Gardiner’s World
July 2, 2009 - 1:26 pm
Since my recent appearance on Gardiner’s World, where I had the honour, the privilege and the pleasure of meeting the great Phil Gardiner himself, a number of people have written some very kind emails to me, which I appreciate very much.
For those of you who may be curious about such matters, it is indeed true that Phil is even better-looking, more talented and more engaging in person that he appears on screen, if such a thing were possible. For my part, I shall just have to learn to live with the fact that some people have written in to express surprise that Giant Haystacks once more roams the face of the Earth.
Earlier today, I also had a number of other comments sent in by someone called Lee, but for some reason unbeknown to me, they’ve vanished into cyberspace, never to return. So Lee, if you wouldn’t mind sending in the comments and both links again, I will happily post them up and thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to send them in the first place.
Druids and Druidiocy
June 28, 2009 - 11:26 pm
A little while ago, Mike Pitts memorably wrote that “…we’re losing people [archaeologists] who are very, very cheap and who are creating our nation’s story.” I suppose it depends on which story you want to listen to or subscribe to, at least as far as Stonehenge is concerned, because I for one am baffled by the authoritative yet conflicting versions of why this monument was built.
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Glastonbury Festival - The New Jerusalem?
June 26, 2009 - 11:23 pm
As I’ve recounted in my book, “The Missing Years of Jesus“, numerous detailed legends place a youthful Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury in the early years of the first century. When we look a little more closely at certain passages in the New Testament, we find proof positive that Joseph of Arimathea was a man who worked with stone or rock, while some of the legends describe Jesus and Joseph working in mines in the West of England.
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Somers’ Solstice at Stonehenge and the World’s Oldest Man
June 21, 2009 - 3:50 pm
Frank Somers [pictured above being interviewed at the Spring Equinox] is the leader of The Stonehenge Druids and he is also a regular contributor to this site. I don’t always agree with everything that Frank has to say, particularly on the prehistoric usage of Stonehenge, but his considered comments often give me food for thought and he is eloquent and passionate about his chosen subjects.
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Stonehenge, the Summer Solstice and Setting Suns
June 20, 2009 - 3:07 am
Last year, the BBC’s Timewatch and the Smithsonian Museum solved the secret of Stonehenge by demonstrating that it was a prehistoric Lourdes, or the A & E of southern England. A few weeks ago, Time Team presented the solution to Stonehenge, but this time it was a place of the ancestors. Now someone writes in to inform me that if I want to know what Stonehenge really was, I should look at the “Definitive Stonehenge” site, which I did, but I must confess that I am none the wiser.
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Pendle Witch Camp, June 19th - 22nd
June 13, 2009 - 4:31 pm
My apologies to regular visitors to this site for the lack of recent posts, but the last two weeks have found me fully occupied and struggling to keep on top of various developments. I’m hoping to complete and publish a lengthy original post on Stonehenge over the next few days, so in the meantime, there are two matters I thought I’d bring to everyone’s attention.
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Time Team at Stonehenge, Monday June 1st
May 29, 2009 - 11:05 pmANCIENT CODE and The Missing Years of Jesus
May 27, 2009 - 3:16 am
Regular visitors to Eternal Idol may be disappointed or bemused by the sporadic nature of the posts in recent times, but this is sadly unavoidable, I’m afraid, as is the backlog with my correspondence. This is not meant to sound brusque in any way, because I greatly value all the comments and correspondence I receive, and I also want to continue to publish pieces of the highest quality I can manage on this site, so please allow me to briefly explain.
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