Lady in Waiting: wyjaśnienie Zespole Avebury
4,500 years ago at what is now known as Avebury in Wiltshire, Neolithic man erected a vast stone circle (the Great Circle) many times larger than the more publicised Stonehenge twenty miles to the south. Surrounding the outside of these 100 or so sarsen stones is a huge partly silted-up ditch some thirty feet deep thus classifying it today as a henge site. So big was the circle that much of the modern-day village of Avebury lays within its circumference of four-fifths of a mile. To say it is only impressive is to underestimate its grandeur.
Joined to the Great Circle were two double rows of standing stones known today as the West Kennet and Beckhampton Avenues. The West Kennet Avenue was nearly one and half miles in length but the now all but missing Beckhampton Avenue's termination point is presently unknown although believed to have been similar in length.
At the farthest end of the West Kennet Avenue and connected to it, is the site of a now destroyed set of stone and timber circles known as the Sanctuary and this lies on Overton Hill alongside the oldest and longest track-way in the British Isles – the Ridgeway Path.
Three quarters of a mile to the south of the Great Circle was built the enigmatic Silbury Hill, the largest man-made hill in Europe with a huge surrounding 20ft deep ditch now mainly silted up. Covering a ground area of five and a half acres it is 130ft high with some estimates claiming it took some 18 million man hours to build using nothing more than antler picks and the shoulder blades of Oxen and wooden tools. Running north to south from Avebury is the Avebury Winterbourne stream which merges with the River Kennet to the south of Silbury Hill.
Also just below Silbury Hill lie the Swallowhead Springs where the main River Kennet rises. A quarter of a mile further south on the top of rising ground is the West Kennet Long Barrow, a chambered Early Neolithic chambered burial tomb believed to have been in use some 1,000 years prior to the construction of the other megaliths in the area.
These combined man-made structures are known collectively as the Avebury Complex and it has been classified as a World Heritage Site such is its importance. However, even after many excavations have taken place at the Great Circle, the Avenues, the Sanctuary and Silbury Hill, no practical or tangible theories or understanding of why they were built and what they were used for on completion has been put forward – until now that is! They had remained as much a mystery as when the first known official excavation began back in the 17 th century.
After some 30 years investigating the Complex, stone circle researcher Roy Goutté has reached some amazing conclusions that he says will change our understanding of Neolithic man in Great Britain and their beliefs for ever if correct. No longer will the Great Circle at Avebury, or Stonehenge for that matter, be seen as 'stand alone' structures, but part of huge complexes. It is by reaching this understanding that we can now begin to decipher their true meaning.
Working systematically through eight individual man-made or natural parts of the Avebury Complex as he sees it, he has now intrinsically linked them to show that they were all interconnected to form a huge hitherto unrecognised Female Earth Figure laid out over hundreds of acres of the Wiltshire countryside and has written a book on his discoveries. The Work is titled 'A Lady In Waiting' and clearly shows that this figure was designed and built in the Late Neolithic period. Roy Goutté firmly believes it was built with one aim in mind… to lead the Souls of the Dead into their Afterlife and his book guides the reader through the various stages of the Neolithic transition from this world into the next!
Contemporary with the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the Egyptian belief in the Afterlife, Roy Goutté has been able to show that it wasn't just the hierarchy of its time that benefitted from the promise of an Afterlife at Avebury, but everybody, for he believes that the Earth Figure was built by the people, for the people . How it functioned and how it all worked in the mindset of Neolithic man is clearly shown by the intricate layout of the figure and how it used the natural waterways which ran through the figure's body to bring it 'alive' to them by representing its Lifeblood.
Swallowhead Springs była reprezentacja kanał rodny z Nowego Życia wyłaniającej się z łona, która była sama w sobie reprezentuje Silbury Hill z jej woda wypełnia rów symbolicznie reprezentuje "wody po różnych nienarodzonego Ducha w oczekiwaniu na jego pojawienie się w życiu pozagrobowym. W Alei kamienne ramiona rysunku oraz Sanktuarium na zakończenie West Kennet Avenue Gathering rąk wzdłuż ścieżki Ridgeway gdzie cmentarzysko, dom przedpogrzebowy i wysychanie platformy znajdowały się i skąd podróż Afterlife zaczęło. Ścieżka Ridgeway była droga, która doprowadziła bezpośrednio do Sanktuarium i byłby świadkiem wiele smutku jak martwe lub umierają ludzie przeprowadzono lub podszedł do ich ostatniego ziemskiego miejsca spoczynku przed rozpoczęciem ich podróż w zaświaty.
Wielki Krąg był oczywiście szef rysunku i dwóch mniejszych kamiennych kręgów w nim oczy. Miał usta które otoczona Sacred Dobrze, że jest odczuwalne także obecnie.
W sumie jest to zdumiewające odkrycie i rzeczywisty układ z rysunku pokazano wszystkie istotne elementy dość wyraźnie widać na mapie przesadzony w książce lub na Lady In Waiting stronie internetowej wraz z ponad 50 fotografii tych części składowych. W sumie książka jest innowacyjny i przełomowy, a co ważniejsze, bardzo prawdopodobne, jeśli jedna powraca do myślenia nie widziano od czasów neolitu.
Roy Goutte kończy swoją książkę słowami: -
"Prawie wszystko, co powinno być tam nadal jest - tylko rzeczy naprawdę brakuje są ludzie i ich przekonania już.
I ma rację i jestem pewien, że po przeczytaniu tej książki można też będzie pomyśleć ponownie o prawdziwym znaczeniu Zespole Avebury.
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O autorze
Roy Goutte urodził się na wyspie Jersey Channel, ale obecnie mieszka w Kornwalii na skraju Bodmin Moor z żoną i dwoma synami.
His interest in the past began as a child when growing up in the south-east of the island where many of his early boyhood days were spent playing around such important sites as the passage graves at La Hougue Bie in the parish of Grouville; La Pouquelaye de Faldouet in the parish of St Martin; Mont Ubé at St Clement and the gallery grave Le Dolmen du Couperon at St Martin. At the time they were just places to have fun in on days out, but as he matured he began to take more interest in them for what they really were and not just as playgrounds.
After leaving Jersey he became a regular visitor to Stonehenge and Avebury as his interest had moved to mainly investigating stone circles. Access to Stonehenge then became so limited that he felt it restricted his investigations there, so he concentrated solely on Avebury. He had been working on a theory that both Stonehenge and Avebury were not 'stand-alone' sites like many thought, but part of huge complexes, so this gave him good reason to investigate Avebury fully and without distraction.
Working alone, his dedicated research into the Avebury Complex has resulted in this – A Lady In Waiting - his first archaeological style book investigating an ancient wonder that has captured the imagination of people since the days of such notable antiquaries as John Aubrey in the 17 th century and William Stukeley in the 18th.
Roy Goutté is also the author of eight previously published books in the Principal Lines series on the bloodlines of the Border Collie in various disciplines – and an Obedience dog training book – Get It Right .
Istnieje wiele miejsc w Wielkiej Brytanii, gdzie można odpocząć od życia. Każda część kraju ma uzdrowiska i hotele rustykalnym, ale jeśli chcesz czegoś więcej z podróży możesz wybrać rekolekcje. Istnieje właściwości prowadzonych przez wiele różnych grup religijnych i zgodnie z różnymi systemami wierzeń, a większość z nich jest otwarta dla zwiedzających od jakiejkolwiek wiary. Oto wybór z całej Wielkiej Brytanii. 
