I have been going into a particular 7-11 store for years now and often
see a young black fellow with an accent...we joke around a bit and
recognize each other in the morass of customers but we've never talked
before.
Tonite, I stopped in for a soft drink and had a few minutes to kill so
asked him where he was from. He said Ethiopia. I asked if he had ever
been to Axun and he looked at me with a look of surprise and said he is
FROM there, as is one of the young ladies who also works there.
Now, the reason this is interesting is because Axun is the city where
Graham Hancock says he traced the Ark of the Covenant, that it is
located in an old church and attended by one priest only. That priest
is appointed and usually has a short life span presumably due to his
daily proximity to the Ark. These priests apparently age at an unusual
rate, yet there is no shortage of volunteer priests to take the
position.
This 7-11 fellow is named Azmar(sp?) and I asked if he'd ever heard
about that, he says yes, every Axun native knows this as true!!!!!!!
He wasn't pulling my chain as he described the church and said it had a
fence around it and was guarded so no one could go in. He also
confirmed the periodic religious processions that move through the
streets of Axun with Ark like models.
I asked if they ever brought the REAL Ark out for any reason and he said
he could not say but the young lady who also works there knew a lot more
about such matters than he and I should ask her (she was off this
particular evening).
He was smiling very broadly and said he was pleased that an American
would have an interest in the history of his country as we all seem so
preoccupied with our own activities and country.
We talked a bit and he said I might be interested in a story he had been
told by his parents and grandparents when growing up in Axun. He said
there is a stone that is about the size of the cup I was drinking from,
that would be about about 4" in diameter and about 6" tall.
He says this stone sits on a stone altar in a shrine located in Northern
Ethiopia in a region he said and wrote as Wollo. The shrine is called
Lali Bella and the story is told to most Ethiopian children though he
had never been to that region or seen the stone.
The point was that no man or woman could lift this small stone no matter
how hard they tried. Only a person '100% pure in heart' and he said
something about them not having sex, I guess indicating they must be a
virgin, could lift the stone easily.
His parents told him it was a sign to the faithful (they are probably
Muslim but I forgot to ask) and thats why the children were told this,
that they should strive to be pure and they would be blessed.
Now, he says as far as he knows there is nothing but stone involved, no
magnets or other tricks as he had often asked when told the story if
there weren't some trick.
This would be an interesting thing to witness if its still there as he
indicates. Wonder if the stone could be wedged out of place rather than
just picked up, maybe its element 114..<g>...or some other super dense
element though stable..
It could be magnetic, but the idea of something becoming super heavy or
super light doesn't strike me as impossible if one had knowledge of how
to control gravity. Perhaps locking it in a mass, programming it as it
were to have a specific weight, despite its density or size.
So what would kind of energy field would 'purity' emanate that would
alter the flow, either to lessen the weight, turn off a magnetic field,
change the CENTER OF GRAVITY (as in the Hurwitch device???) or maybe
affect a friction or electrostatic field?
Interesting that there are so many accounts of Saints and Nuns going
into a state of religious ecstasy and freely levitating as witnessed by
in some cases hundreds of reputable people. SURELY, not everyone in
history was too stupid to not be able to detect a fraud despite the
smugness of some in our 'modern' world...<g>..
This 7-11 fellow said he had no idea how long this stone had been there
but it was said to be ancient. Imagine, an Ethiopian version of the
Arthurian legend of the Sword in the Stone....and this could be the
original story that could well have inspired the Arthurian
story....<g>..according to the following URL, Arthur was probably born
around 465 so between 400 and 500 AD would be the time of the Sword
legend since the legend says Arthur was but a boy when it happened.
I'm just curious if the Ethiopian stone story drifted back to England
before that time and inspired someone to have written it in a different
form as the Arthurian sword story or that there was something more to
it;
http://www.britannia.com/history/timearth.html
Graham Hancock said when he talked with the high priest who guards the
Ark of the Covenant, he was told the Ark had 'mysterious powers'.
Hancock asked what that meant and the priest asked Hancock if he had
'seen the Valley of the Stellae'?
Hanock had seen it and there were obelisks of all sizes, many fallen and
broken but most originally made of one single giant stone. There was
one Hancock said measured as about 110 feet high, made from one stone
but lying in pieces.
On finding that Hancock had visited this valley and wondered at such
past technological feats, the priest said that the obelisks had been
lifted by 'the celestial fire from the Ark'. Sounds like electricity to
me and darn it, that's STRIKINGLY SIMILAR to one of chief ancient
bugaboos that we saw in the Temple of Hathor at Dendera...those
mysterious pictographs of the men holding the giant vacuum tubes with
snakes on the inside and a cable connecting to some kind of power
supply....celestial fire indeed....lightning by any other name...
I asked the 7-11 fellow if he had ever heard of this Valley and he said
yes, he had been to it and the stones were in ruins but there must have
been a time when these stones stood as single giant obelisks, like our
Washington Monument but where the ancient Ethiopian obelisks consisted
of one SINGLE stone, ours are made of assembled sections, as in the
Washington monument.
I told the fellow about the Shivapur stone and he wasn't surprised, he
said there were many wonders in Ethiopia and Muslim countries that few
outsiders even knew about, which was why he was so amused that I even
had heard of Axun, let alone the Ark and the valley of the stellae..
I plan on asking the young lady to see if she might have any additional
information that might be of use and I'll pass it along if any is
revealed.
So, to see what was on the Net, I went to AltaVista and typed in
Ethiopia+Wollo and found this about the Lalibela Church;
Home page with all the subpages that follow;
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/9372/ethiopia.htm
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The Beta Giyorgis church (one of 11 in the Wollo region);
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/9372/003.htm
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11 Churches in the city of Lalibela;
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/9372/016.htm
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Interesting comment that ranks right up there with the designation
'unknown religious artefact';
"Ethiopian Coptic antiquities belong to a distinct class of their own.
The value of some of these artefacts is difficult to asses; their origin
is obscure and few people, even cognoscenti of African art forms,
understand their nature."
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/9372/017.htm
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This seems like a stretch to be posting but it is fascinating as it
seems to tie into some advanced understanding of how to program gravity
into a mass and make it ameliorable to a particular energy pattern, that
of 'purity/virtue'...assuming of course its not one great hoax, I will
ask Drago in Italy since he has done about 150 video documentaries on
such odd events and phenomena and might know of this one.
Well, add that little junket trip when we get ready (and funded) to go
to India to check out the Shivapur controlled levitation by chanting
'Qamar Ali Dervish'..<g>...if we can SEE it happen, then MEASURE the
components and signatures, we should be able to duplicate it in
controlled conditions back here. Estimated cost for 4 people to take
the trip to India (without including the video, analysis and measuring
equipment), is about $12,000.00...which I dreamed about...and verified
as $9,000 for round trip tickets, $3,000 for travel, lodgings, etc..all
skilled volunteers ready to take this adventure...and bring back the
secret if it isn't a fake...
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