I hope they put the healing properties to the test - we visited the site in 1959 (when people were allowed free access to the stones) - my cousin climbed one of the fallen stones, and when he fell off (!) he broke his wrist. Perhaps we should have stayed with the stones to let them work their magic, rather than spending a day in casualty!
It's been summed up and explained on the TV news. Many chips of stone, from the 'blue stones', have been found in the ground around them. It's the first dig of substance at Stonehenge for 40 years. But from this, along with bodies of ill people found as if buried possibly 'on the way' to the place, they've made the leap of deciding that the stones were chipped off to take as talismans or as healing mementos as it were. (So why were they in fact left??)
Who knows, but it seems a big leap to me: chipped off stone - to - it was for healing! Smacks to me of someone with a predisposed theory to prove. What of the astrological alignments, and the fact that these point, as do many ancient sites, to a specific time: 10,500 BC when 'something' we are supposed to remember happened? (Atla going down?)
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I'd like to hear more of these 'astrological alignments' which point to BC10,500. I've been taking people to Stonehenge for 25 years and have read a lot about it but have never heard this mentioned before. How do astrological alignments point to a specific time?
Hi, a quickie from work, Sunanda. Will return and edit it if I cut this short. Researchers such as in particular Graham Hancock - particularly see his "Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the lost civilisation" book and if I recall, TV series, have discovered that many famous ancient monuments - the pyramids, that famous site in Cambodia (name?), Stonehenge, and some others, have astronomical alignments (such as to where chief stars would have risen) which would only have been true on that date. The different sites all point to that same date. That is, even though the site may not be so old itself.
Hancock for one theorises that it's pointing to the date when a civilisation ended, and things began again, and that this knowledge was preserved. "Writing" such as the pyramids isn't easy to 'lose' right?
Gotta go, but you could look up Hancock on google for more. Theory is that the survivors were scattered, but all remembered the story and the date. 🙂
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P.S. Re my last post, I meant astronomical, not 'astrological' alignments. 🙂
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