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Six Degrees of TDG: Uri Buys a Pyramid Island

By Gregon

Hey look, Uri bought an island:

Relaxing in his luxury Thames-side mansion, Uri Geller, the world-famous spoon-bender, was suddenly riveted by an advert for the sale of a mystical Scottish island. But while the prospectus for Lamb Island, off the east coast of Scotland, listed the disadvantages – “it is completely bare, and uninhabitable because it’s so rocky, does not come with planning permission” – Mr Geller realised it was his chance to be part of a legend linking Robert the Bruce, King Arthur and the ancient kings of Ireland.

Mr Geller’s attraction to Lamb Island, a volcanic outcrop in the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, is its claim to be one of the three “great pyramids of Scotland”, which mirror the layout of the pyramids at Giza, near Cairo in Egypt. The other islands are Craigleith and Fidra.

Last night Mr Geller, 62, who paid £30,000 for the island, said: “It might seem forbidding, but it is one of the keystones to British mythology, and I am thrilled to be its owner.

The fun part? The article in The Scotsman mentions the research of a regular Grailer, Jeff Nisbet. Jeff wrote about the island in an article for Atlantis Rising in 2002, which you can now find on his website: “The Pyramids of Scotland“. Not to mention another of his articles features a photo of a UFO over the island. Sounds perfectly Uri to me.

(And if that’s not enough weirdness for you – check out Filip Coppens’ website for more. Filip might even add my own contribution if he finds time…)

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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  2. Cabinet of Wonders reaction …
    A forum member over at Cabinet of Wonders has had a few things to say about my article, “The Pyramids of Scotland,” which is mentioned in The Scotsman article about Uri Geller and Lamb Island.

    Since the post is listed in the Cabinet of Wonders section of the Daily Grail, and while I am waiting to be accepted as a Cabinet of Wonders forum member, I am posting my response here. When I am accepted, I will also post it there.

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    Hi Emperor,

    It has been seven years since the publication of my Atlantis Rising #35 article, “The Pyramids of Scotland,” and over most of that time the article languished on my website without much comment or attention. All that changed on Feb. 12, when the BBC and several other UK newspapers published the news about Uri Geller’s purchase of Lamb Island (The Lamb) from the Baron of Fullwood and Dirleton, and the story has since been commented on by quite a few discussion groups around the world, including this one, mostly with more than a modicum of back and forth winking and nudging.

    Of all the newspapers I have seen that have covered the story so far, only Edinburgh’s venerable “The Scotsman” has mentioned me by name, which they spelled wrong. Thank you for spelling it right.

    I normally tend to shy away from long forum discussions, since they usually end up being a frustrating exercise in diminishing returns. I cannot, however, let your post go unanswered. Perhaps a year from now, as these things typically go, further cyber-discussions might imply that my theory has been debunked. Two years from now the scuttlebutt might be that my theory has been THOROUGHLY debunked, and that would be a shame.

    A few points – one minor, the others less so: First, Craigleith is not “the small one in the middle;” The Lamb is. The middle island; Craigleith is the one to the east, and Fidra is the one to the west. Next, as the first image on my website shows (the image comparing the Giza pyramids with the Firth of Forth islands), I was fully aware that the alignment of the pyramids and the islands was not an exact apex-to-center-of-island fit, but the overall impression is a compelling one that I feel was meant to be noticed. Then, too, you have the conundrum of building structures vs terraforming one long island into three smaller ones. When you build a structure you have absolute control over size and placement, whereas IF you were to terraform one long island into three you would pretty much have to work with what the topography gave you to work with. The same argument could be applied to the disparity between the relative sizes of the stars when compared to the islands, too. I believe it is the special relationships between the three islands and Inchcolm that count here, and I was glad to see that someone else has successfully duplicated my observation. It’s been a long time since I visited the exercise, and using Google Earth (which did not exist in 2002), so thank you.

    Thanks, too, for renewing my interest in the mystery sufficiently to begin work on a “Pyramids of Scotland Revisited,” which I hope to write over the next couple of months. Might as well take advantage of the situation while the subject is still hot. Over the last seven years I have amassed quite a lot of new information about the islands that I did not know when I wrote my first article – relating to local folklore (myth?) that tends to confirm that indeed a bit of terraforming has happened in the distant past. Also, without tipping too much of my hand prematurely, there is the curious connection of the name of the nearby town, North Berwick, and the constellation Orion.

    Writing in his 1980 book, “The North Berwick Story,” North Berwick minister Rev. Walter M. Ferrier, who died in 1991, tackles the etymology of the name, claiming that “Bere” is the Old English word for barley and that “Wic” means dwelling or village, so Berwick would mean the barley village. In his 1899 book, “Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning,” Richard Hinckley Allen says that in the “Egyptian Book of the Dead” Orion “was known as Smati-Osiris, the Barley God.”

    Finally, I must commend your theory “that suggests the experts have everything backwards,” and that “the ancient Scots saw the similarity between the islands and Orion, and rose to be a global power, eventually building the pyramids of Egypt to reflect this.” While I suspect that you had your tongue firmly planted in cheek when you wrote that, you very well may not be too far off the mark.

    Here is an article that BBC news ran, dated 13 November, 2000, titled “Island Brains Behind Pyramids?”

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1021508.stm

    After I wrote my 2002 article it suddenly occurred to me that Scota and Gaythelos might not so much have left Egypt for Scotland because they had to so much as they might have been simply going home – which is another theory I will be supporting in The Pyramids of Scotland Revisited.

    All best, and thanks again.

    Jeff

    http://www.mythomorph.com

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