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PeterH
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Re: Henge corrals?
Dec 18, 2005, 22:11
I certainly accept that the apparent lack of consistent alignments does not prove that henges did not have a ritual purpose. The rituals may have had nothing to do with sun rises, sets or alignment to a hill etc.

Yet this further increases my unease when you say that the entrances to tombs face many different directions also. Could it be that we have been conditioned to see solar alignments where they do not exist simply because they do exist elsewhere. Perhaps the majority of henges and chambered tombs were built with entrances where convenient because sunrises and sunsets were of no importance to the builders. Clearly there are solar alignments that work and we can see that they do. Does that mean that all are aligned to stages of the solar cycle?
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