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Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered

Name: Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered
Author: Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Druids and Druidism; Great Britain -- Antiquities; Stonehenge (England); Sun worship; Temples

=Stanton Drew=, 166, 167, 170, 173;
    cove at, 37;
    dates of, 174;
    dimensions of circles at, 171;
    May-year at, 309;
    solstitial worship at, 314.

  =Stars=, changes in declination of, 42, 109;
    northern, 114;
    heliacal risings of, 108;
    reason for observations of, 42;
    worship of, 139, 249.
    _See_ clock-stars.

  =Stenness=, 35, 123, 218;
    azimuths of sunrise at, 120;
    observations required at, 129;
    seasons provided for at, 127, 131, 309, 314.

  =Sterility=, 239, 256.

  =Stirling=, festivals at, 238.

  =Stockwell=, 67, 111, 129, 176.

  =Stone-age=, 75.

  =Stonehenge=, 41, 50, 51, 52, 58, 88, 91;
    amplitudes of stars at, 11;
    apparent paths of stars at, 7;
    architecture of, 83;
    avenue, 63, 65;
    axis, 55, 60;
    azimuth of sunrise at, 120;
    the “Cursus” at, 319;
    custom at, 43;
    date of, 62, 67, 93;
    desecration of, 47;
    erection of, 84;
    “Leaning Stone” at, 69, 84;
    May-year at, 109;
    origin of stones, 90;
    position of, 65;
    rededication of, 109;
    solstitial temple, 108, 314;
    “_Stanenges_,” 52;
    tools found at, 74.

  =Stones=, as azimuth marks, 110;
    anointing of, 255;
    cresset-, 190, 256;
    holed, 37, 128, 282, 285, 286, 316, 318;
    hollowed, 192, 248, 323;
    Semitic, sacred, 244;
    unhewn and worked, 321.

  =Stone-worship=, proscribed, 271.

  =Stripple Stones=, Cornwall, 36, 292.

  =Stukeley=, Dr., 37, 53, 134, 289.

  =Sunrise=, apparent, 120;
    azimuth of, 64;
    determination of, 118;
    observation of, 63, 66, 99;
    November, 93.

  =Sunset=, determination of, 118;
    the May-, 93.

  =Sycamore=, 204.


  T.

  “=Tan Heol=,” 40.

  “=Tan St. Jean=,” 40.

  =Tanta Fair=, 28, 29.

  =Tara=, perpetual fire at temple of, 191.

  =Tauri α=, Aldebaran, 315.

  =Tavistock=, 147.

  =Temenos mound=, at Stonehenge, 47, 93.

  =Temple-axis=, fixing of, 1.

  =Temples=, associated, 297;
    Egyptian, 55;
    solstitial, 313.

  =Thebes= (Egypt), 8, 108;
    amplitudes at, 11;
    stars used at, 299, 304;
    May-year at, 247, 305.

  =Thebes= (Greece), 299.

  =Theodolite=, adjustments of, 172, 329.

  =Thomas=, Mr., 277, 282.

  =Thorn-trees=, associated with holy wells, 221.

  =Thoth=, 259.

  =Thurnham=, Dr., 63.

  =Tigris=, rise of the, 30.

  =Tirehan=, 214.

  =Tissington=, Derbyshire, 228.

  =Tlachtaga=, the fire of, 187.

  =Tombs=, dolmens not intended for, 254.

  =Torches=, 317.

  =Toutates=, 260.

  =Track-lines=, 149.

  =Tradition=, 179.

  “=Treachery of the Long Knives=,” 95.

  =Trees=, sacred, 200, 220, 257;
    Arabian worship of, 245;
    Semitic, 244, 246.

  =Tregaseal=, 277, 278, 280, 309, 314.

  =Trilithons=, 81;
    at Stonehenge, 58;
    functions of, 37, 41;
    in Japan, 3.

  =Trippet stones=, 36.

  =Tristis rock=, 158.

  =Trowlesworthy=, 158, 161, 162.

  =Truthwall Common=, 277.

  =Tubberpatrick=, well at, 225.

  =Tumuli=, 93, 102, 254;
    at Stenness, 131.

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