Circles of Stone
Title | Circles of Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Dahr Lambert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998-12 |
Genre | Goddess religion |
ISBN | 9780671552862 |
Evoking the narrative sweep of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and the spiritual resonance of "The Celestine Prophecy", Lambert creates an extraordinary debut novel of prehistoric life. The story of three wise women--each called Zena, yet born thousands of generations apart--who live by the ways of love and compassion, and explore the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul.
Great Stone Circles
Title | Great Stone Circles PDF eBook |
Author | Aubrey Burl |
Publisher | |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780300076899 |
Archaeologist Aubrey Burl, for more than thirty years a specialist in the study of stone circles, selects a dozen attractive and evocative rings for close examination. Each of the twelve sites illuminates a particular archaeological question - the purpose of stone circles, their construction, age, distribution, design, art, legend and relation to astronomy. Burl asks, and offers sometimes surprising answers to questions about Stonehenge: how were its bluestones transported from south-west Wales, why was its Slaughter Stone not used for sacrifice, and why is Stonehenge - the most British of stone circles - not a stone circle and not British? To conclude his account of the strange subtleties of stone circles, Burl reconstructs the social history of Swinside in the Lake District, describing the builders, their way of life, and the ceremonies they performed inside their lovely ring.
Circles of Stone
Title | Circles of Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Max Milligan |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Megalithic monuments |
ISBN | 9781860466618 |
This book offers detailed historical accounts of these megalithic rings, and recounts the powerful myths and legends that have surrounded them and persist to this day.
The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany
Title | The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany PDF eBook |
Author | Aubrey Burl |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780300083477 |
The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
Circle of Stones
Title | Circle of Stones PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Lee Waldo |
Publisher | St Martins Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312198435 |
A twelfth-century Welsh woman gives birth to a child prophesied to lead his people and, in the process, becomes a formidable player in the socio-religious activities of her day
Circles of Stone
Title | Circles of Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Rushby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN | 9780207199080 |
The body of a young girl is discovered in a peat bog in Scotland. She's been preserved in the cold water for over 2000 years. Lea Green is present at the discovery. And Lea knows who the girl is. She's Ana. Lea and Ana have met before.
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
Title | A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany PDF eBook |
Author | Aubrey Burl |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780300114065 |
This practical and knowledgeable guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. This new edition includes a section on "Druidical" circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "This book is not only an elegant and practical guide, it is also the best single-volume study of this extraordinary phenomenon, embracing 500 monuments from Shetland to Brittany. . . . Confident, erudite, pleasurable, this volume can be recommended as travel guide, archaeology, literature, and sheer good company."--Ian Sheperd, British Archaeology "This is a wonderful book and is a must for anyone remotely interested in things megalithic."--Paul Walsh, Archaeology Ireland