Stonehenge and Moonwalk One

by Dennis on January 26, 2012

Just a few minutes after Karen Roscoe wrote to me with her link to the Smithsonian, as detailed in the previous post, I heard from Neil Henty, who had been watching Moonwalk One. I was previously unaware of this documentary by Theo Kamecke, so I was fascinated by what Neil had to tell me, but [...]

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Apples, Serpents and Spirals at Stonehenge

by Dennis on January 26, 2012

I’m very grateful to Karen Roscoe for writing in and thereby bringing an interesting photograph to my attention. As you can see on the link to the Smithsonian that Karen provided, there’s an article from 2008 entitled “A New Light on Stonehenge” that deals with the excavations by professors Darvill and Wainwright, but it was [...]

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In Cold Blood

January 17, 2012

Last week, for reasons that aren’t really relevant, I was reminded of Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood. I had a copy readily to hand here in my study, so I picked it up and instantly found myself engrossed; I’d last read it about ten years ago and I remembered that I thought it was [...]

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Stonehenge, Apollo and the Last Man on the Moon

January 7, 2012

A little while ago, I was extremely interested to learn from my friend Michael Bourne of a suggestion that the image above was a design submitted for the flash or patch for the suits of the astronauts flying on the Apollo XVII mission to the Moon. I understood that these designs, which were later rejected, [...]

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Stonehenge Lantern Parade, 2011

December 22, 2011

I hadn’t planned to write or publish any new posts until 2012, but it seems wrong to ignore ‘history in the making’, especially at Stonehenge. The photos at the top and bottom of this post are of the Lantern Parade that left Stonehenge for Amesbury last night, while there’s also this video of the hundreds [...]

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405, 5000

December 19, 2011

As of yesterday, Eternal Idol now has 405 posts and 5,000 comments, so I can’t help but regard this as a landmark. When the format was changed for this site some months ago, the previous set of statistics vanished and began again, so I really can’t say how many visits this site’s received over the [...]

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The Impossible Stonehenge Lintels

December 16, 2011

I am far more interested in why Stonehenge was built than in how it was built, but one particularly baffling aspect of the creation of the monument comes to mind more and more often. To illustrate my point, I can do no better than to quote from Aubrey Burl’s superb book The Stonehenge People, page [...]

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Simulacra – The “Green Man”

December 14, 2011

I’ve often written about simulacra, or the various forms that can be perceived at Stonehenge and elsewhere. I don’t yet have a separate simulacra category on Eternal Idol, although I suppose I should look into this, really, because so many have appeared here over the years. I’ve written about William Blake’s “frowning sarsens”, Dr Meaden’s [...]

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Death At Stonehenge

December 7, 2011

The map above is taken from the recently-published BBC survey into road deaths in Great Britain over the last ten years. When I studied this map, it became clear to me that there has been an average of roughly one death a year with sight of the stones, with a lethal cluster on the approach [...]

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Harpur’s Theorem on UFOs and Fairies….Proven

December 3, 2011

At the end of October, I wrote about Patrick Harpur’s truly excellent book Daimonic Reality. I can’t hope to do it justice here, so I won’t try, but I loved it on account of its broad-minded and insightful examination of what we would call supernatural entities. The world in which our ancestors lived was unquestionably [...]

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