EGYPTIAN MASON GAME MEDIEVAL ROMAN PHAROS DOVER CASTLE

GAME SYMBOL = A PROTECTION FROM EVIL - PLAYED BY ROMAN & 1ST WW1 SOLDIERS

CONNECTS EGYPT AND MASONS

FOUND IN A MOST IMPORTANT ENGLAND ROMAN BUILDING - UNDER ADVERTISED OR SECRET?

**The Dover pharos is now one of only three Roman lighthouses to survive from the whole of the former Roman Empire.**

It is also the most complete standing Roman building in England.

NINE MEN'S MORRIS - Ancient game at least 2000 years old, (3,500!)

Found right across England, And Europe.

The game might have been played by the sculptors while they were building the huge temples. Inscriptions are seen in many places, carved on stone.

(Hidden in Dover castle Roman lighthouse or unplayable in Newcastle castle built in on it's side!)

King also notes that the game was popular among Roman soldiers.

In some European countries, the design of the board was given special significance as a symbol of protection from evil.

According to psyop Wikipedia. - WHO WANT TO DISTANCE / DENY - THE GAME FROM EGYPT (EVIL PROTECTION) AND MASONS / FREEMASONS

"Dates back to at least the Roman Empire" - While the game was 1st discovered in Egypt!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_men's_morris

The first Nine Men's Morris game board was found in an Ancient Egyptian Temple.

https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/JimPuzzles/GAMES/NineMensMorris/INFO/ClassicsTechnologyCenterPage.pdf

The game Nine Men's Morris began popping up in about 1400 BC. For
597 years, people have been playing the fun and fulfilling game. If you're
good at strategic games and you like challenges, then you'll like Nine
Men's Morris as much as the Egyptians did.
The first Nine Men's Morris gameboard was found in an Ancient Egyptian
Temple. During the Bronze Age, the game was brought to Ireland by
traders from Greece or Phoenicia. It then made its way into Europe. The
game began to pick up names like Me'relles, Muhle, and Mill as it spread
to other countries

A GAME (SYMBOL) OF PROTECTION FROM EVIL. (FROM ANCIENT TIMES)

"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud" (Act 2, Scene 2).

In the passage, Titania, the queen of the fairies, blames Oberon for causing chaos in the world.

The rain has not stopped, causing disease and the Nine Men's Morris Board to be unplayable.

Nine Men's Morris is believed to be one of the oldest games in history. It is an alignment and configuration game that is found widely around the world.

Evidence of the board scratched in the ground has also been found in Bronze-Age Ireland, ancient Troy, and the Southwestern United States. Kere, Tigua, Tew and Zuni Native Americans played a version of the game called paritariya, picarva, and pedreria. To the ancient Celts, the Morris square was sacred. The central square known as the Cauldron or Mill was a symbol of regeneration while the lines and squares coming out from the middle were symbols of "the four cardinal directions, the four elements and the four winds"

The board was found scratched onto the seats of many British cathedrals, and on the "steps of Furness Abbey, tombstones at Dryburgh Abbey, Worksop, and Arbory in the Isle of Man, at Norwich, Dover, Helmsley, and Scarborough Castles, and on stones built into the walls of churches, as at Hargrace (Northants), Ickford (Bucks.), Sparsholt (Berks.), and Kirkby Underdale (Yorks.)" (Murray 44). By the late 16th century, the game was called Merels from an Old English word "mere" meaning "boundaries".

https://gamescrafters.berkeley.edu/games.php?game=ninemensmorris

A MOST IMPORTANT BUILDING - UNDER ADVERTISED OR SECRET?

**The Dover pharos is now one of only three Roman lighthouses to survive from the whole of the former Roman Empire.**

It is also the most complete standing Roman building in England.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/dover-castle/history-and-stories/

LINKS TO GAME FOR DOVER CASTLE IS ONLY FROM BOOK (Secret history?)

England's Undiscovered Heritage:

A Guide to 100 Unusual Sites and Monuments, Paperback – 1 Mar. 1988

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englands-Undiscovered-Heritage-Unusual-Monuments/dp/0805007164

FROM THE BOOK >>

ROMAN PHAROS AT DOVER CASTLE

ANOTHER STONE

FOUND DURING RESTORATION

IN 1860

PART OF THE GAME

NINE MEN MORRIS

POPULAR THROUGHOUT THE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

WITH A HISTORY DATING BACK TO

ANCIENT EGYPT

WHERE IT IS A PASTIME OF

STONEMASONS

THOU GAME FOUND IN NEWCASTLE CASTLE - ETC

Excavations at the Castle revealed a large piece of building stone with Nine Men’s Morris board carved onto it, which is currently on display at the Great North Museum, Hancock. When these boards are discovered,

they are sometimes carved so that they are placed vertically on the wall,

making them impossible to play.

Some archaeologists suggest that they were carved when the stones were being shaped, played with, and then the stones were used in building afterwards. (?)

(GAME HISTORY = USED AS A symbol of protection from evil.)

Some, however, suggest some deeper meaning or significance

to the symbol of the Nine Men’s Morris Board, linking it with architectural theory

or use as a magical symbol to ward off evil spirits!

https://www.newcastlecastle.co.uk/castle-blog/morris