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POPULAR CULTURE ome stories are
weirder than anything Hollywood screen- writers could dream up. But then, facts are often stranger than fiction. How would you react if you were told that the phallus of the Egyptian god Osiris is possibly located underneath a buried pyramid in the very center of Hollywood—Los Angeles?
Linda Goodman & the SECRET of the
Doesn’t this sound like something from a movie? Well, it isn’t.
The site where Osiris’ phallus is suppos- edly buried is known as the Hollywood Cross, which sits on a small hill next to Interstate 101, at Cahuenga. The site is notorious, as the cross can clearly be seen from the 101, especially at night, when it is illuminated and sometimes—depending on visibility— seems to be suspended in mid air. So, how could a legendary Egyptian arti- fact ever end up beneath a very natural looking hill in lala-land? It seems absurd, even impossible, as the Ancient Egyptians, according to all historical accounts, never made it to America, let alone the “left coast.” But however illogical it seems, this was the firm conviction of one of the greatest astrolo- gers of the twentieth century, Linda Goodman, who spent a small fortune in trying to prove her point. Goodman was a New York Times best- selling author, whose books on astrology— including Sun Signs, published in 1968— sold millions. Though a well-known public figure, less known was that her life was de- fined by two major preoccupations: finding out the fate of her eldest daughter Sally, who had disappeared under mysterious circum- stances; and proving the presence of the phallus of Osiris in Hollywood.
Hollywood Cross What Does the Body Egyptian Deity Have
• BY PHILIP COPPENS of an Ancient
to Do with Tinsel Town Magic?
Linda Goodman
Osiris & Isis
The phallus’ purported location was un- derneath the Hollywood Cross, which may be found on Pilgrimage Drive, in Cahuenga. Ca- huenga is the Spanish name for the Tongva village of Kawengna, meaning “place of the mountain”—etymological evidence that the mountain was important to the Native Amer- icans who lived there.
Today, the hill overshadows the Ford am- phitheater. But it was the hill’s purported in- terior that obsessed Goodman. From the early 1970s until her death on October 21, 1995, she believed that there was a subterra- nean structure underneath the hill, which contained the phallus of Osiris. From 1990s onward, she laid out a considerable sum to have many tests performed using the latest available technology—short of physical dig- ging—to map the hill’s interior. Realizing that no one was going to believe her, or allow her to excavate without virtually concrete proof that something manmade was indeed underneath that hill, she, nevertheless, per- sisted for the rest of her life in the strange quest for her Holy Grail.
But those who knew Goodman during the See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74
1990s and saw the scientific material she compiled—in
futile efforts to rally support— confirm that the surveys unani- mously supported her supposition that there was indeed something underneath that hill. Some speak of a buried pyramid, while others mention clear evidence of a man- made structure, or chamber. With each survey, Goodman became more convinced that one of the greatest mythical artifacts— thought to exist only in legend— was, in fact, buried beneath Holly- wood.
How did a bestselling author become convinced that such a thing existed? Goodman tells the tale in her book Star Signs. It began on New Year’s Day 1970. While
promoting her bestselling Sun Signs, she stayed in room 1217 (later renumbered 1221) of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, then, as now, one of Hollywood’s iconic landmarks.
Unexpectedly, a stranger knocked on her door and identi- fied himself as “Nahtan.” He was invited in. During the discussion which followed, he made a number of extraordinary claims; he could, he said, bilocate, walk through walls, and other things. He was, apparently, an initiate of some advanced order, who had lived for more than thirty years in a monastery in
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