Stonehenge.
An 5000 year enduring mystery with no written record as to who built the structure on the
Salisbury Plains of England and why.
Upon archaeological research, it appears that Some of the stones came from 120 or so miles
away, although how exactly how they got to be so far away from home is decidedly unclear.
Cue the theories.
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I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today I present to you the Top 10 Scary Stonehenge
Theories!
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Before we get into this tantalising list, I want to ask you guys who YOU think built
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10 - The Devil According to a
legend that stems back nearly 1000 years, The Devil himself is responsible for Stonehenge.
The story goes that the stones belonged on the land of an Irish woman.
The devil approached the woman in disguise and bargained for her stones, saying that
he would give the woman all the gold she wanted while he moved the stones away from her land.
The woman, amused, agreed, believing it would take the man a very very long time to move
the huge stones, if it was even possible at all.
She imagined a year, two year, ten years worth of gold and agreed.
Of course the devil is the devil does and he used his classic sorcery to move the stones
from her land at the lick of a finger, before the woman could get any gold.
Another version of the tale says that devil placed the stones by throwing rocks at a priest
in a fit of rage.
One of the rock hit the priests heel, leaving a footprint like mark in one of the stones
that is still visible today.
http://beyondiam.com/stonehenge-amazing-facts/ Bovine Beasts up next, we have - Monster Cows
at number 9 Was Stonehenge built by a race of monster
cows?
Some people legit think so.
Archaeologists have found wear patterns from ancient cow hooves near the site of Stonehenge.
Some think that the cows were used as engines to transport stones 160 miles from Wales to
Wiltshire.
But these weren’t just any cows, or so researchers claim – these were monster cows over TWICE
the size of regular cows – a species called Auroch’s.
It seems one of these giant cows could provide food for 300 people.
What if the hoof prints weren’t from cows though… what if they were from a different
type of pre-historic monster!
Perhaps they are from a FIFTH MEAT.
Okay you’re only going to get that joke if you listen to the Beef and Dairy Network,
which you absolutely should!
8 - Time Travel If you have read or seen Outlander it would
be impossible not to think of the magic time travelling stones of Craigh n Dun in Inverness.
That being said, the concept of time travel being associated with Stonehenge extends far
far beyond Diana Gabaldon.
Some believe that, with the right knowledge and ritual, the stones can be used to travel
through time.
These days, though, people would struggle to use them for this purpose as Stonehenge
is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is fenced off from the general public.
While you can look at it from the road, you cant touch the stones…you have to pay admission
to even get close to them, and even then, the stones themselves are off limits for touching.
Perhaps the whole-time travel idea came from other suggestions that the stones were a rudimentary
time measurement device.
The stones are strangely aligned with the sunrise and sunset points of the summer and
winter solstices….
Which leads us to our next point – The Symmetry at number 7
There is something eerie going on with Stonehenge and its positioning that has increased the
sense of myth, magic and wonder surrounding the mystery stones.
As we know, they seem to align perfectly with the sunrise and sunsets during the shortest
and longest days of the year… but beyond that, it seems to line up eeirily with other
sacred sites in the UK.
British Author John Michell pointed out the quote un quote curious symmetry… and I have
to say that yes, it is curious.
It seems that stonehenge and Llantwit Major are equidistant from the town of Glastonbury…and
perfectly straight lines, ley lines, can be drawn to other sites of significance.
Stonehenge is at the centre of a network of ley lines, leading many to believe it is some
kind of powerful energy portal.
6 - Merlin Hello Merlin!
What are you up to on this list?
Oh, using your magical powers to build Stonehenge?
Sweet.
It seems that in the 14th Century people thought the famous wizard was behind stonehenge.
Not only was Merlin responsible, it seems he stole the stones from the Irish!
The Irish again!
I suppose the British associate the stones with the Irish because they were kind of mystical
and foreign, and back then they thought Ireland was a far off land alive with magic.
So basically, Merlin was said ho have constructed Stonehenge with the help of a giant as a memorial
for the British subjects who were murdered by the Saxons during a truce.
Back then people had a deeper belief of magic, using it to explain the unexplained.
These days we have science, although science hasn’t been able to give us a full explanation
of Stonehenge yet, so why don’t we just go with magic!
We touched on giants in the Merlin tale, but actually many people think that Stonehenge
was entirely the work of giants, at number 5 we have the ancient race, The Nephilim
The Nephilim were said to be a race of giants who walked the earth in its earlier times.
Many believe that the Nephilim were almost entirely wiped out by the Flood in the Noah’s
arc era.
The rest were said to have retreated to caves and are hiding away with a dwindling population
to this day.
The argument for giants is that there is basically no way humans could have moved the stones,
especially 5000 years ago pre wheel and pre meaningful tools.
The Stonehenge stones are roughly 25 tons each – so….
You know….
Really darn heavy.
That’s where the giants come in.
Simples.
Right?
Never mind how Stonehenge was built – what was it used for?
At number 4 we have Ritual Sacrifice.
Some people theorize that Stonehenge was an old Druid temple.
The Druids were part of ancient Celtic cultures and were referenced in the fourth century
BCE in literature.
The Romans thought the Druids to be savage sorcerers – like, Pagan bros.
It seems that the Druids practiced ritual sacrifice and may well have also cannibalised
their victims.
Julius Caesar wrote that the druids: believe that the gods delight in the slaughter of
prisoners and criminals, and when the supply of captives runs short, they sacrifice even
the innocent.
Stonehenge is thought to have had religious significance and pits containing animals and
human remains have been found nearby.
Some argue the layout of Stonehenge is primed for ritual sacrifice.
Savage as they may have been, other Historians argue that the druids weren’t in this part
of England at the time Stonehenge was built.
Who was doing the sacrifice then….and who was it for? was it for the Gods?
Wellll…
Gods and their superstructures are coming in at number 3
Erich Von Däniken wrote a book called Chariots of the Gods in which he argues that a whole
bunch of unexplainable megastructures including Stonehenge, the giant heads on Easter Island
and the Egyptian Pyramids were created by god-like aliens.
Or…just gods… or a prior race of super humans.
A lot of other conspiracists think that either the gods place the stones as a place for humans
to worship them, or a prior and more superior ancient civilization built them, and the pyramids
etc.
2 - Sex Temple Goodness me!
Is Stonehenge cheeky?
In 2003 a researcher in Canada at the University of British Columbia concluded that Stonehenge
was actually an ancient sex temple.
Anthony Perks reached this thought as they realised the stones looked a bit vagina.
He said: Stonehenge could represent, symbolically, the opening by which Earth Mother gave birth
to the plants and animals on which the ancient people so depended.
Others go further with the whole fertility temple thing and believe that Stonehenge was
the site of mass orgies.
Lets just leave that one there, shall we!
1 - Aliens Ah, it was obviously all going to come back
to aliens, wasn’t it!
There are actually SO many Stonehenge theories that include aliens – rather than a definitive
solid argument.
Some say that Stonehenge is a landing pad for alien spaceships, others say that Stonehenge
was a model of the solar system.
Many think that the size and shape of the stones and the way in which they have been
erected is a clear sign that an earlier more advance civilization placed them.
Crop circles, stone circles, those aliens are up to it all, aren’t they!
SO that was the Top 10 Scary Stonehenge Theories…which do you think is the most likely theory to
be true?
Don’t forget to tell me what YOU think.
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