Today, there are many unanswered questions surrounding Stonehenge and one of these questions revolves around the purpose of the various the wooden posts that anciently encircle the central stone monoliths.
Why were the “circles” not perfect circles? What were they used for? And why were the wooden posts left to slowly rot and disappear?
In a recent study by Derek Cunningham, it has now been shown that the location for the known wooden posts are consistent with the orbits of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Saturn1. The only orbit that remains to be matched to the layout of the wooden posts at Stonehenge is the orbit of Jupiter.
Below is a short video, which shows how the orbits of the planets overlap with the known locations of the wooden posts. The outer orbit, which corresponds t Saturn, overlaps with the location of the wooden post holes that were uncovered in the 1960s in the old car park to the west of Stonehenge. This is seen in the second video as the small group of round dot at the small crossroad that crosses the main road and leads to the Tumuli.
At the scale drawn by the other planets, if the orbits of the planets were recreated by the positions of the wooden posts, then this argues there is a circle of “missing” wooden posts at about 50 meters from the centre of Stonehenge. It is known that this region of Stonehenge has not been analysed in any prior archaeological study of Stonehenge.
It is thus a reasonable hypothesis that if posts are found at this specific distance and location, this would support the argument I have made in my prior research, which claimed that ancient astronomers understood the structure of the solar system several thousand years in the past, and they had already placed the sun at the centre of the solar system. It would also appear that they also knew that planet Earth was a sphere, with the diameter of the Earth and moon apparent in the Earthwork and diameter of the primary stone circle. I have alos previously argued that there is evidence that supports the theory that these same astronomers had mapped the entire planet. This last theory is related to navigation and the act of bringing the stars down to Earth to correlate the map of the night sky to places on the surface of Earth, see The Map That Talked, and “The Babel Texts“, and recent articles, published in Babel Texts Research Letters2,3.
References
- Derek Cunningham, Stonehenge And The Orbits Of The Planets. Do The Ancient Wood Posts Surrounding Stonehenge Mark The Planets Orbits?, Babel Texts Research Letters, Feb. 25, 2024.
- Derek Cunningham, A Reanalysis Of The Angles Present Within The Babel Text: Does An Increase In The Size Of The Error Bars Change The Analysis? Babel Texts Research Letters, March 17, 2024.
- Derek Cunningham, New Study Reveals Stone Age People Could Read – and were Homo sapiens the first species to learn to write?, Babel Texts Research Letters, February 25, 2024.
- Derek Cunningham A new look at the Babel Text on the Lingjiatan Jade Eagle Part I: Is this the Earliest Written Names of the Planets, Babel Text Research Letters, March 9, 2024.
