I was unaware of the cuckoo myth. It’s fascinating and particularly interesting in that it may have very old Indo-European origins. I’m doing a cuckoo deep dive now. 😃 Thanks for all you do Laura! Great information.
gracias! I live near Gor/Gorafe so this was interesting, a side note there is a starling where I live that uses the sound of a cuckoo as part of his call.
Since my interest is narrowed to the Iron Age Celts, the 'cuckoo' ritual is all new for me - thank you for your synopsis. I especially appreciated your comments about the possible relevant celestial connections! I was ware that the ancient kings were sacrificed but did not understand the cycle why. On another note, Seahenge would have been built where the sea would not 'drown' it, wouldn't it? It seems to me then, that is an indication that ocean levels have changed since it was built.
I've read it a number of times and it is talked about in The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain by Lewis Spence, that I'm currently reading. The idea is that if the crops fail it is the kings fault.
If there was a competition for mental gymnastic, these guys will win the gold medal. :) The asociation with cuckoo ritual and Venus are very spurious. Apart that, creating ritual monuments in times of distress appears being very common across several prehistorical societies (as you stated): there is no need to find weird theories that are impossible to prove. To my understanding, large megalithic structures such Stonehenge were built in Britain by Neolithic people, who were then replaced by the Bronze Age Beaker population: a clear stress point for their culture.
Thank you for the in depth coverage of the Seahenge. Much of the evidential findings seem well researched and carefully studied. The SeaHenge site seems to be a cunudrum. I have to ask, as a layman, Are we certain this was not a very early version of fish farming?
@@sarahhale-pearson533 Other possible aplications might include a boatwright opperation. As the two hallowed out beams may have supported a boat hull for the purposes of repairs.
Thanks Laura. This is a very interesting area, the mouth of the Wash. The Romans were doing something there on both sides of the estuary, near Hunstanton and Skegness. I probably got that from reading Ivan Margary's Roman Roads In Britain. Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu.
The imagination of archaeologists never ceases to amaze me. Hugo Award material. Britain suffering a drought is hard to believe let alone that our perfectly intelligent and much more sensible ancestors performed some crazy perverted nonsense with cuckoos. I also still can't believe they dug up this monument and destroyed it. As a kid I remember wading out to it - imagine my surprise when archaeologists claimed to "discover" it decades later.
Wow fascinating piece about seahenge and the cuckoo myths! Instantly makes sense as soon as you hear it! I'll look to download the paper on it, although I couldn't find the link for it. 😊
Did they know about the cuckoos brood parasitism back then? Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests. "Cuckoo eggs" is a powerful metaphor in modern times.
8:25 Just felt very happy to be a female born on 29/10 🤭 .. there’s just something about Seahenge, the upturned tree, wonder if it was a symbolic & literal expression of the world being turned upside down with this climatic aspect, but more a dual symbolic & literal act, expressing also an attempt to right the world by turning the tree itself upside down, because if the world is upside down then the tree becomes the right way up, when placed upside down, & capturing/keeping cuckoos in opposition of their natural flux ie annual disappearance, sort of mirrors that, & so the physical act of turning the tree upside down is an expression of spiritual/religious power to put the world back on its axis & right their world, it almost could look like a key in the ground too, & there is that what appears to be notions of other upside down worlds in waters, presume reflection based ie upside down, in opposition to above ground, so perhaps not as far fetched as it sounds .. anyway thank you, very cool & for the links. Saved.
Was surprised they made no explanation of upturned tree stump, I seem to recall from time team days they suggested this was a symbolic of a journey to the underworld. Perhaps they don't like that unproven symbolism? 🤔
"Intervisibility" is a nice new way to say "close to one another." What it says beyond physical proximity is beyond me. When you draw lines between sites you can create patterns, but patterns have no meaning until you come up with evidence for their connection. The astronomical constellations are typically shown with lines connecting the start, but the stars themselves are vast distances away from each other, and have no other connection than the fact that from our location, they're bright enough for us to imagine a pattern between them. And the vast majority of constellations wouldn't be recognized by the vast majority of people if all the astronomy books disappeared tomorrow. It's all imagination.
Pleiades, now I'll have to try to read it. Samhain / Halloween is about crossing the pre-perihelion of The Taurid Meteor Stream, not Venus. And not Autumn as the seasons slip via The Precession of The Vernal Equinox. I have my own theory of the cuckoo, but everyone has a hard time with the above.
hhhmmm.....Sea Henge....don't know that i've heard of it.....an ancient, cuckoo ritual? is that like, the bird or, like....crazy, man!?? either, or...should be an interesting video👍 i will try to be here but, not making any promises.....my recent history speaks for itself😅 wish me luck!🤞🙃
An ancient corral, at the end, a hard-point, in earlier times, to withstand the nocturnal dangers of earlier times. Survivors of the calamity of the Tower of Babel incident (a world-changing "earthquake"), in a world dominated by predators, alpha through omega.
