Spiritual alchemy can be expressed in Pagan, Toist, Hindu, Egyptian, Muslim, Sufi and Christian terms. The symbolic languages of these beliefs might be different but the fundamental beliefs in the living soul and in the possibility of the self transformation remain the same. The belief in the living essence in our planet gains concrete and powerful expression when specific landscape features are interpreted as forming part of the body of a great supernaturalbeing. The correlation between the buildings and the body is especially strong in some of the religions based on a key mythical personage.

The Australian Aborigines tell of their ancestors who when in the dream time began to walk the earth. On their wanderings the ancestors found shapeless heaps lying around. They fashioned knives from stones and with these knives they carved heads, faces, arms, hands, legs and feet, they made fully formed human beings.

From the bible, the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it and fashioned it in his likeness. The Hebrew name for man and ground are very similar.

In the Rig Veda the primordial man Purusha had his vast body pinned down by the gods, they cut him into many pieces which the entire universe was created from including the sky from his head and earth from his feet.

In Chinese mythology Pan Ku a giant when he died a miracle happened. His feet and hands became the four quarters, his head turned into the mountains that rise up from the earth and his eyes became the sun and the moon. A thousand different plants and trees grew from his skin and hair. His breath was transformed into the wind and clouds and his voice into rolling thunder from the heavens. His teeth, bones and marrow became the metals, rocks and precious stones within the earth. His sweat turned into flowing rivers. Last of all the fleas and lice that leaped and crept over his hairy body became human beings.

The Mesopotamian epic of creation Enuma Elish tells how the deity Marduk killed Tiamat he sliced her in two forced one half up into an arc to form the roof of the sky he heaped the lower half to form the mountains.

In Norse mythology Bor and his wife Best la created three more gods Odin, Vili an Ve who slew the frost giant Ymir. From his, Ymir's flesh, the gods made the Earth. His bones became the mountains, his skull became the heavens, his blood became the dark seas and his brains created the clouds.

In Egyptian mythology Set hacked Osiris body into pieces and scattered them all over Egypt. Every year Set's burning hatred scorches the land, Isis weeps for her dead husband causing the Nile to swell and flood to quench the parched earth then Osiris comes to life again.

The most influential group of Muslims who are steeped in Hermeticism where known as the Ikhwan Al-Sufa meaning the brethren of purity. They produce a widely influential encyclopaedia of philosophy and science called Rasai'l. The brethren believe the universal soul is the spirit of the world the four elements and a matter which serve as the supports. The spheres and the stars are like its organs and the minerals, plants and animals are objects which make it move.

Chandela kings had temples built that are intended to link Earth with heaven and to remind the worshiper that there is a continuum between the world of humans and that of the gods. Each temple may be compered to the human body. The inner shrine with its deity is the equivalent of the soul. The base represents the legs, the mid portion the waist and the spire the head.

The Polynesian island of Naura have a creation myth the spider and the clam shell. Descending on a thread the old spider discovered a huge clam shell and was greatly amazed. The spider's curiosity was fully aroused and used every ounce of  her magic to part the two halves of the shell just enough that she could squeeze inside. Inside the shell where two snails she picked the first one up and put it on the roof of the shell as the moon. Now that she had a little light to see the spider noticed a large worm coiled in the bottom of the shell. The spider asked the worm could she make the shell a little wider so we can stand up. The worm pushed the two halves and unhinged the sockets of the shell and opened them wide apart. The upper half became the realms of the heavens and the lower half the realm of the Earth. The labour of the worm caused sweat to pour from his body which settled in the bottom of the shell and became the salty sea.

Boshongo (Bantu tribe of Central Africa) In the beginning there was only darkness, water, and the great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a stomach-ache, vomited up the sun. The sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba vomited up the moon, the stars, and then some animals: the leopard, the crocodile, the turtle, and, finally, some men, one of whom, Yoko Lima was white like Bumba.


Also from the book The Sacred Earth by Brian Leigh Molyneaux
The Thompson people of British Columbia.
Earth woman was long ago transformed into the present world. Her hair became the trees and grass, her flesh became the earth her bones became the rocks and her blood became the waters.

The Peublo Indians believed that the god awonanwilome existing in primordial darkness. thought into existence fogs, life bearing germs and from his flesh was made the earth and sky.

The Algonkians tell of a sophisticated creation myth reminiscent of Osiris. Gluskap said he made the world from the bones of his mother.

The green man with foliage sprouting from his mouth, is found in over a hundred cathedrals and churches in Britain. Current theories connect him with the Greek Dionysis. who was pictured with branches protruding from his head or with Osiris whose portrait in the tomb of Nefetari was painted in green. From south-west Yorkshire to Plumpton park in Cumbria there are reports of Robin or Jack in the green and is also known in Russia as green George.

There is an underlying belief of either gods creating the earth or being created from it. The similarities from different religions and faiths around our planet belonging to these different peoples are to numerous to push aside.
Using the above information one could conclude that the Egyptian chakra points leading up to the Orion configuration (Giza pyramids) represent the spine of Osiris and the points leading to the Chinese pyramids be the spine of Pan Ku. This in turn could mean that stone circles i.e.. chakra points across Europe, the Mediterranean and the rest of the world represent the back bones of the creator gods.
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