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Sidestep: Just when you thought...
So while starting this site specifically about revealing the skeletons of the 'tall ones', I keep seeing other things and getting distracted. And just when you thought you have read and seen most things on the topic...up comes this curve ball.
These are pictures from Ireland. The 2nd photo was taken at the Newgrange site (on left) and the 3rd is more recent after restoration.
But that is a very big rock. So I found a smaller one. It came from somewhere called the Knowth Tumulus, which is also in Ireland. Below is a photo of the site, and a photo of the stone.
Now, just a note
No, just a side note: The Celtic triple spiral is not Celtic, it predates Celtic arrival by 2500 years. The Celts picked up the design though.
And finally, the marker rock on display at Auckland Museum.
I am not saying that the Irish arrived here before anyone from the Pacific regions, I'm just saying I thought it interesting when I saw it. It's almost identical. Mind you that design must occur in nature all over the world? Where ever these designs originated must all be from the same source. Makes you think about the story of Babel doesn't it!
Below is another petroglyph item recovered from the property of Mr Young in Oaonui, in Taranaki.
It was pointed out to me that the spiral design Maori use is not used in Polynesia and certainly not from the accepted origin of Raiatea. Many claim that Celts reached NZ first, and without agreeing with that theory, you have to admit that it is odd that this design only occurs in NZ suddenly after arrival. No Celtic weapons have been found, and although some claim to see beehive houses in piles of rocks, none have dared excavate to the foundations to see if it is true. That is my challenge to them - after all, deep within the bush no one will see you. Do some actual physical research and see if the bases match that of Ireland.
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And just to make it more interesting, the carving (below) in the Auckland museum that looks like no other Polynesian carving anywhere else...
...has a similarity to this (below) on Boa Island. Where is Boa Island? It is in Ireland! Obviously it is colder in Ireland than the NZ carving because he's trying to stop his balls freezing...(just joking) It's the shape, profile and protrusion of the eyes and mouth that had me questioning while at the museum. Then to accidently find the stone figure below was a surprise. I'm still making no inferences though. But the similarity above and below is much closer than anything Maori in relation to the wooden carved image above. Wouldn't you agree? And I only found it because I accidently saw the spiral pattern on a picture from Ireland two days after taking the photo of the Maori marker stone in the Auckland musuem. Coincidence? Probably! On the right is a cave carving from East Timor.
I know what I stated in Sidestep:Rockpiles a few days ago, and I still believe it in relation to actual beehive houses. But when this sort of comparitive thing pops up during my own research...arrrrgh!
Man - I hate the internet!
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And below, just to throw more into it here is a stone figure from the river forests of Tahiti. These are really old. Same eyes, same lips.
