Bible Exposed

29th July 2006

Many years ago I decided that one hobby (walking on Dartmoor) was necessary to counter the effects of another one - Guiness drinking! So my wife (Kay) and I decided that walking the wild and empty spaces of the Devon moorland would be just the job to regain our early fitness and, at the same time, I would be able to indulge my passion of studying the bronze age artifacts which are scattered across the Dartmoor landscape.

Dartmoor, much to many people's surprise has more bronze age settlements and remains than anywhere in Europe although most of them are in a ruinous state except for a few of the stone rows which seem to have escaped the ravages of time. The rows come in all shapes and sizes - some are not just a single row but are doubled or even tripled. The individual stones are stuck upright in the ground and usually are spaced two to six feet apart from each other. The length of rows can stretch from a few yards to perhaps a hundred. These stone rows are a complete mystery to archaeologists and none of them seem to understand why our ancestors should waste so much time on what appears to be nothing more than just trivial constructions with no apparent purpose.

I thought surely they could not be just for show; they must have some use in connection with my other interest - astro-archaeologly. But how could they "work"? After a lot of headscratching and drinking of the "black tar" I came up with the following conclusions:-

1. Religion certainly seems to be the driving force behind these strange constructions, so the rows probably had a central role in the lives of these people and their importance cannot be overstressed.

This conclusion can also stand for Stonehenge as well!

2. The rows' alignments, in relation to hills or notches on the horizon, do not seem significant.

3. The rows' alignments to the risings of the sun and planets do not seem to be significant, although there are arguments which say otherwise. I say you do not need a hundred stones to form an alignment with the rising solstice sun. Two stones would suffice for such a purpose and why should you use a double or triple row of stones?

4. The rows can be used in a predictive manner. For example, a marker which can be moved each day from one stone to the next could count off an important time span. What time spans would they be interested in? The 365 days in the year perhaps? The 29.5 day count of the full moon (count 29 days then 30)? The 584-day cycle of Venus? The conjunction periods of the outer planets when they are closest to Earth? The 266-day gestation period of human beings which would facilitate the practice of favourable births in the appropriate astrological timing?

All these cycles can be simply predicted by moving a marker along a simple row of permanently placed stones.

This conclusion can also stand for Stonehenge, using the X and Y rings of holes and the Aubrey ring of holes.

There! Phew! "ENOUGH" I hear you say. Enough of rows! Where is this all leading???

To see more thoughts on this subject and how it relates to the Bible, I shall be posting again very soon. I hope you will return to view my site because I shall reveal the inner secrets of the Bible.