Megalithic Empire, The - Hardcover

M J Harper; H L Vered

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954291115 ISBN 13: 9780954291112

Publisher: Nathan Carmody, 2012

Synopsis

The Megalithic Empire Fascinating account of how long distance trade was carried out in Ancient Britain in the absence of literate devices such as maps and signposts. Full description

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Review:

Here M.J. Harper and H.L. Vered have gone back to that outmoded (Alfred) Watkinsian foundation of trade routes and leys and expanded it in a fresh way. For The Old Straight rack read Megalithic Empire, and to catch the zeitgeist, added a fair share of conspiracy theorising. From stone circles geometry they hypothesise a direct lineage of skilled craftsmen to the Gothic cathedrals and pubs. Yes, seriously. They posit a network of boozers ‘in the Megalithic know’ that can reveal their function to their potential patrons by signs that indicate a Megalithic/Masonic/Templar theme: The Turk’s Head, The Seven Sisters, the Green Man and so on. In essence, read trade. The Early British Trackways were a crude beginning of a network which has culminated in G8 and the Bilderbergers. On page 151 we read: ‘Megalithia always assumes there is no state’. When the late SF author Philip K Dick declared ‘the empire never ended’, he imagined the chains of the Roman Empire held mankind imprisoned since Biblical times to Nixon’s America. The historical revisionists here do much the same in arguing that the megalith builders continue over generations to wield an underground grasp over civilisation. Chapters trace that mercurial stranglehold through polytheistic saints, folklore beliefs, customs and festivals, major landscape alterations and domestication of animals (zebras have never been, but the authors note, ‘The Second Baron Rothschild had zebras pulling his carriage but then the Rothschilds are an extremely Megalithic family’. Tongue-in-cheek?). Challenging material for all who feel revisionism is drastically necessary to reveal our true past.

Paul Screeton, author and owner of Folklore Frontiers

About this edition

• Publisher: Nathan Carmody
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0954291115
• ISBN 13: 9780954291112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Illustrator: H L Vered