Stonehenge, a personal observation
by
Brian Dickenson
(Age: 73)
copyright 06-25-2005
Age Rating: 10 to 127
We have just had summer solstice here in the UK.
With big celebrations at Stonehenge.
What a terrible lot of rot.
Druids going through their ‘ancient’ ceremonies of worship. Greeting the spirits.
A ceremony that dates back all of a hundred years. They have had to invent everything, even using archaic language to make it sound right.
Just as they did when Prince Charles was invested as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon castle. It had never been done before, but they tried to make that appear to be a centuries old tradition.
Talking head ‘experts’ telling us how these Neolithic builders built, and why.
The truth is, no one knows. Not even who built it. Of course this does not stop them pontificating to us laymen.
Quite a number of the stones, no one knows how many, have been rendered over the years, they were eroding. So a lot of what you see is twentieth century cement.
A viewer sent a text to ask if it was built on ley lines. The reaction was funny, or would have been if it were not so tragic.
The very archaeologists, who had just been guesstimating what may have been, totally ridiculed the idea. Claiming that there is no proof that the lines exist.
Back in the sixties these same type of experts were claiming that they were built over ley lines.
A group of people dressed in what they thought Neolithic clothing would have looked like, made a grand entrance.
The commentator explaining that this could have been the style of dress worn in those days.
The style had been copied from grave remains in some Scandinavian country; they were not quite sure which one.
Also it was a style that was at least two hundred years younger than Stonehenge, as if style would have stayed still.
Looking at the clothing two hundred years ago from today would make the point.
In the nineteen sixties it was claimed that Stonehenge was an astrological calendar, a sort of heavenly computer.
According to today’s experts, this is absolute nonsense. Their theories are the right ones now.
The worrying thing was the belief they had in what they were saying.
A bit like Bush and Blair.
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Brian, I read a book about Stonehenge years ago. As I recall the author discussed the possibility the ancients were not sure which orb to worship...the sun or moon. They lunar shadow, as I recall- would cast its shadow on the winter solstice in a higher spot (during the alignment} than the solar shadow in summer. The author felt the ancients had a greater respect for the moon.
There was no science to explain things, so imagination ruled... mysticism. Anyway, When I saw Stonehenge I couldn't help but think of the movie SPINAL TAP- which featured 18" columns and the little people who danced-- "No one knew who they were and what they were doing." Just like today!!!
Great write.
I find theories to be an interesting thing. The current theory is usually the one that is thought to be right, until a better theory comes along. I never really studied Stonehenge intently, but from little I've heard about it on TV and so on, I would think that it was some sort of calendar, possibly to track the position of the sun throughout the year(That last sentence I wrote seemed a little long. Hope no one noticed). It would kind of make sense because it would be a good way for them to know when to plant crops, etc.
I find it interesting that we can look at a rock and know what the person was thinking when he chiseled it! I read works everyday that have so many meanings that you couldn't write them all down and experts think they know for sure what people thought 200 years ago? When I look back to what I thought last year, I wonder how I ever thought those things! Guessing is guessing even if you are smart! Good write! Anthony
Oh Brian, tell me it isn't so...could it really be that the 'experts' are not always correct? Are you saying that their theories change from one decade to the next? (smile)...I am so glad that you too read and see these things with a huge grain of salt. This essay is very well done, you voice your opinion with reason and style. I really enjoyed this, I did not know that the celebrations were more modern fantasy than historical fact...Well done.
Jean
Brian, this was excellent. Your style of writing is great and the subject matter fantastic. I have often thought of Stonehenge, and wondered what it was intended for. I don't think the historians are even close to the truth. I'm sure if those that built it could see what was going on today, they would just laugh. I don't think Stonehenge has all the mystery and occultism that people think it does. Who knows, it might just have been someones idea of English rock garden. lol
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