SUN WORSHIP?

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 760, 8 March 1910, Page 8

SUN WORSHIP?

■<■ .i--; -!v.■ ,= ; .. ■: v.- : . , • ' ' HUGE-BLOCKS OF STONE. SUPPOSED ; WORK.. OF. PREHISTORIC - ' MAX. :'V;' (By TeleEranhl—PreEs'Association.! " Auckland, March 7. . ' Mr/Clement Wragge,; who has been lecturing and doing : some exploring' work in the far north, claims to have discovered . in-; the neighbourhood ;o'f the 1 Bay of Is-landsVjthe-remains of an ancient city or ■temple that probably'dates back to the time'of sun worship." ' He. says:- '.'Tlie' hugo blocrS of stone, sonie'-iiearly ,15ft. long, -were, evidently hewn by prehistoric -map. ■-.Some have cups or holes scoopedDiit. on their faces, which are evidently 'written''records of immense antiquity, and others, are.'marked with..long : and ihort strokes, one being an ausated cross." MrV Wragge has taken a series of photographs of this weird place, which is probunique ' in , New Zealand—probably, he .says, dating - back to the mbgalithic. tract of ancient man when he was forced by change '.of; .climate.to : migrate from tie;northern to the southern hemisphere.

In a further interview to-day, ~ Mr. ■. iWragge said , his discovery linked New Zealand to the dim and-distant past,'long before the Maori, long before the, Aryan, br-the days of , prehistoric ..' man, . when icicntists presumed man was a giant per- . haps eight feet- high. ' /"TheW'rocks go back probably five hun- ■- died thousand years,-and are most likclya great deail older. I.consider they refer :to sun worship. They are 1 most probably ■ sonnected- with that continent tnat once doubtless existed in' the .'Western- Pacific called Lemuria, and;iii order to emphasise ' my discovery t. have provisionally called .; the-spot' Lemurion. '' They': dato back most likely to the time wheh'in the vast: y ages .past, .owingrto the secular .shift; iu'the':. inclination of , the earth's} axis, pre-' ' [historic, man was forced to migrate, from ;: She--higher ,latitudes of tho;-.northern-[hemisphere, following "a/ track from . the' ' [north-west to. the south-east, to the' southern hemisphere, which had then in its • turn become' more genial." --. ' •;' - Mr: Wragge explained the. phenomenon . which" is referred'.' t0,.-, and.■ showed: thatonce one grasped the theory >of ■ :axial ■.- 6hift, the ■ history of the - earth; was an 'open l book.■ It explained the.coal measures ' found • by - Lieutenant Shacklcton' .at the south polar . and the:: evidences - «f a ■ former';tropic'al- yegetati6'nrfound 1 by-"| : (Commander Peary.; at'.' the North Pole." .Cphntless. ages/ ago ifreaxis of t.heearth ' <sras horizontal; tlie North Pole pointing ! direct to the slin, aM'gradually, the axis' lias - shifted till.. it /reached''its -' present ' cant, and'it was daring'this change that " the climates changed, and the raa! that /inhabited . -the •'North gHemisith'efe.y"a /; megalithic race,' :fravelled ■dow'n'r'ti:,. the South' Hemisphere, the eliinateolwhjch .-'■ was < becoming;; milder ! .just; ; proportion as the north was growjng colder. 3,' his migration /hiad left many trices in. Its: track, and it-was- considered that they culminate in the .wonderful .monoliths of (Easter Island, which had been a source ./;K>f - speculation' for - years'-- past. '/' » ''These rocks which .1' have discovered /■ #re-..probably 'connected:-with, the:.mono-. ■ iiths'; ,ofy';Easter-- Island,"':-remarke'd':'Mr;' iWragge.r "f. prefer- not 'to ;say any .more ;-! just 'at'-present', as .to - the locality-in which' they : liej' ■ except • thri.t-- -I- -had to '• get aV special-, sailing. -boat : ;to reach- it.;lt Ms :absurd.j tp,'. tellme'V thex&afc-'.. the' .''resnlt'''of-\accid.ent;-:'or-':-thatV thfy>'were. geologically ;form'ed/as/we. see'.thcm. There are, to my mind, undoubted'-marks showWanj'ia'rid; -: in 'some? of rtbemv < the' chisel-.marks" ;•;-/. • "Si-'i-NATURAL DECAYED BASALTIC COLUMNS. 1 (By.-.- Teleeraph.—Press Association ! , ' .. Now Plymouth, March 7. M'r. .Xllemeiit Wragge's Mis® ,coVeVy-ih' tho BSy^6fSlslands, ; Mr.. ?ei r cy > :;;".SrditE.:6ays that' stones :'bet^a - viWhangiroa and ;Bay;of Islands;regarding' ::(which r- Natives.' have'-"traditions'.v .dating .-. |to-'the,time';df. Captain' Cook..- A' year' or ' |two ago th e'- Government '- Geologist-"had : |them :Mamified, arid they wero found to', ibe basaltic columns.'-Pos-sibly -these - are -'what ;Mr. Wrngge . has 1 found. .' '' ' ....>■

NOT A NEW DISCOVERY. . ■■ Mr.,- H. M. ( 3towoll: V he. has . knpvrn Biboufcithe.stonpS ever, since - he was . ;•; in child.: < -They'-'are on high' ground, in rthc open, bn'/the'" edge'.,pf. 'the' primeval ':•; jioTest. /'Ho visited .the-sjot'a - few- years marks', [described.".by-Mr.There..is'iin? - ' ■similar to 'those which ; were seen by' Mr. fWragge.-;' : ;:;,;<-'-"v.'K";.,v;i , ,>;;J'; //J",; />.,;• k> istones/mentionedby'Mr.-Wragge.arsvol-[«anic ""bombs." •' " '■ ■■ • ;.I _.' Mr. "Hamilton ; (director iof ;',the : - Bomiri-i ; V.' pion" Museum)..thinks"that probably "the : ,«to'nes' , .were pnt.;iti their, present position'. _ fly tb»:Hatives- to make a.liakari or'stagring for a feast., • •• "'-.v'-w- ---'; Tho"l' r jfritirig**. had' not,been'n'oticcd by \'. lOther. observers, 'but-. it'.-wM -;cust6ma'ry' to ; \ . fihd ;: air -In"'volcanic stones and /bombs, and these,-features;might' be re,;by some obser,vers as due to the fnuman; 'agency.-;. Itr Vasvalso^'■■■'probable' : -< rthat the ; stones had been arranged by the .; -'.IMaorisi'^-'.-ai-'^ciidl-^HBti'l''There.'.\rei» : tevidences ;of: design: in the', erection of the ,\£toiles;'■-', ' - ■■ ■'■; ■■