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tiompan T
tiompan Nov 6, 2012 14:29:08
Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:
Just saw this posted by the superb 'Megalithic Monuments of Ireland' on FB. Looks interesting.

"Newgrange: Monument to Immortality" by Anthony Murphy

http://www.theliffeypress.com/newgrange-monument-to-immortality.html

"Deep into the mind and soul of his ancestors " ? I' would be suspicious of anyone who said that about a contemporary never mind someone from 5,000 years ago .
I did read " Island of the Setting Sun. " . Not recommended , mostly fantasy and when they did get into the astronomy etc lots of mistakes . There is a another recent book on the same subject but the author makes no bones about it it being fiction

L Littlestone
Littlestone Nov 6, 2012 14:55:28
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
"Deep into the mind and soul of his ancestors " ? I' would be suspicious of anyone who said that about a contemporary never mind someone from 5,000 years ago .
I did read " Island of the Setting Sun. " . Not recommended , mostly fantasy and when they did get into the astronomy etc lots of mistakes . There is a another recent book on the same subject but the author makes no bones about it it being fiction
Not to mention -

...the mysterious people of the New Stone Age who created giant structures using primitive technology. What has become clear from these investigations is that Newgrange is a uniquely special place, and that its construction was carried out not by a grizzly mob of grunting barbarians...

Words bandied about without much attention to accuracy. There’s nothing ‘mysterious’ about them, and the technology they and other Neolithic peoples employed in the hauling of great rocks from A to B was hardly ‘primitive’ – in fact we’d be hard pushed to achieve the same with our ‘sophisticated’ machinery.

As for a grizzly mob of grunting barbarians (why use that sort of language in the first place) we’ve heard it all before – re: Atkinson at Silbury.

Jeeze...

T tjj
tjj Nov 6, 2012 19:02:11
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
tjj wrote:
Just saw this posted by the superb 'Megalithic Monuments of Ireland' on FB. Looks interesting.

"Newgrange: Monument to Immortality" by Anthony Murphy

http://www.theliffeypress.com/newgrange-monument-to-immortality.html

"Deep into the mind and soul of his ancestors " ? I' would be suspicious of anyone who said that about a contemporary never mind someone from 5,000 years ago .
I did read " Island of the Setting Sun. " . Not recommended , mostly fantasy and when they did get into the astronomy etc lots of mistakes . There is a another recent book on the same subject but the author makes no bones about it it being fiction
Fair comment Tiompan ... wasn't planning to buy it myself but thought I'd give it a plug in the spirit of keeping this often interesting Ireland thread going - and give the Megalithic Monuments of Ireland website a plug at the same time.

I like to support the efforts of others whenever I can.