WORSHIPPING
MEGALITHIC STONES
The content of
this page are caused directly by watching the Documentary
"Stonehenge Decoded" in which
Professor and Archaeologist,
Mike Parker
Pearson, University of Sheffield, advocates for the idea of
"Ancestral spirits living in the stones of the Stonehenge megalithic
stones" and furthermore advocates for the idea that the newly
discovered Woodhenge was worshipped by the living people and that
Stonehenge was worshipped for the ancestral Spirits.
But I think there are more to it than just
stating some ideas based on the usual archaeological comforting "It
must be something ritual that we don't know anything about".
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Several times I have heard archaeologist and telling from still
living native people where the mythological story seems to
have lost the deeper mythological meaning and sense. In “Stonehenge
Decoded”, the local
Madagascan archaeologist, (?)Ramilson, stated about
the local Tandroy People of Madagaskar, that “the Tandroy ancestors
inhabits the megalithic stones”.
But the Ramilson statement very much
makes me wonder. The dead ancestral spirits really living in the
stones? Could Ramilson´s statement or assertion have a more specific
meaning?
Which meaningful and understandable
connection can there be between “ritual stone settings in an ancient
monumental building” and “ancestors”? It depends of course of the
meaning of setting stones and building large megalithic structures
under great strains. And where comes the “ancestors” into the
picture of the story telling? Can there be a deeper meaning than
just proclaiming and saying that “the ancestors inhabits the
stones”?
First you have of course to know the
purpose of setting stones and building the ritual structures, and
you don't build such large and heavy structures without a real good
purpose! You do this in order to mark specific important events that
really matters and gives a real daily, seasonal , spiritual and
mythical meaning for your tribal life. And, if one really are
thinking and imagining that the spirits lives on after the physical
death, there was/is many other local and natural places where the
ancestral spirits can rest besides in some standing stones.
- “Ancestors” are not just
“Forefathers” or “reasonly dead members in an ancient family group”.
In the deepest sense the concepts of “Ancestrial” and “Forefathers”
can be connected with the very telling of the mythological origin of
mankind. Where did we come from and how did this happened? Did we
just grow up from the soil of the Earth or was other “unearthly”
conditions in play? Where do we meet a first telling of the human
origin if not from the Creation stories from a lot of ancient
peoples and in the later written Religious telling?
In order to find out the question of
the origin of the mankind, you have to know something about the
cosmological conditions that creates the possibility of life on
Earth. The basic life seems immediately to grow by itself, but we
all know that the Sun have its specific influences on the life on
Earth. So, imagine living in ancient times, we have to extend our
knowledge at least to the Sun influences and the changes of the
Seasons. Therefore: Setting stones to mark the Sun and thereby the
seasons, was really important in ancient times.
These physical observations is for
many people a quite sufficient and enough explanation to the
questions of “where we came from and where we go to” because this is
just the fact of all living things in nature. And it really also
should be a sufficient facts for modern archaeologists when the find
and study these ancient stones and monumentally buildings, that the
archaeologists makes the real mental and conscious connection to
larger cosmological conditions than just the comfortable: “It must
be something ritual”.
- When
we have studied the Earth/Sun relationship for a while, we maybe
also begin to wonder over the view in the seemingly revolving night
Sky with the Stars and the white band that vaults over the Sky, the
contours of the Milky Way. An that is just what many ancient
cultures have pondered over for thousands of years. Stars have been
connected into figures of all human and animal kinds. Star
constellations have been plotted and symbolized all over the world
and is very recognizable.
When it comes to gathering knowledge
and setting stones marking the Sun directions and setting marking
stones it's “just” a matter of observing the Sun throughout some
years and set the stones in the seasonal directions from a central
marking stone. And when it comes to the physical observations of the
night Sky, you can do the very same if you want to mark the north
pole or some specific Stars or Star constellations.
It is quite another question of
understanding our forefathers and foremothers way of gathering real
knowledge on the extraterrestrial areas outside the Earth and
outside the Solar System. In this case, there are no other
possibilities for understanding the ancestral way of gathering
knowledge, but really to accept the whole concept of “spiritual
traveling”, which is very difficult for modern people mentally to
grasp, while mostly getting modern Astronomical and Cosmological
“outherspace” knowledge by technological instruments of all kinds.
http://www.firstpeople.usl
Often one hear or read about
“shamanistic mind traveling out in space” but very few describes
what the “cosmic mind travelers” really gathers of information's
from the other Space. But how else could our ancestors get their
ideas to “the story of Creation”? Have our ancestors discovered much
more of Space than the modern human beings can understand? Well, I
think so!
But how on Earth can one argument
for, and explain a possible enormous ancestral Space/Galactic
knowledge? Well, one really can't without finding a lot of ancient
symbols and story telling of Creation and try to compare the symbols
and telling to the modern scientific knowledge of Astronomy and
Cosmology.
And such a common knowledge seems, in
my opinion, to be factual. And also in my opinion, our ancestors
were/are well, very well ahead of the modern science regarding a
Holistic understanding of everything on Earth and in the Heaven.
- The very idea and practice of the
technological and industrial “devellopment“ and the very idea of the
“Newton and Einstein Laws of gravity” are the worst modern obstacles
in order to get a Holistic and Universal knowledge similar to our
ancestors.
Our ancestors had no trouble with any laws of gravity, their spirits
could easily move anywhere they wanted, but because of the modern
technological way of getting knowledge by spacecrafts and
astronomical instruments, the modern human beings are physical and
mentally stuck of gravitational difficulties, launching very heavy
tin cans in Space and getting speculative information's by
instruments in stead of launching their Spirits the Ancestral Way of
gathering intuitive and immediate knowledge.
Related:
Megalithic Milky Way Stones.
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