Re: New Views over Megalithia
Posted: 11:48 am
What we do know is that there was a connection with the middle east. Tin, copper, and other minerals were in demand.
This means trade which means ships. Traders and sailors. And accountants. Accountants do the sums and calculate.
Tel Dor in Israel is on the coast and was once, or several times, an important port. We have Durdle Dor and Dorset.
We are told the stone circles were built by farmers who wanted to work out when to plant crops. I don't think farmers have ever needed stone circles to work out that. They look for the weather signs, behaviour of animals and birds and so on. They don't need to build stone circles which would take time to build and lots of labour.
But traders and their representatives on land would need to know precisely when the next ship is coming in. So they build permanent sun dials which count weeks and months. Or something like that. Sailors can calculate by the sun and stars.
By the shore we have a network of ships agents or hermits keeping an eye out for sails and keeping the beacons shining.
They can calculate how long a ship should take to come. All of this will be written down in some way. Clay tablets? If a ship sinks they will know that it's overdue. But there'll always be another one.
In the meantime the miners can mine, farmers can farm and the shipping magnates can er magnate and tidy up the circles.
The accountants can count the trading values of the goods and how much they'll get back in the home ports
People organise to whatever level is needed for their kind of society. They don't do things by chance.
Circles serve a mapping purpose as well. And we know that Orkney was in touch with Stonehenge so the idea of isolated little communities scratching a living is well and truly dead. Everything was organised. 12 inches to the foot. 12 pennies to the shilling. 12 months in the year. 12 hours in the day. 360 degrees in a circle and 360 days in the year more or less.
It all points to a centrally organised system and one I imagine based in the middle east and inherited from the Sumerians and others.
And what were the Druids doing speaking Greek?
This means trade which means ships. Traders and sailors. And accountants. Accountants do the sums and calculate.
Tel Dor in Israel is on the coast and was once, or several times, an important port. We have Durdle Dor and Dorset.
We are told the stone circles were built by farmers who wanted to work out when to plant crops. I don't think farmers have ever needed stone circles to work out that. They look for the weather signs, behaviour of animals and birds and so on. They don't need to build stone circles which would take time to build and lots of labour.
But traders and their representatives on land would need to know precisely when the next ship is coming in. So they build permanent sun dials which count weeks and months. Or something like that. Sailors can calculate by the sun and stars.
By the shore we have a network of ships agents or hermits keeping an eye out for sails and keeping the beacons shining.
They can calculate how long a ship should take to come. All of this will be written down in some way. Clay tablets? If a ship sinks they will know that it's overdue. But there'll always be another one.
In the meantime the miners can mine, farmers can farm and the shipping magnates can er magnate and tidy up the circles.
The accountants can count the trading values of the goods and how much they'll get back in the home ports
People organise to whatever level is needed for their kind of society. They don't do things by chance.
Circles serve a mapping purpose as well. And we know that Orkney was in touch with Stonehenge so the idea of isolated little communities scratching a living is well and truly dead. Everything was organised. 12 inches to the foot. 12 pennies to the shilling. 12 months in the year. 12 hours in the day. 360 degrees in a circle and 360 days in the year more or less.
It all points to a centrally organised system and one I imagine based in the middle east and inherited from the Sumerians and others.
And what were the Druids doing speaking Greek?