Captain James Cook encountered a Neolithic world in New Zealand peopled by Mori to whom stone was the supreme industrial material. Cook, an enlightened explorer, and his scientists observed and recorded in fascinating detail Mori life, as they saw it. Yet, the deeper knowledge, the truly astonishing 'sciences' mastered by this stone people, were not even suspected , let alone observed. The 'serpent' wisdom escaped their grasp. Underpinning the Mori way of life lay remarkable understandings of the rhythms of the universe, the great cosmic tides, the effects of the moon, and the power of the rivers of energy that pulsed through the earth to influence life. Mori earth wisdom remained hidden until, in recent times, the Elders of the tribes decided to share their sacred lore. This remarkable ancient knowledge is archetypal, born of universals that leap ahead of the logical mind to offer answers of an intuitive kind. They knew great rivers of energy flowed around the planet and created p