Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' Located in Black Forest

[FastTadpole]

Quote:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' located
Posted on Monday, 17 October, 2011
Posted by TANN

A huge early Celtic calendar construction has been discovered in the royal tomb of Magdalenenberg, nearby Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest. This discovery was made by researchers at the Römisch-GermanischesPress Zentralmuseum at Mainz in Germany when they evaluated old excavation plans. The order of the burials around the central royal tomb fits exactly with the sky constellations of the Northern hemisphere.

   
General plan of the early Celtic burial mound with sky constellations [Credit: Image courtesy of Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum]

Whereas Stonehenge was orientated towards the sun, the more then 100 meter width burial mound of Magdalenenberg was focused towards the moon. The builders positioned long rows of wooden posts in the burial mound to be able to focus on the Lunar Standstills. These Lunar Standstills happen every 18,6 year and were the ‘corner stones’ of the Celtic calendar.

The position of the burials at Magdeleneberg represents a constellation pattern which can be seen between Midwinter and Midsummer. With the help of special computer programs, Dr. Allard Mees, researcher at the Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum, could reconstruct the position of the sky constellations in the early Celtic period and following from that those which were visible at Midsummer. This archaeo-astronomic research resulted in a date of Midsummer 618 BC, which makes it the earliest and most complete example of a Celtic calendar focused on the moon.

Julius Caesar reported in his war commentaries about the moon based calendar of the Celtic culture. Following his conquest of Gaul and the destruction of the Gallic culture, these types of calendar were completely forgotten in Europe. With the Romans, a sun based calendar was adopted throughout Europe. The full dimensions of the lost Celtic calendar system have now come to light again in the monumental burial mound of Magdalenenberg.

Full Article: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.c...ed-in.html
Original Source: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum [October 11, 2011] (German)
Discussion on unexplained-mysteries.com forum: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/for...pic=215898

[yeti]

(10-17-2011 06:42 PM)FastTadpole Wrote:  

Quote:Julius Caesar reported in his war commentaries about the moon based calendar of the Celtic culture. Following his conquest of Gaul and the destruction of the Gallic culture, these types of calendar were completely forgotten in Europe.

My Scottish mother is a moon 'worshiper', as are many Celtic women. The men 'worship' the sun. Both were also raised by, attended, and funded their local kirk, in a wee place called Carmunnock.

[Dunamis]

Yeti, that's really interesting when you consider the often overlooked, but pivotal role women played in Native Indian culture, another culture that was ran at tribe level.

It does not surprise me in the slightest that such a structure has been found. And an even more often overlooked area is the Hebrew calendar, especially the further back you go, which is clearly based on the moon cycles, rather than those of the sun, which always seems to be more connected with sun worship than anything, let's not forget, the Moon gives no "light". The sun worship and calendars are out the same as those systems out of Babylon and Persia (Tammuz & Mithras), later Kmt/Egypt (Ra) and Greece (Helios) and on into Rome (Sol Invictus).

I might not be into such worship, but I am clearly a lunatic