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Priddy Circles

Priddy Henges

Steve Gray S
Steve Gray Dec 2, 2003 11:27:56
Replying to nigelswift

I didn't mean to do a random search of the heavens looking for a pattern, but if there was a closely grouped set of bright stars that might reasonably have had significance to ancient people AND matched the pattern of the henges, then this would at least lend some weight to the possibility that star alignments were intentional. I mentioned the Pleiades because from this cluster it's possible to make out six individual stars with the naked eye. I haven't checked whether they bear any ressemblance to Priddy.

P Pete G
Pete G Dec 2, 2003 11:39:04
Replying to Steve Gray

I can't see the Priddy henges resembling the Pleiades.
There is the curious traditions among the hill folk of Somerset relate that Joseph, after first seeking tin from
the Scillies (islands) and Cornwall, came to the Mendips and was accompanied on several occassions by the boy Jesus. At the parish Church of Priddy, high on top
of the Mendips, they have an old saying: 'As sure as our Lord was at Priddy.' And a carol sung be the children of Priddy begins: "Joseph was a tin merchant, a tin
merchant, a tin merchant, and goes on to describe him arriving from the sea in a boat."
Just to confuse matters even more.
PeteG

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