Wotan
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GLENCULLEN
Feb 13, 2002, 11:01
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Dont want to risk dominating a thread, so heres a new tack: if 7/8 of GC stone is buried, and given its tremendous natural beauty and 'potential' power, could it have been 'buried' to hide its prominence and reduce its flaring in the sunshine, or could it tap a high water table or spring ? Perhaps the top of the stone was meant to be accessible as an altar or some such?
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FourWinds
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Re: GLENCULLEN
Feb 13, 2002, 11:20
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There are many possibilities here.
One friend suggested a more mundane reason. Many of the stones were originally simple boundary markers. Maybe the local 'lore' was if you want to cross my land you have to move my stone!
I prefer to think of more mystical reasons. The stone definitely has a presence and the megalithic activity in the area is huge. There are 6 wedge tombs within four kms of it. I think the stone is *very* old and not just some celtic jobbie.
The other amazing thing is that the quartz in the wicklow moutains all seems to be concentrated some 25km away! It may have originally been a glacial eratic, but I think it was moved here by man(just like the two not quite so huge rocks at Castleruddery stone circle on the opposite side of the Wicklow mountains). This has just made me think of something else that I will add to the "Underwater lost Kingdoms" thread where it belongs.
There are not many standing stones in the area. There is one just 800m away by a ring barrow, but that is about it really. There are two possible christianised stones about 3km away, but a lot of stones/tombs in Ireland were blasted to use in road building.
I don't actually know if there is an undergound water course nearby, but I intend to find out now.
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juamei
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Re: GLENCULLEN
Feb 13, 2002, 11:26
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Maybe it _had_ to be on that spot, so they buried enough of it to discourage ppl moving it later on. ie 18th century farmers..
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Wotan
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Re:Ley Low
Feb 13, 2002, 11:32
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Does it figure on any Ley lines or other alignments, given the dearth of other local 'lith activity ?
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FourWinds
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Re:Ley Low
Feb 13, 2002, 11:39
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I've never checked the leys of Ireland. Not that big
a subscriber to be honest, but I'll look.
Talking of big lumps of quartz, how could I forget this
one?
http://www.megalithomania.com/show_site.php?site_id=69
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Wotan
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Re:Ley Low
Feb 13, 2002, 11:44
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Dont want to drift too far off topic on this, hence the tentative ley connection. Cant really subscribe to the theory too much myself - but its a 'thort'!
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Wotan
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Re:Motte & Pestle ?
Feb 13, 2002, 11:49
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Consider the cup as a receptacle for quartz fragments, dark ancient evening, no light pollution - shaman pounding the whole lot with a pestle (cant remember which is which!) - palaeolithic pyrotechnics perhaps?
(excuse the inadvertant alliteration!)
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FourWinds
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Re: GLENCULLEN
Mar 19, 2002, 22:24
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And then we had a bit of a glencullen thread too. :-)
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