJF: The Gaels, Milesians or Hibernians].
Panic and a change of climate in the northern lands were the main inspiration which sent these peoples on their long and sad treks in search of new domiciles. The edifices and religion of Egypt speak eloquently of the instinct of terror as their guiding motive, as I also showed in my previous work. The famous Egyptian Book of the Dead, influenced completely by the epic of the Flood and composed in the name of Thoth (Hermes), in its ritual caused the souls of the dead to undergo a fanciful, final, gloomy pilgrimage to the sacred west, indeed, I contend, to the very scene of the former shambles in Western Scotland, to the legendary Amenta, identified as the tiny island of Staffa, near Iona, in the Hebrides [MJF: the Joanna entity had also identified Britain with Amenta but could the Isle of the Dead have been Arran, not Staffa – which you will note bears a name very similar to Stafford or Staffordshire], where the wandering spirits were supposed to be judged by Osiris, and were rewarded or consumed according to their lives on earth. Staffa lay in the very vortex of the greatest area of destruction at the time of the Floodwater being but one element concerned—and later became the Underworld of the Celts as it was of the Hellenes.
The Flood, to the world generally a vague and nebulous tradition, really conceals the most appalling visitation mankind has ever experienced, as he may experience again, and its ravages in the British Isles and Scandinavian lands may be retraced to some considerable extent by the effects of what geologists term the “Drift” Age. It was no mere ice drift. It was sudden and terribly swift and violent.
My present volume, as I mentioned, traces the course of the thirteen-years’ war to its origin and source and elucidates the main arena of that dramatic Conflict which stares us in the face in the Scriptures if we know where to seek for it. To be enabled to accomplish this it has necessitated the identification of the most important regions overrun by the invaders from the furthermost north and from the direction of the Baltic and Low Countries. Much attention has been directed to the lands of the west, mainly Somerset and Wiltshire, so important for various reasons, where I have claimed to identify sites known to readers of the Scriptures, some of which survive and flourish to this day. The complete annihilation of cities by man is not so easy as it may seem. Jerusalem was said to be destroyed stone by stone by Hadrian and yet it still exists as a most important capital!
In the arrangement I have found it advisable to devote the opening part to the consideration of Crete—the original Crete of Homer —because of its former great importance in the world of prehistory. The third section describes in detail the scene and action of the thirteen-years’ war and especially the part enacted in it by Jerusalem. When this is understood it will be apparent how advanced, wealthy, and highly civilised Britain was up to the Roman occupation, and thereby to reflect how sad it is that Roman ignorance, tyranny, and censorship have for long centuries presented an utterly false impression of the courage, genius, and enterprise of the various states of the island they so coveted, robbed and left in a condition of chaos.
One further important point needs to be emphasised. The history of the civilised world in the past had little or nothing in common with Asia or Africa, and to get to the truth we must raise the latitude of Europe to the lands mainly prominent, and even largely forget the Mediterranean Sea. The Aryan or white race, with fair or red hair and blue eyes, never had any racial connection with the Oriental peoples, the brown-skinned, dark-eyed, and dark-haired races [MJF: Beaumont overlooks the fact that the Scythians, including the Hittites, were Indo-Europeans as the C’s have confirmed. He would not have been aware of the Tamim Mummies, for example, at this time and ethnological studies by means of DNA lay far in the future]. The law of Latitude forbids it, just as the northern Aryans who invaded India and settled there as rulers and princes, despite the rigid law of caste they formulated, in the course of a few generations became absorbed in the native population, as also happened in Mexico. Indeed, the world’s civilisation owes less than nothing to the Asiatic peoples. Even the Persians, who tyrannised for centuries over the West, through treachery and the use of “magic,” can really be traced to Russia and the Russians, their characteristics throughout the centuries scarcely if at all changed other than in name, and who in their decadence were overthrown and driven back to their oriental bounds by Alexander the Great.
Virile races do not die out without a trace. We are told by historians that the Thracians disappeared from their lands by the Hellespont and yet Herodotus says that they were the most powerful people in Europe who dissipated their strength by tribal quarrels. They did not disappear from Balkan lands, for they were never there. Transfer Pontus or the Euxine Sea, or the Hellespont, to where they really belonged geographically, namely the Baltic and Skagerrak, and you will find the ‘Thracians readily enough. They were the Scandinavians, and were apparently settled from primeval times also in Northern Scotland, close kindred of the Caledonians, who like them held wives in common, tattooed themselves, buried wives alive with their husbands, adored single combat, claimed descent from Hermes, worshipped Dionysus as their principal deity, raised mounds over the graves of their great chiefs and held funeral games, all of which were also the characteristics of Odin’s followers. It suffices to add that the country beyond their northern frontiers was uninhabitable by reason of the icy cold, for it lay under the Bear—the North Pole.
[MJF: In his book Where Once Stood Troy, Iman Wilkens argued that the Thracians originally hailed from western Brittany in France rather than Thrace or Thessaly in today’s Greece. Like the Dardanians, the Thracians were allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War according to Homer. In contract to Beaumont, Wilkens placed the original Crete in Scandinavia, so the Scandinavians, as the followers or sons of Odin, were the Cretans not the Thracians. However, Beaumont’s observation about the Hellespont being geographically in the Baltic and Skagerrak is very interesting as it comes close to Wilkens own ideas, although Helle’s Hellespont arguably was the English Channel or La Manche rather than the Skagerrak.]
Take again the Trojans of classic fame. They were a very brave and fine nation, advanced in civilisation, who offered sacrifices to the dead of bowls of warm milk, goblets of wine, and also raised funeral mounds. Where do you find such mounds or barrows? All over the Scandinavian lands and in Denmark as in Britain, but never in the Near East. They shook hands with one another, and anyone who knows the East is aware that such was never an Oriental custom. How can we explain Virgil’s statement of King Priam, slain and mutilated by Pyrrhus, as he sat on his “sacred throne,” that he had been “proud monarch over so many countries and nations”? But this we can say. The Trojans, after the Great Catastrophe, settled in great numbers in Britain known as the Brigantes, whose history I trace, showing incidentally that Rome was founded by men of this very nation, and that they became the ruling people in Britain south of the Clyde and Forth. They never originated in Asia Minor, but as will be seen from Ascania, Denmark and the Low Countries, from the regions later known as Freesia.
MJF: As mentioned above, the Celtic Brigantes tribe may have been an offshoot of the fabled Tuatha de Danann, the Biblical tribe of Dan or the Dardanians and may also have been the remnant of the Megalithic builder race who returned to Britain, settling initially in Staffordshire, as Graham Phillips believes. They became worshippers of the triple goddess Brigid or Bride also known to them as Elen or Helen, who may in reality have been a deified persona of Princess Meritaten/Hagar/Kore/Scota or even Tea Tephi.
The Macedonians? Well, Thracians, Cretans, Caledonians, and Macedonians were all of one kindred, and they can be tracked down to their habitat in Scotland and Scandinavia, having many areas in England as well. Illyria? Why does Jerusalem appear to have been regarded as in Illyria? It was not originally by the Adriatic Sea in the Mediterranean area. Transfer the Greek or Latin name to its British rendering, Siluria, and we begin to recognise how the history of the Hebrews—the Iberes of Britain—was so largely played out in this island [MJF: According to Graham Phillips’ Heritage account, the remnants of the Megalithic builder race who returned to the British Isles were indeed kinsmen of Moses’s Hebrews or Israelites]. How few appreciate the true history of the risings of the Silures against the Romans, and who fought with such fatal gallantry in a succession of wars opposing them especially in the region south of the Forth, yet thus shall we be getting nearer to the truth. It will be apparent, in short, that Armageddon was the same event as the Great Catastrophe and that Jerusalem lay—and still stands a great and noble city — in Britain. If this sounds a stupendous claim to make it nevertheless fits in with the rest. [MJF: Armageddon was probably in reality the Siege of Troy, which may have been conflated by Plato with the war between the Atlanteans and the Athenians]
How many persons are aware that in A.D. 134, after Hadrian had defeated the Jews under Bar Cocheba, their proclaimed Messiah, and had captured their stronghold of Bathars, he caused Jerusalem to be utterly destroyed and the land devastated, with the result that it was full of graves, the markets with slaves, and towns given over to wolves and wild beasts? How many more realise that the site of Jerusalem was completely forgotten for over two hundred years until Constantine the Great caused it to be “discovered” for political motives in the present Palestine?
As I show in the following pages, the Palestine of today fails to correspond in any way to the Old Testament or, come to that, of the New. A writer, Mr. H. D. Daunt, several years ago in a work entitled The Centre of Ancient Civilisation, denied that Palestine was the Biblical Holy Land for definite reasons. He claimed that (a) the assumption is based on Hebrew documents alone; (b) the account of the Israelites being made slaves and fleeing from the Egyptian Pharaoh, is not borne out by any other evidence, but the contrary – an exodus in the region of Sinai for forty years with 600,000 warriors is an impossible story; (d) Palestine, despite the accounts of its fertility and wealth, is perhaps the poorest land in West Asia apart from the deserts; (e) such a civilisation with its many cities must have left its traces in the records of the neighbouring countries, but “Palestine yields only the evidence derived from names that have been scattered industriously about the land in various later centuries”; (f) there is frequent mention by scribes, archives, etc., so the art of writing must have been well known; and, moreover, princes and scribes seem to have possessed strong literary proclivities, yet, “notwithstanding all this, not a single inscription has been found in Palestine which can be identified with the Hebrew kingdom”; (g) Jerusalem has failed to, produce any trace of David and Solomon, any tablet or inscription or even foundation memorial [MJF: Unfortunately for Beaumont, there is enough archaeological evidence to establish a Hebrew Kingdom of Israel in Canaan/Palestine under the kingship of David – see my earlier articles. Indeed, Beaumont seems to ignore or overlook the Merneptah Stele also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele dating to the early 13th Century BC, as discovered by Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896. The last three of the 28 lines on the stele deal with a separate campaign by the Pharoah Merneptah in Canaan, then part of Egypt's imperial possessions, which later became the land of Israel, Judea and Palestine. However, Solomon is altogether another story]. It might be added that the city entirely fails to conform topographically with its full descriptions given by Josephus and Nehemiah.
The name of “Europe” was originally limited to a part of western England, and continental Europe was Asia. To study a map of Europe so late as at the height of the Roman Empire, as prepared from the conventional acceptation of ancient geography, is a pathetic vision of emptiness. Except for Southern Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, it contains Celtica, a vast and vague region stretching from the Atlantic to Venetia, and above it, east of the Rhine, “Germania” stretches far to the east with a few vague names. Dacia, Moesia, and Thrace occupy the Balkan lands, and the Ister is interpreted as the Danube, whereas it should be the Rhine, similarly as the Halys River is placed in Asia Minor but was the later Alvis or Albis, now the Elbe. These are a few names chosen at haphazard.
If I am right in these statements, the question may well be asked how it all came about. The answer lies probably in the fact that the historians of the past on whom we have to rely were mostly the Greeks, and more especially Herodotus. But these Greeks were themselves very circumscribed in their knowledge of the world. They were unacquainted with geography because foreign travel was not in their purview, and mostly they derived their knowledge from the Phoenicians whose purpose was by no means necessarily served by widening Greek knowledge. They wrote their history from records or traditions, but their geography was vague. I first realised such shortcomings when I attempted to trace the detailed march of Xerxes from Persia to Athens along accepted lines, but before long I realised that his history simply could not possibly fit in with modern conceptions and compelled me to follow out fresh investigations with surprising results.
As far as Bible geography is concerned it appears that the main person responsible for its misinterpretation was Constantine the Great, who had definite motives for transferring the arena of Jewish history and that of Christ to another region altogether. He used Christianity as a valuable political asset, selected the East as his Empire, and with the aid of Eusebius, Jerome and others, invented the present Palestine. I cannot explore this very important and fascinating theme now, but hope to undertake it in the not very, distant future, in a life of that remarkable monarch who was born in York, in the Bedern. If this be correct the present-day Jews, who make a historical claim to Palestine, are utterly wide of the mark.
My aim throughout, as I hope the reader will appreciate, is to reconstruct the past history of the world in which it appears that Britain, or, more properly, the British Islands, played so prominent a part. But one cannot correctly report history unless the geography is also accurate, and so the position of countries and historic cities becomes of major importance [MJF: This point was also true for Iman Wilkens as regards Homer’s account of the Siege of Troy in the Iliad and the Odyssey where Homer’s description of the local geography, winds, tides and sea conditions etc. did not fit the presumed locations]. In my former book as in this I have seemingly taken great liberties with geography and I have to confess that in a subject so confusing and big, it is difficult to be always accurate. It means much research.
Plato’s famous Atlantis, as a matter of fact, knocks conventional geography, and all the history or traditions attached to it, sky-high. Ignatius Donnelly, in his work Atlantis, said truly that “the history of Atlantis is the key to Greek mythology,” as, indeed, is the case. Yet that mythology all points unhesitatingly to the earliest civilisation as occurring in the Atlantic regions and not at all in the Mediterranean or in Asia-Minor. Above all, the history of the Old Testament is the history of Atlantis [MJF: Actually, it is more a history of the post Atlantis age]. That these truths will be accepted is more than I would dare to believe. The world is misled to-day about the past and the truth lies at the bottom of a very deep well. I can only presume to be a humble pioneer but hope that I may be able to hew a rough track which others may widen into a great artery for the enlightenment of future generations.
Conclusion
Beaumont’s work really deserves a post of its own. However, points that he makes in the forward to his book do tend to bear out things both the C’s and Laura have said and to a large extent Graham Phillips’ Heritage account as well. I do not know if Phillips and Andrew Collins were familiar with his work when they wrote their books The Green Stone and The Seventh Sword. I have never seen his work quoted in any of their books. I also do not know whether Iman Wilkens was familiar with Beaumont’s works either, although he seems to have followed something of Beaumont’s deductive reasoning when placing the Trojan War in England and viewing it as a war between the competing Celtic tribes of Northern Europe. Moreover, we already know that Immanuel Velikovsky used Beaumont’s ideas as a basis for his own comet-based catastrophe theories, some of which have been supported by the C’s and Laura. All in all, Beaumont may have been wrong about many things but some of his ideas do seem to have been right on the money.
As an interesting side note, for those not aware, Beaumont is a Norman name, as is my own surname. My brother has done extensive research into our family line and history. One thing he has noted is that my family seemed to share a close relationship or alliance with the Beaumont family in Normandy, and the two families often intermarried to preserve land ownership within their common feudal areas of control in the Duchy of Normandy.
