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1a.: Ancestral Paths

Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99

Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:32 pm (PST)

Ancestral Paths

All over the world, mysterious roads and paths run in perfectly
straight lines--sometimes plowing through difficult terrain when
easier land lies just to one side, or going up and over mesas and mountains
instead of around them. What is their purpose, and why were they constructed
with such utter disregard for the practicalities of road-building?

An Englishman named Alfred Watkins, who believed he had discovered
straight-line paths dotting the English landscape and connecting the
old stone circles in a grand design, called them "ley lines." He theorized that they
were the roads of ancient merchants. Other British researchers have
concluded that they are energy paths, linking the sacred sites of ancient Britain,
or perhaps even serving as roadways for UFOs.

There are straight-line roads on the European continent as well, and
these have given us a hint as to their ultimate meaning. In
Holland, such roads were once known as "pathways of the dead," and often led to
cemeteries. It was once a common European belief that the souls of the dead
traveled along straight lines--as when that procession of spirits called the
Wild Hunt came swooping through the villages, causing joy to some and terror
to others, dancing through the sky to the North Star, as well as upon the
earth. Those who followed the Wild Hunt, the medieval Witches, also traveled in
straight lines--up a chimney or riding on a broomstick--to join their
departed friends.

No wonder that Chinese geomancers or feng shui men prefer curved
lines to straight ones! According to them, straight lines on the landscape
are "spirit paths," or "ghost paths," and ordinary mortals are better off
staying out of the way.

This belief in "spirit paths" is nearly universal. In Peru, the
straight-line roads are called "ceques," and they all head
to "huacas," the shrines of the mountain gods. Who are the mountain
gods? They are the deified ancestors of the people. At one time, they
were all mortal. Just as European witches who followed the Wild Hunt
traveled in straight lines, so also do Peruvian shamans when they "fly" on waves
of energy to visit the mountain spirits.

In the Mayan country, magnificent roads made of white stone once
connected different cities and shrines. They were called "Sac Be,"
which simply means "white road," or not so simply--for the Milky Way, which
led to the North Star, or realm of departed souls, was also known as Sac Be.

In New Mexico, straight-line roads lead from various Ansazi ruins to
the most magnificent ruins of all--the mysterious cities of Chaco
Canyon. Though there are no legends that hark back to the distant days of
the Chaco Empire, the Hopi Indians say that the straight-line roads
are "ancestor paths," used for ritual rather than for practical purposes.

Rather than embodying the magic of a single culture or people, the
straight-line roads are part of a common human heritage that
resonates with some of the oldest spiritual beliefs of all--reverence
for the spirits of our ancestors, and a willingness to walk with them on
the North Star Road.
by Ken Johnson,
copyright 1997

Blessed Be,
Lady Nightshayde

"You never know how much you know until you know how much you'll
never know. "

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