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tiompan Sep 9, 2014 14:31:18
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Then there was mention of "proof of a day long ceremony " .The procession nonsense is even more risible and the basis for the suggestion has been shown to be wrong .
Just had a quick glance at some of the stuff from the time, was this the idea of a procession from the eastern pit to a mid-point along the cursus, then south which missed the centre of stonehenge by some margin?!
Yes .
A quote from that time ""When viewed from the Heel Stone, a rather enigmatic stone which stands just outside the entrance to Stonehenge, the pits effectively mark the raising and setting of the sun at midsummer days," .The graphics had the alignment to the monument and no mention of the Heel Stone and the western pit is not on the alignment of the solstice as seen from the Heel stone , it's also unsighted .

Another from Henry Chapman ,part of the team "If you measure the walking distance between the two pits, the procession would reach exactly half-way at midday, when the sun would be directly on top of Stonehenge. This is more than just a coincidence, indicating that the exact length of the Cursus and the positioning of the pits are of significance." This is easily shown to be wrong from all counts/points and involves an incredibly leisurely procession of which there is absolutey no evidence in any direction never mind tempo .

E Evergreen Dazed
Evergreen Dazed Sep 9, 2014 15:50:09
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
Another from Henry Chapman ,part of the team "If you measure the walking distance between the two pits, the procession would reach exactly half-way at midday, when the sun would be directly on top of Stonehenge. This is more than just a coincidence, indicating that the exact length of the Cursus and the positioning of the pits are of significance." This is easily shown to be wrong from all counts/points and involves an incredibly leisurely procession of which there is absolutey no evidence in any direction never mind tempo .
It's incredible. I mean, really, in the true meaning of that word.
How did this idea manage to find life beyond the first 10 minutes of those on the project discussing it?

Tempo - classic. Perhaps snails were leading the ceremonies?

T tiompan
tiompan Sep 12, 2014 12:05:44
Replying to tiompan

No mention of the snails paced procession southwards at noon , maybe next week . Even when leaving aside the error in the western alignment and reasoning for the mid point procession ,what was scary is that nobody ,either prog production or worse any of the huge numbers involved seems to have picked up on the obvious circular reasoning in the explanation for the “intersection “ . The script : “When the position of the pits were computer modelled against movements of the sun “ (note , no mention of the site the movements were being modelled from .) “ Their true importance became clear , the calculation “(note there is no calculation merely a recording of the solstice rise and set from one point ) “showed that on midsummers day the eastern pits alignment with the sun set and western pits alignment with sun set “(note , the fact that it is unsighted from the monument and is not on the line of the alignment is less important in relation to the logical error , for the moment ) “ intersect” (note, the crux of the tautology , of course they would intersect there if that is where you are recording the phenomena from in the first instance ) at the location of where Stonehenge would be built some 400 years later .” A less important potential problem is the date of the pits ,they are undated , they could post date the construction of monument .