RTE 1 — 6.30 Monday — Secrets of the Stones

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FourWinds Apr 15, 2009 10:36:17
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
Don't buy the McCafferty comet/climate change = religion/monument change etc theory though .
Certainly food for thought. I actually thought it's quite plausible, but (obviously) completely unprovable. Something changed something. It's as good as any other theory.

However, all the talk was of passage tombs. Nothing about wedge, portal and court tombs, which predate the big passage tombs. Why did those style go out of fashion?

T tiompan
tiompan Apr 15, 2009 11:02:21
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Don't buy the McCafferty comet/climate change = religion/monument change etc theory though .
Certainly food for thought. I actually thought it's quite plausible, but (obviously) completely unprovable. Something changed something. It's as good as any other theory.

However, all the talk was of passage tombs. Nothing about wedge, portal and court tombs, which predate the big passage tombs. Why did those style go out of fashion?

They go for the jugular . Swirly bits of rock art and the sun shining up passages where it usually doesn't . Slightly less of the harp / flute & synth pad than usual , although I kept expecting to see the Titanic bursting through the Newgrange facade .

T tiompan
tiompan Apr 15, 2009 13:24:31
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Don't buy the McCafferty comet/climate change = religion/monument change etc theory though .
Certainly food for thought. I actually thought it's quite plausible, but (obviously) completely unprovable. Something changed something. It's as good as any other theory.

However, all the talk was of passage tombs. Nothing about wedge, portal and court tombs, which predate the big passage tombs. Why did those style go out of fashion?

He mentions a worship of the earth exemplified by passage tombs which led after the climate change disaster of 1159 bc to sky worship exempilified by stone circles . We don’t have too many dates for Irish stone circles but Grange at 2500 bc and the existence of possible transitional monuments like Beltany and Broadleas which may be even earlier counters the idea . No suggestion that the new religion just came from across the water where there are plenty of well dated stone circles earlier than cataclysm . You would expect more than one change in religion from the period of Carrowmore to the introduction of metals and certainly greater than one simple architectural shift .