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FourWinds F
FourWinds Jun 24, 2005 16:26:37
Replying to Steve Gray

As we don't know what they worshipped it's hard to say what the stones represent. They could have been war trophies. They could have been family totems from a tribe that moved. They could have been a wedding present from a Preselli based chief on the marriage of his daughter to a Salisbury chief's son - Stonehenge having been built purely as a place to hold a significant wedding which put an end to generations of war between the two groups.

Any theory is a valid one unless it involves reptiles.

W Wotan
Wotan Jun 24, 2005 16:29:51
Replying to FourWinds

bastards went to Preseli and all i got was some rock!

:-)

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray Jun 25, 2005 01:09:41
Replying to FourWinds

I was trying to think about what would have been a sufficiently compelling reason for them to be willing to transport these stones over such a huge distance. The stones had to have a significance that made them worth the effort. If they were merely commemerative (like headstones) they would have been left where they were, but if they were thought to be the embodiment of the spirit of the ancestor or even the actual ancestor themselves, that would be a sufficient reason to transport them to a new site.