Mysterious Australia Newsletter - January 2012

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MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA

Vol. 2, Issue No 01

January, 2012.

INSIDE:

MAYAN COLONISTS INTASMANIA!ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS FOUNDTASMANIA!VIKINGS IN THE PACIFIC NEW DISCOVERIES FROM

NEW ZEALAND.

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at the Gilroy residence,

12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards.

We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Streetwhere there is safer parking.

MAYAN COLONISTS INTASMANIA!Rex Gilroy.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Surprising evidence was uncovered by Heather and I during our November 2011 Tasmanian expedition, oflandfalls and long-time colonisation of Tasmania by Mayan cross-Pacific explorers.

In previous newsletters, and in our books Pyramids in the Pacific the Unwritten History ofAustralia, and Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age God-Kings, the Gilroys

have presented ever-growing evidence for pre-Columbian Amerindian cross-Pacific expeditions on oftenmassive balsa single-sailed rafts which carried them to Australia and beyond. A Gilroy book on this subject isnow taking shape.

We have in the course of field trips uncovered relics in the form of stone images and scripts revealingcontacts with the Queensland and New South Wales coast at various times in the past by Peruvian andMexican culture-carriers. For a full account of these finds I direct readers to our book Pyramids of Destiny,[Chapters 39 and 40].

Our first major discovery of Amerindian Australian contacts came in October 2000 when weuncovered the Mayan colony at Cooktown, which besides carved stone images later included the discovery ofa small stepped pyramid. Further south down the Queensland coast Peruvian images were found in August2005 at Clairview and Bribie Island.

More recently we have uncovered a Mayan colony in the Hawkesbury River district and a temple-pyramid near Newcastle while further south on the New South Wales coast the discovery of an ancient claypottery head of SinAn the Chimu Moon-God, led to the discovery of a Chimu colony at least 2,000 years old.

These finds, all described in previous newsletters, are now joined by the remarkable Tasmaniandiscoveries, which seem to suggest that the Mayan colonisation of parts of Australia stand out from all therest.

*****On Wednesday 9th November, as we drove towards Hobart, we stopped at Apsley Creek just before

Runnymede to take photos looking towards the coast not far off. As I returned to the car a curious lump ofbasalt, half-hidden in grass caught my attention. Picking it up I noticed a fading image on one side. The stonemeasured 16.5cm long by 13cm wide was 5.3cm deep. When washed later at our motel in Hobart, I was

amazed to find that it was engraved on both its flat surfaces and on both sides of these.The first image seen when I had found the stone was too faint for photography, as were the otherimages, requiring chalking in. This first image, that of a skull-like head [left profile], bore an open mouth witha single front tooth top and bottom. I had seen this image before among the Queensland finds. It was theMayan God of Death, Cimi [aka Kimi]. The underside bore the glyphs for sun and locality while those side

Rex and Hea th e r G i l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r c h t eam.

Pho to c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r oy 2012.


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images described men and the Sun-Snake. After our return to Katoomba I was able to translate themessage as Death comes to all men, their spirits ascend to the world of the Sun-Snake.

On Friday morning 11th November we left Hobart for Port Arthur. On our way there we passedthrough the Forestier Peninsula. While photographing scenery at nearby Eaglehawk Neck I made the chancediscovery near the shoreline among gravels, of a small stone 13.5cm long by 8.5cm wide and 3.5cm deep,bearing a front-on face, with air in a long spiral depicted coming from the mouth as in the Mayan fashion.

The face, [now identified as the Wind-God Ik] bore a wide, open mouth, long nose and two round eyes with

a cap depicted. A tear dropped from the left eye. The back of the stone bore the engraving of Kancab-Kuhthe Snake-God, his open mouth emitting a breath symbol and the glyph for location, basically meaning thatthis was a votive offering stone to be left with an offering at a nearby long-vanished temple dedicated to theGod. The meaning of the engravings is that Ik the Wind-God, his breath brings life to the arable land protected byKancub-Kuh the mighty Snake-God.

*****Leaving the east cost we drove across country to Rosebery, where we were to stay with friends, their

home being a base from which we would visit areas of interest for the next week. From here we visited TrialHarbour on Sunday 13th November. While taking photos on high ground in from the beachfront, I picked upa roundish black stone. This chance find revealed a snake-like head and eye with open mouth in left profile.

There were glyphs below and behind the mouth later translated. The image was that of Kancab, the mighty

Snake God. The translation stated Kancab, mighty Snake-God who guards this land.We drove on to Granville Harbour where further surprises awaited us. Granville Harbour revealed

other archaeological surprises that day not related to Mayan contacts, but these other finds show how morethan one ancient culture left its mark on Tasmania down through the centuries.

Some distance in from the waterfront on high ground, as I scanned the surrounding terrain with mybinoculars, my attention was drawn to an outcrop of granite stones on a shrubbery-coated hilltop. LeavingHeather with the car due to her current knee problems, I proceeded to climb to the flattish summit. Here

within the weatherworn outline of an ancient granite enclosure lay a large granite head. I measured it to be 1metre tall by 1.3 metres wide and 1.2 metres deep. It bore a fearsome countenance; two long narrow eyes

with a tear dropping from the right eye. Below a broad nose with a long mouth with a breath symbol curlingupwards from the right end of the mouth, and below the mouth a Sun disc within which was a snake image,

that of Kancab-Kuh. The head was that of Kinich-Ahau, the Mayan Sun-God.Nearby I picked up a slab of sandstone lying exposed on the sandy soil. Despite a muddy coating I

could see the faded image of a face which, after washing revealed square eyes, a nose and mouth. A tear dropcould be seen at the bottom of the left eye, then I saw another depicted horizontally coming from the rightside of the right eye, and finally a Tree of Life symbol beside the left eye. Cleaning mud from the oppositeside of the stone revealed the glyph for the [Pacific] Ocean, being a long oval symbol within which at one end

was a small circle denoting the Great West Land of Kulhuakan, or Land of the Serpent reached after a longvoyage. The glyph was surrounded by the Wind-Snake who guided mariners to this land. The face itself was atypical Itzamnaaj image. The tears symbolise nectar [ie sustenance and knowledge]. The glyphs collectivelytranslate as Itzamnaaj, divine creator and ruler of the heavens, protector of the Tree of Life with which he provides nectar andknowledge, sent the Wind-Snake to guide his people on a long voyage to this land.

This image of Itzamnaaj measures 15cm long by 17.5cm wide and resembles other examples of theGod from eastern Australia and Mexico. For a temple and large stone head of the Sun-God to have beencreated here can only mean that long-term colonisation was intended by these Amerindians.

I am certain that much more evidence lies hidden hereabouts and probably in the nearby encroachingforests. Therefore I will look forward to a return investigation of this area.

Yet what was the course by which these hardy men and women reached Australia, and also foundtheir way southward to find Tasmania?

The Peruvian Current is the answer. It sweeps up the Peruvian and Mexican coast past the UnitedStates to turn west off Canada becoming the North Pacific Current which in turn moves southward once itreaches the Micronesian Islands, to eventually skirt along the east coast of Papua New Guinea and down the

Australian east coast where it turns east to reach the tip of New Zealands North Island, flow on past Easter

Island thence rejoin the Peruvian coast. There are many offshoot currents along the way, which would haveenabled many raft expeditions to land at bays and inlets and major harbours from Cooktown to the NSW farsouth coast, Victorias east coast or continue on to find the northern and eastern coastlines of Tasmania,from where these intrepid explorer-colonists would eventually have found the west coast. They would hardlyhave failed to eventually find Antarctic waters but would have turned back there!


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The discovery of Mayan stone engravings in Tasmania opens yet another chapter in the unknownhistory of cross-Pacific Amerindian [and Mayan in particular] voyages which led them to discover Australiaand its island neighbours. Relics from the New Guinea landmass and New Zealand also demonstrate theincredible maritime achievements of these peoples, which by 250 AD, a Golden Age of Mayanachievements, saw great fleets leaving the Mexican east coast, to plunge into the Pacific. The Cooktowncolony dates to this period, and the Tasmanian finds no later.

What exciting discoveries Heather and I make! It all makes the famous voyages of Captain James

Cook pale in comparison!-0-

The image of the Mayan God of Death, Cimi, found at Apsley

Creek, east coast of Tasmania.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. The rear glyphs depict Sun and locality.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Engravings have been carefully chalked in due to their faded condition.

A side glyph for Sun-Snake.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Side glyph for men.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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At Trial Harbour, on Tasmanias west coast, RexGilroy uncovered further Mayan colonisation evidence,such as this image of Kancab-Kuh, with glyphs statingKancab, mighty Snake-God who guards this land.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

At Granville Harbour, west coast, Rex recovered this engravedimage of the Creator-God, ItzasmnaaJ. It was found within the

remains of an ancient stone enclosure.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The back of the stone image bore the fadedhieroglyph for the [Pacific] Ocean, at the western endof which lay the Great West Land of Kulhuakan, or

Land of the Serpent [ie Australia]. Photocopyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The image of the Mayan Wind-God, Ik,recovered at the Forestier Peninsula, east

coast. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The back of the stone shows an image ofKancab-Kuh the Snake God with the glyphs

for breath and location.



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This large stone head of the Mayan Sun-God,Kinich-Ahau, measuring 1 metre tall by 1.3metres wide and 1.2 metres deep, bears a tearcoming from the right eye and a breath of windcoming from its mouth [top right end]. Beneaththe wide mouth is a Sun-disc with the image of

a snake, ie Kancab Kuh.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Due to the faded condition of the facecarving, chalking in of the image was anecessity. However, sunlight on the stone

obscured much of the chalk outline, so thatthis closer view shows those parts that wereindistinct with white ink for comparison.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Close-up of the face with white ink enhancement of thoseparts obscured by sunlight.


Close-up of the face without the white ink enhancement.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The closer view of the face without the whiteink enhancement.



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ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS FOUNDTASMANIA!Rex Gilroy.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

In past newsletters I have written about relics suggesting that Scandinavians in the form of Swedish Vikings,via trading expeditions to India and Malaya in the 10th century [having entered the Indian Ocean in thePersian Gulf, after sailing up the Russian Rivers] found their way southward beyond Java in their longships,to discover the northern Australian coast as well as New Guinea and sailed on through Torres Strait to findthe West Pacific islands and New Zealand as well as explore down the Australian east coast.

Just how far they sailed is debatable, but I maintain that they eventually found the west coast of the Americas.A lengthy chapter on the Swedish Vikings in Australian-West Pacific waters is found in the Gilroys

book Pyramids in the Pacific The Unwritten History of Australia [URU Publications 2000] and we arepreparing a book on the subject.

Just how far the ancient Swedes penetrated Australia is a mystery gradually being solved. MediaevalEuropean face rock art of Scandinavian form was found by me in September 1990 in from a beach north ofCairns, Far North Queensland. This was followed in 1991 by the chance discovery of ancient Scandinavianrock engravings describing Odin and longship motifs among other designs carved upon boulders at a woodedproperty between Tamworth and Armidale and the discovery of further Scandinavian rock art at aHawkesbury River location that appears to speak of a voyage down the adjoining Nepean River and in morerecent times old Scandinavian farmers rock art, suggesting settlement has been found by the Gilroys near

Riverstone in Sydneys west.In 1997 Heather and I uncovered traces of Swedish settlement and engravings upon large glacial

boulders in the Milford Sound area of New Zealands South Island, and in 2008 the remains of an extensivesettlement and rock inscriptions at a Bay of Islands location. The evidence still coming to light in NewZealand is showing that the Swedes were no mere one-off visitors there.

Old drawing of balsa raft from Guayaquil [from Juan and Ulloa

1748]. [A] bow;[B] Stern; [C] thatched hut; [D] Poles servingas masts; [E] kind of bowsprit; [F] centre-boards; [G] centre-board serving as rudder; [H] cooking place; [I] water-bottles;[K]mainstays; [L] flooring or deck. Although these rafts were

Peruvian, they illustrate the type of ocean-going craft also employedby Mayan explorer-colonists.

Illustration American Indians in the Pacific by Thor Heyerdahl[1952].

Old drawing of balsa raft at Payta, Peru[Spilberger 1614-1617]. Far larger raftsare said to have been constructed by the

Mayans and Peruvians, complete with sails,shelters and storage shelters capable of

carrying large numbers of men, women andchildren!

Illustration from American Indians in thePacific by Thor Heyerdahl [1952].


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New discoveries made by Heather and I during our November 2011 visit to Tasmania could helpexplain how, back in Europe, 12th century Swedish scholars were somehow aware of the Antarctic region.

The latest finds suggest Swedish colonisation of Tasmania and that further discoveries must beexpected on our next expedition there.

*****On Tuesday 1st November 2011, having just landed at Devonport on the ferry from Melbourne, we

drove south along the Bass Highway. Reaching Deloraine we had the choice of turning east on the highwayto Launceston, drive on south to the Great Lake, or turn west to a place called Mole Creek. On one of myfamous hunches we turned west.

Deciding to visit Mole Creek was to be a fortuitous choice, for at one point I had Heather stop thecar while I investigated a roadside forested area. Here I came across moss-covered rubble remains ofapparent ancient dwellings. I also came across a small stone adzing tool [not aboriginal] and three other smallstones [limestone] upon which I was surprised to find fading ancient Scandinavian letterings typical ofSwedish Viking relics found on the mainland and in New Zealand.

Deciding to drive on further and return to this occupation site on the way back, I had Heathereventually stop at another forested location. Working my way through the trees I climbed a rise to discoveran open flat. Here I came across an extensive megalithic formation, triangular in shape. As I would soon

discover upon close inspection, all the boulders in the formation possessed ancient Scandinavian [ie Swedish]engravings. There was just one thing wrong with this structure some local artist had erected a huge woodentriangular frame of large heavy beams over the main part of it, purpose unknown!

Despite difficulties I was able to record and photograph the inscriptions on the boulders and preparea map of the arrangement, measuring the relevant distances between each stone. The structure was aligned onan east-west axis. The apex stone at the east end, [beyond the ridiculous wooden art arrangement] boreletterings and at the far west end [also free of the wooden monstrosity] were three large stones forming thetriangle base. That on the north tip being a 2.4 metres tall menhir or standing stone. The vandalism of thisrelic was incredible. Once covered in ancient Scandinavian inscriptions, all but a few letterings at the top hadbeen obliterated with modern graffiti, although I found little trace of this on the other stones. I was able totranslate the surviving letterings as the names of two ancient Swedes, Baba and Kumir. The centre stones of

the large triangle base measured 1.6 metres long by 1 metre wide and 50cm deep, it bore an inscription on itsflat surface: Uthan sails north with Saemund, and on its opposite side was the message: The World Serpent

Midgard guards the South.The large triangular formation held a smaller one within it. The outer one measuring 39.45 metres

long from the apex stone to the menhir [north side] and 30 metres from the apex stone to the south sidemarker stone. This one formed the apex of the smaller, central triangle, which I measured to be 8.5 metreslong on its north and south sides, the western markers being 19.2 metres apart.

I then set about recording the inscriptions on the rest of the stones. One 2 metre long by 90cm wideand 50cm deep specimen bore the image of a dragon ship [aka a longship] on one side.

Another upright stone measuring 98cm tall by 97cm wide bore the images of two ships and glyphsreading: The ships of Ari and Farhn. We are from Birka.

Another large stone bore the name of a woman, Yuta, and nearby another revealed the name of aman, Khumi. Here were names of Swedes who sailed Australian waters to settle here at Mole Creek in the12th century!

Turning to the triangle apex boulder I made a startling discovery, for the inscription read: TheAlthing. Here all disagreements are settled. The boulder measured 1.5 metres tall by 2.5 metres long by 1 metrewide. Vandals had unfortunately ruined engravings on the opposite side, but I was glad this inscriptionsurvived for me to record it, because the Althing was the name of the local parliament throughout the old

Viking lands, where chieftains and others gathered periodically to settle disputes of all kinds and make lawsamong other matters.

That night I washed the four relics found at the settlement site that morning. One was the small, stillsharp basalt adzing tool, found at the site of the dwellings. It measured 13.4 cm tall by 7cm wide at the

cutting edge and 6cm deep.The next of the four relics was a crude basalt slab bearing a very worn right face graffiti image, which

like the other relics had to be chalked in to reveal the details. The image was 11cm tall by 8cm wide and2.2cm deep. Letterings on the face read: Tassi the Elder.


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The third specimen was a little four-surface oblong stone bearing a row of runic letters each. Thestone measured 11.5cm long by 2.6cm wide on all four sides. The full translation read: A prayer to Mother

Earth Safety for Thorkah who sails north with Saemund of Birka, from their mother Duka.This was a small votive inscription and would have been either buried in the ground or placed with a

stone image of the Goddess, or perhaps at a shrine dedicated to the Earth-Mother.The other relic was a left profile human head with a mediaeval cap. It measured 22cm tall by 13.1cm

wide and 3.7cm deep. On the back was the name: U[h]mi the worker.

I left this site after half a days work to return to Heather, but would return the following day forfurther photography.

We journeyed on to King Solomons Caves. The caves were closed when we arrived, but I carriedout a search of a creek there and took photos of the forest. At one point I came across a basalt head carvingof a horse, measuring 36cm long by 20cm wide and 8cm deep. This crude image was shortly afterwardsjoined by a second discovery, a large basalt rock half covered in moss displaying ancient ogham script.Clearing away the moss I chalked in the script, which I later translated to read: A declaration. Thufi the Stag, the

Elder. He died in Winter.Racing the afternoon light we drove back to the roadside ancient Scandinavian settlement. The forest

was full of stone outlines of long vanished huts. However, on this inspection I came across a 65cm long by50cm high and 14cm deep stone bearing a Scandinavian declaration: Home of Jathi the Chieftain.

*****The Mole Creek district lies roughly 60 kilometres inland from Tasmanias Bass Strait coast. It is

possible that the first colonists to settle here penetrated inland along one of the coastal rivers, perhaps theRiver Forth which begins at Turners Beach. Mole Creek offered good farming land. Perhaps livestock in theform of horses and cattle might have been introduced as elsewhere, brought here by large cargo vessels fromSoutheast Asian ports [hence the horse head carving mentioned earlier].

*****Sunday 13th November 2011 found us on the west coast, where in the Granville Harbour region I

came across scattered basalt slabs on a headland that I suspected had once been part of a hut constructed ofstone and wood. I soon found other signs, such as definite square outlines and what was left of ancient stonefloor paving. I then saw a stone slab standing in an open area. Closer inspection revealed fading Scandinavian

letterings and a longship. It was late afternoon and as time was running out on our 23 day Tasmanian visit Iknew I would be unable to return here until our next search in this state at a future date. Quickly chalking in,photographing and drawing as well as measuring this stone, I shortly afterward saw another inscribed uprightstone projecting from the ground nearby and quickly repeated the same procedure.

Meanwhile Heather was about a kilometre away waiting for me in the car above a beach. Quicklypacking my clip board, ruler camera etc into the backpack I began the hike back to the car. However, nosooner had I begun to leave than I almost kicked a smooth grey stone at my feet, virtually asking me to pick itup, which I did, and found myself looking at a weathered image of a helmeted face, a nose guard extendingdown from the helmet protecting the nose as in old Viking helmets.

The image looked familiar and upon the back of the stone were the faded but still recognisable lettersspellingOdin. Here was an image of the old Scandinavian God and not unlike other carved examples found

in books on the Vikings.That night I worked late with my translation literature [which always accompanies us on our

expeditions] and finally had the translations for the two large stones. The first one found bore the inscription:Jathur chieftain from Rus* steered us all here to this land. We arrived in good spirits in our boats.

The second inscription read: A declaration. Ruk and A[h]ne sailed to this land lying north of the place where wefirst landed. Many people have accompanied us. [*Rus being the ancient name for Russia].

The picture being formed is that 12th century Swedish Vikings, men and women, were arriving on thewest Tasmanian coast, if not elsewhere in this state, to establish farming colonies. No doubt they woulddiscover the gold and copper of this state. And it would appear that fleets of longships were involved, whichmeans that the mainland has yet to yield up more evidence of long-term Scandinavian colonisation as NewZealand already has.

Heather and I found many other things during our Tasmanian search, but the discovery ofScandinavian contacts and colonisation of this state in the 12th century, makes us look forward all the more toour next search in this little island of mysteries.

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Viking longships [or dragonships] on theEuropean coast. In such vessels Scandinavians sailed

to Africa to trade with the Moors; they also

discovered Greenland and then NorthAmerica 400 years before Columbus. They traded

with India and Malaya and as Rex Gilroymaintains found Australia, New Guinea, the near

Pacific Islands and New Zealand.

Faded ancient Scandinavian ships rock art found by Rex Gilroy in1991on a stone at a New England site between Tamworth and

Armidale [chalked in for photographic purposes].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Ancient Scandinavian rock art discovered byRex Gilroy at a New England site betweenTamworth and Armidale [chalked in for

photographic purposes].


The Mole Creek district of northern Tasmania. Evidence suggests that 12th century SwedishVikings settled the region 700 years before British settlement.

Photo co ri ht Rex Gilro 2012.


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A large stone wall constructed of boulders, remains of a structure nowovergrown by forest plants, at the Mole Creek Viking settlement.


Outline remains of an ancient dwelling covered by jungle. Moreruins of Scandinavian dwellings still lie hidden at the Mole Creek

site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The small, crude, weathered face with glyphs of Tassi theElder from the Viking settlement ruins, Mole Creek.


All that remains of an ancient hut. Mole Creek district Vikingsettlement. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A small stone [non-Aboriginal] adze, recoveredat the Home of Jathi the Chieftain.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The image of U[h]mi the worker recovered at the MoleCreek Viking settlement site.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. The inscription on the back of the head carving.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The oblong votive stone bearing the Earth Mother inscription, found at theViking settlement site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The wooden monstrosity placed over thetriangular structure of ancient inscribed

stones by an artist.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A heavy wooden beam resting upon aninscribed stone.


The same lengthy beam resting uponmarker stones that line up with theapex stone of the triangle megalithic

structure in the distance.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The standing stone, or menhir, all but a few of the ancientScandinavian glyphs have long ago been obliterated by vandals who

periodically visit the site!Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Another view of the standing stone to the west of thisinscribed stone marker.


The inscription on this stone reads: Uthan sails withSaemun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The back of the Uthan stone bears this message: The WorldSerpent Midgard guards the South.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The stone bearing the Viking womans name Yuta.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The stone bearing the name of a man, Khumi.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. Carving of a dragonship. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

This large upright boulder bears a two-part inscription left andright of the stone. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Close-up of the left half of the inscription.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Close-up of the right side half of the inscription. Collectively they read: The ships of Ariand Fahn. We are from Birka. [Birka was a major trading port in ancient Sweden].


The large apex stone of the triangular megalithic structure, which datesto the 12th century. The inscription reading: The Althing, here all

disagreements are settled marks this site as an important meeting placefor Vikings long ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The crude carving of a horse head, le t by someScandinavian near King Solomons Caves, Mole

Creek. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The inscription found at King Solomons Caves A declaration.Thufi the Stag, the Elder. He died in Winter.


Part of the remains of the Home of Jathi the Chieftain.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The rock inscription found at Mole Creek Viking settlement site, found on the return from King Solomons

Caves reads: Home of Jathi the Chieftain. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The first of the two rock inscriptions found at theGranville Harbour Viking settlement site by Rex Gilroy.It states: Jathur Chieftain from Rus [ie ancient Russia]steered us all here to this land. We arrived in good spirits

in our boats. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The second stone inscription from the sameGranville Harbour, west coast settlementsite and reads: A declaration. Ruk and

A[h]ne sailed to this land lying north of theplace where we first landed. Many people

have accompanied us.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The image of the Scandinavian God, Odin found by Rex Gilroyin the Granville Harbour area.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.Back of the head bears the glyphs for Odin.



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VIKINGS IN THE PACIFICNEW DISCOVERIES FROM NEWZEALAND.

By Rex GilroyCopyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

[From the May, 2008 Temple of Nim Newsletter.

Of all the mediaeval European adventurers who sailed Australasian waters, even penetrating into the West

Pacific region centuries before the arrival of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch or British mariners, none cancompare with the Vikings.

These Scandinavian seafarers first came to prominence in the writings of monks in 789 AD, whenthree shiploads of Danes attacked the abbey on Lindisfarne Island, off the Northumberland coast. Thereafterthey get bad press. Yet it must be remembered that as time progressed, the Viking world produced greatscholars and rulers, created universities, made great voyages of exploration which resulted in settlements inNorth America, with voyages into South American waters it is lately argued. It was Swedish Vikings whobrought law and parliament to the Russians the Land of Rus.

It was Swedish Vikings trading along the Great Russian Rivers, who met Arab traders, who directedthem to cross overland to the Persian Gulf from where, by a direct Indian Ocean, route they could trade insilk, spices and other valuable commodities with the peoples of India and Ceylon [ancient Lanka]. The Arabs

spoke of other lands further south, including the fabled Lost Paradise and its riches. These 12th

centuryArab contacts soon led Swedish adventurers overland, and constructing their famous longships on the Gulf,many of which were of considerable size, with their women, they sailed for India, then further south.

Just how far these bold adventurers sailed remains largely a mystery to historians, yet there aretantalising hints and relics which suggest that, not only did many of these expeditions reach Australia, theMelanesian islands and New Zealand, but that they established far-flung colonies where they farmed andmined for precious metals, gemstones and dived for pearls for generations, which they traded back to Asiaand Europe.

Only through long-term colonisation could certain traditions and other cultural traits pointing toViking contacts have become implanted in Melanesian society.

For example, traditions of White Godsarriving on the shores of Melanesian lands in sailing vessels

made of serpent skins, or in vessels shaped like serpents are still commonplace. According to natives of thePort Moresby region, Papua New Guinea, White Godsonce arrived on the coast in serpent-skinned sailing

vessels to live among their ancestors. In 1972 a bronze Norman-style Viking helmet was dug up by chance ata highland mission station. It was handed on to a university academic and promptly disappeared!

Solomon Island tribes once constructed a form of massive 100-seater war canoe which they called theMon, which bore a single high mast and sail, high prow and stern posts with serpent head embellishments,rowed by natives dressed in wooden Viking-like Norman-style helmets, with round wooden shields hung overthe sides to keep the water out in choppy seas. Whole fleets of these huge 30 metre or more length craft wereused by the islanders, on head-hunting and women-kidnapping raids, well into the 19th century whenEuropean military and missionaries destroyed the culture of the natives.

The islanders said that these vessels were copied from those of the White Gods from the Westwho

came among their ancestors in the dim past. The Cook Islanders included many natives with pale-skinnedracial features, blue eyes and red hair, give them they said, by a race of White Gods who sailed there ingreat sailed canoes shaped like serpents and who came from a land where, for half the year the trees were

without leaves, and the people could walk on the water.White Gods arriving on the northern Australian coast is a feature of some tribal legends, such as

among Arnhem Land Aborigines in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, who believe in the Murrinbungo or WaterLubras who, like the old Scandinavian Lorelei, entice tribesmen into the water of swamps and rivers withtheir beautiful looks and singing, only to drag them under and drown them in contempt of all men! Thetribesmen also believe in the Seven Sisters, [the Pleiades constellation], who in the manner of the Valkyrie ofOld Norse tradition, carry off Aboriginal warriors slain in battle to the Sky World, the Aboriginal Valhalla.

The natives of the New Island and New Britain Island groups once worshipped a God called Gutan.

He is depicted in artworks as being clothed in a loincloth, with a long beard and Norman-like helmet. Hepushed back the doors of darkness each morning. He is associated with a race ofWhite Godswho arrived inthose islands in the dim past in serpent canoes. Interestingly, the Mon and other large vessels of the formerislanders were clinker-built, that is, with overlapping planks held together with wooden nails in the mannerof the old Scandinavian Longships.


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In the Trobriand Islands many ceremonial wooden artefacts bear images of a Norse-style Swastika, asymbol say the islanders, passed on to them by the White Gods from the West.

*****For the past 36 years of our marriage, my wife Heather and I have researched a ghostly trail of

evidence, pointing to ancient Scandinavian knowledge of, and cross-ocean voyages to our part of the world.In September 1989 we experienced a big breakthrough in our investigations, with apparent 12th centurySwedish Viking type rock inscriptions, found in dense bushland overlooking the Hawkesbury River nearRichmond, in Sydneys west.

Carved in a form of shorthand upon a large rock slab and on a rock shoal beneath, they are believedto state: Men in two longships. The second set Mul [or Molnir] sails his ship by the sun. The shipsand their crews have

journeyed up river to the south [that is, the adjoining Nepean River] and returned. This is Yarrs ship. The third set, carvedon the shoal beneath the slab reads: Ti sails his ship for Odin.

Traces of possible 12th century settlement may exist in the nearby Riverstone district, whereScandinavian farmers inscriptions are coming to light. There is an interesting point emerging from these

Australian Viking scripts paralleled by others already discovered by us in New Zealands South Island, andthat is that they appear to be mixed scripts in the manner of mixed Egypto-Phoenician, Egypto-Libyan,Celto-Phoenician etc. As with these more ancient scripts, it is obvious that they developed over generationsof racial intermixture, in this case between more than one Scandinavian people, and outsiders from otherparts of Europe, such as the British Isles. In 1997 I discovered a 12 th century Hungarian Viking inscriptioncarved upon a large boulder at Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, in New Zealands North Island. Vikingexpeditions often accepted anyone outside their own circle who was willing to man the oars.

Therefore, the presence of mixed Viking scripts on rock faces in our part of the world would implythat there had once existed colonies of mixed nationalities, principally Scandinavians and other Europeans,

who in the course of generations of mixture, had developed among other new cultural features, locally-produced mixed scripts.

*****Evidence of long-term settlement of New Zealand by ancient European cultures parallels similar finds

made in Australia, where besides Celts [who apparently settled North Island in Bronze-Age times], traces ofScottish voyages of colonisation have been found.

During the Gilroys 1997 investigation in the South Island, we uncovered remains of an ancientsettlement at Milford Sound. Scandinavian runic rock inscriptions found thereabouts identified the colonistsas Swedes, who established a colony here and elsewhere in the Milford region during the 12 th century. Thestone ruins we uncovered parallel others found elsewhere in the South, and North islands.

The Milford Sound inscriptions were engraved in a mixed script upon four large boulders within closeproximity to one-another. The first one translated read: Three ships of Nosa. One ship, that of Umi, sailed west.

The Second inscription translated simply stated: Our god is Odin. The third inscription read: Our god is Odin.Our ship of Rus named the Coiled Serpent.

The fourth inscription however continues to capture our interest. It stated: With seven ships Saemund inhis ship the Suns Banner, has sailed here. Seven with Igo and David.

We ponder, has this rock inscription any link to the search mounted about 1120, by the Swedishwriter-explorer, Saemund the Learned, for the fabled Lost Paradise, which was believed to lie in thesouthernmost region of the world?

*****The story goes that Saemund, fired by tales of an earlier expedition sent by King Olaf of Norway

[1069-1093] into the Indian Ocean, which resulted in the longships reaching the lost paradise, organised anexpedition himself to seek riches in our part of the world. After crossing Rus on the great rivers to sail fromthe Persian Gulf to India, his chronicle gives a good description of India, Lanka and the Malayan-IndonesianIslands. Sighting the Southern Paradise, he and his followers spend time searching for precious metals,gemstones and pearls. Saemund describes the paradise land as one of excessive heat and flies, so we assumehe has landed somewhere in northern Australia, where exactly is not known. He describes what could havebeen an Aboriginal initiation ceremony and seeing various strange animals.

The explorers sail on through what appears to be Torres Strait, describing mysterious island lands.Finding a long deep inlet amid high mountains they establish a settlement. Are they in Milford Sound? Fromhere vessels led by Saemund eventually sail further south to see floating islands of ice. The cold forces themto turn back at this point.


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Saemund eventually sailed home to Sweden, having been away for ten years with his fleet, returningwith riches and many adventures which he wrote down.

Saemund the Learned may yet have more to reveal to us. During our March 2008 New Zealandexpedition, while examining mysterious stone ruins in a Bay of Islands forest, I came across three large stonesbearing inscriptions carved in 12th century Swedish script.

The first set discovered depicted two horses and two longships. It was discovered in the dense forestundergrowth at the top of a steep gully. Exploring further down the forest-covered slope I came across a

large stone bearing runic script in five lines. It was later translated to read: The wind blew us into the bay. Theweather was hot. We all arrived safely and well, led by our chieftain Saemund. Skraelings* were fought in a bay to the south[*Skraelings was a Viking world for natives. It has been found in North American rock inscriptions and inancient written accounts of American landfalls by Scandinavians. Here it surely refers to contact with hostilePolynesians].

The question is: does this inscription refer to the very same Saemund of the Milford Soundinscriptions?

These inscriptions had all been carved on volcanic basalt rocks, as was the third inscription found,which I discovered some distance from the others, projecting from the forest soil almost obscured by deadfern fronds and leaves. It was the small image of a Longship at the top of this pillar-like stone which firstattracted my eagle eye. Before long I had removed it from the ground where it was half buried, and after

chalking in the inscription that I found coated it on one side in seven rows, I drew and measured it in theusual manner. However, when I began trying to photograph it my flash would not work properly andovercast weather now darkened the forest. There was a bush track on the edge of the summit of the gullyabout 30 metres uphill from where I was, so in an effort to get the stone into the open to photograph theinscription, I first carried all my equipment and backpack up through the tangles of vines and foliage, thenleaving it on the track I then returned to the stone, and with some difficulty, lifted and carried this tone uphill,its weight forcing me to stop every several metres of so, until I reached the summit. I emerged from theforest to drop the heavy monster on the dirt, then rested while watching the clouds for a trace of sunlight.

Eventually, perhaps half an hour later, the sun made an appearance, and for the few minutes it wasvisible I snapped away. These photos, and the video footage I had already shot of it in the forest, made up forall the hardship, which included returning it downhill to where it had originally been found.

The translation would later reveal more interesting information: We are men and women of Rus whoarrived in ships with cattle and horses and fowls. We cry out for Odins blessing. Odin strengthen us.

These inscriptions relate to a colonisation attempt in which livestock would have been acquired inIndia and other Asian ports along the way and transported here in large vessels for this purpose.

Interestingly, in the vicinity of these Viking inscriptions almost buried by dense forest, are the remainsof stone walls among which Heather and I found a number of ancient Celtic rock inscriptions, and a largestone head of their Sun-God, Bel. It would appear that, around 3,000 years ago, Celtic colonists had been wellestablished on the Bay of Islands, their long-abandoned settlement obviously later discovered and utilised by12th century Scandinavians.

*****`Northwards from the Bay of Islands, on Cape Reinga, which is New Zealands northernmost spit of

land, from where in clear weather a distant view of the Three Kings Islands might be had, an isolated beachmay hold further evidence of Viking colonisation; for it was here during our investigations in March 2008 thatI found, hidden inside as enclosure formed by collapsed boulders near the waterfront, the unmistakable imageof the god Thor, standing in his longship holding his hammer, Molnir, in his right hand. Below him was theimage of another longship with lines projecting from it depicting oars.

Perhaps this set of carvings was made by Scandinavians who, unless they were already exploring thecoastline, had just arrived on these shores, and finding a safe inlet here had spent time ashore, during whichsome artist had engraved these now fading images.

When I found these engravings our time and daylight, was running out, so that if there are any furtherengravings left by these Vikings of the Sunrise, they will have to wait for our return visit, hopefully in 2009.

I call the Scandinavians Vikings of the Sunrise, for it was part of their adventurous spirit to conquer

the worlds oceans, forever seeking out new lands to colonise. That they found the Americans long beforeColumbus is fact; and therefore, as the evidence clearly shows, penetrating Australian-New Zealand seasmade no difference to these most daring of all ancient mariners.

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This Trobriand Island, PNG imagebears a Norse-style Swastika; a

symbol given to the islandersforefathers, they say, by the White

Gods from the West.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012

The God, Gutan, who bears old Scandinavian characteristics, wasonce worshipped by New Ireland and New Britain natives. The

bringer of light each day, he is associated with a race of mysteriousWhite Gods who sailed to these islands in serpent canoes.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2128

These five photos show theHawkesbury River NSW, Vikingrock inscriptions, found by Rex andHeather Gilroy in September 1989.

They speak of longships having

explored into the Nepean River.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012


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The Milford Sound Viking inscriptions[A] the Three ships of Nosa inscription.


[B] Our God is Odin inscription.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

[C] Our god is Odin. Our ship of Rus named theCoiled Serpent.


[D] The Saemund inscription.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The Bay of Islands stone bearing twolongship and two horse carvings.


The Skraelings inscription, revealing aBay of Islands landing by Scandinavianswho were attacked by hostile Polynesians.


The inscription describing arriving colonists.We cry out for Odins blessing.


Heather Gilroy in the Bay of Islands forest, searchingwith husband Rex for evidence of ancient Viking

colonists of New Zealand.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Rex Gilroy measuring an ancient stone wall foundin the vicinity of the Scandinavian rock inscriptions.


A view of a section of one of the stone walls.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Cape Reinga, on the tip of New Zealands North Island.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012

The Thor and longship found by RexGilroy at a remote Cape Reinga beach.Thor holds his hammer, Molnir, with

which he makes the thunder and

lightning.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.Our next meeting will be held on Saturday 18th February, 2012 - same time, same place 12 KamillaroiRoad, Katoomba.

So until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather

TEAM GILROYAre you aged 20 to 50 and able to enjoy bushwalking

and live in the Sydney/Blue Mountains area.Team Gilroy, who are engaged in the search

for the Yowie and mystery animals andhave discovered relics and rock inscriptionsof maritime cultures that explored Australia

thousands of years before the Dutch or CaptainCook are searching for an interested, psychicallyattuned man or woman to assist Rex and HeatherGilroy on a regular basis in their exciting searchesand discoveries of pyramids and megalithic ruins

of Australias Lost Civilisation of Uru?Interested??

We want to hear from you at 02 47823441or email us on [email protected].

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