The Lore and Lure of Ley Lines
Ley lines are not physically measurable. They consist of supposed alignments of monuments, megaliths, natural ridge-tops, and water-fords. The term was coined by amateur archaeologist, Alfred Watkins in 1921 when the term appeared in his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track. Many consider Ley Lines (also known as quasar ley lines) to be some sort of treasure map to the places of power in the world. The shape of an icosahedron makes up the “map” of ley lines.
"Alfred Watkins, a landscape photographer in Herefordshire, noticed that ancient sites seemed to be aligned with others nearby. His idea was that our ancestors built and used prominent features in the landscape as navigation points.” (Carr-Gomm 2009)
“These features included prehistoric standing stones and stone circles, barrows and mounds, hill forts and earthworks, ancient moats, old pre-Reformation churches, old crossroads and fords, prominent hilltops and fragments of old, straight tracks. “(Carr-Gomm 2009)
“Watkins went on to suggest that that the lines connecting these ancient sites represented old trackways or routes that were followed in prehistoric times for the purposes of trade or religious rites, and in 1921 he coined the term 'ley lines' to describe these alignments.“(Carr-Gomm 2009)
There are those that do not believe the placement of the sacred sites in relation to the ley lines to be something of coincidence, but carefully planned based on intricate mathematical structures. Some of the sacred sites associated with ley lines include the Great Pyramids at Giza in Egypt, Stonehenge in England, the Moai Statues of Easter Island in Chile, and Machu Picchu in Peru.
Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate describe the origin of ley lines in their Book of English Magic. The book involves a number of stories related to occult history and outlines the modern fascination with all things magical. As seen by the rather extensive number of books that have been written on the subject, there is significant controversy surrounding the actuality of ley lines and what, if anything, they might be used for. It is still up for debate which monoliths and megaliths should be used as points for ley lines. There are thousands of religious and historical sites all over the world. Science has no way to detect these ley lines, however, New Agers and psychics claim to be able to feel their energy.
Some believe in the theory of extraterrestrial races influencing the construction and placement of many of the monoliths and megaliths all over the world. A great deal of the myths surrounding these carvings and paintings have to do with aliens that have been controlling people or even subjugating entire civilizations.