The Avebury Cycle
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The Avebury Cycle
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Author : Michael Dames
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Avebury Cycle written by Michael Dames and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Travel categories.
"Avebury parish in Wiltshire contains the most amazing collection of Stone Age monuments to be found anywhere in the world. Taking into account recent discoveries, this new edition of Michael Dames's acclaimed study explores the mystery of the Avebury monuments and reveals their collective purpose. Making skillful use of archaeology, ethnography, and folklore, Dames argues that the monuments were key elements in the worship of the Great Goddess, each representing a different aspect of the annual fertility cycle corresponding to the chronological year"--Back cover.
Archaeologies Of Consciousness
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Author : Gyrus
language : en
Publisher: Dreamflesh
Release Date : 2008-02-03
Archaeologies Of Consciousness written by Gyrus and has been published by Dreamflesh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-03 with Occultism categories.
Collected for the first time, these essays delve into the mysteries of the prehistoric human mind with intelligence, passion and a radical approach to the unknowability of the evocative but obscure early chapters of the human story. Starting from personal experiences with megalithic monuments and sites of ancient rock art, Gyrus unfolds implications and speculations that keep one eye on the latest academic research, the other on the unproven possibilities that intimacy with prehistoric relics affords. Also includes a foreword by acclaimed antiquarian, Julian Cope.
Snake Woman Moon
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Author : Tom Murphy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Snake Woman Moon written by Tom Murphy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Avebury And The Cosmos Of Our Ancestors
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Author : Nicholas Mann
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2011
Avebury And The Cosmos Of Our Ancestors written by Nicholas Mann and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
A fresh look at the World Heritage Site that includes Avebury henge, West Kennet long barrow and Silbury Hill. Mann combines archaeology, astronomy and anthropology to offer an original and convincing account of the building of these extraordinary Neolithic monuments. The ancient Britons were inspired by a profound knowledge of the heavens when they erected the monumental stones of Avebury. Mann throws light on the motive behind the creation of its awe-inspiring mounds and megaliths by demonstrating that they were aligned to the cycles of the Sun, Moon and stars. This book will help visitors and readers to see Avebury in a wholly new light - the light of the heavenly bodies that guided its Neolithic builders. Avebury Cosmos will reawaken our ancient reverence for the stars and deepen our respect for the extraordinary abilities and forgotten knowledge of our prehistoric ancestors.
The Avebury Landscape
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Author : Graham Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2005
The Avebury Landscape written by Graham Brown and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
It is over one hundred years since the publication of the wide ranging archaeological field investigation undertaken on the Marlborough Downs by the Rev A C Smith. His work Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square Miles round Abury was originally published in two volumes in 1884 by the Marlborough College Natural History Society, then reprinted and bound into a single volume and published in 1885 by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society after half the original print run was destroyed in a fire. As in most works of inventory the volume has certainly stood the test of time and is still one of the basic reference texts for students of the area. Since then, apart from a few notable exceptions, archaeological literature about the area has been largely site-based and there has been little concerning the Marlborough Downs as a whole. In order to try and redress this imbalance, a day conference was organised in April 2002 at the University of Bath, Swindon, where it was possible to acknowledge and mark the ongoing validity of Smith's work and where a number of papers on various aspects of recent research on the Marlborough Downs were presented. The results of the conference are presented in this volume, together with a number of other commissioned contributions from individuals who have undertaken research in the area during the last decade or so. Each essay stands alone, but they are connected by a common theme, that of the land and how it has changed over millennia.
The Serpent Symbol In Tradition
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Author : Charles Dailey
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-01-24
The Serpent Symbol In Tradition written by Charles Dailey and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-24 with Religion categories.
Serpent and dragon symbolism is ubiquitous in the art and mythology of premodern cultures around the world. Over the centuries, conflicting hypotheses have been proposed to interpret this symbolism which, while illuminating, have proved insufficient to the task of revealing a singular meaning for the vast majority of examples. In The Serpent Symbol in Tradition, Dr. Dailey argues that, in what the symbolist Rene Guenon and the historian of religions Mircea Eliade have called 'traditional' or 'archaic' societies, the serpent/dragon transculturally symbolizes matter, a state of being that is constituted by the perception of the physical world as chaotic in comparison to what traditional peoples believed to be the 'higher' meta-physical source of the physical world or 'nature.' In the course of Dr. Dailey's investigations into the meaning of traditional serpent/dragon symbolism, the following contributions have proved invaluable: 1) Guénon's interpretation of the language of traditional symbolism and the metaphysics that underlies it, as well as his interpretation of the terminology of the 'Hindu Doctrines,' 2) Eliade's interpretation of traditional/archaic societies by means of his concepts of chaos, creation, Axis Mundi (World Axis), and 'Sacred and Profane,' and 3) the insights of various other researchers of serpent/dragon symbolism. Beyond purporting to resolve some of the mystery of the ancient and varied symbolism of the serpent/dragon, The Serpent Symbol in Tradition strives to serve the related functions of interpreting the symbolic meanings of a wide variety of premodern artifacts and narratives as well as providing a study of the origination, and ancient human awareness, of the mentioned state of matter.
Roman Silbury And The Harvest Goddess
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Author : Michael Dames
language : en
Publisher: Heart of Albion Press
Release Date : 2007
Roman Silbury And The Harvest Goddess written by Michael Dames and has been published by Heart of Albion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Goddesses, Roman categories.
Featuring illustrations, this book argues that the Romans recognised and renewed the significance of Silbury and the Avebury 'cycle' of Neolithic monuments.
Avebury
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Author : Joshua Pollard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Avebury written by Joshua Pollard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
This book traces the history of the Avebury stone circle and its surrounding landscape. Covering a period of around 12,000 years, it is a comprehensive examination of the area, as well as the people who have moved through it, from the mesolithic to the late medieval period.
The Avebury Monuments Wiltshire
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Author : Faith de M. Vatcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Avebury Monuments Wiltshire written by Faith de M. Vatcher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with History categories.
Hengeworld
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Author : Michael Pitts
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-18
Hengeworld written by Michael Pitts and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with History categories.
In November 1997 English Heritage announced the discovery of a vast prehistoric temple in Somerset. The extraordinary wooden rings at Stanton Drew are the most recent and biggest of a series of remarkable discoveries that have transformed the way archaeologists think of the great monuments in the region, including Avebury and Stonehenge; one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments, top tourist site and top location for summer solstice celebrations. The results of these discoveries have not been published outside academic journals and no one has considered the wider implications of these finds. Here Mike Pitts, who has worked as an archaeologist at Avebury, and has access to the unpublished English Heritage files, asks what sort of people designed and built these extraordinary neolithic structures - the biggest in Britain until the arrival of medieval cathedrals. Using computer reconstructions he shows what they looked like and asks what they are for. This is the story of the discovery of a lost civilisation that spanned five centuries, a civilisation that now lies mostly beneath the fields of Southern England.