Remember we recently argued WHO AND HOW CUT THE STONE? Here may be the answer to the question, or vice versa, an additional riddle …
Tayma Oasis is located in the Tabuk province, 220 km southeast of the city of Tabuk (Saudi Arabia). Tayma occupies a relatively flat plain at the western edge of the Al Nafud Desert, east of the Western Shield region, which includes a volcanic ridge known as Harrat Al 'Uwayrid.
And this is the famous "sawn" stone of Al Nasalaa. Scientists say that the stone cracked for natural reasons, but many think that this was not without the high technologies of the ancients. Can the stone be cut with a laser?
One way or another, there is another place on our planet where you can find similar stones.
The Devil Stones, or Karlu Karlu as they are known to the local Varumung Aborigines, are a group of large granite boulders that cover a small valley 100 kilometers south of Tennant Creek in Northern Australia. It is one of the most widespread symbols of the Australian outback.
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Let's take a closer look at them …
Formed by erosion more than a million years ago, the granite Devil Stones range in diameter from 50 centimeters to six meters. Some boulders are surprisingly balanced on top of each other, while others are spread across the valley. And although it may seem that the boulders were intentionally placed by someone, or brought here by floods from distant places, in fact they formed naturally as a result of erosion of the rock.
Boulders began to form when molten lava seeped through cracks in the earth's crust and covered the topsoil. After some time, under the influence of tectonic processes, granite began to collapse, splitting into large, square blocks. Here water and wind have already connected, gradually rounding the edges and turning them into the smooth boulders that we see today.
The extreme temperature difference between day and night in the arid desert region puts tremendous pressure on the rocks, causing them to expand and contract many times over. Some stones eventually split into two halves.
Karl Karl are very important to the indigenous people and are protected under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act. In primordial mythology, the Devil Stones are the eggs of the rainbow snake, with which many stories and traditions are associated.
According to legend, once a devil passed through this area, and scattered these huge red boulders throughout the valley - hence the name. Locals still believe that the devil lives in the Karlu-Karlu valley and magically controls his stones.
Here's how the legend sounds in more detail:
It was a long time ago … From the primordial chaos, the Rainbow Serpent Wonambi was born. He was endowed with the ability to spew out quartz crystals, then they were overgrown with small particles and turned into planets and stars. This is how the universe appeared. When the Serpent crawled over the land of the Earth, the water filled the traces left by his heavy body. This is how rivers came into being. Wonambi gave laws to animals. And those who obeyed became people, and those who broke the rules of the Serpent turned to stone. This is how hills and mountains appeared.
The myths of the aborigines of Australia are curious. Those who live in the Northern Territory are called red boulders, which are scattered across a vast valley about a hundred kilometers from the town of Tennant Creek, by the guttural name Karl Karl. Europeans, accustomed to seeing Satanic intrigues in everything unusual, when they first saw the wonderful stones, called them "Devil's marble". And some joker recalled the legend of the Rainbow Serpent and suspected the eggs of this mythical reptile in strange balls.
Scientists also did not stand aside, and explained the appearance of boulders by geological processes, when for millions of years the granite that formed inside the earth's mantle was gradually squeezed out to the surface, then it was subjected to air and water erosion for a long time, as a result it looks quite bizarre today. Scientists have not explained how geological processes lead to the formation of seids. Probably, while science is not aware of this. But some of the compositions from "The Devil's Balls" are real seids.
What stones really are is known only to those who have lived on these lands since the creation of the world - the aborigines. They relate to the opinion of whites about eggs, the devil and the planetary mantle … if not squeamishly, then indifferently. In their community there are other legends about Karl Karl (by the way, this deliberately double name sounds the same in four local dialects, which speaks of the importance and antiquity of the object).
But the Aboriginal tribes do not want to share with outsiders their knowledge of the "predawn time". It's good that the white-skinned aliens returned the Northern Territories to their rightful owners. After they used them without any rights for many years, only in 2008. Now the reserve is again owned by four original local tribes, and is rented out.
Aborigines consider "Devil's marble" sacred. While in these places, you should behave in the same way as if you entered the temple of any other religious concession. In 1953, one of the boulders was taken to Alice Springs without permission from the elders to become part of the memorial to John Flynn, the founder of the air ambulance service.
The aborigines were so annoyed that a violent discussion began in the society, and in the late nineties the stone was taken out of the grave, cleaned and returned to its place. Since then, there have been no cases of vandalism in the Karl Karl reserve. And that in fact … that with the devil, that with the Rainbow Serpent it is hardly reasonable to communicate - is fraught with consequences.
The reserve is located in the northern territory, near the town of Vouchop, Barkley County. The nearest town is Tennant Creek - 114 km.
Karl Karl is a low-lying, sandy valley with an area of 18 km2. The whole valley is strewn with round granite boulders. This view is almost frightening, which is why they got the name "Devil's marble" (Devils Marbles).
The Karlu Karlu Nature Reserve was established in 1961. It is now considered one of the main attractions in Barkley County. In 2007 alone, more than 96 thousand tourists visited the reserve. We can say that this is one of the most visited reserves in the Northern Territory.
The valley has long been of great religious importance to tourists, and many of the primitive tales of the "Time of Dreams" relate to this picturesque area. Karl Karl was one of the sacred places of the Aborigines. Although these stories are still alive among the aborigines living in the land, they are rarely told to the uninitiated and idle tourists.
Scientifically, these boulders are the result of the solidification of magma in the earth's crust. Initially, they were covered with super-thick layers of sandstone pressing against granite. But when, as a result of a long process of erosion, the granite was on the surface, the pressure eased. Expanding, granite cracked as a result and, coming to the surface, disintegrated into separate large blocks.
This geological process was extremely slow and took about 1.7 billion years. Due to the extremely long-term influence of nature, the rounding of the blocks went on, in fact, it continues to the present day. Due to the sharp temperature drop in Karl Karla, boulders are imperceptibly compressed and unclenched every day, day and night. On some of them, therefore, cracks form. It happens that stones are split into pieces.