Jerikagoddess

That's really cool! thanks!

Runi Likhik -Female

They didnt actually celebrate the new year after the Winter Solstice, but after the Harvest (Around the beginning of November) Well said Caldrail but my comment was but intended to convey the possibility that the Stonehenge was not designed and built as an astronomical observatory (certainly unrelated to stars which were too minor as objects, but as regards to sun/moon/earth cycles instead), and that other possibilities ought to be considered. My comments were inclined to agree with Longshotgene in that regard. Consider: a distant tree line 100 feet high and 1.1 mile away would delay a sunrise by 4 minutes, a half mile by 8 minutes, and a quarter mile for 16 minutes. Were the forests cleared in all directions, round-about or at least easterly and westerly for a mile, a half mile, or a quarter mile? An observer with a desire to see a sunset might feel inclined to seek higher ground to be sure of seeing the actual sunrise rather than one delayed by obstacles like trees or even small rises in the terrain. A builder desiring to commemorate special sunrises and sunsets might consider a higher elevation if it would yield a

That's not giving those ancient peoples much credit. People of the ancient world were more advanced than you might think. They understood medicine, knew astrological facts we've only rediscovered in the last few centuries, and performed engineering feats that in some cases we are STILL incapable of reproducing

How much study have you done on the religion of the peoples who built stonehenge? Their World revolved around celestial bodies, and the cycles of the year. All of their yearly holidays were based on Solar and lunar cycles. The solstices, the equinoxes, and the full, and new moons were their lives. It told them when to plant, when to harvest, and when to store for winter. They diefied the sun and moon as representations of their god and goddess. They were very acomplished astronomers, but it wasnt just rocks and gasses that they built the Henges for, it was the heart of their societies.

There are many Egyptian records if a person knows where to look. Mentions in the Book of the Dead, Hymns of Ramses, the God-King lists, it goes on and on.

While I dont know much about the Aurthurian connection to Atlantis (Outside the fiction of Marion Zimmer Bradley) Part of the mythology of Atlantis is that many of the survivors escaped the blast to settle in modern day england. Ancient Celtic Mythology DOES refer to settlers who could have been Atlanteans, but you have to dig to find them.

It's a common misconception, but the Santorini caldera couldnt have been responsible, for many reasons. Mainly the timing. Plato states that it was nine thousand years before. They had good enough records back then to distinguish between 1000, and 10,000 years before. In addition, the myth already existed in Egyptian records LONG before the Santorini eruption. The location is wrong, as Plato, places Atlantis well outside the pillars of hercules (Straight of Gibraltar) and Santorini is definitly within. Atlantis is something of a hobby of mine, so I thought I'd put my 2 cents in.