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Elephant in the Room
Sacred Sites
Africa’s Greatest Mysteries Adam’s Calendar
By Louise Clarke
Isn’t it interesting that, in this day and age, new discoveries of our mysterious past are still coming to light? It makes us wonder how much we really know about our origins and the story of humankind.
Solemnly standing on the edge of the escarpment, overlooking the oldest geological location in the world, a site of awesome standing stones was ‘discovered’ in 2003 by a pilot named Johan Heine, on a search and rescue mission in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
An air crash involving one of his crew, led Johan to the puzzling monolithic circle quite by accident. While rescuing the pilot who had crash landed his plane on the edge of the cliff, Johan noticed the arrangement of large stones sticking out of the ground. He also noticed that they were aligned to the cardinal points; north, south, east and west. Months of observations and measurements led him to suspect that the site was a stone calendar.
Often referred to as the ‘African Stonehenge’ or ‘Adam’s Calendar’ as nicknamed by Michael Tellinger referring to Adam and Eve. Indigenous accounts refer to this sacred place as ‘Inzalo y’Langa,’ or the ‘Birthplace of the Sun’. It is the site where the venerated High Lion Shaman, Baba Credo Mutwa, was initiated in 1937 and he speaks of the site being the place, “Where Heaven mated with Mother Earth.”
Incidentally the Barberton Valley, below the stone site, is considered geologically to be the only place on earth where the development of the early earth crust and evolution of life itself can be studied. These ancient rocks are 3.5 billion years old and are so well preserved that their fossils accurately record the earliest life forms on the planet. They also carry evidence of the first massive meteorite impact on record, possibly related to the formation of our moon. The valley is also rich in gold…
In the years following his discovery, Johan worked with Michael Tellinger in an attempt to unlock the riddle of these stones. They employed various dating techniques, scrutinising the magnetic alignment, soil shift, geology, erosion, the archaeo-astronomy, stellar alignment, patina growth. They also had psychic revelations of the place and controversially concluded that the site is approximately 75,000 years old! Various astronomical alignments have been identified at the site and it is possibly the only example of a completely functional, mostly intact megalithic calendar in the world.
This is how it works: The largest central stones of the calendar are aligned perfectly to East and West. The shadow of the setting sun is cast by the taller, central monolith onto the flat stone behind it and, almost perfectly accurately, records the sun’s passage from Winter Solstice to Summer Solstice and back, along the width of the stone. The monoliths are dolomite and weigh approximately five tons each and, since they are not carved from the bedrock at the location, it is believed that they were transported from a distant site. Since 2011, I have been exploring this site with the thousands of other stone circles in the area in an attempt to make sense of it all. Read the Stone Circles article HERE: As discussed in the previous six issues in my Africa’s Greatest Mysteries series, the strands of a great enigma have woven themselves into the intricate fabric of the story of our past.
We have explored the ancient Egyptian concept of Zep Tepi, or ‘First Time’, which coincides with a meridian of longitude stretching, unbroken by water, the entire length of Africa, from the pyramids of Giza in Egypt to South Africa. This line is known by the ancients to be mirrored by the Milky Way. Read the
River of Gold article HERE:
Along this sacred Nilotic Meridian, which lies at 31 degrees, 14 minutes east, underground flows the legendary ‘Lulungwa Mangakatsi’, which is associated with a vein of gold extending the length of the African continent. Read the
River of Gold article HERE:
Gold, with its profound metaphysical properties, controls the existence, flow and purification of water on our planet. It is also the reason for the rise and fall of great civilisations along this line. Read
the Great Zimbabwe article HERE:
The prophesied arrival of the White Lions in the Timbavati wilderness in South Africa, at a location directly corresponding to the Sphinx in Egypt along the sacred meridian, brings a warning to humanity in modern times to either bow to the supremacy of nature or become extinct! Read the
White Lions article HERE:
Standing on the edge of that escarpment at sunset, in a land before time amongst those ancient stones, is one of the most transporting encounters to be experienced.
Louise Clarke Exploring sacred sites in Africa and walking as an art of healing.
Image Credit: Louise Clarke
