Traces of the past, when stones speak. from Gunnar Hiptmair

Traces of the past

... when stones speak

by Gunnar Hiptmair, Neustift, Austria

Final thesis of the training course

"Homeland research”

at the Academy of Folk Culture 2019/20

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Content

Note…………………………….……………………..3

Prehistory................................................................. 4

The Temple of the Great Mother.......................... 5

The Temple of the Sun.........................................12

The seat of the gods..............................................20

Ancient architects..................................................38

Stone giants........................................................... 42

Sculptures and sound-stones.............................. 50

Closing remarks................................................... 60

Bibliography......................................................... 61

List of researchers.................................................62

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Note

This work has been originally published in German and some of the books and websites that

are mentioned are only available in German. Thus, you can find several links to German

publications, except for those that are also translated into English. The Bible and the Quran

used are standard translations.

The names of some places also don`t have an English equivalent and I kept the German

names given.

Mühlviertel … is a region in upper Austria, bordering to Germany and the Czech Republic.

Mount Plöckenstein … a mountain which is situated partially In Austria, Bavaria and Czech

Republic with two peaks, one on the Austrian side and one in Bavaria, both bordering towards

the Czech Republic in the east.

Teufelsschüssel … a famous rock formation named “Devil´s Bowl”.

Dreisesselberg … translates into Three-chair-mountain.

Dreisesselfels … is s specific formation with three carved seats on the top.

Dreisesselhaus … is a Mountain Inn.

Oberschwarzenberg … is a village close to the “Devils Bowls”.

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Prehistory

A new day began in earlier cultures already in the hours after the sun had set and thus the

night had a different, deeper meaning for the relationship between man and the stars in the

sky.

One evening in August, I had been laying near an ancient power place in a forest clearing in

the soft moss for quite some time and looked up into the starry night sky. Fate, part of the

principle of cause and effect, had led me to this place, although I had not consciously searched

for it, I did not even know at the time that this place existed.

At that time, I was on the move, or should I say on the run from the "real world" and had

already roamed the forests of upper Austria for several weeks. My dog Balu and I were alone

up there in the Bohemian Forest most of the time, where I had pitched my tent a few days

earlier next to a somewhat curious-looking rock formation off the hiking trail. Only from time

to time we met other hikers. Most of the day we were somewhere in the rough terrain around

the so-called “Devil's Bowl” on a journey of discovery. I had many beautiful, exciting and

sometimes strange experiences during these days and one of these events was the beginning

of a journey into the past, into times long before ours.

Balu, my companion and soul guardian, had already dozed off that evening. He was dead tired

from our day trip to the “Sea of Stones" on the slopes of the Bavarian Mount Plöckenstein and

so I could devote myself completely relaxed to the wonderful starry sky. Today I don't

remember exactly how long I was laying there and looking up at the sky, when suddenly a

special star caught my attention. Although I cannot say with certainty which celestial body this

was and it is not of primary importance here but something was strangely different about this

star. Also, here in this area there seem to be temporary distortions of our temporal perception

because I can neither say when the following experience began, nor how long it really lasted.

After a while, at any rate, this star began to pulsate and blink rhythmically, attracting all my

attention and not letting go of me. But what happened after this first phase almost led me to

the limits of what was bearable, so intensely I felt a torrent of energy flowing through my body

and a wave of information flooding my mind. Not that I could have done anything with this

"information" at that moment or that there was any "message" to be decrypted in it, no, to

this day it seems as if many of these "files" are secured with an unknown password and cannot

be opened by me yet. After another undefined while, this stream of energy ended, and the

star stopped flashing and pulsating. Still dazed by this impressive experience and a lasting

feeling of intoxication (although I had not taken anything except water and blueberries for

days), I tried to classify the experience before I fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. Back then, it

was in August 2013, I decided to explore this area at the border triangle between Austria,

Bavaria and the Czech Republic in more detail.

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The Temple of the Great Mother

I prefer this term to the usual name “Devil´s Bowls, because of the energy quality that this

place radiates, and it is also in relation to the energy qualities prevailing here the more

coherent name for me. In connection with the other places from the Austrian Mt.

Plöckenstein over the “Sea of Stones” on the Bavarian side to the Dreisesselberg (Three-chairmountain),

this view also fits better into the picture, as we will see later. During my research

of this area, I also got to know the work of Günther Kantilli 1 , who as a geomancer and author

is known far beyond the borders of our country and wrote in his book "Naturheiligtümer im

Mühlviertel" in particular about the Devil's Bowls (picture 1) in Oberschwarzenberg. Kantilli

found so-called irradiation points here. These are points of the energetic connection between

the cosmos and the Earth, which are in constant energy exchange with the various planets of

our solar system. He describes, for example, connection points to the planets Pluto, Mercury

and Sirius and a solar irradiation point, which we will take a closer look at in a moment.

Picture 1: The rock formation „Devil's Bowls“ in Oberschwarzenberg.

For Günther Kantilli, this is the strongest and most beautiful natural sanctuary in the

Mühlviertel, which, according to him, was already a large cultural center for women in the

Bronze Age, on which there was also a place for the worship of the great Mother Earth.

1 Günther Kantilli, Naturheiligtümer im Mühlviertel, Verlag Styria regional 2013, page 174 and 175

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As I know today, I had set up my tent near such an irradiation point, where during summer of

2021 one of the largest stone bowls in this area was rediscovered and exposed (Picture 2).

However, Kantilli does not mention this bowl with a word, which indicates that it was still

completely fused during his visits up there and that he himself probably never saw it.

Due to the similarity of the energy quality between the Devil's Bowls and Mount Olympus in

Greece, Günther Kantilli also calls this place the "Olympus of the Mühlviertel". Regarding the

coherence of this naming, we will also receive an interesting hint from another source in the

following.

Today, if you climb the Devil's Bowl via the attached steel staircase and look south from up

there, you can easily see the newly exposed bowls. Although I do not know who discovered

and uncovered this bowl, this find is for me of extraordinary importance for the overall picture

at this place in the Bohemian Forest.

What I also noticed about this stone is its very smooth and supple surface, which the

surrounding stones - interestingly - do not have. Also in other places, which have only recently

been cleared of moss, the surface of the rock is not as smooth as on this plate. This suggests

to me that this stone has already been treated on the surface in the past.

Figure 2: the newly exposed bowls near the “solar irradiation point” (cit. G. Kantilli).

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There are some aspects to the bowls themselves, which we will shed some light on, because

not all of them have been artificially produced, some may also have been created naturally.

According to the geomancer Günther Lassi, such bowls could also form in the rock if a spruce

seed comes to lie in a small depression, in a furrow or a crevice in the rock, germinates and

begins to grow there, the roots penetrate the more porous surface of the rock and so over

time increase this deepening. Only that, roots do not bring about a smooth, circular abrasion

as seen in the photo above. Wind and weather or even humans probably helped.

In fact, you can often find such small spruces on the stone structures in our forests and some

also grow to stately size. Others, on the other hand, are only a few years old and one day

uprooted by the wind and blown away. What remains is one of these bowls and so we would

have a very plausible possibility of how some of these bowls could form in the rock. However,

one should make further considerations in each of these places, because even this possible

explanation does not apply to all bowls found. Thus, the geographical location must be

considered as well as the shape and positioning of the respective bowl(s), the structure or

hardness of the rock and the possible orientation of these bowls according to the cardinal

directions north, south, east & west and their possible location along the connecting lines of

the energy grid of the earth (leylines).

Many of these bowls were made by hand for special purposes, a complete list of the occurring

bowls and their location here in the Bohemian Forest, including a conclusive explanation, does

not yet exist.

So far, we know very little about the actual use and function of the various artificially created

bowls. Although there are always stories and legends about their origin and use, there is a lack

of reliable knowledge about them due to a lack of actual, written tradition. What we can

deduce, from the oral traditions, are partly stories about old places of worship and ritual, often

without specific information about the stone bowls. Or they are horror stories about witches

and devils, who apparently practiced their mischief in these places. This is exactly what a

legend about the devil's bowl tells us too.

Apart from the idea that these bowls were formed naturally, it is above all the belief that they

were sacrificial bowls. It should be noted that many people associate this with animal and

human sacrifices. In many places, however, this is neither documented nor explained in more

detail and is for me only in rare cases their actual (original) use.

However, the term "sacrificial bowl" can also be interpreted differently. For example, as the

smudging of certain herbs and plant parts, offerings of seeds, fruits or other offerings.

If we think about it in this way, the last gloomy and oppressive clouds of fog of the past could

be lifted in many places of power, where such stone bowls can also be found, and the original,

life-giving power could flow unhindered again!

Even if you consider that there are 20-30 already discovered Cup Stones in the immediate

vicinity of this old natural sanctuary in the Bohemian Forest, it is almost impossible to imagine

that all these bowls were used for bloody sacrificial rituals. Some of these bowls are located

at the top of a large rock formation and are now only accessible to very experienced climbers.

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Often the impression arises that several bowls were placed next to each other, in a certain

ratio to each other and for a certain purpose. If you read about this further with Günther

Kantilli, you will also find a possible explanation for some of them. Others, newly discovered,

are still waiting for their secrets to be revealed.

If we stick to our example of picture 2, we see here a large heart-shaped depression with a

completely flat ground about five centimeters deep and an overflow that points here to the

east. The two smaller bowls, one to the south, the other to the west of the large bowl, and a

north-south gap in the stone slab are the other main features of this structure. Here too, the

'satellite bowls', as I call them, are indispensable. Smaller cups are placed near a larger one.

To this day, I have not found a definitive explanation for this phenomenon, only so much

that I cannot rule out an intention behind this positioning.

Some bowls, discovered and exposed by myself, are located on top of one of the most

impressive rock formations of the entire Bohemian Forest, the "Mushroom of

Oberschwarzenberg" (picture 3), south of the Devil's Bowls. This boulder seems to slip at any

moment and puts our physical laws to a hard test, even it seems almost impossible that it

stands there. For me, this stone is the epitome of the balance between the forces and a special

earth acupuncture point up here in the far north of Austria.

When I was here for the first time a few years ago, there was still a young spruce (picture 4)

in this central bowl on top of this stone. However, this is certainly not responsible for the

hollowing out of the stone at this point, because this bowl is already larger than the root

system of the small spruce. It has a horizontal, flat bottom and an overflow that drains to the

south. Just below there is an interesting fissure in the rock, through which the water is flowing

off here and into the ground.

Even today, not many people step up and try to climb this particular stone and this is also the

case in many other places. However, to make such discoveries and find things that are still

hidden you sometimes have to wander off the beaten track. This also applies, when we want

to open new terrains of thought. Also then, we must leave the old well-trodden ways of

thinking and give space to new ideas.

Places like this invite you to question some "learned" things and to give free rein to your own

thoughts. Intuition is often a very productive source. Images appearing before our mind's eye

and our gut feeling, which is assigned to the female principle, are important here and this

initial input (in-tuition), should then be analyzed and verified by our logical thinking ability,

according to the male principle. So that at this point our own inner balance would also be

satisfied and our inner strength can flow unhindered. Perhaps there is still a lot to learn for all

of us here, men should listen more to their intuition and women should practice the

application of logical thought processes.

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Picture 3: the "Mushroom” of Oberschwarzenberg.

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Picture 4: a small spruce tree grows in the central bowl on top of the "Mushroom", exactly at the point of the

absolute balance (Photo taken in Summer 2016).

Another peculiarity of these bowls in the stone, especially when several occur in combination,

is the fact that the central bowl almost always has a completely flat bottom. The secondary

bowls, however, all have a curved bottom, which often tapers towards the middle. Many of

the larger bowls still have water all year round and do not dry out even after several rainless

weeks in summer. For some this has changed during the last 3-4 years, they are dry today, but

I still know some where you can always find water (Picture 5).

Picture 5: west of the Devil's

Bowl you will find a bowl that

always holds water.

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Energetic turbulences are created above these cups, which allow water to condense from the

surrounding humidity into these cups. But who knew about these turbulences and where

exactly the bowl had to be attached?

We don't know, but it is reasonable to assume, that the druids from pre-Christian times had

an extensive knowledge of geomancy and probably knew and applied the laws of nature far

better than we do today. Modern pioneers in this field, such as Viktor Schauberger 2 , who was

born here in the Bohemian Forest and who derived amazing insights and discoveries from his

observations of nature, are not noticed in our world, although they have made a great

contribution to the understanding of nature and its inherent forces.

Water is one of the keys to these secrets. It plays an important role here in connection with

the stone bowls. It is a carrier and bearer of information with which it can be charged through

certain rituals, singing and music.

If one imagines certain rituals in which the central bowl is filled with water, but certain incense

is burned in the secondary bowls (for example, for the fertility of the land), this smoke offering

can become a very powerful tool.

When the WATER absorbs the vibrations of the smudged substance activated by FIRE, by

means of its scents, via the AIR and is dissipated towards the EARTH, the force of all four

elements is involved in this process. The fifth element, the ETHER, the Spiritual is embodied

by the priest or the priestess, who were often in a state of deep trance during such ceremonies.

Also, the use of selected crystals instead of the incense can produce a certain effect. Especially

in the connection with music and singing, when the crystals, the water and the stones are

activated with special vibrations. Possibilities show up that would usually only appear to

people today as fairy tales, or as pure fantasy.

Yes, man today seems to be so far away from "ancient knowledge", far away from the wisdom

of the priestesses and druids, who served Mother Earth long before the Celtic and Indo-

European tribes also here in the Mühlviertel.

In ancient cultures, these applications were still known and there are still a variety of different

smudging substances from herbs, lichens, tree barks, petals and much more, which, when

used correctly, can have an actual impact on nature and the person himself.

In some places it may very well be that in the recent past other, sometimes very bloodthirsty

rituals with human sacrifices have been held to energetically disturb such sanctuaries or to bring

them out of their natural balance. Blood sacrifices are also a very powerful way to influence

the energies that prevail in such powerful sites and to occupy these areas with dark energies

and dark stories. Thus, people were discouraged from approaching or staying in these places.

Myths and legends about these places of power also helped to create a distorted image and

are also often the reason, why many of these ancient sanctuaries today bear names such as

Devil's Bowl, Devil's Church or Devil's Stone.

2 Viktor Schauberger, Unsere sinnlose Arbeit, Jörg Schauberger Verlag, Bad Ischl 2001

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In the meantime, however, these names have lost their supposed horror and the stories about

witches or the buck-legged one, do no longer frighten anyone. On the contrary, more and

more people are visiting such places with an open mind and listen to their inner voice, giving

the emerging images and sensations the attention, they deserve. Here in the vicinity of the

ancient Temple of the Great Mother, my journey into the past began and from here, the place of

female energy qualities. Now we take a look at the summit of the Austrian Mt. Plöckenstein,

where in my opinion the remains of an ancient “Temple of the sun” can be found, the place of

male energy qualities.

The Temple of the Sun

If you look from the top of the large stone structure of the Devil's Bowl to the north, you can

see the slopes of the mighty Plöckenstein, of which the highest point is given today with 1,379

meters and which thus represents the highest elevation of the Mühlviertel and South

Bohemia. The summit of Mt. Plöckenstein on the Austrian side is 455 meters higher than the

Devil's Bowl, whose altitude is 924 meters above sea level.

From the old processional path, which once led from the “Temple of the Great Mother” or the

"Temple of the Moon", up to the "Temple of the Sun", nothing can be seen today. The changes

to this area through the development, clearing and reforestation of the area were too

extensive.

The changes that were made here during the two great wars and in the inter- and post-war

period have also changed the landscape permanently. Very often one can find drillholes for

blasting and other signs of rough restructuring of rock shapes throughout the area and one

often wonders, for what purpose so much has been blown up and altered here. But we'll come

back to that later.

What remains of the original structures is open in our time before our eyes because storms

and bark beetles have decimated the tree population on the entire Mt. Plöckenstein

considerably.

For me as a researcher, this circumstance is not entirely disadvantageous, since the

disappearance of the trees and subsequently also the moss and plant growth on the rock

formations, these became clearly recognizable.

The wonderful white colour of these blocks stands out impressively from the surroundings

and leads us into a world of wonder and admiration. The autumnal play of colors of the

blueberry bushes in September is a real feast for the eyes and invites you to linger longer

(Picture 8).

Years ago, there was not much to see here except forest, now not only the prevailing air

element here inspires our imagination, because there is also an ancient story buried between

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those rocks, some of which look like scattered building blocks to me. Only the stones

themselves remember this story.

Picture 8: Indian summer at Mt. Plöckenstein.

The coloration and structure of the rock at the summit differs significantly from the blocks

around the devil's bowl and it is also this bright white, which reminded me of other Temples

of the sun and sun cults.

You won't find as many signs of the so-called "Woolsack weathering" here as in the Devil's

Bowl or on the Dreisesselberg because this stone here is much harder and therefore does not

weather so easily. So far more sharp corners and edges remain visible, and you often have

the feeling that you could simply reassemble these decayed structures.

I see in these piles of rubble the remains of former gigantic buildings, built of large stones, socalled

Megaliths (megalith- from the ancient Greek megas = "large" and lithos = "stone"). For

the most part, however, these buildings were no buildings in the sense of residential or

working buildings, but were predominantly "energetic buildings". For this reason, they are still

referred to today as natural sanctuaries, since even the still visible remains rarely suggest a

classical temple or even a dwelling.

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Although there were also accessible interiors and even underground tunnel connections

between many of these squares on Mt. Plöckenstein, these have all fallen in or been closed

today (see also page 28).

In the following pictures you can easily see how I come to this assumption and why I think I

can see building structures here. The shapes of some stones, the straight lines, sharp edges,

and right angles as well as the flat surfaces of many of these blocks are more reminiscent of

processing than of natural origin.

Even the quality of this rock, its crystalline and mineral structure is very unusual and occurs

almost exclusively here on the Austrian part of Mt. Plöckenstein. Only on the Dreisesselberg

can you also find blocks of this composition and this bright white coloration.

Picture 9: Adalbert Stifter's preferred resting place, the "Stifter Dachl" on Mt. Plöckenstein.

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Picture 10: Masonry laid in "offset".

Picture 11: this structure does not look natural to me.

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Another indication that this is an ancient Temple of the Sun, is the geographical location of

the entire complex. These stone elevations are fed by the energy of the sun from sunrise to

sunset. They absorb these energies and transmit them into the energetic grid of the earth

(Plato's leather ball, Hartmann & Curry grids for example).

The Sun... and The Moon... In the German language, the sun is female, the moon is male, and

this represents a complete reversal of its actual energetic qualities! In many other languages

it is vice versa, and even in ancient times this was the case.

What the Sun is to us was Manoah for the Celts or the great Manitou for North American

indigenous peoples, but the Moon was called "the wise old woman" by the Celts or "Mother

Moon" by the Incas. Greeks and Romans also equated the moon mainly with female deities,

the sun was attributed to male deities. This list could be continued for a while.

However, the linguistic reversal of the energy qualities causes a wrong understanding of the

actual energetic connections, and this has caused fundamental confusion, especially for us,

who belong to the German language-group. We need to find our way out of this again, now in

this time of changing the entire system on this planet.

Here at Mt. Plöckenstein, during this change, structures have become visible that give an idea

of a different historical process than the one that the usual writing of history would have us

believe and we should never forget that history is always written by the victors of armed

conflicts!

But still, one encounters researchers, who approach the exploration of our true past with an

open mind and open eyes. For example, the recently deceased Univ.-Doz. Dipl. Ing. DDr. Peter

Stadler 3 , head of excavations and research in Brunn am Gebirge (Austria), curator of the Early

History Collection at the Natural-historical Museum in Vienna, head of the restoration

workshop there and author of countless scientific publications. From his niece I received a

manuscript written by him, but still unpublished, in which he shows, among other things, a

very interesting connection between the Bohemian Forest and the Greek Argonaut legend:

"On the oldest representation of a map of Bavaria by Johann Thurmaier, from 1523 we

find the interesting entry "Der Behmische Wald" (Bohemian Forest) with the addition

"Herzynie et boiemie pars", from which even then the name "Herzynischer Wald"

(herzynic forest) was still used.

We first encounter the name “Hercynic Forest” around 300 BC, with the Greek

philosopher Aristotle. He mentions a mountain range from which numerous rivers flow

to the north.

The Argonauts of Apollonius of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC also knew this name.

There, somewhere north of the Danube, Hera, goddess of heaven and wife of Zeus,

raises her voice from the “Hercynic rock”, to show the wandering Argonauts, the

heroes of the Greek legend, the way home. "

Now Günther Kantilli already called this area the "Olympus of the Mühlviertel", and with Peter

Stadler we come across another possible connection between the Bohemian Forest and Greek

3 Dipl. Ing. DDr Peter Stadler, unpublished manuscript

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mythology. Should it really be possible that the gods of antiquity were once also paid homage

here in the quiet Mühlviertel and that they even entered this area?

This is not so easy to dismiss, because even our most important river, the Danube, got its name

from a goddess, namely Danu (Irish: Dann, Welsh: Don), a Celtic mother-deity, who also

appears in the name Túatha de Danann, which translates as "People" or " Tribe of the goddess

Danu", the mother of the god Dagda, the leader of the Túatha de Danann.

A variant of the name Danu is Anu, in Irish Mythology a mother deity and in Sumerian this

becomes the male ancestor of the gods (another reversal) and the "city god" of Uruk (biblical

Erech), todays Warka in Iraq. Uruk is recognized again as the hometown of Gilgamesh (king of

Uruk about 2652 to 2602 BC) and Anu is the father of all gods in the Epic of Gilgamesh 4 , who

creates, among other things, for Ishtar the "Celestial Bull" who is supposed to crush

Gilgamesh.

It's amazing what can be found once you start searching. And the area in which I am looking

has a lot more to offer, it is located on the great European watershed between the Danube

and the Moldava. Countless natural stone-sanctuaries and a variety of underground chambers

and corridors, the so-called earth stables, which still await a coherent explanation are being

found here. In addition, under the Plöckenstein-massif, coming from Bavaria and extending

south towards Linz, runs a quartz-line, which is known as the "Dragonridge". From an

energetic point of view, therefore, one of the strongest areas in Central Europe and probably

not only for this reason it was also an important center in past epochs.

Should all this also be related to the extensive landscape restructuring, the almost complete

depopulation of this area after the 2nd World War, where especially on the Czech side entire

settlements were brought to the ground and large parts of the Bohemian Forest were turned

into a military restricted area for 45 years, until the fall of the Iron Curtain?

It looks as if all traces of the past have been removed here, so as not to leave any hint of our

true heritage, of our true roots, which prevents us from growing further and makes us lose

touch with our great Mother, the Earth. Don't many of us at this time have the impression of

being uprooted, alienated from nature, and not belonging to any "people"? Collective feelings

of guilt and irrational fears dominate the minds of people in this time, egoism and materialism

keep us in a stranglehold and religions as well as wide branches of the sciences remain in their

dogmas and contribute more to the division than to the unification of people.

But what is our true past?

Do we find any more evidence of a long-gone culture or even civilization in the heart of Europe

out here in the Bohemian Forest? We will continue our search and with some further

impressions of the Austrian part of Mt. Plöckenstein we will continue our way to the Bavarian

side and visit the so-called "Sea of Stones”.

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Hermann Ranke, Das Gilgamesch Epos, Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006

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Picture 12: huge blocks on the way to the summit.

Picture 13: the most elevated point of the Plöckenstein with summit cross.

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Picture 14: Collapsed structures with blocks as seen in the block heaps.

Picture 15: the summit-plateau of the Austrian part of Mt. Plöckenstein.

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The seat of the gods

In addition to the two sacred places for the worship of the female and the male primordial

energies, there was always a "dwelling place of the gods" in earlier cultures, whether they

were true gods, or simply those who ruled over the country and its people at that time. From

many other cultures, such as those of the Egyptians, the Incas, or the Mayans as well as from

India, China, and Thailand, we know the stories about those god-kings. Often the line between

gods, demigods and royal rulers is not clear and there are always connections between all the

different cultures. So often the same deities in the different cultures simply have different

names. The Egyptian god Thoth became Hermes among the Greeks, Mercurius among the

Romans, and Janus among the Teutons (or Thothones!), to name just one example of many.

But before we dive deeper into the historical context, there is still some fieldwork to be done.

Already during my first hikes on Mt. Plöckenstein in 2013, I discovered structures and rock

formations in the block heaps on the southern slope of the Bavarian part of Mt. Plöckenstein,

which in the past was interestingly called ”Mount block-stone“. Formations like what can be

found elsewhere in the walls of ancient ruins. Viewed from a distance (Picture 15), the block

heaps look very impressive. On closer inspection of the individual blocks in these block heaps,

I found sufficient confirmation for my theory, because many of these forms cannot have arisen

naturally for me.

Picture 15: View towards the Bavarian part of Mt. Plöckenstein and the "Sea of Stones".

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With the study of this area in connection with disappeared cultures and civilizations in Central

Europe, a past of which we know next to nothing and my theory about huge, almost destroyed

buildings, I have opened a field of research that did not exist here before. In other countries

such as Russia or North America, research of this kind has already been done for some time

and so I have many possibilities of comparison to the phenomena I have investigated. I am

also in active exchange about our findings with local and international research colleagues.

With some of them I have already visited and inspected some areas here in the Bohemian

Forest together.

In the pictures below, we take a look at some parts of these stone fields, before we move on

to taking a closer look at individual specimens. Here you can see very well what an incredible

number of blocks lie in these block heaps.

Picture 17 to 20: thousands of blocks are laying in the "Sea of Stones".

On these pictures you can already see that these blocks and plates sometimes have very

interesting shapes. Their shapes differ considerably from those of the rock next to the block

heaps. The former forest is gone and gives us the chance to view those structures.

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Picture 18

Picture 19

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However, it is only on closer inspection that it is noticeable that some of these forms do not

look natural and, in my opinion, have been artificially shaped. Here are just a few examples

among the finds I have documented. To clarify: these pictures clearly show cone connections

between two stone blocks. These are all too well known to us in other Megalithic Buildings,

such as Stonehenge or in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

Picture 20 and 21

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Picture 22 and 23: shaped blocks of enormous size.

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Occasionally you will find blocks that are still joined together. These examples are also

reminiscent of excerpts from well-known Megalithic walls and do not occur naturally in this

form.

Picture 24 and 25: reminiscent of ancient stone compounds.

Other examples of artificial processing are stone carvings, called “Petroglyphs”, of which I have

found only a few so far, but which nevertheless give me an undeniable indication of artificial

modification of these stones.

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Since this rock in the block heaps is extremely hard and resistant, leaching by water is out of

the question here. Furthermore, due to the current positioning of these blocks alone, it is

almost impossible for rainwater to run over these blocks in larger quantities and draw these

lines in the stone. Since these depressions are also continuously overgrown by lichens, these

carvings may not have been applied in the recent past. In addition, these lichens take a very

long time to grow extensive, some of them take centuries to reach the size seen here.

Picture 26 and 27: this block is in the middle of one of the stone fields and bears a very interesting rock carving

that does not seem to be of natural origin.

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Especially furrows like these, shown here, are more often found on the blocks in the Sea of

Stones, but their function or meaning is still unclear. The degree of hardness of these stones

also doesn´t make it easy to create carvings on the surface and it seems impossible to be

done with Stone Age tools. Stonemasons would not use this material today because it is too

difficult to work with.

Picture 28 and 29

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Which patterns, pictures, or even characters these engravings once represented, or whether

they fulfilled a purely practical purpose, can no longer be determined today, since contiguous

processed surfaces simply no longer exist.

The former size of this building complex will probably remain a secret forever. Judging by the

number of slabs and blocks that can be found here and that cover these block heaps in several

layers, it was once probably one of the largest buildings on European soil and certainly did not

need to shy away from comparison with other megalithic buildings worldwide.

The lichens on the stones in the stone fields also point to underground passages and tunnels

because it is a type of sulfur lichen that thrives only in places of increased sulfur concentration

in the air. This higher sulfur content is caused by the draft that pulls from the Earth's interior

between the blocks to the outside and which you can literally feel in some places.

If you now look again at the entire ridge of Mt. Plöckenstein, you can see that in addition to

the large block heaps, there are some smaller ones, which are also covered by these blocks on

which this lichen grows. In my opinion, all these places, from the Dreisesselberg to the Sea of

Stones up to the Temple of the Sun on the Austrian side, are connected by underground

tunnels and these tunnels are also responsible for the draft that brings sulfur enriched air to

the surface.

In addition, I have found several places that look like former caves or tunnel entrances, but all

of them were locked or blown up without exception. There is currently no access to these

tunnel systems inside Mt. Plöckenstein and the previously mentioned, closed places are not

so easily reopened, because of the size of the boulders.

At the summit of the Bavarian Mt. Plöckenstein, above the block heaps at 1,365 meters above

sea level, we find further signs of artificial processing and the high art of megalithic

construction. The blocks that can be seen here have an extraordinary number of right angles,

straight edges and flat surfaces and are hardly weathered at all due to their extreme strength

and hardness. Over time, these structures have been moved further and further apart by

earthquakes and snow pressure, but some of their original position can still be clearly seen.

We will take a closer look at this rock a little later and make comparisons to the stones at the

Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Great Mother. But here are some pictures of the

structures above the Sea of Stones, near the highest point of the Bavarian Plöckenstein. On

the broken blocks you can see that this stone basically does not break completely straight, but

rather shows irregular breaking edges. The uniform thickness of the individual plates is also

another indication of artificial processing or production of these stones for me. Furthermore,

you can see an extraordinary number of rectangular blocks here at the summit, which do not

appear broken, but shaped.

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Pictures. 30 and 31

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Picture 32, 33 and 34

If you walk through the block heaps, you will also notice that there is no vegetation in these

stone fields. The reason for this is that there are countless layers of plates and blocks on top

of each other. Even if seeds fall on these areas, they do not find fertile soil here. For me, this

means that before the collapse or destruction of this former "building", there were cavities

under the building, as well as inside the building itself.

Right next to the block heaps you stand on grown ground on which there is soil, blueberry

bushes and trees, normal vegetation as it also occurs on the surrounding mountains. However,

the stones that we find in the stone fields differ considerably from those that occur right next

to them, and the green-yellow lichen can also only be found in the block heaps, but not on the

adjacent rock. In the stone fields there is more than 95% only one type of rock, which has a

completely different crystalline structure than the rock that is otherwise found up here. This

stone here is one of the hardest granites I've seen in the entire upper Mühlviertel. I have not

found a stone of the same quality, color, and structure anywhere else. For me, this stone in

the block heaps is unique so far and the question of its origin is still one of the most interesting.

Picture 35: this type of rock can be found almost exclusively in the block heaps on Mt. Plöckenstein.

For some years now, I have also been working on the idea of artificial rock mixtures, the socalled

“Geopolymer Concrete”, which is known to have been used in many ways in ancient

times.

However, cement was not used as a binder, as we do today, but other substances such as the

ashes of burnt rice straw or volcanic ashes for example.

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Especially with the volcanic ash I became attentive because I have learned something from my

own experience that fits perfectly into the picture here.

I worked for several years at the company Wolf Systembau in concrete tank construction and

was able to get to know a new concrete mixture that had just been developed at the time and

which I had to use to build a large biogas power plant instead of conventional concrete.

The name of this product was "Slagstar", but was also called “Eco-concrete”, because it was

mixed without cement, which is known to require a lot of energy in production and is

therefore not very ecological.

With the Slagstar, ground blast furnace slag was used as a binder and we are not so far away

from the previously mentioned volcanic ashes, because both originally come from burnt rock.

The other "ingredients" for the Slagstar-mixture were quartz sand, gravel and water and a

little chemistry, about which the technicians of the developer company (Wopfinger

Betonwerke) unfortunately kept a little covered.

What they told me, however, could also have been included in the geopolymer mixtures of

antiquity and these were hemp fibers! According to the test results of the company

Wopfinger, with this mixture you can build floor, walls, and ceiling (!) of a round container

completely without reinforcement iron, so without steel reinforcement.

From my own experience I know about the final strength of the Slagstar, it is also 100%

waterproof and acid resistant, and I know what it looks like when you break it in the cured state.

And here, too, there are great similarities to the rock from the block heaps.

Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos of this material at the time. The patent to produce the

Slagstar was sold to India and the Eco-concrete is no longer used in Austria.

Of course, I showed a sample of this rock from the block heaps to a professional, Andreas

Thinschmidt, geologist, and mining historian from Krumlov am Kamp. He said this looks like

a naturally grown stone with proportions of Quartz and Plakioklas and a few other crystals

such as Tourmalines, but a complete chemical analysis of the rock is still pending.

For me, however, there is still the possibility that this is an artificial rock mixture, because

where this stone lays today, it is certainly not "grown", it only occurs in a few places here and

all the surrounding rock as well as the parent rock below is of a completely different origin.

For comparison, I show here some detailed shots of the rock next to the stone fields as well

as at the Devil's Bowl, which looks very similar throughout, consists of two main components,

namely Quartz and Feldspar and which can be found all the way over to the Dreisesselberg.

Another exception are the white blocks of the "Temple of the Sun", which look like a mixture

of the other two stones and is also to be settled between the two in terms of hardness and

density. Example 1 is again the stone from the block heaps.

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Picture. 36 and 37

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Here we can see two examples of the Devil's Bowl and Mt. Plöckenstein on the Bavarian side

with the coarse Feldspars.

Picture 38 and 39

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And these are two of the blocks at the Temple of the Sun on the Austrian Mt. Plöckenstein.

Picture 40 and 41

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To illustrate that the theory of artificial rock-formations has much more background than is

assumed in official archaeology, we make a short trip to Bosnia, to the "Valley of the Pyramids"

in Visoko. In April 2005, Dr. Semir Osmanagic discovered pyramids here, which he has been

researching and documenting ever since. I traveled to Visoko for the first time in the summer

of 2012 to volunteer for the excavations and to get an impression for myself. Further visits

during the years were to follow. There I also met my wife Tanja, who worked for the second

summer for the "Foundation Archaeological Park: Bosnian pyramid of the sun", for the first

time.

Since my own research around this "Valley of the Pyramids" and the knowledge gained from

it in its entirety, would far exceed the scope of the work presented here, I will only briefly

mention the discovery and analysis of the geo-polymer concrete used there. The previous

research results and scientific investigations were summarized and published by Dr.

Osmanagic in his book "Pyramids around the world & lost pyramids of Bosnia" 5 in 2012. In

this book there is also a complete analysis of the ancient "concrete" and I will show on two

pictures, that one can also consider this material to be "natural rock" (in this case

conglomerate). The photos I have shown come from the so-called "Pyramid of the Sun", where

this "Concrete" was processed in several layers in the outer shell of the pyramid.

Picture 42: Geopolymer-concrete from the outer shell of the "Pyramid of the Sun" in Visoko.

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Dr. sci Semir Osmanagic, Pyramids around the world & lost pyramids of Bosnia, published by the

Foundation archaeological park, Sarajevo 2012

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Picture 43: coarser Geopolymer-concrete from Visoko.

Since it is an artificial mixture, the structure of these blocks depends on the "ingredients" of

the ancient concrete used. As a binding material, granite dust was used here in conjunction

with locally mined clay (Dr. Osmanagic).

The publication of this discovery impressively shows that Europe was also inhabited by past

civilizations. Well-known cultures such as the Vinca culture already settled in the Balkans and

along the Danube in the millennia before Christ. Harald Haarmann, author of the book "The

Mystery of the Danube Civilization" 6 , also describes parts of this former high culture of

Europe, which is proven between the 6th and 4th millennium BC and which, according to

Haarmann, already knew the script before the Mesopotamians.

Today we know that traces of this civilization can be traced much further up the Danube.

Haarmann does not mention anything about the discoveries in Bosnia in his book and in the

manuscript of Dr. Peter Stadler we find evidence of a past settlement of Central Europe, which

has not yet been published.

The exploration of the area around the Plöckenstein in the Bohemian Forest is therefore just

another piece of the puzzle to complete the picture of a civilization that existed over 7000

years ago in the heart of Europe. This would mean that this civilization already existed before

that of the Sumerians and Hittites and before the Egyptians and thus also preceded the ancient

Greek culture.

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Harald Haarmann, Das Rätsel der Donauzivilisation, Verlag C.H.Beck, Munich 2011

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Another question related to the construction of such gigantic structures, as we find them

worldwide and which I believe they also existed here, is the question: "Who were the builders

of these structures?"

In the next chapter we will try to find an answer or at least useful hints. And once again we

will connect interesting points and thereby gain a more detailed picture of our actual past.

Ancient architects

To answer the question about "Who" built these things, we can again use old writings and

traditions that can at least give us information about what we think to know so far.

I quote from the book "Pathways of the Gods/The Heritage of the Shamans" 7 by Christa Zettel,

a Viennese author and initiate into the mysteries of the African continent.

"A special role is played by Sabaeism, which decisively shaped Hebrews, on whose traditions

Christianity goes back. The origins of Sabaeism point to a mythical "second race" of darkskinned

giants that inhabited the Mediterranean region in prehistoric times. They set their

"signs" on mountain heights and built sanctuaries in the mountains of Africa, Europe, the

Caucasus, and Asia. The giants of the second race or world, with whose religion Sabaeism is

compared, practiced cosmology and metallurgy, and were considered great magicians. At the

center of their religion was the cosmos. Presumably they are the "Ad" (or Atlanteans), the

descendants of the "first Ad" (or pre-Atlantoi) of which the Quran reports."

Giants, well; now let's take a good look at what Gisela von Frankenberg's "Culture-comparing

Lexika" 8 says about it. (In an abbreviated version, as this explanation extends over two pages).

Giants: Myths of a human giant race are global and exist in oral and written tradition.

According to H.P. Blavatsky 9 , they belonged to the 4th root race, and all disappeared with

the Flood. The Bible also places the Nephilim (giants) before this end of the world ...

On a rock painting in Tassili, North Africa, giant and giantess are of enormous proportions

compared to humans and animals...

In Asia, the 5 giant statues at the Hindukush, at the foot of the Koh-i-baba, are said to

represent the first 5 root breeds, the body size of the 4th root breed is given here as 8 meters

(the physical size of Gilgamesh) ...

German example "Rübezahl"...

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Christa Zettel, Reiserouten der Götter / Das Erbe der Schamanen, Verlag Hugendubel 1999

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Gisela v. Frankenberg, Kulturvergleichendes Lexikon, published by Gisela Meussling, Bonn 1985

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H.P. Blavatsky, 1831-1891, founder of modern Theosophy and author

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But now we want to see if this is really mentioned in the Bible, and we find the following in

Genesis, chapter 6.1, verse 4:

"In those days (before the flood) there were the giants on earth, and even later, after the sons

of God had engaged with the daughters of men and they had given birth to children to them.

These are the heroes of prehistoric times, the famous men."

Furthermore, the Bible tells of the encounter between David and Goliath, but elsewhere also

tells of Goliath's brothers in connection with the fighting Philistines. And it is not only from

these ancient sources that we get clues to the existence of giants, namely, as the Bible indicates,

stories about giants after the Flood, which we have preserved as myths and legends in all

countries. Also, in Austria there are a variety of such giant legends, especially here in the

Mühlviertel.

Picture 44: from a joint excursion with Franz Madlmayer in St. Stefan am Walde, a panel designed by him with a

legend about giants (in German).

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So according to this legend there were several giants here in our area!

An extensive processing of this topic can be found, among other things, on

www.atlantisforschung.de, under the heading “Giants in German-speaking countries”, where

there is also talk of excavation finds of gigantic human bones and on www.sagen.at we find

a list of different giant legends from all over Austria.

An actual proof is still difficult on this subject, but it seems impossible to me that all these

stories worldwide, be they myths or legends, secret teachings, or religious writings, have

always sprung only from the imagination.

It even seems plausible that before the so-called “Great Flood” there were considerably more

giants and giant beings (dinosaurs), but that by no means all of them died in this catastrophe.

Our stories and legends often speak only of individual giants, less often of two or even several,

which are said to have lived somewhere in the forest on hills and in caves. So, in "our time"

they were no longer the great and powerful rulers of the country and the people, but rather

seem lonely and lost.

The gigantic ancient buildings, that we can admire worldwide today, bear further witness to

the fact that their builders were probably of enormous size. Doors, corridors and halls and

several huge statues at many of these archaeological sites fit amazingly well with "people" of

about 6.5 to 8 meters height.

The remains of the former buildings on Mt. Plöckenstein also bear witness to the same size of

these buildings, which may have been built by those giants before unknown times. As also noted

in the Quran, they built dwellings and sanctuaries, geomantic buildings for the benefit of the

energetic processes on earth.

Whether all these giants were great builders and magicians, as some legends report, I cannot

judge. But someone is mentioned again and again in relation to the construction of such

facilities and that is the Egyptian god Thoth.

He is said to be the inventor of all sciences and arts, languages, and writing, he is considered,

in some scripts, to be the Architect of the Pyramids of Giza and is also mentioned in connection

with the construction of the Pyramid of the Sun in Visoko.

We already know that he had different names in different cultures, he was known everywhere.

Thus, there is the possibility for me that he, Thoth (Mercurius, Hermes, Janus) traveled the

whole world at that time and gave instructions everywhere on how to build such complexes.

The orientation towards different constellations, for example Giza and the constellation of

Orion, is also said to go back to him, as well as the invention of the German language (!), as

Gisela von Frankenberg (in volume 2, "Meaning and origin of the term German", from her

"Nommological Semester Series") explains in a very vivid way.

This allows us to establish a strong link between Europe and the ancient culture of the

Egyptians, who also had connections to the Sumerians and especially to the Hittites.

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It now seems almost impossible that at least one of these ancient "gods" would never have

set foot in our territory in Central Europe. I think that here too we have similar roots as other

cultures on the Eurasian continent and in Africa.

Recommended for studying the early history of Europe and Africa, for me is the book "Path of

the Gods/The Heritage of the Shamans" by Christa Zettel as well as the entire work of Gisela

v. Frankenberg. 10

In addition, I am by no means the only researcher who finds what he is looking for in his work

on past cultures and ancient buildings in Europe. There are now countless documentaries on

such buildings in the Mühlviertel and Waldviertel, in Bavaria and far up to central Germany.

I will attach a list of such researchers at the end of this work to make further discoveries

accessible to interested parties.

We will now go a little further north, over the ridge of the Bavarian Plöckenstein, over to the

Dreisesselberg where, in my opinion, there has also been a large cultural center. Here I

suspect the remains of three large stone pyramids and the heavily weathered remains of a

former Sphinx. Compared to the other places here in the Bohemian Forest, you will find some

very heavily weathered rock on the Dreisesselberg, which at least indicates a low resistance

of this very coarse-grained type of granite. On some places here again, we find those white

blocks which we already know from the “Temple of the sun". But the majority has a rather

grayish color, like the stones in on Devil's Bowl.

The monumental blocks that serve as the foundation for the actual Three-chair Stone are

among the most impressive rock forms in the entire area.

With the remains of a once huge building complex discovered and documented here and

which stretches over several kilometers up to the Austrian Mt. Plöckenstein, the overall

picture gets completed, and we find many distinguishing features to compare this area with

other ancient sites on our planet.

The similarities of the rock formations as well as the quality of the stones is compelling when

one begins to compare the findings worldwide.

10 Gisela v. Frankenberg, all works published in German by Gisela Meussling, Bonn 1985

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Stone Giants

Picture 45: View from the Bavarian part of Mt. Plöckenstein to the Dreisesselberg, whose highest point, the

Hochstein (here on the right in the picture) is located at 1,333 meters above sea level. On the left in the picture

is the Dreisesselfels (Three-chair-rock), right next to it the Restaurant Dreisesselhaus.

On this high plateau, from my point of view, there were once three large stone pyramids, of

which today only these three completely weathered cairns remain. To the left of the

Dreisesselfels you can see some of the white blocks, as we also find them at the place of the

Temple of the Sun.

When I talk about the debris laying around, ruins of buildings of a former high culture, I can't

help but think about when and how all this was destroyed.

Again, we find references to this in ancient scriptures such as the Mahabharata, in the Epic of

Gilgamesh or in the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah within the Bible. All

these narratives speak (without explicitly mentioning these designations) of the use of

weapons, like an atomic bomb, and of high frequency "energy rays".

Another important point is the previously mentioned Flood, an event that, in my opinion,

always occurs at the end of a period of about 26,000 years. It is also reasonable to assume

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that the last such disaster was triggered by someone, as can be seen from all the writings

mentioned.

In Greek mythology 11 , on the one hand, there is the “Battle of the Gods”, on the other hand,

the “Battle between Gods and Humans”, whatever that really means, it does not sound like a

purely natural catastrophe. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, you can read:

"When a glimmer of the morning shone, black cloud rose at the bottom of the sky. Adad

thundered in it, Schullat and Hanisch, the gods, go forward, walk as heralds over mountains

and country. The ship's piles are torn out by Irragal, Ninurta goes and breaks through the

dams. The Annunaki raise the torches, with their terrible splendor inflaming the land."

If you take a closer look at the rock city of Petra in Jordan, you will notice that large parts of

the entire mountain must have disappeared here, even literally evaporated, as signs of glazing

on the still existing rock indicate signs of high-energy radiation that can melt stones and more.

If you look at the foundations here on the Dreisesselberg, you can hardly guess how big this

structure must have been once.

Picture 46: Blocks like this can only be found here at the foot of the Dreisesselfelsen.

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Gustav Schwab, Sagen des klassische Altertums, Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2011

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These blocks are strongly reminiscent of laid masonry. The continuous vertical joints could be

a kind of expansion joints or sliding joints to cushion earthquakes, for example, and thus

ensure the stability of the structure.

Here too, the so-called “wool sack weathering “only explains the eroded outer sides of the

formation, but not its block-like nature. In the lowest layers you can already see the transverse

joints which are more weathered further up, but these joints themselves look as if they have

always been there. To me, they don't look like fractures in the stone, but like joints of a

masonry.

Picture 47: Detail of the wall joints.

Of course, there is an official explanation for all these rock forms from a geological point of

view and this often seems very plausible, but from my personal point of view this is also to be

questioned again and again, because much of it has not been clarified beyond doubt to this

day. Part of my work is also to compare other finds of this kind with what is shown here, to

incorporate the findings of other researchers and, wherever possible, to listen to the delivered

traditions of the indigenous peoples.

However, this is very difficult, especially in Central Europe, as we apparently did not have an

indigenous population here, from whom ancient knowledge and certain rituals would have

been handed down. There is still a belief that the Indo-European and Celtic tribes did not have

sufficient writing, or that at that time the script was not used to write down stories from the

past.

But I just can't believe that in such a general way, because at least the druids and priestesses

from that time were powerful in a scripture, take the Runic Script as an example. If we look

again at the work of Alexander Putney 12 , we learn about a script or characters that even

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Alexander Putney, Sanskrit, free e-book and pdf, www.human-resonance.org

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preceded the runic as well as the cuneiform script, even the Sanskrit (holy scripture of India)

known today. It is also interesting to know that Putney's work is based on the discoveries of

Prof. Kurt Schildmann (1909-2005). Schildmann was a German linguist and archaeologist who

traveled all over the world and made amazing discoveries (more on Prof. Schildmann on

www.human-resonance.org).

However, the stone structures found here on Mt. Plöckenstein, the Temple of the Moon or the

Dreisesselberg (Three-chair-mountain) are for the most part so heavily weathered that it

becomes difficult to discover any characters carved in stone, apart from the lines and shapes

I have already shown before. Although I have found such a carving in a stone here on the

Dreisesselberg, I think it is more recent.

Picture 48: Rock carvings on the Dreisesselberg.

As already mentioned, this rock, especially the one on the Dreisesselberg, weathers relatively

quickly. You can even easily detach some of the outer quartz crystals with your fingers. This

shows that here the frost, wind and weather have an easy time with the erosion of these

structures. They have also been exposed to the weather on this high plateau for several

thousand years.

If you walk a little further north on this hill, you will again find shapes that are amazingly

reminiscent of the remains of buildings and the remaining piles of stones look like piles of

rubble of collapsed buildings. On the following pictures you can see some such places on the

Dreisesselberg.

It even sometimes gives the impression that there were once large cavities inside of these

structures, perhaps even access portals.

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Picture 49 and 50

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When buildings are destroyed, or collapse over time, there are always parts of the wall that

last longer than others. These are, for example, interior corners to which several walls connect

and which for this reason are more massive and steadfast than a free-standing wall. The

following picture shows such a "wall-corner ".

Picture 51

Around 1923, a monument to the German freedom fighter Albert Leo Schlageter was erected

here, as we found out from an old postcard. Today, only the imprint of the memorial plaque

remains.

Picture 52 and 53

Although it is surprising at first that such a monument was erected in this remote place, it also

shows that this area was already very interesting for some people at that time. Even during

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the 2nd World War, there were always secret meetings up here and even processions and

rituals, which were organized and often led by high SS officers.

Gisela von Frankenberg already mentions in the introduction of her book "Nommo, 25,000

Years of Knowledge as Art" the topicality of the search for seemingly "lost knowledge" in the

recent past and quotes the following from Jean Michel Angelberts work: Hitler et la tradition

Cathare (Edition Robert Laffont, Paris 1971):

"In the eyes of the new masters of Germany, it was a matter of rediscovering the red thread

of lost knowledge under all circumstances."

Baron von Sebottendorf (1875-1945), German occultist and founder of the Thule Society, said

similar things and Otto Rahn's book "Crusade after the Grail" became compulsory reading for

all high SS ranks.

Information like this can sometimes be obtained when you talk to the local population. One

day I met a slightly older man up there, who told me about his father's experiences. He had

often taken part in such happenings, but was not allowed to participate in the aforementioned

"rituals" and had to wait at a distance for the procession participants in order to accompany

them back to the valley afterwards. This often happened at night, which is why a local guide

was needed.

Today, almost nothing is known about such events, and I have unfortunately not noted the

name or address of this man. Sometimes you meet someone "by chance" and get into

conversation without ever meeting again later. At that time, I only classified this story as a

"story", because I didn't know much about the connections up here. A few years later, based

on the representations of my impressions on Facebook and Youtube, I was contacted by

someone who told me about one of his experiences there.

He said he hikes very often in this area, taking pictures of the starry night sky. During such a

night, he was near the structure shown above, when images appeared before his mind's eye,

showing people in such a torchlight procession. Since he couldn't quite classify these pictures,

he called me one day to talk to me about it.

This was also a very interesting conversation, as I was able to understand his experience and

classify such events not as fantasy, but as an intuitive perception of a past happened event.

What this procession should be good for, neither of us knew.

Over the last few years, my picture has been completed and by working with fellow researcher

friends, we have been able to find out more amazing details.

For example, Dwaine Sieler, a researcher from Idaho, USA, has created an extensive database

of ancient energetic connecting lines (leylines) over the past 25 years. I have already sent him

coordinates of the places I work on several times, to compare them with his data. According

to Dwaine, many of these points are ancient navigation points, all located at the same latitude

as the places he discovered and documented in North America and Alaska. Also, the

"Megaliths of Montana" discovered by Julie Ryder, also in the USA are located at this latitude,

as well as other very similar areas in Russia (Vootovaara and Shoria Mountains for example),

where I am also in contact with some researchers.

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If you perceive all these connections, be it energetic connections or very similar-looking rock

structures, you get a much larger picture of what has been said so far. All these conversations

and collaborations with other researchers reinforce my assumption that here in the Bohemian

Forest we are also dealing with traces of a past culture or civilization.

The remaining piles of stones that can be found today on the Dreisesselberg may not be more

than large piles of stones and not the remains of any buildings as I perceive them. Much of

this cannot yet be proven, but all the clues found make working on such a theory even more

exciting for me. Before we look at some more interesting discoveries, here is a picture of these

ominous cairns on the Dreisesselberg.

Picture 54: the "Hochstein" (High Stone) at 1,333 m above sea level with the summit cross.

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Sculptures and sound-stones

What is left to round off my depictions are artificial Stone Structures, looking like remains of

Antique Sculptures, which I found in this region of the Bavarian Forest.

These could be remnants of former Sculptures. They could give us an indication about the time

of creation of the gigantic "buildings" described, since the symbolism used is related to the

constellations that dominated the starry sky at that time.

The remains of such a sculpture discovered by me right next to the Dreisesselfels have an

astonishing resemblance to other depictions of a Sphinx, also gnawed by the ravages of time.

We also know one of these from the Giza Plateau, where it can be found not far from the three

great pyramids and is oriented on the east-west axis. The rock formation on the Dreisesselberg

is also oriented towards this axis, but looks to the west, exactly opposite to the Sphinx of Giza,

which looks directly towards sunrise. Another difference is that this sphinx here was probably

a winged Sphinx, as we know it from Greek mythology. A well-known theory by Robert Bauval

speaks of an alignment of the three pyramids of Giza on the constellation Orion and the Sphinx

on the constellation Leo at the time of sunrise. However, an incredible 12,000 years ago. Dr.

J.J. Hurtak 13 also describes these connections in his book "The Keys of Enoch".

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Picture 55: this looks like an eroded Sphinx to me

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Dr. J.J.Hurtak, The keys of Enoch, published by The Academy for future science, 7. Auflage 2016

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Gisela v. Frankenberg sets the end of the world (Flood) at 11,432 BC, about 13,500 years ago

and this could indicate the time of the destruction of these ancient buildings, but this would

mean that they were built long before this time and "only" the Sphinx of Giza was rebuilt or

realigned after this catastrophe. In the following two pictures I see the remains of the Sphinx

of the Dreisesselberg, which, according to the timeline of Gisela von Frankenberg, would have

about 13,000 years of weathering behind it, which would have a very strong influence on the

rock in our latitudes.

If we allow our imagination to run wild and look at these rock formations not only with the

eye of the geologist, but with our intuitive, emotional perception, then another, possible

reality opens.

Picture 56

We can find many heavily eroded structures like this one all over the world and although they

don´t fit in the official versions of our history, the similarities often are compelling.

Sometimes we need a little eye-opener, a picture from another place or a friend who points at

something we did not see yet, to be able to expand our own picture of the world. We already

know that many ancient sites were reconstructed, rearranged or simply destroyed, some were

just never mentioned or even discovered.

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Another structure on the plateau of the Dreisesselberg (Picture 57), also looks like a sculpture

to me, although I can't say what it is supposed to represent here. The arrangement of the

stones that make up this structure is not natural in my eyes, but I show it here primarily

because I find it beautiful and enigmatic.

Picture 57

In many other places you can also find rock structures that only seem natural at first glance.

However, if you let these structures have a little longer effect on you, very interesting forms

appear and when you learn to listen to the stories a stone remembers, you can get a glimpse

of eternity.

The last sculpture I will show here can be found near the Devil's Bowl, hidden behind the large

rock southwest of the main rock. The photos show a broken part that looks like the head of a

snake to me.

I have not yet been able to determine where this piece has broken off, but due to the size of

this section I suspect that it was a much larger sculpture. It could also be that this was attached

as a relief to a wall since there is no eye socket on the back of this piece and the surface looks

very straight overall.

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Picture 58: Nose, eye socket and head shape of a snake are easy to recognize.

Picture 59: on the right you can clearly see the demolition edge.

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Since the snake used to be considered a symbol of wisdom, this is another indication to me

that this was once a temple complex and that the entire stone formations at that time served

a mainly energetical purpose.

Due to the destruction of these buildings worldwide, the earth's energy grid has also been

significantly impaired, and the flow of energies has been changed or disturbed. That had to be

put right after this disaster! But we do not know today who did this.

Another discovery on Mt. Plöckenstein and on Dreisesselberg are the so-called “Sound-stones”

or Lithophones. These are stones that produce a certain sound when struck with a stone or

other material.

Mag. Gabriele Lukacs, Historian, and author of books about Power-places in Lower Austria,

discovered such a sound stone during our joint hike through my field of research. According

to her assessment, it was deliberately placed on this site to release the sound vibrations

(energy frequencies) from the mountain plateau to the entire environment.

Also, at the top of the rock formation of the Devil's Bowl, there is a large and a small example

of these vibrating stones, which in my opinion have been placed in such a way that they absorb

and direct the energy flows of the Telluric energies, the earth energies. Starting with the

already known "Mushroom of Oberschwarzenberg", I found many more stones in the entire

area, which look like placed.

Note in all the following pictures how these stones are stored and on how little contact surface

they connect to the supportive rocks. This allows these stones to vibrate as freely as possible.

Also, the distribution of their weight often seems as if it were not possible for these stones to

remain laying for a long time. In fact, they are stabilized in their position by the flow of the

earth's energy "Chi", an electro-magnetic form of energy constantly flowing upwards from the

earth, by means of the quartz contained in the stones. These stones are placed on special

acupuncture points of our planet, where the energy streams are bundled and in constant

interaction with the cosmos.

Often, we also find artificially created bowls on these stones, such as at the top of the Devil's

Bowl and on the discovered sound stone on the Bavarian Plöckenstein.

I will present here only some of the sound stones found so far, as there are more than 20 such

stones there. Many more have not yet been rediscovered or documented, so my work in the

Bohemian Forest is far from over.

Already now it is possible to recognize certain patterns in their positioning, but only when all

have been found, you can create a complete plan.

In addition, the flow of energy that runs through these stones, changes at certain times, such

as solar rises and sunsets, at full moons, at the equinoxes and at the solstices. Measurements

of the electro-magnetic fields around these stones are very impressive, but should be

repeatedly checked and documented at all the times mentioned and for each of these stones

to gain further insights from them.

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Picture 60: Lithophone on the tip of the Devil's Bowl.

Picture 61: at the top of this stone formation there is also a larger bowl.

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Picture 62 and 63: the minimal contact surface of this large block is also striking here.

Picture 64: Mag. Gabriele Lukacs next to the Sound Stone she discovered at the summit of the Bavarian Mt.

Plöckenstein. This stone contains two bowls of the same size, one to the north and one to the south.

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Picture 65: this stone also rests only on a few points on the blocks underneath it.

The largest sound stone found so far, called "Moby Dick", near the Devil's Bowl. This stone

swings in the lowest frequency of all the sound stones I have found so far. Its oscillation is

close to our heart rate, at around 1-2 Hertz (oscillations per second) which is an absolute

haven of peace for us humans when you sit on this stone and rest.

Picture 66: “Moby Dick”.

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Most of these stones vibrate at frequencies below 35 Hertz and therefore the term "Sound

Stone" is somehow misleading, as they usually do not produce audible sounds when hit with

a stick or another stone. However, if you stand close enough to such a stone, you can feel its

vibrations, sometimes even hear a soft hum when you put an ear on it and listen closely.

Picture 67: again, only very small contact surface to the rocks below.

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Finally, we look at some of the sound-stones of the Austrian part of Mt. Plöckenstein,

especially here these stones seem to be placed in a certain relationship to each other.

These boulders are located near the summit, only supported by a few smaller stones. To me

it is quite impressive that these boulders remain in their position even after many years of

heavy winters, like we use to have here in this area.

Picture 68 to 71: "Floating Stones" at Mt. Plöckenstein

There are many more examples of such swinging stones, remains of old buildings and

sculptures on Mt. Plöckenstein and throughout the Bohemian Forest.

Whether the focus would be directed to Bavaria or the Czech Republic, or whether we

continue to hike through the Mühlviertel, this journey has only just begun. There is something

to be found everywhere in our forests, on the hills and in the valleys, within the myths and

legends of our country, the stories that have been handed down to us.

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Closing remarks

My first overview of the exploration of this area ends here, but only to find its continuation

elsewhere in discovering, exploring and documenting further “Traces of the past”.

I think that each of these stones on Mt. Plöckenstein has a story to tell, that everyone "sings"

in a different tune and that all together create a wonderful melody. In the case of the

Australian aborigines, the energetic connecting pathways of the earth's grid are called "songlines",

vocal cords in the choir of our Mother Earth. Can we learn to listen to this song again

and tune in to the natural sound of nature to sing this " Song of Life" together with her?

Here in the far north of Austria there are many places which invite us to reconnect and support

us during the next big step of human development in our time.

Our journey through this part of the Bohemian Forest is coming to an end and I can only say

thank you, interested reader, for following me until the end. The picture is far from finished,

the puzzle has not yet been reassembled, but I am sure that every day one or the other piece

can be found to complete this picture.

On my way I have found many companions in recent years, my friend Balu is unfortunately no

longer among them. He went back to the pure spiritual world, after he had completed his

mission to guide and protect me. His image will remain in my heart forever and one day we

will meet again, somewhere out in the woods.

I would also like to say thank you to all the people who have accompanied me on my way,

supported me and often corrected me. The list of these people would be far too long here,

but each of them knows about my gratitude!

Special thanks to Mag. Gabriele Lukacs for editing and corrections and my wife Tanja, who is

always a great support for me. With a quote from Gisela v. Frankenberg, I conclude this small

work.

"The greatest work is silent and invisible, so unbearably silent and lonely that it finds only

few servants ---- can we find our way back from the confusion; work to become human!"

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Bibliography:

Günther Kantilli, Naturheiligtümer im Mühlviertel, Verlag Styria regional 2013,

Viktor Schauberger, Unsere sinnlose Arbeit, Jörg Schauberger Verlag, Bad Ischl 2001

Dipl. Ing. DDr Peter Stadler, unpublished manuscript

Hermann Ranke, Das Gilgamesch Epos, Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006

Dr. sci Semir Osmanagic, Pyramids around the world & lost pyramids of Bosnia, published by the

Foundation archaeological park, Sarajevo 2012

Harald Haarmann, Das Rätsel der Donauzivilisation, Verlag C.H.Beck, München 2011

Christa Zettel, Reiserouten der Götter / Das Erbe der Schamanen, Verlag Hugendubel 1999

Gisela v. Frankenberg, Kulturvergleichendes Lexikon, published by Gisela Meussling, Bonn 1985

Gisela v. Frankenberg, all works published in German by Gisela Meussling, Bonn 1985

H.P. Blavatsky, 1831-1891, founder of modern Theosophy and author of “The secret Doctrine”.

Gustav Schwab, Sagen des klassische Altertums, Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2011

Alexander Putney, Sanskrit, free e-book and pdf, www.human-resonance.org

Dr. J.J.Hurtak, The keys of Enoch, published by The Academy for future science, 7. Auflage 2016

Other literature used:

Die Bibel, Einheitsübersetzung von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günther Stemberger, Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1987

The Quran, translated by Max Henning, 4th edition 2012, Diederichs Verlag, Munich

In addition, myths and legends from Austria and from all over the world, the book Enoch, Kebra Negest, Popol

Vuh, the Hermetic teachings as well as many other historical and religious writings and non-fiction books from

my private library.

Pictures:

Cover photo and all other photos, layout and design: Gunnar Hiptmair

Editors: Mag. Gabriele Lukacs, Karin Waltl, Dipl. Ing. Tanja Hiptmair

Contact:

Gunnar Hiptmair, Spirit Nature Guide

Pühret 9, 4143 Neustift i.M.

Phone: 0650 / 35 72 621

e-mail: klaer75@gmail.com

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Tagu-experience research team:

Tanja & Gunnar Hiptmair

website: www.tagu-experience.at

youtube: TaGu experience

Facebook: Das steinerne Meer / the sea of stones

Gabriele Lukacs: www.mysterytours.at

Karin Waltl: www.lifetower.net

Eva Lapinska: Eva Lapinska on Facebook and Twitter

Julie Ryder: www.Montanamegaliths.com , www.Galacticfacets.com

Günther Lassi: www.numinosa.at

Klaus Dona: www.klausdonamysteries.x10host.com

Uwe Langeder: Stonehunter in the woods on youtube

Roman Pollak: STONE IS ETERNITY on youtube

Dwaine Sieler: Dwaine Sieler on Facebook

Alan A. Henderson: Alan A. Henderson on Facebook

Andrew Hoodonogov: Andrew Hoodonogov on Facebook

Alexander Putney: www.human-resonance.org

Richard Gabriel: www.richardgabriel.info

John Vigneau - www.stonestrider.com

Ralf Goffin: www.spurensucher.eu

Larry Hancock: Ancient Vermont auf Facebook

Razwan Onisca: www.archaicknowledge.com

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