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Re: Lost Festivals at Megalithic Sites
Dec 13, 2009, 19:54
Branwen wrote:
Well, the last reference I've seen to it was looking through the Ancient Lothian site, on a list of festivals.
http://www.cyberscotia.com/ancient-lothian/leaves/features/calendar-of-festivals.html

I've seen them mentioned elsewhere though, always without an explanation of the alignment, which must fall on the days given, and so are guessable, to an extent, but I wondered why they are "lost" and not commonly mentioned. Usually when I see them mentioned it just says this site has alignments with lost neolithic festivals.


How can you have a lost Neolithic festival ? It seems like a case of Steve S-W has taken one of the pits at cairnpapple as an alignmnet that has no obvious astro event and assumes the date of the sun rise/set at the azimuth must have been a festival . maybe that's a bit too specific and maybe there are other cases with similar bearings but hardly cause to claim a putative festival .
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