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... sacred and classic history, and the putative home of the Phoenicians. I have drawn conclusions from the worship and veneration of these sacred stones, of which the British Isles are the centre, sanctified by the divine fire, and to which human sacrifices were freely offered. I have contended that these stones, whether set up as temples, menhirs, or idols, were erected for a deeply religious principle, in no way proving that the builders were primitive, for, on the contrary, they appear to have flourished in the Bronze and even the early Iron Ages. It is to be observed in addition that the construction of these prehistoric temples of an astronomical character, like ...
... as it still is called in stretches; the road from London to Lincoln bears the same name, as also that between Marlborough and Cirencester onwards. Stones sacred to him exist as Protector of Roads, as at Thornborough, near Catterick, dedicated to the "god of the roads", and, according to Gale, the upstanding three menhirs at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, now called the "Devil's Arrows". Perhaps in no phase of activity did Hermes exercise more influence than as the conductor of the souls of the dead to the Celtic and Egyptian Underworld. It was his greatest service to mankind, but as it is a subject I shall dwell upon more fully later in ...
28. The Garden, the Fall, and the Restoration [Journals] [Kronos]
... ] It is inappropriate here to offer a lengthy catalogue of the physical evidence of advanced human cultures in prehistory. Such evidence has been gathered and presented in detail by a number of researchers(1 ) and includes great walls and roads now submerged under oceans; copper and iron mines tens of thousands of years old; giant megalithic grids of menhirs and standing stones; other megalithic stones too heavy to move with modern cranes, yet somehow transported far from their quarries (such as the 1000 ton trilithon at Baalbek); imprints of sandal-clad human feet in sandstone conventionally dated in millions of years; and so on. Based on such fragmentary and enigmatic evidence, no definite conclusion can ...
29. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations [Journals] [Aeon]
... [2 ] On the one hand, this arrangement consists of 56 pits- between 0.60 and 1.80 meters in diameter, and 0.60 to 1.20 meters deep- situated inside a circular earthwork of about 125 meters in diameter. The entrance to this earthwork faces north-east, while outside it stands the single menhir known as the Heelstone. Close to the Heelstone there exists another hole that must have contained the base of yet one more standing stone. It had been surmised that the missing stone might have formed a gate with the still standing Heelstone. Steel, on the other hand, is of the opinion that this set-up was used to observe ...
30. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the vengeful hands of Hephaestus (hence Athena who, we shall see, is tied to Hephaestus and a protagonist and director of the action in the Love Affair). Suhr speaks of the countless clay cones of Mesopotamia that copy the shadow of the Moon. They rotate upon the face of the dark land, and become a type of menhir turned by human figures of stone. Nannar the moon god of Mesopotamia works hard to keep the cone rotating. The cone emblem is found on a coin of Byblos (Syria) and at the city of Paphos (Cyprus) where a large cone stood in the open court of the Temple of Aphrodite. With regard both to Aphrodite ...
... . Luckily, many of Thom's conclusions, if correct, will not affect Velikovsky's conclusions. The suggestions that would bear on uniformity are those concerning astronomy. About this Fleming states the following, which is not merely opinion: "Unfortunately, pre-historians are now faced with all manner of claimed astronomical directions, involving rugged skylines, broken, recumbent menhirs, excavated pot holes, stone alignments, cairns and barrows, unexplained humps and bumps, and even in one case straight presumably modern tracks. Standing stones can be interpreted as general pointers or precise indicators; at various times their tops, lower portions or flattened sides can be considered as significant". Fleming mentions that there does seem ...
32. Krupp And Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... priesthood" that Thom and his supporters envisage has been found. In fact, traditional prehistorians see the megalith-constructing societies as primarily egalitarian. Secondly, the megaliths have now been found to be not only older than was previously believed but their construction seems to have occupied a longer time span. The erection of the stone rings, and presumably other menhirs, began about 3200 B.C . and continued until 2000 B.C .( 27) Through astronomical retrocalculation, Thom dated his stellar lines at ca. 2000-1600 B.C ., the solar lines at Kintraw and Ballochroy at ca. 1650+ 80 B.C ., and arrived at a mean dating of 1580 ...
... developments of the same race as constructed cromlechs and stone tumuli. Well, we have seen from whence they originated. He says: "It is true that pyramid building was not a thing originally Egyptian.... The stone or granite pyramid was undoubtedly introduced by a stone-raising people of the west people who built cairns and tumuli, menhirs and dolmens in Spain, France and Britain."17 The natural inference is exactly as that I have advanced. I now turn to that extraordinary record of ancient Egypt, the Per-t-em-Hru, the Book of the Dead. This remarkable work, supposed to have been written by Thoth himself-Sir A. Wallis Budge is my authority for these ...
34. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to two or three blocks along could easily account for the angle and as the 20cm square shafts have a horizontal direction as they leave the chambers, no-one looking into the shaft openings in the King's or Queen's chambers would see anything other than the stonework where the shaft changes direction. Finally, to mention the siting of temples, dolmens, menhirs, tombs, henges and stone rings all around the world, these are most often found to be sited on top of underground streams of water, lines of earth energy grids and so on, which is sufficient proof that ancient man was well aware of them and could locate them in the field. In his book Earth Currents as ...
... type, perhaps, of Osiris, Mull the legendary centre of his influence. His name, Finn-gaill, indicates the White, or Fair, Gael, namely the Galatai, or Cimmerians. Mull evidently possessed a considerable population in a distant day. The island was once full of standing stones, round circles, monoliths, and avenues of menhirs resembling those of Avebury, Dartmoor, and Carnac. Most compIete are the Lochbuie Stones, in the opinion of the Scottish antiquarian, Thomas Hannon, the centre of a great Celtic cross, and notably the Baliscate Stones. These start about half a mile from Tobermory and recur at different levels, or terraces, from the base of ...
36. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... for such a shift to have gone unobserved; and movements of the earth's crust occurring with such speed as to produce a 10 rotation of the island of Crete in a mere four thousand years cannot be accepted as a tectonic possibility. I recall similar measurements that I carried out years ago on the positioned stones in Brittany. The rows of menhirs at Carnac, massive granite blocks set up in many endless parallel rows, likewise show a deviation of 10 .. .. " Allan Jones Advertisement THE BURNING OF TROY by Alfred de Grazia "Essays on the catastrophic burning of Troy; ancient knowledge of Jupiter and Saturn; electrical metamorphosis in geology; dating of the icecaps of Greenland ...
... step in their lives was with this prospect in view. It can explain the rock-tombs and dwellings concealed deep under the rocky earth. Mr. Lewis Spence, whose learning and scholarship are considerable, claims that the Egyptian pyramids, like the mastabas, were influenced and even introduced by a stone-using people from the west, who erected cairns, menhirs, cromlechs, dolmens, and chambered tumuli.9 His case is that the pyramid was a later development of the Megalithic people, and if he be correct it naturally ensues that the Westerners must have been the first to carry the type of civilization which we see in its full development along the valley of the Nile. When they ...
38. Homer in the Baltic [Journals] [Aeon]
... is very scarce in the coeval Minoan tombs in Crete as well as in later graves on the continent; (2 ) the typically northern features of their architecture, as the Mycenaean megaron is identical to the hall of the ancient Scandinavian kings; (3 ) the similarity of two stone slabs found in a tomb in Dendra, with the menhirs known from the Bronze Age of central Europe; (4 ) the northern-type skulls found in the necropolis of Kalkani; and the like. Moreover, Aegean art and Scandinavian remains dating back to the Bronze Age present a remarkable affinity, as for example the figures engraved on Kivik's tomb in Sweden, to the extent that a 19th century ...
39. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
... had brought from the holy city of Benares ; " and this order is still obeyed by some aoo deotas." ' The Shakers, whom Anna Lee founded in 1774, dance during divine service, by a revival and not a survival of an ancient rite which was long ago practised by the Essenes. Dances still take place round the menhir (tall-stone) in the Orkneys on New-year's night, and also round that near Croisic in Brittany. ' If we now consider the customs of the American continents, we shall find from Velasco that, as pointed out by Dr. A. Reville in_his Hibbert Lectures, the grand form of religious demonstration among #tlie Peruvians ...
... domination, and he therefore concludes that Druidism like (lie Hebrew belief, was hostile to idols in human form. But it seems to me that the fact of trees and Stones being the real deities would have ipso facto precluded any other representation of a deity but a tree or a stone. The megalithic monuments, the giant dolmens, menhirs, and so on, were surely very grandiose idols and temples in themselves. M. Reinach then alleges passages from Caesar and Lucanus which show that they in their time had made the similar observation that the gods of the Gauls were pillar-stones and tree-trunks. But I shall add that there is no proof that the stones were exclusively Druidic ...
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