[Stones] Secrets of Stonehenge

[Ric]

Hi,

--- The Wissers <wissers3 at enter.net> wrote:

> Thank you, Ric. As you may know, I am a lover of
> Hindu culture (with a 
> leaning toward Vaisnavism). I also own and have read
> Celtic Heritage, 
> and was familiar with some of the ways the two
> cultures mirror one 
> another, but I still found the Campbell article
> interesting. I had never 
> connected that connection with megaliths, as they
> precede 'Celtic' 
> cultures by thousands of years. 

i look upon the Iron Age as an extension of the Bronze
Age in Britain: the pigeon holes we have built
ourselves for history just don't work - for example -
that most Celtic of Celtic artefacts, the torc, turns
up near to Silbury Hill but from the Bronze Age - a
gold torc dug up in about 1844, by a labourer digging
for flints ...

On the other hand, I
> have often thought 
> that anyone interested in megaliths and how they may
> have been regarded 
> in ancient times would do well to look into the
> practises still current, 
> especially in rural India, connected with certain
> stones that are 
> regarded as ceremonial. A few examples were posted
> to the Portal by 
> someone whose name presently escapes me. Many
> ancient practises that 
> have been abandoned elsewhere have continued in an
> unbroken line since 
> ancient times on the subcontinent.

India is a complex picture - heaving with clues to the
past, and different cultures also; alongside
mainstream Hinduism there is a substratum of
village/tribal goddess worship, from where the school
of Tantra may have sprung?

> 
> In the article by Campbell he mentions the yaksas or
> Hindu little 
> people. A friend of mine who often works with people
> from other 
> countries told me of walking in the woods here in
> Pennsylvania with a 
> couple if interns from India and how they spoke
> matter-of-factly of the 
> little people who lived there as if they assumed she
> was aware of them, 
> too. She's an environmental teacher who has spent
> many hours in 
> woodlands over the years and it intrigued her so
> that she came baack to 
> it several times, musing at how certain they were of
> it.

yes, they're a bit like European gnomes? But male and
female, i think?

> 
> As for the more general topic of sexual
> interpretation of landscape and 
> sites, I feel that if anything it is underemphasised
> in the public's 
> understanding of ancient man's relationship with the
> landscape, although 
> there is certainly a better grasp of it on our side
> of the ocean than 
> there is here in the land of puritanism and porn.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nancy
> 

"puritanism and porn" - i guess what gets repressed
pops out in another form, like prohibition and
moonshine?

R


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