The Hanging Stones
31 March 2008 - 25 אדר ב' 5768 by Huw
It’s been a day of Stonehenge news, oddly. Stonehenge - and the other Great Works of Britain - are a fascination of mine. They are a testament to mans ideas of the sacred, I think - as evolving and yet constantly present through time.
The BBC has this really wonderful video, an animated history of the monument that was built as a Calendar and Eclipse calculator (according to my favourite theory). But it’s clear it’s also a temple. It may or may not be proved a “Neolithic Lourdes” as the scientists currently think, but there is a new excavation starting today.
Meanwhile, a man in Michigan is exploring his own theories as to how it was built with some amazing results.
And there is also this amazing Asheville Henge, still extant.
