Stonehenge

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Stonehenge
Stonehenge By Joel Hanson

• By Joel Hanson

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Intro

• Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in
  southern England just eight miles north of
  Salisbury. Stonehenge is one of the most famous
  prehistoric sites in the world. Around 3500 BC
  the semi-nomadic peoples that populated the
  Salisbury Plain began to build the monument now
  known as Stonehenge.

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• According to archaeologists, these stones were
  erected between 2200 BC and 1500 BC. The
  surrounding circular earth bank and ditch are
  believed to be the earliest phase of the
  monument. They have been dated back to about 3100
  BC. It may have taken 25 generations of labor to
  create this massive and awe-inspiring structure

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Thesis Stonehenge has been subjected to many
theories about its origin, ranging from
archaeology to explanations from mythology and
the paranormal. Stonehenge taunts us with mystery
and has stood in silent watch over the earth for
the last 5000 years. It has been excavated,
x-rayed, measured, and surveyed. Yet despite all
that has been learned about its age and
construction, its purpose still remains one of
the great mysteries of the world. Popular beliefs
are that it was once a mathematical object to
form a calendar, a spiritual and ritual burial
site that reined over every other site in the
area, and its even thought to be a UFO landing
site.
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Spiritual and ritual burial site

• Modern anthropological evidence has been used to
  suggest that timber was associated with the
  living and stone with the ancestral dead amongst
  prehistoric peoples. They have argued that
  Stonehenge was the last stop of a long,
  ritualized funerary procession for treating the
  dead, which began in the east during sunrise and
  moved down and along the avenue, reaching
  Stonehenge in the west at sunset (

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• The journey from wood to stone via water was,
  considered, a symbolic journey from life to
  death. There is no satisfactory evidence to
  suggest that Stonehenge's stellar alignments were
  anything more than symbolic, and current
  interpretations favor a ritual role for the
  monument that takes into account its numerous
  burials and its presence within a wider landscape
  of sacred sites. Even though human remains have
  never been found there, ashes have. This also
  supports the idea that Stonehenge was a place of
  sacrifice to the gods of the sky. Many believe
  that the site may have spiritual significance
  attached to it.

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UFO Landing Site?

• Many people claim there have been numerous UFO
  sightings in the area, and this has led to idea
  that it is an extraterrestrial landing site.
  There have been no actual sightings of UFOs
  landing there, but the eerie feeling around
  Stonehenge can lead people to crazy suggestions
  of why Stonehenge was made. Stonehenge is also
  believed to be a teleportation hub and also most
  likely used for divine transmutation (druids
  becoming animals), animal migration tracking (as
  most are lunar, especially fish herd animals),
  a music art hall, a diviner's temple, among
  various other ceremonies.

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Secular calendar theory

• One plausible theory is the Secular calendar
  theory. This theory suggests that the monument
  was constructed as to record time and dates. The
  people needed something that would retain
  accuracy over a long period of time. Without at
  least one reliable standard, events and seasons
  had no chronological index, since the exact
  length of the year (including part-days) was not
  known, nor would the mathematics have been
  available to reason from it. Therefore there was
  a good reason for constructing a massive and
  immobile structure at a flat inland location
  where all sides of the sky could be equally
  measured.

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• Whats left of Stonehenge is believed to be the
  skeleton of a massive building that was designed
  to be some sort of ancient computer that measure
  time and dates.
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