- HOME - FORUMS - LOCAL LINKS - THE WOY WOY FILES - WEBLOG -

In the bush above Woy Woy lies a mysterious set of Egyptian carvings , no one knows who did them or for what purpose or even when they were done. The carvings are rumored to have existed since the early 1920's and first documented in 1975.
Because sandstone is impossible to carbon date ( although recent test were done and they were estimated to be less than 100 years old ) all we can go by is stories from various sources.
The authors of this work are thought to be two old diggers returned from World War 1 and remembering what they saw in Egypt and copying from text they brought back.
 In the 80's when much attention was made about the site , several authorities and University type people studied the area and declared the carvings as very good fakes.
Also some time in the 80's and old possibly Yugoslavian man was found adding ( finishing ? ) to the carvings by a NPWS officer , stories range from his tools being confiscated to being allowed to finish the work.
Some say that the Egyptians themselves carved these and several websites continue to perpetuate the myth as well as saying several other races and space visitors also had a bit of a carve as well ....
The carvings were deciphered by various institutions and technically were proven forgeries , though on some of these sites they say they were good enough to form complete translations.
Here's one I got from the Pyramids.Co.NZ site which is now closed.

Cry out, invoke the gods, as his boat [of Ra] carries the miraculous one downstream.  He is gone, come into being as the transformed god, the Eagle of the Sun.
Re-u-nef-u [cartouche]
Place in the side door of the tomb the sarcophagus watched over by Ra, the sacred dead official if this mountainous land, to live tens of thousands of years.
Along the road that crosses the land the body travels.  Weep and make offerings and libations at the alter.
For the open mouth, cakes and drink of the best.  For the roadside temple, offerings of linen. 
For the body, one hundred cakes, offerings of love.  At the front of the boundary, at the storehouse of the boundary island.
Journey by water to the entrance by day.  See with left eye, and unfetter the locked wall.
Place cake and wine at each of the stone shrines.  Enter by the side gate the mountain.  On foot enter the holy house of Ra.  The door of Ra of the North Land.  Behold his alter.
The papyrus scroll of Truth. Cut the cord that binds.
Ra weeps for the Red Crown of the North.  In the second month of winter the sacred youth, as written in the scrolls, travelled the heavenly road to the pleasant life.
His Ka travels forth in Truth from the tomb.
Come forth, see, take drink and leave the house of the dead, the door of renewed youth.
Bound to great Ra, from whom none can hide from his left eye.’
 

                                 

Recently I got in contact with the first person documented to have found the glyphs , ex -  Gosford Council surveyor Alan Dash

Alan worked as a surveyor for Gosford Council for many years and I spoke to him recently , here for the first time we have an account from someone who witnessed the creation of the glyphs site over a couple of years in the 1970's.

Alan first found the glyphs around 1975 ( he is unsure of exactly what year
but said " early 70's " ) , at the time he was surveying the water easement
for Gosford Council and had to make a line to Lyre Trig.
While working he noticed a chap emerge from a hole in the rock wall and walk
over to the old Gilford house , this old home long abandoned had become the
home of "derelicts" Alan said.
The Gilford home was built in the 1920's and was the home of EF Gilford.
Thinking that he may have been growing pot and curious , Alan went to have a
look in the hole and found the carvings on the western wall in the cleft , the
east wall was bare at this time.
Six months later he took a co worker into the cleft and found that the eastern
wall was now completely covered in carvings as well.
About a year late he brang a group to the site and found a second lot of
glyphs had been added some 50 metres from the cleft along the rock wall ,
these are much smaller and " rougher " Alan describes.
In 1979 the Gilford house was destroyed in the bush fires.

Alan was quite accurate with his descriptions of the sequence of carvings appearing at the site , this was important to my research and puts an end to any thought that these were created pre 1900's
It also puts an end to the 60's schoolboy theory , the WW1 diggers theory , the Gilford family theory.
Funnily enough I made a remark about them being done by time wasting hippie pot growers looking to " freak some people out " , looks like I wasn't far off the mark !

Alan Dash now works as a guide for the NPWS
 
                            

Read more on the subject here:
Ancient Lost Treasures - Gosford Glyphs
Dons Maps - The Gosford Glyphs
The Lost Worlds of Ku Ring Gai - The Sphinx

Download a map to the Site - Here
Woy-Woy.com's Photos - Here
Discuss this in our Forum - Here
 

BACK TO THE WOY WOY FILES

© 2010 All stories are exclusive property of the site owner , they may not be reproduced or copied in any way.

-- INFO -