By Perry Bigelow
For the past few years, I had been casually looking into the Great Pyramid in Giza, the recently found new void was really intriguing, and while going down lots of rabbit holes, I came across some information about megalithic stone structures (think Easter Island, Machu Picchu, Petra Jordan, the Great Pyramid, of course, and about 15 other sites around the world, many being World Heritage Sites). It was said that one could draw a straight line, 50 km wide, around the planet and all these sites would fall on that single line. Being skeptical, I had to prove it for myself, so using Google Earth I set out to do just that and lo and behold it proved out. In the process of verifying this circle I came across what appeared to be a well-known and well-documented alignment, St. Michael’s Line, right about the time the world came to a screeching halt this past March.
The circle panned out, so with not much else to do in lockdown, I thought I would prove out this line. For those who, as I, have never heard of St. Michael’s Line, it is a line formed by seven monasteries dedicated to the Archangel Michael and were built from about 700-1600 AD with most built about 1000 AD. It starts on a tiny island off the coast of Ireland and extends to Israel, spanning about 2,500 miles. I proceeded to plug pins into the locations on Google Earth and drew a line connecting the pins. The line appeared to take a hard turn to the west at Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo in Italy and then continued straight through the sixth monastery in Greece onto the seventh, Stella Maris Monastery in Israel. In my opinion, no one could reasonably call what was produced a straight line with a narrow margin of error. A bit disappointed this one did not pan out; I was curious about where does the straight line from the first four go? I overlaid my initial line and continued it across the Mediterranean and into Egypt and unbelievably it crossed, the now missing, capstone of the Great Pyramid in Giza! With 0 margin of error! I was not expecting anything and got the pyramid!
I took a moment to think about why the original line did not work, especially since there was so much information on the alignment, and it occurred to me Google Earth is a globe. I located a “flat” map, printed it, marked my points and drew a line and sure enough, St. Michael’s Line worked. The line was straight with a small margin of error. Back to the pyramid line and where the story gets stranger. Having previously read about Stonehenge and a Pythagorean right triangle that formed with two other important points related to it, I decided to connect the end points of my flat and globe St. Michael’s Lines because it looked like it could be a right triangle. Precisely measured the distances of the three sides of my newly formed triangle, from the monasteries themselves and applied the Pythagorean Theorem (a2 + b2 = c2) and again unbelievably, not the ever popular 3-4-5 but a 5-12-13 Pythagorean right triangle with .01% accuracy or 0.2 miles off. The hypotenuse was a 1,209-mile line. Coincidence, maybe, but that is two in a row. What else is around? Gobekli Tepe, a Stonehenge-like site dating back 12,000 years, discovered in 1994 by a Turkish farmer and currently the world’s oldest megalithic site. I used two of my last three points, Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo in Italy and Stella Maris in Israel and then used Gobekli Tepe as my third. I plugged in the mileage between points and bingo, 5-12-13 again, with a margin of error of 0.3%. In my mind, coincidence was now out the window and the hunt was on.
I went on to plug in other sites, some of which I had only recently learned. Stonehenge, of course, but others that were related to Stonehenge; Preseli Hills and Lundy Island, as wells as Goseck Circle which has been called Germany’s Stonehenge although there are no stones. Using all seven of St. Michael’s Line monasteries, I started making lines, measuring distances and doing the math and came across a total of 10 special triangles; six Pythagorean, 3-4-5 and 5-12-13, and four isosceles all with 1% or less margin of error.
At this point in time, the lockdown restrictions were beginning to ease and I had run out of points to plug into St. Michael’s Line so I started a more vigorous search of the internet for anything related to these lines and triangles but came up empty. My degree was in economics, not ancient or medieval history, so I would be interested in finding out if this is a new discovery or just a rediscovery of something forgotten long enough to have not made it onto the internet. Either way, I am curious and searching for answers to any of the other four Ws -- Who, What, Why or When -- and therein lies the motivation for writing this piece.
For all my measurements and graphics of the data, I created a simple website and posted slides of all the triangles and the points used to create them.
https://linesandtriangles.weebly.com
Bigelow lives in Warren
