Some science behind the scenes
Sacred geography - underground secret passages
The ‘underground secret passage’ is another form of ley line. Symbolically it too represents a tunnel.
Watkins specifically noted that secret underground passages appeared to follow the path of ley lines.
Alfred Watkins – The Old Straight Track
Legends of underground passages between ancient sites such as churches, castles, abbeys and camps are amongst the curiosities of archaeology. They are so frequent and persistent that it is unnecessary to give examples. It has never been my fortune to verify one and other archaeologists have had the same experience. But it is scarcely safe to say they do not exist.
The distances which those tunnels are supposed to negotiate are often several miles, sometimes down steep hills with a stream below to dive under. A straight line between the points connected is usually assumed, as it was in one marked on a 1865 map of Hereford of a traditional passage which was supposed to connect the Priory of St Guthlac with their vineyard on the steep bank of the Wye. Strangely enough, this ‘passage’ had fallen in or been dug into on several occasions. I lived at the spot and saw what appeared to be a small, unlined tunnel crossing the high road at the reputed place … Years later ‘it’ fell in again on the reputed course and a fellow club member and I dug in to investigate. We found that it was some kind of natural fault or long crevice not man made
When in Shamanic flight, a shaman overflying a region in a spiritual trance ‘sees’ lines as being, if not ‘underground’, at least at ground level or superimposed on the ground. But we also have evidence collected from other shamanic peoples that occasionally the ‘journey’ is taken underground and not over the ground.
Lewis-Williams and Dowson [1990] South African Archaeological Bulletin
Neuro psychological and ethnographic evidence suggests that San shamans visited the spirit world via a tunnel, that in some instances started at the walls of the rock shelters
Thus an ‘underground passage’ is a spiritual line of force.
Furthermore, fault lines are believed to be a major source of ‘radiation’ and shamans are able to detect these changes in force or power field. I hesitate to use the word magnetic field or electromagnetic field because I do not think that this is the source, but there is within the earth a capability through fault lines to emit other sources of emissions which shamans are able to see - the most obvious one is the telluric current.
Alfred Watkins – The Old Straight Track
In the folklore of the districk Cnut’s barrow, lying about midway between the great camp of Danebury and Quarley, 4 miles distant from each other, marks the line of a subterranean way between these great fortresses
Observations
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- Brittany - Carnac and its symbolism
- Celtic - Diodorus Sicilus and Pindar - Stonehenge
- Cornwall - Seeing the Piskies
- Crete – The Cave of Smnisos
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - Carnac, the Messenger and the Labyrinth
- Evelyn Lip - Chinese Geomancy
- John Michell - The View over Atlantic – The sacred geography of China
- Malta - 01 Introduction
- Malta - 02 The Temples
- Malta - 06 Tarxien Temples
- Malta - 07 The Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
- Malta - 09 Xagħra Stone Circle
- Malta - 10 Ħaġar Qim
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 09 Creating a sacred geography
- Mr Bryant on the 'worship in caverns'
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - Adam of Bremen
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - The Ynglinga and Njals saga
- Norse - Gutasaga
- Norse - Jelling
- Sacred geography - Ancient Egyptian - Abu Simbel
- Sacred geography – Picts
- Sacred geography – Picts – Mark stones
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 05 - A’ Cheardach Bheag South Uist
- Sacred sites and the FieldREG experiments
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – 01 Reconstruction of an Initiation ceremony
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - Avebury henge
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - Marlborough Mound
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - West Kennet Long Barrow
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - A Dowsing survey by Norman Fahy
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Cairn
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Henge
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Ritual Pit
- The Ancestors - Cornwall - Carn Euny
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 01 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 02 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 03 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Means of achieving spiritual experience - Shaivism – 03 Visiting telluric hot spots
- The Sacred geography of the Amazon basin
- Tikal - Mayan - The 'Nose God'
- Vatican
- Vatican - Castel Sant Angelo
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Cave of Trophonius
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Caves as the place of rebirth
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Celtic and Egyptian Mysteries compared
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Celtic Sacred sites and their conversion to Christian sites
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Mithras Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Tara as the centre of the Irish Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Pyramids as the site of the Mysteries
- Watkins, Alfred – The revelation that helped the discovery of the UK’s sacred geography
- Wirth, Oswald – 13 Death