Sacred Geometry & Texts

Historical (after 3000 BC)
Numerical and geometrical design within
buildings and texts, often considered sacred.

Cover Art of Harmonic Origins of the World by Richard Heath

  • Reviews: New Dawn and Midwest Book Review
    The May-June edition of New Dawn has this review from Alan Glassman of Sacred Geometry in Ancient Goddess Cultures.
  • Harmony of the Biblical Patriarchs
    This extract from The Harmonic Origins of the World (p58-62) shows how what are taken to be arbitrary numbers, in the narrative of the Patriarchs, expressed knowledge of planetary resonances.
  • Angkor Wat and St Peter’s Basilica
    Unexpectedly, three more chapter were written to conclude Sacred Geometry in Ancient Goddess Cultures, on Cambodian temple Angkor Wat and Rome’s St Peter’s Basilica.
  • Pauli’s Cosmic Dream
    above: Wolfgang Pauli, ca. 1924. Wikipedia CC BY 4.0 Renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung had an intellectual friend in Wolfgang Pauli, a leading theoretical scientist in the development of quantum mechanics who had offered (with others) a third perspective to the deterministic physics of Newton and relativistic physics of Einstein. For example, Pauli’s Exclusion Principle explained … Continue reading “Sacred Geometry & Texts”
  • Cologne Cathedral Facade as Double Square
    image: The Gothic cathedral of Cologne by night, by Robert Breuer CC-SA 3.0 On the matter of facades of Gothic cathedrals, I hark back to previous work (February 2018) on Cologne cathedral. This was published in a past website that was destroyed by its RAID backup system! As we have seen with Chartres, some excellent lithographs with … Continue reading “Cologne Cathedral Facade as Double Square”
  • Earth and Moon within Westminster’s Coronation Pavement
    Our modern globes are based upon political boundaries and geographical topography yet they had geometrical predecessors which described the world as an image, a diagram or schemata. By some act of intuition, an original Idea for the form of the Earth had become established as a simple two-dimensional geometry, very like eastern mandalas. Such a … Continue reading “Earth and Moon within Westminster’s Coronation Pavement”
  • Developmental Roots below 6
    Square roots turn out to have a strange relationship to the fundaments of the world. The square root of 2, found as the diagonal of a unit square, and the square root of 3 of the diametric across a cube; these are the simplest expressions of two and three dimensions, in area and volume. This … Continue reading “Developmental Roots below 6”
  • Double squares: Venus and the Golden Mean
    The humble square, with side length equal to one unit, is like the number one. It’s area is one square unit and, when we add another identical square to one side, the double squareA unit rectangle of 1 by 2, with important use for alignment (Carnac), cosmology (Egypt) and tuning theory (Honnecourt Man). appears. Above … Continue reading “Double squares: Venus and the Golden Mean”
  • Parthenon as a New Model of the Meridian
    This was published as The GeodeticUnits of measures and monumental measurements relating to the numerical definition of the shape of the Earth by the late megalithic. And Musicological Significance Of The Shorter Side Length Of The Parthenon As Hekatompedon Or ‘Hundred-Footer’ in Music and Deep Memory: Speculations in ancient mathematics, tuning, and tradition, in memoriam … Continue reading “Parthenon as a New Model of the Meridian”
  • The Approximation of π on Earth
    π is a transcendental ratio existing between a diameter/ radius and circumference of a circle. A circle is an expression of eternity in that the circumference, if travelled upon, repeats eternally. The earths shape would be circular if the planet did not spin. Only the equator is now circular and enlarged, whilst the north and … Continue reading “The Approximation of π on Earth”
  • The Broch that Modelled the Earth
    Summary In the picture above [1] the inner profile of the thick-walled Iron-Age broch of Dun Torceill is the only elliptical example, almost every other broch having a circular inner court. Torceill’s essential data was reported by Euan MacKie in 1977 [2]: The inner chamber of the broch is an ellipse with axes nearly 23:25 … Continue reading “The Broch that Modelled the Earth”
  • Walking on the Moon
    There are plans to walk again on the moon (above is a NASA visualization), but there is a sense in which the surface of the moon belongs to the surface of the earth, since the earth’s circumference is 4 times the mean diameter of the earth, minus the moon’s circumference. The Earth and Moon were … Continue reading “Walking on the Moon”
  • The Octon of 4 Eclipse Years
    Having seen, in the last post, that three eclipse years fitted into the three-year count at Le Manio, another eclipse fact has come to light, recorded within the nearby site of Crucuno, between its dolmenA chamber made of vertical megaliths upon which a roof or ceiling slab was balanced. and rectangle. The coding of time … Continue reading “The Octon of 4 Eclipse Years”
  • Introduction to my book Harmonic Origins of the World
    Over the last seven thousand years, hunter-gathering humans have been transformed into the “modern” norms of citizens (city dwellers) through a series of metamorphoses during which the intellect developed ever-larger descriptions of the world. Past civilizations and even some tribal groups have left wonders in their wake, a result of uncanny skills – mental and … Continue reading “Introduction to my book Harmonic Origins of the World”
  • The Stonehenge trilithons as synods of Venus
    Figure 1 The five Trilithons of Stonehenge 3, highlighted in yellow within the Sarsen ring to express the five evening and morning star couplets which occur in eight practical years of 365 days. Plan from Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany, Oxford U.P. Central portion is fig.3, upside down to match the horseshoe of trilithons.. … Continue reading “The Stonehenge trilithons as synods of Venus”
  • The Richard Syrett Interviews on Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels
    I recently recorded a podcast with Richard Syrett and will be talking with him again today (January 2nd) on Coast to Coast, starting 10pm Pacific time. In the UK, this is tomorrow (Sunday the 3rd) at 6am GMT. Both these interviews are in response to my new book Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, which … Continue reading “The Richard Syrett Interviews on Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels”
  • pdf: Astronomical Musicality within Mythic Narratives
    Ancient musical knowledge came to Just tuning long before Greek music, in Babylonia. It now seems likely that two sources of musical information, were involved in an early tradition of musical tuning by number: firstly, the early number field is the original template upon which musical harmony is based; and secondly, the prehistoric geocentricThe ancient … Continue reading “pdf: Astronomical Musicality within Mythic Narratives”
  • Sacred Number and the Lords of Time
    Back Cover ANCIENT MYSTERIES “Heath has done a superb job of collating his own work on the subject of megalithsStructures built out of large little-altered stones in the new stone age or neolithic between 5,000-2,500 (bronze age), in the pursuit of astronomical knowledge. with the objective views of many other researchers in the field. I … Continue reading “Sacred Number and the Lords of Time”
  • A Pyramidion for the Great Pyramid
    image: By 1200 BC, the end of the Bronze Age, the Egyptian map of the world (above) showed nine bows or latitudes, numbers 4 to 9 including the Nile Delta, Delphi, Southern Britain and Iceland, a map based on an ancient geodeticUnits of measures and monumental measurements relating to the numerical definition of the shape … Continue reading “A Pyramidion for the Great Pyramid”
  • Ethiopia within the Great Pyramid
    My last posting mentioned John Neal’s creative step of not averaging the Great Pyramid of Giza’s four sides, as had routinely been done in the past – as if to discover an idealized design with four equal sides. Instead, Neal found each length to have intensionally been different. When multiplied by the pyramid’s full height, … Continue reading “Ethiopia within the Great Pyramid”
  • Units within the Great Pyramid of Giza
    There is a great way to express pior π: The constant ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159, in ancient times approximated by rational approximations such as 22/7. of 22/7The simplest accurate approximation to the π ratio, between a diameter and circumference of a circle, as used in the ancient … Continue reading “Units within the Great Pyramid of Giza”
  • Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels
    For further details of the book look at the growing Publisher pages for it at Inner Traditions.
  • Durrington Walls and its massive circle of Pits
    Recent analysis of animal bones within Durrington Walls indicated, to the archaeologists involved, that people had travelled there from all over the British mainland, along with animals then eaten inside the henge[1]. But what would these people be doing there? It had earlier been suggested that an elite responsible for building Stonehenge lived in a … Continue reading “Durrington Walls and its massive circle of Pits”
  • Fields, Racetracks and Temples in Ancient Greece
    The fields of ancient Greece were organised in a familiar way: strips of land in which a plough could prepare land for arable planting. Known in various languages as furlong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlong, runrig, journel, machen etc, in Greece there was a nominal length for arable strips which came to be associated with the metrological unit of … Continue reading “Fields, Racetracks and Temples in Ancient Greece”
  • Use of Ad-Quadratum at Angkor Wat
    Ad Quadratum is a convenient and profound technique in which continuous scaling of size can be given to square shapes, either from a centre or periphery. The differences in scale are multiples of the square root of two [sqrt(2)] between two types of square: cardinal (flat) and diamond (pointed).
  • The Three Worlds at Gavrinis
    following on from previous post, an article by M Guillaume found inAAK Etudes et Travaux No. 1, 1977 Do these three stages [at Gavrinis] not correspond to the three creations, probably inherited by Celts, and  those in Egypt, preceding access to a sanctuary?
  • Gavrinis: On Crossing the Three Thresholds and Entering The Room
    following on within an article by M Guillaume found in AAK Etudes et Travaux No. 1, 1977 These half-circles facing upwards – do we not find them repeated a thousand times in the “necklaces” of the Goddess?
  • Symbolic “forms in movement” at Gavrinis
    In this article M.Guillaume introduces some of the AAK’s work on understanding the Gavrinis chambered cairn. It appeared in the first volume of Etudes et Travaux, May 1977, pages 45-51. It has been translated from French as best I can, in three parts with links between. It was first re-published on the web between 2010-2012 to … Continue reading “Symbolic “forms in movement” at Gavrinis”
  • Gavrinis 1: Its dimensions and geometrical framework
    This article first appeared in my Matrix of Creation website in 2012 which was attacked, though an image had been made. Some of this material appeared in my Lords of Time book. photo For Wikipedia by Mirabella. Gavrinis and Tables des Marchands are very similar monuments, both in the orientation of their passageways and their identical latitude. Gavrinis is about 3900 metres east of Tables des … Continue reading “Gavrinis 1: Its dimensions and geometrical framework”
  • The Golden Mean compared to PI
    In reviewing some ancient notes of mine, I came across an interesting comparison between the Golden MeanThe Golden Mean is that unique ratio {1.618034}, relative to ONE {1}, in which its square and reciprocal share the same fractional part {.618034}. It is associated with the synodic period of the planet Venus, which is 8/5 {1.6} … Continue reading “The Golden Mean compared to PI”
  • Sacred Latitudes of the West
    The post explores the geodetic concept of “Sacred Latitudes” and “Michael lines,” tracing historical and religious significance along these lines. It discusses saints’ locations, Columbus’s explorations, Templar disappearances, and maritime traditions. The narrative links these geographic lines to cultural, spiritual, and historical events, suggesting deeper connections in European and New World history.
  • Iceland’s Model of the Earth’s Meridian
    Einar Palsson [1, at end] saw that the myths of foundation for Iceland’s settlement in 930 had Pythagorean roots. Since then Petur Halldorsson has identified patterns that could not have been influenced by Pythagoras (c. 600 BC) and Pythagoras was known to have adapted the existing number sciences found (according to his myth) from Egypt … Continue reading “Iceland’s Model of the Earth’s Meridian”
  • Palsson’s Sacred Image in Iceland
    Extracted from The Structure of MetrologyThe application of units of length to problems of measurement, design, comparison or calculation., its Classification and Application (2006) by John Neal and notes by Richard Heath for Bibal Group, a member of which, Petur Halldorsson, has taken this idea further with more similar patterns on the landscape, in Europe … Continue reading “Palsson’s Sacred Image in Iceland”
  • John Michell’s Perpetual Choirs
    15 April 2017 Views: 10450 In 1972  John MichellWriter, sacred geometer, metrologist and mystic: his books were highly influential in defining the form of the British earth mysteries movement. inferred an enormous ten-sided form nearly sixty three miles across, in which important historical and neolithic sites had been intended as ten vertices around an ancient … Continue reading “John Michell’s Perpetual Choirs”