The ANCIENT IRISH CELTIC GAELIC SUN GOD and SOLAR HERO OF THE ANCIENT CELTIC GAELS, OF THE TUATHA DE DANANN Lugh of The Long Arm of The Tuatha De Danann of the Ancient Celtic Gaelic People. With The Ancient TRIBAL BATTLE SHIELDS of The Ancient Celtic Gaelic, Celtic Warrior of The Ancient Bronze Age & Iron Age Celtic Gaelic Northwestern Europe Ancient Warriors of The Ancient Celtic Gaelic Peoples of Ancient Western Europe (THESE SHIELDS ARE USED FOR BATTLE) Out On The Battlefield. THE CITY AND KINGDOM OF TROY, AND THE KINGDOM OF THE TUATHA DE DANANN, THE DANAANS OF THE ILIAD and Stonehenge The Hyperborean Solar Temple of The Solar God, Lugh, ie Belenus aka Apollo and Callanish Standing Stones The Northern Hyperborean Solar Temple of The Solar God, Lugh, ie Belenus aka Apollo. --- --- Was Stonehenge Originally a Temple of Apollo? tkparadosis.blogspot/2014/07/was-stonehenge-originally-temple-of.html Recently, i had to refresh my memory on some historical things. So i gave a look to some books from one of the most known and reliable historians of Classical antiquity, Diodorus Sicelus. The whole series of his books are very intresting, but the chapter about Hyperboreans have some less known info to many people. Judging from what i read to this chapter, i came to the conclusion that its almost certain (His description leaves no room for doubts) that the famous English site Stonehenge used to be a Temple of the God Apollo. For a reason , two famous sites that someone will search if he wants some info on Stonehedge, Wikipedia & English Heritage, mention absolute nothing about the clear reference to a famous historian such as Diodorus Sicelus is. Strange that with such bibliography available and so many sources they dont know about or someone else had not informed them about it. Thats the main reason that i decided to make this article in this blog. Here is the original description: Now for our part, since we have seen fit to make mention of the regions of Asia which lie to the north, we feel that it will not be foreign to our purpose to discuss the legendary accounts of the Hyperboreans. Of those who have written about the ancient myths, Hecataeus and certain others say that in the regions beyond the land of the Celts there lies in the ocean an island no smaller than Sicily. This island, the account continues, is situated in the north and is inhabited by the Hyperboreans, who are called by that name because their home is beyond the point whence the north wind (Boreas) blows; and the island is both fertile and productive of every crop, and since it has an unusually temperate climate it produces two harvests each year. Moreover, the following legend is told concerning it: was born on this island, and for that reason Apollo is honoured among them above all other gods; and the inhabitants are looked upon as priests of Apollo, after a manner, since daily they praise this god continuously in song and honour him exceedingly. And there is also on the island both a magnificent sacred precinct of Apollo and a notable temple which is adorned with many votive offerings and is spherical in shape. Furthermore, a city is there which is sacred to this god, and the majority of its inhabitants are players on the cithara; and these continually play on this instrument in the temple and sing hymns of praise to the god, glorifying his deeds. ---------------------------- ---------------------------- According to the ancient Greeks a sacred precinct to Apollo, generally understood as relating to Stonehenge, was to be found on the island of the Hyperboreans, Britain. en.wikipedia.org... I want to look at the background as to why they should state such, and the greater connotations. Quotes regarding Hyperbora and Apollo generally sourced from here; Land Hyperbora Moreover, the following legend is told concerning it: Leto was born on this island, and for that reason Apollon is honoured among them above all other gods; and the inhabitants are looked upon as priests of Apollon, after a manner, since daily they praise this god continuously in song and honour him exceedingly. And there is also on the island both a magnificent sacred precinct of Apollon and a notable temple which is adorned with many votive offerings and is spherical in shape.... the god visits the island every 19 years, the period in which the return of the stars [astron] to the same place in the heavens is accomplished; and for this reason the 19-year period is called by the Greeks the year of Meton (Diodorus Siculus, II). The Mother of Apollo and Artemis, Leto, was understood as having been from Hyperbora, the suggestion that Stonehenge was sacred to Apollo because of proposed functionality with regards to the Metonic cycle, also should really take into account that as the cycle involved a periodic balance between solar and lunar cycles, then Stonehenge would also have been sacred to Artemis, in her lunar representation.. abovetopsecret/forum/thread954421/pg1 ---------------------------- ---------------------------- [ Where Troy Once Stood by I.Wilkens, revised edition; Part II, Chapter 1; page 4 of 22 ] that are essential for the search for Troys location, as these rivers can still be identified in England today. Here follows the passage describing how eight rivers swept away the Achaean camp wall after the war because no offerings had been made to the gods during its construction: But when…the city of Priam was sacked in the tenth year, and the Argives had gone back in their ships to their dear native land, then verily did Poseidon and Apollo take counsel to sweep away the wall, bringing against it the might of all the rivers that flow forth from the mountains of Ida to the sea – Rhesus and Heptaporus and Caresus and Rhodius, and Granicus and Aesepus, and goodly Scamander, and Simoïs, by the banks whereof many shields of bulls hide and many helms fell in the dust, and the race of men half-divine – all of these did Phoebus Apollo turn the mouths together, and for nine days space he drave their flood against the wall ; and Zeus rained ever continually, that the sooner he might whelm the wall in the salt sea. And the Shaker of Earth, bearing his trident in his hands, was himself the leader, and swept forth upon the waves all the foundations of beams and stones, that the Achaeans had laid with toil, and made all smooth along the strong stream of the Hellespont, and again covered the great beach with sand, when he had swept away the wall ; and the rivers he turned back to flow in the channel, where aforetime they had been wont to pour their fair streams of water. Thus were Poseidon and Apollo to do in the aftertime…. (XII,17-35) If we assume that the Iliad is a dramatized account of historical events, we must also explain how floods could wipe out a long earthen wall over its full length in a very short time. This appears to be perfectly possible provided there is a particular configuration of watercourses, as we will find hereafter. The river Scamander was also called Xanthus by the gods(XX, 74). The Iliad mentions a ninth river in the Trojan plain: the Satnioïs (VI,34 ;XIV,445 ;XXI,87). Further away was the Caystrius (II,461) while there was still another river at great distance from Troy, the Axius (II,849). Finally, the Odyssey mentions a river called Temese (1,184). Upon examination, one finds more than a vague resemblance with the British rivernames as it appears that Homers rivernames have survived virtually intact after some 3200 years and despite Britains numerous foreign invasions and extensive linguistic evolution (see the corresponding numbers on Map 2) : trojan-war.co.uk/trojan-war-1.htm Hyperborea In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region in the northern lands that lay beyond the north wind. Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria — beyond the Boreas — was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which - if true - suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle. Never the Muse is absent from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry and everywhere maiden choruses whirling. Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live. - Pindar, Tenth Pythian Ode Legends Alone among the Twelve Olympians, Apollo was venerated among the Hyperboreans, the Hellenes thought: he spent his winter amongst them.[2] For their part the Hyperboreans sent mysterious gifts, packed in straw, which came first to Dodona and then were passed from tribe to tribe until they came to Apollos temple on Delos (Pausanias). Abaris, Hyperborean priest of Apollo, was a legendary wandering healer and seer. Theseus visited the Hyperboreans, and Pindar transferred Perseuss encounter with Medusa there from its traditional site in Libya, to the dissatisfaction of his Alexandrian editors. Along with Thule, Hyperborea was one of several terrae incognitae to the Greeks and Romans, where Pliny and Herodotus, as well as Virgil and Cicero, reported that people lived to the age of one thousand and enjoyed lives of complete happiness. Hecataeus of Abdera collated all the stories about the Hyperboreans current in the fourth century BC and published a lengthy treatise on them, lost to us, but noted by Diodorus Siculus (ii.47.1-2). Much of the detail concerning their understanding of the Hyperboreans the Greeks attributed to Aristeas. According to Herodotus (4.13), Aristeas had written a hexameter poem (now lost) about a journey to the Issedones. Beyond these lived the one-eyed Arimaspians, further on there were gold-guarding griffins, and beyond these the Hyperboreans. Hesiod mentioned the Hyperboreans, Herodotus reported, though the text is now lost, and Homer also in the Epigoni, if that be really a work of his. Also, the sun was supposed to rise and set only once a year in Hyperborea; which would place it above or upon the Arctic Circle, or, more generally, in the arctic polar regions. In maps based on reference points and descriptions given by Strabo,[5] Hyperborea, shown variously as a peninsula or island, is located beyond France and has a greater latitudinal than longitudinal extent. Other descriptions put it in the general area of the Ural Mountains From east to west: Celts as Hyperboreans Six classical Greek authors also came to identify these mythical people at the back of the North Wind with their Celtic neighbours in the north: Antimachus of Colophon, Protarchus, Heraclides Ponticus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidonius of Apamea. The way the Greeks understood their relationship with non-Greek peoples was significantly moulded by the way myths of the Golden Age were transplanted unto the contemporary scene, especially in the context of Greek colonisation and trade. As the Rhipean mountains of the mythical past were identified with the Alps of northern Italy, there was at least a geographic rationale for identifying the Hyperboreans with the Celts living in and beyond the Alps, or at least the Hyperborean lands with the lands inhabited by the Celts. A reputation for feasting and a love of gold may have reinforced the connection From a 1507 Ruysch map, showing the islands around the North Pole, and the Hyperborean region. Modern interpretations As with other legends of this sort, selected details can be reconciled with modern knowledge. Above the Arctic Circle, from the time of the vernal equinox to the time of the autumnal equinox, the sun can shine for twenty-four hours a day; at the extremes (that is, the Poles), it rises and sets only once a year, possibly leading to the erroneous conclusion that a day for such persons is a year long, and therefore that living a thousand days would be the same as living a thousand years. Since Herodotus places the Hyperboreans beyond the Massagetae and Issedones, both Central Asian peoples, it appears that his Hyperboreans may have lived in Siberia. Heracles sought the golden-antlered hind of Artemis in Hyperborea. As the reindeer is the only deer species of which females bear antlers, this would suggest an arctic or subarctic region. Following J.D.P. Boltons location of the Issedones on the south-western slopes of the Altay mountains, Carl P.Ruck places Hyperborea beyond the Dzungarian Gate into northern Xinjiang, noting that the Hyperboreans were probably Chinese. Amber arrived in Greek hands from some place known to be far to the north. Avram Davidson proposed the theory that Hyperborea was derived from a logical (though erroneous) explanation by the Greeks for the fact that embedded inside the amber arriving in their cities by trade with northern, cold countries were insects which obviously originated in a warm climate. Not aware of the explanation offered by modern science (i.e. that these insects had lived in times when the climate of northern Europe was much warmer, their bodies preserved unchanged in the amber) the Greeks came up with the idea that north countries being cold was due to the cold breath of Boreas, the North Wind. Therefore, should one be able to get beyond Boreas one would find a warm and sunny land. hyperboreanvibrations.blogspot/2011/02/hyperborea.html 2000 BC. The edge of the world. That describes the Outer Hebrides, off the western coast of the northernmost part of Scotland. It is remote times two, even for modern standards. Still, there is something here that attracted, thousands of years ago, a large enough population to build the “Callanish Stones”, one of the most spectacular and grandest megalithic monuments anywhere. In fact, it has earned the nickname “Stonehenge of the North”. The site is also quite unique, for unlike the tried and tested settings of most megalithic monuments, Callanish is laid out as a circle, consisting of 13 stones and 13 metres in diameter, which towards the outside has further megalithic stones in the shape of a Celtic cross. It is therefore not grand in size, but in appearance. The average height of the stones is nevertheless an impressive four metres, though the range varies from one to five metres; all stones are local Lewisian gneiss, which, at three billion years old, is the oldest type of stone of Britain. It makes one wonder whether our ancestors knew how special this stone was, and whether it was for this quality that they used it in this circle. The stones might have come from a cliff at Na Dromannan, a mile inland from Callanish. Here, there are some visible remains of a destroyed stone circle. philipcoppens/callanish.html
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