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

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Post by J3L2404 » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 6:54 PM UTC

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

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Post by fennecfoxen » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 7:20 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by Jun8 » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 8:24 PM UTC

"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?

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

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Post by hvs » Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 8:52 PM UTC

Jun8 wrote: post #3

"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 no…