Stonehenge

After many terrible meteoric falls on the planet, the devastated peoples of earth experienced the Younger Dryas Meteor Strike, a 12,500-year old horror that changed time and culture across the planet.  According to research conducted by John Patrick Hill, earth’s ancient ancestors set out across the landscape to stop future threats from meteors and solar flares and in doing so, amassed great records.  His study shows the mathematics that was found by the use of geodesy - spiritual geometry that allows one insight into the magic of math.  According to Hill the people of the planet arrived in the American south-west and used ancient knowledge that flowed from Mexico and the Pacific, and their records became today’s great monuments and megalithic structures of the past.

This paper contain short description of next step of investigation of the author concerning ancient monument Stonehenge in Great Britain.  The author suggests explanation of Avenue and Cursus which are positioned near Stonehenge. The explanation is given from position of Egyptian mythology. Long and curved Avenue between Stonehenge and Avon River symbolize the body of Egyptian Goddess Nut. Cursus symbolize underground world Duat of ancient Egyptians. Also the author describes possible religious performances during midsummer sunrise and sunset, which are connected to mythology of Egyptian God Ra. In accordance to Egyptian mythology Avenue and Cursus symbolize ways of God Ra (Sun) in his boat during daylight and at night. In addition some notes are included concerning hydraulic technology of manufacturing of Stonehenge. In accordance to Arthurian legends, there is confirmation of origin of Stonehenge from Africa. The author continue to think about some common ancient knowledge connected to megalithic monuments.

R. Madgwick, A. L. Lamb, H. Sloane, A. J. Nederbragt, U. Albarella, M. Parker Pearson, J. A. Evans, Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain. Sci. Adv. 5, eaau6078 (2019)

The great henge complexes of southern Britain are iconic monuments of the third millennium BCE, representing great feats of engineering and labor mobilization that hosted feasting events on a previously unparalleled scale. The scale of movement and the catchments that the complexes served, however, have thus far eluded understanding. Presenting the largest five-isotope system archeological dataset (87 Sr/ 86 Sr,  34 S,  18 O,  13 C, and  15 N) yet fully published, we analyze 131 pigs, the prime feasting animals, from four Late Neolithic (approximately 2800 to 2400 BCE) complexes to explore the networks that the feasts served. Because archeological evidence excludes continental contact, sources are considered only in the context of the British Isles. This analysis reveals wide-ranging origins across Britain, with few pigs raised locally. This finding demonstrates great investment of effort in transporting pigs raised elsewhere over vast distances to supply feasts and evidences the very first phase of pan-British connectivity.

Identification of Thrinakia as Cornwall, with St. Michael's Mount as the rocky Skulla and the coast as Charudbis. Lake Loe and Helston are the residence of the Furry's or Erinues who watch over Helios'cattle, i.e. ingots of tin and other metals.

The Homeric Island of Tenedos (Tanatus) will be identified with The Isle of Thanet (Tanatus) and appears to be the first destination of Odysseus' second voyage after his visit to Kirke, where he had to pass the first initiation test of continence with the Seirenes, also called Tenitae.

Every human observation of the sky is in some way its descent on Earth. In the past, it was done more symbolic than practical, through reflection of the image of the sky in an object that functioned like a mirror. In that context, we analyze a Dodola folk song from Serbia in which a fairy invokes rain with a mirror she holds in her lap. During the ritual she is on top of a fir tree which has all the elements of a cosmic axis – it is located in the middle of the village and stretches high in the sky. The genesis of this structure can be traced back to the neolith through figurines of women-witches with a bowl of water in their lap in which they reflect the sky. These interpretations are further supported by lexemes from the Slavic languages which reflect the connection of the words for magic, sorcery (чарати, бацати чини) and those for shallow bowls, plates (чара, чинија). Then we analyze similar South Slavic rituals designed for taking the milk of a cow or a breastfeeding mother from another family. In these rituals women go to the threshing floor, take off their clothes and put a plate with water in their lap to reflect the moon. Then they strain the water through a sieve and believed that this makes the moon descend down to earth and moo like a cow. This is a magical ritual in which the straining of the water actually represents extracting the milk of the Moon which is depicted as a deity in the form of a cow. Supporting the relation woman-moon-water- fertility we mention numerous ethnographic and archeological facts which are based on the interference between the moon cycles and the female menstrual cycles. The movement of the sun in the ancient cultures was not always imagined as a cycle, but more as a semi-circular or wavy pattern, mostly because of the absence of a wheel as a paradigm. Still, the cyclic dynamics of the sun, the moon and the starry sky were observed even before the invention of the wheel and the carriage which later appeared in the era of metals and not as utilitarian but symbolic objects. It is assumed that the threshing hold prepositioned this, being a circular platform with a central pillar around which the horses or livestock moved in circles, stomping the wheat, separating the grain from the straw. This object also appeared as a symbolic phenomenon, a mythical image of the sky which depicts the cyclic movement of the celestial bodies. Its agricultural use comes secondarily. This is supported by the fact that most constellations have animal names, as well as the entire zodiac (‘animal circle’) – The Milky Way whose names contain straw – the essential part of the threshing hold; the immobile Polar star in the center of the sky or Pole star. It is believed that the threshing floor is not just a paradigm of the sky and its cyclic phenomena (‘celestial’/’ copper threshing floor’) but of numerous other constructions as well, which used to have a strong sacral status (the antic theaters orchestra, the arenas of the amphitheaters and stadiums..). It is also the basis of many temples-observatories like Stonehenge, as well as to similar Slavic bath-houses and the temples of other European tribes which were most likely used to observe the cyclic phenomena in the sky. The components we pointed out in this paper can be recognized in the temple in Kokino but not in the form of the object but in the form of the cyclic phenomena they observed in the temple (the threshing floor circle) and the central point through which they were observed (the threshing floor pillar).

The world-famous Neolithic circle of Stonehenge might possibly have been used as a precise open-air lunisolar calendar over thousands of years. The Nebra Sky Disc, dating from the Bronze Age, and 1500 years later in age, offers surprisingly the same constructional features and characteristics. In this study, it is emphasised that Stonehenge and the Nebra Sky Disc served as lunisolar calendars based on an 18.6 yr cycle, made possible by the observation of the motion of the northern lunar standstills solely. With both calendarsystems, solar and lunar eclipses could be predicted precisely on the day — more than 5000 years ago. With this study, a solution of the enigma about the astronomical function principles of henge architectures in the British Isles is discussed. The functional principles of the lunisolar calendars are similar to a modern computer: the moon serves as an impulse generator (processor), the circular arrangement of posts memorises data and an algorithm in a form of a software or calendar is performed with simple equipment. The Nebra Sky Disc could possibly be referred to as a portable and progressed laptop version of this computer.

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This is a brief summary of the 68-year odyssey by physicist and archaeologist Professor Terence Meaden that led to an understanding of the core planning behind the great megalithic monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire, Southern England. Born in Wiltshire his known ancestors over recent centuries come from the villages near these monuments.