| I include an excerpt from my book The Kelts: | | | | complex web of knowledge and expertises |
| Children of the Don as a way of giving the | | | | coordinate to present an appearance of things |
| gist of what the Biblical Ophir and the | | | | known that are often disproven. |
| guilds of metal workers named after him may | | | | Re-structuring the lies is a job that will |
| have been up to in the four millennia before | | | | require more effort and reach fewer people to |
| Jesus. Whether his guild of workers actually | | | | the same extent in the coming years. |
| built a temple for David as mentioned in the | | | | Hopefully honesty will erupt in a |
| Bible does not really matter. There is lots | | | | ground-swell of individuals who say 'let's |
| of evidence of the international nature of | | | | look at what we do and where we are going' |
| corporate enterprises going back long before | | | | the ethics and laws are not appropriate to |
| Ophir.They shared knowledge on the oceans and | | | | forge the kind of world we want at all. Are |
| made charts that led to the Hadji Ahmed map | | | | we willing to give up our sacred cows in |
| that shows the Bering Strait as it was 12,500 | | | | pursuit of ecumenical brotherhood? Let's |
| years ago. Some of these navigators learned | | | | start by ending gender inequality and |
| trigonometry and geometry as a natural | | | | starting to teach soulful sensuality so |
| progression of their travel by the stars. | | | | responsible people will again be the 'norm'. |
| Cults of adepts began to value these trade | | | | Ignorance IS the 'Original Sin' and we all |
| routes and the knowledge of where the | | | | must accept our ignorance as an opportunity |
| minerals were. There is good reason to | | | | for growth, rather than cling to each other |
| believe these things began a very long time | | | | in cults of denial!"The Tuatha de Danaan |
| before the Last Ice Age. The sidereal charts | | | | lived in the northern isles of the world, |
| we saw MacDari quote McCarthy and the | | | | learning lore and magic and Druidism and |
| Professor about, the Hadji Ahmed map, the | | | | wizardry and cunning, until they surpassed |
| Australian man, the Biblical city of Ophir | | | | the sages of the arts of heathendom. There |
| that Solomon traded with and lots of reasons | | | | were four cities in which they learned lore |
| exist to believe was a trading and mining | | | | and science and diabolic arts, to wit Falias |
| enterprise in the Americas (Ophir=O'Fir and | | | | and Gorias, Murias and Findias {Or Finias and |
| the obvious Keltic connection if you have | | | | possible Phineas Pharsa of legend's home.}. |
| read this book). The 16th century monk | | | | Out of Falias was brought the Stone of Fal |
| Montanus drew maps with two Ophirs in the | | | | which was in Tara {In Eire, thus Falias was a |
| Americas and one was at the mouth of the | | | | provincial capitol city and Tara the |
| Amazon. Then there are the white-skinned | | | | spiritual center of the whole Keltic |
| Easter Island people and the Tiki Gods with | | | | clandom.}. It used to roar under every king |
| the Red Hair who legend says had mined places | | | | that would take the realm of Ireland. Out of |
| in South America.The forming of metals into | | | | Gorias was brought the Spear that Lug had. No |
| knives by the Mayans first started with | | | | battle was ever won against it or him who |
| meteorites, and probably this is true allover | | | | held it in his hand. Out of Findias was |
| the world. The site of Rhoda near Meteor | | | | brought the Sword of Nuada. When it was drawn |
| Crater in Arizona with excellent | | | | from its deadly sheath, no one ever escaped |
| archaeological proof was ridiculed but should | | | | from it, and it was irresistible. Out of |
| be revisited now that there are many other | | | | Murias was brought the Dagda's Cauldron. No |
| supposedly anomalous 'finds'. Forget the | | | | company ever went from it unthankful. Four |
| records of the Mayans and Incas that talk | | | | wizards (there were) in those four cities. |
| about white skinned bearded (they don't have | | | | Morfesa was in Falias: Estas was in Gorias: |
| facial hair) and red haired people; we don't | | | | Uscias was in Findias: Semitas {Is this the |
| need to rely on mere legends of truthful | | | | root of Semite?} was in Murias. Those are the |
| people anymore. Certainly we know 'his'-story | | | | four poets of whom the Tuatha De learnt lore |
| of the Euro-centric white men and Empire | | | | and science."From the commentaries on Keltic |
| builders, is propaganda. So, I say meteorites | | | | lore that I have read and the references to |
| and their uses and spiritual value led to | | | | the tales of Ossian commentators; I think |
| very early man becoming acquisitive and a | | | | there is a great deal of time up to the |
| traveler, as well as a miner. How early? | | | | current and corrupt presentation. Corrupted |
| VERY! Perhaps as long ago as 1.5 million | | | | by years of telling tales and Christian |
| years ago when he noticed the meteorite metal | | | | re-writes of the same tales. It therefore |
| on the tip of his throwing spear worked | | | | seems likely I would gain far less from the |
| better than his straightened mammoth tusk | | | | tales of Ossian than I might hope for. The |
| spear.Proceeding from the incentive to trade | | | | archaeological and historic record serves me |
| and the travel it required, leads to the | | | | better I hope. The truth is all I can do is |
| 'cell diffusion' adepthoods like the de | | | | make guesses. The phrase 'out of _____was |
| Danaan and the 'Red-Headed League of Megalith | | | | brought' suggested they were often on the |
| Builders'. There is archaeological evidence | | | | move. The glacial effects were definitely a |
| for all these things and they all fit with | | | | part of that for the period from 13,000 B.C. |
| the pre-'his'-story of the Golden Age of | | | | till 4,000 B.C. and where these four cities |
| Peace and Harmony that was on Malta and in | | | | were at any particular time would make the |
| all nature worship domains such as Gimbutas | | | | telling of legends absolutely difficult to |
| asserts. The secrets of the trade routes and | | | | say for sure if that were the only factor. |
| the maps not made available until after the | | | | There is no question that major centers of |
| Templars were back-stabbed by the French King | | | | influence can be identified and we can look |
| in the early 1300s makes for a lot of | | | | to certain technologies and social factors or |
| substantial proof and motive. These Portolan | | | | names and languages to help our guesswork. |
| maps made trade around Europe easier for all | | | | Memphis was a clearly important religious |
| people and put the final nail in the coffin | | | | center with a focus on the magical |
| of feudalism. That does not mean there aren't | | | | sciences.Malta was more of an ashram or |
| intrigues and counter-counter plots by those | | | | training center and might also have had the |
| who kept the secret for many millenia. The | | | | top secret 'chaos scientists' who worked on |
| attunements with the Earth Energy Grid that | | | | developing technologies like the Pyramid |
| archaeology is proving with the Nazca lines | | | | Earth Energy Grid. There are those like |
| and Don Robins has shown with the megaliths | | | | Boorstein who claim Crete was Atlantis all on |
| are part of the mapping enterprise as | | | | its own. The Iberias may have been associated |
| well.The Dardannae or de Danaan of Troy or | | | | in a corporate trading enterprise that |
| Wilusia and the Hittite archives join | | | | included the Americas and Basque as well as |
| interesting little pieces of the puzzles but | | | | the post flood region of the Black Sea. The |
| are not the overall game of greed and | | | | region between the Black and Caspian Sea was |
| corporate (emporia of the Phoenicians) that | | | | known as Iberia and had a capitol or main |
| made the Keltic clans break apart from | | | | city of the same name. It is now called |
| within, as the aristocrats began to enjoy | | | | Tiflis. The Iliad says the Amazons came from |
| each other more than their fellow man. The | | | | this region. The Amazons were women fighters |
| Druids were the last bastion of the old | | | | of the Kelts as I see it. At the same time |
| shamanic nature worshippers that are at the | | | | Iberia was developing the Tagus to Massalia |
| root of Taoism and Yoga. The actual knowledge | | | | (current Marseilles) region with Phocaean and |
| MacDari speaks to is more important than his | | | | Milesian peoples who are remnants of the |
| historical assertions. This esoteric | | | | Royal House of Mallia on Crete from 2000BC. |
| knowledge was secret and still remains in the | | | | when the anti-egalitarian movement really |
| hands of a few until this day. Some of it is | | | | took off. In the Bible we read about the |
| irretrievably lost but little of it is ever | | | | ships of Tarshis that traveled between these |
| considered by academics who talk to the | | | | two Iberias, and their outposts including |
| media.The Exegesists or hermeneuts of the | | | | Anatolian archaeological digs.Author of |
| Catholic Encyclopedia deserve a glance. You | | | | Diverse DruidsColumnist for The ES Press |
| can find it in the library or on the World | | | | MagazineGuest 'expert' at World-Mysteries. |
| Wide Web; when you read it you will see a | | | | |