When I first heard about the London Olympics 2012 logo, was supposedly intentionally made to spell ZION, I at first scoffed at the suggestion, I almost went down the route of; "...some people find a 'conspiracy' in almost anything".  However, further research has revealed, something is not quite right.  I was born and bred in that neck of the woods, in fact used to play football, fish and swim yards from the Olympic site, in the River Lea, which snakes through Hackney marshes, and where the 2012 Olympic site is situated right in the middle of Leyton, Leytonstone, East[ern] Way, East [ern] Cross Road, Great Eastern Road, Carpenters Road, Temple Mills, Temple Mill Lane and Orient Way.  That’s where Leyton Orient football club got their name, as they too are just across the marsh from the Olympic site.  Now it doesn’t take too much of the imagination, too see both the biblical and Masonic references in these list of names, i.e. Joseph was a carpenter, the Eastern way in direction of the Great Eastern Star of Jesus.  And the Order of the Great Eastern Star, whose symbol, is the multi-cloured pentagram, - formed in 1850, and is a fraternal afilliated branch of the Freemasons, for both men and women.  It’s based on teachings from the Bible, but is open to people of ‘all theistic beliefs’, as is the Freemasons. - It has approximately 10,000 chapters in twenty countries and approximately 500,000 members.  Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a master Mason, but the Order now allows other relatives as well as allowing Job’s Daughters, Rainbow Girls, Members of the Organization of Triangle [NY only] and members of the Constellation of Junior Stars [NY only] to become members when they become 18.

Zion is a term that most often refers to Jerusalem and, by extension, the Biblical land of Israel.  In Kabbalah^[1] the more esoteric reference is made to Zion^[2] being the spiritual point from which reality emerges, located in the Holy of Holies of the First, Second and Third Temple.  It commonly referred to a specific mountain near Jerusalem [Mount Zion], on which stood a Jebusite [a tribe who built Jerusalem] fortress of the same name that was conquered by David and was named the City of David.  The term Zion came to designate the area of Jerusalem where the fortress stood, and later became a figure of speech for Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, the city of Jerusalem and generally, the Promised Land to come.  According to the Hebrew Bible, God dwells among his people in Israel.

     Then very much along the same theme as King James II, Sir Christopher Wren, John Evelyn and Nicholas Hawksmoor, all Freemasons and the Masonic builders of ‘New London’ following the Great Fire of 1666, as the city was to be the “New Jerusalem”, to reinforce the theory the English were descendents of the “Lost tribe of Israel”.  It’s also interesting to note, that the hymn/poem; Jerusalem by William Blake [1757-1827] includes the words; “...And was Jerusalem builded here; Among these dark Satanic Mills? [Temple Mills?]  ...Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land.”  

     The Earth’s magnetic field, also called the geomagnetic field, which effectively extends several tens of thousands of kilometres into space, forms the Earth’s magnetosphere, and without going to technical and deep, the earth is covered in these magnetic lines, and what “we”, man has for generations termed “Ley-Lines”.  As we know something odd happening with our Sun, and many birds and fish have been either dropping out of the skies or being washed up on a beach somewhere, - as animals including birds and turtles can detect the Earth’s magnetic field, and use the field to navigate during migration.^[3] Cows and wild deer tend to align their bodies north-south while relaxing, but not when the animals are under high voltage power lines, leading researchers to believe magnetism is responsible.^{[3][4] [5]}

     The River Lee spellings Lea and Lee are both in current use, but the river is more often called the River Lea [anciently sometimes the River Ley] and the navigation the Lee Navigation.  Ley-lines are alleged alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths that are thought by certain adherents to dowsing and New Age beliefs to have spiritual power.  Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, in his book The Old Straight Track.^[6]  Many famous ‘Landmarks’ are said to be built along some Ley-lines, and Watkins identified St. Ann’s Well in Worcestershire as what he believed to be the start of a Ley-line that passes along the ridge of the Malvern Hills through several springs including the Holy Well, Walms Well and St. Pewtress Well.  In the late 1970s Paul Devereux stated he had discovered the “Malvern Ley” which began at St Ann’s Well and ended at Whiteleaved Oak. The alignment passes through St. Ann’s Well, the Wyche Cutting, a section of the Shire Ditch, Midsummer hillfort and Whiteleaved Oak ^[7].

     Temples Mills/Mills were established including the Knights Templar mill at Temple Mills ^[8].  Much of the marsh was ‘owned’ by the Templars and used for pasture.  When the Templars were abolished, the land passed to the Knights Hospitaller, and thence to the Crown during the Reformation, when monastic lands were seized.  A ‘Ney’, is a very ancient cane or reed flute instrument, with depictions of ‘ney’ [Hackney, Putney, Romney] players appearing in wall paintings in the Egyptian pyramids and actual neys being found in the excavations at Ur, ^[9]  and associated with Pan as in Panpipes, as the Romanian word nai is also applied to a curved Pan flute.  The Romans appear to have built a significant stone causeway across the marshes here, [Hackney Marshes] a periodical, the Ambulator of 1774, noted: “...there have been discovered within the last few years the remains of a great causeway of stone, which, by the Roman coins found there, would appear to have been one of the famous highways made by the Romans...”^[10]  

So after knowing what I know about the Freemasons, “Hackney”, and the City of London in general, then I think the 2012 / Zion logo is beyond coincidence.   And please take note, oddly enough since this 2012/Zion link was recently made national news here in the UK, with the Iranians threatening to boycott the games, - various websites that show a arial view of the area, seemed to have come under a cyber attack, so be cautious if and when you might wish to cross reference and check the names of the roads and areas, as it happened to me and almost crashed my computer, but my Norton security stopped it.  It noted that 11 viruses were attempting to threaten my computer. I wonder whose did that then, - and more so why?

[1] http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/parsha/dimension/archives/devarim.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion#cite_note-0

[3]^ Deutschlander M, Phillips J, Borland S (1999) “The case for light-dependent magnetic orientation in animals” Journal of Experimental Biology 202(8): 891-908

[4]^ Burda, H; Begall, S; Cerveny, J; Neef, J; Nemec, P (Mar 2009). "Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields disrupt magnetic al.... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (14): 5708–13. doi:10.1073/pnas.0811194106. PMC 2667019. PMID 19299504. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&.... 

[5] ^ Dyson, PJ (2009). "Biology: Electric cows". Nature 458 (7237): 389. doi:10.1038/458389a. PMID 19325587.

[6]Watkins, A. 1921 Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and Sites.

[7] ^ Devereux, P. Thomson, I. 1979 The ley hunter's companion: aligned ancient sites : a new study with field guide and maps Thames and Hudson ISBN 0-500-01208-3

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_Marshes#cite_note-old.26new-0

[9 ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ney

[10] 'The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney', Old and New London:...