nigelswift
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Re: Sacred directions
Nov 29, 2017, 17:29
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My thinking was you'd have your sword on the danger side, i.e. the outside of the henge. However, if you go clockwise it'll be on the inside. But me too, left handed and go round anticlockwise, so the same.
Is this valid psychological research - that the threat at Avebury and other circles was from the inside? Is the sacred direction the safe direction?
I apologise for the waste of electrons.
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Evergreen Dazed
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Re: Sacred directions
Nov 29, 2017, 19:03
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nigelswift wrote: My thinking was you'd have your sword on the danger side, i.e. the outside of the henge. However, if you go clockwise it'll be on the inside. But me too, left handed and go round anticlockwise, so the same.
Is this valid psychological research - that the threat at Avebury and other circles was from the inside? Is the sacred direction the safe direction?
I apologise for the waste of electrons.
Ah, I see, I see..
Yes, after our (or your) extensive research, it obviously means the threat was from the inside, and "Sacred direction - Safe direction" is a nice catchy title for the resulting paper.
A waste of electrons it is not.
Mentioning Ritchie Blackmores hair in a discussion about Sacred directions, however, absolutely is, so I am putting my feet up for the evening on that basis. It's been a long day.
ps. I now have images of the "Sacred games of Avebury", spectators on the bank, the 'warriors' proceeding down the avenues, pigs running about in all directions and a bloke selling bacon butties next to the Swindon Stone.
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nigelswift
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Re: Sacred directions
Nov 29, 2017, 19:19
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and a bloke selling bacon butties next to the Swindon Stone....
Which is now not allowed under the National Trust Bylaws.
See how those jobsworths throttle the authenticity out of everything they touch.
(They allow trail hunting elsewhere though the heartless crappers).
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Steve M
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Re: Sacred directions
Nov 29, 2017, 21:09
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Interesting thread!
Perhaps relevant – a piece I wrote a long time ago, about Neolithic people's perception of direction:
http://www.exploringavebury.com/assets/uploads/files/Which%20way%20is%20up.pdf
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tjj
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Edited Nov 29, 2017, 22:54
Re: Sacred directions
Nov 29, 2017, 22:47
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Steve M wrote:
Really good to read this Steve - fascinating and very pertinent to the content of the R4 programme in Rhiannon's post. Definitely worth a listen.
Hope you are well.
J
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Evergreen Dazed
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Re: Sacred directions
Nov 29, 2017, 23:18
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Enjoyed that, cheers Steve.
A simple turn of the map makes a familiar place suddenly strange and new.
Great stuff re the inner circles.
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moss
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Re: Sacred directions
Nov 30, 2017, 06:44
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Steve M wrote:
Thank you for that paper, it bought to mind the two Saxon sundials on nearby churches, Kirkdale and Great Edstone (it featured in the Milliband episode). Simple designs for the hour of prayer, and yet so like the stones on the ground, like the great obelisk casting its shadow as the sun moves round. We have lost the art of contemplating the movement of sun and moon.
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Sanctuary
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Re: Sacred directions
Nov 30, 2017, 11:13
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moss wrote: Steve M wrote:
Thank you for that paper, it bought to mind the two Saxon sundials on nearby churches, Kirkdale and Great Edstone (it featured in the Milliband episode). Simple designs for the hour of prayer, and yet so like the stones on the ground, like the great obelisk casting its shadow as the sun moves round. We have lost the art of contemplating the movement of sun and moon.
We have the Roadford Lake Reservoir Jubilee Sundial down here in the West Country in Devon moss. Beautiful to look at when we take a dog or two for a run.
http://www.welovethetamarvalley.co.uk/sites/default/files/members/Sundial%20at%20Roadford%20Lake.jpg
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