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This is Gail Higginbottom writing today
The cosmos depicted by the standing stones of Argyll are clearly made up of a series of oppositions that operate as a balanced whole and is cyclic. Thus the greater set of oppositions found at these sites and woven intimately herein include: levels of lightness and darkness, morning and evening, moving northwards and then towards its opposite southwards, the Sun or Moon rising within one half of the sky and setting in the other, stillness and activity, and extremities of farther and closer. All of which are embedded with beginnings and endings, like end of the shortening of days and the beginning of the longer at the solstices. Too, the use of largeness and smallness, or intensity and the lack thereof, is apparent. For classic sites small hills in the south, large in the north; large Moons looming very closely in the north to within tens of metres, to be seen as small, distant circular objects rising above the horizon in the south or the summer solstice Sun blazing close as it rises in or appearing softly and dimly in the distance at the winter solstice. Despite all the evidence and deductions, it is not yet clear why such a belief system was important or how it was important at different times. That is, it is not known why these ideas had to be incorporated into their material culture. So it is not known what motivated the erection of megaliths, nor whether or not the motivations remained stable during the entire ‘period’ between 3000-800 BC. It is possible they weren’t. It is hoped clarification will come to light through this long-term research project.
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This is Gail Higginbottom writing today
The cosmos depicted by the standing stones of Argyll are clearly made up of a series of oppositions that operate as a balanced whole and is cyclic. Thus the greater set of oppositions found at these sites and woven intimately herein include: levels of lightness and darkness, morning and evening, moving northwards and then towards its opposite southwards, the Sun or Moon rising within one half of the sky and setting in the other, stillness and activity, and extremities of farther and closer. All of which are embedded with beginnings and endings, like end of the shortening of days and the beginning of the longer at the solstices. Too, the use of largeness and smallness, or intensity and the lack thereof, is apparent. For classic sites small hills in the south, large in the north; large Moons looming very closely in the north to within tens of metres, to be seen as small, distant circular objects rising above the horizon in the south or the summer solstice Sun blazing close as it rises in or appearing softly and dimly in the distance at the winter solstice. Despite all the evidence and deductions, it is not yet clear why such a belief system was important or how it was important at different times. That is, it is not known why these ideas had to be incorporated into their material culture. So it is not known what motivated the erection of megaliths, nor whether or not the motivations remained stable during the entire ‘period’ between 3000-800 BC. It is possible they weren’t. It is hoped clarification will come to light through this long-term research project.
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