MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA

Vol. 2, Issue No 04

APRIL, 2012

INSIDE: UPDATE ON THE URU. BLACKTOWN URU SITE. NEW CHIMU SITE ON THE HAWKESBURY RIVER

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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 Street where there is safer parking.

Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and Unexplained Mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

UPDATE ON THE URU.

Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The ruins of this mighty Australian lost Stone-Age civilisation continue to give up their secrets. When I first discovered the type specimen of this civilisation back in 1965 - an altar carved in sandstone in the form of a serpent atop a 15m tall mound - at a dense scrub covered Blue Mountains site, quickly followed by the finding of other crumbling structures nearby, I was mystified as to the origin of these megalithic ruins. The serpent altar, standing on a north-south axis, measured 1.7m long by 70cm wide and 1.2m high. Carved in a curved aspect, it bore a mouth groove at its north end facing east. At the time its import escaped me but today the serpent image is known to depict Nim, the Sun-God of His worshippers. Yet who were His worshippers? In between the discoveries of many other mysterious megalithic sites across the Blue Mountains and elsewhere, I began finding examples of the written rock script of this people. However, it took until 1974 for me to make a breakthrough in its translation. The script, consisting of pictographic symbols, also included ogham and a number of other letter symbols familiar to the Old World scripts of Sumer, other Near and Middle-East and European lands, and which also appeared in ancient rock scripts of the South-East Asian and West Pacific regions. I soon realised that the Australian written language was the mother script from which all others had, over a vast period of time, evolved. In the course of my years of translation efforts I had repeatedly come across a word Uru and came to realise that this was the name of this people. Readers wishing to know more can read URU The Lost Civilisation of Australia [2005] by Rex and Heather Gilroy. As our book reveals in greater detail, the Uru gradually migrated beyond Australia into Asia, the Near and Middle-East and Europe introducing their megalithic culture in the course of their movements. Just how long ago this event occurred is debateable, but it took place before the rise of the Old World civilisations. The earliest Uruan script evolved alongside the crude megalithic architecture of this people. If it is indeed the earliest written language it must pre-date the earliest Mediterranean script of 3500 BCE and if so, then we must accept that people knew how to read and write before the onset of the Copper Age [ie long before the advent of the Bronze-Age, 2000-1400 BCE]. The age of the Australian mother civilisation can be roughly deduced from a comparison of datings of the major Old World megalithic culture sites. For example, the age of Englands Stonehenge and Frances Carnac sites date around 3000 BCE. The stone arrangements and megalithic tombs and temples of Malta and parts of Eastern Europe are dated to 4500 BCE, while the datings for those of Central Asia, India and southern China, Japan and island South-East Asia vary between 5000 and 8000 BCE. Some monuments in Papua New Guinea are at least 10,000 years old, whereas geological evidence alone suggests many of the
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earliest and more primitive Australian structures date back far earlier than 50,000 years BP [Before Present], the earliest perhaps about 100,000 years BP. These datings surely demonstrate that the earliest stone arrangements of mankind were erected in Australia. As our book reveals, the Australian megalithic arrangmenets, which included lengthy alignments of standing stones and circles, were erected for astronomical/agricultural purposes. Yet who were the Uru? Fossil evidence recovered by the author, consisting of skulls, shows them to have been populations of the earliest anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, who developed from Australian Homo erectus by around 400,000-300,000 years BP. Thus, the earliest modern humans, Homo sapiens, evolved in Australia before the earleist African examples [ie around 150,000 years BP]. The Uru also preceded the arrival of the earliest Aboriginal people from South-East Asia [around 50,000 years BP]. ***** The Uru were never metallurgists in Australia, this development came about among their migrating populations beyond our shores later in their history. In Australia they remained a stone, bone and wood culture, but one which, as their megalithic monuments indicate, was raised to a high standard. According to the accounts of our Aboriginal people, the Uru were a pale-skinned [ie white] race of culture-heroes who gave them elements of their culture. Indeed, throughout the Old World wherever the megaliths stand, the name Uru was synonymous with a white-skinned race. These traditions are found from old Mesopotamia down through South-East Asia. Such traditions continue on into the Pacific, where later migrations of the Uru spread to New Zealand and the West Pacific Islands [including Easter Island where the name Uru is commonplace] to the Americas, where the name is synonymous with a mighty white race of astronomer-priests and builders. These traditions are found also widely from Mexico to Peru in the legendary accounts of the Mayans, Aztecs, Chimu, Incans and other cultures of pre-Columbian times. It seems obvious then, how the later civilisations of the Old and New Worlds possessed traditions of a lost paradise of mankind that lay in the southernmost region of the world where Australia is situated, a great red rock standing at its centre marking the centre of the world! That Ayres Rock [aka Uluru] was somehow known to the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Celts, Tibetans, Chinese and others of the Old World, as well as remote Pacific Islanders and the great Amerindian cultures of Mexico to Peru show that the race-memories of this land, given them by the Uru, led the BronzeAge civilisations of the Old World and the later Amerindian peoples to undertake cross-ocean voyages which resulted in their discovery of their Land of Origin. As our readers are aware of all the accounts of Old World pyramids, rock inscriptions, ancient opencut mining operations and other remains found in Australia [see Pyramids in the Pacific The Unwritten History of Australia [2000] and Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age GodKings [2009] reported by the Gilroys] there is no need to go into detail here. ***** The main purpose of this update on the Uru is to report recent discoveries of an exciting nature that will now become part of a book now in preparation concerning Uruan influence upon the pre-cultured Amerindians and their later cross-Pacific voyages to their motherland of origin! From the early days of my research into what were to become known as Uruan culture sites on the Blue Mountains, I pondered a vague Amerindian appearance in the style of the altars and other carved images. Back then I did not realise that I was looking at their earliest artistic style. In our March 2012 Mysterious Australia newsletter my article The Uru and Amerindia I reported the Wednesday 22nd April 2009 discovery of a weathered stone head of a temple priest nearby the remains of an ancient Uruan Nim Sun-worship temple, on a Coonabarabran Central Western NSW property. The interesting feature of this image was that it showed a long-eared individual. This relic revealed the practice of ear-lengthening, so well known to the former Easter Islanders and was practiced by the Uruan priestly caste [and monarchy] untold thousands of years before its spread across the Pacific. I have little doubt that it was the Uru who introduced the practice to pre-Polynesian New Zealand, other Pacific islands including Easter Island, the Hawaiians and the shores of Mexico and Peru in pre-Amerindian culture times, the practice being carried on as these peoples developed their own [Uru-inspired] cultures. Since the Coonabarabran find, others have come to light strengthening my theory; such as the Wednesday 22nd February 2012 discovery of the long-eared] Sun-priest Gamo stone head found in Katoomba bushland; the Thursday 15th March 2012 find of the large long-eared stone head carving of the Sun-priest Gi, the 15cm tall by 52cm wide head carving of the Sun-priest Yala, discovered by the author in a rock shelter and the Mt Victoria clifftop Nim temple find of the 43cm tall by 25cm wide head carving of the Sun-priest Moko.
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The latest significant discovery is the weathered inscribed head of King Cos, priest-King of the SunGod discovered as part of a lengthy granite stone alignment at a major solar temple, situated within the lost city of Kanangra where Heather and I have worked for years together with our field assistant Greg Foster, measuring, recording and photographing ruins of temples, pyramids and other structures, including an inscription several years ago giving the name City of I-ula. A big find for me after an 18 year search for an inscription bearing the citys name. The massive head of King Cos has missing parts on its left side but still shows two eyes, a long nose and mouth. There is a 1.1m tall by 40cm wide long-ear on the right side of the head. There is a head-dress bearing the inscription King Cos of the Sun and the image stands 2m tall by 2.2m wide at the base and 2.3m deep. A nearby boulder forming part of the alignment contains the inscriptions Cos of the Sun, the builder of Iula. At this temple of the light at Nims rising cry out in wonder. Interesting is the fact that Uruan monarchs, all priest-kings and queens, claimed descent from the Sun-God Nim. The claim of descent from the Sun-God echoes from e old Pharonic Egypt to Mesopotamia to Asia and the former kingdoms of the Americas a ghostly influence of old Uru? There have been other significant Uruan finds not involving images of long-eared priests, such as the rediscovery of an eagle altar [I-na, the Eagle of the Sun who carried Nim across the heavens each day] lost for many years. Standing upon a weathered three-terraced pyramidal sandstone mound at a Blue Mountains site, it measures 4m tall by the same in width, the eagle I-na cut in relief measures 1.35m long by 95cm wide. On Sunday 11th March 2012 I found a 1.32m tall by 1.7m wide, 84cm deep sandstone rock in the same area which bears the crude face of Nim with a forehead inscription, and another atop the head. The forehead message reads: Behold I-na who watches Nim. Behold Nim and Ara [ie the Uruan Moon goddess and Nims sister] who Ay-Is Eye [ie Supreme Being of Uru] and benevolent rays enfolds in love. All dance at the quarter Moon. Women dance in praise of the Goddess and pour libations from the Moon Cup. The inscription continues onto the forehead Nim God of Uru and Ara Goddess we praise you both. All dance with joy. At Nims command we praise the arrival of Eee, Goddess of Spring, and at her altar here at her hidden temple we give offerings of praise to her, watched by Nim on high, led by Sui-ko of the Sun. As this article is being prepared other significant Uruan remains have begun turning up in a secluded Blue Mountains gully. I am fortunate indeed to be the discoverer of a lost civilisation for it places me alongside Heinrich Schliemann, discoverer of the lost city of Troy [1873], Sir Arthur Evans who unearthed the lost Cretan civilisation [1901] and a handful of others, all of whom like myself were told by university desk-professors that they were wasting their time and money searching for a myth. Thanks to such far-sighted field-working researchers mythical civilisations now stand revealed and the work of the Gilroys has likewise revealed the Australian lost mother civilisation of Uru. What an exciting life we lead! -0-

The Serpent Altar upon the summit of the sandstone mound. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The altar, downview. The surface has been carved in the form of a serpent, the image of the Sun God Nim of the Uru megalithic civilisation. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Coonabarabran long-eared priest head carving. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The head caving of the Uruan long-eared Sun-priest found at a Katoomba bushland site, Wednesday 22nd February, 2012 It measures 23.3cm tall by 17.5cm wide and it is 8.3cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The head carving of the Sun-priest Gi. Note long ear with ear plug. The relic measures 88cm tall by 48cm wide and 48cm deep. The accompanying inscription reads: Priest of the Sun Gi the long-ears declares all gather here to reach enlightenment. Play sacred music with singing and chanting. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

This rock inscription was found near the Gi image at the same time Ay-I, at whose command the Universe was brought into being. He commanded I-na to guide the Sun, Nim on his path towards his goal. Over all creation His Eye keeps watch and Nim, the omnipresent over the Earth. Hail Serpent Nim. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Wednesday 21st March 2012 Rex Gilroy discovered this rock overhand in the dense Mt Victoria scrubland. Beneath which was a stone bearing the head of a long-eared Sun-priest.. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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1.4 metres from the Yabaha image a second head was found, standing amid the rubble of a small platform. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. Measuring 35cm tall by 23ccm wide and 12cm deep, the inscription on the image reads: Priest of the Sun, Yabaha. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The head measuring 70cm tall by 70cm wide and 15cm deep bore glyphs which read: The priest Yala the ear-lengthener, in charge of all festivities honouring the Eye of the Sun our God. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The head image of the long-eared Sun-priest, Moko identified by the head script. Measuring 43cm tall by 25cm wide and 9cm deep, the relic was found at a clifftop temple site overlooking a valley on Thursday 15th March, 2012. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 7

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The cliff edge temple contained the broken remains of a large ironstone libation bowl, within which were engraved the fading images of Nim in serpent form and a Sun-disc. What remains of the bowl measured 1.2 metres by 1.1m with a 40cm depth. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A close view of the bowl images. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

21cm to the right of the bowl was this Nim head, measuring 59cm tall by 32cm wide and 12cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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On Wednesday 15th March 2012 Rex uncovered an ancient megalithic Uruan Sun-worship temple, constructed of monolithic sandstone formations,. This Downview shows the rubble-strewn interior of the structure. Note the entrance, situated facing the rising sun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The east wall of the temple with the entrance front. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

In the vicinity of the temple, atop a Nim serpent altar, the image carved in relief, measures 3.5m long by 1.32m wide at its end, the long neck being up to 26cm wide, the head 40cm wide. The altar is carved in an east-west axis, the head facing west. It stands upon a 90cm tall platform. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 9

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Standing atop a 8m tall sandstone platform on Thursday 8th March 2012, Rex discovered a long Nim serpent image,. Located near that just described, it is 1.75m long by 70cm wide at the head and 54cm wide across the body, by 30cm and 40cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Nim serpent image rests on an north-south axis. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Friday 9th March 2012 Rex rediscovered a lost altar stone of the Eagle of the Sun, I-na deep in bushland near the other structures. Resting upon the top of a 4m tall tree-terraced mound, this stylised eagle image measures 1.35m long by 95cm wide with its wing extended outward. It rests on an east-west axis. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Obscured by shrubbery is this terraced platform containing the eagle altar. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Directly north of the eagle [I-na] altar Rex discovered this faded cliffside inscription on Friday 9th March, 2012. It was translated to read: The Temple of I-na. In the light of day the feathered God flies with the Sun, Nim. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Some metres north of the Eagle altar, marking the entrance to a stone pathway to its base, lies this large Nim head which once stood upright. His name is carved atop his head. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Wednesday 7th March saw the discovery of this 25.5cm long by 29cm wide image of I-na holding Nim in serpent form in the vicinity of the I-na altar. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 11

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While exploring a densely-wooded gully at Mt Victoria on Sunday 11th March, 2012 Rex stumbled upon a large sandstone rock once carved in the form of a Nim head. Part of a rock wall over a metre tall, the head is inscribed above the head, across the forehead and below the eyes and both sides of the mouth. It measures 1.32m tall by 1.7m wide and 84cm deep. The face inscription was translated to read: Nim God of Uru, and Ara Goddess Moon, we praise you both. All dance in praise and joy. At Nims command praise the arrival of Eee Goddess of Spring and give offerings of praise at her altar here at her hidden temple of the Goddess. All gather at this Temple watched over by Nim on high, giving us his rays of light. By order of Sui-Ko [carouche]. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Close-up views of the images of the forehead. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Close-up view of the images below the left eye. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The inscription atop the head reads: Behold I-na who watches Nim. Behold Nim and Ara whom Ay-is Eye and benevolent rays enfolds in love. All dance at the quarter Moon. Women dance in praise of the Goddess and pour libations from the Moon cup. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A Downview of the entre top of the Nim head. Note the I-na head outline on the edge of the stone [ie above the forehead]. It measures 1.7m long by 84cm wide. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Directly behind the head is the square stone outline of an ancient enclosure. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Wednesday 5th October, 2006 together with our Brisbane-based assistant, Geoff Holland, Heather and I uncovered deep in the Kanangra Boyd National Park wilderness, a large astronomical observation temple dedicated to Nim, within the lost City of I-Ula. Here five avenues of large granite stones are arranged on a northsouth axis, with an enclosure at the north-west end within which stands a large granite head of the God. Here is a section of the third alignment in from the east side of the temple. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The third avenue looking north. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A view of the two narrow passageways looking north. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Another view of the two narrow passageways. The next avenue is to the left of picture. The stones of this great monument are so ancient that time, rain and heat has cracked or smoothed them to appear naturally placed, but they were not. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A view of the north end of the two east side avenues with tumbled rocks obscuring the entrances. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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A view of the eastern side of the avenue section of the temple-observatory. Note this monstrous granite stone forming part of the wall. How did the Uru move such massive stones into position? Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The north end of the easternmost narrow passageway. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A closer look at the narrow passageway, believed to have been entered by priests in ceremonies by single file from the south. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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A view from the north of the 4th alignment. Note the deteriorating large human head carved from one of the stones. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The head stands beside another large boulder erected upon a cracked slab. It bears the faded large hieroglyph for Temple of the Sun. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The large weathered stone head, its features and associated inscription had to be chalked in to outline them. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The head measures 2m tall by 2.2m long at the base by 2.3m wide. Note the Uruan inscription carved into the headpiece of the image, and also the lengthened ear. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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A closer view of the lengthened ear, with a round ear plug towards the bottom. It measures 1.1m long by 40cm wide. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Front view of the head. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A close view of the head inscription, which states: King Cos of the Sun. Here is the image of an Uruan priest-king, who like all Uruan monarchs was believed to have descended from the Sun. This was a feature of Egyptian Pharaohs as well as the Inca of Peru and like ear-lengthening appears to be a far older belief of the Uru. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 17

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This massive stone at the southern end of the alignment containing the head of King Cos, bears an inscription revealing an important aspect of this rulers role in the history of the Blue Mountains Uru. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Close-up view of the inscription. It states: Cos of the Sun, the builder of I-ula. At this Temple of the Light at Nims rising cry out in wonder together. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Standing towards the southern end of the third avenue facing north is the 1.2m tall by 1.2m wide and 2.1m long head of a smiling Nim image. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The head bears a faded inscription on its right side. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The message reads: Nim. At this hidden place the sacred music of rebirth and the souls enlightenment is played by Eee-la at the Suns rising, observed here at the Temple. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The large granite head of Nim. This deteriorated head stands in the north-west enclosure of the observatory-Temple dedicated to the God. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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THE BLACKTOWN, NSW URU SITE.

Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

While on a visit to see our leading field assistant, Greg Foster at his Blacktown home on Tuesday 27th March, 2012 he took me to a bushy location in the Blacktown area to show me a large sandstone head he had recently uncovered. When I saw the relic there was no mistaking the inscription on the head: Nim the Sun. Here was Nim in smiling aspect, a commonplace feature of images of the God at sites beyond Sydney such as on the Blue Mountains, indeed elsewhere across Australia. The head measures 72cm tall by 53cm wide across the head and is 20cm deep. Gregs find shows there was an Uru presence in the Blacktown district going back as recently as 10,000 years ago and earlier. We wonder just how many more remains of Australias lost civilisation lie hidden in out-of-the-way places not yet destroyed by land development. Here is a subject for a future Mysterious Australia article! -0-

The Nim head discovered by Greg Foster, a major discovery proving that the Uru once settled this region. The relic would have been a feature of a Temple enclosure long ago. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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NEW CHIMU SITE ON THE HAWKESBURY RIVER.

Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Wednesday 12th January 2011 while exploring a rainforest at Narooma, on the NSW far south coast, I unearthed an ancient clay pottery head in two large fragments [see Mysterious Australia newsletter August 2011 issue]. Subsequent research soon afterwards identified the relic as a pottery head of the Chimu MoonGod SinAn. Our Narooma friends and assistants Alan and Antji Westrip were thrilled at our find and Antji continued her interest in our Chimu discoveries until cancer claimed this remarkable woman last September. This find set off a search for more evidence supporting the presence hereabouts, of Chimu colonists who had crossed the Pacific Ocean following drift currents on large balsa wood sailed rafts to reach Australias east coast in pre-Spanish conquest times. The Chimu culture arose on Perus north-west coast around 1000AD building a capital city at Chan Chan where it is estimated that anything up to 1,000 people lived prior to the civilisations spread into the Andes under the ruler Nancen Pinco after 1370 only to be conquered by the Incas around 1470. The Incas were the last and largest pre-Columbian civilisation in South America. It created a vast Andean empire between 1438-1532, which was subsequently destroyed by the Conquistadores of Francisco Pizarro in the 1530s. Further searching in the Narooma region proved fruitful with the discovery of remains of an ancient settlement situated along the edge of a rainforest creek, followed by the remains of two earthen and stone stepped pyramids further inland in gum forest country where the earth-moving equipment of loggers some 30 years ago had unknowingly destroyed much of the structures. The Narooma colony would pre-date the Inca conquest back in Peru. Our attention has lately turned to locating ancient farming sites where the Chimu would have grown maize and/or corn brought with them, traces of such farming having been uncovered on some pacific Islands. On our second visit to the rainforest creekside settlement remains on Tuesday 22nd February 2011 we recovered a number of portrait stones and other carvings. One portrait stone was a slab 34.5cm tall by 19.5cm wide and 1.6cm deep displaying the image of a squatting human figure, a male with an ear plug and clutching a staff. Glyphs beneath this left profile figure identified him as Cahepu the High Priest. ***** While our work continues in the Narooma district a second Chimu colony discovery seems about to be revealed, with finds of Chimu-style weathered stone images having just turned up at a site overlooking the Hawkesbury River. This latest discovery was made on Tuesday 3rd April when Heather , our leading field assistant Greg Foster and myself visited a high plateau overlooking the Hawkesbury River intending to search for Uru rock inscriptions and other traces of this people. It was while searching along a 3 metre tall sandstone cliff that I came across a wind-blown rock shelter. Greg joined me and we suddenly found ancient weathered sandstone images. I picked up the image of a squatting man with a cap measuring 23cm tall by 12cm wide and 11.5cm deep. I then came across a typical Chimu style head with a solid pipe-like projection atop the head. It resembles more elaborate images depicting chieftains. This relic was measured at 18.5cm tall by 10.5cm wide across the centre and 5.5cm deep. Greg found a 27.5cm tall stylised bird image which was 9cm wide and 8cm deep. ***** Heather and I made a return visit to this site on Saturday 14th April 2012 so I could make a search for possible nearby settlement remains. Dense, dry scrub however defeated me. I did notice a stone passageway extending through the scrub up the rise to the rock shelter, obviously used by worshippers attending the cult site at this rock shelter. It was in rubble atop the passageway that I recovered a 17.5cm tall parrot image, being 19.3cm wide and 6cm deep. My next find, half-buried in dirt, was the image of a male head with a cap and signs of a beard. This weathered relic measured 25cm tall by 13.3cm wide across a wide base, and 7.5cm deep. By now excited I searched about for more. It was not long before I recovered a large ironstone head, some of the right face was missing with other missing sections in the chin and left face area. The openmouthed image also once had a head-dress of some kind with a groove down the centre, ending above the eyes. Measuring 28.5cm tall by 10.5cm wide across the top of the head, it was 7.5cm in depth.
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One more find awaited me, a 29.5cm tall ironstone slab image o a squatting naked Earth-Mother, her right hand holding her left breast. The figure was 10.5cm wide at the centre and 8cm wide across the head by 7cm deep. While I intend to continue the search hereabouts I am certain that these colonists would have explored upriver into the Nepean River and found the good farmland of the Penrith region down to Mulgoa and beyond. If so then the future discovery of Chimu relics in that area would not surprise me. -0-

The Chimu pottery head of the Moon-God, SinAn, photographed on the forest floor where it was found in two separate pieces, here joined together. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. Frontal view of the head. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rear view of the head, manufactured from local clay. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Rex Gilroy recording Chimu finds at the Westrip residence before heading off with Heather into the field. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The remains of a stone dwelling with trees growing through the rubble at the Chimu Creekside settlement. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rubble amid tree growth. All that remains of a former large dwelling or other structure. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

An ancient pathway passes the ruins, the stone paving hidden by forest growth. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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Moss-covered stone slabs, placed upon a section of slope to prevent erosion. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A view of the creek about which once stood a Chimu settlement. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Remains of a creek-edge stone wall, built by Chimu settlers to prevent bank erosion. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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This graffiti head carving was recovered from the forest floor amid the dwelling ruins. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A stone head bearing the inscription Mi believed to be a crude portrait of a priest. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A face carving of the Moon God, SinAn. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Close view of an upright stone bearing the image of a female figure holding the Moon. Besides two glyphs there is the eye, nose and mouth of a face. It reads: Women celebrate the Moons course. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 25

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The portrait stone of Cahepu the High Priest Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A left face profile image of the Chimu Sun-God, Kon found among the creek bank debris. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The right face image of Canah-Can Priest of the Temple and servant of Kin. It was found on a last search of the creek settlement amid the ruins by Rex Gilroy before he and Heather left for Katoomba. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

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The squatting human figure, typical of better preserved Peruvian Chimu-style stone art, found at the Hawkesbury River cult site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Chieftains head image recovered from the cult site. It resembles chieftain portrait head images unearthed in Peru. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The find by Greg Foster of a stylised bird image. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2012.

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The stylised parrot image recovered by Rex Gilroy at the Chimu cult site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. This image of a man with remnant traces of a beard brings to mind the traditions of the ancient Peruvians of a white-skinned bearded race they called the Viracochas who came among them in the dim past to give them their culture. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The partially-intact ironstone head of an open-mouthed male with remnant head-dress. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. The Earth-Mother image, a squatting figure holding her left breast. The cult site may in fact have been an Earth-Mother worship site of the Chimu colonists. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. 28

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Still Looking -TEAM GILROY

Are you aged 20 to 50 and able to enjoy bushwalking and live in the Sydney/Blue Mountains area. Team Gilroy, who are engaged in the search for the Yowie and mystery animals and have discovered relics and rock inscriptions of maritime cultures that explored Australia thousands of years before the Dutch or Captain Cook are searching for an interested, psychically attuned man or woman to assist Rex and Heather Gilroy on a regular basis in their exciting searches and discoveries of pyramids and megalithic ruins of Australias Lost Civilisation of Uru? Interested?? We want to hear from you at 02 47823441 or email us on randhgilroy44@bigpond.com.

Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.
Our next meeting will be held Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba.

on Saturday 21st May, 2012 - same time, same place 12

So until our next meeting Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather

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