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Australia's Stonehenge
Created by Richard Patterson, a 51-year old retired teacher, turned writer who lives in the Northern Rivers of far north NSW. This is an amateur, expose styled documentary, video, about events starting in 1930s, when a Sydney journalist, named Frederick Slater, launched an expedition to what he said was the stone remains of giant, ancient indigenous temple. After studying it, Slater declared that it was proof of a previously unknown highly advanced indigenous civilization existing in Australia. He was considered mad and soon after was placed in an institution. The video includes letters and associated other documents, for what might have happened to the stone arrangement that made up this temple and where it is now. The end of the video provides some information on Richard Patterson, the creator, detailing his prior knowledge in historical mystery solving.
The Lightning Place Chronicle
The Lightning Place Chronicle is where readers can explore a parallel universe, based on actual events. It is a space opera, set at the beginning of time. It is set on Earth but there existed a Stone Age world empire. It vanished so long ago that people had almost everyone had forgotten it existed. In the world of Lightning Place, their seat of government was at Uluru in Australia and its was led by its Indigenous people.
Here, In the early neolithic age, Australia's Indigenous people had the ability to cast magical spells and use sound and light vibrations, granting them superhuman powers. They could at the speed of light, become virtually invisible, fly and lift and throw 1,000 ton giant boulders.
Chronicials begins around 50,000 years ago, when the ancestors of the people of Australia crash land on Earth. Some survivors were able to use sound and light waves to manipulate the stored energy of naturally occurring crystals.
Many of the megaliths and stone arrangements we find all around the world today, including Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England are the remains of this lost advanced civilisation.
This concept of human seeding and forgotten Aboriginal superhumans, was developed in the 1930s, by a Sydney journalist, named Frederick Slater. He was also an expert on Australian Indigenous history. In 1938 Slater was asked to take a look at a mysterious mound and stone complex a boy had found hidden in the Australian outback. Slater studied the stones and read a message, written before the beginning of time that will change the world.
Here, In the early neolithic age, Australia's Indigenous people had the ability to cast magical spells and use sound and light vibrations, granting them superhuman powers. They could at the speed of light, become virtually invisible, fly and lift and throw 1,000 ton giant boulders.
Chronicials begins around 50,000 years ago, when the ancestors of the people of Australia crash land on Earth. Some survivors were able to use sound and light waves to manipulate the stored energy of naturally occurring crystals.
Many of the megaliths and stone arrangements we find all around the world today, including Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England are the remains of this lost advanced civilisation.
This concept of human seeding and forgotten Aboriginal superhumans, was developed in the 1930s, by a Sydney journalist, named Frederick Slater. He was also an expert on Australian Indigenous history. In 1938 Slater was asked to take a look at a mysterious mound and stone complex a boy had found hidden in the Australian outback. Slater studied the stones and read a message, written before the beginning of time that will change the world.
Are you a budding Indiana Jones? There is a place, if you live near Brisbane, that you can explore. There you might find an artifact, in an ancient temple. You might even return with proof of a ancient civilization. You could be a hero and save it from oblivion!
Lightning Place is a roughly diamond shaped, 320 thousand acres land. It is made from mountain ranges woodlands and is located where the climate is temperate with high annuals rainfalls.
Lightning place is nestled in today's Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales in Australia. It is 70 kilometers at its longest points and 35 kilometers at its widest, and has an area of 1,300 Square Kilometers. It takes about a week and a half to walk around It's 150 kilometers, perimeter.
Much of the forests has good walking tracks and campsites that lead to quiet waterfall swimming holes or picturesque beaches. The region of the Tweed Valley and Byron Bay are popular tourist destinations. Many Australian media and business Tycoons and Hollywood Stars retire along the coast of the towns of Byron Bay, Kingscliff, Ocean Shores and Brunswick Heads.
Lightning Place has always been a popular meeting places for all sorts of people. Ocean and kite surfers, whale spotters, ultra light piloting, drones command, hiking, drum circles and sunday markets that offer home made ghee, amethyst wrist bands, and hemp shoes.
Lightning place lies at the end of a very old Indigenous song-line. It that extends for 2,600 kilometers. Song-lines, were paths for sharmans, priests, and healers. The Byron Bay songline begins at the easternmost point of Australia and ends at the spiritual center of Australia, the rock of Uluru.
Lightning Place stretches from the small town of Ewingsdale, in the Richmond Rivers area, 5 kilometers west of Byron Bay. It ends at the popular waterfall named Natural Bridge. It completely covers the caldera of a 20 million year old extinct volcano named Mt Warning. It is where an Aboriginal ruined temple is rumoured to have existed. It could be proof that of a long lost civilisation in Australia.
Once upon a time, perhaps as early as 50,000 years ago, a blip in evolutionary time, humans crash landed on Earth. That was the belief, 83 years ago, of an eccentric Sydney newspaper reporter, named Frederick Slater. He might have been the first person in a long time to think human beings were seeded on Earth from another planet.
Slater believed that giant stone arrangements that were found built a long time ago on the big circle of the caldera of Mount Warning, was a Dreamtime sign from the heavens. The mountain is an extinct, 20 million year old, super volcano, named by English explorer, Captain Cook.
Only recently, in 2013, Australian author, Richard Patterson, found that almost 60 years ago, Mr. Slater, a historian on Aboriginal languages claimed, after working on an archeological dig in rural Australia, that here, in the distant past humans crash landed from another planet.
Despite Mr. Slater's, 1839, informed declaration on what may have been a prehistoric structure, World War 2 began and irs turmoil. During the war of 1939-1945, the government, for any reason of national security and for military defence efforts, could seize private land that was previously owned by any citizen.I n 1945, even though peace had just been declared, powers of secrecy and national security, brought into law in World War 2, were still in effect.
The school pupil, who had first told his school teacher about the Australia's Stonehenge and who told Mr Patterson first hand, said he had returned a soldier, from Papua New Guinea when he was ordered to demolish the stones on the mounds of Australia's Stonehenge. At the time, the country was still mobilised for and the family who owned the property feared their land could be confiscated. Industrial sized, road construction vehicles, were used to flatten it. During the remaining years fossickers ransacked it of it''s remaining artefacts.
Patterson found out about this, while volunteering at his local museum, in 2014, in from a portfolio. It was made in 1964. It held documents on Australia’s Stonehenge, once situated in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, and details about an independent, 1938, archeological expedition.
In 1964, white racism, against other people of colour was still firmly entrenched in Australia society and Aboriginal indigenous people were still fighting for the right to vote. The documents told that Aboriginal people, in ancient had elders who knew things of great importance in the fields of technology, arts & science, mental and physical health and spirituality, and possessed skills that exceeded most anything of the Western world.
This manifesto of Slater, that rose Australian Aboriginal people's to great heights of time, knowledge and sophistication, and more than equal to any white person, was placed with related papers in a sturdy safe, by Mr. Marrinon in 1999. When the country teacher spun closed the combination to safe, he knew then, half a century earlier, Australia's Stonehenge had been almost completely destroyed and broken up into small sandstone pieces.
Mr. Marrinon put his findings into a large folio and named it “Fordham’s Folly? It sat the museum, and lay forgotten.
Fordham, the school principal and teacher at nearby Brunswick Heads, contacted Frederick Slater, when a young pupil told him about a giant stone arrangement on his King's Creek, Saddle Road, family dairy farm and showed him carved stone artefacts from it.
Ironically, that same pupil who told his teacher about the stones in 1937, would, in 1945, be ordered to drive a road heavy grader with orders to destroy it. The old farmer recounted his part in the story, in 2013, to Mr Patterson, first hand, when he was 88 years-old, and two years before his death.
The expedition that the Brunswick Heads school pupil triggered, happened just outside of the town of Mullumbimby, from August 1838 until the start of World War 2, with a break, from January, 1939 till April that year, because of the summer wet season. Fred Fordham was one of the team members.
For decades the Fordham Folio lay forgotten until a new generation of museum archivists briefly wondered at the odd question of the title. They moved it, to be filed perhaps, and it was forgotten again over time.
More years passed and the contents of the portfolio became scattered. Some papers were in humidity controlled sealed rooms. Some were lost behind bookshelves. Other pieces of the puzzle were fished from cardboard boxes amongst old newspapers boxes, in the rooms in the attic.
When, in 2013, Patterson found the farmer who had driven the machinery on the day the site was destroyed, he was terribly old, aged into his 90s. He said, he had done it on orders from above, and was sworn not to tell a soul about his involvement. He hadn’t counted on me finding the, Fordham’s Folly, folio.
The documents, unseen for 67 years, after they were first filed away, detailed an ancient Aboriginal stone ruin that had been found. It revealed, what Slater saw as an Earth shattering secret. It said it was a warning about our future, etched into the stones from a mysterious, crystal mason culture of the past.
The folio Patterson found contained private correspondence, maps, Marrinon’s notes on interviews with the remaining living members from the 1937 expedition and survey of the mound and 188 standing stones.
Mr. Marinnon wrote down his conclusions on Frederick Slater and put it into the folio.
“I was impressed, enthusiastic and partly convinced in the 1960’s, but the visual evidence is obscure, letters of the period place great doubt on Slater’s authority (to the point of calling him a nut) and my own reading of his letters make his ideas seem very doubtful to me. I was greatly discouraged by being unable to gain professional help in the investigation of the site and drilling of the mound, by experts, to determine its origin.”
When Mr Marrinon came to his conclusions on Slater, he had not accounted for a very special, some say magical, book that Slater possessed. It was given to him by the grandson of a woman who had written down the stances, hand gestures and stamps to communicate matters in the Sacred Language. The book contained the Murrigiwalda language.
It was one, single language known to all the Elders and spoken at special occasions, during festivals and during ritual. Many Aboriginal people consider many of the words taboo outside of ritual practise. Some people believe the book, by holding the language, is magical too.
Slater’s research and public speaking engagements on the topic of aboriginal rites and rituals brought him into contact and a friendship with Mr. Roy H. Goddard who was an authority on Aboriginal artifacts and member of the Sydney Anthropological Society.
Goddard’s interests were inherited from his grandmother, Hamilton Eliza Dunlop, (1796-1880) who lived in the Wollumbi region of NSW, about 140-kilometers north of Sydney. Mrs. Dunlop, was the wife of the local magistrate. In the 1830’s, Mrs. Dunlop formed a close friendship with an Aboriginal elder, when she defended the victims of a massacre against their people. The Elder, trusted Mrs. Dunlop with learning the Aboriginal sacred language.
All tribes of Australia, as well as having their own, very different, local dialect, shared this sign language. It was used for religious ceremonies, for formal talks between tribes and was separate from local dialects. This sacred language was observed by English explorers who noted that the Aboriginal people encountered all along the coast of Australia, shared a similar hand sign language. This proto sign & sound language was named Murrigiwalda. It was spoken for timeless spiritual matters, unchanging sciences and deep emotions.
Mrs. Dunlop compiled a dictionary of the symbols, hand signs, stones and their meaning. Her grandson, Goddard, in respect for Slater’s exhausting work in interpreting Aboriginal artwork and engravings, handed over the dictionary of the sacred language to him.
Slater used his many years experience in investigating sacred sites, speaking with Aboriginals in remote communities and Mrs. Dunlop's, Murrigiwalda manuscript to translate the arrangements and engravings.
The maps of the position and sizes of the stones were painstakingly recorded by his society's chief surveyor, Mr. James Carvosso,Wilburd. This surveyor had already been awarded by the Duke of York, the future George V, King of England, when for his work as a cartographer, when he was Superintendent at the Jenolan Caves, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. He was celebrated for his work navigating and mapping the underground, multilayered, 40-kilometre, cave system.
After writing many pages of painstaking interpretation with his companion book on sacred Murrigiwalda Aboriginal language, and months studying the gigantic monoliths, Slater said he found a lost pictorial language, for Murrigiwalda, that told a story about us that would one day rewrite history.
Slater translated the carved, rune-like symbols, to read as “guided by truth, man came to Earth through darkness from light of life that shines far off Brought out on wings to Earth” and “the Divine Light from afar to the Earth brings the soul to man.”
When Slater transcribed these words he was aged 67, and suffering from partial paralyzation. It was brought on from the lingering effects of childhood polio. In 1947, Slater died. This was years before, Marrinon put all his notes and evidence on the mound and stones away.
Was the old Sydney journalist right? Did we all fall, like superman, shot from a planet Krypton? Perhaps there has been a message all along that whispers. Through an unimaginable gulf of time and space, within the strange, seemingly other worldly, are silent stone arrangements that number in their thousands.
Is this the big secrets that we all need brace ourselves for. Did a crystal mason, world wide, Stone Age spiritual empire exist before us. Did a complete global Neolithic culture rule the Earth before the last ice age and fall to ruin thousands of years before recorded history. Is it the source of all the legends of past civilisations?
Slater's rocks showed him traces that prehistoric man still remembered that there are aliens and they are us. He believed that the stones had been put there up to 40,000 years ago. This is ten times longer than when most of the first civilisations began. It is even longer in the past than all the hidden histories of the past of Atlantis, Lemuria, the planet Nibiru, and Mu. It's a story so old, that if it were traveling at the speed of light, it would have reached a distant star by now.
A link to this website, by the author, Richard Patterson’s that has his free book on his conclusions on the 1938 claims of amateur archaeologist Frederick Slater, historian on Australian Aboriginal history. Slater said that he found writing on the Australia’s Stonehenge arrangement, that told him humans were superheroes that came from outer space.
http://www.patestos.com/lightning-place.html
Lightning Place is a roughly diamond shaped, 320 thousand acres land. It is made from mountain ranges woodlands and is located where the climate is temperate with high annuals rainfalls.
Lightning place is nestled in today's Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales in Australia. It is 70 kilometers at its longest points and 35 kilometers at its widest, and has an area of 1,300 Square Kilometers. It takes about a week and a half to walk around It's 150 kilometers, perimeter.
Much of the forests has good walking tracks and campsites that lead to quiet waterfall swimming holes or picturesque beaches. The region of the Tweed Valley and Byron Bay are popular tourist destinations. Many Australian media and business Tycoons and Hollywood Stars retire along the coast of the towns of Byron Bay, Kingscliff, Ocean Shores and Brunswick Heads.
Lightning Place has always been a popular meeting places for all sorts of people. Ocean and kite surfers, whale spotters, ultra light piloting, drones command, hiking, drum circles and sunday markets that offer home made ghee, amethyst wrist bands, and hemp shoes.
Lightning place lies at the end of a very old Indigenous song-line. It that extends for 2,600 kilometers. Song-lines, were paths for sharmans, priests, and healers. The Byron Bay songline begins at the easternmost point of Australia and ends at the spiritual center of Australia, the rock of Uluru.
Lightning Place stretches from the small town of Ewingsdale, in the Richmond Rivers area, 5 kilometers west of Byron Bay. It ends at the popular waterfall named Natural Bridge. It completely covers the caldera of a 20 million year old extinct volcano named Mt Warning. It is where an Aboriginal ruined temple is rumoured to have existed. It could be proof that of a long lost civilisation in Australia.
Once upon a time, perhaps as early as 50,000 years ago, a blip in evolutionary time, humans crash landed on Earth. That was the belief, 83 years ago, of an eccentric Sydney newspaper reporter, named Frederick Slater. He might have been the first person in a long time to think human beings were seeded on Earth from another planet.
Slater believed that giant stone arrangements that were found built a long time ago on the big circle of the caldera of Mount Warning, was a Dreamtime sign from the heavens. The mountain is an extinct, 20 million year old, super volcano, named by English explorer, Captain Cook.
Only recently, in 2013, Australian author, Richard Patterson, found that almost 60 years ago, Mr. Slater, a historian on Aboriginal languages claimed, after working on an archeological dig in rural Australia, that here, in the distant past humans crash landed from another planet.
Despite Mr. Slater's, 1839, informed declaration on what may have been a prehistoric structure, World War 2 began and irs turmoil. During the war of 1939-1945, the government, for any reason of national security and for military defence efforts, could seize private land that was previously owned by any citizen.I n 1945, even though peace had just been declared, powers of secrecy and national security, brought into law in World War 2, were still in effect.
The school pupil, who had first told his school teacher about the Australia's Stonehenge and who told Mr Patterson first hand, said he had returned a soldier, from Papua New Guinea when he was ordered to demolish the stones on the mounds of Australia's Stonehenge. At the time, the country was still mobilised for and the family who owned the property feared their land could be confiscated. Industrial sized, road construction vehicles, were used to flatten it. During the remaining years fossickers ransacked it of it''s remaining artefacts.
Patterson found out about this, while volunteering at his local museum, in 2014, in from a portfolio. It was made in 1964. It held documents on Australia’s Stonehenge, once situated in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, and details about an independent, 1938, archeological expedition.
In 1964, white racism, against other people of colour was still firmly entrenched in Australia society and Aboriginal indigenous people were still fighting for the right to vote. The documents told that Aboriginal people, in ancient had elders who knew things of great importance in the fields of technology, arts & science, mental and physical health and spirituality, and possessed skills that exceeded most anything of the Western world.
This manifesto of Slater, that rose Australian Aboriginal people's to great heights of time, knowledge and sophistication, and more than equal to any white person, was placed with related papers in a sturdy safe, by Mr. Marrinon in 1999. When the country teacher spun closed the combination to safe, he knew then, half a century earlier, Australia's Stonehenge had been almost completely destroyed and broken up into small sandstone pieces.
Mr. Marrinon put his findings into a large folio and named it “Fordham’s Folly? It sat the museum, and lay forgotten.
Fordham, the school principal and teacher at nearby Brunswick Heads, contacted Frederick Slater, when a young pupil told him about a giant stone arrangement on his King's Creek, Saddle Road, family dairy farm and showed him carved stone artefacts from it.
Ironically, that same pupil who told his teacher about the stones in 1937, would, in 1945, be ordered to drive a road heavy grader with orders to destroy it. The old farmer recounted his part in the story, in 2013, to Mr Patterson, first hand, when he was 88 years-old, and two years before his death.
The expedition that the Brunswick Heads school pupil triggered, happened just outside of the town of Mullumbimby, from August 1838 until the start of World War 2, with a break, from January, 1939 till April that year, because of the summer wet season. Fred Fordham was one of the team members.
For decades the Fordham Folio lay forgotten until a new generation of museum archivists briefly wondered at the odd question of the title. They moved it, to be filed perhaps, and it was forgotten again over time.
More years passed and the contents of the portfolio became scattered. Some papers were in humidity controlled sealed rooms. Some were lost behind bookshelves. Other pieces of the puzzle were fished from cardboard boxes amongst old newspapers boxes, in the rooms in the attic.
When, in 2013, Patterson found the farmer who had driven the machinery on the day the site was destroyed, he was terribly old, aged into his 90s. He said, he had done it on orders from above, and was sworn not to tell a soul about his involvement. He hadn’t counted on me finding the, Fordham’s Folly, folio.
The documents, unseen for 67 years, after they were first filed away, detailed an ancient Aboriginal stone ruin that had been found. It revealed, what Slater saw as an Earth shattering secret. It said it was a warning about our future, etched into the stones from a mysterious, crystal mason culture of the past.
The folio Patterson found contained private correspondence, maps, Marrinon’s notes on interviews with the remaining living members from the 1937 expedition and survey of the mound and 188 standing stones.
Mr. Marinnon wrote down his conclusions on Frederick Slater and put it into the folio.
“I was impressed, enthusiastic and partly convinced in the 1960’s, but the visual evidence is obscure, letters of the period place great doubt on Slater’s authority (to the point of calling him a nut) and my own reading of his letters make his ideas seem very doubtful to me. I was greatly discouraged by being unable to gain professional help in the investigation of the site and drilling of the mound, by experts, to determine its origin.”
When Mr Marrinon came to his conclusions on Slater, he had not accounted for a very special, some say magical, book that Slater possessed. It was given to him by the grandson of a woman who had written down the stances, hand gestures and stamps to communicate matters in the Sacred Language. The book contained the Murrigiwalda language.
It was one, single language known to all the Elders and spoken at special occasions, during festivals and during ritual. Many Aboriginal people consider many of the words taboo outside of ritual practise. Some people believe the book, by holding the language, is magical too.
Slater’s research and public speaking engagements on the topic of aboriginal rites and rituals brought him into contact and a friendship with Mr. Roy H. Goddard who was an authority on Aboriginal artifacts and member of the Sydney Anthropological Society.
Goddard’s interests were inherited from his grandmother, Hamilton Eliza Dunlop, (1796-1880) who lived in the Wollumbi region of NSW, about 140-kilometers north of Sydney. Mrs. Dunlop, was the wife of the local magistrate. In the 1830’s, Mrs. Dunlop formed a close friendship with an Aboriginal elder, when she defended the victims of a massacre against their people. The Elder, trusted Mrs. Dunlop with learning the Aboriginal sacred language.
All tribes of Australia, as well as having their own, very different, local dialect, shared this sign language. It was used for religious ceremonies, for formal talks between tribes and was separate from local dialects. This sacred language was observed by English explorers who noted that the Aboriginal people encountered all along the coast of Australia, shared a similar hand sign language. This proto sign & sound language was named Murrigiwalda. It was spoken for timeless spiritual matters, unchanging sciences and deep emotions.
Mrs. Dunlop compiled a dictionary of the symbols, hand signs, stones and their meaning. Her grandson, Goddard, in respect for Slater’s exhausting work in interpreting Aboriginal artwork and engravings, handed over the dictionary of the sacred language to him.
Slater used his many years experience in investigating sacred sites, speaking with Aboriginals in remote communities and Mrs. Dunlop's, Murrigiwalda manuscript to translate the arrangements and engravings.
The maps of the position and sizes of the stones were painstakingly recorded by his society's chief surveyor, Mr. James Carvosso,Wilburd. This surveyor had already been awarded by the Duke of York, the future George V, King of England, when for his work as a cartographer, when he was Superintendent at the Jenolan Caves, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. He was celebrated for his work navigating and mapping the underground, multilayered, 40-kilometre, cave system.
After writing many pages of painstaking interpretation with his companion book on sacred Murrigiwalda Aboriginal language, and months studying the gigantic monoliths, Slater said he found a lost pictorial language, for Murrigiwalda, that told a story about us that would one day rewrite history.
Slater translated the carved, rune-like symbols, to read as “guided by truth, man came to Earth through darkness from light of life that shines far off Brought out on wings to Earth” and “the Divine Light from afar to the Earth brings the soul to man.”
When Slater transcribed these words he was aged 67, and suffering from partial paralyzation. It was brought on from the lingering effects of childhood polio. In 1947, Slater died. This was years before, Marrinon put all his notes and evidence on the mound and stones away.
Was the old Sydney journalist right? Did we all fall, like superman, shot from a planet Krypton? Perhaps there has been a message all along that whispers. Through an unimaginable gulf of time and space, within the strange, seemingly other worldly, are silent stone arrangements that number in their thousands.
Is this the big secrets that we all need brace ourselves for. Did a crystal mason, world wide, Stone Age spiritual empire exist before us. Did a complete global Neolithic culture rule the Earth before the last ice age and fall to ruin thousands of years before recorded history. Is it the source of all the legends of past civilisations?
Slater's rocks showed him traces that prehistoric man still remembered that there are aliens and they are us. He believed that the stones had been put there up to 40,000 years ago. This is ten times longer than when most of the first civilisations began. It is even longer in the past than all the hidden histories of the past of Atlantis, Lemuria, the planet Nibiru, and Mu. It's a story so old, that if it were traveling at the speed of light, it would have reached a distant star by now.
A link to this website, by the author, Richard Patterson’s that has his free book on his conclusions on the 1938 claims of amateur archaeologist Frederick Slater, historian on Australian Aboriginal history. Slater said that he found writing on the Australia’s Stonehenge arrangement, that told him humans were superheroes that came from outer space.
http://www.patestos.com/lightning-place.html
A link to a non affiliated, peer review website of what Frederick Slater wrote the stones and glyphs, of Australia’s Stonehenge, told him about mankind’s origins.
A link to a Virtual Reality drone flight of a 3-dimensional recreation of Australia’s Stonehenge. Based on maps and plans by surveyor J.C Wilburd in 1938.
Bundjalung Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Lewis Walker, tells of his people’s belief that they came from outer space.
A link to a segment on the US cable Tv network, the history channel, on Australia’s Stonehenge, rediscovered by Richard Patterson m. which has been viewed by 100 million people worldwide.
An October 2013, interview, by two Aboriginal Elder & Custodians of the team at Ancient-Origins, on a two-day investigation of the original site of
Australia's Stonehenge.
A video interview with Watchers Talk radio with author, Richard Patterson on the history of the Australia's Stonehenge Site and politics surrounding it.
A link to a Virtual Reality drone flight of a 3-dimensional recreation of Australia’s Stonehenge. Based on maps and plans by surveyor J.C Wilburd in 1938.
Bundjalung Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Lewis Walker, tells of his people’s belief that they came from outer space.
A link to a segment on the US cable Tv network, the history channel, on Australia’s Stonehenge, rediscovered by Richard Patterson m. which has been viewed by 100 million people worldwide.
An October 2013, interview, by two Aboriginal Elder & Custodians of the team at Ancient-Origins, on a two-day investigation of the original site of
Australia's Stonehenge.
A video interview with Watchers Talk radio with author, Richard Patterson on the history of the Australia's Stonehenge Site and politics surrounding it.
If the legend of Lightning Place can be believed, by heading to the NSW Northern Rivers area, about 800 kilometers north of Sydney you are walking in the land of giants. There is a legend that these tracks once connected several, circular, stone arrangements, that were so massive in size that they could only have been built by a highly advanced civilisation. It is believed that from 1788, when the English invaded Australia, until as recently as 1993, the stone circles were demolished. All over Lightning Place is what appears to be scattered remnants of the circles whose stones were either carried away or broken to pieces.
Some people think that the destruction of these standing stones were done on purpose by the government because they went against what is traditionally taught in schools. This is the idea, accepted by mainstream academics that, in history, the Australian Aboriginal culture contributed nothing to the outside world. What is taught in schools, is that they have are a society that has only ever been hunter and gatherers, and that they built no monument of any importance. This view has been held by academics for hundreds of years. It was used to legitimise colonisation of Australia by the British. It is used to delegitimize claims of land ownership by the Original people.
At least one of the stone circle sites was studied before it was destroyed in 1945. The complexity in its design and the technology needed to construct it, led a team of researchers, who mapped it in 1938, to conclude that the builders knew advanced mathematics and had a written language. This discovery was against the White Australia policy. This was an official policy that ran from 1901 until 1973 that pushed for the assimilation of all other cultures, including the Australian Aboriginal people into the white population. The ideology, of most Australians during this period, was that coloured races were inferior and could offer nothing of value, scientifically, spiritually, and culturally.
The first of several expeditions to the arrangement, was organised by members of the Australian Archeological Research and Educational Society. As well as some academics, and the owner of the property the alleged stone circle, site that they named "Australia's Stonehenge"
Stone Age megaliths, standing stones, dolmen, and monoliths, are almost always sandstone. It is a material made from combined quartz crystals and metallic iron. The metal in the stone and because most stone arrangements are found built on bare hill, makes them prone to lightning strikes. during storms. Megaliths are four times more magnetised than ordinary stones. Archeologists and anthropologists are starting to ask if ancient people made use of the measurable magnetic fields that stone circles generate. Did the ancients use the energy in these stones for ritual and as some kind of a machine?
Lightning Place sits at the end of an old Indigenous, song-line that extends for 2,600 kilometers. The song-line starts in central Australia, near Uluru, and ends near Byron Bay, which is at the easternmost point of Australia.
Lightning Place stretches from the small town of Ewingsdale, in the Richmond Rivers area, 5 kilometers west of Byron Bay. It ends at the popular waterfall named Natural Bridge. It completely covers the caldera of a 20 million year old extinct volcano named Mt Warning.
Lighting Place was built from thousands of stones, some 12 meters tall, placed in sacred patterns, in the shape of star constellations, beasts and mythical beings. They were large enough to be seen from out in space.
Lightning Place is 70 Kilometers long and 35 Kilometers wide. It covers an area of 1,300 Square Kilometers. It has a perimeter of 150 kilometers, and it takes several days to walk around it.
The Lightning Place Legend is this was where people used to come from around the world, to worship. The place was supposed to have taught hidden knowledge, saved from before a great flood. Documents on expeditions to Lightning Place, were found, in 2013, bringing renewed public interest in it and asking if the legend might be true.
It is said that Lightning Place, began more than 50,000 years ago. It reached its height in 12,000 BC, at the start of the Holocene Period. It flourished from about 10,000 BC until 1,500 BC. For more than 8 millennia, it was the center of a single world culture. All other sites around the world were built in alignment to it and people, from all over, would make a pilgrimage to it to hear from the Elders remember the old ways.
In around 5000 AD, Earth’s climate became drier. This forced a move away from hunting, subsistence farming and migratory movement to permanent settlements, with agriculture, and domesticated cattle. Also, at that time, the observable position of the stars and planets changed. Every 26,000 years, the earth goes through the precession of the equinoxes. It is a slow rotation of the whole pattern of stars around the ecliptic axis. After a few millennia, the orientation of the original points of worship within the arrangements, no longer matched the celestial bodies that they were built to worship and their religious calendars, guided by the rise and fall of the constellations and planets, became unusable.
At around 3142 BC, Lightning Place ceased being the focus of world culture. In about 1500 BC, the last of its major ties with other world empires ceased. It’s influence waned when, in about 1500 AD the custodians where killed in a natural disaster. In 1777 AD, the English took Australia.
In 1840 AD, the English settled in Lightning Place. From 1900 AD until 1993 AD, they were responsible for destroying all the major Aboriginal sites. This including demolishing, in 1945, the main site of worship, the 188 megaliths, at “Australia’s Stonehenge.” This arrangement was a giant ceremonial bora ring, which some local Indigenous people still teach, Kings and Queens from overseas empires, were scholars of, and there, taught secrets and the highest wisdom, kept from before the fall of a golden age.
Some people think that the destruction of these standing stones were done on purpose by the government because they went against what is traditionally taught in schools. This is the idea, accepted by mainstream academics that, in history, the Australian Aboriginal culture contributed nothing to the outside world. What is taught in schools, is that they have are a society that has only ever been hunter and gatherers, and that they built no monument of any importance. This view has been held by academics for hundreds of years. It was used to legitimise colonisation of Australia by the British. It is used to delegitimize claims of land ownership by the Original people.
At least one of the stone circle sites was studied before it was destroyed in 1945. The complexity in its design and the technology needed to construct it, led a team of researchers, who mapped it in 1938, to conclude that the builders knew advanced mathematics and had a written language. This discovery was against the White Australia policy. This was an official policy that ran from 1901 until 1973 that pushed for the assimilation of all other cultures, including the Australian Aboriginal people into the white population. The ideology, of most Australians during this period, was that coloured races were inferior and could offer nothing of value, scientifically, spiritually, and culturally.
The first of several expeditions to the arrangement, was organised by members of the Australian Archeological Research and Educational Society. As well as some academics, and the owner of the property the alleged stone circle, site that they named "Australia's Stonehenge"
Stone Age megaliths, standing stones, dolmen, and monoliths, are almost always sandstone. It is a material made from combined quartz crystals and metallic iron. The metal in the stone and because most stone arrangements are found built on bare hill, makes them prone to lightning strikes. during storms. Megaliths are four times more magnetised than ordinary stones. Archeologists and anthropologists are starting to ask if ancient people made use of the measurable magnetic fields that stone circles generate. Did the ancients use the energy in these stones for ritual and as some kind of a machine?
Lightning Place sits at the end of an old Indigenous, song-line that extends for 2,600 kilometers. The song-line starts in central Australia, near Uluru, and ends near Byron Bay, which is at the easternmost point of Australia.
Lightning Place stretches from the small town of Ewingsdale, in the Richmond Rivers area, 5 kilometers west of Byron Bay. It ends at the popular waterfall named Natural Bridge. It completely covers the caldera of a 20 million year old extinct volcano named Mt Warning.
Lighting Place was built from thousands of stones, some 12 meters tall, placed in sacred patterns, in the shape of star constellations, beasts and mythical beings. They were large enough to be seen from out in space.
Lightning Place is 70 Kilometers long and 35 Kilometers wide. It covers an area of 1,300 Square Kilometers. It has a perimeter of 150 kilometers, and it takes several days to walk around it.
The Lightning Place Legend is this was where people used to come from around the world, to worship. The place was supposed to have taught hidden knowledge, saved from before a great flood. Documents on expeditions to Lightning Place, were found, in 2013, bringing renewed public interest in it and asking if the legend might be true.
It is said that Lightning Place, began more than 50,000 years ago. It reached its height in 12,000 BC, at the start of the Holocene Period. It flourished from about 10,000 BC until 1,500 BC. For more than 8 millennia, it was the center of a single world culture. All other sites around the world were built in alignment to it and people, from all over, would make a pilgrimage to it to hear from the Elders remember the old ways.
In around 5000 AD, Earth’s climate became drier. This forced a move away from hunting, subsistence farming and migratory movement to permanent settlements, with agriculture, and domesticated cattle. Also, at that time, the observable position of the stars and planets changed. Every 26,000 years, the earth goes through the precession of the equinoxes. It is a slow rotation of the whole pattern of stars around the ecliptic axis. After a few millennia, the orientation of the original points of worship within the arrangements, no longer matched the celestial bodies that they were built to worship and their religious calendars, guided by the rise and fall of the constellations and planets, became unusable.
At around 3142 BC, Lightning Place ceased being the focus of world culture. In about 1500 BC, the last of its major ties with other world empires ceased. It’s influence waned when, in about 1500 AD the custodians where killed in a natural disaster. In 1777 AD, the English took Australia.
In 1840 AD, the English settled in Lightning Place. From 1900 AD until 1993 AD, they were responsible for destroying all the major Aboriginal sites. This including demolishing, in 1945, the main site of worship, the 188 megaliths, at “Australia’s Stonehenge.” This arrangement was a giant ceremonial bora ring, which some local Indigenous people still teach, Kings and Queens from overseas empires, were scholars of, and there, taught secrets and the highest wisdom, kept from before the fall of a golden age.
Lightning Place is believed to have been where important ceremonies were held. The most important beiing where now is the small town tourist town, named Brunswick Heads, with a population of about 2,000 people. The town is besides the sea and a range of hills. The hills run along the Brunswick River that flows from the east, at Mullumbimby. This town calls itself, ‘The Biggest Little Town, in Australia' and there is a sign for it at the turnoff on the Pacific Motorway, about 40 minutes south by car, from the Brisbane, NSW state border.
Twenty minutes to the south of the hills is the rapidly growing, Byron Bay. It has been a popular destination for wealthy travelers.
The hills are mostly covered in trees and farmland and command great views of Mount Warning, an extinct, giant volcano, and the Indian Ocean.
Go to these hills and walk around, paying careful attention to the ground. It might take an hour or so, but you will certainly find one of the yellow pieces of sandstone that are there.
Bleached in the sun, the sandstone, it will appear a slightly different from all the other stones lying on the ground. It will likely be fist sized and much lighter than the surrounding, volcanic rocks. Its surface will be pockmarked and uneven, as if, long ago, broken from a much larger rock. It will show faint bands of sedimentary sand that once blanketed an ancient beach, on which dinosaurs roamed, 200 hundred millions of years before. Some of the stones will have unusually straight edges.
The sandstone, here on these hills, are sometimes numerous. They stand out between the dense thickets of dry, brown grass, and the dark, swampy, volcanic brown soil, usual to the region.
If you take a day’s walk, unrestricted on the surrounding farms, you will find small stacks of sandstone, that tractors have gathered, and many more sandstone rocks on the top of larger mounds made from soil and rocks. It is why the name of the town, Mullumbimby, is an Aboriginal word for ‘small hills’.
The sandstone, here on these hills, are sometimes numerous. They stand out between the dense thickets of dry, brown grass, and the dark, swampy, volcanic brown soil, usual to the region.
If you take a day’s walk, unrestricted on the surrounding farms, you will find small stacks of sandstone, that tractors have gathered, and many more sandstone rocks on the top of larger mounds made from soil and rocks. It is why the name of the town, Mullumbimby, is an Aboriginal word for ‘small hills’.
Some of the sandstone, on or near the mounds, have marking and etchings, and are of different types, not found in the region.
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What makes these pieces of sandstone unusual is that, to a geologist, they should not be found here. Mount Warning last erupted 20 million years ago. The debris of the exploding mountain peak and lava flows covered hundreds of kilometers of the area with at least 300 meter thick of magma, which cooled down to become a dark, very hard basalt. This lighter , softer, yellow colored sandstone should be buried deep beneath the thick basalt. There is no natural phenomenon, apart from a glacier, we have explaining how the sandstone was broken into small pieces and deposited on top of the basalt., but people out fossicking, can find, sometimes hundred of these 180 million year older sandstone, everywhere, poking out from the soil.
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The presence of the sandstone provide the backdrop for the legend of the Lightning Place.
People say that long ago there was huge structure on one of the hills that was made from sandstone megaliths and that it was the capital of Stone Age, world-empire. It is meant to have existed five thousand years before the Egyptians began building pyramids, and Australia’s Aboriginal people ruled it.
Lightning Place might be a lie. It could be a recent hoax, made up to take money from naive and gullible people, but before we dismiss the story of seventy years ago, in 1945, that farmers bulldozed a giant stone temple, we should remind ourselves that the unauthorized destruction of indigenous historical sites happens today. It is not hard to imagine a similar place being destroyed, in 1945, when Aboriginal people were not allowed the right to vote until 1962. This past year the destruction of Aboriginal, historical sites have been in the news.
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In May 2020, the mining company, Rio Tinto deliberately destroyed a cave in Juukan Gorge that was sacred to the traditional owners. The company planned to mine 200 million tons of iron ore. The cave in Western Australia, showed signs of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years and was considered an archaeologically significant site. Ministerial consent to blow the cave up was granted by the then state Aboriginal affairs minister.
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"In many ways it made up the cultural identity of who we were as people." Is how another site, the Kooyang Stone Arrangement, near Lake Bolac, in Victoria was described by, cultural heritage manager, John Clarke, in April 2021, that was virtually obliterated, when 60 meters of the stones, carefully laid down in the shape of a giant eel, in around 500 AD, was destroyed and taken to make way for a path. The Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, the Registered Aboriginal Party for the site have said that it’s destruction has traumatized the Indigenous Australian people. They built 176-metre stone structure, to celebrate being the oldest culture in the world to have aquatic farms.
The fable of the 1945 destruction of Lightning Place, is eerily similar to what happened more recently with the Kooyang arrangement in Victoria. Both tell of an ancient arrangement of stones, which was of great importance to the Indigenous people, but a farmer, whose land it was on, tore it down so they could make a path through it.
Even in our digital age of satellite imagery and carbon dating, how much will we remember of these ancient, spiritual places when they have been ground to small pieces of stone? If the same thing happened to a large structure on a hill outside Brunswick Heads, in the 1945, when news took days to travel, and the best communications was just by telephone, if all that was left was small pieces of stone, it would not be long before such a place was thought of just a rural myth.
The claim, that hit the news in Australia, in 2013, was that old doucments had been found of ancient Indigenous stone arrangement existing in the Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales. The news reports called it Australia's Stonehenge, but what makes Lightning Place so important was its size. It was 700 meters long. 4 times longer than the Kooyang stone arrangement and 4 times larger than the English Stonehenge.
My part of the story of Lightning Place began, in 2013, when I found missing letters and maps in the Mullumbimby museum. They were by the people who did a scientific expedition, in 1938, what was then, the recently rediscovered Aboriginal site.
None of what we are taught about indigenous people, explains 8,000 tones of stone, that was believed to been placed on a hill slope. Some stones weighed, 30 tones. More than a thousand stones were arranged in a constellation of patterns, depicting , people, animals, and the stars. So big was Lightning Place, that the campfires from all the people there, together, could be seen on Earth from out in space. Many of the stones, in the largest single piece of artwork ever created, weighed 30 tones.
The legend is that once, long ago, in the Australian Dream-time, a lost stonemason culture, used monster size beasts to drag up a hillside hundreds of massive sized stones. The scale of the place was matched a Nazca line in Peru, dug into the desert, in the shape of hummingbird. Only, Lightning Place had murals, built from stone, showing kangaroos, the Seven Sisters star system, and intricate circles.
The legend is that once, long ago, in the Australian Dream-time, a lost stonemason culture, used monster size beasts to drag up a hillside hundreds of massive sized stones. The scale of the place was matched a Nazca line in Peru, dug into the desert, in the shape of hummingbird. Only, Lightning Place had murals, built from stone, showing kangaroos, the Seven Sisters star system, and intricate circles.
Here is a short video, with a full scale model, digital recreation of just the 270 meter central section of the bora, ceremonial circles., based on maps drawn for the 1938 Slater expedition to the site, before it was believed to be bulldozed in 1945. The video also has a bit more history on Lightning Place, shown here under the common name of 'Australia's Stonehenge.'
Here are still images of the 3d model recreation of the central section of the arrangement.
If you ever wanted to be famous and rich you could do worse than to head down to the Byron Bay area, and while others, dip in the ocean at the clothing optional beach, surf, get a suntan, or enjoy some yoga, you sacrifice a few hours on a sunny day, with a hat, sunscreen, and a bottle of water, exploring the foothills.
You might be in for a surprise. It is not only pieces of sandstone which you can find that points to something strange and wondrous that you can be part of. Other objects that have been found, all within 10 kilometers of Brunswick heads include, a curious crystal said to project sacred imagery, a strange, stone figurine crafted different to anything that Australian Aboriginals are thought to have made, and the anchor of an ancient Egyptian ocean going vessel.
You might be in for a surprise. It is not only pieces of sandstone which you can find that points to something strange and wondrous that you can be part of. Other objects that have been found, all within 10 kilometers of Brunswick heads include, a curious crystal said to project sacred imagery, a strange, stone figurine crafted different to anything that Australian Aboriginals are thought to have made, and the anchor of an ancient Egyptian ocean going vessel.
The sheer magnitude of the stone arrangement, said to have been found on a hill plateau, between Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby, means it could have been larger than any stone arrangement in Australia found so far. So massive would have been its construction, using thousands of tons of stone, that Lightning Place could only be real if there was also an equally large, advanced, civilization with the technology to build it.
Such a conclusion makes not much sense compared to what we think we know about ancient history. Civilization is meant to have begun in Northern Africa. Indigenous Australia is meant to have had nothing to do with the rest of the world, until 1788, when Captain Cook claimed to have discovered it and took for England. The systematic destruction of Aboriginal sites began with the Frontier Wars (1788-1934) in which more than 40 million Indigenous people died, and the destruction continues. As if planned.
Maybe, after all, Lightning Place might be just a story to amuse the tourists? The idea of a temple, matching the size and importance of Mecca, Solomon’s temple, Vatican, or Buckingham Palace, once being in Australia, might be made up. It could be just thieves mixing stolen concepts about Aboriginal culture and a latest conspiracy from a TV show on Pseudo-archaeology and believers in alien intervention.
There is one funny thing however. Australia is a very big country, but if you had to choose where to put Lightning Place, you would put it in the same place where, in 1938, an expedition team saw and recorded it. This is because almost everything about the original people, and the area tells us it would be here.
Lightning Place, once being a real place, explains why there are hundreds of giant megaliths all around the towns of Mullumbimby, Ocean Shores, Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads. Accounts from the English settlers and local Aboriginal people available at the Byron Shire library, all agree that at least some of the stones were removed from arrangements.
Lightning Place explains why the Indigenous people, only in this part of Australia, were known to building smaller but similar stone arrangements,
In the 2004, book ‘Community Based Heritage Study Thematic History’ by Joanna Boileau is written,
‘Stone arrangements are a particular feature of the Tweed Aboriginal landscape. Significant arrangements are known to have existed on the western slopes of Mount Warning, as did an arrangement known as the ‘Aboriginal giantess’s grave’ at Terragon, in 1885. The arrangement was quite complex and heavily decorated was a ring of twenty or thirty standing stones, about 5-meters in diameter, with each stone 1-meter long and 1.5-meters thick. The stones were grouped in and pairs and a number of sparkling clear coloured stones of all shapes and a single grey, crescent-shaped stone about 28-centimeters-long.’
‘Stone arrangements are a particular feature of the Tweed Aboriginal landscape. Significant arrangements are known to have existed on the western slopes of Mount Warning, as did an arrangement known as the ‘Aboriginal giantess’s grave’ at Terragon, in 1885. The arrangement was quite complex and heavily decorated was a ring of twenty or thirty standing stones, about 5-meters in diameter, with each stone 1-meter long and 1.5-meters thick. The stones were grouped in and pairs and a number of sparkling clear coloured stones of all shapes and a single grey, crescent-shaped stone about 28-centimeters-long.’
The 1983 book, ‘Aboriginal Pathways in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River, by Steele, John Gladstone has written in it that;
‘Stone arrangements abound in the Mount Warning area, but many have been destroyed. Those which were in the rain forest were safe until the forest was cleared, then the growth of grass and the trampling of feet of cattle soon obliterated the arrangements. Such was the case at the foot of The Pinnacle in the Tweed Range. This site 1.7 kilometers north-east of this famous landmark was discovered in 1904 in rain forest; it consisted of a circle of stone mounds on level ground,’
‘Stone arrangements abound in the Mount Warning area, but many have been destroyed. Those which were in the rain forest were safe until the forest was cleared, then the growth of grass and the trampling of feet of cattle soon obliterated the arrangements. Such was the case at the foot of The Pinnacle in the Tweed Range. This site 1.7 kilometers north-east of this famous landmark was discovered in 1904 in rain forest; it consisted of a circle of stone mounds on level ground,’
Other fieldwork by Sharon Sullivan an archaeologist who worked at Armidale University, resulted in her 1964 publication, ‘The Material Culture of the Aborigines of the Richmond and Tweed Rivers of Northern New South Wales’ Her paper said that the ethno history of the Tweed River valley contained accounts of many stone rings. Her research showed that in this region were standing stone counterparts, different to earth bora rings found in other parts of Australia. Sullivan wrote that the construction of stone arrangements was a localized tradition. Although much of the physical evidence had been destroyed during the white invasion, in 1964, they were still part of oral stories told by the Aboriginal elders.
Sadly, it is real history that the English settlers helped in the slaughter of most of the Indigenous population, and to burn or cut down the forests to gain farmland. All the towns of the Northern Rivers were founded and thrived in their early years on deforestation and whaling. This gave them the right tools to bulldoze and carry the stones away.
Lightning Place restores a historical context to the unique beliefs of the local Indigenous people. Given the unique landscape of the region, it does not need a big logical leap to think a culture who lived for thousands of years around the caldera of Mount Warning, might have been inspired by it to make stone circles. The mountain is, in fact, the largest caldera on Earth not formed by a meteorite, if stone age man ever did have a starting place, when it comes to building circular stone arrangements, like we see in other parts of the world, it may as well be here at this caldera, which is, itself a 40 kilometer wide stone circle.
Here is YouTube video that shows Indigenous elders talking about, The Lightning Place, or Australia's Stonehenge.
Lightning Place, in its intricacy of layout and sophistication of technology, can only be explained easily by the theory that it was designed by a people who had scientific knowledge.
If you wish to know what 95 million people, far away in the US were told about it, you can watch this Excerpt. It is a clip off the History Channel.