Ancient Irish were first to record an eclipse -- 5,355 years ago

IrishCentral ^ | Friday, July 31,2015 | Cathy Hayes

[Salamander]

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29415716

One of my most cherished books

http://www.amazon.com/The-Creative-Explosion-Inquiry-Religion/dp/0060133457

[Salamander]

Most consider serpent worship to be the earliest form of religion and it is literally universal.

All cultures have it.

Some interesting articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_worship

http://www.daimonas.com/pages/snake-worship.html

http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/wos/index.htm

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sumer_anunnaki/reptiles/reptiles52.htm

http://blog.world-mysteries.com/strange-artifacts/the-mystery-of-serpent-worship/

[Salamander]

Snakes and circles

http://worldclasssnakes.wikia.com/wiki/Snakes_In_Mythology

[colorado tanker]

You mean you don’t think every pile of rocks by neolithic people is an astronomical observatory???

[Beowulf9]

Still thinking of this Cairn L and discovering the owner of the land does not allow ones on it. I can see where this might protect it but is it just weathering away?

Is Cairn L protected by archaeologists or Ireland? Are there any plans to allow it to be explored further?

[Beowulf9]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3185862/Were-ancient-Irish-record-ECLIPSE-5-000-year-old-drawings-mysterious-cairn-depict-celestial-event.html

[Beowulf9]

One more thing. In the stone petroglyph illustration, the shape on the left is the larger circle and so I'm supposing it is the sun. It has a shape from the moon eclipsing it coming from the right but it is shows a CONVEX shape. Is it really the drawing of an eclipse? Below is a photograph of an eclipse. The moon is beginning to cover the sun with a convex shape but the moon is on the LEFT, opposite the cave stone illustration of this supposed eclipse. If the the sun were on the left in an eclipse it would make a CONCAVE shape but this drawing shows what appears to be a larger circle on the left with a CONVEX shape. The only answer I could come up with is are we to believe the body on the left, even though drawn as a larger circle, is supposed to be the moon? Would this represent their importance placed on the moon? Otherwise, this glyph makes no sense.

[SunkenCiv]

Reference my remark, “I regard 99 percent of archaeoastronomy claims as absurd”. :’)

[Beowulf9]

Lol. Yes, it was the first thing I thought of after studying that glyph;)

[SunkenCiv]

From the look of that graphic, it appears that the ancient Irish invented pacman.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e_jEpl-0Rcs/TgiWHJluCsI/AAAAAAAAE-Q/qFIBRxbwOMc/s1600/eclipse-solar-2011-completo-500x299.jpg