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Re: Lost Festivals at Megalithic Sites
Dec 13, 2009, 21:19
Branwen wrote:
Beltane and Samhainn were based on the rising and setting of the Pleiades originally, which used to fall midway between the equinoxes and solstices. This halfway method of calculating them was used later to standardise the festivals, which by then were important as rent collecting etc... days.


If the pleiades were markers then precession would be a problem , but as both can be calculated from the more reliable solar /lunar cycles why should anyone bother ,with a the pleiades and how do we know they did ?
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