In the article that follows, Wayne Herschel takes his star ancestor, human origin theory from his book ‘The Hidden Records’ to completely new heights. It also includes an update on the Senmut tomb breakthrough in Egypt.

His latest release (July 2007) is based on his analysis of the recently publicised historical Freemason document, ‘The Hiram Key’ (seen above left). In this article it will be referred to as the: ‘Hiram Abif star map’. 

Over the past few years, Freemasons have come from all over the world, quite conspicuously one might add, to attend Wayne’s pyramid star map talks.

Some very interesting comments were made in private conversations that transpired after the talks. A number of people told Wayne that they had always known that the stars his research focuses on are extremely important. They also admitted that they had never realised exactly why they were so important until now. Especially since it would seem that virtually all the ancient civilisations venerated these particular stars in some sort of a genesis theme.

They commented that their once secret star depiction, which they refer to as their: “First Degree Tracing Board of the Key of Hiram” had recently become a publicly available historical document.

They were confident that since it had become accessible to anyone on a well-known university internet site, it would be ethical to explore and research its meaning. It can be found on the University of Bradford (United Kingdom) site and is titled ‘The Hiram Key’. Ref – Click here

After further discussion with Wayne, his Masonic visitors expressed great interest that his claims were positive and not just another nonsensical conspiracy theory or attack on Freemasonry.

However, given the parallels Wayne’s research has with their document, he has been urged to be circumspect in how he presents his own views. With this in mind, it must be stated at the outset that the opinions, views and interpretation expressed in this article are unequivocally Wayne’s own and not those held by Freemasonry, unless referred to in the university link on this web page.

Wayne is not a Freemason and in the article that follows has taken it upon himself to approach this sensitive document with the greatest of respect. He comments:

“I fully agree with the Masonic interpretation of God as an all-seeing all-knowing grand architect of the Universe. For them, geometry is a fundamental element found in all Creation, which I agree with. No doubt this viewpoint would explain the significance of the divine proportions in Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian man”. Click here

The premise of Wayne’s theories as presented in his first book, ‘The Hidden Records’, is that there are only two Sun-like stars in the heavens (in the vicinity of the Pleiades) that he felt the ancients believed were very important. Both are stars that astronomers have already documented as being like our Sun and hence if there were planets in their vicinity with water, then life as we know would be quite probable there.

It seemed that for the ancients, the one star was without doubt more important than the other. Perhaps directly linking to humanity’s grand arrival as colonists (which will be elaborated on in this article). Later in his research, it transpired that there was a third Sun-like star. This would have further concluded his correlation theory and given it a whole new twist. But for reasons that follow, he could not include the third Sun-like star and its significance, in his first book.

Scholars have been quick to notice that Wayne’s Egyptian, Stonehenge and Mars star maps have no star correlations for a critical monument found in the same place in all three. It is from this supposed omission that they conclude that his Pleiades correlation theory is inconclusive. Since the Freemasons have released a lot of their history to the world more recently, the moment has presented itself to show the missing detail and the truth will not be hidden any longer. It has been kept under wraps for too long and his publishers purposely chose to omit it from his book, ‘The Hidden Records’.
Why?

• Firstly because of its sensitivity at the time. It looked too similar to what is shown in the Freemason document that he will examine in this article. Nobody had dared to write about its meaning in any significant way, let alone publish it.
• Secondly, the inclusion of the extra star would further complicate an already complex story.

It becomes evident from the astronomical illustration above that there are three measurable Sun-like stars that conclusively match the ancient star maps that are integral to Wayne’s research. Star maps associated with records of ancient visitors who came from above. With three ‘targets’ having been identified, they hold enormous potential for the research being conducted by SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence).

All SETI needs to do is to aim their largest radio telescopes at these stars and listen for something in the common radio spectrum that is a little more than just natural static.

A number of books have recently published research on the origins of Freemasonry. One specific book that came out in 2005, ‘The Arcana of Freemasonry’ was written by a top Mason, Albert Churchward. This author uses the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ on the cover of his book and refers to it as: “The First Degree Tracing Board of Freemasonry”. 

Why does Wayne refer to this symbolic depiction as a ‘star map’?

The fact is that for any representation of stars to qualify as a real map identifying areas of the cosmos, it needs two things:

• A recognisable star pattern
• North and South orientation references

The image above offers more on Wayne’s interpretation of the ‘Hiram Abif star map’. It highlights all the components and potentially what they could mean. Wayne is convinced the chequered tiles on the floor represent time. Each tile appears to symbolise 20 000 years of time. He figured out the chronology match for the pillar at the centre by measuring the time required for the “Blazing Star” to move so it would fit as a perfect match to where it is located in the Cydonia star map in his book. It is also shown in the identical position in the ‘Hiram Abif star map’. (See the Mars page on this website for more reasoning).

Once he had figured that out, he could find timeframe matches for the remaining two stars which coincidently also generally agreed with modern fossil records of modern humans. In the foreground, the initiate/viewer (not in picture) stands at the beginnings of the Homo Sapien-Sapien genus on Earth, looking towards the horizon and the sky in the East, which represents the “now”.

The secret to deciphering the pillars and the ladder in the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ is found in texts associated with ‘The Hiram Key’ (see university link). There is very little doubt from this dissertation that the ladder coming down from heaven originates from the biblical Genesis text, as does the pillar. In Genesis Chapter 28 verse 12, Jacob is shown a ladder reaching down from the heavens. Jacob, while witnessing this detailed vision, is then told that humanity was literally given this world.

The text associated with ‘The Hiram Key’ posted on the university website mentions it is Jacob’s ladder that is being depicted.

Jacob then celebrated where the ladder touched the ground by building a pillar at the actual site.

For Wayne the three pillars seen in the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ were particularly intriguing. On closer examination of their possible meaning, he was convinced that in the context of his existing theories they could be celebrating three separate ‘visitation’ events. The visitation of Earth by our human ancestors after colonising three different star systems at three different epochs. It is therefore highly likely that these people who had remarkably advanced technology are the references to “angels” we read about in our holy books. Beings, who were clad in bright clothing, and who could fly and perform great ‘miracles’.

• Wayne interprets the largest pillar (on the left) as a commemorative ‘Genesis’ monument as it were, celebrating the discovery of our solar system by the first space travelling human beings. An epoch apparently dating back 200 000 years ago matching the first consistent collection of modern human fossil remains found. He believes our ancient star ancestor visitors most likely set up a very small number of experimental penal colonies on Earth. History has indeed found people to be living primitively as hunters and gatherers at this epoch. (The penal colony theory is explored in Wayne Herschel’s book, ‘The Hidden Records’. He bases this theory around the fact that Mars once had oceans and an atmosphere. Wayne is convinced Mars was inhabitable up until 10 000 years ago when a meteor impact destroyed it. In its time it would have been the ‘jewel’ of our solar system, more conducive to human colonisation than Earth. Earth is far from being a perfect planet. In reality it is a little too close to the Sun and it is fact that all human beings struggle with the intense solar radiation it is subjected to. Secondly, Earth’s gravity is tough on our thin-walled porous bones and poor muscle connections when compared to every ape and every hominid in history. Earth would therefore have been less favourable than Mars for colonisation). The aforementioned pillar is not embossed with any ornate carvings, unlike the others. This seems to symbolise the simplicity of humanity’s beginnings on Earth. The pillar aligns with the star to the left. This is the star, which Wayne decodes in his Cydonia star map in his book, as the star of humanity’s origins.  A star of humanity’s evolutional beginnings. A place where our human ancestors appear to have evolved up until the point of having developed the technology to space travel. In summary, they would have been the people who discovered our solar system.
  
  
• The pillar on the right aligns with the star above it as the ‘new’ star, TYC 1799 1026 1 (see “Update July 2007” image). This star is in this position close to 100 000 years ago, and most likely represents another star system colonised by our advanced human ancestors next in line in the timeframe. The pillar therefore seems to be celebrating another visitation to Earth by human star travellers from this star system in this epoch. They too seem to have had an interest in planet Earth, perhaps once again only as a penal colony since Mars would still have been the jewel of our solar system at the time. Again, human fossil records from that epoch still show no sign of any technology. The carving on this pillar is slightly more ornate suggesting it is next in sequence and more recent than the epoch measured by the first pillar.
  
  
• For Wayne, the pillar in the centre is the most important pillar. It is closest to this star and therefore represents this, the most important star, the “Blazing star”. It is located near the horizon at the foot of the ladder fitting along a timeline around 17 000 years ago, and tallies exactly with his key star correlation in his book ‘The Hidden Records’. Wayne isolates this star as the one that is celebrated the most by Earth’s diverse civilisations. The pillar seems to represent the beginnings of a mass arrival here in our star system that originated from the “Blazing Star”. It is this pillar that is synonymous with Jacob’s pillar from the biblical Genesis texts. It is embellished with the most intricate carvings, which suggests it is the most recent event of the three-pillar sequence. Fossil records and historical texts and murals suggest that visitors that came from the sky were abundant from this moment forward. What is more, ancient building techniques from this period show a lost technology that is impossible to duplicate today. Wayne contends that their arrival here on Earth could have been a full-scale invasion of this planet, replacing the last Earth hominid… the Neanderthal.

• Notice what happens if one overlays the two seals on the one-dollar bill to form the combination as seen in the image below. The three stars become visible around the capstone, matching the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ triangulation of the three important astronomically catalogued Sun-like stars.
• The overlay combination also forms a shape resembling the star of David with the all-seeing eye of God at its centre.
• The pyramid on the ground is located below the inverted triangle formed by the stars in the sky, as if it were symbolising "as above so below". This strongly suggests that the pyramid starmap theory of Wayne's book is a reality.

In the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ the key placed on the ladder may well symbolise Hiram’s key to the secret he was privy to, perhaps even the ‘key’ to deciphering the secret star map theory that he alone held. Wayne has proposed that St Peter also protected the same secret knowledge and in statues it is the key he holds in his hand while pointing to something important at the Vatican. For the secret layout design of Vatican City and the key of St Peter Click here.

More recently, there has been considerable publicity surrounding another secret that will follow on from ‘The Da Vinci Code’ epic and it will be exposed in the latest novel that Dan Brown is currently writing about. Its title is already listed at Amazon as: ‘The Solomon Key.’ Is this the same enigmatic ‘key’ to unlocking the same cosmic secret? After all, King Solomon is important to Freemasonry and the legendary seal of Solomon appears to have a lot to do with the key of Solomon, another mystery that has not yet been solved. In the link below take a close look at the all the historical and secret manuscript references there are on the seal and the key of King Solomon.

For the key and seal of Solomon Click here.

If you scroll back up to the ‘Hiram Abif star map’, notice the ‘celestial’ hand reaching down from the “Blazing Star” holding the symbol representing the Holy Grail. For more on Wayne’s theory on how the Grail fits into this story Click here.

The hand from the heavens, from the “Blazing Star” as it were, and the symbolic icon for the Grail would suggest that this invaluable star knowledge of human ancestry somehow forms part of the Christ story. If Wayne’s theory is real, then one must wonder: If humanity comes from somewhere else in this universe, then surely Christ would have tried to leave a record of it. Wayne is certain that remnants of this star knowledge are traceable in the Gospels of Matthew and Judas.

In the texts of Matthew, Wayne is convinced that the three ‘wise’ magi are synonymous with a very specific piece of star wisdom: The knowledge that it is the three-stars-in-a-row of the Orion belt stars that shows the way to both the Pleiades and blazing star. One needs to follow this alignment to find the location of the most important stars. Now consider the dual meaning:

BEHOLD… THE THREE ASTRONOMICAL ONES… THAT ONE FOLLOWS FROM THE EAST… TO FIND THE STAR OF CHRIST.

It reads as a star map rather than the interpretation of the three kings from the East looking for a star hovering above the birth site of Christ. The problem with the traditional interpretation is: How can a star be located so low in the night sky that one would be able to follow it?  For more see the star animation at the top of the home page then Click here.

Another biblical story that holds an important clue is the recent discovery of the ancient codex of the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. In it Christ tells Judas that: “This star is also your star.” It seems likely that this was the perfect time to explain that we are all of the same ‘Divine seed’ as he was Click here.

There might be representation of the secret ‘art’ of stone masonry represented by the uncut stone and hammer you see on the bottom right of the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ (see below) and the cut stone at the centre. If we go back to the biblical texts, Solomon’s Temple was built by cutting colossal stone blocks without making a sound.

It is also worth mentioning that Dan Brown’s ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was quite convinced of a real mystery behind an inverted pyramid over a standing pyramid in the Louvre. This inversion forms an hourglass shape very similar to Orion, or the symbol for "as above so below". Note also in the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ (below) it completes a shape around the ladder, possibly symbolising a pyramid on the ground correlating with stars (Wayne’s complete pyramid/star map theory). The lines forming the edges of the pyramid also match the pyramid slope angles on the one-dollar bill.

The most significant conclusion that Wayne derives from the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ is how accurately this ‘star map’ fits his pyramid star map theory. But to be more specific, how the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ correlates with the night sky of ancient Egypt.

The stars as they appear on the Eastern horizon in Egypt are identical to how the stars appear on the ‘Hiram Abif star map’. The orientation of the Pleiades stars is exact! 

“As above so below”: The Egyptian’s most precious monument, their gold-capped obelisk solar monument at Abusir celebrates the position of the star of Ra… The “Blazing star” in a grand pyramid/star map. Click here

If you page through the early chapters of ‘The Hidden Records’, you will notice that the premise of Wayne’s research is the secret of the Sphinx. It literally beckons us to interpret all the pyramids as stars. Every night it watches these stars rise on the horizon in the East. Which comes as no surprise, because the Egyptians celebrated the stars specifically when they rise on the horizon, in the East! It is this secret of the Sphinx that led Wayne to determine that all 50 or so pyramids of Lower Egypt represent a complete ring… a 360 degree circuit of constellations around the Earth that correlated with pyramids on the ground. The whole pyramid field had at its centre a gold-capped obelisk near Abusir that represented the “Blazing star”. Click here.

But there is even more to the secret of the Sphinx. 

Not only does it beckon us to interpret all the stars as pyramids by watching them rise in the East every night. It is watching the rising of the ultimate star of Ra, near the Pleiades constellation, above the horizon in the East… something completely measurable.

This unique Pleiades interpretation and the blazing star are recorded at two other famous Egyptian sites:  In the Senmut tomb and on the Zodiac disc at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera.

The unique star orientation of the Pleiades was something Wayne felt compelled to test on a computer star programme. What would the Pleiades constellation look like, when it rises in the Northern Hemisphere above the Eastern horizon?

The pattern in the sky matched the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ exactly! Here was groundbreaking evidence that both star maps had their origins in the same knowledge base. On the advice of his publisher he did not include this material since it was derived from such a sensitive source at the time.

Testing the star positions on the horizon in Egypt is very straightforward. Any star program can do this.

The fact is that these stars always rise in the East in this general orientation everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere.

Wayne wondered what the scenario would be when the star of Ra rises precisely in the East and how far back in time this could be measured.

If you have a star program, try this quick experiment: What we want to prove is the orientation of the Pleiades when the “Blazing star”, rises on the horizon perfectly positioned due East. 

Simply type in this date and time with Egypt as your location: 7.30pm 14th September 3000 BC. It appears exactly like the Egyptian image above. One astronomer has already pointed out to Wayne that this exact orientation of the Pleiades rising perfectly in the East occurs over and again at many different earlier epochs. This means that it is unlikely one can use this star pattern occurrence as a way to date the beginnings of Egyptian civilisation.

However, there are now three Sun-like star positions that can be used to measure our civilisation’s chronology. Wayne already showed two of them in his book. Now that a third has entered the arena it offers even more to test his theory. The newly discovered Sun-like-star in the earlier astronomical image “UPDATE JULY 2007” displays a correlation pattern that appears to match the Egypt, Stonehenge and Mars pyramid star maps proposed by Wayne, when the sky appears as it did around 17 000 years ago (as seen in the layout images of various ancient sites at the end of this article).

BUT there is more. Take another look at the ‘new’ star depicted in the ‘Hiram Abif star map’: It is shown in a position to the left of the Pleiades.

The star has a movement path that surprisingly heads into this position interpretation… only when going back in time 90 000 years ago!

Look closely at the simplified image above. There is what appears to be a phallic symbol with a fine line linking down from Horus in the sky as Orion’s belt.

In Egypt, time and again evidence of the sacred leg of a bull star constellation icon can be found in this ancient civilisation’s most sacred places.

We have seen some very substantial evidence in Egypt of definitive parallels between what the ancient Egyptians knew about the stars, and a mysterious piece of American history. Both must have been privy to the exact same knowledge. They both seemed to be aware of Sun-like stars that were integral to the story of their past.

But this is not where it ends. If we put the star map theory with the extra sun-like star to the test in other civilisations the unthinkable emerges. 

Click on each subsequent image below, to go to each individual pyramid star map and see how the new star appears to fit the apparent monument.

With the release of the evidence that there is a third Sun-like star – as corroborated by the ‘Hiram Abif star map’ – it is now possible to include what can be considered the ultimate beginnings of pyramid civilisations on Earth. Preview it on Google Earth at 32° 32’08.22” N   44° 26’ 36.93” E

The proclaimed cradle of civilisation itself… The historical city of the Sumerians… Babylon!

Sumer, the land of the Sumerians is without doubt just as famous as Egypt for its obsession with the stars. Many ancient scroll seals and artefacts from here show seven great celestial bodies in the sky. The London Museum has at least four examples and they are labelled as the Pleiades. See this example in the Berlin museum where it associates a man in a flying disk with a star near the Pleiades. Click here

Sadly the original temple layout evidence of Babylon is lost (the detail in image above in the square at the top left of the satellite image). Many of its cluster of ziggurats no longer exist, yet their most important and largest monuments have been rebuilt. History has it that the city of Babylon was once surrounded by three carefully placed ziggurats with their geometric waterways. The three great ‘pyramid’ ziggurats seem to form a perfect equilateral triangle.

Notice how it also has a remarkably similar star correlation pattern to the Mayan temples of Tikal and that of Stonehenge and Mars. If anything, since it is proclaimed one of the earliest of civilisations, it almost comes as no surprise that it had to be privy to the same knowledge about its star beginnings as every other civilisation.