Comments | the_laydee: Stonehenge

the_laydee

Stonehenge

Nov 23, 2006 14:52

So. I have just learned about Stonehenge from some guy (who's name I forget) who is apparently one of the leading experts on Stonehenge inthe country. This would be good if he also happened to be one of the leading lecture givers in the country but he wasn't, but that's another story. Anyway, possibly the most interesting thing he talked about ( Read more... )

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trauma_pet November 23 2006, 15:40:03 UTC

I know! It's sort of like imaginging a bunch of weirdos from the future having rituals over a calendar or something :]

the_laydee November 23 2006, 23:42:02 UTC

Yeah, I found it really interesting.... And the whole "you can predict solar eclipses from it" rubbish. It's just amazing that so much myth and ritual has grown around something that was probably there to do something they saw as fairly practical.

Having said that, i'd still go!

chimerasumi November 23 2006, 16:20:48 UTC

That is a good point, but now that we know that the days will be getting lighter due to the physics of the universe im kinda with you an dont wanna get that cold on the shortest day of the year.

the_laydee November 23 2006, 23:43:40 UTC

Yup. I'd personally prefer to go on a slightly warmer day myself, but the whole "mystical experience" thing is something that surely should be happening 6 months later... Still would go to see it though, it's beautiful.

akatechon December 28 2006, 09:26:50 UTC

Hi there! Avaragariel posted your link...and well, I was bored ( ... )

the_laydee December 30 2006, 17:33:01 UTC

Heh, I get you. It's something I find quite interesting, the whole twisting of purpose to suit ourselves. There was one guy in the 30s who claimed that the beaker people were like modern day (for him) western europeans spreading their capitalist ways across the world. It made me smile. He eventually committed suicide because he thought he was getting too old to be an archaeologist and he didn't want to retire. Or something.