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Re: Offerings at stones
May 14, 2006, 08:37
Often wondered if there's a connection between the Sil of Silbury and the Sul of Aquae Sulis (and Salisbury, Solsbury etc).

Tombo did the etymology of Sul and Sil as a sun word (can never get back to his essays or I would give the link), and the iconography of roman Bath, has the sun and moon on one of the arches, as has the famous celtic head - the hair is almost stylised as sun rays. Up on the Lansdown in one of the bronze age barrows a small gold "sun disc" was found. Hills such as Solsbury and Silbury would be nearer the sun, and therefore may have had it incorporated in their names but language change over time may have meant something different...
The water element may also have been incorporated into rituals over different times with paths down to rivers, such as Stanton Drew circle and Stonehenge, and maybe Silbury. Callanish is the great northern temple of the moon maybe, the sun and water perhaps playing a more important part in the south. As for churches, the baptismal use of water must have been used from the time of the early christian monks; there was a pair of celtic spoons found just outside Bath by one of the brooks, so water was always important down through the ages.
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