Posted on 10/04/2022 5:46:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Consider, for example, the Japanese stone circles from Ōyu and Isedotai in northern Japan. While not the imposing monoliths of Stonehenge, the two circles, made of thousands of smooth river stones, line up with the sun during the summer and winter solstices, and they were both used in burial rites. And for both monuments, collecting materials and completing construction would have taken enormous community effort.
The similarities could also be related to topography: Japan and the United Kingdom are along the same latitude, sharing a similar climate and access to natural resources. But while the Neolithic people living near Stonehenge were farmers, the people of the Jōmon period constructing stone circles in northern Japan were fishers and hunter-gatherers.
The Salisbury exhibition will also display items found at Ōyu and Isedotai that are unique to Japanese culture, such as clay mushroom sculptures, perhaps suggesting an interest “in the mind-altering properties of fungi,” and clay figurines called dogū, which might have been used for fertility and healing rituals, per the Guardian.
Also on display is a clay cooking pot, which was hand-sculpted to mimic flames and likely used to cook fish stew.
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I thought that movie was a bit ridiculous.
I’ve been to Holland and I’m 6’2”.
There were a ton of hot blondes as tall as me with heels/pumps on.
We walked through the Red Light District…I saw zero white chicks.
If people are watching the stars to mark the seasons…they would use stones. Those stones, marking sunrises and sunsets, would form a circle.
There really isn’t much mystery to it.
Stone Henge is at 50 N, Tokyo is 35n. The northernmost islands are around 44 n
Fishermen have to keep track of the seasons for seasonal fish runs just like farmers have to keep track of seasons for planting.
It’s not that complicated. The symbolism of stone is timeless. To primitive man (and pretty much in all the pre-Hutton world), stone was eternal. They believed that marking your grave with stone meant you would be remembered forever.
And as the old saying goes, every man dies twice. Once when the breath leaves his body, and again when his name is spoken for the last time. Which is why so many cultures practiced ancestor worship. Mentioning an ancestor prevents their second death. And a grave marked with eternal stone makes it possible for your name to be remembered and hence spoken for eternity.
Japan had an entire battalion made up of only soldiers six foot and taller. It got wiped out.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered flat...
I use that, but don’t hear it often: my mother (who is fluent in Japanese thanks to both her Dad’s and my father’s postings) noted, the exact opposite of “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Two different cultures, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
It seemed an apropos aphorism for the taller force.
It was absolutely spot on-—
akin to using “God writes straight with crooked lines” in an especially fitting manner involving somehting to do with Portugal or Brazil, but better because it is more obscure.
They're so tall they've had to alter their building codes for doorway height and such.
Holland began a federally-subsidized nutrition program for pregnant women immediately after WWII. The US didn't have any such program until (IIRC) the early 70s. So the US might catch up in time. Or maybe the Dutch just keep getting taller and taller and ....
They’re round?
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