5.20 – MYSTERIOUS RELICS (11.15.13)

STONES ^[21d]

Southern Ireland. Here, approximately five miles northwest of the small city of Cork, lies the Blarney Castle. Built more than 500 years ago, this nearly 90-foot-tall fortress houses the world-famous Blarney Stone, a relic that more than 300,000 people come to kiss each year.

“It is not in a convenient location. It’s in the castle wall high up on the outside. So, to kiss it, you’ve got to dangle over or sneak around so that you’re really at some peril of falling a very great distance.” – Jonathan Young, Ph.D. (Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives)

“According to legend, it grants whoever kisses it the power to speak in an articulate and charismatic way and to flatter and blandish in any circumstance.” – Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D. (Prof. of Anthropology & Folklore, CSU Northridge)

“Here you have a stone that has been kissed and revered by probably millions of people. Blarney is the gift of gab, and so the idea is that somehow kissing this stone gives you the ability to talk better or to somehow amplify your verbal prowess.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

Composed of a single block of bluestone the same material used at Stonehenge, this stone relic’s magical powers are widely renowned. But could a stone really have such power? One that could actually affect an individual’s power of speech?

“And the story is, in the 15th-century, Cormac MacCarthy had a court case coming up, and he was concerned about this and called upon the goddess Cliodhna, the Queen of the Banshees, to help him find the right words and present a good case. She did. She said, “Listen, on your way to court, kiss the first stone you see, and you’ll be eloquent, you’ll find the words.” And he did this. He went to court, he was very persuasive, and won his case. On his way home, he picked up that rock and carried it back, and had his workman fashion it into a stone and set it into the wall of his castle where it is still to be found.” – Jonathan Young, Ph.D. (Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives)

“When you look at Irish mythology as a whole, it starts to become pretty obvious that these people such as Cliodhna were not ordinary earthborn humans, but were, in fact, most likely extraterrestrial humans, who came to the earth and shared their technology. And Blarney being the gift of gab, the gift of talking more eloquently, is something that may have been impregnated into the stone by an extraterrestrial technology using energetic means that we’re not now aware of.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

Is it possible, as Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest, that the Blarney Stone is actually evidence of some ancient and otherworldly power? Technology that helps to prove that ancient man was in direct contact with highly-developed beings from another part of the galaxy? If so, might the character known in Irish folklore as the goddess Cliodhna, actually have been a celestial traveler? Perhaps more clues can be found by investigating another mysterious stone relic, located just 160 miles away.

County Meath, Ireland. On top of this mound, known as the Hill of Tara, lies the Lia Fáil, or Stone of Destiny. One of four magical treasures said to have been brought to Ireland by mythical deities called the Tuatha Dé Danann.

“The Lia Fáil was a stone that was considered magical. All of the kings of Ireland, up until the 5th-century of the common era, were said to have been crowned on this. It seemed to know who the true king was. They say, if the true king put his feet up on it, it would roar with delight. It also had the power to give strength to the leader, to help him solidify his rule, and, in some cases, to heal, if that was necessary.” – Jonathan Young, Ph.D. (Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives)

To mainstream scientists and archaeologists, this stone relic represents nothing more than the coronation stone of Ireland’s ancient kings. But according to Irish mythology, the Hill of Tara was also a sacred dwelling place for the gods.

“The Hill of Tara is a mound and, like many mounds in Ireland, like many of these sidhe mounds, it is allegedly the entrance to the realm of the sidhe, or these otherworldly people. The word sidhe means both the people themselves, the otherworldly people, and the mounds in which they are said to dwell. And the Hill of Tara is allegedly an entrance to the other world.” – Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D. (Prof. of Anthropology & Folklore, CSU Northridge)

“The Hill of Tara is considered the sacred center of Ireland. The kings ruled from there for many centuries in ancient and in early history. And this was considered a sacred portal to another dimension, to the other world, so it had more than the authority of kingship. It had the authority of the supernatural.” – Jonathan Young, Ph.D. (Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives)

“In Irish mythology, the Tuatha Dé Danann were gods who had magical powers. They arrived from the land of the west, these mythical lands of the gods. They were said to come in these dark clouds, which then landed in the mountains of Ireland. And when they came, there were three nights and three days of darkness. So, you have to ask yourself what kind of power they had, and were they some kind of celestial visitors arriving in UFOs?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods)

“Maybe the extraterrestrials found a way to help society make advancements, including the selection of a virtuous leader. It’s entirely possible that this stone is not just something that was coming out of a mythology, that the Lia Fáil was an engineered device, that those leaders were able to be assessed by the stone and even maybe see into their destiny, see into their future.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

Might the Lia Fáil, a stone relic imbued with power like the Blarney Stone, really be evidence of highly advanced knowledge brought to mankind by the so-called gods? And do these sacred objects provide proof of ancient man’s extraterrestrial connections? Perhaps the answers can be found by examining strange and unusual relics fallen from the sky.

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