I am trying to figure out what the ancient Shamir was.
Was the Shamir the mysterious tool used to cut, shape and move huge
Shamir used by djinns?
Djinns using Shamir in Egypt?
stones?
Not only did the ancients cut huge blocks of granite but also made delicate vases of basalt in pre-historic times. This should not be possible with the tools they were said to have at the time. Did they have a technology we do not have today - a hidden or forgotten technology? Might be they used the "magic" tool known as the Shamir?

You cannot cut granite and basalt with tools of stone or copper. But that is what the mainstream archaeologists say that the ancients used. Most probably because they do not have any other explanation. But it seems like there was a tool that could cut, shape and move hard stone already in Moses' time: The Shamir.
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The Hoshen
Moses shall have used the Shamir to make the priestly
breastplate, the Hoshen. This breastplate had four rows
The priestly breastplate
The priestly breastplate
of three gems embedded in gold setting. In the first
row
the gems shall have been carnelian, crystallite and emerald. The second row had gems of turquoise, sapphire and amethyst. The third row had jacinth, agate and crystal, while the last row had beryl, lapis lazuli and jasper. All the gemstones shall have been engraved with writing. Well, most of them are extremely hard, with sapphire at 9 on the Mohs scale - only diamond is harder! Cut, shaped and engraved with tools of stone and copper? Just not possible. Is it not more believable that they had a tool that later was lost - or hidden?
The ark and the tablets
The ark and the tablets
Finger of God
In some biblical scriptures you can find that the Shamir existed even before the time of Moses: That it was made at the sixth day of creation. Moses shall also have been given the Ten Commandments by God on Mount Sinai. They were inscribed on two stone tablets "by the finger of God". Some scriptures say that the tablets were made of blue sapphire. They were placed inside the Ark of the Covenant, a gold-covered chest of wood. Some say that the Ark of Covenant found it's way to Ethiopia and is in the St. Mary of Zion cathedral in the town of Aksum, but that only the guardians of the ark can view it.
How the first temple could have looked.
First temple of Jerusalem
King Solomon
King Solomon shall have been the tenth son of king David of ancient Israel, and shall have reigned from 970 to 931 BC. He had heard about the Shamir and it's capabilities. He consulted the king of demons and learned that the angel of sea had given the Shamir to the hoopoe bird. He sent out a search party that shall have found the bird and "a grain of Shamir the size of a barley-corn". Solomon shall then have used the Shamir to build the first temple of Jerusalem. And it shall have been quite easy for him, for the materials used - either it was stone, wood or metal, were cut, shaped and moved by being "shown to the Shamir". Then the magical tool disappeared.
Did Imhotep use the Shamir?
Did Imhoptep use Shamir?
Shamir
Shamir - a worm?
Shamir - a worm?
Great Pyramid, Egypt
Great Pyramid, Egypt
Quarry - Cusco, Peru
Quarry - Cusco, Peru
Wall in Cusco - how and why?
Cusco: How - and why?
12-angle stone cCusco, Peru
"Twelve Angle Stone"
Jim Vieira on History Channel
Jim Vieira
Heyerdahl tried to make a statue using stone tool.
Heyerdahl tried
Imhotep
Imhotep was the architect behind the first pyramid of Egypt, the step-pyramid of pharaoh Djoser (app. 2686 - 2648 BC). Imhotep was also called the father of writing and medicine. He became the vizier to the pharaoh and even considered to be a god. But Imhotep died when he was just 19 years old! How was he able to do cut, shape and move huge blocks of stone weighing up to 80 tons? Could it be that also he had access to the Shamir?
Worm
According to the ancient texts of Gemara in the Talmund, the primary source of Jewish religious laws, the Shamir was a worm - a living creature that with its glance could make wood and stone to split. And not very impressive looking - it should have been very small: A barleycorn is less than one centimetre long. In the Testament of Solomon the Shamir is regarded as a kind of green stone.
Radioactive substance
A few scholars suggest that the Shamir was a "radioactive substance", and points to that the Shamir should be kept in a leaden box. Also that the "glance" of the Shamir may have been alpha radiation. Alpha radiation can produce extremely high levels of energy that can change or destroy everything exposed to it.
All over the world
You can find ancient megaliths all over the world: Statues, buildings, walls, obelisks and other structures of large stones. Megaliths we will struggle to make today with our moderns tools. Some claim that they are made of geopolymer concrete - that the ancient had a kind of cement they used to make the megaliths from sand. Well, it is not very hard to see that the ancient megaliths we are talking about are made of solid stone of sandstone, basalt and granite. We can even today see the quarries where they were cut!
Like a cake
What it interesting is that the neighbouring blocks in ancient walls very often seems to belong besides each other! It is almost like they in the quarry were cut like a cake! That the stones then were moved, often a quite far distance, and placed on top of each other like "neighbours", this time in a vertical instead of horizontal order! How - and why?
Intricate shapes
Some of the stones are also cut in intricate shapes. Like the "Twelve Angle Stone" of Cusco in Peru. Some say that this is to make the walls standing in case of earthquakes but they would not all have any preventive effect in the case of natural catastrophes. This 12-angle stone is quit large but there are also smaller ones.
Another race
Some say that the Inca Indians made the walls of Peru, but the Inca themselves used to deny this. They claimed that everything was made by another race of humans - giants that lived long before them. Might be the intricate stones
is a message to people coming after them - might be us?
Giants
Jim Vieira in the USA is a stonemason. He wondered how the ancients managed to make so much of stone that he could not make himself with his modern tools. He studied hundreds of old newspaper articles and discovered that a race of tall humans, what we can call giants, seemed to be behind so many of the megaliths.
History Channel wanted to take Jim and me to an island to find bones after giants. It ended up with an episode called "Giant Hunter Curse".
Thor Heyerdahl
My countryman Thor Heyerdahl of the Kon-Tiki fame wanted to find the origins of human civilisation. He visited Easter Island two times, and tried to make a "moai" - a stone statue - with the help of the locals only using stone hammers. They had to give in after just outline a statue in the rock. The natives told him that it was not their ancestors that had made the statues - and pointed out that the statues not at all looked like Polynesians with their long noses, solid jaws and red hair. Mainstream archaeologists has always refuted Heyerdahls theories, but resent DNA-testing reveals Native American presence in Polynesia centuries
PeruMesopotamia
Peru to Mesopotamia
Holding what - with six fingers?
Held what, and six fingers?
Ancient Alies
Ancient Aliens-tv-programs
Findings in Denisova cave
Denisova-cave and findings
Modern human and Deniovan skulls.
Skulls compared
Findings in Denisova cave
Statues on Easter Island
before the European explorers arrived.
Holding something
All over the world you can find ancient statues holding their hands on their stomachs. Well, "on the stomachs" might not be the case. I believe that they held something in their hands in front of their stomachs! It is not so easy to make statues of stone with the elbows sticking out! At some of the statues you can even see that they used hold something that later was hammered away! Something they considered secret? Might be the ancient tool the Shamir?
Ancient aliens
In the American television series "Ancient Aliens" the hypothesis is that extraterrestrials have visited Earth for might be millions of years, and that they were behind the pyramids and many other megalithic structures. But what if it was Denisovans from the mountains of Siberia?
Denisova hominins
In 2008 a 50.000 year old finger bone of was found in the Denisova cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. DNA-sequencing showed that it did not belong to a modern human. The species was named Denisova hominins. The archaeologists also found a beautiful bracelet with a hole mad by high speed drilling. Later also a tiara and a ring made of ivory, plus heaps of beads of ostrich eggshells - at a time when ostriches lived more than thousand kilometres away! Plus a seven centimetre long polished needle with an eyehole for tread. Even a stone that seems to have been used a pencil, plus a bone-whistle that might have been part of a flute. Traces of DNA after a horse was also found.
Interbred
The Denisovans seems to have had a much more advanced technology than us humans at the time. They went extinct but it is now believed that the Denisovans interbred with Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans. You will six percent of Denisova DNA in melanesians of Papua New Guinea and three to five percent among Australian aboriginals. The Denisovans seem to have been taller than modern humans - and also had a much larger brain. Were they the ones that developed what we call civilisation - not us humans?
Gods
Ancient statues all over the world depicts what has been called gods. These supreme beings were human looking: They had white skin, red or blond hair and were unusually about half a meter taller than the humans. Most often they came from someplace else. They were male, and very often they had children with the earthly women, and their descendants so often became the kings. They developed the societies - and disappeared.
Lost or hidden?
Did these gods have a tool that made it easy for them to make large statues, impressive walls of stone, tall obelisks and huge pyramids? Did their descendants try to make megaliths, with much less success, to make them come back again? Sometimes these gods were said to have come from across the sea but originally they shall have lived in a place high up. Yes, in the Christian bible you can read "glory to God in the highest" but what if it originally not was a theological heaven but up in a mountain? Might be the Altai Mountains of Siberia? Be aware that the original Hebrew texts always use "Gods" - in plural. There were not one god but many!
    So was the Shamir real? Did the ancients in very early human history have a tool that could cut, shape and move stone with ease? Even make buildings, walls and items that we will have trouble making today with our advanced technology? Did the Shamir get lost - or was hidden? Again?

Terje Dahl
25. March 2021
terje@sydhav.no

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