On Saturday, Dec. 21, nations in the Northern Hemisphere mark the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year. At hundreds of missions stretching from northern California to Peru, the winter solstice sun triggers an extraordinarily rare and fascinating event.
New Grange and Fourknocks, Ireland and dated to 5000 B.P. also welcome the winter solstice’s rising sun.
And there are Wabanaki tales about mada’wi’le, the loon, and Gaelic and Greco-Roman legends of Cygnus, the swan, that swoop down and nearly touch the earth before each solstice.
According to Anthony Murphy, “Deneb, the bright tail star of the swan constellation, Cygnus, skim the horizon due north [of New Grange] and then rise up slowly again. Murphy used SkyGlobe to recreate the neo-lithic ‘Sky Window” of 5,000 years ago.
Hello Ruben. I met you many years ago when I was working with your mother-in-law Sandy James and would sometimes visit your family. So now I understand what you were so energetically working on, all those years ago. Amazing and wonderful work! Wishing you and your family continued success and joy. The girls must be amazing young ladies now.
New Grange and Fourknocks, Ireland and dated to 5000 B.P. also welcome the winter solstice’s rising sun.
And there are Wabanaki tales about mada’wi’le, the loon, and Gaelic and Greco-Roman legends of Cygnus, the swan, that swoop down and nearly touch the earth before each solstice.
According to Anthony Murphy, “Deneb, the bright tail star of the swan constellation, Cygnus, skim the horizon due north [of New Grange] and then rise up slowly again. Murphy used SkyGlobe to recreate the neo-lithic ‘Sky Window” of 5,000 years ago.
Hello Ruben. I met you many years ago when I was working with your mother-in-law Sandy James and would sometimes visit your family. So now I understand what you were so energetically working on, all those years ago. Amazing and wonderful work! Wishing you and your family continued success and joy. The girls must be amazing young ladies now.
How interesting! Exactly the same stunt was used for the massive neolithic tomb of New Grange in Irelandca. 3000 BC
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