Posted on 07/31/2008 10:46:50 AM PDT by BGHater
Neo ping.
Cave Circles?................
It’s a good thing England isn’t a Muslim country (yet). They’d be blown up.
This was a time before spray paint made it easier.
Ain’t no ‘shrooms did that!............
The first one could be a map.
Amazing to me...supposedly these folk had to spend hours looking for food to survive, working from sun to sun.I know there are some antropologists who insist that you can subsist on a few hours of work per day in a hunting/gathering culture. Not sure I believe that....look at how difficult non-mechanized farming is.
But they still had time to peck away at a rock with a rock. Day after day. This also says these areas must have been fairly permanent living places [villages?] because of the length of time such carvings would take. Of course they could have been revisited year after year, I suppose.
Why? Why would you waste the time? Tap a rock with a rock, even over and over and the results are pretty poor...somehow some group persisted even though the rewards [payoff] were pretty slim.
Look at it from the rear. It's a 'shroom!
It has virtually invisible bands of red ochre with white dots!
Undoubtedly knowledge of the use of amanita muscaria disappeared in Egypt as the climate continued to "warm" and "dry", but when the limestone mining started people still had a sense of veneration for this stone.
The contemporary stones found in UK as shown in this article are all 'shrooms!
I think those were the artifacts described by Prof. Jones!
Through Moria.
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Thanks BGHater. These pics look familiar, and may have been a topic before, but they're worth a look (or another) regardless. |
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They weren't farmers. What's more, it could have been older members of the tribe would couldn't hunt/gather as efficiently who made these carvings. They also could have been made by the tribal shaman, who would have had more time on his hands.
Why? Why would you waste the time? Tap a rock with a rock, even over and over and the results are pretty poor...somehow some group persisted even though the rewards [payoff] were pretty slim.
The more sophisticated religions had not yet been invented, and people have been expressing themselves through spiritual art as long as they've been people.
Northumberland Mysterious Rock Circles?
Uh-huh.
How the heck did these ancients produce this level of art without government subsidies?
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1321056/posts
Not yet sure if these are ‘new’ ones from the ones found. I had no idea there were so many carvings up there along the border.
They look like Led Zeppelin album covers.
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