If you some­times won­der what the hell Alf Rune is going on about (and to be hon­est, we all do at times), a link or two might help. When he recent­ly post­ed about con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries regard­ing the “all-see­ing eyes through­out Civic Square”, we had to ask him where the hell he heard about that.

The answer is a web page called “Occult Sym­bol­ism in Welling­ton” from some­thing or some­one called “Sov­er­eign Mind”. It starts with pecu­liar eye-like geome­tries in aer­i­al pho­tos, moves on to occult pyra­mids, Freema­son­ry, Vat­i­can pineal gland sym­bol­ism and pagan eroti­cism in the Nikau palms, and ends up drag­ging the Majes­tic Cen­tre and Bee­hive into the vast con­spir­a­cy. But the high (or low point) is when the author accus­es Cap­i­tal E of being an Illu­mi­nati lair for satan­ic rit­u­als and vir­gin sac­ri­fices.

Does any­one know who’s behind this (the site, not the fiendish plots)? Are they seri­ous, or is it a wind-up? If the lat­ter, it seems rather an elab­o­rate under­tak­ing.

But what if they’re right?! What oth­er archi­tec­tur­al occultism and evil sym­bols are lurk­ing around us, hid­den in plain sight in Welling­ton’s geom­e­try?