Harry Sivertsen

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I am a retired carpenter who, having a fascination with both the source of the flood tales i.e. the Biblical Flood and Atlantis, and the source of the British Imperial system of measures, began research into the subjects way back in the early 1980s. Given the time involved for research it is clear that these works are not the quickly garnered assembly of frequently dissociated bits and pieces that occasionally have been termed history in recent decades. These are serious works that at long last reveal just what these mythical tales have in common and the commonality is far from that which most would expect. The final results of the research are found in the two works Deluge and Measurements of the Gods under the generic title of Megalith, Masonry, Myth and Measure.
These works have been examined by a number of editors of major British publishing houses but unfortunately the timing was wrong and while a number of these people actually praised the works, it seems that this element of history, in fact history in general, is currently not very fashionable with publishers. As my literary agent stated, it’s a pity but we can’t buck the market. So here we are on the web.

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    Deluge:From Genesis to Atlantis
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    John Broken Willow
    Harry Sivertsen posted a message to John Broken Willow and gained+3 Hi John Well you may have some associates amongst the funny people but you think and they dre...Hi John Well you may have some associates amongst the funny people but you think and they dream... I bumped into another thinker a couple of days ago, Gill and I were out for the day and we spotted a large singular stone, one of those wide flat jobs, in the region of Brecon. Of course I had to have a look and as I was leaving a couple of other bods turned up, one was an archaeologist [traditional type] and the other a chap who had accomplished quite a lot in the immediate vicinity. I had ascertained that the stone was orientated directly north south and that the southern slope of the top looked to be roughly 50 degrees. Andrew Davies, who after our conversation joined completelynovel, gave me the run down, I was right regarding the top slope, it points directly to the position of the pole star while the opposite slope, which I thought was too shallow for midsummer midday sun sighting, applies to equinox midday...There area number of other fascinating elements of the site that Andrew had established as well. He is thinking of putting a book together and using completelynovel for this purpose and apparently has much to say regarding stones etc. With luck we shall get a pre history section going here... and you can write funny tales about digging up pre historians... All good fun. All the best Cheers Harry (more)
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    John Broken Willow posted a message to Harry Sivertsen and received+3 Hi Harry Thanks for having faith in me! And the postal service! Hope you both enjoy the book. ...Hi Harry Thanks for having faith in me! And the postal service! Hope you both enjoy the book. I will get a copy of yours when it's out. I can't possibly embark on reading something of that volume online, my eyes will go all funny, like when someone tried to persuade me of how I could learn to see auras by squinting in the right way... Yes, some odd people hang around stone circles. To me they are ancient buildings built for purposes that we do not fully understand. To others they are places where mystical earth energies congregate, and the stones themselves emanate ancient spiritual energy and knowledge that we can channel and use to transform our modern society, with the help of the aliens who constructed the circles. Each to their own beliefs.... John (more)
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    Harry Sivertsen
    andrew davies posted a message to Harry Sivertsen and received+3 hi harry. thanks for the reply.i have sent an email to you, not much content, i just want to be ...hi harry. thanks for the reply.i have sent an email to you, not much content, i just want to be sure i'm sending it to the right person. i have visited trellech a few months ago and there was one stone that reminded of home,it looked like a petrified cloaked figure,never seen that before. i've had a look at your book.it isn't easy to read it on the screen, i'll be getting a copy when i can. i'll be in touch, andrew (more)
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    Harry Sivertsen posted a message to John Broken Willow and gained+3 Hi John, Gill [the Mrs] has just bought your book...looking forward to it. Hopefully mine wi...Hi John, Gill [the Mrs] has just bought your book...looking forward to it. Hopefully mine will be available very soon, a little hassle buying ISBN at the moment... Cheers Harry (more)
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    Harry Sivertsen posted a message to andrew davies and gained+3 Hi Andrew, Yes it was a very pleasant surprise to meet someone not only with a similar interes...Hi Andrew, Yes it was a very pleasant surprise to meet someone not only with a similar interest but knowledge and expertise. I suggest that when you have the books, [and you may glean sufficient from the chapter inclusions here] see if your measures correlate with mine. It may take a time but in theory should work. Try extending the 2.72 to 2.727272727, use a 10 figure number for the sake of accuracy.This is impossible in practical terms I know, being a carpenter structural measures are more than familiar to me, but when dealing with refined units as these it is surprising what such accuracy does yield. Note that 2.727272727 / 2.5 [pace to foot]=1.090909 etc which is the connecting factor between 1.056 [early British foot...that of course pre-dates Britain] and 1.152 which John Michell terms the long Egyptian foot. 5280 [British mile in feet /1.09090909 =4840 and this, divided by 5000 for a foot value gives 0.968 which was utilised to set out Rosslyn Chapel, is seen the Great Pyramid and has important Biblical connections. The connections abound. I am looking forward to seeing what you have found in the region and comparing to my findings further south,from Trellech to the coast. We should find some interesting correlations here, in fact the stone we were looking at yesterday has commonalities with the set up of the three stones at Trellech. As seen in Measurements of the Gods [MOTG] Chapter 9. My home e mail bye the way is h.sivertsen@btinternet.com which would be easier for discussions regarding the subject of prehistory. Cheers Harry (more)
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    andrew davies posted a message to Harry Sivertsen and gained+3 hi Harry...just joined the site..it was nice to meet you today and have a chat. I hope to have a ...hi Harry...just joined the site..it was nice to meet you today and have a chat. I hope to have a book of my own to discuss with you soon, we will see. i'll be in touch. andrew (more)
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    John Broken Willow
    Harry Sivertsen posted a message to John Broken Willow and earned+3 Hi John Chapters just uploaded...books for print next...happy reading...incidentally, you may ...Hi John Chapters just uploaded...books for print next...happy reading...incidentally, you may just find some ideas for a novel amongst this little lot...quite original as you will see. (more)
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    Harry Sivertsen posted a message to John Broken Willow and gained+3 Hi John, Stonehenge and co...floods, Atlantis etc etc. I have reverted back to the original...Hi John, Stonehenge and co...floods, Atlantis etc etc. I have reverted back to the original books, well nearly, as there have been additions including the two Stonehenge pieces. Titles are Deluge from Genesis to Atlantis and Measurements of the Gods.Both are under the generic title of Megalith, Masonry, Myth and Measure, being volumes I and II. This should be one book but volume dictates that this cannot happen so two separate works it is. As one with a scientific bent and enquiring mind I am sure that you will be impressed by both. I shall be putting three chapters from each along with contents lists and appropriate references on the web very shortly. Three chapters doesn't sound much but we are looking at well over 300pp in total, each book in Crown is well over 500pp, Measurements of the Gods [MOTG]circa 600pp so there is plenty of info... As the web viewer distorts illustrations I am unable to put the complete works on the site and hence have chosen chapters that lead into the subject matter and have illustrations that will not be too effected by the distortions. All being well, the works should be available for sale within a couple of weeks. I am looking forward to finding time to read your book, [I will buy it!]I need a rest from this intense research and need to think about something a little different...in any case the 'hippy' element is something of which I know nothing...I have met a few oddballs with very strange ideas occasionally, they seem to congregate around stone circles...but never got to grips with their concepts of what makes the world tick... That sentence from Lisa I absolutely love. "Minds being open to being closed by apparent openness", it reminds me of so many statements made by archaeologists...as you will be aware from the Stonehenge papers... Thinking along these lines I thoroughly recommend Susan Blackmore's The Meme MAchine [Oxford 1999]... explains much. Cheers Harry (more)
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    Anna Lewis
    Harry Sivertsen posted a message to Anna Lewis and received+3 Hi Anna I note that there is a large difference in pricing between printers, for my work circa
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