Stone Henge Rediscovered (Again)

Archaeologists claim to have found where the stones from Stone Henge were quarried. They believe they found the quarry in Wales and that the stones were pulled out of the ground in 3200 BCE, some 500 years before they were actually set up at Stone Henge, 2900 BCE, where they are now.

One theory is that the stones were pulled from the ground, set up and then later dissembled and hauled several hundred miles to their final site. This is possible I suppose, but in a climate of everyone babbling about cultural appropriation it seems a bit too in sync to me. A theory posed for a previous time using our own mores and beliefs.

Another theory is that they took 500 years to drag them as far as they did. In a prehistoric society I think asking for 500 years continuity is a bit much.

The first I can buy, the second seems far fetched.

UFO Files

More sightings reported over at MUFON.

“I was so scared. I thought it would come close to my car. This is something I will never forget. It kept going side-to-side looking and this went on for 20 or 30 seconds and then it just turned off the light and zoomed away straight forward as fast as it could.

From a  sighting in Texas

Once can never tell. It could be a drone flying about or it could be a probe looking for something or someone.

Movie Trailer ~ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2

Armor Up

The Dragon

Now this puts some fire in the belly! I love pictures like this. The scale is awesome, the breath is a gout of fire and the heat of it lies in the expanded throat....just enough real with just enough fantasy!

Fantastic!

Lothrean

Word of the Day -- Oubliette

A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette is a form of dungeon which is accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling.

An oubliette (from the French oubliette, literally "forgotten place") was a form of dungeon which was accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling. The word comes from the same root as the French oublier, "to forget", as it was used for those prisoners the captors wished to forget.

The earliest use of oubliette in French dates back to 1374, but its earliest adoption in English is Walter Scott's Ivanhoe in 1819: "The place was utterly dark—the oubliette, as I suppose, of their accursed convent."

Daily Cosplay

Tavern Tales

As the stranger picked up the mutton, he tapped his forehead, just above his eye. “What happened here?”

Erik looked at him for a moment, lost, then realized he was asking about his missing eye.

Firdon interjected, “The boy was fishing on a willow’s knee and the willow-sprite up and plucked out his eye! ‘Taxes!’ it said. ‘You must pay old man willow his just desert.’” Firdon burst out laughing. He laughed from deep in his belly and though he smelled as only men can smell, hard and stout, the laughter was warm enough and infectious.

Erik handed him the boot beer. “Aye it was willow-sprite you old stump.” Smiling he turned back to the stranger, “I wish it were a willow-sprite. At least the willows sing you to sleep. But it wasn’t no willow nor willow sprite. It was a witch from the Bottoms as took my eye.”

“A witch you say.” The stranger leaned back a little as he ate and perked up some. A few others turned around to listen.

“Aye, it was a few years back . . . .

Excerpt from "A Night at the Cockleburr", Tales of Two Worlds

Be Wary of a Good Bowman

I really enjoyed this movie and I really enjoyed this scene, Brad Pitt outdoes himself.

Thus the Wall of Worlds was Breached

You've probably heard the news, Voyager 1 has broken through that narrow belt where our own solar wind collides with the interstellar winds.

At its edges, the solar wind piles up into the "interstellar wind," a cloud of cooler charged particles that suffuse the thin vacuum of space between stars. Since 2004, Voyager 1 had been traveling within the boundary region between the solar wind and the interstellar wind, which is the cooked-off debris of thousands of exploded stars in our Milky Way galaxy. ~ National Geogrphic

Thus we have broken the Wall of Worlds and entered the Great Empty, the Void, the All Father's Forge. We have shed our mortal coil.

May we find Iul, the First Wind and ride it till the Gonfod should take us!

True Giants