Underground Malta and The Missing Children II
The Malta Enigmas - Part II
Diego Antolini
10/02/2018 17:45:38
CART RUTS
The islands of Malta and Gozo are the most famous of the archipelago, and hosts the largest number of the mysterious and ancient Cart Ruts, also known as Cart Tracks. They are grooves engraved into the stone of Malta in so large a number, in such a confused and entangled manner to leave anyone with a lot more questions than answers.
How did they formed? Is it an artificial work? Who did that, and why?
The Maltese Cart Ruts end at the edge of sheer cliffs dropping into the sea, but continue their path under water, in the marine floor. They are absolutely chaotic in patterns (e.g. The ruts at Clapham Junction and San Gwann Junction) and directions.
The site of Ghar Zerriegha shows more than any other place that these grooves were made by human hand; however there no conclusive evidence to determine this assumption 100%, especially if one considers what has been found in that area. Have all those tracks been made for the same reason and at the same time?
One of the most famous sites where these lines are present is Misrah Ghar il-Kbir (Better known as Clapham Junction) near Siggiewi, by the Dingli cliffs. Clapham Junction displays a complex net of ruts carved into the very rock. The age and the scope of these lines is one of the mysteries of the Maltese past.
The common idea among the archaeologists is that the site developed about 4000 years ago by people coming from Sicily, who started the Bronze Age on the island.
The Cart Ruts are dug 60cm deep into the rock, and their distance vary between 110cm and 140cm one from the other. Some of them cross each other, or merge into each other creating junctions. Because of this peculiar feature of resembling a railway network, an Englishman named the area Clapham Junction.
Among the various theories which have been formulated over the years upon the function of the Cart Ruts, there are:
- They represent trails to guide the goods-loaded carriages so to avoid being stuck or damaged by the rocks.
- The ruts themselves were used to slide the goods from one point to another
- A possible, primitive irrigation system
- Maltese Archaeologist Anthony Bonanno believes that the Cart Ruts were made by the Phoenicians (VII sec. BC), so setting the age of the ruts after the commonly-believed 2000 BC
Recent studies seem to suggest that the ruts are the result of a continuous passage of carriages whose wheels had progressively eroded the sandstone covering the soil at Misrah Ghar il-Kbir; a simulated analysis of wheels pressure upon sandstone would match the depression in the Cart Ruts.
Prof. Mottershead of Portsmouth University said that:
“...The rocky substrata of Malta is weak, and when it wets loses at least the 80% of its hardness. The carriages would have at first created the tracks on the soil but this, once eroded, would have allowed the wooden wheels to cut directly into the rocky strata underneath, thereby facilitating the same path of other carriages...”
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UNDERGROUND MALTA AND THE MISSING CHILDREN
Tunnel's Function: Unknown
Tunnel's Levels: Unknown
Tunnel's Itinerary: Unknown
Legend
has it that, before the British Government sealed many of the
underground tunnels, it was possible to go from one side of Malta to
another just by using subterranean passages. One of these mazes is the
Hal Saflini (or Hal Saflieni or Hal Saflienti) Hypogaeum, in which some
diggers have found bones of more than 33,000 people sacrificed in an
ancient pagan cult during the Neolithic Age.
The National Geographic
Magazine, August 1940 issue, refers how several children disappeared
without a trace inside the hypogaeum during a school trip.
Miss Lois
Jessup, employed at the British Embassy in Malta, managed to convince a
guide to explore the “burial chamber” next to the level of the lowest
chamber in the last sub-level of the catacombs (third level?).
The
guide accepted unwillingly, and led Lois to the spot. The woman crawled
into the narrow passage which led inside the burial chamber until she
found herself on the edge of a cave opening on a deep ravine.
Looking
down, a shocked Lois saw a line of tall humanoids, with long and white
hair that covered their naked bodies, walking on the edge of the
opposite wall, about 20 meters lower than where she was. The humanoids
apparently “felt” her presence; they rose their hands point the palm of
their hands toward Lois. In that moment a strong wind rose, sweeping the
cave violently. Something big, “slick and damp” slipped by her before
she could crawl back into the lower chamber.
The guide was there,
waiting for her, and the way he looked at her told Lois that he knew
about those creatures in the catacombs.
Later, after the 30
children and the teacher who was with them went missing in the same
tunnel Lois had explored, the woman went back to the site, only to find a
new guide on duty. The guide never heard anything about his colleague,
let alone that he had been working there as guide at the hypogaeum.
Lois
Jessup heard about official reports relating the incident: it seems
that after the last child entered the burial chamber and reached the
edge of the cave, an internal landslide occurred, blocking the entrance.
The rope which connected the children to the lower chamber was found
neatly severed.
The mothers of some of the lost children reported
that, for more than a week after the disappearance, they could still
hear them screaming and crying from underground.
Other speak about
the existence of underground tunnels that would link Malta for hundreds
of kilometers until the catacombs of the Vatican Hills in Rome.
STRANGE ARTIFACTS IN MALTA
The
Sleeping Woman – Discovered at the lower levels of the Hal-Saflieni
hypogaeum. It has been dated back to 5,000 years ago. What does she
represent? For what reason was she created? Was it an offering to a god?
Which god was it for?
The Hal-Saflieni hypogaeum is a set of
subterranean chambers bearing a deep spiritual meaning. Recent studies
have determined that they were specifically dug to reach some acoustic
frequencies capable of enhancing meditative or trance-like states.
The
Mnajdra Calendar – How could a 6,000 years old culture track the
passages of the Equinoxes? We don't know, but some interesting clues
have been left upon a megalithic stone inside the Mnajdra Temple at
Qrendi. Mnajdra is considered one of the oldest religious sites of the
world, enlisted into the UNESCO's “World Heritage Sites”. It is the only
complex covered by a protective canopy.
The Phoenician Face –
Dated between 1,500 and 300 BC, it was a strange discovery; nobody can
explain its use, nor what the face on the stone represents. Is it the
image of a dead person? Is it the stylized representation of death?
Among the Phoenicians, some images were created to ward off death or the
spirits of the underworld.
The Hagar Qim Temple's Miniature –
This sandstone's sculpture is the most ancient representation of a
temple in the world. It is a scaled replica of the megalithic complex of
Hagar Qim in Malta, and was dated about 3,000 BC.
The reason for its creation is unknown.
The
Venus of Malta – It was discovered inside the Hagar Qim temple, and it
is of the same age as the temple's miniature. A common interpretation
gives the figurines of Venus the symbolic meaning of fertility. Such
figurines have been found in the thousands all over the world (the most
famous of which is the Venus of Willendorf, dated about 25,000 BC).
The reason for their making is unknown.
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