Rennes-le-Château

The Red shepherd is Arcas - Arcturus. He's looking around at his mother, he's the Bear Watcher.

The sign for Arques with the Occitan name underneath.


The red haired Arcas (complete with Corona Borealis on his head) points at the meridian line, he looks around at his mother. The rising sun is above this line.

The kneeling shepherd is Hercules (the next constellation along). He points at the phrase I too am in Arcadia as indeed Hercules was during his twelve labours. Hercules normally has a bow, shepherds don't but Poussin has cleverly placed the shadow of a bow onto the tomb.


The recent Paris meridian marker next to the Couiza/Arques road marking Le Méridienne verte - a recent programme designed to mark the entire Paris Meridian with Linden trees. The old weather worn marker is next to the new one. This is close to the so-called Poussin Tomb at Les Pontils.

As for the staffs. Take a look below at the angle of the so-called Sunrise line and the Meridian (the red line between RLC and Arques church). Compare that to the staff of the Blue shepherd Hercules. There's 1.5 degrees difference i.e. The magnetic deviation of the area.

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There was once a Round Tower on Roque Negre

This isn't too popular as it doesn't slot in well with post Da Vinci Code band wagon book sales.

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

Looking down the "sunrise line"
The snow capped peak in the distance is Soularac.

Solar Rock in Occitan.

It has two ponds on its slopes.

Etang de Diable

Etang de Truites

There has never been any trout in this pond, the name is a corruption of Etang de Druides.

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

The copy of the book on astronomy by Camille Flammarion once owned by Beranger Sauniere now inside the museum at Rennes le Chateau.

Flammarion was a spiritist who believed that the dead become stars when they die.

He is buried at Juvisy-sur-Orge, a town situated on the Paris Meridian.

There lies a Pyramid erected to memorialize the work of Jean Picard and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille for their work in measuring the Earth's circumference.

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

Arcturus has the second higest proper motion of known stars. This means that it moves with respect to the other stars.

It is in the constellation of Bootes and is the fourth brightest star in our entire sky,

Arcturus, a red giant about 24 times larger than the Sun with a luminosity 115 times our sun, lying 36 light years away from the earth. Astronomers have found that Arcturus entered our system approximately 500,000 years ago and will remain here for approximately another 500,000 years, only to continue its journey towards the Virgo Cluster, but at a different angle than our local group of galaxies is moving. And if we trace the path of the Great Bear over the next 100,000 years we see that the star, Al Kaid in the tail of the Great Bear begins to turn inward, also pointing toward the Virgo cluster.

The star Spica in Virgo can be found using Bootes and Arcturus



Arc to Arcturus and on to Spica.

Now look at the arm of Calisto (The Great Bear - Ursa Major) on the shoulder of her son Arcas - Arcturus.



The centre rock is not Les Toustones but is the former solar temple of Montsegur




The sunrise when viewed from Soularac, the bump under the sun is Rennes le Chateau. Montsegur is eight km from Soularac.

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

What's the secret?

THIS

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

Meridians not important?

Then why the suicide bomb attempt on the Greenwich Observatory in 1895 by a French Anarchist during the lifetime of Beranger Sauniere.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy- ... mb-of-1894

Of all the targets in England why the marker for the Greenwich Meridian?

The Greenwich Meridian goes through Lourdes. This gives a whole new meaning to Sauniere's statue Our Lady of Lourdes. A statue that was paraded around the village on Midsummer's Day.

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

DRACO

Heaven above, Heaven below
Stars above, stars below
All that is over, under shall show
Happy thou who the riddle readest


Tabula Smaragdina

"We must cut off the head of the Dragon"
- Blanche de Castille authorising the attack on Montsegur in 1244.



Notice underneath the Dragon (DRACO) are the constellations featured in the Poussin painting.

Left to right Ophiuchus (the serpent bearer), Hercules, Bootes and Ursa Major - The Shepherdess

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

"En effet ! "... je connus ma Roseline qui mourut le 6 août 1967, fête de la Transfiguration, en franchissant le Méridien 0 en voiture." (p. 108)"

Philippe de Cherisey.

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

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"In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”