Great writing I reckon, well worthy of this thread...
"But how much more potent it is to stand there then, with the gooseflesh tingling on your cheeks and watch what the builders would have watched, at the time that they would have watched it, fastened, intoxicated, as the red-glowing weight of the sun sinks exactly where they had indicated, with their circle of stone, that it should."
http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/archaeoastronomy-and-staring-at-the-sun/
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