[as we first reported two years ago - see the further comments on this page]
A West Cork stone circle has provided an 81-year old archaeologist with the answer to the riddle of Stonehenge. ‘I have solved it completely,’ Prof Terence Meaden, an archaeologist and physicist from Oxford University, told The Southern Star.
He explained that the people who created the Drombeg Stone Circle near Glandore had, in Neolithic times, ‘a fertility religion’ and for them the landscape was the earth mother and the sky was the heavenly father.
The archaeologist said these ‘intelligent people’ used tally sticks in Neolithic times to measure daily the progress of the sun on the landscape before placing some stones to represent the female form and some to represent the male.
He has discovered that at sunrise – not sunset – during the eight ancient agricultural festivals that include the solstices and quasi-equinoxes, the shadows of the male stones fall on the female stone and form ‘a union.’
There are eight couplings contained within Drombeg Stone Circles, some of which are doubles, and the photographic evidence of these couplings is both explicit and stark.
Read more at
http://www.southernstar.ie/news/roundup/articles/2016/09/26/4127114-oxford-professor-claims-drombeg-has-solved-the-riddle-of-stonehenge/
and information on Terry's new book Stonehenge, Avebury and Drombeg Stone Circles Deciphered: The archaeological decoding of the core symbolism and meanings planned into these ancient British and Irish monuments is here:
Stonehenge and Avebury head the list of Ancient British megalithic sites calling for archaeological interpretation, while in Ireland the monuments of Drombeg, Newgrange and Knowth claim highest attention. Considerable progress in solving their meanings is reported in this volume when, firstly, core principles embedded in the stone settings at Drombeg Stone Circle are firmly established. Specific aspects of the culture were retrievable because the builders left interpretable clues by way of stored symbols and images together with clues arising from the precision with which stone positions had been decided.
Attention to such detail led to understanding the logic behind stone selection and settings at Stonehenge and Avebury. Solving Drombeg was key to cracking the code built into these monuments. The final breakthrough came from recognizing that stone-to-stone interactions by shadows cast at sunrise on particular dates of the year are always between a stone classifiable as male with an acceptor stone identifiable as female.
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