My friend Glenys, who has worked for the last two decades on re-inventing earth-based goddess religions by merging research on ancient mythology with that of modern cosmology, has sent me a link to Esra Films and their documentary on Martin Brennan’s work in the ancient Boyne Valley (Brú na Bóinne) in Ireland. Brennan’s research and interpretation suggests, that approximately six thousand years ago, an unknown Celtic civilisation existed whose advance in astronomy and mathematics were reached again only some 2.500 years later by the Greeks - an assumption that already by itself would make me want to watch the documentary.
I have included below a short introduction to it, which has been taken from the Esra Film website (there you can also download a five-minute sneak preview of the film).
| Secrets of the Stones - uncovering a lost civilisation |
| The Mediterranean is viewed as the seat of civilisation in the western world. From here came the great advances, the earliest writing, astronomy, geometry, and the calendar. But now, in this groundbreaking new documentary, Esras Films reveals the major discoveries that have uncovered a lost civilisation, rewriting previously accepted timelines of history. The secrets are in the stones.Martin Brennan is a specialist in prehistoric art and writing. After spending three years studying prehistoric art in Mexico and a similar period in Japan he moved to Ireland to study the Boyne Valley complex. He uncovered an ancient writing system that dealt with tracking the solar and lunar cycles over scores of years. Sundials and lunar calendars are seen to exist here earlier than anywhere else in the world.Much work has been done to decipher the function of sites such as Stonehenge in Britain. But to this day the Boyne Valley complex is still perceived by many to be a Neolithic grave complex. Predating Stonehenge by 600 years and the first pyramid by 1000 years, Newgrange represents the height of a civilisation that has all but disappeared. This documentary will draw attention to this remarkable people whose achievements have remained hidden and forgotten for thousands of years.
An advanced early civilisation has been hinted at by many researchers, Secrets of the Stones brings all the pieces of this mystery together. An entire science and civilisation that had been lost will be revealed. This documentary will reveal hard evidence that will forever change our perceptions of this period in mankind’s history. The earliest calendar in the world. The start of geometry. The marrying of the solar and lunar cycles into one calendar. The recording of the 19 year lunar (Metonic) cycle on a stone 5,650 years old, a discovery not supposed to be made until 500bc by the Greeks. And the oldest writing in the world etched on buildings almost six thousand years old. For the first time Martin Brennan’s voyage of discovery is told in Secrets of the Stones. |
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