Visocica, Photo by Mhare

The Lviv Outbreak of Ukraine Flu continues to fizzle. Though the internet story describes the pneumonic flu epidemic as continuing, and even spreading to neighboring nations, no photographic or other credible evidence has been presented to support any of that. The official news from Ukraine continues to report that the epidemic has eased and the crisis is past. I've seen nothing through remote exploration of the area which would indicate this is not true, but I find the region intriguing and I continue to poke around in it -- for fun.

This happened several nights ago and I haven't had time to post about it until now. I woke up standing in a small town late at night, very groggy as I usually am after traveling, with the feeling that there was something here I should see. So I looked around. The sky was very dark, no stars showing, and the moon was down. The street lights only partly blurred the skyline since I was quite a distance away from any well lit area, but I could clearly see streets and buildings which appeared to be residential. I wasn't looking for that, it was something else. So I looked around. When I looked up at the skyline I saw the peak of a mountain outlined against the sky, and the shape of it -- pyramidal -- gave me that feeling I was looking for: oh yeah, that's why I'm here.

An instant later I'm on top of the mountain, can't explain how because it's one of those things you learn and then it becomes instinctive. Used to be difficult, now it's not. Too dark to see much but I have the sense of two or three pyramids in the area altogether, not just this one. There's been some excavation on the slopes, old stone pavement exposed again, but most of the pyramid is a steep natural landscape of trees and fields. It reminds me of a mountain I used to dream about a lot during the 70's. I'd find myself at the bottom of it and I'd try to stay in the dream long enough to climb to the top. As much as I tried, I could never get there.

From some remote location I'm watching the mountain, seeing the silhouette of the peak, and I lean forward and bite off the top -- obviously only dreaming. It tastes like dirt with crunchy rocks in it but it has a texture like cake, very strange.

When I woke up from this I thought how strange it was to be dreaming of a pyramid when I'm trying to view Ukraine. Then I remembered reading a story about a pyramidal mountain in eastern Europe. A year or two ago, maybe, somebody thought it might be an old man-made structure buried by natural forces. I'd thought that was silly and highly unlikely to be true.

I looked it up. Looks much more like a pyramid to me, now that I've seen it up close, and I think I can take the story seriously now. My dream was very descriptive in some details -- the excavations look exactly like what I saw, and from a distance it does seem that somebody took a little bite off the peak.

Visocica, Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun, story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4912040.stm

News from the Pyramids of Visoko, Bosnia -- Herzegovina at http://www.bosnianpyramids.org/index.php?lang=en