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The Ring of Brodgar on the Orkneys forms the most northern point.

 

Callanish Stone circle with its connections to solar and lunar phases forms one of the western legs.

 

Cape Wrath, the most northerly point of the Scottish mainland sits at the mid-point of the alignment between Callanish and the Ring of Brodgar

 

The magical island of Iona forms a key point at the base of the pentagram.

 

Lake and tree at Mavishall hotel, which forms the most southern point in the pattern.

 

Beautiful Loch Lomond is located at the mid-point between Mavishall and Iona.

Set out over Scotland there is a vast pentagram pattern that includes a number of Scotlands key sacred sites.

The base of this pattern is derived from an alignment between the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and Iona, The line passes through an old stately home that is now used as a hotel called Mavishall. The centre point of the line between Mavishall and Iona is an island on Loch Lomond. The line from Iona to Callanish passes through Dunvegan Castle on Skye. The centre point on the line from Callanish  to the Ring of Brodgar on the Orkneys is very close to the northern tip of Scotland Cape Wrath. The eastern point is created by stone circle now largely destroyed called the Skelmuir Hill circle. The pattern is centred on an island in the middle of Loch Moy.

The Scotland Pentagram

The triangle of Mavishall, Iona and Loch Moy is equal in size to the triangle of Callanish, Ring of Brodgar and Loch Moy both incorporating exactly the same geometry as that found in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. The line from Mavishall to Loch Moy, when extended bisects the triangle of Callanish, Ring of Brodgar and Loch Moy and the line from The Ring of Brodgar to Loch Moy, when extended bisects the triangle of  Mavishall, Iona and Loch Moy in Loch Lomond.

An island in the centre of Loch Moy, home of the Mackintosh Clan, forms the heart of Scotland's sacred pentagram pattern. How fitting that an obelisk was erected here in the 1800's.

It should be noted that this is not an exact pentagram but one that incorporates Great Pyramid geometry in a very subtle and clever way. The diagram below shows how this is done.

 

The Great Pyramid of Egypt is based on a simple ratio of 14 (height) :11 (half base). This triangle was used in ancient Egypt a simple method for calculating the circumference of a circle. See article on Sekeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By combining two of these triangles shown shaded in the diagram below the Scottish Pentagram is created.

The apex of the two pyramids are united at Loch Moy, with the hypotenuse of one side forming the bisecting meridian of the other.

© David Furlong 1998

Useful Links

follow on articles giving more details of other landscape patterns.

Twin circles of the Marlborough Downs explores sacred patterns of Wiltshire

Marlborough Downs Sites a tour of the sites that make up the twin circle pattern

The Cotswold Circle an article on a similar sized circle that over-lights the Cotswold area

The Hidden Geometry of Avebury a look at the hidden geometry of Avebury

Silbury Hill and the Sanctuary an article on significance of Silbury Hill and the Sanctuary

The Keys to the Temple information on the book The Keys to the Temple by David Furlong

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