The Rebirth of Pan: hidden faces of the American Earth Spirit

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Contents Author's Foreword 1 One: The Animal Guise 5 As far back as ancient Rome, poet Virgil described how the great wild nature god Pan disported himself and caused panic among those who would capture him, with his many monstrous guises, including wild beasts and demoniacal apparitions ... Fantasy aspects of Bigfoot phenomenon Absurd biology of mystery animals Bigfoot as ape: an untenable idea Relationship of 'creatures' to UFOs Affinities with European fairy lore Lunar periodicity of monster sightings Puzzling links with human sexuality Aleister Crowley's sex/alchemy idea Is Pan the alchemical prima materia? Two: Creations in Earth and Stone 29 Through the years I sought out and explored dozens of unconventional earth structures. Gradually I was growing aware of the remains of an awesone but incomprehensible formative process spread across this North American land like the written over but still partly visible calligraphy on a much-reused medieval parchment ... Mima Mounds: geologist's nightmare 'Indian' mounds are found worldwide Populations lacking for vast structures Aerial view needed to discern effigies Problems with Adena-Hopewell theory Who built New England stone workings? Mounds' odd contents, complex structure Widespread 'forts' have no military use Indians suggest 'moon eyes' as builders Three: Artifacts and Inscriptions 65 Conceivably, certain themes and symbols are drifting about in the air, like distant shortwave station on a warm summer's night, so that sensitive persons, or even natural processes to which we've given insufficient attention, sometimes can give them concrete shape ... 'Indian' petroglyphs are also universal Excavated articles show inscriptions Peculiar Latin decorates Tucson crosses 'Babylonian' oddities emerge in Michigan Fort called Davenport tablets 'supreme' Ohio mounds yield Hebrew-like carvings Mistakes riddle mystery inscriptions Academics slander anomalies as hoaxes 'Fleeing Hebrews' theme occurs widely Experts reconstruct Panpipes from mound Oriental objects appear in earth nodes Modern letters abound in petroglyphs Fresh rock art continues to emerge Humanoid footprint: a cosmic glyph? Folklore links to serpent force Four: Forces from Within 107 I maintain that there is a spirit coiling and roiling in the bowels of the earth, radiating out from the mouths of caves, flashing and grinding like a slow-motion lightning, along fault lines, sprinkling out with the water from springs, pulsing like heartbeats along certain barely recognized runways across the land ... What makes the Rambling Rocks move? Stone anomalies recur near fault zones Indians traced ancestry to magic rocks Fairy, Bigfoot lore coincide with rock Caves and tunnels are focus of forces Water appears to catalyze earth energy Ancient water temples graced America Serpent motif recurs in odd artifacts Folklore links certain rocks with weather Does hostile force target mobile homes? Crowley's sex alchemy idea reexamined Is Findhorn community on a 'hotspot'? Entity named Pan credited for success Ley concept posits earth power lines Serpent Mound: art of the Earth Force? Five: The Invisible Geometrician 143 It's quite clear, to me at least, that Pan, which sometimes gives rise to peculiar creatures and inscriptions, also interacts with celestial phenomena. North America, like other continents, contains a goodly number of earth constructions that have astronomical or even esoteric symbolic aspects ... Ancient astronomer idea now is faddish Wide observatory network postulated Medicine wheels also align on key stars Big Horn Wheel: an 'American Stonehenge' Other continents have star-aligned sites Arcane aspects of 1080-foot earth squares Symbolist saw Pyramid prototype in Ohio Pythagorean numerology in American places Masons ponder mounds' 'sacred geometry' Esoterica undercut 'Indians only' notion Six: Network of Name and Number 167 I was groping for some scheme to organize such hints that human, and apparently also transhuman, events quite often order themselves around key numbers - and names. On the face of it, nothing this side of witchcraft ought to be more outrageous to the scientific mind, and yet I am satisfied of the accuracy of the instances I have gathered ... Significance of 23 in recent observation 23: fateful for dates, ages, addresses Mass killer allegedly intoned 23rd Psalm Biorhythm, cycles of war, hinge on 23 My candidate as a 'nervous number' is 33 23 and 33 correlate with Fortean events Anomalies link to occult through 23, 33 Leys often intersect at 23-degree angles I propose 23, 33 as universal constants Lafayette: name to conjure with in U. S. 'Fayette fiat' in Lincoln, Kennedy deaths Is fay root a triggering 'word of power'? Seven: Charting the Circle 197 Have I proved the existence of an American Earth Spirit? In the syllogistic sense of a scientific monograph, probably no. I think what we do see is an incomplete mosaic, something like a paint-by- numbers dot pattern of an unknown image, in which we have only a portion of the necessary reference points ... Earth nodes may elucidate riddle of time Fort's anomalism coincides with alchemy Alchemy motifs in earth structures Bones findings imply formative process Climate science implies earth is alive Are nuclear mishaps a protest by Terra? The Fayette factor in pollution incidents UFOs, creatures seem hostile to police Role of symbolism in physical phenomena Subterranean factor needs further study Ancient Sirius cultism comes into view Sirius vs. Orion enmity in UFO events Is the 'bird track' glyph an Orion emblem? Animal mutilations as anti-Sirian rite Orion was called 'cutthrote of cattle' Sirius is a key symbol in Masonry Cahokia mounds align on Pan-like Capella Appendices Appendix A: Unusual Bones Discoveries 243 Appendix B: 'Hoax' Inscriptions Reconsidered 246 Appendix C: Esoteric Symbolism in the Americas 249 Appendix D: Changes in Earth Structures 251 Appendix E: Alchemy and the Book of Mormon 252 Appendix F: Mutilations and Name Games 253 Notes 256 Bibliography 270 Index 279