mysterious australia newsletter - december 2010

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MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA

Vol. 1, Issue No 2

December, 2010.

INSIDE:

Greg Foster and the Search for Blacktown Man. Discovery of a lost Uruan Temple-Pyramid in the Lost City of Kanangra.


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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at the

Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards.

We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Streetwhere there is safer parking.

GREG FOSTER AND THE SEARCH FORBLACKTOWN MAN.By Rex Gilroy

Copyright Rex Gilroy2010

Evidence is mounting that, in early pre-Aboriginal Australian times, the Sydney district was inhabited byroving bands of Homo erectus.

For several years now Greg Foster has been turning up evidence of undoubted early PleistoceneHomo erectus. This has largely been in the form of mudstone and ironstone mineralised skull endocasts, as

well as some actual mineralised skull material, and one ironstone mineralised specimen, though incomplete,has been shown to be a juvenile Australopithecine! This skull, formerly linked to Homo erectus, now bearsthe name Australopithecus fosterii pending further research. This re-identification of a skull found by Gregand myself at a Telopea creek site in Sydneys west, comes in the wake of the discovery that a number of

skull-types in my collection are not archaic Homo erectus as originally believed, but representatives of anAustralian race of robust Australopithecines, now grouped together under Australopithecus australis gilroyii.These skulls and skull endocasts date back to dawn Pleistocene times of around 1.5 to 2 million years BP.

These Australian Australopithecines were the offshoots of an hitherto unknown migration of robustAustralopithecines out of Africa into Asia, thence Australia via the long since submerged Asia-Australia landshelf. Apart from the Australian fossils only fragmentary fossil evidence exists beyond Africa and Australia tosupport such a migration. No doubt future fossil finds of Australopithecine identity will eventually beforthcoming from the Near-East and Asia to fill this gap.

*****Besides fossil skull evidence, there is the presence of fossil feet impressions to consider. These occur

Australia-wide, yet the Sydney district is not without this evidence. These tracks through time consist of the

impressions of archaic modern humans, obvious Homo erectus tracks, as well as those of a more primitivevariety which just might be Australopithecine in origin. There are also fossil tracks of pygmy-size beings andgiants, the sizes of whose tracks suggest being no less than 3.66 metres and 4 metres tall. Perhaps they weremade by a giant form of Homo erectus. In most cases these fossils date back to 1 to 2 million years BP[Before Present] and there are even older examples in the nearby Blue Mountains. The fact is that, despite theclaims of Aboriginal activists, the Aborigines are most definitely NOT THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS.Indeed, until scientists take the time to investigate the older material discussed here, the identity of the trueFIRST AUSTRALIANS may never be known!

The Australian Aborigines ancestors began arriving here a mere 50,000 years or so ago, and as theirfolklore clearly reveals, their ancestors found the land already inhabited by the earlier forms of hominin justmentioned.

*****Now recently-discovered evidence by Greg Foster clearly demonstrates the presence of hunter-

gatherer bands of Homo erectus in the Blacktown district in Sydneys west in early Pleistocene [ie Ice-Age]times. The latest evidence consists of very crude stone tools, principally chopping and cutting implements,bone-smashing tools and a few hand-axes, recovered at up to 3 metres depth together with a few bones being

Rex and Hea th e r G i l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r c h t eam.

Pho to c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r oy 2004 .


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the scant remains of a kill site situated on the edge of a Pleistocene swamp or lake shore, at a time when thewestern Sydney region was a lush terrain of well-watered forests and marshland teaming with all manner ofwildlife. He uncovered his first tools when he climbed down the bank of a section of creek, and was soonscrounging about the dried up muddy surface for as many tools as he could find, before hastily returninghome and phoning me about his big discovery. He soon loaned me three of the tools for assessment. Two

were choppers and the other a knife-like cutting tool with worn cutting edges. All were of black basalt, arock alien to the district and displaying signs of great age.

I had no trouble identifying these crude, eolithic-type specimens as those of Homo erectus, and onThursday 25th November Heather drove me down to Blacktown for my first inspection of Gregs importantlatest discovery.

Together we explored the site to uncover more primitive tools and the first bone remains of anancient waterfront [marsupial] kill site, being the work of primitive Homo erectus hominins. I soon chancedto find the spinal vertebrae of a large marsupial, probably a diprotodontid, and one small tooth, then twolarger grinders were recovered from a dry section of the now occasional creek. Here, to me, was really goodevidence of the presence of Homo erectus in Sydneys west at least 1 million years ago, as from themineralised state of the teeth and vertebrae. Greg found a further couple of tiny mineralised broken bonefragments. It was obvious these scant remains had belonged to more than one animal.

Greg had, prior to my first inspection, already recovered a large number of eoliths from the site, many

were stored back at his home while others had been stashed away in piles in the vicinity of the find. As thisarticle is being written, Greg informs me that the creek is once again in flood, so we eagerly await itsemptying and hopefully, the exposure of yet more evidence of Blacktown Man!

*****From the many tools inspected at the creek site and those kept back at his house, I recognised at once

that, not only did they display often crude flaking to match their obvious immense age, but that while therewere small, average human hand-size specimens, there were also many others, particularly choppers so heavythat they required two hands to manipulate them in our case; but then what if the owners of these largerimplements had themselves been of stronger constitution and able to use these chopping tools with a singlehand?

Greg loaned me a large boxful of his finds to carry out further study upon and once back home at

Katoomba I was busy drawing, measuring and photographing these eoliths and writing notes on them.Implements of the Blacktown type are not new to me, for during the 1990s I recovered similar

specimens of grey basalt from deep in the Nundle mountains southeast of Tamworth dating to around thesame age as the Blacktown finds.

Greg Fosters big discovery lacks but one more piece of evidence a fossil skull to show thatHomo erectus manufactured these tools. We of course know this for fact, but only the recovery of a Homoerectus skull-type in relation to the tools and kill site would ever satisfy any hard-core universityanthropologist, and rightly so.

Therefore, the hunt is now on for a skull of Blacktown Man will be found in this district. These isalready plenty of evidence to show that Australopithecines overlapped with Homo erectus in Australia, justas they did back in Africa, by as late as around 1 million years BP. That bands of Australopithecus robustus

reached Australia is another exciting; impossible possibility that our scientists may soon have to face up to.That both these near-human ancestors and Homo erectus shared the Sydney-Blue Mountains region I alreadypossess indisputable proof as far as I am concerned.

The fact remains that, discoveries such as Greg Fosters Blacktown Man must eventually completelyoverturn everything that we have been taught at school and university in the past concerning the so-calledFirst Australians of a mere 50,000 years ago. Gregs big discovery once again demonstrated that, rather thanthink Our of Africa we must start thinking Out of Australia for our modern human origins. As I haverevealed in previous articles and in my books, whereas modern humans only first appeared in Africa around150,000-200,000 years ago, I possess archaic fossil Homo sapien remains 300,000 to 400,000 years BP andover, demonstrating to me that our immediate ancestor, Homo erectus, evolved into modern humans here in

Australia well before he did so in Africa.

Blacktown Man is yet one more piece of evidence to prove me right, and I am just as excited as Gregabout his important find. Thus well might we ask Who was the First [pre-Aboriginal] Australian?

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A knife-like cutting tool of basalt [top of picture] with2 basalt chopping tools [bottom of picture].

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The creek, seen here almost dried up before heavyrain caused further flooding. Note the stones exposedfrom the bank by a previous flood. Tools were foundamong them. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Greg Foster, seen here inspecting creek rubble for

tools. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010. Downview of the large fossil marsupial spinal vertebrae.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

A left side view of the vertebral bone. Note darkenedsocket area. It may have belonged to a young Diprotodon.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010


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A frontal view of the vertebrae. Its state of solid rockmineralisation suggests an age of at least 1 million years BP.


Three primitive picks [basalt] recovered from the creek Homo erectusoccupation site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

How one of the three picks was probably grippedby its Homo erectus user.


Two small chopping tools.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

A large basalt chopper.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010. Four large basalt choppers. All are of heavy basalt.



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A crude basalt hand-axe.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Greg Foster has found so many tools at the Blacktown district creek site thathe has had to leave small piles of tools there until he can find room at home

for them! These implements are chopping specimens.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Some of these basalt tools are so heavy that it would appear their userswere strong, muscular hominins.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.The Diprotodon, the largest marsupial that ever lived. It died outat the close of the last Ice-Age by at least several thousand yearsago. Photo courtesy Museum of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Rex Gilroy closely studies an archaic Homo erectus skull he had just

unearthed outside Mudgee in the New South Wales central west, onWednesday 4th June 1997. At the time it was a major discovery, being the

first archaic Homo erectus skull-type discovered in Australia.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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Cast of a Homo erectus skull from China [Beijing Man]. Note

the long, narrow braincase and projecting brow ridges typical ofHomo erectus skull types such as the Mudgee skull.


The skull, left profile. Photo copyright Rex

Gilroy 2010. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Rex Gilroy at work in the field. Here he is carrying out a detailedstudy and measurement of a volcanic strata bank deep in the Nundle

State Forest, south-east of Tamworth, New South Wales onMonday 9thMay 2004, where primitive Homo erectus-type dawntools had been recovered during a previous visit here. These eoliths

date back to early Pleistocene times.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

These eoliths [ie very primitive stone tools], recovered by RexGilroy at Nundle, northern New South Wales, are similar tomany others found over a wide area of Australia. They matchthose made in Asia by Homo erectus up to a million or more

years ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The great Pliocene-Pleistocene land shelfwhich formerly linked New Guinea and

Australia to mainland Asia, also extendedfrom New Guinea to New Zealand, thusenabling primitive Stone-Age races to enter

Australia-New Zealand 2 to 4 million ormore years ago!

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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The late Mr W.F. [Bill] Gilroy, witha mineralised [limestone] hominin

skull found by him on 1stMay 1972at Tarana New South Wales nowknown as Tarana Skull No 1.


Tarana Skull No 1. Reconstruction of this

mineralised skull identifies it as that of an archaicHomo sapien.


Tarana Skull No 2. This limestone endocast, found byRex Gilroy in the same deposits of the Fish River site,

is a late Homo erectus. Both the Tarana skulls dateat least 300,000 years old, and show that populationsof late Homo erectus shared the Central West region

with his offshoot, archaic Homo sapiens.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The Tarana Skull endocasts were the first real evidence other than fossilfootprints proving that Australia has a pre-Aboriginal Stone-Age history.


Copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Homo erectus in Australia.Fossil and artefact evidencenow coming to light, castsdoubt on the traditional

nobody before theAborigines scientific view.

Drawing by Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy

2010.


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The rear of the braincase showing the flattened appearance.When intact, the skull would have been doliocephalic [ie long

and narrow].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The Australopithecus australis skull, rontal view. Notethe weathered pointed sagittal crest. A section of the leftorbital and cranial frontal area of the left eye socket and

brow ridge is missing [the shadow gives the impression of asecond brow ridge and socket here]. Although no lower jawhas survived, the dental arch [not visible here] shows faintoutlines of several teeth sockets. Note how the right brow

ridge projects outward. The outward projecting brow ridgesis a feature of archaic skull types from Asia and Africa.


The Australopithecus australis skull. Now turned toironstone, besides distortions it bears extensive signs of

an earlier period of long-time surface exposure, asshown by excessive, deep pit-marking. The skulls

distinctive, though badly worn pointed sagittal crest,distinguishes it from all other Homo erectus skulls so

far discovered in Australia. The originally doliocephalicbraincase was partly crushed flattish due to sediments

not having sufficiently filled it to otherwise provide someresistance to distortion in the early stages of burial. This

right side view of the skull shows the face projectedoutwards with the right, badly worn brow ridge having

been thick and projecting.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

An Australopithecine family living in Africa over2 million years ago, smashing bones with stones to

obtain the marrow. With the discovery ofAustralopithecus skull-types and endocasts on the

Blue Mountains and at other widely-scatteredlocations in eastern Australia by the Gilroys, such

a scene as that depicted would have beencommonplace in Australia in late Pliocene-

Pleistocene times, 1 to 2 million or more yearsago. Illustration courtesy Time Life books, USA.


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DISCOVERY OF A LOST URUANTEMPLE-PYRAMID IN THE LOSTCITY OF KANANGRA.

by Rex Gilroy.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2010

The year 2010 will be remembered by me as a year of many incredible discoveries, one of these being theuncovering of a massive four-sided pyramid hill deep within inaccessible forest country in the Kanangra BoydNational Park on the western boundary of the Burragorang Valley.

The pyramid hill possesses an extensive flat summit upon which lie the remains of a largeastronomical temple dedicated to the Uruan Moon-Goddess, Ara, as revealed from the translation ofnumerous rock inscriptions in the Uruan language uncovered there. In past ages a clear view of the heavens

was to be found here but this is now obscured by dense gum and scrub forest.The massive pyramid has yet to be fully measured and this will be a major operation, however, it is

about 80 metres high. To reach the structure requires a lengthy trek through wilderness, in the course of

which one passes through ancient streets and collapsed structures, temples and other ancient public buildings,all part of the Lost City of Kanangra.There can be no doubt that this mighty flat summit pyramid was the central structure of the city, and

in antiquity without the present forest covering it would have had a commanding view of the surroundingStone-Age metropolis.

*****Braving threatening wet weather, on Saturday 22nd may 2010, Heather drove myself and field assistant

Mihaela Hilla out to Kanangra Boyd National Park. Heather was unable to take part in what I expected to beyet another search for ruins, this being due to her bad right knee, which was soon to be operated on, enablingher to take part in my searches once again. Leaving Heather with the car at a particular location, Mihaela andI ventured off with our equipment into the forest.

In the course of battling the scrub we worked our way through numerous megalithic ruins, at least 15to 20,000 years old based upon prior knowledge of this massive metropolis. There is one lengthy ridge alreadyknown to me upon which extends a granite paved road on an north-south axis, with another on an east-westaxis crossing it, paved by fallen pillars.

Eventually entering a densely wooded gully we could see a massive granite-covered hill ahead of us,rising up out of the forest. I soon realised there were four sides to this hill facing the four cardinal compasspoints.

We worked our way up the western face amid remains what may have been an ancient pathway toreach the summit. Light rain came and went at intervals as we explored among what were obviously thecollapsed remains of stone alignments and other structures. We had found the ruins of a large temple withaltars within enclosures. There was an upright pillar, and at the north side of the temple amid other structures

nearby an altar, that we came across a badly deteriorated image of the Kangaroo God, Ga-na, Protector ofthe Gods. It measured 1.27 metres tall, the head, a separate stone standing upon a 1 metre long by 60cmwide and 80cm high stone, bore one remaining [right] eye and a nose, any other features had fallen away withtime. Upon the base stone were two large engraved letters G and N, meaning Ga-na.

We measured the nearby inscribed altar. I recorded the inscription, later translated to read:All gather in a body before the God of the Sun.

All gather before his light.The gathering light of the Sun [ie dawn] is observed here at his altar.

Standing on the west side of the summit rose a tall squarish boulder, with an alignment of stonesextending east to west in alignment with it. A close inspection of the flat face of the boulder by me revealedglyphs denoting a comet, heaven and earth, the glyphs for Sun [ie Nim] a small solar disc and a snake,

denoting Serpent of light and other letterings. I later translated the message to read:Here is observed the White Sun. Upon this stone he is recorded.At this place he is observed. Upon this stone is also recorded a Serpent of Light,

a tailed star, a messenger of Nim who shines like the Sun.At this temple it is observed on high.


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Behold its benevolent light from heaven to earth.Mihaela and I braved fine rain to record as much as we could. As the finds of inscriptions mounted, I

could see from reading some of the glyphs that the city [whose name was already known to me from aprevious temple inscriptions a few kilometres away] was repeated in one particular message I-ula. And, I

was about to discover that this massive pyramid temple was one dedicated to the Moon-Goddess Ara. Yet itwas one where the secret teachings of the Goddess were taught. And, we would find mention among theinscriptions of a ruler King Sa-ta.

*****The aforementioned information was found amid a lengthy inscription upon the flat face of a large

boulder forming part of a small enclosure. Among the images was the large naked figure of a female Arathe Moon Goddess, while another figure, depicting King Sa-ta, held a calculating device. Other imagesincluded libation cups, the Moons phases, glyphs for City and the name I-ula, words for festival, theMoon Ara, a phallic symbol and that of the Serpent of Fertility. The inscription covered an area of rockfaceof 1.8 metres long by 1.4 metres deep. My translation, made after our return home, was as follows:

Pour libations to growing Ara in her monthly phases here at her enclosure.She hears the water as it is poured. Behold Ara of the fair-haired rays of light.

Her gathering light at this stone.Here all observe at her temple within the City protected by Ga-na.

All people assemble to hear Sa-ta our King declare her fullness hasbeen reached and declare the commencement of Her Moon Festival

in the City of I-ula on the date here calculated at her pillar.Behold the serpent of Fertility and worship him beneath her gaze.

Here observe and learn Aras secret sacred teachings.This find brought our investigations to an end as the weather began to worsen and we left the

summit, fighting our way out of that dense forest to eventually meet up with Heather.Our efforts had been exceptionally rewarded with this discovery. For some years I had known of a

large pyramid of Ara existing somewhere out in that wilderness from earlier rock inscription finds, and now Ihad found it.

What other great discoveries await us out there in the Lost City of I-ula?

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Remains of the paved floor of a structure.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Mihaela Hilla walks through remains of ancient settlementin the depths of the Lost city of I-ula.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The paved outline of a long vanished structure.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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This square enclosure in the depths of the Kanangra wildswas reached by a stone pathway.


The scattered remains of a paved structure.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

This large granite formation was found to possess ogham letters.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The ogham reads: I-ula,, the name of the Lost city of Kanangrawhich until recent times had taken Rex Gilroy 18 years to discover.


The stone pathway, a granite shoal once lined by upright stones. Itcurved right at the far end. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The corner of what was once a large granite building. Now onlythe foundations remain. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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A section of the west base of the Kanangra pyramid templededicated to the Moon-Goddess, Ara.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

A section of the pyramids west face. The structures sides arebadly deteriorated. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The inscribed altar found among other summit relics. The inscription ison the opposite side. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Downview of the altar. Note the deep groove forlibation run-offs.


The inscription, downview.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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The badly deteriorated Ga-na image. The left eye section of theface is gone. The nose remains and a right eye. The base iscracked and the letters G and N [Ga-na] are faded but

visible [outlined in chalk].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Close-up of the letters.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Right facial view of the Ga-na image.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

This large granite boulder situated on the west side ofthe summit of the pyramid temple aligns with other

stones on an east-west axis.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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The inscription refers to the White sun and a serpent of Light [iecomet] Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

A close view of the comet glyph just beneath the topletterings. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

This altar found at the site was carved in the stylised image of I-na,the Eagle of the Sun, Nims protector as he journeys across the

heavens from east to west each day in Uruan religious mythology.Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2010.

The large inscribed boulder stands in the distance withtwo stones extending east of it in alignment.

Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2010.


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A section of the Ara temple looking south. Note the upright phallicstone towards right of picture. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The phallic stone stands beside a deteriorated altar stone slab.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The remains of a large granite platform. It probably served someceremonial purpose. .Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Looking south on the pyramid temple summit, just beyond the phallicstone and altar are remains of an enclosure of once upright stones now

fallen over with age. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

A closer view of the stones. Note the squarish slab bottomleft of picture, which once served as a libation altar for some

unknown rite. The darkened grooves were run-offs forlibation pourings. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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Rex Gilroy stands between two former upright pillars.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Located on the edge of the east summit of the pyramidtemple Rex Gilroy discovered this enclosure once entered

from the south, beside the large boulder on the right sideof the entrance, which he found to contain an important

lengthy inscription.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The enclosure looking east. Note the fallen stone head of Nimthe Sun-God and brother of the Moon-Goddess Ara.


The inscription, a feature of which is the naked

image of the Moon-Goddess, Ara, and thesmaller figure of Sa-ta, a long forgotten King ofold Uru. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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A closer view of this remarkableinscription.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2010.

Close view of a section of the faded carvings. Note the measuringinstrument behind the King Sa-ta image and Moon phases.


Close view of the King Sa-ta image.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Close view of the top left section of the inscription showing triangle-shaped letter A glyphs with circle between being the letter R thus

Ara. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Close view of the bottom right of the stone bearing the symbols forAra, a phallus, a letter A here denoting temple, the U symbol onits left meaning ui or secret teachings, with the image of the

Serpent of Fertility and a Sun symbol.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.


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Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.

Our next meeting will beheld on Saturday15th January 2011 -same time, same place 12 Kamillaroi Road,Katoomba.

So until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and HeatherRex and HeatherRex and HeatherRex and Heather

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