(in Brittany, France)
Site interpretations.
- Counting the Moon: 32 in 945 days
One could ask “if I make a times table of 29.53059 days, what numbers of lunar months give a nearly whole number of days?”. In practice, the near anniversary of 37 lunar months and three solar years contains the number 32 which gives 945 days on a metrological photo study I made of Le Manio’s … Continue reading “Counting the Moon: 32 in 945 days” - Using Circumpolar Marker Stars
The marker stars within the circumpolar or arctic region of the sky have always included Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the Great and Little Bear (arctic meaning “of the bears” in Greek), even though the location of the celestial North Pole circles systematically through the ages around the pole of the solar system, the ecliptic … Continue reading “Using Circumpolar Marker Stars” - Le Menec: as Sidereal Observatory
Today, an astronomer resorts to the calculation of where sun, moon or star should be according to equations of motion developed over the last four centuries. The time used in these equations requires a clock from which the object’s location within the celestial sphere is calculated. Such locations are part of an implicit sky map … Continue reading “Le Menec: as Sidereal Observatory” - Multiple Squares to form Flattened Circle Megaliths
above: a 28 square grid with double, triple (top), and four-square rectangles (red), plus (gray again) the triple rectangles within class B Contents 1. Problems with Thom’s Stone Circle Geometries. 2. Egyptian Grids of Multiple Squares. 3. Generating Flattened Circles using a Grid of Squares. ABSTRACT This paper reviews the geometries proposed by Alexander Thom … Continue reading “Multiple Squares to form Flattened Circle Megaliths” - The Megalithic Numberspace
above: counting 37 lunar months six times to reach 222, one month short of 223: the strong Saros eclipse period. There is an interesting relationship between the multiple interpretations of a number as to its meaning, and the modern concept of namespace. In a namespace, one declares a space in which no two names will … Continue reading “The Megalithic Numberspace” - The Knowing of Time by the Megalithic
The human viewpoint is from the day being lived through and, as weeks and months pass, the larger phenomenon of the year moves the sun in the sky causing seasons. Time to us is stored as a calendar or year diary, and the human present moment conceives of a whole week, a whole month or … Continue reading “The Knowing of Time by the Megalithic” - Counting Perimeters
above: a slide from my lecture at Megalithomania in 2015 We know that some paleolithic marks counted in days the moon’s illuminations, which over two cycles equal 59 day-marks. This paved the way for the megalithic monuments that studied the stars by pointing to the sky on the horizon; at the sun and moon rising … Continue reading “Counting Perimeters” - Vectors in Prehistory 2
In early education of applied mathematics, there was a simple introduction to vector addition: It was observed that a distance and direction travelled followed by another (different) distance and direction, shown as a diagram as if on a map, as directly connected, revealed a different distance “as the crow would fly” and the direction from … Continue reading “Vectors in Prehistory 2” - Vectors in Prehistory 1
In previous posts, it has been shown how a linear count of time can form a square and circle of equal perimeter to a count. In this way three views of a time count, relative to a solar year count, showed the differences between counts that are (long-term average) differential angular motion between sun and … Continue reading “Vectors in Prehistory 1” - How Geometries transformed Time Counts into Circles
Above: example of the geometry that can generate one or more circles, equal to a linear time count, in the counting units explained below. It is clear, one so-called “sacred” geometry was in fact a completely pragmatic method in which the fourfold nature of astronomical day and month counts allowed the circularization of counts, once … Continue reading “How Geometries transformed Time Counts into Circles” - The Quantification of Eclipse Cycles
Following on from the last post: Given the many sub-cycles found in the Moon’s behavior, and the angle of its orbit to the Ecliptic, one would expect the eclipse phenomenon to be erratic or random but in fact eclipses repeat quite reliably over relatively fixed periods that were quantified symbolically by megalithic astronomy, within monuments … Continue reading “The Quantification of Eclipse Cycles” - Gavrinis R8: Diagram of the Saros-Metonic Cycle
The Saros cycle is made up of 19 eclipse years of 364.62 days whilst the Metonic cycle is made up of 19 solar years of 365.2422 days. This unusually small number of years, NINETEEN, arises because of a close coupling of most of the major parameters of the Earth-Sun-Moon system which acts as a discrete system, a system also commensurate … Continue reading “Gavrinis R8: Diagram of the Saros-Metonic Cycle” - What stone L9 might teach us
image of stone L9, left of corridor of Gavrinis Cairn, 4Km east of Carnac complex. [image: neolithiqueblog]This article was first published in 2012. One test of validity for any interpretation of a megalithic monument, as an astronomically inspired work, is whether the act of interpretation has revealed something true but unknown about astronomical time periods. The Gavrinis … Continue reading “What stone L9 might teach us” - Astronomy 2: The Chariot with One Wheel
What really happens when Earth turns? The rotation of Earth describes periods that are measured in days. The solar year is 365.242 days long, the lunation period 29.53 days long, and so forth. Extracted from Matrix of Creation, page 42. Earth orbits the Sun and, from Earth, the Sun appears to move through the stars. … Continue reading “Astronomy 2: The Chariot with One Wheel” - The Discovery of a Soli-Lunar Calendar Device at Le Manio
by Robin Heath In 2009 I returned to Plouharnel, again for the Solstice Festival, and undertook my own research both before and after the four day event. Howard Crowhurst had undertaken a great deal of theodolite and tape work at a well known site called Le Manio. This collection of surviving monuments forms an exceptionally … Continue reading “The Discovery of a Soli-Lunar Calendar Device at Le Manio” - Le Site Mégalithique du Manio à Carnac
by Howard Crowhurst Perched on a hill in the forest north of the Carnac alignments, a megalithic site has escaped the fences that have littered the landscapes of the region for several years. These are the menhir and the quadrilateral of Manio. From the outset, the large menhir impresses with its dimensions. Nearly 5m50 high, … Continue reading “Le Site Mégalithique du Manio à Carnac” - Day-inch counting at the Manio Quadrilateral
It is 10 years since my brother and I surveyed this remarkable monument which demonstrates what megalithic astronomy was capable of around 4000 BC, near Carnac. The Quadrilateral is the earliest clear demonstration of day-inch counting of the solar year, and lunar year of 12 lunar months, both over three years. The lunar count was … Continue reading “Day-inch counting at the Manio Quadrilateral” - Geometry 5: Easy application of numerical ratiosabove: Le Manio Quadrilateral The last lesson showed how right triangles are at home within circles, having a diameter equal to their longest side whereupon their right angle sits upon the circumference. The two shorter sides sit upon either end of the diameter (Fig. 1a). Another approach (Fig. 1b) is to make the next longest … Continue reading “Geometry 5: Easy application of numerical ratios”
- Sacred Number and the Lords of Time
Back Cover ANCIENT MYSTERIES “Heath has done a superb job of collating his own work on the subject of megaliths with the objective views of many other researchers in the field. I therefore do not merely recommend reading this book but can state unequivocally it is a must read.”–John Neal, British metrologist and researcher and … Continue reading “Sacred Number and the Lords of Time” - paper: Lunar Simulation at Le Manio
Our survey at Le Manio revealed a coherent arc of radial stones, at least five of which were equally long, equally separated and set to a radius of curvature that suggested a common centre. It appears the astronomers at Le Manio understood that, following three lunar sidereal orbits (after 82 days) the moon would appear again at … Continue reading “paper: Lunar Simulation at Le Manio” - paper: The Origins of Day-Inch Counting
ABSTRACTThis paper presents the theory that in the Megalithic period, around 4500-4000 BCE, astronomical time periods were counted as one day to one inch to form primitive metrological lengths that could then be compared, to reveal the fundamental ratios between the solar year, lunar year, and lunar month and hence define a solar-lunar calendar. The … Continue reading “paper: The Origins of Day-Inch Counting” - Le Menec: Start of Carnac’s Alignments
The Meaning Of Le Menec “Alignments” are long rows of stones, that run in parallel for long distances through the landscape. The alignments in Carnac, Brittany, often have a starting point in what the French call a cromlech. Based upon a circular geometry, these monuments are made up of stones following arcs to form a … Continue reading “Le Menec: Start of Carnac’s Alignments” - THE MEANING OF LE MENEC (PDF)
This paper proposes that an unfamiliar type of circumpolar astronomy was practiced by the time Le Menec was built, around 4000 BCE. This observatory enabled the rotation of the earth and ecliptic location of eastern and western horizons to be known in real time, by observing stellar motion by night and solar motion by day. This method … Continue reading “THE MEANING OF LE MENEC (PDF)” - Locmariaquer 1: Carnac’s Menhirs and Circumpolar Stars
Read 1458 times when last published on MatrixOfCreation.co.uk, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:22 At megalithic sites, the only alignment of note on the northern horizon has usually been the direction of the north pole or “true” North on the site plan. “Megalithic” cultures worldwide, both the later manifestations in the Americas or the old world cultures of … Continue reading “Locmariaquer 1: Carnac’s Menhirs and Circumpolar Stars” - St Pierre 1: Jupiter and the Moon
The egg-shaped stone circles of the megalithic, in Brittany by c. 4000 BC and in Britain by 2500 BC, seem to express two different astronomical time lengths, beside each other as (a) a circumference and then (b) a longer, egg-shaped extension of that circle. It was Alexander Thom who analysed stone circles in the 20th … Continue reading “St Pierre 1: Jupiter and the Moon” - The Three Worlds at Gavrinis
following on from previous post, an article by M Guillaume found inAAK Etudes et Travaux No. 1, 1977 Do these three stages [at Gavrinis] not correspond to the three creations, probably inherited by Celts, and those in Egypt, preceding access to a sanctuary? - Gavrinis: On Crossing the Three Thresholds and Entering The Room
following on within an article by M Guillaume found in AAK Etudes et Travaux No. 1, 1977 These half-circles facing upwards – do we not find them repeated a thousand times in the “necklaces” of the Goddess? - Symbolic “forms in movement” at Gavrinis
In this article M.Guillaume introduces some of the AAK’s work on understanding the Gavrinis chambered cairn. It appeared in the first volume of Etudes et Travaux, May 1977, pages 45-51. It has been translated from French as best I can, in three parts with links between. It was first re-published on the web between 2010-2012 to … Continue reading “Symbolic “forms in movement” at Gavrinis” - Video: Some Numbers of Cosmic Intelligence
This was recorded before 2012 using diagrams slides and voice-over. It still introduces well how the megalithic solved astronomical problems. - Gavrinis 1: Its dimensions and geometrical framework
This article first appeared in my Matrix of Creation website in 2012 which was attacked, though an image had been made. Some of this material appeared in my Lords of Time book. photo For Wikipedia by Mirabella. Gavrinis and Tables des Marchands are very similar monuments, both in the orientation of their passageways and their identical latitude. Gavrinis is about 3900 metres east of Tables des … Continue reading “Gavrinis 1: Its dimensions and geometrical framework” - 82: A Natural Accurate Pi related to Megalithic Yard
In my academia.edu paper on lunar simulators, based upon the surviving part of a circular structure at Le Manio (Carnac, Brittany), a very simple but poor approximation to PI could be assumed, of 82/26 (3.154) since there seem to have been 82 stones in the circle and the diameter was 26 of the inter-stone distance … Continue reading “82: A Natural Accurate Pi related to Megalithic Yard” - The Roof Axe as Circumpolar Device
This article explores the use of axe motifs within a form of carved schematic art unique to the megalithic monuments near Carnac, southern Brittany, France. First published in February 2014. A diagram found on the underside of the capstone of a chambered dolmen called Kercado (see figure 1) appears to hold metrological and astronomical meanings. … Continue reading “The Roof Axe as Circumpolar Device” - Similarities between Le Menec and Erdevan Alignments
In a previous article, the 7,500 foot-long Erdevan alignments were seen to have been a long count of the Saros period of 19 eclipse years versus the distance to Mane Groh dolmen of 19 solar years, this probably conceptualized as an 18-19-6 near-Pythagorean triangle, whose inner angle is the bearing from east of Mané Groh. However, … Continue reading “Similarities between Le Menec and Erdevan Alignments” - Erdeven Alignment’s counting of Metonic and Saros Periods
The word Alignment is used in France to describe its stone rows. Their interpretation has been various, from being an army turned to stone (a local myth) to their use, like graph paper, for extrapolation of values (Thom). That stone rows were alignments to horizon events gives a partial but useful explanation, since menhirs (or … Continue reading “Erdeven Alignment’s counting of Metonic and Saros Periods” - Kerherzo Rectangle near Erdeven & Crucuno
first published in March 2018 In 1973, Alexander Thom found the Crucuno rectangle to have been “accurately placed east and west” by its megalithic builders, and “built round a rectangle 30 MY [megalithic yards] by 40 MY” and that “only at the latitude of Crucuno could the diagonals of a 3, 4, 5 rectangle indicate … Continue reading “Kerherzo Rectangle near Erdeven & Crucuno”