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Hello,
With all due respect for Mike Parker Pearson´s (MPP) great archaeological works, I think there´s a need for a better understanding of the purpose of having made these enormous structures of stones and timber - and especially why there is a seemingly need to reconstruct the settings throughout larger periods of time.
MPP states the stone circles to represent "the dead" and the timber circles to the living, which in my mind is a little speculative. Ancient myths of creation speaks of the subject of "where we came from and where to we shall return" and in order to mark the cardinal directions of the creation, where our galaxy represents the ancient known Universe, 2 significant ritual circles are needed in order describe the myth of origin:
1 circle for the seasonal changes and daylight observations = The Earth centered year
1 circle for the movements of the stars and other nighttime observations = The Helio Centered year.
Because of the difference between the earthly and the starry year, creating the precessional movement of 1 degree every 71.6 years, it seems very likely that the builders had some difficulties with their ritual structures since it seemingly was necessary to rebuild and/or reconstruct the ritual sites so many times throughout larger periods of time.
If only concentrating on the seasonal circle and the positions of the Sun and Moon as a calendar system, this is not a problem, but when including the circle of the stars, which is necessary in order to locate the galactic center as the place from where everything is created in the ancient known Universe, this can cause troubles if a ritual site includes both circles because of the precessional movement where a setting stone or a timber pole comes "out of sync".
So again: 2 circles are needed if not having a possibility to regularly move a marker stone or timber pole accordingly to the precessional movement in just 1 circle. The star marking circle shall of course have a cardinal direction to the galactic center and thus to the story of origin and in my opinion many cultures have used Sirius in the star constellation of Orion in order to find the galactic direction. When drawing a line from Sirius over the north celestial pole area and further on to Vega in Lyra and prolonging this line, the direction point towards the galactic centre in the constellation of Sagittarius and to the galactic center, which often is marked on rock carvings as an open line going into the center of a ring, often marked as a center cup mark with concentric rings or in a maze figure. (Possibly also made as "the gateway" in the Stonehenge structure) See this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laxe_das_Rodas_01.jpg
So: One has to take this meaning into account when measuring and stating the cardinal directions of an actual ritual circle. Is it a seasonal circle or a star circle? But in both cases they tell of the movements in the creation and thus of the origin of mankind. Mike Parker Pearson and his friend, Ramilisonina, talks of "one timbered circle for the living and one stone circle for the dead" which in my mind is a simplification of the whole mythological story and meaning. Both kinds of circles tells of a cosmological and mythological connection and not of any kind of division between "the living and dead dimension", which certainly also would have been a very alien thought for our mythical and natural ancestors.
The ancient cosmological knowledge in Stories of Creation is very clear and precise when the telling is connected to the right observations and phenomena which in the first place regards the Milky Way galaxy and its observable contours all over the world.
Illustrative links:
Milky Way Contours: http://www.native-science.net/MilkyWay.Contours.htm
The Great Serpent: http://www.native-science.net/Divine_Serpent.htm
The Great Goddess: http://www.native-science.net/MilkyWay.MotherGoddess.htm
The Great God: http://www.native-science.net/MilkyWay.GreatestGod.htm
Other Mytho-Cosmological Papers: http://vixra.org/author/ivar_nielsen
Best Regards
Ivar Nielsen
Natural Philosopher
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