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Re: Wolstonbury: henge or hillfort
Apr 14, 2011, 07:59
Resonox wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:



I've always believed that Neolithic man believed in the Afterlife George and that water played a huge part of that belief, hence many monuments were built near to it. Water cleansed the body and by definition purified it and the soul prior to beginning its journey into the next world. It represented the border between this world and the next!


Sorry should have been a bit clearer about the water /henge connection . It is just that even when not close to water courses henge ditches show signs of having being silted and even today are seen to hold water .
Proximity to water...whether natural or "created"/collected is a necessity for day to day existence...and as a sustainer of life it isn't surprising or unfeasible that it would have significance bordering on reverence.


True , but siting of some possibly "ceremonial " or at least not obviously utilitarian monuments in relation to water courses has been noted sometimes speciously from the phenomenologists but portal tombs are commonly aligned on the route of a small water courses with the portal aimed towards the source . Conversely Stonehenge is sited in a desert .
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