explaining the Swiss menhirs

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Dear readers,

alt archaeology and sci.archaeology are perhaps the most abused groups
in the usenet. Nevertheless they are great facilities for developing
new ideas. Since May I undertake an English version of my archaeology
section on my website www.seshat.ch  In the menhir chapters of my
website I work my way up from Yverdon to Lascaux and Chauvet; now
I work my way down from Chauvet and Lascaux to Carnac, Nantes,
Yverdon, and many further places. If you are interested in my
concise interpretations, please have a look at my thread

  Chauvet Lascaux Laussel Willendorf

in either alt.archaeology or sci.archaeology. You may begin, say.
with message 34, where I give a give a first brief overwiew over
the seven hypothetical first menhirs at Yverdon-Clendy, omitting,
however, the aspect of the vegetal, animal and human fertility
cycles. For your convenience, and as an appetizer, I enclose 
a message of my thread.

Regards   Franz Gnaedinger

PS. If you wish to contact me via e-mail, please use an address
on my website. The account of my ng address is overflown with
virus spam.


> As an experiment I try to place a direct link to a couple of
> photographs on my website, showing the largest menhir at Yverdon-Clendy,
> menhir E in my below diagrams, head of the large raven. I took them 
> in July, around 9 o'clock in the morning. From one side you can see 
> a shape roughly reminding of a feather, with a hemisphere resembling
> the eye of a bird:
> 
>   www.seshat.ch/home/menhjr54.JPG
> 
> Looking up from the front of the raven you can see kind of a beak:
> 
>   www.seshat.ch/home/menhjr56.JPG
> 
> And here, from the side, in the light of the rising summer sun, 
> the menhir shows a male profile, the Raven Man of my fable:
> 
>   www.seshat.ch/home/menhjr60.JPG
> 
> 
> > THE FABLE OF THE SEVEN FIRST MENHIRS AT YVERDON-CLENDY
> > 
> > The first raven man of Yverdon-Clendy was remembered by seven proud
> > menhirs placed on the then shore of the bay, forming a large bird
> > roughly as follows:
> > 
> >                                     B
> > 
> > 
> >                       A
> >                                    G
> >                            C
> > 
> >                                 E
> > 
> >                            F
> >                    D
> > 
> > Menhir E being the head of the large bird, menhir C its body,
> > menhir A its tail, menhirs F-D and G-B its wings. The same scheme,
> > however, served as a map of the region of the 3 Lakes (remember
> > the birdman of Lascaux mapping the rivers of the Guyenne):
> > 
> > A - Les Brenets on the river Doubs, B - Bienne / Biel, 
> > C - Neuchatel / Neuenburg, D - Yverdon, F - Cugy, petit rape,
> > Payerne, E - Morat / Murten, G - Aarburg.
> > 
> > The parallel lines D-----G and F---E led into the lake and were
> > used as the corridor of the rising midsummer sun (more on this
> > in a later message).
> > 
> > Furthermore, the five menhirs ABCDE represented a solar calendar:
> > 
> > 
> >                                     B
> > 
> > 
> >                       A
> > 
> >                            C
> > 
> >                                 E
> > 
> > 
> >                    D
> > 
> > 
> > A = December 21. B = March 21. C = May 1 (Beltaine). D = June 21.
> > E = September 23. C again = November 1 (Samhain).
> > 
> > 
> > Plenty of illustrations are found on my website www.seshat.ch,
> > section ARCHAEOLOGY, sublink Menhirs 1.
> > 
> > Regards   Franz Gnaedinger