[Stones] The Erosion of Human Knowledge

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"...when a language dies, thousands of years of unique world-perception goes with it; and with that, crucial insights..."

Absolutely ric, I couldn't agree with you more. I remember sitting on a wintry railway platform in eastern Japan forty years ago with a grammar book in my hand trying to understand how the Japanese formed the comparative (as in, apples are bigger than cherries). It just didn't make any sense, the word order was completely fu*ked and illogical. A high speed train thundered through, pages of the grammar book got blown awry and then POW - got it! A completely different way of looking at the world :-)

"...all the more reason to raise as many Avebury stones as still exist: silent, buried underground - who knows what might turn up in the accurately repositioned sarsen, after prolonged study throughout the seasons and hours of sunlight from dawn to dusk: a face, a symbol, a mute message to posterity from the vanished megalithic builders ~ who knows?".

Absolutely again!
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