masks ... part v ...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namahage

... another hundred !

suzanne sklar's salutary exegesis of blake's jerusalem for modern readers .... and yale university's wonderful digitized volume, to down load for free

 

https://besharamagazine.org/arts-literature/building-jerusalem/?fbclid=IwAR2e6fMw5eSDOnA1KDtZuovHLCdxTIdCESiRZ4lXErK2vjLS4DThljwCjEQ

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=all_fields&q=Blake+Jerusalem

revision time ... just gathering some links and images ... the blue stone circle ... which may have been quarried, built and dismantled in wales ... and re-erected at stonehenge ...

 

Photograph by “Horatio” at The Megalithic Portal website.

 

My Question is … Were the Waun Mawn Stones moved all at once, or as part of an annual pilgrimage between wales and the durrington walls party ?

 

The two quarries … one up high, the other down in the valley

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2019/03/stonehenge-bluestones.page

 

From THE GUARDIAN, 12^th February 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales

From ANTIQUITY, 12^th February 2021

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/original-stonehenge-a-dismantled-stone-circle-in-the-preseli-hills-of-west-wales/B7DAA4A7792B4DAB57DDE0E3136FBC33

 

From WIKIPEDIA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waun_Mawn

 

From THE MEGALITHIC PORTAL website

https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1340

cattle in neolithic times ... it looks as if cattle may have been used for haulage much earlier than we used to imagine ... this has possible implications for the story of how the blue stones might have been moved out of west wales

Modelling the Arrival and Spread of Domesticated Cattle into Neolithic Britain

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14614103.2018.1536498

How we know about the use of cattle in neolithic times

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-we-discovered-that-europeans-used-cattle-8000-years-ago

The early movement of cattle out of iran and anatolia, the genetic history of domesticated cattle

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4445560/

 

Was the relationship of humankind and cattle very different in Neolithic times ?

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/55559409/FULL_TEXT.PDF

Neolithic people feasted on beef in great gatherings near Stonehenge

https://www.ft.com/content/ee245550-b3fa-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8

Small cattle in neolithic western europe, descendants of those from the middle east, may have been mated with the larger native aurochs

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/623063

Some suggest that Stonehenge might stand on an ancient migration route of  prehistoric cattle, the Aurochs ...

https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2013/04/stonehenge-and-aurochs-migration-route.html

evidence in the bones of cattle suggest their being burdened 6,000 years ago ...

https://theecologist.org/2019/jan/24/humans-burdened-cattle-6000-years-ago

English Heritage have a very good educational website about Neolithic living ...

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/history/food-and-feasting-at-stonehenge/