Bring Out Yer Dead Royals
Stonehenge as royal burial ground? Could be. You gotta stick your dead royals somewhere. I prefer to think of the old rockpile as Party Town. I bet they had a big party whenever the king bought the farm.
Topics: Britain, ancient mysteries
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:14 pm on Thursday, May 29, 2008
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May 29th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
DNA testing could prove that theory, although I suppose that’s a bit problematic with cremated remains.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:37 am
“You may call it Megalithic architecture, I call it vandalism.”
Michael Flanders from “At the Drop of Another Hat.”
May 30th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Druids, maybe? Did they whack a “Year-King” at mid-winter?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am
What basis do they have for speculating that the remains are royalty, and not, say, human sacrifices? Julius Caesar claimed the Druids burned sacrifices alive in wicker cages, but that’s been disputed as a bit of Roman propaganda. Still…
May 30th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Caesar’s claim was about the Germanic tribes, and was absolutely true. They would put the captives from the previous year’s inter-tribal warfare in a wicker cage and burn them alive on Samhain. It’s the origin (unacknowledged) of the “Burning Man” festival the dumb hippies are so fond of.