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150 . OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
tic ancestors, the star-gazers and time-calculators of the deep
dark past.
The scientific skill and astronomical knowledge of Stonehenge
is rooted in the fifty-six Aubrey holes, in which at different dates
of the year were placed wooden poles of different height, giving
an astounding variety of precise alignments with the celestial
bodies. It made Stonehenge a huge, cleverly and skillfully executed
calculator. The time-counting cycle of these astronomers
4,000 years ago was the span of 20,454 days which, with a minimal
error of only 72 hours, represented 56 solar years, 59 lunar
years, or 118 eclipses. This comprised 1
saro and 2 Metonic cycles
I call the Celtic Triangle.
There is a relationship here to the Mayan solar-lunar cycle,
even though that was longer and more precise than the Celtic
Triangle. The Mayan cycle, that could be called the "Mayan
Square," comprised 33,968 days, giving, with an error of only 30
hours, 93 solar years or 98 lunar years, that is, 2 saros and 3
Metonic cycles. Since the Celts lived much farther north than the
Mayas and had much less favorable atmospheric conditions for
astronomical observations than the people near the equator
where the moon is nearly always overhead, I personally (my
prejudice granted) give the higher mark to the Celts. Also, I expect
that much more will be discovered at Stonehenge than we
have seen so far. Nobody yet has taken the pains to try the markers
for the five nearest planets, which must have been well
knowm to the astronomers of Stonehenge, or even for Uranus and
Neptune, probably familiar to them too. It could very well be
that in the patterns of Stonehenge some alignments are set to
indicate the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn at the time this
megalithic temple was built,
considerably in estimating its true age.
and such a finding could help us
Stonehenge is so famous mainly because it is so easily accessible
and so perfectly preserved. The megalithic temple of Avebury,
about 20 miles north, must originally have been much
bigger than Stonehenge, as it was formed by 650 gigantic
menhirs encircHng Silbury Hill. Yet the largest of all is the site of
Glastonbury, in Somerset, about 40 miles west of Stonehenge. It
is possible that this circle had a diameter of some 30 miles, but it