Celts and the Megalithic Fantasy
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- The Celts are often wrongly associated with the great stone structures of Europe. This is yet another historical myth, this time the product of the 19th century Celtomania phenomenon.
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Wow! What an eye-opener video!
Thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you for watching! :D
@Thanks for correcting this important issue .
Thanks so much for this Arith, I'm in Cornwall UK, and yes, megalithic structures everywhere! Also, loving Var Umn very much (as you already know) 😀
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I also believe so :)
Regardless of the sites dates and authenticity. You, sir, are a monument to the greatness of man and its ability to correct and properly educate on the history of our great peoples globally.
Mom is that you? :P well, thank you very much my friend, thank you for your kind words and for the encouragement!
@ArithHarger Hahaha. No, sir. Just an honest man giving credit where I see credit due. You rock Arith.
Keep up the great content.
What places! A trip to the past, thank you Arith. ❤
Thank you 🤗
Wonderful video, just brilliant. Can’t praise it enough. Many Blessings ❤.
Thank you and many blessings to you!
Very disappointed and disillusioned to learn the facts regarding Stonehenge.
Kinda puts me off wanting to visit it now, thanks for the hard truth Arith, blessed be.
yeah, I do understand the feeling, I truly do :\
Stonehenge may be a bit of a showy celebrity but there are plenty of other sites that are authentic and would have been just as important. They are, or at least were, all over the place. Let them take your imagination instead.
@batintheattic7293 A place to gather with kindred spirits in the name of the old gods is what Stonehenge means essentially.
As long as people gather to enjoy the soltices, it will still have meaning.
I wouldn't feel any way about it - stonehenge like other ancient circles and megalithic structures the world over have been built and rebuilt many times since the beginnings.
Thank you for this eye-opener Arith! Always a pleasure listening to you informing us on the un-truths out there.
Thank you for still being there my friend. Be well!
Thank you for this informative video, Arith. Even though the truth about Stonehenge is indeed, kind of sad and disappointing, I appreciate knowing the true history behind it. Thanks for always bringing us great content, my friend!! You are appreciated!!
Very interesting. Well written and presented!
Thank you ❤ this helps put something into much better perspective for me. When I was in highschool I was lucky enough to spend two summers on digs at Cahokia Mounds in Illinois. Of we were the ones digging in the trash heaps lol, but not only there but in many other states the mounds had been destroyed by farmers and others. It's said some things were found in them others not. But what was left at Cahokia just always seemed some how out of whack, like parts were being force fit. We still really don't know anything about the mound builders not really. I grew up in St Louis and it was always rummerd that mounds used to be on that side of the Mississippi as well, which makes sense. Later I lived in a more northeast part of the state still by the river and while there were many places that were more like cliffs carved from the old flow of the river centuries ago, the tops of some of the hills had very unique shapes and during winter when the leaves were gone you could see that even more. Since it was private land people would not allow anyone to check them out, even if not being used as farm land. I know the indenganess peoples lived in the area generation after generation, and if one group disappeared another would move in. You could tell just by the different styles of arrow heads and flint workings I found on our property. We didn't farm so had a mixture of what could be farm land and woods but it was only 12 acres. But did let one of the farmers come bail up the grass, it was native fescue grass and he would give us a couple of bucks, but it would also disturb the land a little and I would find something, also after the rains especially if the creeks flashed up, once the water went down you often found something. I admit we were more looking for fossils but you couldn't miss the other stuff. I think we no matter where have destroyed to much and then rebuilt it as our brains of today picther what it would look like. If we can tell where the holes were for wooden poles we sure should be able to tell where giant stones were. I think to many forget as well that just because a new people and culture moved into the area and started using these places as their own sacred sites dosent mean they built them. There are many examples where on culture built on top of a older culture and so on, I won't even go into how the church did that other than to say, if they wanted to totally strip away the culture of those they conquerd. They took away and destroyed as much as they could but then to build on top of them, with them supposedly having a different mindset then those before about places of power, then it makes no sense. We have destroyed, messed with and mucked things up so badly over the last few centuries, I think it will be impossible to really find the truth of our past. I have always believed that those that even though others tried to kill their language and ways, and while if some had a writing system those may have been destroyed. They have passed the storys, information, ways of their people down in the spoken word. People say well that gets messed up and changed, but does it. They spend hours teaching it over and over until the next generation learns it. Yes they could have changed things just as humans have constantly changed the words and systems, but I don't think they have. I say this because it seems the holy books of India have not changed, and many people could not read but still passed it down with the spoken words. We have never paid enough attention to the indenganess peoples, both their words and their ways. One example is as white people moved further west, they spoke about how the indenganess Native Americans used controlled fire to work with mother earth, they were amazed at the great forest that they discovered, that was due to the way it was taking care of properly. We have found since then that just letting it go and not doing things right has caused all kinds of problems. The great forest fires of these last decades are not just from climate change. Finally in some places they are learning from those who have known the land much better and longer then us. Just because a culture is different dosent make it less. Same goes for the history we change and mess with, just because it was from a older culture that we know little about we won't learn anything anything if we keep messing with things especially for the sake of those that are older and don't want to be proven wrong about what they have said is truth all along, and this blocks the younger people from changing things because they can't get the grants and funding they need in the future. We have locked ourselves into a closed mind set which will only push us backwards or keep us stuck in the same place instead of moving forward. It's a very sad state of a way to be. I thank you for speaking the truth, the truth is what needs to be spoken so people can truly learn and move forward. Thank you for your teaching in many subjects. 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There were many diffefent eras of moundbuilding. Cahokia is a Mississippian era city of mounds. They built in a specific way and there were hundreds of mounds on both sides of the Mississippi. White American farmers were greedy and flattened as many mounds as possible to farm and continue the genocide of Indigenous people so they would have no claim on the land and could be completely erased.
Thank you for this Arith. Been a fan of your channel for some time now back at the beginnings of you viking videos and aways enjoy it. A younger perspective on human history is always good to shake up the established schools of dogma...I mean thought. The issues with "modern archeology" are pretty widespread.
I would love to see you have a conversation with Graham Hancock someday. Hearing you guys discuss history and archeology would be fascinating.
i've often wondered about all that
I love these beautiful videos. ❤
So informative, so fascinating and you do such a beautiful job.
Thank you for sharing this information Arith. Particularly about Stonehenge. What are the earliest photographs of the area before it was “reconstructed”?
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Knowing that they are older than the Celts does not diminish my respect for these monuments. It just means they are beyond everything we think we know, and are thus, to me, more sacred than ever.
I always learn something new from your videos. I had absolutely no idea about the information your presented on Stonehenge, and I was floored. I also didn't know that the oldest standing stone is in Portugal. I love learning new things, thank you!
Bom dia my friend. This is a fascinating video. I have often wondered about Iberian sites and understood that Celtic roots were continental European rather than British.
In many sources the Druids are said to be the cause of this and that, but historically, the Druids are a recent thing, after all the British Druids were killed off during the Roman occupation of 2000 years ago.
I would like to see a full video of Iberian neolithic monuments, and if I get chance to visit Portugal again in this lifetime, maybe I ought to consult you first?
BTW if you describe archaeology as grave robbing will you be changing your CV at any time 🤪
My friend! Wonderful to see you here commenting :D it's been a while! How have you been doing? Celticism is certainly fascinating and quite widespread across Europe. There are many elements we can say it's "Pan-Celtic", especially in western Europe (if we divide Europe in half and look for the western half of it). Some day I might get into more detail about the Iberian Neolithic, and I would like to make a special focus on the Iron Age similarities all across the western side of Europe along the atlantic till the western coast of Norway, it's pretty insteresting the similarities, actually from the Palaeolithic until the early Iron Age. Then, of course, came the Romans . . . what did the Romas ever do for us?! :p
I hope to see you again in the future my friend. Especially in a time when I'm more psychologically fit :D. And, well, since the 1950s archaeology has changed a lot. There are still grave-robbers, but those are not actual archaeologists. Most of those people work for specific companies that have nothing to do with history (banking, real estate, billionaires, law firms, etc.) who seek out treasure to sell them all in very fancy auctions across the world. I have quite a few stories to tell on those accounts. Hard to work in archaeology for several reasons, but when you want to preserve history but you don't have the proper funds, and these companies have all the money and pay well to steal away history, that's a big problem. We still live in a time where history is made by the wealthym but it's their own history, their own narrative, and not the truth. Let me know when you are back here again :D Be well my friend! All the best!
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Greetings! I have very fond memories from back when I was in your country :D
Well now I don’t feel so bad about missing out on that trip to Stonehenge! lol. 😂. I had no idea…
Amazing and informative as always. "History is a fable agreed upon" is sad but accurate. So much of what we "know" is just what we have been told. I don't mean to come across as tin-foil conspiracy theorist as I feel that a great deal of what we perceive is true or at least close to it. It's just amazing how much we aren't readily taught about human history and what little we are presented is through a biased lens.
I'm really bummed to learn about Stonehenge being a modern representation of what once was. However, as a romantic, my advice to those wishing to go see these types of things but now feeling dejected to the point that they may no longer make the trip...please don't cancel your plans. Even if you skip all the fake or "homage" touristy stuff, these places such are brimming with natural beauty and magic that has to be seen in person to appreciate. When I was Ireland 15 years ago scattering my father in laws ashes near his favorite fishing hole, I could take or leave all the ruins and castles and everything being spoon fed to me as "celtic". What I loved was how the hills would roll and the green would pop against the October sky. There were little mounds of ancient land housing grazing sheep and ancient stones unturned for untold generations that were covered in such lush greenery only to have their tops disappear under the whitest of low-hung clouds as if the gods were painting a portrait but decided to take a break and sneak in a pint.
History is disappointing, but the places we force it upon have their own magic if you are willing to look past all the garbage.
That was eye opening indeed but, magic is still within and all around. I would still like to know, barring man’s interventions, how such a large phallic looking artifact would have been able to be erected. No pun intended 😊
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The Roman legions conquered the region of Galicia, Spain around 137 BCE. The region's name comes from the Celtic Gallaeci who lived there at the time. In Roman and Visigothic times Galicia stretched south to the Duero River and eastward to beyond the city of León and formed part of the archdiocese of Bracara Augusta (Braga). Check out the history of Lugo, Spain it's the only city left in the world surrounded by completely intact Roman walls. The city of Lugo, Spain is named after the Celtic god Lugh. The name Lugo comes from the Celtic god Lugos, who was the god of light, arts, and oaths. The name Lugh means "shining one" and he was the patron of travelers, commerce, art, poetry, and all crafts.
You find many Bagpipe players Lugo, famous bagpipers from all over the world have come to Galicia to learn and study the bagpipe. Ireland is known for having the most bagpipe players per capita in the world. If you didn't know, they found Egyptian DNA in a 5200 year old Irish farmer?
I would love to see a photographic timeline of both Stonehenge and Newgrange, a before and after view of the sites. I'm aware that the Newgrange "restoration" is very controversial and very likely unfortunate. I was aware that Stonehenge had been "partially restored", but did not know how extensively. Thank you.
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Nice Video, Thank You for your knowledge. I had no idea that Stonehenge was rebuilt etc. That is very sad. Wow..
You are the man. Well done.
Thank you, I wondered what was the Portuguese name for standing stones, in France it's almost the same Menhir, in breton language Men means stone. Example tromenie means to turn around the stones, as in Locronan village, Dolmen is a table of stone... and so on. Thanks for the knowledge Bro 🫂❣️
I need to get to Portugal soon! Thank you Arith 😎🇿🇦✌️
Great information. Thanks so much.
Besides the archeological dating, Megalithic or Celtic era is indifferent for the very use of the megalithic structures, and I´m sure the Celtic tribes were pretty satisfied using these old structures very similarly, namely keeping track on day and night, seasons and the annual scenario of the starry heaven and the Milky Way: ( Hence the observation hole in the first shown chamber 0:20 )
Besides these physical observations, our ancestors also used some specific chambers in the ongoing initiation rites as the spiritual world was(is) just as important as the physical one.
Same archaeological thing with Stonehenge: As long as the stones were reset precisely, it doesn't matter when. It´s THE USE which is important.
The only interesting cultural and astronomical issue is whether the/some stones have been rearranged over times to follow the precession motion of 1 degree every 71.6 years compared to the annual terrestrial cycle.
The ancient stone circles and standing stones or obelisks and dolmens from around the world - in every continent - have very ancient origins. Many have been built over and over again on the same sites, for a very good reason. Now whether the stones were placed along Ley Lines and vortices merely to indicate where these are, or whether they were built so as to conduct the Dragon energy of the earth is up for debate.
I really enjoyed Tom Graves' "Needles of Stone". Are you familiar with that book? Back in 2009-2010 I've made a whole PowerPoint presentation talking about the ley lines in relation to the megalithic monuments using science to back me up. It was a success lol 😆
@ I haven't read it - and I haven't seen any of your work relating to the ancient "www" Arith. Thanks a lot for sharing! I added a video below on the Bosnian pyramids just for additional interest's sake :) Speaking of the pyramids, one of the first strange but true "co-incidences" I uncovered is the underground network of tunnels found directly beneath many of the great pyramids in Egypt and in South America. There are also such in Bosnia. BB
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it's important to know the truth. it helps us to put things into perspective. one can, however, still be attracted and in awe of certain places with modern eyes.
Modern linguistic, genetic, and archaeological research shows that a distinction must be made between Celtic and Druid. The megalithic style of building came in with the Akkadian speaking Neolithic farmers who came out of the Middle East according to genetic studies. Dolmens exist throughout Europe. All the runestones are actually written in Neolithic farmer Akkadian and not some Celtic or Germanic language. Since the last runestones were written about 1200 CE this means some specialist class of priests were still writing Akkadian while the native spoken languages were changing around them due to the Indo-European invastions. This class of priests must be the Druids mentioned in the classical texts. Akkadian to them must have been like the Latin of later Christian priests.
I don't know about genetic studies, but stone can't be dated - there are literally thousands of stone circles and megalithic structures around the world which are very much older than establishment archaelogy will admit. It's pretty obvious that many of the structures /circles/standing stones/pyramids etc have been rebuilt over and over again since the dawn of human civilization.
The Dendera zodiac, or Denderah zodiac, is a circular bas-relief that depicts celestial events and is found on the ceiling of the Hathor temple's pronaos, or portico, in Dendera, Egypt.
Look dead center on that star map, you find the Hippo/Lion/Crocodile, Taweret, Thigh of Ox Leg, Seth, Standing Wolf riding Plow, Wepwawet. the son of Seth, he is the husband of Taweret, the ancient Greeks called Polaris "Kynosoura", which translates to "the dog's tail". This name comes from the Greek word κυνόσουρα. In ancient Greece, Ursa Minor was thought to represent a dog, not a bear. In Sumerian "Ur" means Dog, 'SA" means Red, the Egyptian Seth has Red Hair, the Ursa means Red Dog, but Ur also means Wolf, as ion Wolf Warrior, a Ur-sag, where the word "Sag" means Head, Ur-sag = Warrior= Wolf Head, Taweret known as Reret "The Sow", her head was the Swine, know as "The Child", we called Jesus, spell his name backwards, Sausage, in Hebrew, Saul means Prayed for, the same in Greek, and a Sage is a Wise Teacher. Wasn't he known as a Lion, the word Urgula means both Lion and Great Dog, the head of Draco, was the Seed Cup, hung on the Plow Handle, that was invented by Dagan, the fish headed Grain God, in Hebrew, 'dag' means Fish, but spoken "Dog". Wepwawet "Opener of the Ways," Setanta, "He who knows the Way", it also means "70". Didn't they sacrifice a Red Dog to Canicula (Sirius), meaning Puppy Dog, and Setanta was known as Cú Chulainn, the Irish word Coileán means Whelp/Pup/Cub, and Young Fighting Man (Warrior), and Trickster, ha ha ha, The Dog star Sirius drops below the horizon for 70 days, before the return with the seasonal floods, Small Fish was thrown into the fire, small Dags (Dogs).
Hey! why does that map have the same pole star as we do today?
Ha Ha Ha I like that name Swinton, son of the Boar is the meaning of my Scott Irish name, ha ha ha, and son of the Hound of Ulster.
Was there evidence of a Stone Henge actually made of wood? Nothing of the wood survived but the holes where the beams were placed left an impression nearby?
If there were (which is possible) the evidences have been destroyed when they started to make the Stonehenge we know today in the early 1900s. The heavy machinery and equipment destroyed much. However, there's the "Woodhenge" nerby, and other structures which were made of wood, and it is possible to determine their configuration based on the negative prints from where the wooden beams once stood. Before the structures were made of stone, there were older ones made of wood, of course. This is noticible in the oldest Cromlechs, for example in Scotland and in Portugal, dating back to the Mesolithic, which were made of wood. Take a look at "Cromelque dos Almendres ("Almendres Cromlech"), the oldest Cromlech (so far) which is a megalithic complex, near Évora, Portugal, and before it was made of stone it was made of wood.
"These boulders placed here by glaciers receding are Celtic pyramids, hurumph I say"
I have two questions: 1.How did you find out about this (your sources)? 2. In 1950 photography already existed for more than 100 years. Is there any photo documentary about what Stonehenge looked like before the 'reconstruction' ?
Thank you.
Hello there. In terms of megalithic structures and their history, I'm an archaeologist and, although much of my focus has been on Roman Republic and Empire and on the Middle Ages, my first years were spent working on megalithic sites. Tree of my professors were the people who have been highly involved with the megalithic structures in Portugal, including on works to re-erect the fallen structures, as well as involved with Georg e Vera Leisner, quite famous concerning Megalithism in the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Portugal. In terms of the Meada's Menhir, you can find, for instance, the work done by National Geographic, which was precisely aided by - and they interviewed - one of those professors of mine (Jorge de Oliveira, of the University of Évora, which is where I've started). Almost all the megalithic structures found so far, are all well dated, documented and there are many studies on them. Perhaps in later videos I shall deal more with these subjects and, as such, I shall present the bibliography. Now, concerning Stonehenge, there are indeed photos for the late 1880s, but they don't show in great detail how Stonehenge was like. However, there are interesting depictions of Stonehenge from the 14th century, but dealing with the myths surrounding Merlin and Giants. The most reliable and detailed depiction of Stonehenge before the change of the 1900s is quite the realistic painting drawn with watercolours by Lucas de Heere between 1573 and 1575; there's also a 17th-century depiction of Stonehenge from the Atlas van Loon. Both these evidences show quite a different Stonehenge, and there are clearly stones missing nowadays, especially two little standing stones in the middle. Hope this helps. Be well, and all the best!
Arith I had no idea that 80% of the megalithics in Portugal were destroyed. That is very sad news how much we've all lost. I think I'll use this fact when I speak to people a lot, please could you let me know of proof or a source so that they don't disregard this impressive fact about Western Iberia
Arith - have you ever heard of Julian Cope (was the singer in 'Teardrop Explodes')? He's now an antiquarian. He's done a lot of investigation of the megalithic monuments (including the robbed out ones) in my part of northern England. Real history.
Just curious. Apropos of nothing! See, you would think that history started a mere couple of hundred years ago (at most) in my locale. It did not - it's just that an awful lot of it was repurposed after the enclosure act. Apparently, I'm only a short walk from the destroyed site of a couple of iron age round houses although it's really hard to tell anything is there even with Lidar. I should take a walk up there and try negotiating the field boundaries.
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Thanks Arith.
Great video.
That's too bad about Stonehenge.😢
I was hoping that some day it would be determined that Neanderthals created it and all megalithic structures. 😉
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For sure, how can we be certain of the date in which any of these ancient stone monuments were built and by whom i.e. farmers, wizards etc. The dating methods themselves are very conjectural and items found at these sites can be misleading for instance, if I drop my digital watch whilst visiting stonehenge this would radically alter furture archeologists perception of its date, if we were to lose our knowledge of its creation once again?
❤ beautiful and people want to believe. People want fantasy😂
I mean, hard to blame them. I too like fantasy and want to believe. However, I don't want to be deceived. I want to be a finder, not a seeker. Be well my friend, have a wonderful day 😊
Thank you for the storys of standing stones in Portugal.....
So , We must swallow this ; " Its a Ceremony al..... structure...!....
Why couldnt it be a Shelter....?
I'm devastated about this about Stonehenge, history was the only truth i believed in. Please tell me at least all the stones are original
Yes, the stones there are the original ones. It's just the arrangement and the overall configuration that has been reinvented and interpreted according to the 1900s perspective.
Surprised there's nothing said about a potential Neanderthal impact on these structures
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How are to understand ourselves if the history we were told is just made up? I make up stories all the time in my head about my own families history, and rarely get called out for it, because really, I just don't know. I think humans are willing to destroy an object to understand it, and by destroying it so much is lost, and connections are also lost, and misunderstood.
stonehenge? noooo!
Etymology of the word "Portugal" is “Portus Cale” means “warm port.” Portus Cale evolved into Portugale between the 7th and 9th Century. Ha Ha Ha That's CE not BC
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Oh pleaseeeee the BBC sponsored book about Britains glorious black roots and founding exposed for all the world to see that Stonehenge was built by sub saharans!
Just like Japan. And China. And Egypt. And the native Americans.
Kikg charles was black!
Has no one yet told you that even ZEUS AND THOR were black?
People are not black; that is a misnomer perpetuated to disinherit the brown and copper skin folk from their natural birthrights as original occupiers of many, if not all the lands.
Look into it, you may find a remarkable unfolding of knowledge. ~Peace~
With blue eyes.