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To: SunkenCiv
Stonehenge was a cremation cemetry

That seems much more likely to me based on what we know of the ancient world.

This theory of a "healing centre" strikes me as modern New Age nonsense.

In the days of the Trojan War (1200 B.C.?), Homer describes the burning of Patrocles' body on a giant funeral pyre that was a hundred feet each way.

He also describes the burning of Hector's body on a pyre so large that it contained "infinite quantities of wood" that took nine days to gather.

5 posted on 10/11/2008 1:48:08 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
He also describes the burning of Hector's body on a pyre so large that it contained "infinite quantities of wood" that took nine days to gather. Don't they do something like that a some university in Texas?
7 posted on 10/11/2008 2:38:44 PM PDT by stayathomemom ( nowanemptynester)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
"This theory of a "healing centre" strikes me as modern New Age nonsense.

In the days of the Trojan War (1200 B.C.?), Homer describes the burning of Patrocles' body on a giant funeral pyre that was a hundred feet each way."

My thoughts exactly. But if it really was a place of cremation, shouldn't there be evidence of a funeral pyre somewhere abouts?

12 posted on 10/11/2008 5:16:03 PM PDT by BroJoeK (A little historical perspective....)
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