Stonehenge Unhinged The Wheel of the Sun eBook Michael Johnston Daniel Johnston
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Over the years, many authors have claimed to have “solved” Stonehenge only to have their pet theories fall apart. This book provides a new perspective which really does offer some incredible insights into the minds and intentions of the Stonehenge builders based solely on treating Stonehenge as an intricate puzzle, subject to analysis and partial solution.
The book, entitled Stonehenge Unhinged The Wheel of the Sun, is written for a general audience and consists of a brief overview of Stonehenge, the developments in human thought that led to its construction, a discussion of its components and the history of speculation as to its meaning. This is followed by chapters revealing just how Stonehenge was probably used, at least in a practical, non-ritualistic way, to mark the seasons, track the motions of the moon and even predict lunar eclipses. Throughout, it refrains from interjecting modern thinking into the analysis and tries to let the archeology and the reasonable motivations of its builders drive the interpretation. The result is a striking, straightforward and believable explanation of how numbers were at the base of their insight and were used successfully, if not serendipitously, to achieve an understanding of their cosmos that still echoes today. In fact, we present compelling evidence that amongst the inheritors of the Stonehenge knowledge were such luminaries as Pythagoras and that celebrations such as Halloween and May Day are a direct outgrowth from Stonehenge. 65 illustrations.
Stonehenge Unhinged The Wheel of the Sun eBook Michael Johnston Daniel Johnston
What do you get when you combine an estimated 140 free-standing stones, 115 pits, 64 wooden posts, 35 dressed trilithons, 2 entrances, 1 bank, 1 ditch, 1 avenue, and assorted graves from various ancient time periods?You get a heck of a lot of puzzle pieces.
What do you do with all those puzzle pieces?
If you're Mike and Dan Johnston, you snugly fit together one heck of a megalithic-sized puzzle, with the result that, as they proclaim in the preface to their new book Stonehenge Unhinged, "the doors guarding the ancient mystery of Stonehenge are blown open and the light of reason is allowed to stream into its dark interior."
And it is the light of reason that guides the reader through a detailed examination of the puzzle. The result of 30 or so years of study, research and investigation, Mike and Dan use science and mathematics to show where each piece fits into the larger whole and what its likely function in that position was. All of the pieces of the puzzle have an explanation and none are left out.
Not all of the structures at Stonehenge were built at the same time, nor were they all in use at the same time, yet the authors demonstrate that, no matter when it was in use, every component in the complex was intentionally positioned to align with the rising and setting of both the sun and moon at significant times over the course of not just a single year, but many years. This enabled the Stone Age people who utilized it not only to anticipate the solstices and equinoxes, but also track the cycles of the moon and predict both solar and lunar eclipses.
Which then, of course, raises the question: Why? Why expend so much time and manpower to construct such an enormous, sophisticated multipurpose solar/lunar calculator-calendar-computer?
The answer isn't likely to be "42," but it could very well be 13, 28 or 56. The Johnstons don't claim to have the answer, yet they do convincingly present evidence for the configuration of stones, posts, and pits being based on the numbers 13, 28 and 56, making it possible not only to figure out the number of days between astronomical events, but also between the agricultural feast days that we now know as Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasad. In addition to this, they suggest that these numbers and their calendrical significance might be represented on a couple of well-known artefacts found in barrows in the greater Stonehenge landscape, as well as possibly surviving in some modern systems of measurement still used in parts of the British Isles.
Written in a straightforward yet engaging, friendly style, and illustrated with easy-to-understand diagrams and charts, Stonehenge Unhinged The Wheel of the Sun makes no claims about Stonehenge that can't be supported with scientific and/or mathematical calculations, and when the authors do speculate, they only do so if they can frame their speculation on a foundation of established fact or the soundest information available. Their findings build on what we already know about Stonehenge but challenge us to reconsider both preconceived ideas and previously dismissed theories about the people who designed and built it. Just as the recent discovery of the "world's oldest lunar calendar" in Scotland, estimated to be about 10,000 years old, has forced archaeologists to rethink the ability of Stone Age people to calculate and measure time, Mike and Dan Johnston force us to do the same but take it one step further by not simply suggesting it could have been done, but showing us how it was done.
I've only touched on a few of the fascinating ways that the puzzle pieces fit so neatly together. There is much more to discover and be excited about in the pages of this book, some of which, in retrospect, seems almost too obvious not to have been spotted in plain sight by all. I can honestly say that this was one work of non-fiction that I had a hard time putting down and, as it's written on a topic that's near and dear to me, I highly recommend it to everyone with even a passing curiosity about the puzzle that is Stonehenge.
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Stonehenge Unhinged The Wheel of the Sun eBook Michael Johnston Daniel Johnston Reviews
What do you get when you combine an estimated 140 free-standing stones, 115 pits, 64 wooden posts, 35 dressed trilithons, 2 entrances, 1 bank, 1 ditch, 1 avenue, and assorted graves from various ancient time periods?
You get a heck of a lot of puzzle pieces.
What do you do with all those puzzle pieces?
If you're Mike and Dan Johnston, you snugly fit together one heck of a megalithic-sized puzzle, with the result that, as they proclaim in the preface to their new book Stonehenge Unhinged, "the doors guarding the ancient mystery of Stonehenge are blown open and the light of reason is allowed to stream into its dark interior."
And it is the light of reason that guides the reader through a detailed examination of the puzzle. The result of 30 or so years of study, research and investigation, Mike and Dan use science and mathematics to show where each piece fits into the larger whole and what its likely function in that position was. All of the pieces of the puzzle have an explanation and none are left out.
Not all of the structures at Stonehenge were built at the same time, nor were they all in use at the same time, yet the authors demonstrate that, no matter when it was in use, every component in the complex was intentionally positioned to align with the rising and setting of both the sun and moon at significant times over the course of not just a single year, but many years. This enabled the Stone Age people who utilized it not only to anticipate the solstices and equinoxes, but also track the cycles of the moon and predict both solar and lunar eclipses.
Which then, of course, raises the question Why? Why expend so much time and manpower to construct such an enormous, sophisticated multipurpose solar/lunar calculator-calendar-computer?
The answer isn't likely to be "42," but it could very well be 13, 28 or 56. The Johnstons don't claim to have the answer, yet they do convincingly present evidence for the configuration of stones, posts, and pits being based on the numbers 13, 28 and 56, making it possible not only to figure out the number of days between astronomical events, but also between the agricultural feast days that we now know as Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasad. In addition to this, they suggest that these numbers and their calendrical significance might be represented on a couple of well-known artefacts found in barrows in the greater Stonehenge landscape, as well as possibly surviving in some modern systems of measurement still used in parts of the British Isles.
Written in a straightforward yet engaging, friendly style, and illustrated with easy-to-understand diagrams and charts, Stonehenge Unhinged The Wheel of the Sun makes no claims about Stonehenge that can't be supported with scientific and/or mathematical calculations, and when the authors do speculate, they only do so if they can frame their speculation on a foundation of established fact or the soundest information available. Their findings build on what we already know about Stonehenge but challenge us to reconsider both preconceived ideas and previously dismissed theories about the people who designed and built it. Just as the recent discovery of the "world's oldest lunar calendar" in Scotland, estimated to be about 10,000 years old, has forced archaeologists to rethink the ability of Stone Age people to calculate and measure time, Mike and Dan Johnston force us to do the same but take it one step further by not simply suggesting it could have been done, but showing us how it was done.
I've only touched on a few of the fascinating ways that the puzzle pieces fit so neatly together. There is much more to discover and be excited about in the pages of this book, some of which, in retrospect, seems almost too obvious not to have been spotted in plain sight by all. I can honestly say that this was one work of non-fiction that I had a hard time putting down and, as it's written on a topic that's near and dear to me, I highly recommend it to everyone with even a passing curiosity about the puzzle that is Stonehenge.
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