tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post8245173426558885529..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: Home of the Winter SolsticeDebra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-46551316962185740412013-12-21T02:48:58.333-08:002013-12-21T02:48:58.333-08:00I also think it's fascinating that one of the ...I also think it's fascinating that one of the other mounds in the Boyne complex, Dowth 'darkness', has a similar alignment in reverse...it is focused on the setting sun at Midwinter Solstice. This is the same at Stonehenge, which is aligned to Midwinter Sunset, while the timber monument at nearby Durrington Walls is aligned on Midwinter solstice sunrise. I wonder if one was to bring new 'life' to the dead and the living community, and the other to take spirits of the recently departed 'into the West' which was the Land of the Dead or the Otherworld in many cultures. I have actually written about the Stonehenge complex and its alignments on the Winter Solstice at stone-lord.blogspot.comStoneLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338820506795034334noreply@blogger.com