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What was Stonehenge for? by Anonymous on Tuesday, 21 June 2005

How about this, excerpted from HYPNOSIS by Lucas Hyde:


'Isn't it incredible that the moon just exactly eclipses the sun, creating the diamond ring, as they call it? I mean, any smaller or any further away and it wouldn't work. You could almost imagine that Earth would be a tourist destination for aliens - "Oh, that planet whose only moon so perfectly eclipses the sun."'

'It does seem unusual - just the right size - but you've lost me.'

'The moon might be significant. It waxes and wanes with a period of 28 days - the menstrual period of a woman, but not all mammals, and only a few bleed - us, apes, and a few monkeys. And doesn't that have to be significant - procreation, on which our existence depends. Blood makes it all the more "in your face". Think about it. If someone wanted to give us a message, they could hardly leave us a larger, more indelible one. They say, "You're moon is significant. How many planets could happen to have just such an eclipse? And there is a relationship between the moon and the continuation of your species." A message, astronomical in scale and written in blood - surely the message can only be that they had a hand in our creation.'

'Where do you get all this, Julian? Have you got a friend who's a druid or something?'

'Where do I get it? Where do I get it?! Not from druids. Though I grant you, I did think of something along that line - well actually, something that predates druids. I thought how many millions of people throughout the ages of mankind must have been struck by exactly the same thought as I'd had. And then I realized - Stonehenge, a place of observation of the heavenly bodies. What was the purpose of Stonehenge, I thought, and then I suddenly had it. They were trying to discover the rest of the message.'

'What rest of it?'

'Look, how can you discover a message if you don't know you're supposed to be looking for it. The eclipse and the menstrual period are just a marker, an attention grabber - "There's a message here!" The rest of the message could well be beyond the means of a prehistoric civilization to uncover, but it'll be obvious, so obvious that we'll slap ourselves on the forehead and say how could we have missed that for so long.'

'So what is the rest of the message?'

Now it was his turn to laugh. 'Well, I don't know. I've hardly begun to look... but I'm willing to bet, if it's there at all, it's staring somebody in the face even now.'

'Or it could be just a coincidence. Somebody thinks about a friend they haven't heard from for a long time. Then the phone rings, and it's the friend. They think it's ESP. Coincidences happen all the time. It's a trap to believe they must be significant.'

'Absolutely. Absolutely,' he said and blushed, 'I realize that,' but he saw that Gordon had noticed him redden, and now looked almost fearful. Could it be that Gordon mistook his colour for anger? So he said quickly, 'Perhaps that's why the Stonehenge civilization vanished. Perhaps they died out of monumental embarrassment.'



Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road