Georgia Guidestones From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Georgia Guidestones Georgia Guidestones-lowres.jpg Chinese and Arabic inscriptions of the Georgia Guidestones Coordinates 34.231984°N 82.894506°W Location Elbert County, Georgia, US Material Granite Height 19 3 (5.87 m) Opening date March 1980 The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The structure is sometimes referred to as an American Stonehenge.[1] The monument is 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all.[2] One slab stands in the center, with four arranged around it. A capstone lies on top of the five slabs, which are astronomically aligned. An additional stone tablet, which is set in the ground a short distance to the west of the structure, provides some notes on the history and purpose of the Guidestones. Contents 1 History 2 Inscriptions 3 Explanatory tablet 3.1 Physical data 3.2 Guidestone languages 4 Astronomical features 5 Location 6 Ownership 7 Documentary series 8 Reception 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links History Georgia Guidestones 12.jpg The stones defaced with polyurethane paint and graffiti In June 1979, an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym R. C. Christian hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure.[2] In 2008, the stones were defaced with polyurethane paint and graffiti with slogans such as Death to the new world order.[3] Wired magazine called the defacement the first serious act of vandalism in the Guidestones history.[2] In September 2014, an employee of the Elbert County maintenance department contacted the FBI when the stones were vandalised with graffiti including the phrase I Am Isis, goddess of love.[4] On September 22nd (after a tip on September 11th), local blogger Van Smith reported that a granite cube inscribed with the numbers 20 and 14 had been installed in a square notch in the corner of the English language stone.[5][unreliable source?] The cube was later removed[6] and destroyed by somebody who appeared to be an Elberton official, as recorded in a video which showed additional markings of 8, 16, MM and JAM.[5][7][unreliable source?] Inscriptions Georgia Guidestones 06.jpg A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones[8] in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity. Unite humanity with a living new language. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court. Avoid petty laws and useless officials. Balance personal rights with social duties. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature. Explanatory tablet Georgia Guidestones 04.jpg Georgia Guidestones 19.jpg Georgia Guidestones 10.jpg A few feet to the west of the monument, an additional granite ledger has been set level with the ground. This tablet identifies the structure and the languages used on it, lists various facts about the size, weight and astronomical features of the stones, the date it was installed and the sponsors of the project. It also speaks of a time capsule buried under the tablet, but fields on the stone reserved for filling in the dates on which the capsule was buried and is to be opened have not been inscribed, so it is uncertain if the time capsule was ever put in place. Each side of the tablet is perpendicular to one of the cardinal directions, and is inscribed so that the northern edge is the top of the inscription. At the center of each tablet edge is a small circle, each containing a letter representing the appropriate compass direction (N, S, E, W). The complete text of the explanatory tablet is detailed below. The tablet is somewhat inconsistent with respect to punctuation and also misspells pseudonym. The original spelling, punctuation and line breaks in the text have been preserved in the transcription which follows (letter case is not). At the top center of the tablet is written: The Georgia Guidestones Center cluster erected March 22, 1980 Immediately below this is the outline of a square, inside which is written: Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason Around the edges of the square are written the names of four ancient languages, one per edge. Starting from the top and proceeding clockwise, they are: Babylonian (in cuneiform script), Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Ancient Egyptian (in hieroglyphics). On the left side of the tablet is the following column of text: Astronomic Features 1. channel through stone indicates celestial pole. 2. horizontal slot indicates annual travel of sun. 3. sunbeam through capstone marks noontime throughout the year Author: R.C. Christian (a pseudonyn) [sic] Sponsors: A small group of Americans who seek the Age of Reason Time Capsule Placed six feet below this spot On To Be Opened on The words appear as shown under the time capsule heading; no dates are engraved. Physical data On the right side of the tablet is the following column of text (metric conversions added): PHYSICAL DATA 1. OVERALL HEIGHT - 19 FEET 3 INCHES [5.87 m]. 2. TOTAL WEIGHT - 237,746 POUNDS [107,840 kg]. 3. FOUR MAJOR STONES ARE 16 FEET, FOUR INCHES [4.98 m] HIGH, EACH WEIGHING AN AVERAGE OF 42,437 POUNDS [19,249 kg]. 4. CENTER STONE IS 16 FEET, FOUR- INCHES [4.98 m] HIGH, WEIGHS 20,957 POUNDS [9,506 kg]. 5. CAPSTONE IS 9-FEET, 8-INCHES [2.95 m] LONG, 6-FEET, 6-INCHES [1.98 m] WIDE; 1-FOOT, 7-INCHES [0.48 m] THICK. WEIGHS 24,832 POUNDS [11,264 kg]. 6. SUPPORT STONES (BASES) 7-FEET, 4 INCHES [2.24 m] LONG 2-FEET [0.61 m] WIDE. 1 FOOT, 4-INCHES [0.41 m] THICK, EACH WEIGHING AN AVERAGE OF 4,875 POUNDS [2,211 kg]. 7. SUPPORT STONE (BASE) 4-FEET, 2½ INCHES [1.28 m] LONG, 2-FEET, 2-INCHES [0.66 m] WIDE, 1-FOOT, 7-INCHES [0.48 m] THICK. WEIGHT 2,707 POUNDS [1,228 kg]. 8. 951 CUBIC FEET [26.9 m³] GRANITE. 9. GRANITE QUARRIED FROM PYRAMID QUARRIES LOCATED 3 MILES [5 km] WEST OF ELBERTON, GEORGIA. Guidestone languages Below the two columns of text is written the caption GUIDESTONE LANGUAGES, with a diagram of the granite slab layout beneath it. The names of eight modern languages are inscribed along the long edges of the projecting rectangles, one per edge. Starting from due north and moving clockwise around so that the upper edge of the northeast rectangle is listed first, they are English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. At the bottom center of the tablet is the following text: Additional information available at Elberton Granite Museum & Exhibit College Avenue Elberton, Georgia Astronomical features The hole in the central column runs diagonally up through the stone and points directly to the North Star The four outer stones are oriented to mark the limits of the 18.6 year lunar declination cycle.[9] The center column features a hole drilled at an angle from one side to the other, through which can be seen the North Star, a star whose position changes only very gradually over time. The same pillar has a slot carved through it which is aligned with the Suns solstices and equinoxes. A 7/8 aperture in the capstone allows a ray of sun to pass through at noon each day, shining a beam on the center stone indicating the day of the year.[2] Location The Georgia Guidestones are located on a hilltop in Elbert County, Georgia, approximately 90 miles (140 km) east of Atlanta, 45 miles (72 km) from Athens, and 9 miles (14 km) north of the center of Elberton. The stones are standing on a rise a short distance to the east of Georgia Highway 77 (Hartwell Highway), and are visible from that road. Small signs beside the highway indicate the turnoff for the Guidestones, which is identified by a street sign as Guidestones Rd. It is located on the highest point in Elbert County. Ownership Elbert County owns the Georgia Guidestones site. According to the Georgia Mountain Travel Associations detailed history: The Georgia Guidestones are located on the farm of Mildred and Wayne Mullenix...[9] The Elbert County land registration system shows what appears to be the Guidestones as County land purchased on October 1, 1979.[10][11][non-primary source needed] The monument was unveiled in March 1980, in front of 100 people.[12] Another account specifies March 22, 1980 and says 400 people attended.[2] Documentary series The Georgia Guidestones are featured extensively in the Travel Channel episode Mysteries at the Museum: Monumental Mysteries Special featuring Don Wildman.[13] They are featured prominently in the conspiracy web series Guidestones. The guidestones were featured in the Brad Meltzers Decoded episode Apocalypse in Georgia and in 2013, a documentary titled The Georgia Guidestones Movie, received screenings in Georgia, South Carolina, and Oregon. The monument is also featured in the New World Order episode of the History Channel series America Unearthed. Reception Yoko Ono and others have praised the inscribed messages as a stirring call to rational thinking, while Wired stated that unspecified opponents have labeled them as the Ten Commandments of the Antichrist.[2] The Guidestones have become a subject of interest for conspiracy theorists. One of them, an activist named Mark Dice, demanded that the Guidestones be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction project,[14] claiming that the Guidestones are of a deep Satanic origin, and that R. C. Christian belongs to a Luciferian secret society related to the New World Order.[2] At the unveiling of the monument, a local minister proclaimed that he believed the monument was for sun worshipers, for cult worship and for devil worship.[12] Others have suggested that the stones were commissioned by the Rosicrucians.[15] Computer analyst Van Smith said the monuments dimensions predicted the height of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world which opened in Dubai over thirty years after the Georgia Guidestones were designed. Smith said the builders of the Guidestones were likely aware of the Burj Khalifa project which he compared to the biblical Tower of Babel.[16] The most widely agreed-upon interpretation of the stones is that they describe the basic concepts required to rebuild a devastated civilization.[17] Brad Meltzer notes that the stones were built in 1979 at the height of the Cold War, and may have been intended as a message to the possible survivors of a World War III. The engraved suggestion to keep humanitys population below 500 million could have been made under the assumption that it had already been reduced below this number.[18] Notes Roadside America Web site American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse by Randall Sullivan. Wired Magazine ISSUE 17.05 (May 2009) Defacement of the Guidestones. Photobucket. Retrieved 2009-05-09. Vandals deface mysterious Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County. Online Athens. 8 September 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014. Van’s Hardware Journal Van’s Hardware Journal 20-14 block removed from Georgia Guidestones 20-14 block removed from Georgia Guidestones vanshardware/2014/10/anonymous-message-claims-to-reveal-r-c-christian-identity-georgia-guidestones-doom-date/ smithsonianmag/smart-news/nobody-knows-how-to-interpret-this-doomsday-stonehenge-in-georgia-5592082/ Georgia Mountains Web site Land parcel information Parcel map Moran (2004); p.193 Monumental Mysteries. Travelchannel (2012-07-13). Retrieved on 2013-08-21. Gary Jones (2005-05-18). The Georgia Guidestones: tourist attraction or cult message?. The Elberton Star, Georgia. Alex Jones, Endgame: Elites Blueprint For Global Enslavement (2008) Waiting for the end of the world: Georgias 30-year stone mystery by Matt Smith. CNN (March 22, 2010) Sullivan, Randall (May 2009). American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse. Wired (Condé Nast) 17 (5). ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 19 April 2009. Apocalypse in Georgia. Brad Meltzers Decoded, episode 110 (February 3, 2011). References Gary Jones (18 May 2005). The Georgia Guidestones: tourist attraction or cult message?. The Elberton Star. Fanthorpe, R. Lionel (2005). Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars. Toronto: Dundurn Group. p. 180. ISBN 1-55002-557-0. Moran, Mark McGuire; Sceurman, Mark (2004). Weird U.S. Barnes & Noble Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0-7607-5043-2. Schemmel, William (2006). Georgia Off the Beaten Path. Globe Pequot. p. 206. ISBN 0-7627-4199-6. Sullivan, Randall (May 2009). American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse. Wired (Condé Nast) 17 (5). ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 19 April 2009. Further reading Raymond Wiley (2011). The Georgia Guidestones: Americas Most Mysterious Monument. The Disinformation Company. ISBN 978-1-934708-68-2. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Georgia Guidestones. 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