Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest

Posted by J3L2404 on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @02:54PM
from the sciencedaily.com dept.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011074624.htm

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by Jun8 on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @04:24PM (#3100148)

"Whereas Stonehenge was orientated towards the sun, the more then 100 meter width burial mound of Magdalenenberg was focused towards the moon."

Reminded me the fact that in most languages (e.g. Italian, French) "sun" is masculine and "moon" is feminine whereas in German it's the other way around (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender). I know Latin-Greek mythology assigned a female moon goddess but I'm not familiar with Germanic mythology.

Could this be why they the two structures are oriented differently?

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by hvs on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @04:52PM (#3100252)

I have no idea about the answer to your question, but in Norse mythology, the Sun (Sunna) is female and the Moon (Mani) is male.

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by hobohazard on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @05:07PM (#3100305)

Underwater Stonehenge in Lake Michigan http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stonehenge-beneath-wate...

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by jff on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @08:21PM (#3101004)

Deep ones!

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by fennecfoxen on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @03:20PM (#3099935)

They've also got some snazzy henges on the east coast of the US (New Hampshire or thereabouts) if you're interested.

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by oracuk on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @05:21PM (#3100343)

Seems like a wood circle, no stones and no henge mentioned.

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by markeroon on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @08:34PM (#3101022)

It's oriented! For shame, ScienceDaily.

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by donaq on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @10:10PM (#3101198)

Both are correct, actually.

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Re:Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black F... by markeroon on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @12:15AM (#3101478)

Agh, I guess. But orientated sounds terrible.

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