How were Celtic cairns different from standing stones? What was their purpose?
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Cairns consist of  mounds of small stones used to mark graves, Standing stones are usually made of large sheets of stone & seem to be more like giant calanders, or markers of the passing of the seasons.
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I think it were the Celts or the old Germans who first put things on their tree. But why? I don't know.
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I've read that the stones were sung into place by magical dwarves.\nReally, it's no more absurd than some of the other theories out there.
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It was a pagan place of ritual and sacrifice. It represented the sun and moon and with the capstones was "closed" from outside.\n\nThe rocks were actually quarried in wales and dragged overland to the site and then erected.. A neat bit of engineering..\n\nLike the Pyramids, slave labour was used.... \n\nIt was the "centre" of a place of power, close to the heavens and many many burial BARROWS are located in the vicinity.\n\nFor me.. it was a great place to take girlfriends to and shag them..\n\nSadly today it's roped off and you can't get close.
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The Celtic Rite is actually one of the most "Eastern" of those in the West.  The Celts had strong ties with Coptic Egypt and its tradition of the Thebaid through the Ukrainian Saint, John Cassian.  There are still mentioned in Celtic liturgical sources a veneration for "Seven Coptic Monks" buried in Ireland.
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Local Rules allow the removal of stones when in a bunker. In which case it is not defined as a stone
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Ziggurats were like modern churches...they were places of worship. They were constructed by solidly stacking layer upon layer in steps (similar to, but not the same as most pyramids). The most popular theories suggest that the Mesopotamians built these structures to get as close to their gods as possible
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I think with the Scottish backgrounds of the game of curling, and the power of the hammer, it might have just been named it because of its power. As you know, hammer means last rock and that is pretty powerful. I don't know..just my guess!!
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Sadly, as far as I know there is no direct mention of Stonehenge in the primary works written by the Romans.  The site really didn't start getting that much attention until the renesance, when scholars flush with reading about the Romans and the Druids (and romantisising the heck out of both) becan to argue over which group of people built it.
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Well, I would argue that is was never lost. It has been there a long time and known by inhabitants of the British Isles for thousands of years. There are many arguments as to who constructed it though especially since the stone used does not come from that area of the UK.\n\nThe website below should be able to help you further
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It is generally agreed that curling originated in my beloved Scotland.  An actual stone was discovered in recent years with the date 1511 etched into it.
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hey mainworry\ni happen to be Scottish and also practice the Celtic religion. I'll have you know that the Celts were around 5 to 6 thousand years before Christianity. Christians were then murderers and worse trying to kill off the Celts and druids. and by the way... the Celts covered the earth and then were driven to places like Scotland and Ireland and such. if your god were the only one then why is he so afraid of people worshiping other gods? if there were no other gods then there would be no need for such a commandment. so i challenge you to at least learn what you are talking about before you give an opinion.
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Hmm...Sound like you are talking about Cahokia mounds.  Small hills built by the Cahokia Indians, believed to be for burial purposes.  \n\nNow here is the tricky part...there is a town in the area named Cahokia...but the mounds are not there.  The mounds are in Fairmont City.
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"We do not know exactly when droving began," says Bonser, but with this info east Europe is the best guess.\nDROVING IN BRITAIN\n\n    "Wild cattle (aurochs) were a part of the native fauna of the forests, grasslands and marshes of post-glacial Scotland...and, when the ice retreated, it became a resident species; its remains have been found northwards to Caithness...When Neolithic and Bronze Age people colonised Scotland, domestic (Celtic shorthorn) cattle arrived with the[m]...about 5000 years ago...The wild and domesticated cattle may have existed together in places until the ninth or tenth century when the aurochs became extinct in Scotland...The original domesticated Celtic shorthorn became the Kyloe, the cow of the Highlands and Western Isles--the breed stock of Highland cattle [today],...Small, hardy black cattle, they were described by Bishop Leslie in 1578 as 'not tame...like wild harts (deer)...which through certain wildness of nature, flee the company or sight of men.'" (From "The Economics and Ecology of Extensively Reared Highland Cattle in the Scottish LFAs: an example of a self-sustaining livestock system", Davy McCracken, et al, Scottish Agricultural College, Ayr.) \n\nWhen the population of an area was small and isolated, most of the land could be used for grazing, and some for the growing of crops. But as populations increased, pressure on the land increased as well, and use had to be made of the poorer, higher land for grazing. This often entailed the seasonal relocation of whole or partial communities along with their livestock--transhumance. During late autumn and winter the pastoral community occupied homesteads on the edge of the valleys or on the coastal lowlands. During late spring and summer they would remove their stock to the higher mountain pastures, thus allowing the better land to be used for hay and other crops. In the high pastures part of the community would live in temporary dwellings while the rest would tend the fields below. "Transhumance," McCracken et al say, "still prevailed on low-lying land in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and probably continued to operate on moors, marshes and seasonally flooded land until late medieval times; in the Hebrides, low-lying shielings existed until recent times, but generally by the seventeenth century the substantial areas of grazing [used] for [local] transhumance were on the hills and mountains...The earliest surviving written documents referring to transhumance date from the twelfth century..."\n\n"We do not know exactly when droving began," says Bonser, "but we do know that the early inhabitants of Britain moved large herds of cattle and sheep, raiding, or in search of fresh pasture." Transhumance means "the transfer of livestock from one grazing ground to another, as from lowlands to highlands, with the changing of seasons (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000). "Droving, on the other hand, means "To drive, as cattle or sheep, especially on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover" (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996). The difference might seem subtle, but as soon as people began moving livestock for the purpose of trade or business, droving as a profession was born.
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an old Celtic game\ndetails here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling
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I beleive what you are looking for are in the book of  who were the celts? 5000 b.c.the ones you seek were known as druids they were the preist.
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shouldn't it be Celtic?\n\nIn any case, take a picture of it, upload to http://www.imageshack.us/ , post link here