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New Dating For Wat's Dyke
History Today | August 1999 | Keith Nurse
Posted on 07/30/2004 7:13:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Ah ha! I saved it in my links page. That's three in a row tonight. Thanks sonofron for posting the link (somewhere, since Jun 1)!
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Unearthed, The Prince Of Stonehenge
The Telegraph (UK) | 8-26-2002 | Roger Highfield
Posted on 08/25/2002 5:04:48 PM PDT by blam
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About 35 years ago, Gerald Hawkins wrote the book "Stonehenge Decoded", a book that could be considered the roots of the current ideas about Stonehenge as an ancient observatory.Crop Circles: A Deeper LookProfessor Gerald Hawkins made the connection between his Euclidian Geometry theorems, which produce diatonic ratios, linking crop circles with the notes on a musical scale. Musical notes are produced by sound vibrations and they in turn create different shapes. A low frequency of sound will produce a simple circle, while an increase in frequency will produce concentric rings around the circle which multiply as the frequency increases. Each year the crop circles or pictograms become more and more complex. Soon after Hawkins' discovery, crop circles began to emerge that would confirm his theories.
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Modern druids are just, uh, eccentrics (to put it politely).
The ancient druids left no known written records (although pre-Roman inscriptions survive here and there in the British Isles and some other places). The term druid has obscure origins (meaning that there's no agreement as to what the term means, and it's probably a transliteration anyway); one version I recall is that it is a corruption of the term "daru vid" which means "to know the oak".
"Knock knock." "Who's there?" "A druid." "A druid who?" "Quit talking to the door and open up."
The sunrise on the solstice doesn't take place on the Heel Stone, it rises off to one side, than kind of rolls up toward the tip of the stone. When the stone was first erected thousands of years ago, the "alignment" would have been even worse than it is now, assuming of course that A) the alignment is not a modern invention, which is my view, and B) that there hasn't been a significant change in the Earth's motion. Hope this helps. :')
I work with a guy who spent a year on Shemya with the USAF back in the sixties. He said people were volunteering to go to Vietnam just to get off that rock.
Those guys in OBOD, Keltria, AOD, BDO and all those other druid groups, on the other hand ... ;)
The supply clerk being young dumb and from DeTroyt didn't question it.
Good collection of links.
A distant cousin wrote a book or as it has been called, a thick tome about our family in Norway. It has a copywrite date of 1980. It takes over a month to get a copy of the book sent over to a library near me & no, I can't buy a copy of it.
Anyhowz, there was something about a site in SE Norway where there is/was a line of stones, about 3 feet tall. Research had been done on the ground under them. The ground was rich with small bone fragments & I think some of them were identified as human. I think research into the area was just starting around the time of the book's publication. I think the place was somewhere in Aust Adger, though it could have been in one of the other fylkes near there. There was an old oral tradition of some tunnel or deep cavern opening, close to the stones, but the opening had become hidden or lost.
I have looked for more information on the site on & off for quite some time & I have always come up empty. If you ever come across anything that sounds like this site in Norway, please let me know.
I'm glad you found it!
I watched the new king arthur movie that came out last year. i was very dissapointed. They had mini stonehinges in some of the sets...
Confucius say...
"Modern day druids aint built like the Druids of old days."
And anyway, "Druids" had nothing to do with Stonehenge (except possibly as tourists). Stonehenge was built a looooonnng time before the Celts entered Britain.
Yeah, but it is cold in the winter. You don't expect these "back-to-nature" freaks to deal with cold tootsies, do you?
I work outdoors as a soils scientist, and I vividly remember a summer afternoon in Lee County, South Carolina, when I was working in a soybean field, and saw fog forming when the temperature was in the mid-90's. Now THAT'S humidity.
Because it's a lot warmer to run around naked in June than December, these freaks will not be interested in this new research.
fun graphic.
Thanks!
I don't see how there can be much debate, honestly. What little we know about the ancient druids, other than the archaeological evidence, is basically what was written about them by the Romans, who were not exactly enamored of Celtic culture. Unless these modern "druids" are reviving the practice of building wicker men and burning people alive inside of them, I think we pretty much have to consider their practices to be almost completely speculative.
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