Ophir

I include an excerpt from my book The Kelts: Childrenyou will see a complex web of knowledge and
of the Don as a way of giving the gist of what theexpertises coordinate to present an appearance of
Biblical Ophir and the guilds of metal workers namedthings known that are often disproven. Re-structuring
after him may have been up to in the four millenniathe lies is a job that will require more effort and reach
before Jesus. Whether his guild of workers actuallyfewer people to the same extent in the coming years.
built a temple for David as mentioned in the Bible doesHopefully honesty will erupt in a ground-swell of
not really matter. There is lots of evidence of theindividuals who say 'let's look at what we do and
international nature of corporate enterprises goingwhere we are going' the ethics and laws are not
back long before Ophir.They shared knowledge on theappropriate to forge the kind of world we want at all.
oceans and made charts that led to the Hadji AhmedAre we willing to give up our sacred cows in pursuit of
map that shows the Bering Strait as it was 12,500ecumenical brotherhood? Let's start by ending gender
years ago. Some of these navigators learnedinequality and starting to teach soulful sensuality so
trigonometry and geometry as a natural progression ofresponsible people will again be the 'norm'. Ignorance IS
their travel by the stars. Cults of adepts began tothe 'Original Sin' and we all must accept our ignorance
value these trade routes and the knowledge of whereas an opportunity for growth, rather than cling to each
the minerals were. There is good reason to believeother in cults of denial!"The Tuatha de Danaan lived in
these things began a very long time before the Lastthe northern isles of the world, learning lore and magic
Ice Age. The sidereal charts we saw MacDari quoteand Druidism and wizardry and cunning, until they
McCarthy and the Professor about, the Hadji Ahmedsurpassed the sages of the arts of heathendom.
map, the Australian man, the Biblical city of Ophir thatThere were four cities in which they learned lore and
Solomon traded with and lots of reasons exist toscience and diabolic arts, to wit Falias and Gorias,
believe was a trading and mining enterprise in theMurias and Findias {Or Finias and possible Phineas
Americas (Ophir=O'Fir and the obvious KelticPharsa of legend's home.}. Out of Falias was brought
connection if you have read this book). The 16ththe Stone of Fal which was in Tara {In Eire, thus Falias
century monk Montanus drew maps with two Ophirswas a provincial capitol city and Tara the spiritual
in the Americas and one was at the mouth of thecenter of the whole Keltic clandom.}. It used to roar
Amazon. Then there are the white-skinned Easterunder every king that would take the realm of Ireland.
Island people and the Tiki Gods with the Red Hair whoOut of Gorias was brought the Spear that Lug had. No
legend says had mined places in South America.Thebattle was ever won against it or him who held it in his
forming of metals into knives by the Mayans firsthand. Out of Findias was brought the Sword of Nuada.
started with meteorites, and probably this is true alloverWhen it was drawn from its deadly sheath, no one
the world. The site of Rhoda near Meteor Crater inever escaped from it, and it was irresistible. Out of
Arizona with excellent archaeological proof wasMurias was brought the Dagda's Cauldron. No
ridiculed but should be revisited now that there arecompany ever went from it unthankful. Four wizards
many other supposedly anomalous 'finds'. Forget the(there were) in those four cities. Morfesa was in Falias:
records of the Mayans and Incas that talk about whiteEstas was in Gorias: Uscias was in Findias: Semitas {Is
skinned bearded (they don't have facial hair) and redthis the root of Semite?} was in Murias. Those are the
haired people; we don't need to rely on mere legendsfour poets of whom the Tuatha De learnt lore and
of truthful people anymore. Certainly we knowscience."From the commentaries on Keltic lore that I
'his'-story of the Euro-centric white men and Empirehave read and the references to the tales of Ossian
builders, is propaganda. So, I say meteorites and theircommentators; I think there is a great deal of time up
uses and spiritual value led to very early manto the current and corrupt presentation. Corrupted by
becoming acquisitive and a traveler, as well as a miner.years of telling tales and Christian re-writes of the
How early? VERY! Perhaps as long ago as 1.5 millionsame tales. It therefore seems likely I would gain far
years ago when he noticed the meteorite metal on theless from the tales of Ossian than I might hope for.
tip of his throwing spear worked better than hisThe archaeological and historic record serves me
straightened mammoth tusk spear.Proceeding frombetter I hope. The truth is all I can do is make guesses.
the incentive to trade and the travel it required, leads toThe phrase 'out of _____was brought' suggested
the 'cell diffusion' adepthoods like the de Danaan andthey were often on the move. The glacial effects
the 'Red-Headed League of Megalith Builders'. There iswere definitely a part of that for the period from
archaeological evidence for all these things and they all13,000 B.C. till 4,000 B.C. and where these four cities
fit with the pre-'his'-story of the Golden Age of Peacewere at any particular time would make the telling of
and Harmony that was on Malta and in all naturelegends absolutely difficult to say for sure if that were
worship domains such as Gimbutas asserts. Thethe only factor. There is no question that major
secrets of the trade routes and the maps not madecenters of influence can be identified and we can look
available until after the Templars were back-stabbedto certain technologies and social factors or names
by the French King in the early 1300s makes for a lotand languages to help our guesswork. Memphis was a
of substantial proof and motive. These Portolan mapsclearly important religious center with a focus on the
made trade around Europe easier for all people andmagical sciences.Malta was more of an ashram or
put the final nail in the coffin of feudalism. That doestraining center and might also have had the top secret
not mean there aren't intrigues and counter-counter'chaos scientists' who worked on developing
plots by those who kept the secret for many millenia.technologies like the Pyramid/Earth Energy Grid. There
The attunements with the Earth Energy Grid thatare those like Boorstein who claim Crete was Atlantis
archaeology is proving with the Nazca lines and Donall on its own. The Iberias may have been associated
Robins has shown with the megaliths are part of thein a corporate trading enterprise that included the
mapping enterprise as well.The Dardannae or deAmericas and Basque as well as the post flood region
Danaan of Troy or Wilusia and the Hittite archives joinof the Black Sea. The region between the Black and
interesting little pieces of the puzzles but are not theCaspian Sea was known as Iberia and had a capitol
overall game of greed and corporate (emporia of theor main city of the same name. It is now called Tiflis.
Phoenicians) that made the Keltic clans break apartThe Iliad says the Amazons came from this region.
from within, as the aristocrats began to enjoy eachThe Amazons were women fighters of the Kelts as I
other more than their fellow man. The Druids were thesee it. At the same time Iberia was developing the
last bastion of the old shamanic nature worshippersTagus to Massalia (current Marseilles) region with
that are at the root of Taoism and Yoga. The actualPhocaean and Milesian peoples who are remnants of
knowledge MacDari speaks to is more important thanthe Royal House of Mallia on Crete from 2000BC.
his historical assertions. This esoteric knowledge waswhen the anti-egalitarian movement really took off. In
secret and still remains in the hands of a few until thisthe Bible we read about the ships of Tarshis that
day. Some of it is irretrievably lost but little of it is evertraveled between these two Iberias, and their outposts
considered by academics who talk to the media.Theincluding Anatolian archaeological digs.Author of
Exegesists or hermeneuts of the CatholicDiverse DruidsColumnist for The ES Press
Encyclopedia deserve a glance. You can find it in theMagazineGuest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.
library or on the World Wide Web; when you read it