Posted on 06/13/2006 7:27:54 AM PDT by billorites
Can anyone hear the word 'Stonehenge' without thinking of Spinal Tap?
and...
Archaeologists Figure Out Mystery Of Stonehenge Bluestones
IC Wales | 6-24-2005 | Western Mail
Posted on 06/24/2005 1:14:46 PM EDT by blam
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Druids Despair As Seahenge Set For Dry Berth
IOL (South Africa) | 11-19-2001
Posted on 11/20/2001 12:49:22 PM EST by blam
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Tests Reveal Amesbury Archer "King Of Stonehenge' Was A Settler From The Alps
Popular Science | 2-8-2004
Posted on 02/08/2004 3:40:04 PM EST by blam
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Since I have no idea what your "spinal tap" reference is to I guess I for one must be counted as not thinking of it.
The present head is not the original head, but is cut down from the original head to about half the proportionate size. In addition, the neck is not smoothly faired into the body anymore but was chopped to fit the present head. The original head was of a lion, there being enough material in the original yarddang outcrop, and when the muzzle either broke off due to weathering, or was cut off to put the human face on, most likely when the body was buried in sand as it was until recently, the proportions of the rest of the body were ignored.
That's the theory. One wonders what secrets the Sahara holds to be discovered, that may relate to a civ which carved the Sphinx originally. There's grist for a great novel in that, somewhere. I have one related to al Shamiya Desert, perhaps I should do one for the Sahara?
I don't know what the theory is. That is my hypothesis, which I came up with before any of these Egyptologists bothered to mention the obvious facts.
There are a lot of nutjobs in academia. A glacier built stonehenge, aliens built the pyramids, the sphynx is a million years old, etc. Anything to sell books. Publish or perish.
Well, first of all, Egyptologists don't ascribe to that theory, it's what Schoch, West, and Bauval came up with. Bauval was the first to connect the arrangement of the great pyramids to the arrangement of the stars in Orion's belt. Secondly, Egyptologists don't like it when conventional 'wisdom' is challenged. The site known as Obiados (sp?) is impossible to explain with conventional notions regarding the Giza plateau and whom carved the Sphinx and placed the foundational stones for it and the pyramids.
I don't buy the Orion's Belt hypothesis any more than the layout of the City on Mars. Do you happen to know the story of the origin of the third pyramid, the smaller one?
[Menkaure, also known as Mycerinus, ruled from 2490 - 2472 B.C.. He was king of the smallest of the three pyramids at Giza, and is believed to be Khufu's grandson.]
Yes, but that isn't who built it, and relating the story of how it was built, financed, would be grounds for suspension.
"And, if a glacier moved them over to Stonehenge, how many Blue Stones have been found 'strewn along the route' from the outcropping?"
The hogs ate 'em.
[ya gotta be a hillbilly to 'get' that].....;D
That was some danged intelligent and orderly glacier, I'll give it that.
"Can anyone hear the word 'Stonehenge' without thinking of Spinal Tap?"
Only if the volume is set at "11".....:)
Stonehenge is actually a calendar and outpost built by the men of Numenor in the Second Age of the World, probably after the arrival of Tar-Minastir and his forces c. 1700 S.A.
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