Alchemisland

Megalithic giants against whom Herakles himself resembles a veg-deficient tenement scruff. The notion that humans were not the first but merely the next link in a long chain of life upon the earth, the root races expounded upon by Cayce, Blavatsky and later Theosophically-inspired authors.

That these giants possessed wisdom and gargantuan strength is attested by the master craftmanship and advanced engineering techniques employed in the erecting of megalithic structures. However, the myths tell us they were alternately dim and childlike, prey for the devious tool-mind of the trickster ape with his newfound recall, or devious and evil entities prone to cannibalism, who feasted upon mankind in scorn and waged terrible war upon one another.

However these giants are portrayed, their ends are the same. They, like the gods fated to die in the Norse pantheon, were fated to pass onto the otherworld and never regain a physical form, although a form of immortality is conferred upon them during this alchemical alteration of shape and concept.

The myths tell us that they were deceived by the crafty ape, the loping sidekick of Thoth with his magical words. Stone markings are but the dreams of beautifully illuminated manuscripts of later ages, the phantom monoliths of what will be. Ideas of today somehow insert themselves into past ages by means of dreams and symbols. Giants are deposed from their dominion over earth by man and bound to the age of myth, their grand structures and temples change function and over time their mythic associations transformed and attested to heroic men.

Let’s propose that there were neither giants of another race nor men of greater stature that observed now, but ones who adopted by ritual invocation, or other, the characteristics and attributes of strong animals.

Fintan Mac Bucra is an Irish mythological figure in which we could evince some regressive capacities. Sacred was the Kingfisher to the Druids, the bird who rides the air and the tides, who will breach the waters in search of greater prey and thus greater satisfaction. Kin were they to that bird, those men who beneath the surface delved deeper than any before or since, unlocking the great knowledge that ensured the immortality of their wisdom and arts. Fintan lives before, during and after the traumatic floods which destroy the old world, named a wicked world only through an Abrahamic frame. He adopts the forms of animals and in this way lives through this seismic change in which many millions perish, man and beast both, and in the salt-poisoned lands thereafter will a more blighted tree of man grow to lesser strength. Fintan remembers the previous forms of man. His druidic wisdom teaches him that all life must experience all lesser forms of life, before attaining to that highest form of Godlike man. From the protozoan creatures, most unlike life, dwelling in the sulfur abyss, to the misshapen, gasping things which first braved the surface and the promise of light, our first notions of salvation from above although we are form the cognitive capacity to represent such ideas, in stone or otherwise. All these memories of other lives, those clustered bits which the whole create, are stored within us, we our the knowledge-imbued megalithic stones who shall live forever, at least in an oblique sense.

Was Fintan alone in his transformative, marvelesque abilities or did he hail from a race of magical people who, by supernatural and likely shamanic means, raised certain of the megalithic structures of ambiguous antiquity. Later raised are those lesser structures which although magnificence are mere copies of the liths of the men of the dawn age, whose stones they yet live beneath playing strange airs which inspired the reels of Sligo.

Thomas Sheridan’s book the Druid Code, he posits that by ingestion of hallucinogenic substances or shamanic ritual a primal strength was unlocked which enabled the men of the dawn age to hoist and plant these great stones into the ground, described in mythological cycles in the warp spasm of Cú Chulainn. Speaking more to European-style megaliths but I thought it was a cool take.