For various reasons, which I hope will become clear, I have decided to take some time to re-evaluate the discourse and development of The Dark Earth Chronicles. However, before we get involved in all of that, there are a few odds-and-ends relating to the previous articles that need to be dealt with. These are things that have occurred to me since or that have popped up out of the blue.
That’s not an instruction telling you that you must go and farm Cambridgeshire, it’s the name of an archaeological site which has been called the ‘British Pompeii’ and just like the original Pompeii, nothing is what they tell you it is. I came across it quite by accident whilst I was looking for a video from the latest ‘Shed and Buried’ TV series.
Must Farm is located in the peaty, marshy, dark earthy fenlands of Cambridgeshire. A buried village was discovered beneath the farm in 1999 and it was excavated between 2004 and 2006, but the BBC video is from 2016 when there was a major operation underway. For reasons not really made clear, the settlement has been dated to 3,000 BC and placed firmly in the Bronze Age. As usual, it’s probably due to the depth of the dark earth covering the site, which comprises five wooden roundhouses built closely together and surrounded by a wooden palisade. The site has been dubbed ‘The British Pompeii’ because to all intents and purposes it looks as if some kind of sudden devastation befell the village, forcing the inhabitants to flee and to never return again to collect their valuables. There are even signs of unfinished meals. Perhaps it should really be called the archaeological 'Marie Celeste'.
As usual, the video was produced for entertainment purposes and presented in a highly melodramatic way – typical of all ‘current affairs’ style programs nowadays where there has to be some kind of conflict or violence – anything remarkable and sensational. Amazingly the archaeologists and professors are all quite happy to go along with this and even seem to view it as just the kind of break their careers needed.
The following quotes and images are all from the the video, unless indicated…
“For the first time we can step inside our Bronze Age ancestor’s homes and discover uneaten meals, pristine farming tools, beautiful glass jewellery and the biggest collection of Bronze Age fabric ever found in Britain – evidence of the first complete textile making process.”
“We can see quite clearly the layout of the settlement from up here. You can make out the posts that delineate these roundhouses and you can see how the roof timbers, the radiating roof timbers, have fallen down almost in situ. The Pompeii analogy, it's as if we've got a pristine settlement a PR image of exactly what was going on within a settlement 3,000 years ago of a series of households all of their worldly goods, um, in, in 3D.”
“The team is discovering near perfect bowls containing half-eaten food, giving the impression that the villagers were interrupted in the middle of a meal. At the heart of this discovery lies a mystery because this village was wiped out by a sudden catastrophic event. The settlement burned to the ground and for some reason the inhabitants never returned. It took them by surprise, it wasn't planned. There's a real sense here that things were all in situ, that the settlement was going about its daily routine, hence there's food inside the pots and things and spoons and stuff like that so, it's as though whoever lived at Must Farm fled from that place leaving all their belongings behind and those objects were then preserved, almost in situ, for three Millennia until the archaeologists arrived in the 21st century.”
“This is the earliest complete wheel ever found in Britain, I mean this is the best preserved most complete one from this area. That's all I need to say really, I mean it just, it's just bigger and better than, than than anything else ...and complete.”
“Mark Knight made another extraordinary discovery in an ancient riverbed right next to the site. Eight complete pristine log boats.”
To cut a long and slightly tedious story short, ‘The Team’ managed to convince themselves that these five roundhouses were all built upon stilts over the water. They inferred this from the conjunction of charred wood and unburnt wood found in the same location. They were also surprised that the timbers in the roof were charred, but the lower ones were not. They really shouldn’t have been surprised about that, but they were, as it fitted in with their houses on stilts theory.
“This same feature repeats across the village, so we're just sitting here on the edge of roundhouse one and as we're peeling the roof timbers away we're starting to feel that we've got hints of a raised floor structure. We know the raised floor structure was here because we've got these long lengths of support posts that haven't been burnt at all. This is an incredible discovery; it turns out that the houses were built on stilts over the water and that's why the posts below were protected from the fire. No Bronze Age village built in this style has ever been found in Britain.”
Now you would think that fact alone would be enough to make them think twice, but no, now they’ve got stars in their eyes. Later we’re going to see what happened when they burned a model of a roundhouse, but for now let’s see how far their flight of fancy will take them...
“While a settlement like this is new for Britain you can see something very similar in Mainland Europe. 700 miles away on the shores of Lake Constant in Germany a prehistoric Lake Village has been painstakingly reconstructed. Could this surprising connection be the clue that sheds new light on prehistoric European immigration to Britain.”
So, now we go from charred timbers at the top to...
“This important new evidence suggests that 3,000 years ago an entire community may have migrated from Mainland Europe to the fen. So we could imagine the power dwellers of Switzerland or the Alpine region, or the the people that lived on the the rivers of, of, of Holland being the very people that came and occupied this space. Because it was a space that they were very already adept at adapting to or inhabiting, so they they already had the technology, they didn't invent it because of the change in the environment, this was their texture.”
Why does it always have to be the same story? It’s never the original Britons, it always has to be the Romans or now, in this case, it’s the Swiss and the Dutch "power dwellers!" All the way through you can see how they take it as their default setting that the Must Farm area was always a swamp, covered in water. However, we will see cracks emerging in that default stance.
From the usual ‘Immigrant Song’ we now progress to the discovery of some glass beads which ‘prove’ that this super special immigrant community of power dwellers had trade links with Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
“Did you have people saying to you ‘Are you are you sure this is Bronze Age? Is this not later? Is it Iron Age?’ (Answer>>) When we first started recovering so many beads from this context there were sort of raised eyebrows about the fact that we were saying this was a late Bronze Age settlement because beads aren't found in this quantity.”
There then follows a long segment discussing the origins of the bloody beads, involving Italy and the 'Emporium' trading centre and almost the entire history of bead-making. What no one ever says is, “We know it’s a Bronze Age settlement because…” There’s also never any mention of carbon-dating the timber from the site.
“The incredible quantity of the metal tools found at Must Farm shows that the villagers farmed on a grand scale …The team has also discovered an abundance of animal bones alongside the tools for farming and bowls of cereal. The villagers were hunting livestock as well as cultivating crops in this fertile environment.”
This fertile waterlogged environment, where 15 minutes ago they had to live in houses raised up on stilts to keep themselves dry. What exactly were they farming on such a grand scale – fish? But wait… this super immigrant community of power dwellers were upwardly mobile entrepreneurs!
“If water was the gateway to Europe it seems our ancestors at Must Farm were determined to take control of it. So they are very much stuck out here in the marshes, they're away from the dry land, they're away from their fields and their, and their farm animals. Why have they put themselves here? They recognized that by basically moving out onto this wet space and by sitting themselves on top of the rivers, they were able then to, to get themselves to the North Sea, get across to the continent, or get themselves up into middle England and get themselves over into towards the copper and tin of sort of wells and coral and things. Or even if they weren't being that mobile, the things that were passing through this landscape, just like they were passing up and down the Thames and the Trent and all the other major rivers, they were in between those movements and able to control it. It's the sense of of living near the motorways I suppose, the main sort of arteries of, of life, sort of thing, rather than plunking themselves on the margins.”
You can just picture the scene at the Bronze Age Must Farm, with the men sitting in the doorways of their stilted roundhouses, polishing their vast collections of useless farm implements, watching the river, waiting for a boat laden with exotic goods to come sailing by so they can control it. But what about the women? How did they spend their time? The answer is weaving...
A Wooden Loom Weight
“As work progresses at Must Farm the team discovers something never seen before in Britain – a full set of the tools needed for cloth making… So you've got uh, quite a few stages in, in terms of production. As you find one element you start to build the, the broader picture of its production. Um, so textiles... perhaps the first thing we started finding, but now we've got things like the cloth beater, got things like the bobbin with the thread wound round them. Absolutely beautiful, look at that it's a wonderful wonderful tiny object with, it looks like, a piece of wood, yes, and then the thread wound around it. Yeah, the things like the, the loom weights that also turned up in roundhouse one, so, and unlike the textiles, they've also suffered from the the fire event. So you can see that they've been, they've been burnt as well. They're covered in soot and things ...We knew that some cloth was made in Britain at this time, but we've never before discovered the complete technological process all the way from harvest to manufacture to end product. It is so rare, exceptional to find the the whole sort of range, of sort of equipment in terms of their production right from the plant stems themselves right through to garments and things.”
Please note: The textiles did not suffer from the fire event.
Now we come to the six million dollar question… why did these people abandon their homes, their livelihood and all of their possessions? Was the fire an accident or was it a deliberate attack? Did it start in one house and then spread to the others or were there multiple fires?
In order to further the melodrama and crank up the tension it all starts to get a lot darker...
“As the team dig deeper they're beginning to believe that there was a darker side to life here. They're discovering that the inhabitants built a fence around their village. There's an ash Palisade running right around the edge of the settlement ...we don't know how high they stood, but probably above head height.”
I wonder if that means above head height when you’re stood in the river slowly drowning?
“Mark Knight suspects that this fence wasn't just for show. There is something about the fact that they're in a landscape where they've detached themselves from the dry land, where they put a barricade around themselves, so there is a sense of an enclosure. It has that sense of, of a potential defensive nature about it. We don't know much about how Bronze Age villages like this might have defended themselves.”
But they spend the next good few minutes talking about swords that were found on the site and giving expert detailed demonstrations of how, surprisingly, swords kill people. Eventually they get around to the ‘Setting fire to the model roundhouse’ experiment. The result of which was that the model roundhouse was gutted within 10 minutes and all of the roofing material and everything inside was cremated. All it proved was that the fire theory cannot account for the collapse and abandonment of the village or the presence of so many unburnt objects inside the remains of the structures.
“If this Village was torched by an enemy then it was a stark and dramatic statement of power. The weight of evidence does seem to point towards a violent attack. Most compelling is the fact that these people never returned to resettle their village, or to reclaim their precious belongings once the thing had burnt down. There's no real indication that they ever came back, so there is also that sort of feeling that that the the force that drove them away might have been more than the fire. It might have actually been someone else who'd set that fire that didn't want these people in this landscape. [WS: Perfect! Persecution to add to the melodrama.] The settlement at Must Farm shows us that 3,000 years ago there were people who were living comfortably well-off lives that we can still recognize today [WS:Eh?] They were materially wealthy, they had objects which they had made themselves with great care and they had objects which were exotic that had arrived with them through those complex Bronze Age exchange networks [WS: So they were exchange immigrants then.] But because they were settled in the landscape and because they had this material wealth, they had more to lose, so perhaps it's not surprising that during the Bronze Age we see an upsurge in violence and conflict.”
So, let’s just pause a minute and reflect upon that. Settled people with more to lose are the cause of increased violence and conflict ...what a load of crap that really is.
Throughout the video they keep showing a 3D animation of the Must Farm Roundhouses. It begins showing the construction of a roundhouse superimposed upon the actual site. It clearly begins at ground level…
After the roof is completed the entire structure suddenly rises up out of the ground as if by magic…
You will notice that there are no steps up to the raised floors, therefore the occupants either had to walk about on stilts or use the log boats. In the case of the latter, some of the eight complete pristine log boats should have been discovered under, or at least in amongst the ruins of the roundhouses, rather than in an ancient riverbed next to the site.
The presence of suspended floors in each of the houses should have been blatantly obvious, as they would have survived the flames mostly intact given that bundles of textiles and wooden bowls were also found unburnt. However, we are told that one of ‘the team’ had the specific responsibility of separating the roofing material from that of the floor, even though the roofing material should have all been consumed in the flames as per the experimental model.
There are various images available on the Must Farm website, some of which are quite revealing...
Area of foot and hoof prints outside of the palisade
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The preservation of these prints indicates that when the Must Farm site was inundated with marshland, or peat, or dark earth, the site was dry and not underwater. This explains the presence of so many farm implements in the roundhouses. It also explains the presence of the weaving tools and the textiles, as these were used to process the crops being grown by the villagers. It also explains the presence of a wheel in the village – what use would a wheel be in the middle of a river?
For the archaeologists, the evidence of fire damage is the only clue they can see as to why the village was abandoned so suddenly and then collapsed at some unspecified point and disappeared beneath the marshland for centuries. That point is crucial though. It has to be coincidental with the fire, otherwise everything that the archaeologists are wetting their pants about – the ‘British Pompeii’ with its pristine relics – wouldn’t have been possible because all of the wood, household objects, tools and textiles would have deteriorated and rotted away. The food, so suddenly abandoned and left in the bowls, wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes, never mind the claimed 3,000 years.
How then, can they explain that the fire and collapse into a preserving, anaerobic environment happened at one and the same time? The only option available to them was water, they had to incorporate water into the overall scenario. Strictly speaking, I don’t think water is actually an anaerobic environment, like mud, soil or peat, but I’m no expert. Anyway, it was obviously good enough for the Must Farm ‘Team’. This accounts for the bizarre introduction of the ‘unique to Britain’, roundhouses raised on stilts above the river. That this theory was some kind of emergency afterthought could account for the ludicrous magic rising of the houses from the ground apparent in the 3D animation described above.
I think by now, it’s quite obvious that if the roundhouses had collapsed into the water of the river, then the relics would not have been discovered in such a pristine state of preservation centuries later. The food and stored cereals in the bowls would have washed away long ago, for example.
“The Must Farm Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement consisted of stilted roundhouses built above a river channel and surrounded by a palisade of sharpened stakes. It was occupied for just nine months to a year before a catastrophic blaze destroyed it, with the fire tearing quickly through the structures, causing the houses’ contents to fall into the muddy river below. It was this perfect combination of charring and waterlogging that caused thousands of objects to survive including almost 200 wooden artefacts, over 150 fibre and textile items, 128 pottery vessels and more than 90 pieces of metalwork...
“...As the buildings burned their flexible floors, constructed from woven roundwood panels, collapsed causing their contents to drop into the river beneath. Environmental analysis has shown that the river below was relatively shallow, slow moving and full of vegetation. This vegetation would have helped cushion the material falling from the structures, preventing damage, before the artefacts came to rest at the bottom of the channel.” Source
Extremely well preserved wattle wall paneling
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Flexible floors? “Woven roundwood panels?” Do they mean the same wattle paneling used for the walls? How could anyone walk on that? Anyway if they were mad enough to use them for flooring, why would they burn through and collapse, being at floor level, whilst other objects above the floor were untouched by the flames? And now notice that the palisade was made of “sharpened” stakes, just to add to the melodrama. Also, they use the word ‘metalwork’ quite often rather than ‘bronze’ or ‘bronze work’. I wonder what other metals were found on the site?
“A Must Farm house would have contained a metalwork “tool kit” featuring several hafted socketed axes, sickles, gouges and razors.” (ibid.)
Archaeological excavations were not limited to the area of the roundhouses, but also took place in the immediate surroundings. For example, the log boats were discovered in the river channel next to the dwellings (next to, not underneath.) Further ancient animal footprints were found, showing a kind of 3 dimensional photograph of the moment just before the dry area beside the river was covered over and preserved. There are also iron objects from this same area, including a sword…
Mass of cloven-hoof prints cutting the old land surface
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Late Iron Age Sword with wooden handle and scabbard. (ibid.)
Iron Age Jar fragment (ibid.)
Along with the query raised in the video regarding the abundance of beads, suggesting that the site was from the Iron age, these discoveries must (Must) cast even more doubt upon the claimed Bronze Age origin of the roundhouses themselves and the incident that buried them.
Obviously, I’m going to suggest that this all happened as the result of the 10th century cataclysm. The onset of dark earth falling from the sky, and through the roof, would be enough to make anybody run. It would also explain how the fire damage was localised and internal, because no doubt there would be stoves or fires burning in the houses and the chaos going on inside would explain how those fires could easily spread outside of their controlled confines and burn the surroundings for a limited time until they were quenched by the dark earth.
The people wouldn’t have been able to return to collect their belongings or restore their homes – if they themselves survived – because those homes and belongings were buried under a layer of dark earth – it was precisely this that preserved the site so well and for so long. At the same time the level of the river would also have been affected by the rise in sea level. Even if this explanation may seem improbable to some, it's surely no more unlikely than the official one described above.
As for all of this super special persecuted European exchange network immigrant power dwellers who deliberately isolated themselves far away from their fields and livestock so they could become controllers of all the trade on the river stuff, it’s all ludicrous nonsense. It’s worse than Bayesian, it’s pure Netflix.
“The excavation at Must Farm has vastly expanded our knowledge of Bronze Age Britain and taken us closer than ever before to the people who lived there.” (video)
Bollocks! Now all of that fantasyland crap about immigrants and their violent persecution has officially become part of British history. What we see in the video is the destruction, falsification and redefinition of history in action. It’s a disgrace how entertainment and the cult of ‘celebrity’ have now contaminated everything.
“The Nart sagas are heroic tales, extremely archaic and varied. They occur across the North Caucasus, among Chechens and Ingush, among Ossetians, among Circassians and their kin, and even among the Kartvelian speaking Svans and Georgian highlanders of northernmost Georgia.” ‘Nart Sagas from the Caucasus’ by John Colarusso, 2002.
In The Dark Earth Chronicles Part 2.5, it was mentioned that many Arthurian themes are echoed within the Nart Sagas...
“This saga is another tale depicting a woman warrior, but before anything of significance can be told about her, the tale shifts to the theme of the uncouth but valorous youth and the cauldron. This cauldron or barrel of the Narts was a sort of horn of plenty that filled up or boiled over only in the presence of a true hero. Littleton and Malcor (1994) have argued that this is related to Amonga’s cauldron of the Ossetic tradition and to the Holy Grail of the Arthurian cycle.” ‘Nart Sagas from the Caucasus’ by John Colarusso, 2002.
Well, I decided to take a closer look into this and discovered an essay from 1978 entitled ‘The Sarmatian Connection’ by C. Scott Littleton and Ann C. Thomas. It’s premise is as follows:
“For it is now possible to suggest that the prototypes of King Arthur and his paladins, as well as the quest for the Grail, are to be found in a tradition far removed from that of the ancient Celts – Brythonic or otherwise – as tradition that evolved in the steppes of what is now South Russia among an ancient Iranian-speaking people known as the Sarmatians.”
It turns out they are talking about the Nart Sagas, mentioned previously. Their first piece of evidence involves a similarity between a Nart Saga and what they refer to as the account of the death of King Arthur. However, this “account” is from Thomas Malory’s fictional classic, ‘Le Morte d'Arthur’…
Aubrey Beardsley illustration from Le Morte d'Arthur, 1893
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“A 15th-century Middle English prose reworking... of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a 'complete' story of Arthur from his conception to his death, Malory compiled, rearranged, interpreted and modified material from various French and English sources.”
Hardly an original authoritative source. The main similarity involved the disposal of Excalibur in a lake, but given that archaeology has recorded the Celtic passion for throwing weapons in lakes and rivers it’s hardly conclusive. Then we get this...
“Another important theme-the term "motif" is perhaps too narrow here-that runs throughout the Nart sagas concerns the struggle for possession of a magical cup (or cauldron) called the Amonga (or Nartyamonga, "the Cup of the Narts"). It is a wondrous vessel, and he to whom it presents itself will never know want or privation, as the Amonga never runs dry. Only those Narts who have demonstrated exceptional courage or who are without faults of any kind are deemed worthy of possessing the sacred cup. Its presence is eagerly sought whenever the Narts sit down to a feast, and there are endless quarrels among the them as to who is best qualified to be its guardian...
“...The parallels here between the Amonga and The Holy Grail are obvious, despite the latter's association with the Chalice of the Last Supper in the Joseph of Arimathea legend which has obscured this connection. To be sure, there is no specific parallel in the Ossetic tradition to the roles played by Galahad and Parsival: yet the notion that the cup will only reveal itself to him who is without fault or ‘sin’ is as firmly embedded in the Nart sagas as it is in the several accounts of the Quest for the Grail. Indeed, even the name of the Nart cup itself may survive in the West, as Chretien de Troyes calls the brother of the wounded Grail King Magnon (or Amagnon). It thus appears that the Grail legends, like the rest of the Arthurian tradition, are by no means unique to Western Christendom.”
As we saw in the last article, the Chalice of the Last Supper does not qualify as the Holy Grail due to it being only one of the grail symbols and even then, not a cup (or cauldron,) that never runs dry. And yet, based upon this “evidence” we are told that not just the Grail legends, but also that the whole Arthurian tradition is foreign to the west. But wait...
“However, the Grail legends may not be the only Western manifestation of the of the Quest for the Amonga. In The Spoils of Annwn, a tenth-century Welsh poem, Arthur is described as having led a successful raid on Annwn, the "Isle of the Dead," so as to obtain a magical cauldron. Like the Amonga, the cauldron of Annwn never runs dry and can only be used by those whose whose courage is beyond reproach: ‘it will not boil the meat of a coward or one forsworn.' Indeed, this account comes closer than any of the more sophisticated Grail stories to approximating the Nart Sagas in question.”
Was the theft of a cauldron really the purpose of The Raid on Annwn? Was it actually successful given that only seven returned from the mission and the retrieval of the cauldron is never mentioned? Also where does the title ‘The Isle of the Dead’ come from? Once again we see an intricate part of British history being ‘kidnapped’ and reassigned to the east.
Please don’t misunderstand this, I don’t doubt the validity of the Nart Sagas or their being of the claimed location, but to state that such flimsy evidence requires a total redefinition of the Grail Quest and Arthurian legends as being ‘South Russian’ is frankly ludicrous. In the previous article we saw the same Fisher King / Sacred Marriage ideology in Africa and also the Khazar Empire- which is exactly the same location as the setting of the Nart Sagas. It’s of little surprise therefore, to see the same association of ‘worthiness’ and purity with the guardianship of the source of abundance reflected in the Nart Sagas.
Furthermore, the same system used by the Khazars was in operation during the same period…
“...among the Hungarians, Vikings, the Merovingian kings and the Carolingian majordomos, the Kieavan kniazs and their vojevodas, the Abbasid Khalifas and the Suljuk sultans, the Japanese Mikados and Shoguns, etc.” "The Truth About Khazars" by Benjiman Freedman, 1954.
Therefore, rather than showing that the Grail Quests and the Arthurian legends were all originally from South Russia, or Africa, or Hungary, maybe Scandinavia, etc., etc., doesn’t it show that the reality of those times was universally different and based upon the harmonious relationship between humankind and The Otherworld via the ‘Grail’ or geasa. As Felix said way back in ‘King Arthur in Hyperborea and the Arctic Cataclysm’:
“The Arthurian Legend is universal and international. He even crops up in Japanese culture as the legendary ‘Yamato-takeru’. The Ossetians of the north-central Caucasus preserve a corpus of legends about an Arthurian-type hero called ‘Batraz’. The British tradition is usually considered to be the definitive source – especially by the British, but he can also be found in the French, Danish, Spanish, Italian and Norwegian ones. For me this points to a common, ancient source that has probably been obscured and mutilated.” Arthur in Hyperboria
The remainder of the Sarmatian essay cites material from a certain Helmut Nickel, who was a “German art historian , weapons historian, comic artist and author. As an illustrator and author of various series, he significantly influenced German comics in the 1950s.” In 1959 he became curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum’s historical weapons collection. Apparently this background qualified him to state that the name ‘Uther Pendragon’ derives from pre-Indo-European Anatolian via Turkish. Finally, having been unable to find any convincing evidence to link Celtic culture with the Iranian, or to explain how the Arthurian legends ended up in the Nart Sagas, they call upon ancient Roman history to show how a contingent of 5,500 Sarmatians were drafted into Roman Britain in 175 AD. They have archaeological evidence – of course! Even then, they insist that rather than the Sarmatians assimilating the local Celtic culture, it was the other way around…
“Nevertheless, the core of that tradition seems to have remained Sarmatian, and the medieval chroniclers and poets who preserved and perfected the accounts of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail were most likely drawing upon the same corpus of legends as the modern Ossietic bards.”
As if that’s not enough to have to bear, the authors then add an epilogue whereby they claim that the Japanese tradition of their legendary ‘Yamato-takeru’ – an Arthurian type hero – also comes from this same Sarmatian source! And once again, in Japan, we see the same system of a sacred, spiritual ruler, or Mikado, and the Shogun who did all the day-to-day business, which also has a very ancient mythological origin – but it’s not Sarmatian!
It’s worth mentioning that the Lost Kingdom of King Arthur, as per the Gestae Arthuri, or Geste of Arthur, included just about all of the countries that have been mentioned above, “and all the other lands & Islands of the East sea, euen vnto Russia.” I think including Japan within the “ Islands of the East sea” is probably pushing it a bit too far though.
Why does everything always have to originate from that same Middle Eastern / Caucasian area? What is it about the place? Maybe in a later article we will find out...
I’m expecting a post in stolenhistory.net entitled “King Arthur was Tartarian!” I could probably even predict who will post it.
It occurred to me that the circumstance of the Khazar King’s entombment, described in the last article, whereby he was interred in a huge complex that included many false tombs and then deliberately submerged beneath the river, was similar to the Egyptian tradition, but rather than having a Valley of the Kings, the Khazars had a River of the Kings. I know there is a massive body of documentation regarding ancient Egyptian funerary rites with all the Book of the Dead stuff and providing everything for the journey to the afterlife, blah blah blah, but, consider this, if you will…
We have seen how certain differing cultures treated their kings as delicate, pampered ornaments whose well-being was vital to the prosperity of the land and its people. We have also seen how these kings were considered to be gods, semi-divine beings, or consorts of gods, having undergone a sacred marriage and who were bound by a geasa or magical vow that linked their destiny to that of the land and thus the people. We should further consider that, up until not very long ago, death was not considered final until the physical remains had decomposed. This explains the occurrences of post-mortem mutilation as a punishment and the old displaying of heads on spikes after executions… although there may be more to that which, hopefully, we will get around to discussing later.
With all of this in mind, does it not make ‘sense’ that the Egyptians would want to preserve the mortal remains of their Pharaohs for as long as possible and want to keep them provided with all the comforts and necessities they enjoyed in life? Is this not an equally valid explanation for ancient Egyptian funerary rites as is the Book of the Dead / journey to the afterlife one? We’re told that it was all done to ensure the Pharaoh’s immortality after death, although we’re never told why it was necessary to take such measures for someone who was a god and therefore immortal by default. Personally, I have never been convinced by the conventional, official explanation, but now, seen in the light of the ‘Fisher King Phenomena’, it all makes perfect sense. Mummification wasn’t exclusive to ancient Egypt, of course, and if this explanation holds good for ancient Egypt them it shows that the whole Fisher King phenomena may have been much more widespread than previously imagined.
Charles III, The Monarch
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At the end of the last article I signed off with the following paragraph regarding King Charles III…
“He has recently been out of circulation, although now he is back, apparently ‘healed’ from a ‘cancer’. Is it too much to expect that he will at least try to live up to what he claimed to be the motivation of his entire life? In his younger days he used to champion causes that were genuinely worthwhile, but immediately ridiculed - a hopeful sign... a great deal dirty water has passed under the bridge since then and I wonder how much damage that contamination has caused.” Source
I think it’s now blatantly obvious where Charles III’s true allegiance lies. The butterfly, supposedly a symbol of how his public role has transformed, is highly reminiscent of the symbol’s frequent turn of the century appearances in many of the seedier ‘pop’ videos of the time when it was translated as representing ‘Monarch’ – the sequel to the CIA’s mind control agenda known as MKUltra. This has a double meaning in Charles’ case of course, with him actually being a Monarch. Perhaps it also gives us a clue as to what he was actually doing when he was allegedly being treated for cancer… which has disappeared. Baphomet, that other old favourite of the hidden-in-plain-sight symbolism, also makes an appearance in the portrait above, although it’s necessary to duplicate the image, paste it to the left, then invert it all in order to see it, so maybe not so much in plain sight after all.
I’m sure I’m not the only one to have noticed that these are particularly tense – intense – times. In astrological terms we are apparently in a particularly volatile situation whereby emotional reactions are very much at the mercy of a ‘hair-trigger’. This situation, or cycle, is generally set to last for the remainder of this year.
Astrology shouldn’t be confused with chronology. Chronology is the ordering or arrangement of dates in time and of course, the astrological cycles are all totally off due to the screwed up chronology we have. This can be seen most clearly in the Vedic Cycles or Yugas. For example, we are currently said to be in Kali Yuga, but these days nobody really has any idea when it began or when it will end.
However, we live by natural cycles. The most obvious is the 24 hour day that man, in his wisdom, has arranged chronologically into weekdays, which are all named after the heavenly bodies. Then we have the natural cycle of the Year, with all of the Sun's different stations still marked by thinly disguised versions of ancient Pagan celebrations. There's also the Lunar Cycle, which has remarkable effects upon all forms of life – it can affect the growth of seeds and the harvesting of crops, it will determine how fast your hair or nails grow back depending upon the phase of the Moon when you cut them. Then there’s the effect it has upon women’s natural menstrual ‘cycles’ which will synchronise on a communal basis.
DIRECTIONS FOR THE FARMER AND GRAZIER
RISING and SETTING of the PLANETS and PHASES of the MOON from the best authority.
Old Moore's Almanac (still available today.) Public domain
Of course, the modern scientific religion has managed to reduce all of this to ridicule, but not so long ago people used to organise their activities by these natural cycles. All of the ancient megalithic sites are not astronomically aligned, they are positioned to indicate the natural cycles by which we once lived. Given that the Sun and the Moon have natural cycles which in turn have a fundamental effect upon all life, is it not feasible that the other heavenly bodies also have other, more subtle effects?
This re-evaluation may well be the result of these astrological alignments, I don’t know, but nevertheless, I have been re-evaluating my work on this website. The more research I do, the more it becomes obvious that whatever the truth of mankind’s past may have been, it has by now become so thoroughly obscured by deliberate deception – through destruction, mutilation, manipulation and redefinition, as well as through carelessness, disasters and misunderstanding – that there is no chance of ever reaching any conclusive, definitive, verifiable facts regarding our past. So, what the bloody hell am I doing wasting my time with it all?
I get extremely annoyed with those kind of people who never tire of preaching the “It’s all fake!” mantra. In the same way I also get annoyed by those who put forward crazy theories involving aliens or ‘resets’ that happened with ever increasing modernity to the point where they will soon be within my own living memory. Actually, it’s inaccurate to call them ‘theories’ as they are, more often than not, simply opinions with no supporting evidence whatsoever.
This then, is a dilemma. On the one hand I am saying that all we know about our past is indeed fake and that there is no verifiable evidence to support any alternative facts, and on the other hand I am expressing my own annoyance at those who claim the same thing and who put forward their opinions without any evidence. This amounts to hypocrisy. What to do?
I suppose what I am also saying is that the best we can do about our lost past is to speculate upon it. Speculation should involve the consideration of all available information pertaining to whatever is being speculated upon. This act of consideration may also be termed analysis, although that has unfortunate scientific associations. This analysis will give rise to valuations, or informed opinions, concerning the different information and its sources. These can then be cross-referenced to see if they match any existing valuations gained from one’s own previous analyses of different subjects. If so, this will reinforce the existing valuation and may lead to the formation of a recurring pattern, which can tentatively be seen as confirmation of its validity. Care must be taken however, not to taint these valuations by interpreting them via personal bias or any kind of ‘blind faith’, which is really difficult, although on the majority of occasions this is the entire reason for the speculation in the first place.
“Speculation” is seen as a dirty word when applied to any kind of official discipline – apart from Finance of course. Both Felix and I have written entire articles that we admitted were purely speculation, only to be attacked and ridiculed as time-wasters who are not to be taken seriously. However, these same people think nothing of quoting biblical, Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek sources in order to promote their opinions about ancient technology that has been hidden from us since those ancient times, along with ‘impossible’ ancient buildings and structures and assorted so-called historical figures, etc. They completely ignore the pioneering research into chronology by people like Gunnar Heinsohn and Sylvain Tristan (to name but two,) who have demonstrated that those particular ancient scenarios occurred, or were created, much more recently and then backdated. Others quote from sci-fi films and TV series as legitimate sources for their outlandish ‘theories’ that usually involve aliens, or off-world ‘gods’, who are able to mind-control a post-deluge human population and create a slave-race. These kind of scenarios all feed off each other, producing the same central theme, but with many colourful, and often unpalatable, variations.
I really should cover the work of Sylvain Tristan as it’s very important. I keep meaning to, but never get around to it. His book is entitled “Re-Dating Ancient Greece: 500 BC = 1300 AD?” which says it all really. You can find interviews regarding this on YouTube. I have compiled a Powerpoint Presentation from one such video which gives all the vital points and can be downloaded here. It makes the period prior to the 10th century cataclysm even more of a chronological and historical ‘wasteland’.
It’s easy to forget that the concept of The Dark Earth Chronicles, that Felix and I developed, was based upon archaeological evidence. Documented sources to support the event have all been severely manipulated or simply destroyed. However, it has been possible to identify traces of the event’s effects as we did in Part 1 and in the beginning of this article. Since then we have been on a mission to try and discover what the world was like prior to the cataclysm. Unfortunately Felix has been unable to make much of a contribution since Part 1, which has placed more demands upon my own time and resulted in less frequent updates to the website than I would have liked.
Now I find myself questioning my own motivation, as outlined previously. Perhaps the title of ‘The Dark Earth Chronicles’ was a mistake. It’s a good title for a fantasy ‘sword and sorcery’ type series, but it does it really convey what it’s truly about? It’s about the dark earth deluge and the redefining effect it has on chronology… maybe it’s not so bad after all, just a trifle cryptic. It does impose certain conditions upon the analysis of information sources that claim to be from the periods prior to and just after the cataclysmic event, such as:
The chronology and history we have of the pre and post cataclysm periods is all invented. Many of the events and circumstances included in that history may have actually taken place, but they were either duplicated from a more modern period or invented and inserted into the earlier vacant chronology. Similarly, pre-cataclysm circumstances and events were redefined and invented in order to justify and validate the various agendas that played out after the cataclysm.
So, what’s left to investigate? How is it possible to find any clues as to what the world was like before the cataclysm? What’s left to speculate upon? With such a dearth of original sources from the period how is it possible to fill the void without being influenced by one’s own imagination and wishful thinking? Don’t worry, these aren’t questions for you, they’re for me.
I expect you think I’m going to answer them, but I don’t think I can. You see, I’m a great believer in disbelief. What that means is that there are many things that we are conditioned not to believe in. Some of those disbeliefs are the result of an enormous amount of time and effort by those who don’t want us to believe in them. A lot of those things we disbelieve do actually still survive, having been redefined and absorbed into ‘acceptable’ belief systems. Once, those disbeliefs were the beliefs of our ancestors, therefore, they deserve a great deal of attention and respect.
From an early age I felt very strongly that something was missing from the world. I spent a lot of time trying to find it. My brother, Felix, and I would go on adventures in the local woods looking for those missing things. I was fortunate enough to have a small wash basin with a mirror above it in my bedroom. I would arrange my toys on the sofa in front of the mirror and then I would sit staring at the reflection. My hope was that I would be able to catch my toys moving about or talking to each other, or see them being visited by their friends, because I believed that the reflection in the mirror was a window into another world that was not just a reflection of this one, but the true reality where such things did happen, where magic was the normal state of affairs, where my relationship with those toys was something real, reciprocated and alive – a place where all of the things I felt were missing from this world had their proper existence. A place I had become separated from, as if I was on the wrong side of the reflection. I could see myself there and I spent hours trying to force my awareness, my consciousness, back into the reflection.
So there it was – something that this world defined as a disbelief, but that I instinctively felt belonged in it. My persistence in front of that mirror didn’t reward me, but, in spite of the failure to see or achieve what I was hoping for, my belief never turned to disbelief and I’m still searching. This then is my bias. It’s this search for the missing elements of our existence that colours everything I analyse. All of the information I consider or speculate upon, is judged by that standard. All the connections I make and pattens I see are linked to that same quest.
By far the greatest pattern I have recognised is the one that has disconnected us from the natural world, even to the point where we no longer even recognise what it is any more. This disconnection has been deliberate and exquisitely engineered over the centuries. We are by now so far removed from living ‘natural’ lives that we consider anything with intelligence to be artificial to the point where we are constantly having to prove that we are not robots or machines to machines! The Horse and the Ox were replaced by machines long ago and not long afterwards the replacement of humans by technology began. These days we behave more like machines than humans. We are programmed by the devices we have attached ourselves to, which are all controlled by huge international conglomerates that want us to think and act in a specific manner and, more importantly, to buy their products directly or indirectly. Have you ever tried to buy something online? Do you try your best to make an informed decision in order to avoid wasting your hard-earned money on total rubbish? How many hours have you spent reading all the reviews that are supposedly written by people who have actually purchased a product similar to the one you are searching for? How many more hours have you spent searching for reviews supposedly written by experts who have tested products similar to the one you are searching for? How long was it before you realised that all of the so-called experts are taking their opinions from the reviews you have already spent hours crawling through and that were all fake in the first place, so you can’t avoid spending your money on crap because it’s all crap that’s designed to breakdown just after the warranty expires so that you can go through the whole damned process once again – which you will because things must have progressed since the last time right? WRONG!
We are conditioned to behave in specific ways, ways that are not natural. Very little of the food we eat is natural. The water we drink is not natural, it’s a cocktail of chemicals, especially the bottled varieties. The clothes and shoes we wear are not made from natural fibres. The houses we live in are full of toxins and the LED lights we use inside them are slowly ruining our health – particularly our eyesight. The air we breathe is deliberately contaminated and the weather we experience is not produced by nature any more. We are conditioned to live in a permanent state of stress, fear and unhealthiness. I mentioned watching a TV show earlier called Shed and Buried, well, at the beginning of one episode the main presenter, Henry Cole, was asking his 3 other co-presenters how many pills (as in medications) they were taking every day. He won with 7, I think it was, and the lowest amongst the others was 3 or 4. All 4 of them are younger men than I, and I’m not taking any. I’m not quite sure why anyone would wish to win such a pill-taking competition, but that’s obviously another symptom of how our normal modern life has become completely abnormal and unnatural.
Today’s doctor will happily prescribe 7 different daily drugs, and more, in full knowledge that he or she is not treating the cause of your suffering, just masking the symptoms. Furthermore, any, or even all of those 7 drugs can have consequences that will require more or heavier medication further down the line. You may even need an operation to remove parts of you that you really can manage without anyway – or so they will tell you – or that have become worn out or damaged. However, you will need to take more drugs to compensate or to stop your naughty immune system from rejecting whatever they implant into you as a replacement. Then of course, without your immune system you are pretty much f*cked and they can then pump you full of even more drugs to fight off all the infections your body can no longer deal with, not to mention all the vaccines you will need as you’ve lost all your natural immunity. Can’t you just see the pharmaceutical salesman rubbing his hands together with glee.
They may even give you a placebo, just to make you feel that there is some hope left. The trouble is it can never reverse the damage done by the original nocebo when they told you that you had to take the pills/steroids/inhalations/injections (delete as appropriate) in the first place, when of course, you really didn’t need to. Maybe at the time, you asked about alternative treatments, or perhaps you searched for them online and found that for every genuine opinion based upon experience and good research, there’s always 20 negative ones based upon lies and falsehood.
Rifleman Hagman: "Permission to speak sir?" [hands Sharpe a bundle from his pocket]
"Best brown paper and paraffin oil, it's for your wound."
Richard Sharpe:"Thank you Hagman." 'Sharpe' Sharpe's Sword. 1995
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Is there any wonder that today we’re so easily manipulated when we’re all drugged up to the eyeballs and permanently and deeply unhealthy? When we believe that to be in such a state is ‘normal’? Someone said to me once, “If you’re not having to take 5 or 6 different pills everyday then there’s something wrong with you.” And that sums it all up in a nutshell.
The pursuit of human suffering has become the driving force behind everything – politics, government, healthcare, religion, environmentalism, the economy, finance and business. I am reminded of Felix’s ‘The Nature of the Beast’ series of articles. The original title for that series was ‘The Doctrine of Suffering’, as we have both always been convinced that there is a force, some kind of organised ‘intelligence’ that thrives upon suffering, not just human suffering, but all suffering. For me personally, that force came into its full power right after the 10th century cataclysm and has dominated ever since, right up until now. Which brings me back to where I started with the natural cycles. I think around 1000 years is quite long enough for the dominance of this parasitic force, after all, the ancient Persians only had to put up with the reign of the demon Zahhak for 1000 years according to the Shahnameh.
Let me make it abundantly clear that I am not talking about space aliens or any kind of ancient artificial intelligence… or artificially ancient intelligence. Frankly it amazes me how the acronym ‘AI’ has only fairly recently become ‘à la mode’ and yet now it’s featuring front and centre in loads of current mega-theories concerning mankind’s past. However, I shouldn’t be surprised because its been going on for decades, right from when we had the ´Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘The War of the Worlds’ type fantasies as soon as rocket technology hit the headlines. What I’m talking about is something much older, something that has its place in the natural order of things, but that has flourished due to an imbalance within that natural order. Certain interested parties have taken advantage of the natural cycle favouring such an imbalance and have been working to maintain and enhance it ever since. No, I don’t mean space aliens, but I don’t necessarily mean only humans either.
It’s no coincidence, to me at least, that the rise of this parasitic force coincided with the transition from the pre-cataclysmic to the post-cataclysmic world. Our separation from nature began at the same point and was both physical and emotional, as much of what we once held dear and sacred vanished from our physical realm, seemingly abandoning us to whatever fate had in store. The resulting insecurity encouraged many to take up the new belief systems that until that point had been largely ignored. These belief systems mimicked and absorbed the old ways in order to increase their influence and adherents, whilst redefining the concept of god as an angry and vengeful lord (perfectly capable of smiting with the odd cataclysm here and there) along with the doctrine of suffering as redemption for ‘sins’ – such as the ‘sins’ that caused god to send the cataclysm as punishment. Very soon, all that was once sacred became unholy and demonic. All that was once believed in became disbelief, all that was once natural became unnatural.
I’m going to carry on with my quest to rediscover all that went missing from the world and only survives as disbelief. I will continue weaving tapestries of the pre-cataclysmic world using the threads I manage to unravel from the post-cataclysmic records. What find may never be the truth, but at least it’s more fun than constantly staring into a mirror.
Will Scarlet
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