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Re: Lost Festivals at Megalithic Sites
Dec 14, 2009, 17:42
Branwen wrote:
Festival of the serpent was roman on the website I saw it on, but don't remember what it was and didn't save it as it wasn't of interest to me. I only remembered it cos its my birthday, in fact.

If Thom discounted the pleiades as an important calendar division, it would make us one of the few countries that didn't acknowledge such. I assume he just discounted them as megalithic alignments? I'm gonna shut up though as I keep mentioning stuff and it being wrong, which I have no problem being wrong, but would hate anyone to think I'marguing to be right, when really I just want to learn, which would include learning things I've accepted at face value for years were wrong. It's hard to tell what is right or wrong without asking though. Worth if I can avoid pissing people off with suchlike though, as it gets the brain going.


Thom stuck mainly to solar and lunar stuff although he does mention stars usually if they were outwith the areas of the horizon where you don't see the sun or moon . But the problems due to making sure the site was at the right date to be seen i.e. the precession problem , means when a good date arrives for the site your calc could be all wrong .You certainly don't piss anybody off and please don't stop posting .
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