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>'Spirit of the Stones'<

Subtitled Visions of Sacred Britain
Foreword by Uri Geller *

Ah, didn't know - thanks. There's a review of the book by Tim (Prevett) at http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146410783

And you've probably heard that a (possible) new planet named Sedna has recently been discovered some three times further away than Pluto and similar in size.** There are a couple of paintings in Shanghai Museum dating from the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) that show the male and female deities Fuxi and Nuwa in a coiled embrace; between and above them is the sun with eleven planets circling it - what goes around comes around :-)

* ISBN 0753504146
** http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3511678.stm

Off topic perhaps and I know nothing about new planets, but my son read somewhere that Pluto has been down graded and is no longer a planet. Apparently it's a chunk of ice so doesn't qualify as a planet. Seems daft to me - if we can have gas giants why not frozen water dwarfs? It still orbits the sun, but then so do comets don't they? Well off topic so I'll shut up.

That's the one, by Alan Richardson. Not that I'm recommending it you understand. There seem to be a lot of planets in the solar system these days. Astrologists surely can't say that they don't count because the stars are a lot further away, and look at the effect they supposedly have. Still, last night did you see 'Coast' and the Severn Bore? I guess the moon and sun have quite an effect on our little planet. And what a strange sight for people living so far from the sea. It must have been begging for a good legend-style explanation.