Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, by William Stukeley, [1740], at sacred-texts.com
STonehenge the latest of the Druid temples, | |
Older than the time of the Saxons and Danes, | |
Older than the time of the Roman Britons, | |
Older than the time of the Belgæ, who preceded the Roman invasion, | |
The history of the Belgæ seated about Stonehenge, in Cæsar's time, | |
Our Welsh the remains of the Belgæ, | |
The Cimbrians the same, | |
Of the Wansdike: made by Divitiacus, | |
Of Vespasian's camp Ambresbury, | |
The stones of Stonehenge are from the gray weathers on Marlborough downs, | |
Of their nature, magnitude, weight, | |
Of their number, | |
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Mr. Webb's drawings of Stonehenge false, | |
Absurd to compare the work to Roman or Grecian orders, | |
The cell not formd from three equilateral triangles, | |
But one entrance into the area, | |
He makes one side of the cell out of a bit of a loose stone, | |
He has turnd the cell a sixth part from its true situation, | |
The cell not a hexagon, but an oval, | |
Demonstrated by Lord Pembroke's measure, | |
Demonstrated by trigonometry, | |
Proved by the surgeons amphitheater, London, being an imitation thereof | |
Stonehenge not made by the Roman foot, | |
Webb makes the inner circle, of thirty stones, instead of forty, | |
He contracts 119 feet to 43, | |
He draws a stone on the vallum 120 foot out of its true place, | |
Stonehenge not a monument, | |
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The Druids came with an oriental colony, upon the first Celtic inhabitants, | |
Introducd here by the Tyrian Hercules, | |
The colony were Phnicians or Arabians, | |
They found out our tin mines, | |
The Druids came bitter about Abraham's time or soon after, | |
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They were of the patriarchal religion, | |
Which was the same as christianity, | |
Stonehenge provd the work of the Druids from the infinite number of the like, all over the Britannic isles, | |
Farther suggestions: because accounted sacred, made by magic, medicinal, came from Ireland, Spain, Afric, Egypt. In some places the name of Druids remaining, | |
From the antiquities dug up about them, | |
Schetland isles the Hyperboreans of the Greeks, thence Abaris the Pythagorean philosopher, | |
Stonehenge not built by the Saxons, deduced from its name, | |
Demonstrated to be older than Roman times, | |
Such in countries never conquered by the Romans, | |
Stonehenge and such works built by the Phnician colony, | |
The cathedral of the Arch-Druid, | |
Called antiently the Ambres, | |
Thence Vespasian's camp, and Ambresbury namd, | |
Stonehenge calld choir gaur: the great church or cathedral, | |
Made with mortaise and tenon, unusual with the Romans, | |
Made by the ancient Hebrew, Phnician cubit, | |
Its proportion to our foot, | |
The ancient decem-pedum, | |
The Druids were geometricians, | |
Knew the use of the compass, | |
They carried a little ax to cut down misletoe, | |
The Druids letter, | |
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The patriarchal temples were open, | |
Moses's tabernacle the first coverd temple, | |
Patriarchal temples, | |
Of rude stones, unchizeld, | |
The kebla, | |
Had no statues, | |
Patriarchal altars, | |
Their temples fronted the east, | |
Their temples were consecrated and endowed, | |
Paying tythe, | |
Bowing, a part of worship, | |
They officiated barefooted, | |
They practised chastity, before officiating, |
ibid. |
The priests wore white linen surplices at the time of officiating, | |
Their publick demotion was calld praying, or invoking, in the NAME, | |
They believd a future state, | |
They gave notice of religious festivals by fire, | |
Those were the quarterly sacrifices, |
ibid. |
The manner of sacrificing, | |
They usd water for purification, | |
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Of the water vases at Stonehenge, | |
The stone table there, | |
Of the stones and cavities on the vallum, | |
Crwm-lechen, bowing stones, | |
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Human sacrifices, |
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Heathen imitations of the Jews, | |
Main Ambres, rocking stones, gygonia, petræ ambrosiæ, Bæthylia, | |
Ambrosia what? | |
Horned, anointed, analogous to sacred, consecrated, | |
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The time when Hercules lived, | |
Hercules built patriarchal temples, where-ever he came, | |
Probably he made the Main Ambre by Pensans, and Biscawoon, | |
Persepolis a patriarchal temple, | |
Of the avenue of Stonehenge, | |
Of its two wings, | |
Eastern wing, its variation, | |
Of the Hippodrom or Cursus, | |
Its variation, | |
The Romans borrowed the British chariots, | |
The eastern meta, its variation, | |
Other like works, in other parts of England, | |
The via Iceniana, | |
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Of the barrows or sepulchral tumuli, | |
Druid barrows, | |
Arch-Druids barrows, | |
Urn burial, | |
The bodies lay north and south, | |
Beads of amber, glass, gold, &c. found, |
ibid. |
Horses, dogs, and other animals buried with them, | |
Carvilius's tomb, | |
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The magnetical compass known to Hercules, the Phnicians and Arabians, | |
The oracle of Jupiter Ammon had a compass, | |
The golden fleece was a compass, | |
How the compass was forgot, | |
Apher grandson of Abraham, companion of Hercules, from Arabia, | |
He gave name to Africa and to Britain, | |
A scheme of the variation of the compass, | |
A conjecture therefrom, when Stonehenge was founded, |
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