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Re: Humour me
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Bob always seems to have his head screwwed on.

>> "I'm not suggesting that the city of London was designed geomantically in the manner that
>> I've heard Rome was, when I think about it. More that the sacred landscape/whateveryoucallit
>> that was there before London has influenced London's development."

Shirley that's totally different - and probably a more valid case anyway :-)

I can not really accept that because another (ancient) culture planned one or two cities using geomantic (?) principles that a much later one would do the same in London.

Thinking about it I reckon I could come up with similar ideas about Dublin. In fact I know a street where the sun sets straight down it on the equinoxes. To compound the theory the sun sets behind a passage tomb on one of the Dublin Mountains (the north end of the Wicklow Mountains that just happens to be in County Dublin - to me they're all the Wicklow Mountains). Unfortunately, this part of Dublin was apple orchards 200 years ago - I have 1798 & 1693 maps of Dublin. Not a road in sight. The road is new and the alignment simply a very nice coincidence.

Anyway, by way of diversion, how old is the Pentagram as a recorded western sacred symbol? It's not something I've looked into, so I don't have a clue. Saying that, the Irish five-stone stone circles ....


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Posted by FourWinds
21st July 2004ce
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