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Post by alondra07 on Mar 24, 2018 11:44:51 GMT
Whether it was a Druid temple, an astronomical calendar or a centre for healing, the mystery of Stonehenge has long been a source of speculation and debate. Now a dramatic new theory suggests that the prehistoric monument was in fact “an ancient Mecca on stilts”.
The megaliths would not have been used for ceremonies at ground level, but would instead have supported a circular wooden platform on which ceremonies were performed to the rotating heavens, the theory suggests Julian Spalding, an art critic and former director of some of the UK’s leading museums, argues that the stones were foundations for a vast platform, long since lost – “a great altar” raised up high towards the heavens and able to support the weight of hundreds of worshippers.
“It’s a totally different theory which has never been put forward before,” Spalding told the Guardian. “All the interpretations to date could be mistaken. We’ve been looking at Stonehenge the wrong way: from the earth, which is very much a 20th-century viewpoint. We haven’t been thinking about what they were thinking about.”
Since Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote in the 12th century that Merlin had flown the stones from Ireland, theories on Stonehenge, from plausible to absurd, have abounded. In the last decade alone, the monument has been interpreted as “the prehistoric Lourdes” where people brought the sick to be healed by the power of the magic bluestones from Wales and as a haunted place of the dead contrasting with seasonal feasts for the living at nearby Durrington Walls.
The site pored over by archaeologists for centuries still produces surprises, including the outline of stones now missing, which appeared in the parched ground in last summer’s drought and showed that the monument was not left unfinished as some had believed, but was once a perfect circle. Spalding, who is not an archaeologist, believes that other Stonehenge theorists have fallen into error by looking down instead of up. His evidence, he believes, lies in ancient civilisations worldwide. As far afield as China, Peru and Turkey, such sacred monuments were built high up, whether on manmade or natural sites, and in circular patterns possibly linked to celestial movements.
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 24, 2018 19:10:59 GMT
I say the giants did it. Giant people did exist then. Would be super easy for them to do it Shrug
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Post by joustos on Mar 25, 2018 16:53:55 GMT
I say the giants did it. Giant people did exist then. Would be super easy for them to do it The Age of Giants included dinosaurs, whales, etc., but how did human giants disappear? Furthermore, why is there no evidence left of the engineering technology of the Giants (even if they were strong enough to lift and move great weights)?
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Post by Elizabeth on Mar 25, 2018 18:59:06 GMT
I say the giants did it. Giant people did exist then. Would be super easy for them to do it The Age of Giants included dinosaurs, whales, etc., but how did human giants disappear? Furthermore, why is there no evidence left of the engineering technology of the Giants (even if they were strong enough to lift and move great weights)? Well, I'm thinking it's a gene. Like for example scientists say blue eyes are fairly new and just appeared in the world. And that all blue eyed people share one ancestor. So, I'm thinking it was like a giant gene but it died off or something. Shrug
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Post by Διαμονδ on Mar 25, 2018 21:25:02 GMT
The Age of Giants included dinosaurs, whales, etc., but how did human giants disappear? Furthermore, why is there no evidence left of the engineering technology of the Giants (even if they were strong enough to lift and move great weights)? Well, I'm thinking it's a gene. Like for example scientists say blue eyes are fairly new and just appeared in the world. And that all blue eyed people share one ancestor. So, I'm thinking it was like a giant gene but it died off or something. Probably the impact of climate ... but archaeologists found the remains of giants and their tracks!
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