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FourWinds Jan 6, 2010 17:34:24
Replying to tiompan

Didn't someone (possibly Martin Brennan) say that the alignment from the entrance of cairn L at Loughcrew to the interior free-standing stone was aligned with an eclipse around the time of its erection? It may have been solar, though.

It's an interesting theory, but would a lunar eclipse be as big a deal as a solar eclipse? It would assume a lunar rather than solar cult. The moon's a cool thing, I admit, but was it bigger than the sun?

C CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Jan 6, 2010 17:59:38
Replying to FourWinds

I saw that on an obscure old-style web page, the name Grennan comes to mind but dont think it was in Brennans book (the eclipse bit)

T tiompan
tiompan Jan 6, 2010 19:06:23
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
Didn't someone (possibly Martin Brennan) say that the alignment from the entrance of cairn L at Loughcrew to the interior free-standing stone was aligned with an eclipse around the time of its erection? It may have been solar, though.

It's an interesting theory, but would a lunar eclipse be as big a deal as a solar eclipse? It would assume a lunar rather than solar cult. The moon's a cool thing, I admit, but was it bigger than the sun?

Eclipses are buggers to work out due to Delta T etc .I have major problems (not standstills) with most lunar " alignments " .They work out theoretically but for a variety of reasons you don't even see them a lot of the time .Would they really be marked ? Good fun looking for them but the intentionality is questionable .