it's about the change from hunter-gathering (moon) culture to agarian (Sun), due to the extinction of prey after the ice-age
people don't give up their ideas easily, so the old ideas have to be eased into the new
hence, whilst Stonehenge needed to be solar aligned, it also needed to have a lunar element to keep an air of tradition and authority
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http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~ait/news02.html
Chris Knight and Lionel Sims. lecturers in
anthropology at the University of East London, dressed up to play their part in the King's Drummers troupe.
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~ait/02sjp4.jpg
I know who he is now - seen him about loads ...
RG
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