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10/8/2009
10:20:00 am EDT
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What We Can All Discover From 'Bluestonehenge'
Author: Nicholas Taylor Source: The Guardian (UK)
Title: WHAT WE CAN ALL DISCOVER FROM 'BLUESTONEHENGE'
So a new circle of bluestones has been discovered on the banks of the Avon, a mile away from the world famous landmark of Stonehenge. Archeologists are suitably thrilled about "Bluestonehenge" but how does the wider world react to the affirmation that our ancestors were able to dig out rocks, transport them and arrange them in circles more than once?
Stonehenge has stood sentinel over this last age on Salisbury plain, presenting us with immovable riddles but offering little in the way of explanation. Ideas about what Stonehenge means have abounded, from the coolly scientific to those of howling lunacy. Were the stones dragged from the Preseli Hills in Wales or did Merlin move them with magic? Were the dimensions of Stonehenge dictated by sacred geometry? How much do ley lines have to do with their situation? What does it mean that next to Stonehenge is the largest military training site in the UK?
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| Well Now | Oct 9th. at 12:18:15 pm EDT
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me
I'm generally in favor of SOME howling lunacy, but the author seems to have an unpleasant array of his own. I think any reasonable person might guess it was a special park, a symbol of civic strength, a bold piece of public art for all to enjoy. I'm not sure it was built as a holy site, but certainly all special sites have the potential to become so. But to think it was built more specifically as 'a place of healing' (please . . .) or the means to connect earnestly with the earth in a manner that was . . . quickly forgotten, and only now reclaimed? PLEASE! Just try and enjoy it, if you can. It's still a cool place to hang out, no matter what you tend to believe.
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