Thanks for the tour, Anthony. That art is as inspiring today as it was five thousand years ago it is an abstraction of the masteries creator who is at once everything and nothing unfathomable even to the children of Dagda. And I will not forget.
my husband and I visited Fourknocks over 10 years ago, had to pick up the key from a gentleman down the road. Is he still the keeper of the key? Wonderful place, Ireland is so lucky to have these places. And I'm so happy to have seen so many of them!
So if it was before the introduction of metal, how was the stone split. Any dolmens contemporary with this site or earlier are worked with chisels? Doesn’t make sense?
Some rock is harder than other rock. & Each type breaks differently depending on how it originally formed. Much of it may have been found already naturally split, by the elements - temperature changes affecting it, or etc. To tap out the designs - chevron patterns, concentric circles, spirals... - they could use a much harder stone tool. There's archaeological evidence that they were in use still in the later bronze age & into the iron age, as well, so these were people both connected to the past, their roots & traditions, & evolving technologically. They were trying new tools. They learned to smelt, to extract metal out of rock with fire & to make that fire far hotter by adding oxygen in a controlled way. These sites (Newgrange, etc included) were built by innovative people. The websites on the sites tell of archaeological finds, evidence of tools, & in what era each came from. Plus the known methods & materials in use are in sites about each age, megalithic, neolithic, bronze, iron, for instance, & which evolved worldwide or in diverse cultures around the same time & it's not dry academic reading, lots of it. It's written for laymen, not just in highly scientific technical terms in dusty journals. I've found those too, where I had to look up a refresher course 😂 in grade school earth science's geologic wording. Doing that I found it's written in study guides, tourism articles, ancient art websites, & social studies pages, so we can choose our flavor & depth of info. I don't know of any tools found in these but some from the time have been found. It wasn't the antler digging tools chipping stone patterns so it'd have to be rock, early on. & They've found rocks used for that in multiple places across Europe. People keep saying they didn't have the wheel. It didn't look like a wheel, & it went under something, to roll as heavy things were dragged across it - a series of trimmed logs functions the same, & then was refined to function much better & the axle invented. But they could move heavy stones. A bunch of history buffs tried it in the UK about a decade ago on tv. It made a world of difference, over other methods. People then did everything by hand. They were stronger. They lived surrounded by natural materials & knew the difference between types of them, how this stone compared to that, ditto wood, or plants eaten or made tea from, & had medicine better than later, medieval, people who'd decided that was witchy & suspect but leeches were fine. Knowledge does get lost. Most people now can't identify Cygnus & many can't recognize & name any constellation. They lived closer to the sky & earth, more familiar with the properties of things, bc they didn't have store bought anything. They had raw materials they lived among. & They things about them we don't by simply being in contact. In the grand scheme of time not that much later one of their "kids" discovered metal in rock, by using rock as a tool, & figured out from total scratch, how to separate it, refine it, shape it - soften it, harden it, smooth it, make it shine, bc it doesn't just do so when it's been in the forge or getting pounded on or quenched in water to re-harden. No one taught that first guy. He started with a rock. And so I think it's possible they were smarter than most of us. Holding a rock, how do you figure out a fire hotter than a usual one will melt it? Lightning doesn't do it. Someone did discover glass that way, on a beach, melted sand. But rock? & Is that how? Sand is eroded rock... Wow, though. They had mad skills & insights into natural materials & the elements. They didn't use more than they needed, either. I think we hear they were primitive bc someone else was more posh in tastes than nature savvy, lol, & spread an inaccurate assumption. Those rocks might not be smoother, straighter, "perfectly" shaped bc they preferred the natural aesthetic & shape, with a bit of decor added, sure. It doesn't necessarily mean they were primitive bc what they did accomplish we can't, with what they had! We have not figured out how they did much of what they did. We got spoiled. We have cranes. That's innovation too but in it we lost other knowledge once commonly known. Some of the carving may have been done later with metal, but a complex society built this hollow cairn with astronomical wisdom. Intelligence was definitely a major tool used.
Yes indeed. The couple who keep the key are quite elderly and there's no point putting them at risk. I assume that's the reason it's not available at the moment.
@@mythicalireland I didn't fret.. enjoyed the magnificent views, came home and got a better tour than I could have offered myself on youtube. I didn't get to feel it though! I realise that remains were found there but I can envisage sacred icons in those alcoves or perhaps a trinity of males or female or perhaps a mix meditating or enducing chemically altered states of consciousness. Mind you... I don't think people needed help to communicate with their natural environment back then. There is something psychedelic about the waves though. My gut tells me they are sound related like geometric shapes you see on vibrating speakers - cymatics. who knows? We won't either! it feels silly trying to fill in the gap of hypotheses with a hypothesis! The beat goes on!
These Ancient sites are Tuatha De Danann: see the Classic book titled, "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries," by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, pub. 1911 see 1981 reprint. I disagree with the outside historical note on Fournocks, shown near the end of this video: the artwork on the stones, is not "abstract," nay, it is Ancient-esoteric-symbolism whose truthful meaning is still an 'unknown' pertaining to any certainty to said artwork's deciphered meaning.
I wish people would stop referring to these magnificent structures as passage "tombs", as if a mausoleum was their sole purpose! Human remains found at this and other sites were placed there later as an adjunct to the original purpose, that probably being astronomical calendars.
initiation chamber, to teach. Physics and metaphysics teach balance, rhythm, flow, focus, purity. A wave be it compounded hydrogen or electromagnetic is the same different rate (qantity, body) of the same quality, spirit. Male female, ying yang, force energy, decelerates, accelerates, hot cold, sound silence, attribute principal, illumination light, Unreal Real, Body Spirit, Centrifugal Centripetal, Expansion contraction, magnetism dielectricity, discharge, charge, consciousness mind, Will Rest, out in, create destroy, birth death, day night, awake asleep, Life Trance--endence.
Thank you so much for this! And with the info panel to boot!! This is wonderful, thanks again! 🤓😄
I never knew Ireland was so thick with Megalithic archeology. Thanks Anthony!
Brings Tears 😭 to my Eyes so so Magnificent
My family was from Ireland 🇮🇪 from Galway
Thank you for your posts Anthony...much appreciated...cheers.
1954Gerri Thanks indeed.
Thank you so much!!! Beyond fascinating. Thank you for the care in showing the details.
Thanks for the tour, Anthony. That art is as inspiring today as it was five thousand years ago it is an abstraction of the masteries creator who is at once everything and nothing unfathomable even to the children of Dagda. And I will not forget.
Wow 😮 so Amazing 😉....Thank You for showing this totally Epic
Thanks Mary.
Thanks so much, Mr. Murphy. I'd love to visit someday.
Love the Spirals
I so enjoy your Videos ✌️
Anthony
The diagram of the structure you showed at the end is the same shape as cygnus constellation!
my husband and I visited Fourknocks over 10 years ago, had to pick up the key from a gentleman down the road. Is he still the keeper of the key? Wonderful place, Ireland is so lucky to have these places. And I'm so happy to have seen so many of them!
Thank you!
Fascinating stuff. 👍
Thank You 🙏
Magnificent so Beautiful 😍
The Energies must feel Ancient
What energies?
Wow 😮 it is big inside
So if it was before the introduction of metal, how was the stone split. Any dolmens contemporary with this site or earlier are worked with chisels? Doesn’t make sense?
Some rock is harder than other rock. & Each type breaks differently depending on how it originally formed. Much of it may have been found already naturally split, by the elements - temperature changes affecting it, or etc. To tap out the designs - chevron patterns, concentric circles, spirals... - they could use a much harder stone tool. There's archaeological evidence that they were in use still in the later bronze age & into the iron age, as well, so these were people both connected to the past, their roots & traditions, & evolving technologically. They were trying new tools. They learned to smelt, to extract metal out of rock with fire & to make that fire far hotter by adding oxygen in a controlled way. These sites (Newgrange, etc included) were built by innovative people. The websites on the sites tell of archaeological finds, evidence of tools, & in what era each came from. Plus the known methods & materials in use are in sites about each age, megalithic, neolithic, bronze, iron, for instance, & which evolved worldwide or in diverse cultures around the same time & it's not dry academic reading, lots of it. It's written for laymen, not just in highly scientific technical terms in dusty journals. I've found those too, where I had to look up a refresher course 😂 in grade school earth science's geologic wording. Doing that I found it's written in study guides, tourism articles, ancient art websites, & social studies pages, so we can choose our flavor & depth of info. I don't know of any tools found in these but some from the time have been found. It wasn't the antler digging tools chipping stone patterns so it'd have to be rock, early on. & They've found rocks used for that in multiple places across Europe. People keep saying they didn't have the wheel. It didn't look like a wheel, & it went under something, to roll as heavy things were dragged across it - a series of trimmed logs functions the same, & then was refined to function much better & the axle invented. But they could move heavy stones. A bunch of history buffs tried it in the UK about a decade ago on tv. It made a world of difference, over other methods. People then did everything by hand. They were stronger. They lived surrounded by natural materials & knew the difference between types of them, how this stone compared to that, ditto wood, or plants eaten or made tea from, & had medicine better than later, medieval, people who'd decided that was witchy & suspect but leeches were fine. Knowledge does get lost. Most people now can't identify Cygnus & many can't recognize & name any constellation. They lived closer to the sky & earth, more familiar with the properties of things, bc they didn't have store bought anything. They had raw materials they lived among. & They things about them we don't by simply being in contact. In the grand scheme of time not that much later one of their "kids" discovered metal in rock, by using rock as a tool, & figured out from total scratch, how to separate it, refine it, shape it - soften it, harden it, smooth it, make it shine, bc it doesn't just do so when it's been in the forge or getting pounded on or quenched in water to re-harden. No one taught that first guy. He started with a rock. And so I think it's possible they were smarter than most of us. Holding a rock, how do you figure out a fire hotter than a usual one will melt it? Lightning doesn't do it. Someone did discover glass that way, on a beach, melted sand. But rock? & Is that how? Sand is eroded rock... Wow, though. They had mad skills & insights into natural materials & the elements. They didn't use more than they needed, either. I think we hear they were primitive bc someone else was more posh in tastes than nature savvy, lol, & spread an inaccurate assumption. Those rocks might not be smoother, straighter, "perfectly" shaped bc they preferred the natural aesthetic & shape, with a bit of decor added, sure. It doesn't necessarily mean they were primitive bc what they did accomplish we can't, with what they had! We have not figured out how they did much of what they did. We got spoiled. We have cranes. That's innovation too but in it we lost other knowledge once commonly known. Some of the carving may have been done later with metal, but a complex society built this hollow cairn with astronomical wisdom. Intelligence was definitely a major tool used.
Sign to collect key is down. I'm assuming due to covid. ☹
Yes indeed. The couple who keep the key are quite elderly and there's no point putting them at risk. I assume that's the reason it's not available at the moment.
@@mythicalireland I didn't fret.. enjoyed the magnificent views, came home and got a better tour than I could have offered myself on youtube. I didn't get to feel it though!
I realise that remains were found there but I can envisage sacred icons in those alcoves or perhaps a trinity of males or female or perhaps a mix meditating or enducing chemically altered states of consciousness.
Mind you... I don't think people needed help to communicate with their natural environment back then. There is something psychedelic about the waves though. My gut tells me they are sound related like geometric shapes you see on vibrating speakers - cymatics.
who knows? We won't either! it feels silly trying to fill in the gap of hypotheses with a hypothesis! The beat goes on!
These Ancient sites are Tuatha De Danann: see the Classic book titled, "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries," by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, pub. 1911 see 1981 reprint. I disagree with the outside historical note on Fournocks, shown near the end of this video: the artwork on the stones, is not "abstract," nay, it is Ancient-esoteric-symbolism whose truthful meaning is still an 'unknown' pertaining to any certainty to said artwork's deciphered meaning.
I wish people would stop referring to these magnificent structures as passage "tombs", as if a mausoleum was their sole purpose!
Human remains found at this and other sites were placed there later as an adjunct to the original purpose, that probably being astronomical calendars.
Wowzer does look like a owl 🦉
Community burials seems okay..!i
initiation chamber, to teach. Physics and metaphysics teach balance, rhythm, flow, focus, purity. A wave be it compounded hydrogen or electromagnetic is the same different rate (qantity, body) of the same quality, spirit.
Male female, ying yang, force energy, decelerates, accelerates, hot cold, sound silence, attribute principal, illumination light, Unreal Real, Body Spirit, Centrifugal Centripetal, Expansion contraction, magnetism dielectricity, discharge, charge, consciousness mind, Will Rest, out in, create destroy, birth death, day night, awake asleep, Life Trance--endence.