Re: Atlantean Mythology

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Weller
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>On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:43:22 +0000, Nine Stones wrote:
>
>> I sensed something. ;-) Don't tell me, Ruggles has written a
>> misinterpretation of The Henge.
>
>Has he? He says there is an apparent shift in Stonehenge's
>axis 'from lunar alignments in the earlier phases to later solar
>alignments.'  You disagree?
>
>Clive Ruggles in his article on Archaeoastronomy in Europe (In Astronomy
>Before the Telescope ed. by Christopher Walker) comments on
>refraction, saying that it such a problem that 'the idea of horizon
>notches being used to pinpoint solstitial sunrise and sunset to the very
>day now seems untenable.'
>
>A comment of his relative to 'observatories' is that 'The sites
>themselves are not calendrical instruments; it is much more likely that
>by incorporating alignments upon a certain calendrical date, they express
>the symbolism associated with the ceremonies taking place on that date,
>and thereby reinforce those ceremonies.'
>
>Seriously, what are you arguing to be the correct interpretation?

I'll have to look into what Ruggles is saying before I comment any
further.

>And why call it 'The Henge'?  That's just confusing things even more.

It's just a term of affection.
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