Cairn de Gavrinis

Picture of Mystery Real X-File ID: 1353

Report Date: 10/11/2016

Country: France

Place: Cairn de Gavrinis

Fingerprints: Traces of ancient advanced engineering-skills, Traces of ancient advanced technology

Existing Facts Sources: Pictures that obviously proof advanced engineering-skills or any other anomaly or strange behaviour, Book

Summary Report: 

Gavrinis is a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany (France), known for one of the most important megalithic monuments in Europe: The Cairn of Gavrinis. Gavrinis itself is an uninhabited island (a mere 750 meters long and 400 meters wide) and is located between Locmariaquer and Larmor-Baden. At the time of the construction of the circular cairn, the post-glacial sea level was about five meters lower, so Gavrinis – as well as the nearby island of Er Lannic with its stone circles – was connected to the mainland. Additional remark: That the sea level must have risen in the last few thousand years can be seen from the stone circles on the nearby island of Er Lannic, because of the stone circles, one still stands to a third on the island, the other lies completely in the water.

The approximately circular cairn is built on several levels – possibly for stability reasons – and consists of thousands of approximately brick-sized quarry stones. the structure rests on an approximately 70 cm high mound of earth, sand and small stones. Inside the stone mound there is a corridor about 13.00 m long and about 0.80 m wide, paved with large slabs with a constant head height of about 1.50 m, which leads into a chamber 1.75 m high and only about six square meters in size (about 2.30 m × 2.55 m). All load-bearing stones as well as the capstones in the passage area of Gavrinis are made of granite, which can be found in the immediate vicinity. On the other hand, the only cover stone of the chamber, which is slightly curved downwards and weighs about 17 tons, is made of so-called orthogneiss, which was quarried in the Auray area (about 10 km to the north). The stone was first used as a menhir, but this and others were overturned and broken before the buildings of Gavrinis and Locmariaquer were erected. The middle section of this menhir was brought here. The surface of 21 of the 29 granite orthostats in the corridor and chamber, covering a total area of about 60 m2, was first smoothed in painstaking work and then decorated over and over with ornaments. In Gavrinis even the ground is made of artificial slabs. This magnificient site was meant to last forever! In addition, as with many other dolmens in Brittany, there was no evidence of burials at Gavrinis, which has led to the theory that the site may have had a function as a place of worship or assembly.

Most impressive about Gavrinis are the mathematical indications which can be found in the ornaments as well as in the number and arrangement of the megalithic stoneblocks. Erich von Däniken writes about this mathematical mystery in his Book “Die Steinzeit war ganz anders”: “… Enclosure stone No. 21 in the gallery presents a “fingerprint” at the bottom, then a total of 18 axe-like engravings follow in three rows, one above the other, running vertically from top to bottom. Adding the characters gives 18, or 3 times 6. Multiplying 3 times 4 times 5 times 6 gives 360, or 60 times 6. The 18 in turn, the number of “axes”, signals the twentieth part of 360. The number is also the degree circumference of a closed circle. 3, 4, 5 and 6 written in a row reads 3456 in the decimal system. The digit is present on the 21st monolith. 3456 divided by 21 gives 164.57. This, in turn, is the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 52.38 meters. Nothing special? At 52 degrees 38 minutes, the southern azimuth on the day of the summer solstice is exact for the position of Gavrinis. Do I still have to mention that the Cairn is of course aligned according to the solstice? Still not enough? We had divided the number 3456 by 21, because 3456 appears on monolith number 21. The result was 164.57, and this proved to be the diameter of the circle of 52.38 meters. What happens when the two numbers are divided? Reach for the calculator, nothing else can come out than: 164.57 : 52.38 = 3.14. 3.14 is the famous Ludolf number Pi. It shows the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter…”. Erich von Däniken continues: “… Gavrinis is a mathematical safe, in which three different, from each other independent and nevertheless with each other combinable arithmetic systems are integrated: a six system with its multiples, a decimal system and a 52-system with the subsizes 26 and 13. On the 52-system the Maya calendar and the Maya mathematics are built upon, which permits conclusions on the origin of the Maya mathematics. The senders of the number message of Gavrinis had thought of everything. No matter in which computational system future generations will work, an intelligent species must have stumbled upon the solution in any case. Integrated in the data abundance of Gavrinis is not only the number Pi, but also Pythagorean theorems, the number of the synodic moon orbit (on decimal places exactly!), the spherical shape of the earth as well as the number of earth days of a year with 365.25 days…”.

Gavrinis is an astonishing ancient megalithic site which, like many other ancient sites, is surrounded by a multitude of questions. How, and with what intention was it built? What was the originaly intended purpose of the site? Why do we find so many advanced mathematical implications in the arrangement and the ornaments of the site? (Similar to the great Pyramid of Giza, were the Numbers of Pi and Phi have also been found in abundance)? Where did the stone-age-people get this advanced knowledge from? Why do we find astronomical alignments in almost all ancient sites?


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Details of Book:  Grüsse aus der Steinzeit, Die Steinzeit war ganz anders,Erich von Däniken,Kopp Verlag, Kopp Verlag,08/01/2010, 05/01/2012


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