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Littlestone May 11, 2013 10:31:05
Replying to Mustard

Mustard wrote:
Littlestone wrote:
And maybe it's the 'there' that's the point of interest here. Places like Avebury and Stonehenge have been sort of 'requisitioned' by various groups/individuals to serve/symbolize their beliefs/causes when a new, large and impressive stone stone circle (for example) would be a more meaningful way of 'moving on' :-)
But then Stonehenge would never have gotten past phase one ;)
Chuckle... but on a serious note they (the Stonehenge builders at various stages) quite happily pulled down and rearranged the work of their predecessors and then molded the structure to serve their own needs. Modern-day Druids etc (at Stonehenge) seem to be harping back to an imaginary past and asking that things should or should not be done there using an argument with little or no basis in fact.

Alternatively, do modern-day Druids etc have a legitimate right to create something new there? Maybe they do, but not by saying 'their' Stonehenge is based on historical fact :-)

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BuckyE May 14, 2013 04:41:40
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
Alternatively, do modern-day Druids etc have a legitimate right to create something new there?
Basically, no, because the proposition is inherently self-contradictory. By their own statements, they are not "creating something new." Supposedly they are resurrecting or recreating or discovering something old. If that's all they're doing, they're just moving over. Or really, in these terms, moving backwards.

Mustard raises a good historical point. Actually we can't know. If some foreign Beaker People came in and literally took over Stonehenge from a --perhaps failing-- local culture, then they would have been mostly moving over. In the sense of a Neolithic sacred spring > an Etruscan temple > a Roman temple > a Christian church. Mostly moving over. When the curch is made redundant, and turned into a social center, that might be moving on.

Here's a better example of moving on, against which to evaluate the others: The Barnstable family farm > multiple generations of same> the Barnstable agritourismo.