Why I Am A Pyram-Idiot

by Peggy Sue Skipper

     I lived more than half a century not thinking much about pyramids or ancient sites at all.  The only one I can remember visiting was in Chitzen Itza, Mexico about 20 years ago.  As I recall it was pretty cool but, honestly, I don’t remember much about the experience and quite frankly at the time I was probably more interested in the beach.  Now, I will admit that I have always liked the shape of pyramids—but in truth I have mostly been ignorant about what their real significance might be.

     Of course, if you have been reading my columns you know that since last April (2010) all this has changed.  I have just finished—Yeah!—the final draft of a book about “Dr. Sam” Osmanagich and his discovery of pyramids in Bosnia.  There is something to be said about coming into a project without much prior knowledge of the subject matter—good things and not-so-good things.  My role in the project was really just to be an observer and chronicler of some pretty interesting events, but more on that later.

     What I found in the last months of diving into the ancient site arena is that it is interesting indeed.  A lot of controversy and intrigue is going on about these sites and it can get pretty hairy.  You see there are the traditional archaeologists and there are the renegades, so to speak.  The differences between the two revolve around the basic journalistic questions regarding development of these structures:

Who built them?
When were they built?
Why were they built?
How were they built?

     To make a long story short many of the traditionalists maintain that ancient sites were built by indigenous people who were far less sophisticated than we are today.  Okay, based on the timeline of our evolution that would make sense but, hey, here is what I have learned about pyramids while working on this project:

1. The shape of a pyramid itself is never found in nature
2. Construction materials that are not of nature, such as a type of concrete, cover pyramids
3. Inner passageways and/or chambers are found in most pyramids
4. Underground tunnels are found along with most pyramids
5. Most pyramids have an orientation to the cardinal points of North, South, East and West

     While I admit to being ignorant on the subject prior to a few months ago, it seems incredible that indigenous people—on every continent—somehow conceived identical designs, and face their pyramids the same way.  That just takes coincidence right out of the ballpark in my book. 

     Working on this project proved incredibly fascinating for me because Dr. Sam Osmanagich has literally traveled the world studying ancient sites, and discovered more questions than answers.  Many things we have long believed about these sites simply do not add up.  For instance, Dr. Sam told me that one of the most famous ancient sites, Machu Picchu in Peru, was clearly inhabited by four different civilizations over many years and that the oldest inhabitants were the most advanced. 
How does that add up? 

     Dr. Sam’s 2005 discovery of pyramids in Bosnia will prove to be very important historically because the continent of Europe was the last black hole for pyramids—we now know they exist on every single continent.  The story gets “curiouser and curioser”, doesn’t it?

     So this book we are getting ready to send to the printers was an experiment of great importance.  Dr. Sam prepared slides, pictures of ancient sites around the world including his Bosnian find, and asked six Akashic Record readers the most relevant questions vis-à-vis building these structures: Who, When, Why and How? 

     The answers were truly fascinating to me and I must say some were pretty far out there even by my standards.  But when I objectively compare them to what current science would have us believe, they don’t look as farfetched anymore.  I am under a tight gag order on the book but, trust me, it is going to make people think or laugh or cry or scream or maybe all of the above.  Mostly I hope it makes people think.

     Some of the traditionalist have a term for people like me—Pyram-Idiot.  Kind of catchy, eh?  If believing that something is not quite right but very wrong about the traditional view of pyramids and ancient sites makes me a Pyram-Idiot then, heck, just call me a Proud Pyram-Idiot!


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