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South Africa’s Enigmatic Stone Ruins Explored

Adam's Calendar, near Mpumalanga in South Africa

It is one of the hottest subjects in the ancient mysteries subject today. What is

Adam's Calendar? Is it really the oldest stone circle in the world? Was it really made

by the Annunaki, the alien gods of the Sumerians, as a home base in their quest for

earthly gold some 200,000 years ago? Or is it just 75,000 years old, made as a stone

calendar aligned to the sun, moon and stars?

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In March 2011 I attended the first Megalithomania conference in South Africa, where I

joined Adam's Calendar experts Michael Tellinger and Johan Heine, as they attempt to

convince me of the site's extreme antiquity. I also explore just a few of the hundreds

of thousands of ancient stone ruins dismissed by archaeologists as cattle kraals, pens

for cattle, even though they might well have much deeper meanings behind their

construction.

After leaving Houston, Texas, on March 7th, 2011, I flew via London

Heathrow airport to Johannesburg, where I was picked up from the airport on Wednesday,March 9th, 2011, by none other than Michael Tellinger, who already had in the carKerry Cassidy of Project Camelot, the every popular online TV network dedicated to themore wayward mysteries of life.

Michael drove us to westwards some 130 miles (215 km) to his home town of Waterval

Boven, where he has invested in a bistro and bar called the Stone Circle, named afterthe large number of ancient stone ruins found scattered about the local hills. Theseare made up of circles of dry-stone walling, which are themselves broken up intovarious cells, lobes and apses. They are mostly unclassified, although officially theyare considered cattles kraals, i.e. pens for cattle attached to living habitation.

Even though I had now gone without sleep for more than 48 hours, it was to be aneventful day, for I was informed that a helicopter, an ex-US Army Iroquois that hadseen action in the Vietnam War, was on its way to pick up myself and other speakersand guests for the upcoming Megalithomania South Africa conference, in order that we

might see some of these ancient ruins for ourselves.

The thought of flying in a helicopter filled me with dread, as I have a thing aboutheights and I was pretty sure that it was going to take off with its side doors openin order to make filming easy. I was not wrong, so somewhat hesitantly I climbed

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onboard, strapped myself into a hot seat next to the door and held on for grim life asthe yellow chopper, which belongs to a regional fire fighting company, lifted into theair. It climbed to perhaps 1,000 feet before heading towards the local hills, wheresome of the most impressive ancient ruins are to be seen.

The ex-US Army Iroquois that took us up over the ancientstone ruins and flew us out to Adam's Calendar

From the air they looked impressive, no doubt about that. Johan Heine, the owner ofthe fire fighting company and founder of the MaKomati Foundation, which is dedicatedto preserving these ruins, has established that many of the stone settings possessprominent alignments towards the rising or setting of the sun on either the equinoxesor solstices. He, along with Michael Tellinger joined us in the helicopter to pointout the various sites below. Both men feel that the structures are extremely old, and

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dismiss any thought that they were constructed as cattle kraals, or pens. They pointout that none of them have any obvious entrances into their interiors, which wouldmake it hard for animals to go inside them.

Looking out over the ancient stone ruins of South Africa.Jonathan Adams of Pentos Films braving all to get some decent footage.

Still holding on to the seat, I hesitantly clicked my camera whenever one of theancient ruins came into view. I had no idea what to make of these structures otherthan the fact that they looked similar to the foundations of monuments on the Italianisland of Sardinia known as nuraghes, which are officially considered defensive, butdo in fact have, like the South African stone ruins, celestial alignments towardsprominent moments in the solar year.

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Four examples of the ancient stone ruins that seem scattered about the South African landscapeinthe hills above the town of Waterval Boven, where Michael Tellinger has set up a wonderful bar

and bistro called Stone Circle.

Visiting Adam's Calendar

After returning back to the Stone Circle bistro for a brief break, the helicopter tookour party, the side doors closed this time, over the hills to Adam's Calendar. This isa now quite famous prehistoric stone stone in the area of Mpumalanga discovered byJohan Heine in 2005, whilst flying over the area on a mission to rescue the pilot of a



ditched aircraft. In recent years it has been promoted, like the Bosnian pyramids, asthe oldest human structure in the world.

Situated on a sloping cliff top facing south, the site consists of a large number ofseemingly randomly scattered rock boulders, of which a small percentage have beenerected to create not so much a stone circle, but what archaeologist's refer to as astone setting. In all there are around a dozen stones that appear to be standing,including two 2.5 m slabs that stand parallel to each other in the middle of themonument.

Above left, the helicopter's shadow. Above right, on the flight to Adam's Calendar. Visible,from right to left, Michael Tellinger, Hugh Newman, Klaus Dona, Kerry Cassidy and John Agnew.



Johan Heine talked us through various solar alignments he has detected at the site. Healso points out an alignment through three recumbent stones he believes were oncestanding towards the belt stars of Orion. No controversy here, as Orion features inalignments at many prehistoric sites. The only problem is that John and Michael citethis particular alignment to prove that Adam's Calendar is at least 75,000 years old,since the stones only align with Orion as it would have appeared during this distantepoch of mankind.

Adam's Calendar Created by the Annunaki 200,000 years ago?

Michael goes further by suggesting that Adam's Calendar was constructed around 200,000years ago as a centre of operations for the Annunaki, the alien gods of the Sumerians,known also as the Nephilim. They came here from Planet Nibiru and created humanity in

order that they might work on their behalf extracting gold from the earth, which wasthen transported back to their home planet. Adam's Calendar was the creation of theAnnunaki, as were various other stone monuments locally, as well as the variousancient stone ruins seen earlier from the air. All of them were employed in the use ofgold extraction, which involved a sophisticated form of sound technology andelectromagnetic energy delivery, which came from nearby water sources.



Above left, John Heine, the discoverer of Adam's Calendar, and above right,Michael Tellinger, explaining the sound acoustics of the site.

Such ideas on Michael's part are inspired by the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, who invarious bestselling books wrote that the Annunaki created gold mines in South Africa,where evidence of mining is said go back at last 75,000 to 80,000 years. Sitchin's

source for his beliefs were a series of Sumerian and Hebrew texts, which he translateddifferently to anyone else who had ever looked at them. I read his book The Twelfth

Planet back in 1995, and I can say categorically that in my opinion his translationsof the texts are pure fantasy as I also read and commentated on many of the same textsfor my own book From the Ashes of Angels (1996). In this I ably demonstrate that theAnnunaki and Nephilim were names given to the founders of civilization who rose to



prominence in the area of the Near East, the ancient land of Eden, around 11,000 yearsago. They were not spacemen from Nibiru but quite likely flesh and blood human beings,a priestly or shamanic elite, who arrived in the region from somewhere else in theancient world around the time of a massive cataclysm, almost certainly a comet impact.It is a subject I developed in various of my books, and am convinced of its validity,especially with the discovery in southeast Turkey in 1994 of Gobekli Tepe, the oldeststone circle complex in the world. Its existence confirms the likelihood of a highlyadvanced culture existing in the Near East around the end of the last Ice Age.



Above left, one of the two slim standing stones at the centre of Adam's Calendar, with JohanHeine showing its height. Above right, one of the stone slabs beyond the perimeter to the east-southeast of the stone setting, which Michael Tellinger sees as having been deliberately carvedto give it the abstract appearance of a bird - a familiar totemic form in both South Africa and



neighbouring Zimbabwe. He believes it orginally stood on the edge of the circle, although thiswill need to be confirmed with the discovery of a corresponding post hole above its position.

Three and a Half Degree Misalignment

As evidence for his early dating of Adam's calendar, Michael cites the fact that itsnorth-south alignment is kinked by three and half degrees. This he believes is theresult of a crustal displacement, a slippage of the earth's crust over the mantlecaused by some catastrophic event sometime after its construction. Similar ideas werevoiced in connection with sites worldwide by Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-ath in theirbook The Atlantis Blueprint (2000), based on the original concept of crustaldisplacement proposed by American college professor and author Charles H. Hapgood.



Two views of Adam's Calendar looking roughly north-northeast (above left) and northeast (aboveright). The two central standing stones are very impressive indeed.

I think the problem here is that there is no hard evidence that, firstly, a crustaldisplacement has taken place in the last 200,000 years, and, secondly, that Adam'sCalendar even bears an alignment three and a half degrees west of north (the recumbentstones on the southern side are just too jumbled and confusing to determine a true

alignment.



Rodney Hale's plan of Adam's Calendar with alignments for the suggested date of 11,500 BC. Thisdate is based on the claim that recumbent stones mark Orion's belt when rising horizontally,providing a date of 75,000 for the site's construction. In our current precessional cycle -

which is all we can measure such a claim by - this last occurred in 11,500 BC. However, as youcan see, such an alignment doesn't work. It hits no stones lying on the edge of the circle.

Moreover, as you can see, a 3 degree 30 minute misalignment from north is not necessary toexpress the structure's curvilinear geometry. It all depends on your position in relation to theplacement of the stones. The Horus or Bird Stone as Michael Tellinger calls it is just below

east, pointing away from the centre of the circle.



I can categorically say that I have seen nothing that might convince me that Adam'sCalendar was constructed beyond the currently held time-frame of megalithicconstruction, which began with Gobekli Tepe and the other Pre-Pottery Neolithicstructures of SE Turkey and North Syria c. 10,000-9000 BC. Moreover, there is noargument that might be used to argue that any proposed alignment towards the beltstars of Orion only makes sense if the site was constructed 75,000 years ago. Nocalculations can be used to prove such an idea, not precession (a 26,000 year cycle),obliquity of the ecliptic (a 41,000 year cycle), or even much longer Milankovitchcycles, which only affect climate and not the earth's astronomical position againstthe local horizon.

It is a subject I tackled back in 2010 after meeting Michael Tellinger for the firsttime. I worked with technical engineer Rodney Hale in an attempt to check out Adam'sCalendar stated alignments, and found no evidence whatsoever to suggest that the

monument went back 75,000 years (available to anyone on request).



Above left, the two parallel standing stones at the centre of Adam's Calendar and, above right,two standing stones on the northwestern edge of the circle.



Above, a strange head-like stone unearthed at Adam'sCalendar, and, right, a tall standing stone, whichhas been named the Standing Man. It was removed fromAdam's Calendar to elsewhere in the nature reserve inorder to bear a commemorative plaque. It willhopefully be restored to its original position in duecourse.

More worrying is the fact that the stones said to mark the alignment towards Orion, dono such thing. The alignment simply doesn't work, whatever time-frame you use.



There is no question that Adam's Calendar (so named by John and Michael to determineits place as the oldest stone calendar in the world) is a fabulous site that deservesfull investigation. However, to assume that this stone setting, where a number ofstones have been set upright by ancient hands, goes back beyond our presentevolutional cycle is simply nonsensical without any hard evidence. Using suchassumptions to then go on to promote Adam's Calendar as an outpost of ZechariaSitchin's vision of the Annunaki some 200,000 years ago is impossible to handle. Theseare personal beliefs that should be completely removed from any scientific explorationof the site.

I understand that Michael, Johan and their colleagues are currently in dialogue withthe archaeological community to excavate Adam's Calendar, and hopefully this mightresult in some proper dating evidence in the future.



Two more shots of Adam's Calendar, focusing on the twin parallel stonesnear the centre of the stone setting.

Examining the Africa's Ancient Stone Ruins

The following day, Thursday, March 10th, our party spent the morning examining just afew of the stone ruins identified by archaeologists as cattle kraals. Each one iscreated using dry stone walling, which is formed into circles, cells and apses, and insome cases the walls remain as much as 2.5 metres high, suggesting that some areas ofthese structures once bore roofs. Often these structures come in clusters, and leading



from them down to local rivers or streams are stone tracks edged with dry stone walls.Clearly, these are functional in some manner, although Michael believes they are pathsused to draw energies from the water in order that the stone circles can function asmagnetrons. These are high-powered vacuum tubes that generate microwaves using theinteraction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field, the internal cells ofwhich resemble the shape of some of the ancient stone ruins. The whole purpose ofthese stone magnetrons would be to aid in the extraction of gold from rocks, a processhe sees as occurring in the same epoch as the construction of Adam's Calendar, i.e.200,000 years ago.

I do not have the same inclinations about the usage and great antiquity of these stoneruins, for in my opinion they were places of habitation, for both humans and animals,perhaps with a religious function associated with the various solar alignmentsidentified by Johan Heine.

Seeing them as the work of Zecharia Sitchin's Annunaki has knock on effects. Ourdriver told us that a visitor to one of the stone ruins we visited that day hadglimpsed a vision of a three metre tall alien being sacrificed by another three-metretall alien inside one of the rings of dry stone. Personally I could not imagineanything like this taking place here.

Pottery Found

At one of the stone ruins, where Michael believes that charring beneath a rock outcropis evidence of a furnace used for metal smelting, I found a piece of pottery. It waslocated around the other side from the "furnace" area, deeply within a rocky niche. Itis quite thick, triangular, orange-red in colour with a grey interior, and has asingle groove across its outer face. I presented it to Michael, who said that he would



ask a friend to identify it. However, he said that it was useless in helping to datethe site as these site would have been reoccupied by tribal peoples during more recenttimes, and it would have been them who left behind the broken pottery. This mightindeed be the case, although I do believe that the pottery shard has some age to it,and dates back to the Bantu-speaking Iron Age peoples who entered South Africa fromwest and central Africa some 1,800 years ago. The archaeologists attribute them withthe construction of the stone ruins, although clearly more work needs to be done inorder to settle the matter once and for all.



Andrew Collins holding the piece of pottery found at one of the ancient stone ruins nearWaterval Boven, east of Johannesburg. It probably dates to the age of the Bantu-speaking peoples

who entered South Africa from west and central Africa around 1,800 years ago.

One of the points that most struck me about the structures was the acoustic nature of

the extremely hard hornfels stone used to construct them (which Michael believes wasbrought to the area for the express purpose of creating the monuments). He struckvarious examples, which rang like bells. He was even able to use one, a square tablestone, to play a four-note tune (I afterwards went back to this stone and made a soundrecording of the tonal sequence, which I subsequently created as a ring tone for mycell phone!).

Although I do not agree that the stone circles were sound devices in themselves, I doaccept that the hard stone used to create might have been chosen for its tonalqualities (see, for instance, the story of the Musical Stones of Skiddaw

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Above left, the ancient stone ruins where the piece of pottery was discovered beneath the rockoutcrop, seen towards the bottom of the picture. Above right, Michael Tellinger shows the heightof the walls of one of the stone ruins, and the patina of the dry stone used, which he believes

indicates the extreme age of the monument.

Is it possible that in prehistoric times humanity became aware of the acousticqualities of certain stones, and although at first this was employed simply for

recreational purposes, our ancestors went on to use sound for more functionalpurposes? Could sound have been used to achieve altered states of consciousness, inthe same way that gongs and crystal singing bowls are used today? Did thisunderstanding of sound eventually become an advanced technology of the type proposed



by Chris Dunn as existing in ancient Egypt during dynastic times? I actually believethat such a possibility should never be dismissed out of hand.

It is with thoughts like these that I can only encourage Johan Heine and MichaelTellinger to continue their enthusiastic research into Adam's Calendar and the many

other ancient stone ruins that they seek to preserve for future generations. AlthoughI do not find anything with which to share Johan and Michael's assumed great age ofthese structures, they need to be properly excavated and explored to reveal their truecontribution to the development of ancient technologies on the African continent.



Adam's Calendar. From left to right, Jonathan Adams of Pentos Films, Kerry Cassidy of ProjectCamelot, Michael Tellinger, local farmer, Johan Heine and another local land owner.

Thank you to Michael Tellinger, Johan Heine, Hugh Newman of Megalithomania, JonathanAdams of Pentos Films, Elle Steyn and all at zuluplanet.com, and those who made us

welcome at the Stone Circle bar and bistro at Waterval Boven.




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