Pub Crawl

[Boreades]

I'm half way through a bottle of Talisker getting in touch with the ancestral spirits at the moment otherwise I'd get my Spectrum out and do it myself. Sorry.

No need to apologise for whatever you use to reach an altered state of consciousness.
Personally, I prefer 1 x 750ml Sauvignon Blanc, but that's just my personal prejudice.

[hvered]

It could be that rock arches describe arcs.

I drew a straight line from Durdle Door at Lulworth Cove in Dorset to Etretat on the Normandy coast, famous thanks to Monet.



Then for fun another line from Durdle Door to Blackchurch Rock at the tip of the north Dorset coast facing Lundy Island and next to Hartland Point lighthouse (the westernmost limit on the English side of the Bristol Channel)



and found the line goes straight to Golden Cap, the highest hill in southern Britain and ""visible for tens of miles along the coastline" (Wiki) at the western end of Dorset's Jurassic Coast which must rate as one of the most spectacular, on a par with the white cliffs.



It's easy to see every link as pure coincidence but then again, how on earth would people navigate around without assistance of any kind?

[macausland]

Someone's put the video of Chrichton Miller and his 'Celtic Cross' on youtube.

The first two sections are about him and his theory. The final one seems to be an overdramatised advert for other things.

A fair amount of new age music but if you can ignore that it's well worth watching. In my opinion anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zdl-xe6gJg

[Boreades]

Someone's put the video of Chrichton Miller and his 'Celtic Cross' on youtube.

The first two sections are about him and his theory. The final one seems to be an overdramatised advert for other things.

A fair amount of new age music but if you can ignore that it's well worth watching. In my opinion anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zdl-xe6gJg

Excellent - I'm watching now. Except (groan) why does it all have to be Conspiracy Theory?!

[macausland]

here's a song to keep you happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtxVvyzlrA

not a crow but ...

[hvered]

I very much enjoyed the Celtic Cross video. From a production point of view there were too many graphics, but well done nevertheless, and they broke up the spiel much like commercial breaks. I'd love to know how they were done!

[macausland]

'Angles or Angles?'

I was thinking about 'Aberfeldy's' musing on language and thought I would dig a little deeper with the aid of Dwelly.

The usual word for 'fire' in gaelic is 'teine' but she gives a variety of alternatives. I think she also mentions angels or messengers as well as fairies etc.

Anyway on the Dwelly site http://www.dwelly.info/ they give the following for fire .. 'aingeal .... -il, pl -il, -gle, -glean, -glich, (AC) sm Angel. 2 Messenger. 3 Fire. 4 Light. 5 Sunshine.'

I forget which pope it was who queried whether the slaves were 'Angels or Angles' but perhaps they were both.

At the eastern end of the Michael Line we have the well known Angles and according to Mr Crisp in his document regarding the action of those at the eastern end of the Michael line in lighting bonfires or whatever to pass on the message that the sun had risen, perhaps they were truly Angels as well as Angles They served two purposes, or maybe more.

Welsh and Gaelic always referred to the English as Saeson or Sassenachs but as far as I'm aware never as English. Peter Berresford Ellis got very upset at the uppity Sassenachs calling themselves English and refusing to call themselves by their 'Celtic' description in an article I once read. But then he has an agenda.

Historians are not very sure where the Angles came from and are just as unsure as to the origins of the Saxons.

Perhaps the Angles, like the various orders of the later Druids, were a tribe of specialists keeping watch in the east for what the sun was up to?

People in the Scottish borders in the middle ages referred to their language as 'Inglis' so they had no problem with the word or description.

Just a thought.

[macausland]

And another thought. Perhaps they were also calculating the angles of the sun and everything tied in with it.

[macausland]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... s-pit.html

Here's an interesting snippet about how archaeologists have discovered that 'stone age' people could calculate the year with a stone circle.

[macausland]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-n ... d-23286928

The BBC have now given further details of the calendar.

I was wrong, it wasn't a stone circle but apparently a series of fire pits to mark particular dates.

Which fits in well with the theory expounded on this site about them using fire to mark the rising of the sun etc.