Ggantja and the Locational Alpha and Omega and Amaru* Crystals
On May 18, 2007, the third day of our visit to Malta, my daughter, Celina and I took a ferry to Gozo and then hired a cab for a tour of the island. This was the only way we felt we could get to the Neolithic temples of Ggantja, and it was important that we get there regardless of the doubts I carried about my own role.
After a few stops the driver left us to explore Ggantja on our own for an hour. At first I felt that it was not as big as I expected, but then as I walked around it and looked inside as far as we were allowed, I sensed an enormous communal effort of reverential engagement with Earth. The stones were gigantic, yet the beautifully simple and elegant altars and niches in the hallway and interior gave a wonderful intimate feeling-soothing, comfortable and welcoming-safe. Much of the temple is inaccessible to direct experience because of age and deterioration of materials because of the weather and elements, yet it exuded a tangible call or beckoning to the heart. The stones and their ancient builders actually speak to the heart when one is in the presence of the complex. The message is one of peace, harmony and great love. It felt so warm and enduring.
After I placed the Amaru crystal* energized by Russell and then my own quartz crystal,Tania, that E'lara had energized from a distance [with the Alpha and Omega energies] into the wall of the temple just inside the entrance of the larger temple in the complex, my daughter told me that a couple of tiny lizards came out of the walls to see what was happening. I stopped to look at one and it just sat there looking at me as if to ask me what I was doing there, or at least to let us know that we were in a sacred space. The tiny lizards seemed to be the custodians of the temple and they were so unassuming and subtle, as befitted the quiet elegant strength of the place.
We thanked the ancestors, the stones and temples and the lizard guardians for the gift of community and love we were given in this visit to the Ggantja temples. We prayed for peace and harmony on the Earth with humans living everywhere on the planet.
Just outside the complex, placed on the edge of a nearby olive grove, was a small obelisk on which was printed "May Peace Prevail On Earth". There was also a message written in Chinese characters on another side. This contemporary small monument seemed to echo the message of Ggantja, and the sense of peace and love was tangible all the while we were there. I felt so honoured and grateful to have been in the presence of this wonderful portal for the voice of the Mother Earth. Gentleness is its characteristic quality and joyfulness its constant. I am so grateful to be a vehicle for grounding part of the tremendous energy of the Great Mother's love here in Malta.
As we travelled to and from Gozo, I could not help but wonder about the hundreds of images of Mother Mary we saw everywhere: on houses, businesses, shipyards, harbours, street corners, etc. Even though Malta is a very Catholic country, I felt that the source of devotion to Mother Mary goes back much further than the Christian Era and must stem from the loving bond the Maltese carry for the Great Mother who inspired the building of the Neolithic temples. She is beyond the realm of the church itself-both in time and influence.
I also noted that St. Paul was supposed to have been shipwrecked on Malta, and the one work of his that has influenced me my whole life, seems to describe the kind of energy that the temples communicated to me. I wonder if he was inspired by his experience at Malta. In his first letter to the Corinthians, Chapter13, He writes of love:
" Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
This Love he speaks of is the Mother Herself, and that unconditional love is what emanates form the Ggantja temple complex. It is what we are, and we are on the verge of beginning to know ourselves as we are known/loved by the Great Mother/Creator/Androgyne/the Universe. The ancient and the new are merging to allow us to become who we are to ourselves in this third dimension.
Many thanks….
Michelle Jennings
*For more information about the Amaru Crystal Seeding project see: www.spiritmythos.org.