On BBC TV, Alice Roberts has just summarized theories about Stonehenge, including both the idea that the stones celebrate summer and life and also the opposite idea that they celebrate winter and death, the latter recently propounded by yet another TV presenter, Neil Oliver.
Poul Anderson's work cover many periods of history and also include two references to Stonehenge. Thus, TV viewing, like other reading, can be blog-relevant.
Domestics: laid up with a cold, although not too incapacitated to blog, I will have to miss a day-trip to London this Saturday.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The most reasonable thing to say about Stonehenge is that we don't know why it was built, or by whom.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: well, it does have a relation to the seasons and to stellar movements.
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