IMPOSSIBLE POLYGONAL MEGALITHS of Japan. But Stone Masons Restoring Wall With Traditional Techniques

#megalith #stonemasonry #lostancienttechnology
In 2002 Japanese stone masons (without loin cloths) rebuilt a large wall relying on primitive techniques and tools. If this wall was featured on the lost technology part of the internet it would be described as mind befuddling impossible precision.
Strange how people so fascinated by stone are so reluctant to look at what any stone mason, other than their go to guys who can't be that good to start with, actually can do.
From the video posted by Old Japanese Architecture Channel
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[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Anticipating the Whataboutisms: Fitting more complex stones than the most complex shapes in Peru or Egypt. The Most Complex Stone Fitting Ever Done. Ancient Techniques Used To Restore Ancient Temples kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmq3lZeoa6ufb5I Insanely perfect polygonal work of the modern era but before advanced machines. Amazing Polygonal Granite Lighthouses! Obviously an inheritance of a Lost Advanced Civilization! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnKvppWnp8d7lZI Yes you can feather and wedge without steel. Feather & Wedge to Split Rocks & Make Blocks. It's NOT Lost Ancient Tech!. Steel, Copper, Wood etc! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHO3h3SXbqyHppY Yes you can work stones as tough as granite without steel. Copper chisels LOL! Stone pounders LOL! LAHT: What they dare not show you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqvEaqt4iamrZrs Yes you can make very precise symmetrical giant statues without advanced tech. How to Make a Giant Symmetrical Egyptian Statue without giant Ancient High Technology CNC machines kzbin.info/www/bejne/mai8lGeNZtJqjas

[@zekeriasvarg530]

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[@Chris.Davies]

"Look to the people who work with stone, not the people who point at stone." Never a truer sentence spoken.

[@fredd3.14]

Having been to Japan and the countryside there, I also noticed similar stone works. Just seeing how these are not mysterious in ways thought, as well as other places over the world, has really caused me to lose sight of myself. I was misled by people, who are also probably misled. The worst thing is, having tought I had a rational view on these stoneworks for many years. Thanks for what you do, it is important work, although hard to acknowledge. Just talking from the masonry perspective here, which obviously leads to more questions and answers, but at the core of it, you are hitting where it hurts (speaking as a person that came from hating the mainstream view, into the alt, into here).

[@GroberWeisenstein]

I visited Kyoto prefecture did you happen to check out the stonework in the Kansai region ?

[@Eyes_Open]

I sent a doubting stone mason to your channel to view the video 2 days ago showing polygonal repair at Sacsahuaman. They dont believe it is possible. Hopefully they see this video as well.

[@GroberWeisenstein]

There's many levels, differences, specializations among stone masons as a trade.

[@wompbozer3939]

There are some real dumb sumbitches that do stone, too. Some of the dumbest ( and smartest) people I’ve ever met were in masonry.

[@MilitaryMatters1]

This is NOTHING CLOSE to what the ORIGINAL Polygonal wall builders of the past were doing! The walls that you show 1:50 are LEVELS better than anything the "restoration" team could ever dream of doing. There is perfection, and there is decent. What the ancient Polygonal masters did was perfection.

[@robinaart72]

2 people to number the stones, and look how slow they are!. they must be working for the council:) Very interesting video - templates..nobody mentions those do they. That guy at 16.10 though...

[@jcfractal]

Im still not sure, do the re-constructions ever look as good as the remaining original walls? Reconstructions don't seem to be as good, you can tell immediately when you see them, Oh that's a reconstruction. Even in this wall ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGraeIKOjdR2q7s ) made from scratch in the US by a Japanese mason is no where near as good as some of the originals I've seen in Japan. So the question comes up..could some of these walls have been found by the Japanese emperors, and maybe repurposed? From the looks of it very few "original" walls remain, but those that do, seem to be way better than any attempt to reconstruct or any new walls made today. I have yet to see a modern attempt at a "Megalithic/cyclopean" wall that looks better or as good as the originals. I'm going to Japan this year, can't wait to visit some of these castles and see what is original and what is reconstruction.

[@jonajo9757]

Quality varies. Walls that are seamless are only so from the exterior. From the interior, it's just a bunch of precisely fitted rubble. Also some were repurposed if I remember, but not the way you'd think. Often, they'd just expand upon a pre-existing foundation by just building over it, and maming a larger wall.

[@dale4278]

They need those beer can holders on their hats so they don’t have to take a break! 🍻

[@TheMoneypresident]

Living in earthquake zones drives people to build better.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

"What the Ancients Knew - Japan" doco they used a pendulum type log inside the tall pagodas to absorb the shocks. Plus Magic Mirrors. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX-coWqibqd2kJY

[@TheMoneypresident]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded it was on history channel before aliens invaded. When they had 3 shows played 3 times a night.

[@varyolla435]

Exactly. While aesthetically pleasing these structures in some cases were in fact defensive positions - aka "castles". So creating walls which are high and wider at the base to slope inwards disperses the weight above outwards to better sustain the weight. Then when earthquakes hit - and Japan as noted noted is a highly seismic region - the walls can better withstand the movement. Similarly using stone inner and outer walls with earthen filler in between is an old technique for creating battlements capable of withstanding battering. If they simply stacked stones tightly one atop the other than the wall could in time be battered down more easily - and as alluded be more susceptible to earthquake damage. So like others around the world they built based upon their local environment + available technology + and aesthetics per the local culture. As the video alludes cultures at times copied each other since the iron flanges reinforce the walls during earthquakes and these have been used for millennia in other cultures. Man is the most adaptable animal = and that is the real technology. "Pattern recognition" is our greatest asset. 🤔

[@varyolla435]

It reflects the often lost aspect of such work = culture. In the East there are considerably more historical sites compared to what you see in the US - which is the major target audience for LAHT. These individuals still value their history and use as noted ancient techniques to restore old sites to a similar appearance. In the US you see historic sites and they may even at times be restored similar to what you see here. Yet much of what you see is newer and is either replaced with more of the same or else is modernized - hence losing its historical aspect. Naturally LAHT will dismiss this as always claiming the use of modern tools as their purported proof. After all confirmation bias rules all for them. Yet using modern tools merely = speeds up the process to save time. That is what these tools were created for after all. Yet the basic techniques behind the modern tools remain. More importantly as noted before = the person behind the tool. If these masons did not understand what they do and the nature of the stone they worked then the use of modern tools would not alter this fact. "Man" = is the real technology.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Yes, the traditional work in Japan is amazing. I posted a clip from the Japan episode of the documentary series " what the Ancinets Knew" on magic mirrors. Though the Japanese carpentry is off the charts, incredible joinery and yearly competition on who can plane the thinnest slices of wood. Blades so sharp that leave smoother surface than finest sand paper when seen under the microscope. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKSciWCOr6t6fqs Though if you look up their joinery, it's a rabbit hole watching how skillful they are. Artwork more than a mere craft.

[@MrAwesomeBikerDude]

You make it sound all good and easy. Yet You just brush over all the hard parts. Like moving and actually fitting the stones so they fitt well. "Can't fit a paper between..." dude you can fit a book in them cracks.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Links in descriptions to stone masons fitting much more complex shapes using ancient techniques. I mention that in the first few minutes. Also a playlist of videos of people moving and accurately placing megaliths with “primitive method”. They are rebuilding this wall to its original condition. The corner blocks are well fitted and the others in Japan I show are entirely well fitted stone. You are brushing away the answers by “just asking questions”. M as he it good and easy by putting the effort in and linking the answers. If you won’t put in the minimal effort into looking at the sources spoon fed to you it’s not my problem but yours. Based on history in the comments I know you don’t actually care. It’s a belief system and the Holy Questions most be preserved by avoiding answers. Avoiding looking for them and avoiding when they are dropped on your plate in front of you.

[@JohnDelong-qm9iv]

Volcanic mud resulting from the global deluge left soft sediments. Decendants from bab el ( sumeria) used simple tools to shape the mud. The mineralized floodmud hardened over time ( petrified).

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

lol, yeah the mudflood wink wink the sediments magically formed into crystals that take time, heat and pressure. Puff the magic dragonamde it happen at the surface with with magic crystals wink wink

[@erichamilton8952]

Bullshit. The only soft thing here is your head.

[@chrismalcomson7640]

Of course we could recreate what they did in the past. If, having finished restoring a wall the restorers were told to take it down and do it again, they'd do it twice as good in half the time. This is called experience. The ancient builders would have been masters of working with stone so their work reflects that.. I've heard it said that this type of polygonal construction is much harder than square block construction. I disagree completely. Squaring off a block takes a huge amount of time with crude tools so it makes sense you look for the closest fit you can from rocks you see on the ground, then with a bit of chipping away you marry it to the block next to it. In this way your shaping 2 surfaces rather than 6 if you cut them square.. The obvious difficulty is making it fit perfectly without continuously offering it up and taking it away again, particularly with the larger stones. You can overcome this by making a mould of the sufaces thus you only have to lift the stone once for it to fit perfectly.. There are always solutions that don't require lost ancient high technology or aliens... The ancients were just as smart as us and clearly with this type of work, surpass our abilities today..

[@newman653]

Check them stone masons to see if they have belly buttons , they might be aliens !

[@raina4732]

Lol I was going to say if Brien Foerster sees this he’ll declare that these guys all have elongated skulls and that’s why they can do it. He’s probably currently “running some tests” to solve the mystery of the 2002 Japanese stone masons.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

That's why they are so careful to always wear those helmets!!!

[@mikeshem7665]

Well it looks as though this video kinda blows the LAHT stories out of the water. Great video Brother 👍👍😎🤟🤟♒️

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Thanks 👍

[@scott2296]

Ancient Chinese secret huh? Calgon, take me away!

[@JH-pt6ih]

You must be over 50.

[@scott2296]

@@JH-pt6ih 88

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Had to look that up. ;-)

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

7 Faces of Dr Lao

[@daniel-it2lw]

so none of that looked as good as the ancients and we have all that technology?? how did they lift the stones back then?

[@LadyBits2023]

... That don't work looks horrible to be honest... Go look at some of the stonework from the Roman Empire and things like that it makes this look like literal retarded. Children made it.

[@ThePaulTM]

Nice Video SGD . Stone built stuff is so interesting to look at. It shows us the 3D geometrical Order of things which is ignored by 2D Theorists.

[@Knobsmacker]

Thank you for making this series SGD. It's really helped me dispel a lot of my own misconceptions I'd picked up about the ancients. That footage is stunning and excellently explained!

[@surfk9836]

Simple "back cut". This made putung the edges together. The acual faces didn't have to be perfect, it was flattened and shaped after in place. No laser, diamond tipped power saws, acoustic levetaion or aliens.

[@GroberWeisenstein]

Did you not include giants for a reason ?

[@TheMoneypresident]

A body inside a wall would create a cavity later and diminish its strength. That was a story with the great wall. The 2 brick story is my favorite. Forman came into a area and orders a number of bricks to build local garrison. Number was 2 shy of an amount. Town leaders said we will give you the full amount. He said no and left. They did anyways. Build was completed with 2 extra blocks sitting up on a ledge.

[@GroberWeisenstein]

The quarry deposit predominantly determines the masonry work that follows, especially everything built in Ancient times.

[@smoothcriminal7232]

Plot twist: In the middle of the video Giorgio Tsukalous appeared

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Interesting to see those wedges and how they worked. Innovative technique. I wonder if they are a uniquely Japanese thing, or it just isn't widely used.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

another great video .. and brilliantly illustrated and explained 🤠

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

some of the convict built buildings in Hobart are very fine.. in brisbane all the convict work was pulled down except for 2 places. 1 being the old tower mill.. the stones have been cut curved. or hewn? so it’s a round tower.. similarly the non facing work is common brick. an interesting building. especially how they cut the blocks curved.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Eddystone point Lighthouse is a nice one, not as good as the original Eddystone in UK and their lighthouse but a beaut none the less. Pink granite. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnKvppWnp8d7lZI the insanely awesome lighthouses in UK

[@AnthonyDibiaseIdeas]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[@LadyBits2023]

.... I truly don't understand this video. The work at these sites is laughably crude compared to places in South America or even in the Middle East.... This worked not only easily could have been done By the Japanese with their tools and skill level... But it's not something that I would necessarily be bragging about or showing off to people as some kind of impressive accomplishment... Very crude Work

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@LadyBits2023 in the video I show other sites as well. It just so happens they filmed this work allowing us to see some of the techniques. I have another video on granite lighthouses of the uk and Ireland,

[@robduke1445]

I just returned from Japan. Would be interested in theories how precision stones 10 times size are formed and placed. No 1000ton cranes allowed. 🤔

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

“Precision?” I have playlist including compilations. Alexander column in st Petersburg for instance. Detailed description of moving and erecting 600 t obelisk including loading for sea journey.

[@peterwikvist2433]

Great video SGD

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Thank you for watching.

[@terpynews5458]

No offense to Japan but those walls do not compare to the ones in Puru

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

In description and pinned comment is a link to granite lighthouses in UK.

[@GroberWeisenstein]

Go to Kyoto and Osaka you will see top notch stonework including megaliths

[@varyolla435]

Allow me to state the obvious. If you refer to aesthetics = tastes vary from culture to culture. Also Japan was a feudal nation for centuries. Thus local constructions reflect those done by local leaders as opposed to "national projects" done at the behest of a emperor like figure. In other words an Inca King who decrees a place be built for themselves has the resources of their empire at hand. A local daimyo on the other hand depending upon their wealth and what they control is limited in what they might spend on a project. Also Japan is highly volcanic incurring many earthquakes which would periodically damage their buildings as well as typhoons. So they built based upon their own styles + available resources + and with the understanding that what is built will at some point likely incur damage and thus need to be quickly repaired. So instead recognize the nature of what we see. They via highly adaptive structural architecture created buildings etc. which were more than simply stacking stones. Like you see with other sites in Asia etc. they adapted their designs to local environments reflecting understanding of things like hydrology, seismic activity, earth engineering etc.. They are indeed visually appealing as well as structurally unique.

[@robduke1445]

@@GroberWeisenstein I just returned, totally agree, 1000 ton stones with precision.

[@Akimos]

Finnish reserve officer school and surroundings, main building in the background, with the flag. (pic.1) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamina_Fortress

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

cool, Bosarmund is another one Speaking of Finland I happened across this yesterday. They have very romantic placenames ;-D www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/gn8kw1/the_most_welcoming_place_names_of_finland_part_2/

[@Akimos]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded The handmade stone walls from the 17-hundreds I walked by to get lunch for months in the nineties... Yeah, the old timey poets/landowners were questioned by the mapmakers, what you call this place and what you call that lake. So, since we have like 70000 lakes, not all but many are called 'shit lake'.

[@Akimos]

I'm sorry, I don't understand 'Bosarmund'? Mund is a mount/mound, I think?

[@Akimos]

Wait a minute bolar is boulder, mund is mound, so bouldermound.

[@Akimos]

Just guessing here, might open a beer