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Colour: emerald green Mnemonic: ZANTUC Original information and clues: Eleusis, Egypt. The location of a place called Eleusis in the Nile Delta came from a book of world mysteries by Frances Hitching (Hitching, 1978). It related to the work of Xavier Guichard who, in 1911, had been researching the origins of ancient European place names.

Colour: pearlescent aqua Mnemonic: GREE-AH Original information and clues: Shambhalla, Gobi Desert, Mongolia It was a map of central Asia, highlighting several geographical possibilities for the location of the mythical Shambhalla that initially caught my eye and imagination (Hitching, 1978).  Legends of Shambhalla’s location: (Hitching, 1978) Gobi Desert – location favoured by Theosophists, notably Helena

Colour: white Mnemonic: KARASH Original Clue and Location: Machu Picchu, Peru. Since Hiram Bingham’s discovery of Machu Picchu in 1911, so much has been written about this enigmatic city it is easy to become seduced by the wealth of information, sometimes contradictory, that is available. There is no question the site is an important tourist

Colour: red Mnemonic: O-LO-TÉ Original Clue and Location: Easter Island. The clue for this ‘energy pumping station’ was simply Easter Island. A tiny speck of volcanic rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, at 109°27’W by 27°07’S; 3700km west, or a five-hour flight from the Chilean mainland. Rapa Nui, as it is known locally,

Colour: pearlescent pink  Mnemonic: TONDUE Original Information and Clues: Kaibos, Himalayas The original clue for this location was, as with many others, quite simple. Kaibos (also spelt Kaibosh, Kibosh and Kybosh) in the Himalayas. Perhaps this was a mountain pass, where the British had fought and lost a battle with local tribesmen, hence the saying

Colour: gold  Mnemonic: SHAHSHAHSEE Original Information and Clues: El Tule, Mexico I first came across the location of El Tule by accident, when reading a much-photocopied article and then a pamphlet written by Robert Coon (Coon, 1990). It was a very small map showing what he called the two ‘World Dragon Lines’ of energy that first

        Colour: silver                             Mnemonic: MAHNDOO Original Clue and Location: Kerguelen, Southern Antarctic Ocean. In 1972, the New York artist and ‘psychic’ Ingo Swann, offered to have his ability to use his mind’s eye to visualize distant places, investigated by two physicists; Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff, of the Stanford Research Institute in California (Hitching,

Colour: opalescent white Mnemonic: TEERR Original information and clues: Rotorua, North Island, NZ On hearing the name Rotorua for the first time it meant very little, except that it was located on North Island, New Zealand. In 1994 internet search engines were still in their infancy and a Lonely Planet Travel guide (Wheeler, 1977, 1994)

Colour: yellow/orange Mnemonic: BÈYRA Original information and clues: Alaise, south of Besançon, in southern France In 1994, whilst researching places which could be significant in terms of earth energy, I came across an article about a Frenchman called Xavier Guichard (Hitching, 1978). Guichard was not a professional archaeologist, but rather the Director of Police in

Colour: violet Mnemonic: ALANGU Original information and clues: Uluru (Ayers Rock), Northern Territory, Australia. Uluru in Australia is known worldwide as a sacred Aboriginal site and there are many books, brochures and websites with limitless amounts of information about this very spiritual location; which I do not intend to replicate here. I have however, referred