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The Gympie Pyramid
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The Gympie
area, about three hours drive north of Brisbane, Queensland,
harbours many strange tales of pyramids and Egyptian artefacts
that have been found there since the early days of settlement
The images
below are of the 'Gympie Ape', which was dug up in 1966 and is
thought to be a statue of the Egyptian God Horus, who was
often portrayed as an ape or baboon. It doesn't look
particularly ape-like however. Rather, it looks like a
distorted humanoid with a large head that has been weathered
away over several centuries, thus making it difficult to
perceive what form it may have originally had. It is made of
sandstone, and is apparently not of Aboriginal origin - in
fact, it appears to me to be Polynesian in appearance.
You can
currently view the 'Gympie Ape' in the Gold Museum at Gympie.
As you will note in the photos, some kind soul has
thoughtfully chalked in the ape's eyes, in case we couldn't
tell where they were, and it could be the chalked-on eyes that
are so reminiscent of a Polynesian Tiki.
Apart from the
'Gympie Ape', other idols (one looking a lot like Ganesha,
from Indian mythology), spoons and scarabs have been
unearthed.
The pyramid
itself is on Tin Can Bay Road on private property that the
public is not encouraged to trespass upon. In years past,
according to locals, the owner has attempted to to destroy the
pyramid in the hopes of discouraging visitors to the site, and
the local church is said to have been built last century from
stones taken from the pyramid. Having seen the church I can
tell you that the stones are square-hewn sandy coloured stone,
but I have no idea if they actually came from the pyramid or
not.
Other stories
relate to cattle wandering into the pyramid in the 1930s, when
an opening was still accessible. The cows never wandered out
of the pyramid again, and so the army was called in to
investigate. No reports or findings are available officially
of this incident, and the army sealed the entrance after this
time. Of course.
The bad news is
that the land the pyramid is situated on was recently
parcelled and sold for a proposed housing estate. The good
news is that a kind benefactor has bought the parcel that
contains the pyramid and investigations may now begin in
earnest.
For more
information on the Gympie mysteries, please visit
Awareness
Quest.
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