Megalithic Calendar

[Boreades]

It was time-of-the-year to put the clocks back here at Chateau Boreades.

The clocks on the mobile phone, TV and radio automagically fix themselves. We've found out how to reset the clock on the oven, by turning it off for 11 hours. Or was it 13?

Putting the clock back at Stonehenge was a bit more demanding.

Did nobody spot it was really Avebury, not Stonehenge?

[Boreades]

2021 Convention of Alternative Archaeology and Earth Mysteries

Sunday October 3rd 2021: Bouverie Hall, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 5QE
Starting 10.15am – 6.00pm.

It seems like none of us (TME's pundits) have bothered the selectors this year. Sniff, I didn't want to go anyway. Anyway, what's on the agenda?

Five powerpoint presentations by international speakers and authors

Powerpoint presentations? Oh dear, that's a bit ominous. I've always found them a good cure for insomnia. But what of the ones that did pass the selection tests?

Phil Cope - The Living Wells and Springs of Britain and Ireland
Lucy Wyatt - Who Are Our European Ancestors - And How Can We Connect With Them?
Giles Bryant - The Perpetual Choirs – Re-enchantment and Healing of the World
Mara Freeman - Gates of Annwn – The Magical Landscapes of Wales
Sue Wallace and Peter Knight - What Makes A Place ‘Sacred’? (with audience forum)

Have any of these international speakers and authors come to our attention before?

[Mick Harper]

It all sounds a bit dullsville. And that's just Pewsey. Interesting though that people are planning for October. Do the crystals know something we don't?

[Boreades]

Dullsville? I might tend to concur.

Phil Cope - The Living Wells and Springs of Britain and Ireland
I've done my share of trudging across sodden fields and boggy marshes and got the wet feet to prove it. If there's anything living in those wells and springs it's eColi and parasitic guts worms left by sheep and cattle. No thanks.

Lucy Wyatt - Who Are Our European Ancestors - And How Can We Connect With Them?
Come on, we know Tisi could do an excellent talk on that, it's yer actual Haplogroups and DNA, innit?

Giles Bryant - The Perpetual Choirs – Re-enchantment and Healing of the World
Hmm, immediately smells suspect. What with "Perpetual Choirs" being an invention of Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams) in his "Triads of Britain".
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Triads_of_Britain
Unfortunately, also used in a derivative work by John Michell "The Great Decagon", which has given it long legs with the ley lines, crop circle and UFO fraternities.

Mara Freeman - Gates of Annwn – The Magical Landscapes of Wales
At last! Something with some depth to it. As in, a deep well of British mythology and legends.
http://chalicecentre.net/

Sue Wallace and Peter Knight - What Makes A Place ‘Sacred’? (with audience forum)
That's a tricky one. May your god go with you.

[Boreades]

More plans for the end of October and the start of November.

I see that various people have commented on the strangeness of some parts of our calendar
e.g.
Samhuinn, between October 31st and November 2nd was "a time of no-time (and) time was abolished for the three days of this festival". This was adopted by Christians All Hallows [or Hallowe'en) on October 31st, All Saints [November 1st], All Souls [November 2nd].

https://grael.uk/calendar

It has surfaced again in a YT video by Randall Carlson
The Mysterious Origin of Halloween
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucn175R8WgY

Randall Carlson makes an interesting extra connection - it is the same time of year as the Pleiades meteor showers, and also the same time of year attributed to the floods in the ancient flood legends.

[Mick Harper]

You're asking us to invest an hour and twenty minutes on this dude. He seems a bit cranky. Can you give us the highlights, if any. The Pleiades connection seems a bit of a stretch. Though interesting insofar as I've never heard it mentioned before.

[Boreades]

He seems a bit cranky

Compared with ... ?

Can you give us the highlights

You've no doubt already heard of the "Tunguska Event"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

That was one especially large meteor that came out of the Taurids meteor stream that arrives late June every year.

The Beta Taurids (β–Taurids) are an annual meteor shower belonging to a class of "daytime showers" that peak after sunrise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Taurids

They are called "daytime showers" because they appear to come from the same direction as the sun, when we can see it in the daytime. Our planet Earth actually crosses that Taurids meteor stream twice every year. The second time is late Oct, or c.1st Nov

They are named after their radiant point in the constellation Taurus, where they are seen to come from in the sky. Because of their occurrence in late October and early November, they are also called Halloween fireballs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurids

But because in Oct/Nov we're crossing the meteor stream as it travels towards the sun, we see them after dark, when the night sky is facing the direction they come from. Pleiades is the focal point for the apparent direction, from a viewpoint on ground, looking into the night sky. Most years Earth only touches the edge of that meteor stream, so we don't get the biggest stuff in the very centre of the stream. But every 100 years or so we do go right through the thickest/deepest part of the stream, where all the really big rocks are lurking.

More reading for you:

Mostly, they’re harmless, but the Taurid swam is an exceptionally large cloud of debris, probably from Comet 2P/Encke, that scientists think may be responsible for some once-per-1,000-years catastrophic events on Earth

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecarte ... an-forest/

[Mick Harper]

Not bad, though on general principles I wouldn't be in favour of an annual event that passes off peacefully requiring anything by way of marked attention. If November and June was signalled, that would get my attention.
PS I hadn't been aware that Tunguska was Tauridic, so what do I know?

[Boreades]

An annual event that didn't pass off peacefully was the Solstice Meditation at Avebury "due to the illness of the facilitator". Unsure whether that was not enough meditation or too much mead. Fortunately, my druidic cousins were still able to hold the "Return of the Light: 22nd December (Observance)".