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114 pages of results. 11. Stonehenge - A Calendar? (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... . 1 (Fall 1983) Home | Issue Contents Forum Stonehenge - A Calendar?To the Editor of KRONOS: Alban Wall's "A Calendric View of Stonehenge" (KRONOS VIII:2 , pp. 35-46) promises a major breakthrough in understanding the purpose of Stonehenge. However. since the Sun marker completes a revolution around the Aubrey Circle in 13 x 28 = 364 days, one day a year must be skipped and an additional day must be skipped every four years to keep in step. Only with such an adjustment can one end up with exactly 247 revolutions in 19 years (pp. 37-38). Presumably, this was done at the summer solstice; and ...
12. The Aubrey Holes Of Stonehenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... Drawing 1) Drawing 1. Stonehenge. Showing the principal elements of the structure. 1) A circular dirt bank about 6 feet high, 300 feet in diameter (now almost completely eroded away), pierced in its northeastern sector by a broad, flat avenue that leads in a straight line away from the site. 2) A circle of 56 holes (called the Aubrey circle) immediately inside the bank, from which the dirt was originally removed to be replaced with a filling of chalk rubble. 3) An upright megalith called the Heel Stone (or Friar's Heel) stationed approximately 256 feet from the center of the circle, offset to left of center in the ...
... make a tropic condition from pole to pole. On such a paradise-earth we find millions of tropic and semi-tropic animals luxuriating while the vapors linger and the centuries roll on. But the end comes; it has to come. It would take us far into fields of intricate thought to show how revolving canopies emassing in the region of the polar circles would eventually break from their celestial moorings, and plunge as vast avalanches in those regions and as watery debacles in warmer latitudes. The lack of space forbids this side-excursion here. I will only point to the well-known fact that the end did come. We see the tremendous fact that the earth did not grow cold and then get its ...
14. The Aubrey Holes of Stonehenge (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... | Issue Contents The Aubrey Holes of Stonehenge (Concluded)Alban Wall III Interesting investigations have recently been carried out at an archaeological site high in the Big Horn Mountains of northern Wyoming. The structure is generally thought to have been built several hundred years ago by Plains Indians for an undetermined purpose.* What the site consists of is a circle of stones approximately 83 feet in diameter on a relatively flat area with a pile of stones acting as a hub at its center and 28 uneven spokes radiating to the rim. There are five other stone cairns at various points on the circumference and a sixth that lies a short distance outside the rim at the terminus of an extended spoke ...
15. The Crescent II [Books]
... -- IX (Part b) THE CRESCENT-SHIP All ancient sun gods sail in a celestial ship. In the oldest ritual the ship appears as a crescent revolving around the circle of the great god's dwelling, while the god himself remains stationary. The ship's "mooring post" (and, by extension, its "mast") is the cosmic mountain. One of Saturn's most extraordinary possessions is the ark of heaven. Saturn is "literally represented as sailing over the ocean in a ship," remarks Faber. (1 ) Ovid tells us that because the planet-god traversed the entire sphere of the "earth" in his primordial voyage, his special token was a ...
16. The Crescent [Books]
... "Neill claimed that the sign symbolized the celestial pole, he took the sign as a kind of metaphor- an ancient means of representing the revolution of the circumpolar stars around a fixed centre. Others have identified the band as the illusory atmospheric halo which occasionally surrounds the solar orb, while still others explain the band as an abstract "circle of the sky." But the connection of the band with a crescent would suggest a more tangible character. As a test of this possibility several questions require examination: Is Saturn, the primeval sun, associated with a crescent? Is there a consistent connection of the crescent and the band of the enclosed sun ? Is the crescent ...
... method of lighting New Fire, Great Pyramidal Temple at Suku, Java, Astronomical Serpent from Mexican, MSS, at Dresden. Great Serpentine Earth Work, Adams county, Ohio. Section of same. Great Serpent Effigy in Iowa Mounds arranged in Serpentine Form, lowa. Great Serpentine Earth Work, St. Peter's Ricer, lowa. Remarkable Circle and Pentagun, Prairie du Chien Ancient Symbolical Earth Work, Kickapoo River, lowa Ancient work, Pike courrty, Ohio, Teamtlil, the princicipal Deity of Mexico, Cihuacohuatl, his consort, principal Goddess of Mexico. Cinteotl, the Mexican Goddess Of Fecundity 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. Hieroglyphical ...
18. A Calendric View Of Stonehenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VIII No. 2 (Winter 1983) Home | Issue Contents A Calendric View Of Stonehenge Alban Wall Copyright (c ) 1982 by Alban Wall In an earlier paper,(1 ) I presented evidence indicating that the Aubrey circle of holes at Stonehenge was designed to be used as a solar calendar. The present article can be considered an extension of that hypothesis which is here made to include the remaining components of the structure. It will be shown that the functional correlation of these remaining components, in conjunction with the previously discussed Aubrey Circle, combine to form an amazing and sophisticated calendrical device which is more accurate in its basic simplicity than anything ...
19. Setting And Using The Stonehenge Nineteen Year Sun-Moon Calendar [Journals] [Horus]
... . Its daily movement along the horizon comes to a stop and reverses direction at the Summer Solstice (June 21st), and Winter Solstice (December 21st), the longest and shortest days of the year. The solstices marked the beginning of the New Year in ancient calendar systems. The phases of the Moon are shown between the Sarsen Circle and the Trilithon Horseshoe to emphasize their close relationship with those components of the Stonehenge. We suggest that the reader use the Stonehenge Calendar as described below as background for "The Calendar of Coligny", which will be published in a future issue of HORUS. Setting the Sun and Moon Markers Place a marker on the Sun Circle at ...
20. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... ben." Dan Geoffrey Chaucer's Hous of Fame INTRODUCTION. This list of star-names is published in the endeavor to fill an acknowledged vacancy in our popular astronomical literature. It is not intended for the professional astronomer, who, as a rule, cares little about the old designations of the objects of his study, alphabets, numerals, and circles being preferable, indeed needful, for his purposes of identification. Yet great scholars have thought this nomenclature not unworthy their attention,- Grotius, Scaliger, Hyde, and our own Whitney, among others, devoting much of their rare talent to its elucidation; while Ideler, of a century ago, not without authority in astronomy as ...
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