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Andy B
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|  New Message Posted!2012-11-27 21:20
Ully replies:
Thank you so much for posting!!!!
Many thanks for the interesting and helpful answers, links and
precious informations!!!!
Ully
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Runemage
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| New Message Posted!2012-11-16 21:26
Hi Guile,
Both Ireland and Orkney hold a special but different magic for me. If I ever win the lottery I'd love to charter a plane so I could be at Newgrange for Winter Solstice Sunrise and Maeshowe for Winter Solstice Sunset. What a day that would be 
Both places have so much to offer, Orkney is small so everything's easy to travel to and I'd love to see what they are finding at the Ness, it's intriguing and could turn the whole centrism of Neolithic Britain around.
Southern Ireland's much larger and with few road signs on minor routes, journeys are interesting, but you discover more. Paganism was never banished to the extent it was in the UK and old customs were just incorporated into Christianity so there's much less division of attitude towards ancient places. If you do get over there, look in the tourist info shops for some hand-drawn maps with illustrations of sites done by Jack Roberts and Bandia Publishing. In Irish ban(n) is white and dia is goddess. Also Griancloch is quartz, stone of the sun, evident at many ancient sites and in swathes of the landscape. Visiting Ancient Ireland is definitely an experience I'd love to repeat several times over.
Rune
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guile
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| New Message Posted!2012-11-16 18:44
gosh rune i've been thinking about going to ireland for ages, you really selling it to me now!
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Runemage
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| New Message Posted!2012-11-16 15:49
Hi Ully and welcome!
Our own Maeshowe page is here http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=106
I don't know about that particular event that you describe and haven't heard anything about this year's Winter Solstice being more visually stunning than usual, but Victor Regis has studied the Maeshowe Sunset and written about its different aspects for many years. He has some good information about the sunset and double sunsets and more with good photographs on his site http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/maeshowe/
Charles Tait, a well known Orkney photographer also is involved with the livecam at Maeshowe from late November, so not long to wait to see inside the mound. http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/index.html
Sigurd Towrie has an excellent website all about Orkney called Orkneyjar http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/solstice.htm
Orkney is a wonderful place to visit, I'd go again tomorrow if I could. Maeshowe is only accessible by booking at the Visitor Centre on the main road opposite the mound.
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The Boyne Valley is spectacular, Newgrange and Knowth can be seen only by booking at the visitor centre at Newgrange, then you're taken to whichever you chose, or both, by minibus.
Dowth isn't open to the public as far as I know, if you're definitely going, please ask nearer the date and I'll find out if there's a key available. Don't forget Fourknocks, the Hill of Tara, Loughcrew where the sun does something spectacular in August at Cairn T and so many other Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in the vicinity.
Hope that helps for now, please let me know if you need anything more specific.
Rune
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2012-11-15 23:26
Ully writes: Hello,
May I ask you a question:
Maybe you have been in June to the Carnac Congress with Howard
Crowhurst. I could not come from Austria, but some of the speeches I
saw on live-streams. Crowhurst mentioned, that on the 21st of
December this year there will be a special constellation at Maeshowe,
Orkneys.
The sun would sink exactly on the hilltop of the neighbour
island, if you watch from Meashowe, which is illuminated by the
sunset of the winter solstice. Crowhurst said, that this only once
happens in many thousands of years. So maybe twice within the
ecliptic cycle, as the sun starts "rolling down" the hill on winter-
solstice year after year, and then returning in some thousand years.
(The hilltop is not in the "middle".)
Do you know more about that?
Is anybody of your group in England going to the Orkney Islands?
Of course this spectacle happens only if it is not cloudy.
My friend and I think about going to the Orkneys, also it would be
interesting to go to Newgrange, Knowth & Dowth.
If you know anything more about the Orkney winter-solstice, I will be
very pleased to hear from you.
With best regards from a sunny Vienna,
Ully
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