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Theory of creation of Silbury Mound phase1 and phase 2
a golden horse. In the year 1663 Antiquarian and writer John
Aubrey was on the way to show the Avebury Stone Circle to King
Charles II when they spotted the Silbury Hill and they were told
of the local legend.
The other legend narrates that the Devil was going to empty a
big sack of earth on the nearby town of Marlborough and he was
forced to drop it here by the magic of the Priests!
As per Antiquarian William Stukeley during excavation in 1723,
a skeleton and an ancient bridle had been unearthed from the
top of the hill! Could it be linked to King Sil, I wondered.
Further evidence from Atkinson’s excavations suggested that
the construction of the Silbury hill structure commenced in
August which coincided with the ancient Celt Harvesting Festival.
book at a Village shop that illuminated another perspective
of the Silbury hill. The author of bestseller ‘Avebury Cycle’ has
suggested that the Silbury Hill is a symbolic effigy of ancient
Mother Goddess and is related to fertility rituals. Also, the name
of the River Kennet that flows near the hill is said to be derived
from River Cunnit taken from the word Cunt!
Anon we also saw few sculptures of Silbury Goddess Avebury
at the Village shop. An outline drawing was attached to one of
them that said it to be the Neolithic figure of sitting Goddess
with the Silbury Mound as its womb, giving birth to all. This was
associated with Michael Dames book. Additionally interesting
was the next sculpture whose caption read that the name of
Phase 3 and 4 of creation of the mysterious ancient Chalk Silbury Mound
The Carbon Dating of vast deposits of plants and insects-remains
pointed towards this too. In the New- Stone - Age agriculture
was widespread and at that time a monument like Silbury Hill
was created to be used for this August Harvesting Festival.
Another explanation for establishing the Silbury Mound is that
it might have served as a precise Solar Observatory by means of
shadows cast by the Mound itself on the level ground below.
I had earlier read that the Meridian Line from Silbury-Hill runs
through Avebury Stone Circles, Avebury Church that in turn
stands on a Ley line to the famous Stonehenge! Ley lines are
mystical alignments of man -made ancient sites or Holy places in
a straight line ranging from 1, 2 to several miles in a landscape.
Keeping in view the many British legends of Dragon slaying
centers, Silbury was one of them and the ancient Celtic Druids
ascertained this with a Geomancer’s Compass!
MICHAEL DAMES THEORY
Later we spotted unusual sculptures and the 1996 Michael Dames
River Kennet is allied with the Indian word- Cunti or Kunda which
means the Yoni of the Goddess that gives birth to all!
Contradictory to this the famous Druid Ross Nichols believes
that the ancient monument of West Kennet Long Barrow
symbolizes Mother Goddess and the Silbury Hill on the other
side symbolizes the masculinity!!
RECENT PAST
We read that finally the Tunnels were backfilled with Chalk
and the Hill has been conserved by the English heritage since
2007-8. Visitors are restricted to viewing it from a distance and
to safeguard the Chalk hill, climbing is not permitted.
After a while we drove from the mysterious Silbury Hill,
towards the nearby Avebury Stone circle – to try to unearth
the secrets of this Neolithic age structure, all a part of large
prehistoric landscape.
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November 16-30, 2016 The Dayafter
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