GUNGNIR & MJOLNIR [12e]
Balingsta, Sweden. Just outside this small town located 40 miles northwest of Stockholm is an ancient carved granite block. Known as the Boksta Runestone, it is one of the few remaining relics that depict the mighty god Odin holding his magical spear: Gungnir.
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“The Boksta Runestone is an extraordinary ancient relic that has runic inscriptions which were used by the Vikings. It shows Odin riding on horseback with a spear.” – William Henry (Author / Investigative Mythologist), |
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“So, one of the things we find with the Norse gods is they each have remarkable possessions, and among those is a spear that Odin claims for himself called Gungnir. And Gungnir is a remarkable spear in that, whatever you throw it at, it’s going to hit.” – Timothy R. Tangherlini, Ph.D. (Prof. & Chair, Scandinavian Section, UCLA) |
According to Viking, or Norse, mythology, Odin’s spear was made by the Sons of Ivaldi, the very same creatures who built the ship Skidbladnir. They imbued the spear with special properties that not only made it incredibly accurate, but gave it immense power.
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“Gungnir was some kind of high-tech weapon. No matter who he threw it at, it would hit it. Like some laser-guided cruise missile or something like that, that just simply could not miss its mark once it had been set to its target.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“And we know that when he uses this in war, it always reaches its target. This is not something which is simplistic. This is something which clearly is advanced weaponry. And to find that a deity has this at his disposal can be read in two things: one, it is all made up; or two, it is actually factual. And today, we know that there are such weapons.” – Philip Coppens |
Precision weapons, like laser-guided bombs, cruise missiles and satellite-guided munitions are staples in the world’s most sophisticated military arsenals. Is it possible that Odin possessed similar technology? Could Gungnir actually have been a guided missile created by otherworldly beings?
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“When the ancients are describing technology, it’s clear that they couldn’t have known exactly what this was. And it opens the question, is it possible that the weapon Gungnir was an actual advanced technology, maybe even possessed by the Vikings or their gods?” – William Henry (Author / Investigative Mythologist), |
If Gungnir was in fact a precision guided missile similar to today’s so-called smart bombs, then what might be the facts behind Thor’s mighty hammer, Mjolnir?
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“Thor’s hammer had interesting origins. It was made by dwarfs under duress. So, the handle wasn’t quite as long as a hammer might be. But it was enormously powerful and it had great accuracy. He could throw it and it would hit anything that he intended it to hit, and then it would come back to him, almost in boomerang style.” – Jonathan Young, Ph.D. |
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“What Thor’s hammer, like the weapons of many of the Norse gods, would seem to be some high-tech real weapon, perhaps one given to them by extraterrestrials.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“And when he uses it, it is actually said that this weapon is able to crush mountains. Now, imagine a weapon which is able to destroy an entire mountain. The hammer does not cause explosions; it is really the physical force which destroys the object. That is something which today we describe as a kinetic weapon.” – Philip Coppens |
At the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. scientist Peter Schultz is studying the enormous power of kinetic energy using a device called a vertical gun.
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“This is a giant cannon, essentially. Then it goes up on a corkscrew so we can hit things at different angles. This gun gets up to very high speeds, and if you get really up there, you’ll start melting and vaporizing material. In a sense, this is a kinetic weapon, except we’re not pointing at anything except the target inside the tank.” – Peter H. Schultz, Ph.D. |
To study the effects of high-speed kinetic impacts, scientists use the vertical gun range to fire projectiles into objects placed in this reinforced steel chamber at speeds of up to 15,000 miles per hour.
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“Today, we’re gonna take this small ball bearing, which is about 1/100 of an ounce, and we’re gonna fire it at three miles per second. That’s almost 11,000 miles per hour. And we’re gonna send it into this block. Now, when you go that fast, with even an object that small, that’s kinetic energy. And kinetic energy is the mass times velocity squared. So, if you’re going fast enough, you could do some serious damage. Let’s see what we do.” – Peter H. Schultz, Ph.D. |
Using a battery of high-speed cameras, some capturing images at 40,000 frames per second, Schultz investigates how speed and mass can combine to create devastating force. Moving 15 times the speed of sound, the projectile slams into the solid stone block. Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe the destructive power of this gun displays uncanny similarities to Thor’s hammer.
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“The question we have to ask ourselves is whether the whole concept of kinetic energy weapons is something new or if it already existed in the ancient past. And with Thor, we have such a reference. What if Thor’s hammer was some type of a kinetic energy weapon and what we have here in modern times is nothing else but history repeating itself?” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
Is it possible that what the ancient Vikings described in their myths were in fact alien technologies? And do the various accounts of Odin’s spear and Thor’s hammer really help to prove that Vikings were in contact with extraterrestrial beings? If so, then where might these beings have gone? Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe the answers may lie in the strange and sometimes violent burial rituals of the Vikings.
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