that, who do not thoroughly examine anything, yet
a priori
know everything better? One would have thought that the neat analysis of a prehistoric riddle would have contributed to the clarification of some truly exciting facts and would have made the specialist world prick up its ears. Mistake. The scientists in the field of primordial and pre-history are battening down the hatches and sticking their heads in the sand. They do not want to take account of what they think is impossible even if it is served to them on a plate. What has happened to the much-vaunted scientific thinking? Where is the drive of scientific discovery? Where is the pleasure in finding the truth?
I know what the problem is: a lack of moral courage. In Germany, no prehistoric specialist will tackle the subject because it might be connected with the “ancient Germanic peoples” and is thus automatically associated with Nazi thinking. And, in general, the ley lines lead to all kinds of impossible consequences. No mapsand no writing are supposed to have existed thousands of years ago. How, then, can sight lines link Stone Age sacred sites over hundreds of kilometers in uneven terrain? Were they all constructed at the same time? If not, what was the obligation placed on succeeding generations? Generations which, like it or not, linked their later sacred sites in precise lines with the earlier sacred locations—whether or not that fitted with the spirit of the times. And who—one might well ask!—fixed the network of lines
before
the first building phase? That these lines from the Stone Age definitely exist is only disputed by those who do not want to know. Poor, dishonest society.
At least it is not disputed that, in Europe alone, there are several hundred prehistoric stone and wood circles. Mighty progress! That all these complexes are connected with astronomy is gradually also understood by most people. The blockade of reason starts when we ask “why?”
Why
did Stone Age people create magnificent, astronomically significant stone and wood circles?
In honor of those “heavenly teachers.” That, at least, is the claim of the oldest account about the stone circle of Stonehenge. 19 ( Image 194 )
In ancient Egypt, the sun was given wings. But the winged sun disk, to be seen in all temples, also existed in ancient Babylon and still earlier among the Sumerians. Soon the divine kings had themselves immortalized with wings—they can be found in any larger museum today. The Christians turned these flying figures into angels. The angel (
angelos
) was a messenger, a mediator between the world of the gods and of humans—hence the wings. And we also brought along from antiquity the helmets—pardon me, the haloes—of those untouchable beings in the pictorial images.
The world of our imagination has changed little over millennia—apart from psychology explaining many things in the wrong way.
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