78: Dwarven doors, magic words & acoustics

Written by Linden Alexander Pentecost. This article was completed on the 14th of October 2025, published in the UK. This article is not to be confused with article number 55 on this website, which also includes some different discussion on dwarf mythology, portals and metals; the aforementioned other article is titled: 55: Brass pins and copper rods as spiritual language organs, and connected topics. This article in front of you is unrelated to any of my other publications; is only published on this website www.bookofdunbarra.co.uk and no AI was used in its creation, nor in that of any of my works. This article contains 2028 words. This article contains no sub-sections, but a lot of interesting text and topics. At the end of the article is this page’s URL for reference purposes, plus some other information and another link. This article also includes one photo (not my own, but used according to the photo's copyright conditions). This article is also unrelated to unrelated recent articles on this website pertaining to other aspects of mysterious sites (mainly sandstone).

In this article, I want to talk about something quite obscure, which relates to some of the other things I have discussed regarding the idea of sound over matter, or how by subjecting a physical object to the correct frequencies of sound, whether produced by language or music (or both), can alter its structure. I have even gone as far as to say that something made of solid rock, like a megalithic block, could be altered by sound so that the molecules in the rock behave more like those of a liquid. This could be the method that allowed our ancestors to shape enormous pieces of stone, not through physically shaping them, or by literally heating them into liquid form, but rather by using sound to somehow “excite” the molecules, turning the rock into a temporary, liquid-like state, rather like liquefaction, although this method of using “sound”, could theoretically work with completely solid objects, such as those made of granite, and not just with soil! I do not believe that any kind of technology was used, but that immense mental and, or psychic power, from our ancestors ability to connect the creative and analytical parts of the brain and to interface with matter as one consciousness, might be the cause, alongside the vocalisation of these brain waves, via chanting, singing, and possibly with the addition of musical instruments. I do not believe that modern humans today possess this ability, and I do not believe that any kind of technology can or could make this possible. Despite the supposition that “ancient people must have had advanced technology”, this is just our modern interpretation of trying to understand something that we cannot do today. I think it far more likely that our ancient ancestors did not need technology, at least, not as we understand it today.
Whilst I have previously discussed in this article and in many places elsewhere, how the concepts mentioned might be connected to the shaping and moving of gigantic stone blocks; another aspect to this I have not discussed previously are the “mysterious doorways” that you find in practically every part of the world. One famous example is found near Cusco in Peru, and is called Ñawpa Iglesia or Ñawpa Waka. This site contains a doorway, perfectly shaped into the rock, and yet there is no door, just a doorway in the mountainside. There are other similar sites in Peru, and in other parts of the world, including in England, although the examples I know of in England are too eroded to tell how they were made, although at least some of them appear to have been cut by hand, and not using some kind of ancient “matter-altering” sound method. Whilst the doorway at Ñawpa Iglesia is so perfect and precise that I do not think that it could have been created by human hands.
The word Ñawpa means “ancient” in Quechua, but also can refer from what I understand to a group of ancient people, who went underground and became the apukuna (I have discussed this more elsewhere and this site including in a print-only book published earlier this year), similar perhaps to how the dwarfs in European mythology are said to live underground. If you are familiar with the first book of the Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, titled: The Fellowship of the Ring, there is a part in this book where the company reaches the western entrance to Moria, an underground kingdom, only, there is no “door”, unless revealed by words. In the story, Gandalf seems to mutter words, which help to reveal the shape of the door. And only when saying the correct Elvish word, do the doors unlock. It is as though the doorway is locked in a solid, material state, being only a wall of solid stone, and that only when the correct words are spoken does the solid status of the rockface become “unlocked”, and in my opinion, perhaps this implies that the material status of the rock itself is “unlocked” via the “vibration/frequency” of the words spoken by Gandalf. 

Although I cannot think of any specific examples in mythology of words unlocking doors in mountains, this theme of magic words unlocking doors, or allowing passage to a sacred place, is common. And the idea of doors that appear in mountains or in mysterious places is also incredibly common in Europe. For example, in another article on this website, titled: 55: Brass pins and copper rods as spiritual language organs, and connected topics, which also touches on a more metallic aspect of the mystical relationship between spiritual beings, sound and matter; I mention a story in the English translation of the Estonian Kalevipoeg (The English title of the book is The Hero of Esthonia, translated by W.F. Kirby), the English title of this particular story being “The Lake Dwellers”. I discuss in the aforementioned article the use of copper rods to communicate with the dwarfs who live “under” this lake, or perhaps, in more multidimensional terms, in an underworld connected to the lake and surrounding landscape. Another aspect of this story which I did not mention in the aforementioned article but will talk about in this article in front of you, is that there is also a mysterious door which leads to this underworld, a door, which, from the implications in the story, seems normally to be invisible. Below I will quote the line from this story (from the English translation by W.F. Kirby, no longer in copyright), when the door is first noticed:

“Suddenly he saw, on raising his eyes, a great door of silver with golden lattice-work close to the mouth of the river”

This “lattice work” reminds me in a sense of the “western door” to Moria as depicted in a drawing in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, and of course the fact that both the door mentioned in “The Lake Dwellers”, and the “western door” to Moria in The Fellowship of the Ring are both connected to dwarfs, or as Tolkien calls them, dwarves. To quote another line from “The Lake Dwellers” as translated by W.F. Kirby:

“Then the old man found himself standing again on the banks of the lake near the mouth of the river, as if he had fallen from the clouds. The door had vanished, but the rods in his hand showed him that what he had seen was a reality.”

(The “rods” in question are those discussed in the unrelated article I mentioned titled titled: 55: Brass pins and copper rods as spiritual language organs, and connected topics). I tend to think that the “copper rods” are more an organ of language for communicating with the dwarfs, rather than for opening the door, but nevertheless this story gives a good example of a mysterious door of the archetypal nature discussed in this article. It could also be that using the “copper rods” also produces a sound frequency which “unlocks” reality and the invisible door.