A Calanais myth and an alignment of the east stone-row with both the rising of the Pleiades and crossovers of Venus at sunrise on the summer solstices.
A myth asserts that at sunrise on the summer solstice 'something' came to the Calanais Stones' central ring heralded by the cuckoo's call. This paper investigates which of the three celestial objects easily visible at sunrise, the Sun, Moon and Venus, might be referred to. The stones have no obvious...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 137; no. 1-4; pp. 41 - 67 |
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