Sacred Number

At the end of last year a new book (called The Secret Land) came out by Paul Broadhurst which takes Cornwall as the centre of a drama of a secret and sacred history that reaches deep into the prehistory of the British Isles whilst revealing the Norman invasion as reasserting asecret tradition regarding the North Pole that feeds through into the history of the last 1000 years since the Norman invasion.

As with his previous works, Paul has discovered landscape features and built up a rich set of connections that relate these to the histories of Norman families. My brother, Robin, has provided a significant chunk at the end of the book which supports Paul's pattern of places and generates "hard facts" on the ground in terms of alignments, geometries, metrology, the astronomy of the circum polar sky and so on. This complementation between the two approaches is an excellent exemplar for how collaboration on "earth mysteries" or (whatever we like to call it) can take place.

I hope to use this space to record some of the mesaningful ideas that emerge in this book. One such is that Paul is proposing some sort of relationship between the Normans and their Scandinavian origins, and the Celts who occupy Brittanny, Cornwall and Wales. These lands were all megalithic lands as was the western seaboard of Europe though the taller northern folk and shorter celts are not generally  considered related not least because of later historic conflicts with the Vikings. Many of our preconceptions regarding the Normans and Vikings are the result of later conflicts and need to be eliminated if merely hearsay if any new insights into the continuity of older traditions are to be found. In this sense, history as recorded through a dark age can be a black hole for what went before and the rebuilding of older facts can only be found through finding patterns that still hold after those distortions.

The primary pattern Paul found is between places that form a coherent geometry related to the north pole. Leading Norman families settled in places within this pattern. In addition there are extensive landscape features in which nature itself appears to outline a Bear, a Hare, a Lion, a Wolf. Robin confirms later that there are elements of symmetry between placenames north and south of an east-west line that passes through Lundy Island (in the Bristol Channel) as the centre of the new pattern and Stonehenge - two places associated with the building of the latter and transport of bluestones within a 12:13:5 triangular geometry.

This connectivity between megalithic landscape geometry, later celtic saints, monastic institutions and normans is starting to tell a seriously large tale of continuity of traditions in the British Isles. The facts on the ground include metrology, alignments, family and saintly histories and myth and folklore. As such it is a major challenge to nay-sayers that prefer to stay on the dry land of the status quo.

There will be more on this soon...