- ... 'The 'Captain of the Host of the Lord' came to Joshua before he stormed Jericho and told him to 'circle the city for six days, and seven priests shall blow seven trumpets of rams horns, and on the seventh day, when you hear the trumpets, all the people shall shout with a great shout and the city shall fall down flat'.

 

A story was told by the local Aymara indians to a Spanish traveller who visited Tiahuanaco shortly after the conquest spoke of the city's original foundation in the age of Chamac Pacha, or First Creation,  long before the coming of the Incas. Its earliest inhabitants, they said,  possessed supernatural powers, for which they were able miraculously to lift stones of off the ground, which "...were carried [from the mountain quarries] through the air to the sound of a trumpet". (1)

 

 - Mayan legends says that the temple of Uxmal, Mexico, was built by a race of dwarves, which apparently only had to whistle and 'heavy rocks would move into place'. It is noticeable that if a person stands at the base of the pyramid-like Temple of the magician and claps their hands the stone structure at the top produces a 'chirping sound' (1)

 

 - According to classical Greek writers, Thebes, the capital of Boeotia...was founded by Cadmus, a celebrated Phoenician. It was finished off, the story goes, by a son of Jupiter named Amphion, who was able to move large stones to the sound of a lyre of harp, by which manner, he was able to construct the walls of Thebes. Appollonius Rhodius, who lived in the third century BC, poetically recalled in Argonautica how Amphion would sing loud and clear  on his golden lyre' as 'rock twice as large followed his footsteps'. Tradition surrounding Cadmus clearly indicate that Thebes was founded by Phoenician migrants who must have settled there in the third or second millennium BC.

 

- Phoenicia's oldest known historian, Sanchaniatho, spoke of the god Ouranus or Coelus founding the first city at a place called Byblos. He also said that one of the gods 'Taautus' (the Egyptian Thoth), founded the Egyptian civilisation. He also states that Ouranus 'devised Baetulia, contriving stones that moved as having life'

 

- In the early 20th century, a Swedish doctor is reputed to have witnessed stone blocks 1.5 metres in length and a metre in height and width, being levitated through the air through the process of sound. A full description of the event is given in 'The gods of Eden' (1)

 

 

Examples of sympathetic vibrations in structures.

The Albert hall in London contains the 'Whispering gallery', in which it is possible for a whisper from one side of the dome to be heard on the other.

The sound of a low spoken voice from the the 'Kings' chamber in the heart of the great pyramid resonates so that it can be heard clearly at the entrance of the pyramid. (personally tried and tested).

The Mayan temple complex, Chichén Itza, has a stepped pyramid called the Castillo. If a person stands at the bottom of the Castillo and shouts, the sound will echo as a shriek that comes from the top of the structure. If someone stands on top and speaks in a normal voice, they can be heard on the ground at a distance of 150 metres away. (1)

Near the Castillo is the great 'ball court' in which a soft whisper at one end can apparently be heard at the other.

At Palenque, in Mexico, it is apparently the case that if three people stand on top of the three pyramids, a three-way conversation can easily be held.

It is said that if a person stands at the base of the pyramid-like Temple of the magician and claps their hands the stone structure at the top produces a 'chirping sound' (1)

 

 

The Hypogeum, on Malta contains a 'speaking chamber' is a hole in the wall carved with a rounded interior surface. The result is that anything spoken into it produces an echo which reverberates throughout the hypogeum. It is speculated that this hole was part of a ceremonial process. Several small chambers in the Hypogeum are also suspected of being used for ritual purposes as from within these cubicles, echoes from the 'speaking' chamber reverberate into a rhythm that is similar to the human heartbeat.