Why were the great megalithic sites built?
We saw in book 1 of volume 3 that the hand was used to represent the goddess in a crouching position, in particular to represent her giving birth to the father of the gods and to the dead.
In what way does the architecture and ornamentation of the Neolithic megalithic temples of Malta, Göbekli Tepe and Stonehenge, reflect the same concepts?
And, to go into more detail:
Concerning Malta:
Why can we say that the architecture of these temples also represented the local mother goddess in a squatting position during childbirth? What is her real identity? How does the symbolism of the façade and the trilith help us to identify her? Why can we say that the father of the gods is also present here? What does the central pillar of Skorba symbolise in this respect? How are the different phases of the mother goddess’s power to regenerate the dead represented? Why is it that the mortar symbolises the crushing of the dead, the spiral the churning of the dead, the hydrography of the site and the bodily fluids produced by this process of rebirth?
Concerning Göbekli Tepe:
Why is it directly associated with the symbolism of the hand? What does the mound on which it stands represent? What is its link with the Karaka Dag mountain? What do the triangular enclosures mean? The T-shaped pillars? The passage stones? And how do these perfectly express the symbolism of regeneration thanks to the rebirth provided by the mother goddess? What do the sometimes aggressive animal representations on the various pillars mean (vulture, snake, fox, etc.)? What does the constant presence of sacred mortars symbolise? The orientation towards Orion, the solstices and the equinoxes? What does the hydrography of the site tell us? What is the significance of the cult of skulls practised here? The presence of phalluses and large limestone rings? Why was the site buried?
About Stonehenge :
Why do the bluestones at Stonehenge come from Waun Mawn in Wales? What is the symbolism of the Preseli Hills site where they were taken? What is the symbolism of the Avebury site that preceded Stonehenge, and of West Kenneth, West Woods, Adam’s grave and Sillbury Hill? Why is Stonehenge oriented towards the solstice? Why is it connected to the River Avon? Why is it surrounded by pits? What is the significance of the stone cromlechs? The blue stones arranged in a circle? The limestone? The triliths? The U-shaped sarsen stones? The five large triliths? The central altar stone or “Altar Stone”, which we now know to have come from Scotland?
Dive with me into these 348 pages of dense and fascinating research and see how the supposedly unfathomable mysteries that enveloped these sites, after having exhausted generations of tourists and researchers, literally evaporate before your eyes and end up revealing to us how much Prehistory and its beliefs, by means of strictly the same mysticism or sacred symbolism, permeated that of the Neolithic and all its megalithic sites, even if, on a local scale, each site sometimes favoured particular modes of representation or symbols.
The author’s revelation thus continues in a spectacular, disconcerting and exhilarating way.
It resounds like a total revolution in our understanding of religion and our history.
And to think that this is only one step on the road to our ultimate goal: to choose the true meaning of our existence once we have found the solution to the greatest enigma of all: our origin!
