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Originally posted by ButterCookie
you mean to tell me that is merely coincidence if ALL the children say they imagined the same thing???
Originally posted by Blue Shift
Originally posted by ButterCookie
you mean to tell me that is merely coincidence if ALL the children say they imagined the same thing???
It's not the same thing. Ask them all to come up with a fictional story about where lightning comes from, and you'll get similar stories. Gods and monsters. The same kind of people trying to come up with explanations for the same things they observe in nature. That's what I'm talking about.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by rickymouse
That has nothing to do with what was being discussed. Butters said that the ancients created stories to explain megaliths. So clearly he has seen these stories. I am simply asking for him to provide them since he seems to have proof of their existence.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by rickymouse
That has nothing to do with what was being discussed. Butters said that the ancients created stories to explain megaliths. So clearly he has seen these stories. I am simply asking for him to provide them since he seems to have proof of their existence.
No...incorrect. I never stated that the ancients created stories to explain the megaliths...I was saying that people who refute the AAT say that the ancients were only creating stories from their imagination to explain things in nature that they didn't understand.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by ButterCookie
No...incorrect. I never stated that the ancients created stories to explain the megaliths...I was saying that people who refute the AAT say that the ancients were only creating stories from their imagination to explain things in nature that they didn't understand.
For most of Britain's recorded history, there has been a belief that Stonehenge was built by Merlin. They wouldn't just make that story up, would they?
Stonehenge is also mentioned within Arthurian legend. Geoffrey of Monmouth said that Merlin the wizard directed its removal from Ireland, where it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus by Giants, who brought the stones from Africa. After it had been rebuilt near Amesbury, Geoffrey further narrates how first Ambrosius Aurelianus, then Uther Pendragon, and finally Constantine III, were buried inside the ring of stones. In many places in his Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey mixes British legend and his own imagination; it is intriguing that he connects Ambrosius Aurelianus with this prehistoric monument, seeing how there is place-name evidence to connect Ambrosius with nearby Amesbury. A giant helps Merlin build Stonehenge. From a manuscript of the Roman de Brut by Wace in the British Library (Egerton 3028). This is the oldest known depiction of Stonehenge. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the rocks of Stonehenge were healing rocks which Giants brought from Africa to Ireland for their healing properties. These rocks were called The Giant’s Dance. Aurelius Ambrosias (5th century), wishing to erect a memorial to the nobles (3000) who had died in battle with the Saxons and were buried at Salisbury, chose (at Merlin’s advice) Stonehenge to be their monument. So the King sent Merlin, Uther Pendragon (Arthur’s father), and 15,000 knights to Ireland to retrieve the rocks. They slew 7,000 Irish. As the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed. Then Merlin, using “gear” and skill, easily dismantled the stones and sent them over to Britain, where Stonehenge was dedicated. Shortly after, Aurelius died and was buried within the Stonehenge monument, or “The Giants’ Ring of Stonehenge”. Please Tell Us What You Think!
Originally posted by DJW001
For most of Britain's recorded history, there has been a belief that Stonehenge was built by Merlin. They wouldn't just make that story up, would they?
Originally posted by cenpuppie
reply to post by Xcalibur254
The natives don't take credit in Pumpunko(sp). As a matter of fact, a few other civilizations admit that those are the ruins of the empire before them, another souther american culture admitted it, can't remember the name.