Ophir

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