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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: A Question about Celtic matters
Message-ID: <115@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 14:14:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 14:14:42 1985
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In article <3549@pur-ee.UUCP> cromwell@pur-ee.UUCP (Robert L Cromwell) writes:
>	My roommate is curious about the Druids.  Other than saying,
>	'They built Stongehenge, and so they obviously had it together
>	mathematically and astronomically', I can't come up with much.

     You'll probably get a lot of responses to this article, so I'll just
write about the topic I'm most familiar with.
     It's not at all clear that the Druids built Stonehenge, or even that they
understood the more subtle astronomically significant arrangements of stones
in the circle.  After all, we "modern" people had no widespread knowledge of
its significance until fairly recently.  The modern Druids who celebrate the
solstice at Stonehenge are riding on this new wave of knowledge and interest.
     Stonehenge may have been built by even more primitive peoples than the
Celts.  In this respect, it may be like the "medicine wheels" built by some
early Plains Indian tribes, which were evidently used to help track the
heavenly objects. This fact was generally lost on the later Plains tribes, and
on the white man, until recently.

--Jamie.
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