Archaeoastronomy And The Spiral Form - ORIGINAL

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Briwyns, note the four-feet granite stone basin (above) in the Eastern passage of Knowth may be
engraved with a map of the city of Atlantis

   
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The Spiral


The spiral represents the flow of physical & spiritual energy. It symbolizes both solar & lunar, male & female energies. Long before the discovery of spiral galaxies, the ancients have used the spiral image to represent the universe, the earth's rotation, the moon's orbit, and as a symbol for growth. The Egyptian hieroglyph for spiral corresponds to the Hebrew vau, denoting cosmic forms in motion, or the relationship between unity & multiplicity. Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1250) of Pisa, Italy discerned the logarithmic spiral in nature (nautilus shell & rabbit's reproduction rate). We may find more examples in artichokes & pineapples, the center of daisies & sunflowers, in subatomic tracks & spiral galaxies. The Fibonacci numbers are named after him (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc.) where each number is the sum of the two preceding in the series. The spiral may be found in three forms: expanding (as in the nebula galaxies), contracting (like whirlwinds or whirlpools), or ossified (like the snail's shell). In the first case, it is an active sun-symbol, in the second & third cases, it is a negative moon-symbol. The ancient Greeks attributed the creative spiral (rising in a clockwise direction) to Pallas Athene, the Goddess of Wisdom, and the destructive spiral like a whirlwind (which twirls counterclockwise) to the Sea God Poseidon (Neptune). In yoga, the spiral is associated with the Kundalini force dormant at the base of the spine. During meditation, it awakes & rises like a serpent through the nerve centers (chakras) until it flows out of the head's crown (thousand-petal lotus of Buddha). The spiral is also connected to the breath & spirit, and the Egyptian Thoth is shown with a large spiral on his head. The spiral is used as an attribute of power, found in sceptre heads of Egyptian pharoahs and Christian popes & bishops. In primitive dances of healing & incantation, the pattern of movement develops as a spiral curve. The Sufi whirling dervish dances in a spiral to induce a state of ecstasy to experience the center of his being. Children are often seen to whirl around in playgrounds or parks, spinning themselves and giggling.
Spiral Page Links:

Infoseek found 88,531 pages containing the word "spirals".

Fibonacci Numbers & Golden Section in Nature— http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html
(Logarithmic spirals in shells, pine cones, flower petals, seed heads, leaf arrangements)
DNA Double Helix— http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss3/dna.html
(DNA model from Image Library of Biological Macromolecules, Jena, Germany)
Looking at Starry Night— http://voyager.learntech.com/catalog/starrynight/indepth/looking.html
(Van Gogh's Starry Night lecture in RealAudio by Professor Albert Boime of UCLA)
Milky Way Galaxy: Our Home— http://www.windows.umich.edu/the_universe/Milkyway.html
(Facts & pictures of the Milky Way from University of Michigan)
Astro1 Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope Pictures— http://trifle.gsfc.nasa.gov/UIT/Astro1/Astro1_pictures.html
(Messier 74— A Grand-Design Spiral Galaxy 70,000 light years in diameter)
Fibonacci Spiral at Giza— http://www.amargiland.com/hall-of-records/spiral.html
(The Giza pyramids lay on a Fibonacci spiral)
Spiral Garden— http://www.interlog.com/~ggh/spiral.htm
(Reflections on Spiral gardens in Nepal & Toronto)
Logarithmic Spiral— http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/math/LogarithmicSpiral.html
(Mathematical curve & equations from the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics)
Spin It?— http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Spin.it,Archimedes.html
(Archimedes's definition of the spiral with math diagrams)
Maya Lin's Design for the Next Millennium (New York Times Magazine, 12-5-99)—
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m6/design-lin.html
(Planting English oak trees according to the Golden Section in the path of a spiral)
http://www.wisdomportal.com/Geometry/SpiralPage.html 

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The Spiral Circle called to birth
The winds of Light
That curve the corners of the earth
Against the fall of night

Its double helix lit a spark
In seeds of clay
And broke the fastness of the dark
In fragments of the day

The wearers of its lemniscate,
On winds that dance,
Bestowed on earth the power of fate
To dare the Lords of Chance

So, praise the Spiral Circle's worth
In tones of Light,
And bless those watchers of the earth
That keep us from the night

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cool posts, looks like the religion of the circles were everywhere throughout the world.

I personaly think the sign has all to do with ancient religion.

devlin and briwyns
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Rock ’face’ mystery baffles experts
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Photograph of the face carving, found near Rothbury, Northumberland Credit Aron Mazel

Archaeologists have found a trio of extraordinary stone carvings while charting the phenomenon of prehistoric rock markings in Northumberland, close to the Scottish border in the United Kingdom.

Records and examples of over 950 prehistoric rock art panels exist in Northumberland, which are of the traditional ’cup and ring’ variety, with a typical specimen featuring a series of cups and concentric circles pecked into sandstone outcrops and boulders.

However, archaeologists at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, who are studying prehistoric rock carvings, are baffled by three unusual markings found carved into rocks at separate locations.

They consist of a small heart shape and a stylised carving of a human face, both found near prehistoric rock carvings close to Rothbury, and one discovered near Wark, which is such an unusual combination of lines and circles that it is impossible to say what it depicts.

The usual ’cup and ring’ marks are thought to have been made thousands of years ago by Neolithic and Early Bronze Age people. However, experts think the newly-discovered mystery marks could be much younger, with the heart and the face shapes potentially as little as 100-250 years old.

Dr Aron Mazel, of Newcastle University’s School of Historical Studies, is leading the Northumberland Rock Art Project with international rock art expert, Hexham-based Stan Beckensall.

Dr Mazel said: "We have enjoyed speculating about the meaning of these new and unusual markings but the truth is we really don’t know what they are.

"We found the heart marking next to a quarried edge, and I like to think it’s the work of a lonely quarryman.

"The stylised face reminds me of works done by Picasso around a hundred years ago that were inspired by African totemic carvings, but an art historian may think otherwise. The other marking is just so unusual that we have no idea what it is."

The Wark carving has been shown to experts at the British Museum but they and the Newcastle University team have been so puzzled by the unusual carving that information is being sought about what it is and may represent.

"We would welcome any suggestions from people who can offer a well-informed insight into who did the carvings and what they might represent."

Last year Dr Mazel and Mr Beckensall made an international appeal for an explanation for another set of mysterious markings hewn into an isolated sandstone boulder in Northumberland.

Dr Mazel added: "It is likely that there are more unusual carvings out there. We have heard about a carving which resembles a Napoleonic soldier but we haven’t managed to locate it yet."

Mr Beckensall, who was recently awarded an honorary degree from Newcastle University for his contribution to archaeology, said: "The carving found near Wark is the most dramatic and is unique. We thought it could have been an elaborate fossil remain but if you examine it carefully you can see it’s made by people - we don’t know how or when.

"I just hope that somebody who sees a picture of it has seen something like this before and can help solve our mystery."

The Northumberland Rock Art project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. See: http://rockart.ncl.ac.uk/

Claire Jordan | Source: Newcastle University
Further information: rockart.ncl.ac.uk
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Cool pictures. I was thinking, looking at them, that the spiral may have been the ancient symbol for Atlantis. Wouldn't that have been something, the sea-faring Atlanteans making this symbol on rock art for all the places they went to over the world?
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Devlin,

This is quite a compendium of spiral and circle lore worldwide. Bravo!

To add to the links above, I offer a few of my articles on the subject: "Spiral Gate: the Arc of the Covenant" http://www.theorionzone.com/spiral.htm
and the brief article "The Mysterious Unknown: Concentric Circles Around the World"
http://www.theorionzone.com/david_concentric_circles.htm

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Thanks for all these pics, very nice.

So, can a spiral be formed if one were to plot, at the same spot, the suns position at the same time every day over a entire year and get a spiral form?

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That's a good question Rockgate, I am not sure I have the answer. To understand the answer, we would have to first understand just what the ancients drew the spiral for. It could be meant to signify the winter equinox and summer solstice, or it could have simply an ancient sea-faring people leaving their mark on the lands that they visited. Since the spiral could hardly mean the same thing to people everywhere throughout the world, I am inclined to belive the latter. 

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Originally posted by OZ:
Devlin,

This is quite a compendium of spiral and circle lore worldwide. Bravo!

To add to the links above, I offer a few of my articles on the subject: "Spiral Gate: the Arc of the Covenant" http://www.theorionzone.com/spiral.htm
and the brief article "The Mysterious Unknown: Concentric Circles Around the World"
http://www.theorionzone.com/david_concentric_circles.htm

Gary David
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OZ, I have been reading your website, fine work. Has this society you are a part of come to any kind of conclusions to support the ancient sea-farers hypothesis and has it found any evidence to back it up? I'm wading through material of that type myself right now and these sea-farers seem to be of European type. Then, one can never be quite sure. 

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MEGALITHIC NEW ZEALAND

The people of Great Britain have long cherished an inheritance of "standing stone circles", dotting their landscape from the cold northern reaches of Scotland to the warm plains of Southern England. This enduring legacy in eternal stone is of such great age that little can be recalled regarding the ancient purpose of the stones themselves or those who, at some remote epoch, laboured so diligently to place them.

Whereas standing stone circles were once viewed as something unique to Great Britain, France or, to a lesser-known extent, countries further east in Continental Europe, they are now being located in many scattered regions of the greater world, including Egypt.

It is becoming increasingly evident that about 5,000 years ago, people in many climes and at many latitudes of the globe seemed preoccupied with the measurement of time and that standing stone circles somehow catered to this need.

One of the most remote countries where standing stone circles and other types of megalithic structures are being found in profusion is New Zealand, at the sub-tropical base of the South Pacific.

These out of time and place, anomalous finds are causing many researchers to rethink the supposed, "young" history of the country.

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Figure 1: A large sharksfin-shaped stone of the Waitapu standing stone circle, where nothing was left "standing" after the site was destroyed by the warriors. The stones, thankfully, lie very close to
their original positions and need only to be stood up again. The site has delivered up its former geome-
tric layout through careful surveying.

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Figure 2: Another large sharksfin lying in position. The Waitapu site has over 600 surviving stone components laid out in recognisable geometric patterns.

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Figure 3: The author sitting between two important stones of the observatory. To the left of the picture is the Southern Hubstone. The stone to the right was an important sight-over stone from a series of down hill station positions. The surrounding long grass hides several hundred components of varying size, all of which were hauled to this dirt hill and purposely set in place.

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                      WHO WAS HERE BEFORE THE POLYNESIAN / MELANESIAN MAORI?






New Zealand archaeologists and historians, when confronted with dissenting points of view that challenge their official, sanitised and "politically correct" version of regional history, generally respond with a standard, "off the shelf", comment: If anyone was here before the Maoris then where's the proof? In what must be the most blatant example of, not seeing the forest for the trees, the answer lies in the totality of Maori culture itself.

The proof is in the carvings, the symbols, the canoes, the nets, the weaves, plaids, mokos (facial tattoos) buildings, fortified positions, sculptured hills, trig marker mapping systems, canal and drainage systems, greenstone artefacts, oral traditions and ruined stone structures, such as standing stone circles, covering the length and breadth of New Zealand. A few centuries ago the former civilisation was overwhelmed and annihilated by the Maori warriors and all possessions were taken over by the conquerors. Burial caves all over New Zealand contain the remains of red, brown or blond haired Indo-European skeletons.



Note: We have testimony from eye-witnesses and participants, that the New Zealand authorities have ordered that particular caves, known to contain non-Polynesian / Melanesian skeletons and artefacts, have their entryways covered & concealed... and in one instance, by bringing in a bulldozer

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Figure 4: A trussed burial of a small stature non-Polynesian and typical of burial methods in Megalithic Great Britain. This skeleton was located in the Awamoko limestone rock shelter of North Otago, New Zealand. The picture comes from pg. 79 of "Prehistoric Rock Art", by Michael Trotter and Beverley McCulloch (A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1971). Much of New Zealand rock art shows no Polynesian / Melanesian Maori attributes, with South Island examples being of very remote age.