Sacred Number and the Lords of Time: The Stone Age Invention of Science and Religion

by Richard Heath

An exploration of sacred geometry, space, and time encoded in stone structures during four successive ages of megalithic building

• Examines the sacred knowledge carefully preserved in the Stone Age structures of Carnac, Stonehenge, Giza, and Teotihuacan

• Shows how our Stone Age ancestors created a practical system of mathematics, sophisticated enough to discern cycles lasting up to thousands of years

• Reveals how the Earth’s shape and proportions mirror the time cycles of the heavens above

Our Stone Age ancestors discovered that the geometry of the Earth provided a sacred connection between human experience and the spiritual worlds. Exploring the numerical patterns of time and then the size and shape of the Earth, they created an exact science of measures and preserved their discoveries within sacred structures, spiritualized landscapes, and mythologies, which interpreted the religious ideas associated with their science. In this way, the ancient measures of space and time reached our present age and still embody the direct but forgotten truths of our sacred planet.

By recovering the megalithic secrets of space and time, carefully preserved in megalithic stone structures, Richard Heath tells an untold story of four megalithic ages. He identifies a first age of astronomical discovery in the French sites around Carnac, where, using only counted lengths and simple geometries, the ancients created a sophisticated cosmic clockwork. A second age centered in Britain, and including Stonehenge, successfully measured the Earth and revealed a simple pattern held within the Earth’s shape, using metrological ratios. A third age, centered in Egypt and Greece, saw a perfecting of the monumental arts, associated metrology, and religious ideas, revealing the Earth and the heavens as the work of a numerical genius. The fourth age saw pyramids and other metrological buildings spread to the New World, at Teotihuacan in Mexico, and also to the Far East.

Examining Earth’s harmonic relevance to the Universe as a whole, Heath shows how we can recognize the long-forgotten foundations of our own civilization and revive the sacred teaching preserved by the four great megalithic ages.

Genres: Science

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2014

About the author

An engineer turned application developer, I became interested in megalithic astronomy and its numerical skillset in 1992 - working with Robin Heath throughout the 1990s.

Since then I have written six books revealing that the sacred use of numbers referenced the world of planetary time, known to ancient civilizations but forgotten today.

Sacred numbers are the origin of mankind's grandest religious cosmologies, within which such numbers play a significant role and, I propose only megalithic astronomy could have discovered these numbers prior to their being sacredized.

My findings clearly suggest the Earth's celestial environment was not created automatically by forces: it was also shaped by planetary intelligences, so as to create a living planet in which thinking beings could arise.

Reviews

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

For anyone who is interested in Stonehenge, Carnac, astronomy or math this is a very interesting read but in my opinion can be quite a bit complicated at times if you are not very strong in math or knowledgeable in astronomy. It is a very thorough analysis of how the stone age people chose specific latitudes to build their structures and how they used geometry (triangle) and a multiple of squares in their megalithic structures to organize time. I found it fascinating but also mind boggling how these people were able to determine the dimensions of the earth through their observations of the sun and moon to count days without numbers. The book explains that the inch (size of most thumbs) became standardized and was used to count the days. He demonstrates how ancient metrology was developed without mathematics in the monuments of the early megalithic period in Britanny and England and then adopted by other cultures (Egyptians, Greeks, etc). The author demonstrates how the placement of Stonehenge and Avebury was strategic so that they form a non-vertical model of the Earth's three key radii and that the Great Pyramid is a scaled model of the northern hemisphere of the earth. The author also explains how metrology became an important component of the Jewish religion and of building sacred spaces which originated from megalithic and Egyptian knowledge. The author demonstrates how religious ideas came about from the myths of other cultures and through number associations.

[Tom Stevens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read. Some of the mathematical concepts are quite alien so it's a book you'll need to read carefully and with great concentration to follow along.
Quite a fascinating journey into the mind of the megalithic builders and surveyers.

[Elentarri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complex but very interesting.