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IRELAND Land of the Pharaohs IRELAND Land of the Pharaohs LIRELANDAND OF THE PHARAOHS The Quest for Our Atlantean Legacy ANDREW฀POWER Copyright © ANDREW POWER 2005 Printed and bound in Northern Ireland by PENINSULA PRINT & DESIGN Tel: (02891) 814125 www.peninsulaprint.co.uk Dedicated to the memory of my Mother and Father And to all those who are descended from the Scots-Irish. Map of Ancient Europe showing Scotia (Ireland) (From L. A. Waddell: The Maker’s of Civilization in Race and History, 1929) CONTENTS Acknowledgements........................ ix Preface........................................... xi Introduction.................................. 1 I The Quest Begins.......................... 16 II The Parasitical Elite....................... 52 III Brù na Bóinne............................... 98 IV The Egyptian Connection.............. 165 V Background to the Ritual Battle.... 209 VI The Ritual..................................... 235 Appendices........................................ 273 ILLUSTRATIONS Khazar Map............................................................................................. 122 Scythian Map........................................................................................... 123 The course of the River Boyne compared to that of the Milky Way.......... 126 The topography of the River Boyne and Nile compared........................... 127 The Elgin Stone....................................................................................... 146 Giza as centre of the world’s landmass..................................................... 166 The Stone of Scone being toasted by the Scottish Knight Templars........... 189 The position of the armies at the commencement of the ritual/battle....... 218 Isis with the child, Horus (widow and child)............................................ 244 Skymap: The scene at 4 am. and at 8 am.................................................. 251 Skymap: The scene at 12 noon and at 10.15 pm...................................... 252 Portrayal of the constellations of Monecerus and Canis Minor................. 257 William mounted on his horse.................................................................. 257 Skymap of the constellations represented in the British coat-of-arms....... 259 The British coat-of-arms.......................................................................... 259 PLATES Page 157 Red Hand (of Ulster?), Guildhall Square, London. Red Hand, Sandy Row, Belfast. Israeli flags flying on main thoroughfare in Belfast! Masonic Banner, Belfast. ‘Ark of the Covenant’, Masonic Headquarters, Dublin. Page 158 Representation of Giants building cromlech. Giants Ring, Belfast, with cromlech in the centre. Giants Causeway on the north coast. Talka Maken Mummy. Giant boulder found near Dowth. Page 159 Lion monument at Waterloo. Obelisk at the Boyne River. Templar Church, London. People of Orange, France, pledging allegiance to William at a solar ceremony. Mellifont (Cistercian) Abbey, William’s camp. Donore Churchyard, James’s camp. Page 160 Eamhain, from the top of Dowth. Dowth mound. Newgrange (Noah’s Ark?). The sun shines through the slot in the roof-box at Newgrange. The modern entrance showing the roof-box above the doorway. Page 161 Plan of the passageway and chamber at Newgrange. Conception Cycle as represented in stone at Newgrange. Page 162 Glenscota in Ireland where the princess Scota is supposedly buried. Akhnaten, Nefertiti, and daughter (Scota?). Sculpted head of unknown Amarna princess. Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, founder of first Rosicrucian Mystery School. Bust of Pharaoh Akhnaten. Page 163 Mohawk Lodge, USA and West African Orangemen parading. Jan Wyck’s painting depicting the Ritual/Battle, 1690. Orange commemorating the Exodus and celebrating William’s ‘victory’. The Royal Black Knights of the Camp of Israel. Page 164 The Rothschild Brothers. Stuart Monument in the Vatican. William on his ‘white charger’ (Unicorn) with ‘X’ symbol on the ‘horse’s’ rump. James leaving Ireland after the Ritual/Battle. George Washington laying ‘corner stone’ for the new capital. Acknowledgements Y SINCERE THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WITHOUT whose help this book would not have been possible. To the surgeons, Mdoctors, nurses, and staff of the Thoracic Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, especially surgeons Mr. Alistair Graham and the late Mr. Gibbons, who kept me alive while I completed my task. Special thanks go to Paul for all his commitment and patience in editing and formatting the manuscript and its final layout and design and for the cover artwork. Thanks to Irvine for his friendship and help in researching our story, and Maureen for all her hard work typing and researching. I would like to give a mention to Gerry and all my friends, including ‘big Jim’, for their help and encouragement even through the dark days and also Don for giving me the initial impetus to begin this project. In a broader sense my thanks goes to the authors/researchers (alive or dead) who preceded me on this path, and who made the journey that much easier. They are, in no particular order, Lorraine Evans, Ralph Ellis, Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock, Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas, Barbara Watterson, Peter Beresford Ellis, Laurence Gardner, Peter Dawkins, HRH Prince Michael of Albany, Edith Starr Miller, Pádraig Lenihan, Steve Bergstrom, Jon King, John Beveridge, Niall Ferguson, Frederic Morton, Adrian Gilbert, Ahmed Osman, William Henry, Conor MacDari, Jordan Maxwell, Robert M. Pirsig, Graham Phillips, Gerald Massey, Albert G. Mackey, Lynn Picknett, Ignatius Donnelly, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur Koestler, Barry Dunford, L. A. Waddell, Robert Anton Wilson, Frances Henking, Carlos Castaneda, Mike Ballie, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln, Zecharia Sitchin, Andrew Sinclair, Ian Adamson, Alison Roberts, J. P. Kenyon, Macaulay, John Locke, John Macleod, William T. Still, L. A. Waddell, Robert Shea, Francis Bacon, Comyns Beaumont, Frank R. Wallace, David Talbott, Dr. John Coleman, Nesta H. Webster, Arthur Kemp, David Icke, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Paddy McGarvy, Dr. Julian Janes, Betty Edwards, George Orwell, John Taylor Gatto, Joe Downey, Alexander del Mar, Raymond Campbell, Paterson, Dan Brown, Paul Mason, John T. Gilbert, Guy Patton, Robin Mackness, Henry Makow, Michael C. Ruppert, H. H. Ben-Sasson, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Edmund Spenser, Tim Wallace Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins, Clive Prince, H. Spencer Lewis, Geraldine Stout, Raymond Bernard, David Yallop, Cecil Kilpatrick, David Dankenbring, P. D. Ouspensky, Charles O’ Kelly, John of Fordun, David R. Woods, Immanuel Velikovsky, Michael Tsarion, Breeda Tuite, Savitri Devi, Paddy Boyle, E. Raymond Capt, Alan Campbell, Herbert Armstrong, Manly P. Hall, Enda O Boyle, Robert Wallace, Fredrick Mann, Ayn Rand, Eileen Black, Mark Hedsel, Una Sheahan and finally Elizabeth for providing a tranquil haven whenever I needed it at Glebe House beside (and I mean beside) the great mound of Dowth. A special mention to the staff, of the Ulster Museum, Belfast. The Heritage Service, Photographic Unit, Dublin. The rights and Reproduction Office: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. The Central Library, Belfast. And anyone else I have missed, you know who you are. All sky map data and configurations are from SkyMap v3.1.10 by Chris Marriot. The constellation figures on p.259 and virtual ground accompanying the skymaps are taken from Starry Night Enthusiast v5.0.1. Every effort has been made to obtain permissions regarding copyright material wherever possible. If there is something in this book you think you should be credited with the author and publisher will be glad to rectify this at the earliest opportunity. Preface (A Note to the Reader) HE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE IS AN ACCOUNT OF AN INCREDIBLE adventure that began some twenty years ago whilst I stood in front of one Tof the magnificent cairns (Newgrange) in the Boyne Valley, Ireland. It is what I call mystory, which is not meant to be an academic thesis on history, or to echo Velikovsky: ‘…was not written for those who swear by the verba magistri - the holiness of their school wisdom; and they may debate it without reading it, as well.’ There has been no deliberate intention to disparage anyone’s sincerely held beliefs so if, here and there, that appears to be the case, know that it was not the objective. However, it was (and is) my purpose to poke the ‘sleeping dragon’ of unquestioned thoughts and feelings. This is rarely a welcomed task and can be precarious at the best of times, more so when it touches on the history of a schism such as that within Irish society. Within mystory there are many ideas that the reader may find uncomfortable; therefore, if you are content with the concepts you hold about life, are happy in your comfort zone and your worldview is settled: ‘The story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.’ The goal of mystory (ultimately surpassed) was to discover the origins of the race that built the magnificent structures at Brù-na-Bóinne and what the connections were, if any, to a famous ‘European’ battle that took place there in the 17th century. I accomplished this by playing devil’s advocate with traditional history; doing this proved to me history isn’t as valid as most of us automatically assume and it certainly didn’t have the answer to my historical conundrums. Trying to find out why it didn’t have the answer lead me to a secretive cabal of elites who still, I discovered, intentionally manipulate history to create an illusion (‘a
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