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fitzcoraldo Dec 19, 2005 20:38:18
Replying to Littlestone

"None of this is a quest for spirituality in the 21st century it is based on observation, excavation and common sense."

By this I was speaking from a personal viewpoint. Henges are a subject that deeply fascinate me, my point of view is based upon reading accounts of excavations and interpretation of the results of the these investigations. Plus my own personal experience of henges.
To be honest I think to tie the archaeological debate in with crystals and leylines muddys the whole issue and your almost marxist rejection of a ritualised society reminds me of Chide and his colleagues who wrote "Ritual was not important in the past and not worth studying in the present".
I do not believe that there was a dividing line between the sacred and the profane, Moss has written very eloquantly on this subject within this thread and I agree with everything said.
What does trouble me about much of this this whole thread is how factual evidence of non-domestic activities within many henges has on the whole been ignored in favour of speculation which is not supported by the archaeological evidence.
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fitz

L Littlestone
Littlestone Dec 19, 2005 21:07:24
Replying to fitzcoraldo

>"None of this is a quest for spirituality in the 21st century it is based on observation, excavation and common sense."<

But I'm afraid a lot of it <i>is</i> based on spirituality fitz. Go out to Avebury on any day of the week (let alone this week!) and I'll put good money on the majority of people there being on some sort of spiritual quest. Without getting into the numbers game, I just wonder how many people are interested in stone circles from the viewpoint of the 'spiritual' compared to those interested in them from the purely 'archaeological'?

I'll take with a smile you're suggestion that I'm tying in the archaeological debate with crystals etc but should like to point out that even a quick scan through some of the threads here on TMA will reveal how quickly the archaeological debate <i>can</i> get muddied by the Crystal Entity :-)

As for my 'almost Marxist's' comments... come, come; I have never rejected the ritualized aspect of ancient societies or their structures but merely pointed out (as have others) that some of the structures we have believed to be ritual/ceremonial may actually have been purely utilitarian. There aint nowt wrong with that is there?