Into the labyrinth/ Rock art on a very big scale | Forum

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tjj Nov 12, 2007 07:22:45

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Fascinating stuff thanks for the link - this Forum continues to be a source of important and exciting information (by and large) for someone like myself who just 'wants to find our more'.

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wysefool Nov 12, 2007 10:23:03

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Simply amazing, thanks Tuesday.

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fitzcoraldo Nov 12, 2007 11:48:24

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Cheers for that,
I can remember reading somewhere about a similar maze beside the sea on St. Agnes in the Scillies.
I hope we are going to see a lot more archaeology coming out of Russia, there was an excellent website called the Dolmen Path but it seems to be down at the moment.
Another area that I find exciting is Karelia on the Finnish/Russian border, they too have mazes along with rock art and the gorgeous Seidas. What is wonderful about these northern lands is that christianity came quite late to these areas so a lot of the beliefs centred around these sites can still be traced. Plus there are people such as the remote Saami who still maintain a semi-nomadic/pastoral lifestyle and can give us possible insights into how our ancestors may have viewed the world.

cheers
fitz

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Jane Nov 12, 2007 17:42:27

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Blimey! Those are amazing! That swirly maze pattern seems like some kind of universal motif...
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tiompan Nov 12, 2007 19:38:24

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tuesday wrote:

We offered these but it seems the site isn't ready for Russia yet, so we set up a page with info and images collected by our friend Alex Budovsky on the mind blowing neolithic remains of the Solovetsky archipelago

check out:

http://web.mac.com/nicolastewart

Thanks Tuesday , They look beautiful and intriguing monuments . However I do have some misgivings . On what evidence was the dating "estimate " made ,? If so many were lost between 1927 and the present i.e (13 out of 14 , unless i misunderstood ) how many would have been lost between the Neolithic and 1927 or is it not likely that they might not be as old as some of the other monuments in the area .If they do prove to be that told it is certainly a major find in relation to the motif , I can't think of any Neolithic labyrinth .Anybody know any ?

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StoneGloves Nov 12, 2007 20:56:55

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Werner Herzog is currently being criticised for his free adaption of a true story of a captured American flyer in the 1960's - he portrays someone as a gibbering idiot and his family are anxious to point out that he absolutely wasn't like that. But Herzog's subsequent film 'Wild Blue Yonder' - very snooze-worthy - employs this same motif several times. My understanding - and it's a tedious but clever work - is that it symbolises human mind, or brain, and the entry path is that empty space between the two spheres.