Magic and mystery among the megaliths
In the Cusco region of Peru there are many strange sculpted rock formations known as wakas, seemingly moulded into ‘bizarre and delightful organic and geometric shapes’, and long revered as shrines.
With terraces, huge steps, basins and unexplained abstract forms, and sometimes accompanied by underground grottos and cave systems, these impressive monoliths of antiquity comprise a single, usually massive, rock, typically of hardened limestone, around which colossal protective walls were built by later peoples.
Discussion of these sacred places is the intriguing starting point for wisdom seeker and journalist Camille M Sauvé in Sorcerers of Stone: Architects of the Three Ages (Bear & Company, May, 2024), an engaging investigation which extends from the mysteries and marvels of ancient megalithic cultures to the mysteries and hidden potentials of human consciousness.
Followers of revisionist historians such as Graham Hancock, who Camille respectfully name-checks, and Graham Phillips, who has given Sorcerers of Stone a glowing endorsement, will be familiar with much of this territory, so I feel the relevance of the book as a guide to newcomers to the genre and to the interested general reader, including those whose imagination is captured by the ancient history of Peru, must be welcomed.
