[Stones] White Albion

[Ric]

aye, Pete Glastonbury is an ace photographer ~ time he had a show of his work in and around Avebury?
   
  ;)
   
  ric
  

Mark White <markjnwhite at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Thanks Ric, your examples are just a few of the sort of things that made the 
author seem a bit woolly to me. They were lovely photos though weren't they? 
mw x


>From: Ric 
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>Subject: Re: [Stones] White Albion
>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:24:45 +0000 (GMT)
>
>"Apollo is inextricably linked with the direction North ... Sun God ... "
>
> does this make sense? north is the one cardinal direction - in which sky 
>- the sun never appears?
>
> and is the author so sure Apollo (Greek Apollon) is a sun deity at all? 
>Oxford Companion to Classical Literature merely gives "the god also of 
>light" at a time when the Greek sun god was well attested as Helios; 
>Apollon is a late-comer to the Greek pantheon, displacing the Delphic 
>Python who guarded this "shrine of Mother Earth" [ibid]
>
> snow? do we know snow fell in Neolithic Britain? is this a fact? given 
>the fluctuating climate, i wonder? yes, winter is the time of death in 
>nature - in the Northern hemisphere - but it is also the time of rebirth, 
>the rebirth of the sun, a fact also not lost on the early Church, who 
>placed Christ's Mass approximately three days after the Winter Solstice, 
>when the short days begin to imperceptively lengthen again. a realisation 
>presumably inspired by the third century CE Roman 'Feast of Sol Invicta', 
>"Birthday of the Unconquered Sun," December 25th.
>
> btw, in Welsh, Alba = Scotland
>
> hwyl,
>
> ric
>
>
>
>littlestone 
wrote:
> The following may be of interest 
>http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=230#more-230
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