Cairns, Megalithic Mounds, and Mithraeums of Swabia
by Sean Jobst
15 October 2018
One of my interests are megalithic sites, as I've always felt instinctively that the "official" timeline is used to mask something much older while suppressing knowledge that the ancients were far more advanced than we give them credit for. Perhaps this interest was first awakened growing up near a Native American mound in the Southeast USA, involved in preservation efforts that were a jumping off point into an interest in other mounds throughout the region.
Fast forward nearly a decade later, and now that I've awoken deeper to my own heritage my interest in the various megalithic sites abounding throughout Europe has deepened along with it - almost like a synchronicity making my earlier interests more relevant to my spiritual/psychological growth. And imagine my surprise when recently I discovered that these sites likewise exist in Swabia. In this article, I examine three such sites along with the videos that enlightened me to their existence....
The Paradies-Monument near Heilbronn is a megalithic structure 440 meters (1,443 feet) long that resembles a keyhole from the sky. The center line of its symmetrical axis is perfectly aligned to the sunrise at the Winter Solstice, when the day is the shortest of the year and the longest night - indeed a very sacred time for our ancient European ancestors, not the least in the Germanic lands. There are straight, smooth rock walls linked perfectly in angles and running between 20 and 60 meters (65-196 feet) in length.
On the front of the long wall is a triangular portal that has been cut perfectly into the rock. Similar designs abound throughout many other megalithic sites throughout the world. Perhaps exhibiting an advanced knowledge of mathematics? Recreating one of the phosphenes or thought constants already existent in the human mind? The latter likewise abound throughout many of the Megalithic sites and cave art, symbols conveying deeper truths such as cyclical time and birth-death-rebirth.
In any case, the site also appears to have a dolmen - a single-chamber megalithic tomb with at least two vertical stones supporting a large flat horizontal table, similar to Pi π - and a ramp. Half upwards this ramp are the remains of what appears to be a sarcophagus. It also contains an Omphalos - a stone "navel" artifact. In the later Roman era, a Mithraeum - a temple where initiates worshipped the god Mithras - was also erected over the site. Thus, we see a continuity from the earliest pre-Germanic era, to our Germanic ancestors who migrated into our Schwaben from the northeast, and then the Roman era which came full circle with Mithraism containing many of the same basic truths common to all our Indo-European spirituality.
Within my own ancestral Ostalbkreis region of eastern Württemberg, Schwäbisch Gmünd contains a complex of caves, one of whose chambers was a Mithraeum whose axis is oriented to the sunrise at Midwinter. One of its smooth rock walls has the center image of an eagle, with birds being symbolic of the winged psyche or released soul. The Greco-Roman tradition, as well as the Eastern Mysteries it absorbed such as through the Roman Mithraism, had the sacred idea of the eagle or phoenix. Within our Schwaben, there is the interplay of Celtic and Germanic mythologies wherein both have the idea of the raven carrying the souls of those fallen on the battlefield. Ravens were closely associated with our allvater Wotan, so the symbolism of a bird representing divine power seems to be innate.
The Steingrube of Schmie near Maulbronn, contains walls and portals of passage-graves, some with steps and others attached to a rock wall. They appear similar to cairns and burial mounds elsewhere in Europe, including to many in Celtic Brittany or the ancient Etruscan necropolis of Cerveteri near Rome. The Steingrube includes at least 18 cairns and four visible portals of passage-tombs, which all seem to be connected like a wall 20 meters high with stepped walls stretching 700 meters long. The average length of each individual cairn is 80 meters. Concentric walls enclose the burial chamber in the center and supporting the entire structure's stability; concentric circles and spirals likewise in the various megalithic sites worldwide but especially in Europe. There also seems to be a stylized horn on one of the rock faces, so perhaps the common Indo-European archetype of the bull and cow?
15 October 2018
One of my interests are megalithic sites, as I've always felt instinctively that the "official" timeline is used to mask something much older while suppressing knowledge that the ancients were far more advanced than we give them credit for. Perhaps this interest was first awakened growing up near a Native American mound in the Southeast USA, involved in preservation efforts that were a jumping off point into an interest in other mounds throughout the region.
Fast forward nearly a decade later, and now that I've awoken deeper to my own heritage my interest in the various megalithic sites abounding throughout Europe has deepened along with it - almost like a synchronicity making my earlier interests more relevant to my spiritual/psychological growth. And imagine my surprise when recently I discovered that these sites likewise exist in Swabia. In this article, I examine three such sites along with the videos that enlightened me to their existence....
The Paradies-Monument near Heilbronn is a megalithic structure 440 meters (1,443 feet) long that resembles a keyhole from the sky. The center line of its symmetrical axis is perfectly aligned to the sunrise at the Winter Solstice, when the day is the shortest of the year and the longest night - indeed a very sacred time for our ancient European ancestors, not the least in the Germanic lands. There are straight, smooth rock walls linked perfectly in angles and running between 20 and 60 meters (65-196 feet) in length.
On the front of the long wall is a triangular portal that has been cut perfectly into the rock. Similar designs abound throughout many other megalithic sites throughout the world. Perhaps exhibiting an advanced knowledge of mathematics? Recreating one of the phosphenes or thought constants already existent in the human mind? The latter likewise abound throughout many of the Megalithic sites and cave art, symbols conveying deeper truths such as cyclical time and birth-death-rebirth.
In any case, the site also appears to have a dolmen - a single-chamber megalithic tomb with at least two vertical stones supporting a large flat horizontal table, similar to Pi π - and a ramp. Half upwards this ramp are the remains of what appears to be a sarcophagus. It also contains an Omphalos - a stone "navel" artifact. In the later Roman era, a Mithraeum - a temple where initiates worshipped the god Mithras - was also erected over the site. Thus, we see a continuity from the earliest pre-Germanic era, to our Germanic ancestors who migrated into our Schwaben from the northeast, and then the Roman era which came full circle with Mithraism containing many of the same basic truths common to all our Indo-European spirituality.
Within my own ancestral Ostalbkreis region of eastern Württemberg, Schwäbisch Gmünd contains a complex of caves, one of whose chambers was a Mithraeum whose axis is oriented to the sunrise at Midwinter. One of its smooth rock walls has the center image of an eagle, with birds being symbolic of the winged psyche or released soul. The Greco-Roman tradition, as well as the Eastern Mysteries it absorbed such as through the Roman Mithraism, had the sacred idea of the eagle or phoenix. Within our Schwaben, there is the interplay of Celtic and Germanic mythologies wherein both have the idea of the raven carrying the souls of those fallen on the battlefield. Ravens were closely associated with our allvater Wotan, so the symbolism of a bird representing divine power seems to be innate.
The Steingrube of Schmie near Maulbronn, contains walls and portals of passage-graves, some with steps and others attached to a rock wall. They appear similar to cairns and burial mounds elsewhere in Europe, including to many in Celtic Brittany or the ancient Etruscan necropolis of Cerveteri near Rome. The Steingrube includes at least 18 cairns and four visible portals of passage-tombs, which all seem to be connected like a wall 20 meters high with stepped walls stretching 700 meters long. The average length of each individual cairn is 80 meters. Concentric walls enclose the burial chamber in the center and supporting the entire structure's stability; concentric circles and spirals likewise in the various megalithic sites worldwide but especially in Europe. There also seems to be a stylized horn on one of the rock faces, so perhaps the common Indo-European archetype of the bull and cow?
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