Pyramids in Australia

The town of Gympie, at Tin Can Bay, north of Brisbane,

Queensland, is the unlikely site of a pyramid complex. The first

Europeans to come into the area in the 1830's learned of them

from the now extinct Kabi speaking people of Gympie, known

then as the Dhamuri. According to the Aboriginals, brown

skinned, blue eyed, blond haired beings with Dolphin pendants

came from the star Orion and built the pyramids and temple

sites, but water came in and destroyed it all long ago.

The ruins were taboo to them. Settlers took the stones of the pyramids

and other buildings and used them as foundation stones for the main

street of Gympie and the construction of buildings, including the local

church, which still stands. There were stone statues like the Easter Island

statues and also animal statues. These have since been destroyed or are

hidden, but photos and sketches of them remain from the first white man

to come into the area. Even the tunnels under Gympie were dynamited.

All but one of the Pyramids was bulldozed into the ocean by the army in

the 1950's and the lone survivor remains on private land with a strict "no

trespassing policy.

The Pyramid is 100 foot high and designed with a series of terraces up to

4 feet tall and eight feet wide. The army sealed the entrance in the

1930's after investigating reports of cattle wandering into the pyramid,

when an opening was still accessible, and never coming out. No reports or

findings are available.

In recent years, according to locals, the owner has attempted to destroy

the pyramid in the hopes of discouraging visitors to the site. Artifacts

have survived including the 'Gympie Ape', which was dug up in 1966 and

is thought to be a statue of the Egyptian God Thoth, who was often

portrayed as an ape, and another resembling Ganesha from Indian

mythology. Egyptian God "Thoth" is clutching the Tau or the Cross of

Life. This statuette is badly weathered with age. Thoth was the god of

writing and wisdom, depicted as an ape by the Egyptians until about 1000

BC when he became an Ibis-headed human bodied deity who recorded the

judgment of the souls of Amenti, the after world. Thoth's symbol was the

papyrus flower.

Central Coast - A pyramid structure, at least twice the height and

dimensions of the Gympie example, has been found near the NSW Central

Coast.

New Guinea - Five pyramids, identical to the Gympie Structure, have been

found in northeastern New Guinea

Magnetic Island - There is a pyramid on Magnetic Island and a sphinx.

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