Rather then re-posting the "Secret Sound Technology Found in India?" video from
here, the guy tells another local story that stuck in my mind.
@4:22
And there is something else that is really strange about this. They say that if we keep tapping this rock for a certain amount of time with the exact number of people, the rest of the rocks around this rock will become soft as clay. And this is the procedure that ancient builders used. They basically used the sound of these rocks to create very soft material from rock and this is why these amazing megalithic structures were built. And once we stop tapping on this rock, now whatever was as soft as clay, will slowly harden and become a regular rock.
The connection being made is that sound is being used to soften rock which re-solidifies after the sound stops. Running with this idea, I came across some apparent petroglyphs that many are probably familiar with already.
Located on White Mountain in Sweetwater County, Wyoming are a series of petroglyphs. On on particular outcropping of sandstone (mohs: 6-7) are several patterns that look like hand prints pushed into or scooped out of the rock.
Here is a short video (4:13) that proposes several ideas.
What looks like the same design is found in Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah.
One theory that is shared by many is that ancient people made these prints in clay which solidified into rock over time. I can't say it's wrong, but I don't know if these impressions would survive that long (though fossilized footprints have been found,
an example). What I find strange about these is that there are only 'fingers', no 'palm' per se, like someone grabbed a chunk of the rock (or clay) and removed it. Were they even made with hands? Was each 'finger' made one at a time?
In another, but different, example, at the entrance to
Milarepa's Cave in Tibet there is a hand print in the rock.
The
story goes that:
In the 11th century, Tibetan yogi Milarepa who was known for miraculous yogic abilities left an imprint of his hand in the cave wall in Tibet where he spent many years of his life. The story goes that Milarepa was demonstrating to a student his mastery over the limits of physical reality by placing his hand at shoulder level and pushing it into the rock. When he did so the rock beneath his hands became malleable leaving a deep impression of his hand that can still be seen to this day. The cave can be visited by anyone prepared to make the journey which is a side trek off the well know Annapurna circuit in Nepal.
This short video (1:05) shows the print from many angles. You can see that the impression and surrounding rock looks melted.
Here is
another hand print (high res photo through link) found at Split Mountain, Montagna Spaccata, Gaeta, Lazio, Italy.
There are several shots of this print around. Here's
another one that shows the plaque beneath. I tried translating the Latin in Google but it made no sense. Here's a
third photo with a hand to show the position.
Apparently:
According to local stories, God was so distraught at the crucifixion of Christ that He made the earth shake and let out a lightning bolt which created three giant cracks in this mountain. The Sanctuary of Santissima Trinita, or Holy Trinity, was built during the 11th century by the Benedictine monks to honor this event.
During the 9th century, Gaeta was invaded by Saracen pirates who used Montagna Spaccata as a hideout. According to legend, one day a Turkish sailor was walking along the mountain, mocking the stories of how it came to be broken apart, and (depending on whom you ask) saying to his fellow sailors that if it were true, then the mountain must be made of cheese. As he said this, he placed his hand on the wall of the mountain and somehow his hand sank into the rock which became liquefied, leaving an imprint of his fingers.
It doesn't really look like a hand print but more like just finger holes. And again, the rock looks melted, almost like it poured out of those holes. If you push a hot wire or something into wax, the molten wax has to go somewhere and gets forced out and dribbles down. Pull the wire out and you have a hole with a blob of re-hardened wax below it. The immediate surrounding rock also has a shininess to it. Vitrification? The petroglyphs don't seem to have any evidence of such melting.
These might be cleaver fakes to perhaps entice belief, or to increase tourist dollars. But I did run into something that makes me wonder.
A while back, I was reading the wiki page for
Plasma (physics) to see what it had on lightning when I noticed where the word came from. It's from the Greek and means 'mouldable substance' which didn't make any sense to me. Etymonline gives me a
similar definition ("something moulded or created", from the PIE root
*pele-(2) "flat; to spread") which has apparently been obsolete since the 1700's, if I read it right. The "blood" sense comes in at 1845 and the 'ionized gas' sense at 1928. On a whim, I went to the perseus.tufts site to see if there was anything there about this.
FI´CTILE anything made of earth or clay, earthen, fictile. In Greek the
special word for moulding in soft materials,
πλάσσω (plássō), with its derivatives
πλάσμα (plásma),
πλάστης (plástes),
πλαστική (plastĭcē), was gradually applied only to clay, in which sense the words
plastes and
plastice passed into Latin. Then, as clay played an important part in the preparation of works in bronze, the use of these words was extended to metal, and still further to statuary in stone and marble. ...
The accompanying woodcut represents Athene modelling in clay the Trojan horse. Although the horse of the legend was made of wood, and the instruments which hung in the picture are tools for wood-carving, there can be no doubt that the goddess is here represented working in clay, of which a large lump lies at her feet, and a piece is being laid on in her hand: probably the artist wished to represent the
preliminary model in clay (
πρόπλασμα (proplasma),
argilla), which was as necessary a preliminary to sculpture in wood as it was for sculpture in bronze.
PROPLASMA (
πρόπλασμα), the first sketch for a work in clay, preparatory to its execution in bronze, marble, or other materials.
PLASMA , ătis, n., =
πλάσμα, something formed or moulded.
I. Lit.,
an image,
figure,
a creature (eccl. Lat.)
B. Transf.,
an affected modulation of the voice
II. Trop.,
a fiction
"An affected modulation of the voice" is interesting but if I take the clay element out of it then "something formed or moulded" could be anything. If I apply the electric universe theory then cosmic plasma forms or moulds galaxies, solar systems, planets (clay?). I also wonder if the above 'hand' images might have some kind of relation to the Greek meaning.
