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By : Robin Heath - Friday, 04 June 2010 00:00 |
Archaeologists and university teachers are often unadventurous which lead them not to consider as acceptable what they can't explain. That observation involves research in general but particularly when a form of ancient belief, spirituality is attached to it... Did the Age of Enlightenment make our society, so brilliant that it is qualified as postmodern and which metronome swings between "world perceived by the senses " and "reason". Between them: no imaginal world, no archetype nor spirituality...
Alexander Thom (1894-1985) is one of the pioneers of archaeoastronomy.
In the tradition of Félix Gaillard, he took photographs and studied circles of rocks that have existed in Great Britain and Brittany for more than 5000 years. His works enabled - not without obstacles! - to establish a unit of measurement which builders of neolithic used to build their monuments: the megalithic yard (0.829m).
His works raised many questions, among them:
- did the architects of these giant construction use a ruler?
 
- according to the official history, the technique they used was invented by the Greeks, but their constructions are anterior: so time passes in a linear or a circular motion?
- how to explain that the symbol of the mandorla, which is a Christian symbol is represented in these construction? And what explanation to give to the fact that some abbeys, of which the famous Glastonbury Abbey are in the axis that links up Stonehenge to the blue rocks site?
So many fascinating questions asked by Robin Heath during that conference (60 min) filmed during the event "Summer Solstice at Plouharnel" organized by Howard Crowhurst.
 
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