Stonehenge 'No Place For The Dead' Says BU Expert

Alpha Galileo ^ | 11-16-2006 | Timothy Darvill

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[theFIRMbss]

In ancient times,
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history.
There lived a strange race of people
...the Druids.

No one knows who they were
Or what they were doing...
But their legacy remains...
Hewn into the living rock of...

Stonehenge...

Stonehenge
Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live
And they do live well

Stonehenge
Where a man is a man
And the children dance to the pipes of pan

Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face

Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky

And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Good interesting theory of Stonehenge

Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died
(1972)
A novel by
This rousing adventure story set in the Europe of 1473 B. C. Above all sets out to entertain. But it also has a rather more serious purpose - to expound another theory about the reasons for the building of the fascinating stone circles.

[Callahan]

Let's ask an eye witness:

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Harry Harrison's Stonehenge

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Well there had to be a reason why it was built where it was, because moving rocks that size over 200 kilometers must have been some task.

[theFIRMbss]

>moving rocks that size over 200 kilometers must have been some task

But humans are strange. Their reasons for doing it centuries ago might be just as dumb as whatever Chicago had in mind with this . . .

[GoLightly]

I think that piece of art would be proof of humans with too much time on their hands.

[Xenalyte]

Stonehenge ‘No Place for the Dead’, Says BU Expert

Then don't let 'em go in there!

[sine_nomine]

I imagine Velikovsky has a theory about Stonehenge.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Harry Harrison's Stonehenge was made to entertain and a lot of it is an unusual theory about henge's manufacturers.

[Joe 6-pack]

I love that song...I usually crank my volume all the way up to 11 when I listen to it....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

"Apollo built the walls of Troy using music." -- Mary Stewart

New glacier theory on Stonehenge
BBC News | June 13, 2006
Posted on 06/13/2006 10:27:54 AM EDT by billorites
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648503/posts

"A geology team has contradicted claims that bluestones were dug by Bronze Age man from a west Wales quarry and carried 240 miles to build Stonehenge. In a new twist, Open University geologists say the stones were in fact moved to Salisbury Plain by glaciers."

[GoLightly]

What would Mary Stewart know about moving big stuff?

This link was probably from a previous post in your list, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0

[SunkenCiv]

It's a line (remembered, so probably not verbatim) from one of her Merlin novels. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

[Blind Eye Jones]

What does "henge" in Stonehenge mean? The name means what exactly? So if you take the henge out of Stonehenge you are left with stone... not just one stone but many. Many stones like dominoes, like a crop circle in a quarry, which is a quandry of query for querulous questioners. But it's not about "q"s unless there was quartz involved. My theory is that it is about the "s&h," about sh*t hitting the ancient mind in the form of a rock solid rock from nowhere that bred with other rocks to create a family or a circle of friends. All IMHO, of course.

[SunkenCiv]

Velikovsky mentioned Stonehenge as a possible observatory.

[SunkenCiv]

"Henge" means hanging, the hanging stones. Wikipedia quotes an expert saying that "henge" is derived from the Old English word for "hinge", and oddly enough, that it pertained to the look of the gallows. Hengist and Horsa were both named for everyone's favorite transportation animal, if memory serves, but I'm not sure how that works out. They were of the Jutes (Jutland is in modern Denmark) who were among the (mostly) post-Roman invaders of Britain, and Hengist appears (along with his employer, Vortigern) in the Arthurian stories.