STONEHENGE

STONEHENGE

Way out in the middle of a place called nowhere, our tour bus stopped in the only place for miles where other tour buses and automobiles were congregating. Out there in the pasture where, nearby, grazing sheep and cattle moved about, paying no never mind to scores of tourists looking towards a pile of rocks, the only thing standing taller than the cable fence that circled the strange rocks. I seriously doubt the steel cable could successfully contain the huge rocks if they really wanted out!

Hundreds of tourists walk around the great pile of rocks like Indians circling the wagon train. Debby and I moved right in there along side them hoping to catch a glimpse of something heart stopping. Apparently, it must have happened earlier today, as we saw nothing.

Stonehenge, apparently, predates God. No one knows much about it unless they make it up. Huge rectangular stones have been stood on end and others have been placed across the top of them. There is a ditch which circles Stonehenge. In it they have discovered broken pieces of deer antlers in and around the ditch. Carbon dating techniques indicate these antlers are quite old! Traces of Gopher Wood have caused some to believe they may have been on some sort of ship or something! Brits believe early stone age residents used antlers to scrape and dig the ditch. I believe it's just as possible that prehistoric deer dug the ditch themselves and used their own antlers.

As some of these stones are quite massive, how they were moved into place is more of a mystery than the rocks themselves. It is believed the huge rocks were brought over from Wales on barges and floated upriver about 30 miles away. One of the rocks is as large as seven full grown elephants! Now that's BIG! One can only speculate how spear chuckers ever figured out how to lift a 5 ton rock 25 feet into the air! But a bigger question is on the menu: WHY? Why did they stack some of the rocks and arrange others in a circle?

I have a few theories:

1. One theory is that they had no other place to put them.
2. Could be that early ancestors of Ami Vensel happened by and felt compelled to arrange them.
3. They were the original weather rocks where early Stoners could predict the day's weather. If the rock is wet, it's raining. If its white, it's snowing. If its only wet on one side, it's windy. If you can't see the rock, it's dark.
4. There is the Alien theory that a huge Spaceship landed in this flat area and upon leaving, small pieces of stone and gravel imbedded in the huge landing gear, came loose and were left behind.
4. Another ill conceived theory is that these early builders knew that I would be visiting this very site to see the sheep and cattle 7,000 years later and erected this as a birthday gift for me.

As today really is my birthday. I believe the latter is the most probable!