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TomBo Jan 29, 2004 07:25:59
Replying to FourWinds

Been looking at the OS map, and I'm pretty sure that the Barr is not visible from Achnabreck. Dunnadd may be visible to the west of North. If it is then it'll be in an unusual way, just peeping around or over other hills, or possibly cradled between them. You ask if its got "a *very* significant and *very* sacred hill on the skyline" - if Dunadd is on its skyline then this would more than fit the bill, as I'm sure you know!

Of course this is the place where the Irish Kelts are thought to have first come to Scotland, so you'd expect some parallels with Irish sites...

Exciting Stuff!

B BlueGloves
BlueGloves Jan 29, 2004 10:34:26
Replying to TomBo

The sky was a fair bit clearer in those days - so the distance resolved was greater then. Thom mentions this a few times. One of the rows in Bolton has the sightline for the moon heading toward Anglesey but we'll never see it nowadays - maybe in 2015 there'll be less atmospheric dust.

Found the concept of the citara in an account by Dioscorides (?) and his Temples of Apollo. Dictionary gives 'harp' for citara. The tunes are notated mainly in books of our traditional jigs and reels. In Gadalinium - and there's two parts to it - both the interviewer and the interviewee are genuine, only the squeeks and whistles are phony.