It's this guy and several happy little trees;
Posted on 01/14/2005 2:21:48 PM PST by blam
Must've been the Picts...
Odds are those crop circle guys are direct descendants of the rock carvers.
For a moment there, I thought that rock thingie was the carving on the side of MY oxcart.
I just don't know. I wish I did.
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It's this guy and several happy little trees;
(just so the links work)
Portrait:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/photos/2278_ANCIENT_CARVINGS.jpg
Landscape:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/photos/2287_ANCIENT_CARVINGS.jp
One bears a lichenness to Kris Kringle - the other has bushy elf eyebrows.
So this is what they do in January.....
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Could be.
Me love science.
Well, I just have to wonder how that hole got there. That's all I'll say. ;')
I mean, it's not like there was TV thousands of years ago...
But that's it, all I'll say.
Then I got just the guy for ya
.....;)
"I'm sure the artists who hammered their symbols on the stones thousands of years ago, on their windswept moorland settlements, never imagined their work would become such a world phenomenon as this!"
Much less that it would be viewed on a computer from any place on the world (wiich is in fact round!). I wonder if someday the archives of FreeRepublic will be part of some universal library that can be accessed using mind telepathy from anywhere in the universe?
Oddly enough, there are many "cup marks" in the granite boulders on the ridge east of my house.
I have no idea if they're some kind of very odd [and very specific] type of erosion or what.
The area was absolutely thick with Indians, at one time so maybe they made them *but* I also have a greenstone hammer/ax/celt found near here that is referred to "archaic" in era.
It's a ground tool, not chipped or flaked like the usual Indian artifact, although there's plenty of chipped/flaked arrowheads around.
I often wonder if the ax/hammer didn't have more to do with the "Kennewick man" type of inhabitants than "Indians".
Be all of that as it may, the "cup marks" are always full of acorn and walnut shells because squirrels and chipmunks seem to love placing nuts in the "cup marks" and then crack them.
What does it "mean"?
Ain't gotta clue.....:)
Yes, and we have time travel as well.
Those carvings are variations on a dominant theme:
http://www.knowth.com/newgrange-chamber.htm
The ancient Irish believed that the Sidhe aka the fairies [oops...The Good Folk...Salamander crosses herself and hopes they weren't offended] made them.
Whomever made them got sure around.
The spiral "maze" and variations of it are found everywhere on the planet.
Could have been a universal/archetypal symbol.
Google "The Five Invasions of Ireland" for a wild mythopaeic ride.
Yup. Cherchen Man had them painted on the side of his face after he died.
Bill Nye The Science Human
Muttly like semi-hysterical experimentors.
Self-affirming.
....now back to the Lab.
Don't get me started on my patented "the Celts were everywhere" rant!....LOL!
I used to think Mr Wizard was *it* until I found Bill Nye....;))
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