There are about seventy remaining round towers in Ireland, they are usually presumed to be from the Christian era. Many were said to have collapsed in the great earthquake of the 5thcentury that pre-dates St. Patrick (who brought Roman Christianity to Ireland). They have been linked with Atlantis by Henry O’Brien, and legend says round towers were built by Gobán Saor, who some say is Goibniu, the smith and craftsman of the Tuatha Dé Danann. One account claims they were built on pre-existing ancient sites.
The round towers have been found to have aspects which give them metaphysical properties. They were made from paramagnetic stones such as mica schist, sandstone or limestone. Paramagnetic stone resonates positively in a magnetic field and helps to energise its environment. The towers were believed to bring good energy into the soil to help crops grow etc. The towers look a bit like acupuncture needles or obelisks. Obelisks are rectangular, which is a male shape, and round towers are cylindrical, which is a female shape. However, both pyramids and cones (which they are capped by, respectively) are said to generate a spin field from the apex. Most round towers have lost their original cap, just as many pyramids have lost their original capstone. Both round towers and pyramids have their entrances at a distance from ground level.
American Professor Philip Callahan said the towers are radio antennae and amplifiers. Perhaps they are intended to combine the energies of Heaven and Earth as a bridge between worlds, energising the soil to increase fertility. A ‘Pictish’ carved stone at Abernethy round tower in Scotland depicts what looks like a tuning fork, perhaps a hint about the properties of the tower. The level of the soil in the round towers is at a distance from the ground, presumably to tune it to a certain pitch like a musical instrument. Just as bottles filled with water to different levels give off different notes when struck. Presumably, they were attuning the towers to a particular frequency.
Callahan suggests that the towers collect energy from the Sun. With their star-map configuration, perhaps they channel energies from the stars as well. The layout of the round towers across the country matches up with the layout of constellations of stars in the sky as they appear at the winter solstice. This echoes the layout of the pyramids at Giza being arranged in the shape of the constellation of Orion and the Glastonbury landscape zodiac. The round towers depict several constellations going around the country in a circle like a zodiac. The constellation of Draco is the largest to be depicted by the round towers with the head of the dragon in Northern Ireland. Draco is said to be the dragon who guards the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides. This guardian is also associated with the Celtic goddess Cerridwen.
(Draco’s star Edasich was the first star to be found with a planet in orbit named Hypatia. The Drumcliffe round tower represents Edasich in the body of Draco). Other constellations reflected by the towers are Cassiopeia, Camelopardalis, Lynx and Ursa Major. The layout of monuments to reflect the stars creates a mirror to the Heavens, perhaps to create Heaven on Earth as in the Hermetic axiom ‘as above, so below’. The placement shows that the builders knew not only that the Earth was round but about the circular precession of the Earth around an ecliptic centre of the sky.
Read the complete article here, where it was originally published.
Watch my video episode below where I talk about these mysterious round towers of Ireland
megalithicmarvels.com 