Stone Circles Reconstructed

The Ancient Solar Premise (ASP) explains the simple principle under which all of the solar buildings of antiquity have been reviewed. The stone circles of Europe form a part of the Grand Ancient Solar Premise (GASP). They provide the temporal depth and geographic spread away from the more recent examples of the tropics. This page is simply an outline of the evidence and principles explored in detail within the Secrets of the Sun Sects. It transpires that the ancient Britons amongst others were early proponents of solar technology.

Stone Circle Buildings

There are some controversial elements to the application of the ancient solar premise to stone circles. The most controversial seems to be that Stonehenge had a roof. This is bizarre. What is the difference between a roundhouse, a Woodhenge and Stonehenge? Just bigger and better buildings as far as I can tell. Clearly Stonehenge is the remaining foundations of an incredibly ancient circular palace or fort. It still served this purpose at the time of the roman invasion.

Reconstructed Stone Circle with reflective doors and roof

The Solar Function

At the center of the solar stone circle, there was a large dark obelisk that supported the roof. This also absorbed and stored the sunlight. Who is going to say dark stones do not get hot in the sun? The simplest stone circles (roundhouses, woodcircles, yurts) can work like south facing bay windows, allowing light in and  absorbing it in the stone, floor and walls. This confers on the builder a domestic warming factor that is still useful in reducing fuel bills by 40% today. In ancient times this could be the difference between traveling miles to a wood and meeting enemies or animals along the way.

Whilst this is useful, it is the most controversial aspect of the ASP as it applies to stone circles that shows truly sophisticated use of sunlight. According to some ancient writers, there were circular stone palaces that were covered in reflective metals and allowed the monarch ”to sit in the central chamber warmed without fire, whilst snow lay on the ground”. If Levy’s accounts are to be believed, there were still wooden doors/barricades on the outside of Stonehenge, thousands of years after it’s original function had been displaced. These doors were similar in form and function to the brass/gold/silver covered doors that graced the sanctuaries of Asia. Each slit between the outer circle standing stones had a pair of large reflective doors that directed sunlight into the great chamber.

The Divine Dance of the Sun

To use a stone circle the doors had to be attended and opened when the sun was in front of them. The single stone pillar versions could only use three or five doors at the same time, for geometric reasons. The most exquisite forms like Stonehenge could utilize seven pairs. When seven pairs of doors were opened at the same time a dark stone from the inner circle warmed. As the sun moved around the most easterly door pair were closed and the next westerly pair were opened, this started to warm the next pillar in the inner ring. Any light that missed the inner ring of pillars would strike the central pillar and the whole palace warmed in the cold of winter. In summer, there were crops dried, meats cooked and waters boiled like the Asiatic devices.

Schematic of solar arrangement of stones and reflectors

There are further elements to the neolithic exposition of the solar concept including double stone absorbers, oval structures, amazing metal floors, natural night lighting, water collection, secondary circle absorbers etc. Each really deserves an article in its own right, particularly the source materials and comparisons. The complete model makes the constructors of the stone circles much more than stone lugging, sun worshiping fools the Roman historians would have us believe. There is a fundamental role in the inception of the great cultures of near antiquity to consider, but that is a long story.

This is a poor summary of the stone circles as described in the The Ancient Solar Premise and it will not sit well with those interested in the ceremonial/ethereal functions that followed. However for those who wish to build working versions of the structures, it should be enough. It is guaranteed that if models are built according to this scheme or the detailed plans in the book, there will be no doubt. A few people have questioned the premise, one Swede even had a stone circle in his back garden, not one of them would pick up the center stone of the working scale models.