Operation Großer Kreis (English: Operation Great Circle) was a worldwide Nazi initiative carried out in the mid-1930s to secure seventeen ancient stone relics which once lay along a perfectly aligned circle around the globe and harness their combined powers for military application.
History[]
Although the Nazis had been searching for artifacts since at least 1930,[1] once Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933,[2] he was in a position to launch extensive archaeological excavations around the world in pursuit of religious relics which, fueled by an obsession with the occult, began in earnest a year later.[3]
The Great Circle artifacts, the initiative's goal.
Around 1936, on a dig in North Africa, Schutzstaffel (SS) major Emmerich Voss, the leader of Hitler's occult research program within the Third Reich Special Antiquities Collection, uncovered an ancient manuscript. It detailed the story of how the Metatron, an angel acting as the Voice of God, entrusted the individual attested to in the Bible as Noah with seventeen stones with the power to "fold the Earth" which were used to secure examples of every animal before the Great Flood cleansed the planet. Afterwards, each of the stones was placed along the Great Circle, an invisible line which linked the pieces around the world in a perfect circle. As the world was repopulated, the sites were subsumed as human culture evolved and diversified while civilizations expanded over them, helping bury their shared connection.[4]
Hitler signed off on Voss conducting a series of excavations in various nations well into late 1937 and, at some point, the archaeologist learned that although varying circumstances had scattered the stones over tens of thousand of years, the Christian Church had entered into a clandestine alliance with a tribe of giants in the 1st century AD to recover the relics, hidden in idols, to protect them from misuse: Twelve of the artifacts had already been collected within the Vatican Secret Archive leaving the pieces from Siwa and Giza (Egypt), Ur (Iraq), Sukhothai (Siam) and Machu Picchu (Peru) unaccounted for.[4]
Excavations[]
Siwa[]
Although the Bearer Relic had remained elusive for the Nazis, the problem solved itself when Indiana Jones unwittingly recovered the piece concealed inside a Cat Mummy found in Siwa's Mountain of the Dead in the summer of 1937. In October, Brother Locus of the Nephilim Order–following up reports by the Vatican Secret Agency which had placed the archaeologist under observation for months–broke into Marshall College in Connecticut, USA and stole the idol from its display at the university's museum. However, Jones was a professor at the school and in his office on the night of the heist. His effort to prevent the robbery proved futile but Jones was led back to the Holy See as Locus' pendant signifying his ties to the Vatican got snagged on a broken window and left behind.[4]
Machu Picchu[]
On March 2, 1937, ancient languages expert Doctor Laura Lombardi was brought onto Emmerich Voss' expedition, whether willingly or by coercion, in Peru. Although a Mayan Statue had been found much farther north that was geographically interesting, their focus over several weeks had brought them down to South America and uncovered the Earthsplitter Relic within its idol at Machu Picchu by May. That month, Lombardi reluctantly carried out testing on the stone for its supernatural properties aboard the KMS Kummetz, a Nazi battleship stationed off the coast of Lima. When she spoke aloud the Earthsplitter's name in its native Adamic, the whole vessel was teleported to the Himalayas and stranded on a mountain. Those who weren't killed in the impact soon succumbed to the sudden change in environment, ill-equipped for the freezing climate. Voss avoided the same fate having opted to observe the experiment from a safe distance ahead of time but the relic had been spirited away to parts unknown on the other side of the planet.[4]
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See also[]
- The Great Reclamation, a similar initiative carried out by the Vatican