Our daughter took my wife and I on vacation to Ireland from the US back in May. We planned it for a year. The one place my daughter and I agreed that we had to visit was Brú na Bóinne. I bought all 4 of us that went a year of OPA membership. Not only did it cover the admission to Knowth and New Grange (that alone is worth the price) but any other sites we visited in Dublin. On our trip we also went to the National Botanic gardens Kilmacurragh and many other places. Unfortunately, the vacation was only for 1 week. I think it would take more than 1lifetime to see all I wanted to see in Ireland.
I visited Ireland and it was beautiful--I guess my adopted father thought I should see where most of my heritage came from. I remember it as a very lovely place. I'd love to visit the holy places, like Tara and Newgrange...maybe one day.
I'm irish and worked in Navan fir a few months. There's something magical about the countryside there. Not rugged like the west of Ireland.....just beautiful in its own way
I was at the Hill of Tara a few weeks ago. I had to drive through Navan to get to it. Navan seems relatively normal, but I didn't stop. The Hill of Tara is covered in dogshit, west-brits, and disappointed foreign tourists. I'd rather be under a tree west of the Shannon in a hurricane that go there ever again.
10:17 ... ' time of whom? The time of the Roman imposition of some character appropriated from Jewish folklore and mythology...? - Christianity destroyed the authentic cultural heritage of these people and replaced it all with some anachronistic and rather irrelevant imported religion from the Levant, with "Moses" and "Abraham" and "Jahweh"...
The sun rises from the underworld, emerging from the darkest part of the year, ever vibrant with life, carrying with its rays the souls of the dead, of the glorious ancestors and casts upon the stone and bones that ancient vitality. And in this way, again, do our ancestors commune with and speak to us. It is a moment of returning, of rebirth, and a promise that the cycle will process ever on. If only we'd still remember.
Absolutely wonderful! The narrator's lovely Irish brogue lends such authenticity; clearly a highly intelligent, cultured woman. Amazing how New Grange has survived intact. Robin Witting
Ah how times have changed. It wasn't long ago (and still true in some places) that an Irish accent was not a mark of "highly intelligent, cultured" people as you say, but quite the opposite. :) Here's a great description of the Irish from days past: "They use their fields mostly for pasture. Little is cultivated and even less is sown. The problem here is not the quality of the soil but rather the lack of industry on the part of those who should cultivate it. This laziness means that the different types of minerals with which hidden veins of the earth are full are neither mined nor exploited in any way. They do not devote themselves to the manufacture of flax or wool, nor to the practice of any mechanical or mercantile act. Dedicated only to leisure and laziness, this is a truly barbarous people. They depend on animals for their livelihood and they live like animals".
@@user-wr4uz8pg7m yes, we were portraid in many ways and that served only those that wanted to justify taking what was not theirs.. its still not theirs, yet they're still here..for now.
@@user-wr4uz8pg7m oh yes, when we came to the US, we were a scourge on the land! Fortunately, the Irish are now fully appreciated for all the beautiful culture and skills they brought to our lovely melting pot.
@@Hurricanehamo what??? Do you see Europeans being...evicted? Or are you saying that the tide will change, eventually? Sadly, right of conquest was the point of view, during exploration, and many excuses were made up for murdering innocent people, or enslaving them. Sickness killed many people, despite what liberal professors are saying, these days. It really did. The eastern seaboard was wiped out(up to 95%) from illness in between the time that Squanto(Tusquqntum?)was abducted, and returned to New England . He left a thriving north east, a decade or so later, it was DESOLATE, an entire seaboard without life. Malaria was awful, Hepatitis A is the illness that supposedly took so many lives during the 1500s, on eastern seaboard. Things like smallpox, plague, and diseases like dysentery, all were a bitch, with little cure, or preventative measures, as well as all the childhood stuff were vaccinated against. Believe me, Native American people deserve recompense, absolutely. They lived through trickery, and atrocities that we might not be able to imagine, today. I have love for all people, and races. Just be careful exactly what you choose to believe these days. Make your own decision based on fact checking, and NOT what a professor believes, and says. Remember, professors are human, too! Sometimes they use their position to mold students minds into what THEY want, which is often based on an opinion, not fact. Make your own opinions!
Bards and poets were highly respected and held high positions in bru na bionne and throughout Ireland and as you can hear in the narration of this documentary it carry’s through in its people to this day.
I couldn't agree more. The fixation of 'modern' archeologists to label such sites as tombs tends to detract from the geo-astronomical significance of construction methodologies and hence intention and purpose of their builders. Simplicity and a seeming lack of technology does not make ancestors quaint but these skilled, highly organised and perhaps literally worldly-wise are considered superstitious and primitive. These viewpoints tell more about the history of archaeology rather than the nature of the megalithic builders.
@@toastwelldunne I wonder if they might have been built in memory of when we would worship in spaces in caves, There is something very womb-like about these tombs, ike the Womb of the Earth Mother.
00:37 "Five thousand years ago Stane Age farmers in Europe were the first humans to leave their mark (on?) the natural landscape..." When was this made? That statement is just plain wrong. For one, Göbekli Tepe is nearly twice as old.
I think you can only carbon the human remains but not the stone. I think they built the tomes away before they start to cremate the remains. They live a survived in there during the iceage.
The amount of 'Ancient Aliens'-level speculation in these comments is staggering. Passage Tombs weren't built for dwelling places, they're not tens of thousands of years old, they weren't built by Atlanteans, and they are far more fascinating for none of these things being true. There are hundreds of thousands of Neolithic monuments all over Western Europe that we have learned from. Archaeologists have a pretty good idea when they were built, who built them, and what they were built for. Instead of spreading nonsense, just spend sometime on Wikipedia and learn something for a change.
I couldn't have said it better myself, too many people underestimate the skill of the monument builders and claim the involvement of aliens or some super advanced civilisation instead. Ancient Aliens seems to be considered as a history programme rather than the daft fantasy that it is. They were well able to build a landing pad for a spaceship without the help of the aliens....
People just cannot seem to "get" that ancient societies were much more capable than they are given credit for. I think that the "Ancient Aliens" hypothesis is insulting to our ancestors. Just because we don't know what tecniques were used, it doesn't follow that "aliens must have done it".
JRR Tolkien, after staying in the West of Ireland, described the land as "evil". Having lived in the West myself, I can understand this. The land is bleak, dark and to survive there in the past must have been a tremendous struggle. Had Tolkien gone to Meath, he likely would have thought otherwise.
What is even more amazing, is that the level of engineering and astronomical know how required to align the "windowbox" correctly with sunrise on the winter Solstice implies that the culture which built Newgrange, had to already have had centuries of astronomical observational continuity as a pre literate oral society , just to have built it
Or Craige, they could get a good idea of where they needed the entrance to be, build up to that point where the shadows and light stops going in direction and starts going in another direction. Since cultures divided by time and thousands of kilometers figured it out, it can’t have been that hard to figure out. China, England, Ireland, Cambodia, Maya, Aztec, Inca, pueblo people’s of southwestern America…all figured it out.
All agricultural societies do this. Marking the movements of the Sun is *the* most important thing to such a level of civilization. It's why these monuments are almost exclusively a development of the Neolithic and are the first to appear before even cities and writing. If you want to grow food, you must observe the heavens. Period.
I think that they just had a different type of “smarts” back then. God knows I can’t figure things out like that… except where the west is when the sun is out. It’s always seems to be where my bed room is located & the hottest place in the house. 😎 🇺🇸 ✌🏻
Nice story, lovely voice... we have no idea when, how or why any of these monuments were made. Just because something organic made its way to the base of these monuments does not constitute when these were placed. All statements need be preceded by "The best way we can come up with is..." and followed by "... but, alas, we have no idea." These sites could have been the contemporary equal to TV and more appreciated by the regularity and length of time between shows. Imagine not having to change channels! And what would clouds covering the sun on the solstice portend? Like all ancient sites the world over, these gain thousands of years as we learn more about them. And how old are the megalithic sites covered by water in the depths around all the Isles Of Bridgid? Old beyond counting before the melting of the great ice sheets when livestock could be walked from Ireland east across Doggerland to Scandinavia and south to what is now mainland Europe.
Correct, no one knows and all comments should be qualified with: "It appears". The when can be determined to a point somewhere in the great year cycle, which cycle may even be known by studying the hints left in the carved stones as they hid nothing; the why is astounding but very simple, the how is simply using the materials at hand which just so happened to be stone and earth to build the edifice to the masterplan scribed out on the ground by the architect who drew up the plans.
beautifully told and filmed...I'm surprised that you gave no credit to Martin Brennan who was the first to suggest the Solstice alignments to archeologists (Mr o'Kelly included) in the early 70s...which they ignored at the time, and now has become a key insight into the ancient knowledge and practices at the sites which you have included here. He tested his theories over 6 years at Loughcrew as well as Carrowmore and Newgrange.
The magnitude of the disaster that must have happened was so great it got many many people scared enough to build this in expectation of the global disaster/ flood/ meteor strike. The info was passed down from the few survivors
We've yet to find all the impact craters on earth or to date them. So yes, there coud very possibly have been an impact thousands of years ago and we've yet to find it..
Great documentary, I just cant understand half of the comments written here. Are half of you incapable of writing a half intelligent comment on an incredibly advanced society that achieved more and capable of more than we ever gave credit to up ontill recently . One person just wrote "Stonehenge " ?? What does that even mean. 😂
Wonderfully informative, beautifully written and filmed, and a top-notch golden voiced narrator. Thank you for this pleasant mini-journey! Thoroughly enjoyable!
Stop calling them ‘stone age’ farmers. That’s our term for them. Why not refer to them as humans who lived millennia ago? They almost certainly didn’t refer to themselves as Stone Age farmers. The expression stone age is nothing more than our inability to comprehend anything more advanced than ourselves, and the arrogance in the face of monuments that defy belief even today, is embarrassing. Humans who lived millennia ago knew more about life and living and surviving than the mere sheep alive today.
I think the term stone age farmers is used to distinguish between settled people and the nomadic peoples that came before them. I don't think anyone uses the term to denigrate them and archaeologists don't think of them as primitive at all, in fact the monuments they built show how advanced they were for their time.
@@markgallagher5908 Hi Mark. I take your well-made point. I share your distinction. Perhaps because the term Stone Age carries a Hollywood-ish negative connotation (clubs, caves and ‘dragged wenches’), might it not be better to refer to these people as settled or nomadic?
@@petertrebilco9430 Hi Peter I'm assuming that the term "stone age farmers" is used because when farming was developed it freed up a lot of time that was previously used for hunting and gathering food. Being able to somehow mark time became important as they needed to be able to know when to plant crops, they then realised that that by paying attention to the position of the sun on the horizon at sunrise that they could then predict when to plant crops this made astronomy an important subject. All the ancient monuments incorporated astronomical alignments. They may have been "stone age farmers" but primitive they were not. I guess the term was used for them because the development of farming was so important, but settled or nomadic is also a viable designation.
The white stone facade is a modern interpretation of what 20th century people think it might have looked like.. as the video shows, the mound was very delapidated when 'discovered'.
I was at New Grange in the year of 1972 or 1973 during my vacation in Ireland during my studies. Therefore I enjoyed this video very much. I don't remember the white stone walls. As I remember it looked like a huge earthen mound in a field. We had to call a local farmer(?) who showed us in. I remember the iron gate at the entrance. It was completely dark inside. Due to the striking light of the flashlight or paraffin lamp we could see the carvings on the stones on the sides. As soon as the light was directly on the stone the carvings were barely visible. What was not mentioned in this video was that the corridor that led to the chamber has a slight bend so that the light beam that came in thru the window above the door is only a narrow beam as it hits the chamber and the offering table. It made a huge impression on me. It reminds me of the grave of Ramses II in Egypt. It had the same lay out. On the shortest day of the year the sun would shine all the way in to a chamber where offerings could be made. Exactly the same as in New Grange. Sadly the grave was moved in it's entirety because of the building of the Assuan dam. Now it is not working anymore. I have always thought that there must have been a connection between the two.
Exactly! I have never been to Newgrange or Knowth or Dowth, but i'd love to one day, it's amazing after 5000 years the structure of Newgrange is still intact! Also i see you have a Captain Haddock image for your profile picture, my favourite character in Tintin! haha
I, too, was there in the early 70s before they tarted the place up for the tourists and altered it. Then the white stones circled the mound as in a processional path. The internal was reconstructed according to the best guess of a 18c clergyman.
There's History, Ancient History, and the "Mainstream Academic 19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline Story" "Authentic Academics" adhere to the "Standards of Science and Research" which prohibits using a Theory as Fact, and doesn't fear "Alternative Theories". ✓ Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian (Irish American of County Kerry lineage/Basque Orgin)
🔺Mounds, Tombs, ... found Worldwide, yet we are supposed to ignore this and believe they didn't travel by boat/ship, and that Columbus discovered America. 🔺 But, ... "DNA proves that Mainstream Academic story is inaccurate." Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian
The Grail Kings by Laurence Gardner and his vidoes on youtube help to consolidate the Kings of Ireland, Britain and Europe back to Egypt and Suma and provide bits of backdrop to these sacred mounds
Hawklord100. Excellent advice. Looked him up and discovered a whole plethora of his work and associated subject matter. Thank You for your input and consideration for those of us who are not familiar with Professor Gardner.
"He used his books to propose several theories, including a belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and had children, whose descendants included King Arthur and the House of Stuart.[1] In Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark he claimed that the Ark of the Covenant was a machine for manufacturing "monatomic gold" - a supposed elixir which could be used to extend life" oh yes seems perfectly reasonable
Wonderful documentary, incorporating more recent history of these sites from 1690's to 1960's. Prof MJ O'Kelly was a living legend when I studied Psychology at University College Cork 1970's. However, not wishing to sound pedantic, but the proper pronunciation of the name of the "Celtic god Dagda" sounds like 'Dye-dah', not 'Dog-dah' or 'Dag-dah'. ☘Happy St Patrick's Day 💚2023!
Hi. Thanks for this. Do you have a reference where I can read more about the pronunciation of The Dagda ? I've never heard it pronounced the way you describe it (dye-dah) but always as Dag-da. Thanks.
@@user-wr4uz8pg7m Because I speak the language, my native tongue. Spelt correctly, there should be a dot over the letter 'g' to indicate it is 'silent'. 🤫
@@LordZama Gaelic Irish is my native tongue, so I know the rules of spelling & pronunciation. FYI, Irish is the 3rd oldest written European language, after Greek & Latin.
It is beautifully filmed and narrated but not sure how reliable some of the information is. At around 6.30 an illustration of the step pyramid of Djoser is show, built some time between 2667 and 2648 BC, and we are told that Newgrange is a thousand years older than the pyramids of Egypt. Newgrange is usually dated around 3200 BC and so is a little over 500 years older than the first major pyramid building in Egypt.
Does anybody know a little bit about living conditions for the Irish aristocracy during the golden age, and into the Viking period (so in other words the dark ages I guess)? I’m curious to know what an average Irish chieftain’s home was like during this period, but my internet research has revealed very little. I have at least three books on Irish history as well, but they are not much help either. In every source, it is just mentioned in passing how this Irish king, or that Irish chieftain had their main hall in this place, or that place, etc., but absolutely no details on what these places were like. Did they have two floors, or just one for instance? How were they built and laid out? Where did their court congregate, and how? Did the chieftains and kings have separate quarters or did they all just sleep together in heaps by the hearth? Were these halls or “palaces” built to impress, or were they just utilitarian, and perhaps only larger than homes of the commoners?? I just want to gain a little info on this type of thing, but it apparently doesn’t seem to interest anybody else, to attempt to provide some details, which surprises me frankly. How am I the only one interested in this??
I think Y-DNA evidence has shown that the people who built Newgrange and the other monuments are not the ancestors of the current Irish population. The Neolithic remains found in the monuments were from the Y haplogroups I and H, however by the Bronze Age, Y DNA in Ireland was (and is) shown to be from the R haplogroup. While I agree that the ancestors of the current Irish people were intrigued with and used the monuments, I was disappointed that the documentary did not highlight the evidence that the monuments were built by a group of people who for whatever reason did not survive the Bronze Age.
Indeed. The Neolithic farmers came initially from the Middle East via Iberia, not Britain. We're more related to the Gaels who came in the Bronze age. Beginning as the Yamnaya culture of the Pontic Steppe. Corded Ware by the time the got here. The latest DNA study is fascinating. I wish more people would talk about it, rather than perpetuating the old 'celt' theories of the Victorian age.
Hi Heather, can you suggest further reading on the DNA based evidence you are referring to? I gave up on this as baloney after 5 minutes< There was not a single source or academic reference mentioned - very disappointing really that there are still panderings to Victorian tropes.
@@fincorrigan7139 There are two papers by Cassidy that you can google which give the information. They are "Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome" from 2016 and "A Dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society" from 2020. You can also google search "Ancient Ireland’s Y and Mitochondrial DNA - Do You Match???" and that should give you a link to a post on a genetic genealogy website. Some of this information is also found in the paperback version of JP Mallory's "The Origins of the Irish". The paperback was published after the hardback version and was updated to include the new "Ancient DNA" evidence.
Hunter gatherer theme, we're still hunter gatherers,I hunt, I gather, animals hunt,, gather.. Those hunter gatherer people built pyramids in Egypt Mexico and Europe
Typical post flood shrines built in memory of the ark of noah. The watercraft was the matrix or passage way from pangaea, the supercontinent which broke into seven pieces to the post flood world we currently reside. As it was, in the days of noah, so shall it be when the son of man returns.
I was in a new grange when inside it they turn off the light/s I look up to the ceiling I could see all blue energy up there maybe I am a natural healer I feel the energy from everything that has energy in our world that's why I was able to see it
The petroglyphic symbols are found worldwide as are the motifs which are nautical and reminiscent of the events in genesis, that dusty old book on grannys side table.
This was only used as a tomb long after the original builder was gone. Surely this was used a dwelling first. A very, very safe bunker-like dwelling. Safe from Cold, Heat, Wild animals, Invading hoards, and yes, even Comets.
I've stood inside of the Newgrange mound and I can assure you, it's not at all suited to being a dwelling. It's very large from the outside but inside it's fairly cramped. Obscenely overbuilt structure if it started as a dwelling. Why build an enormous, complicated mound when a hut would provide the same benefits? It's also worth noting that it's not a 'tomb' per se, it's more a place of ritual were the remains of the dead may have been brought before moving elsewhere. There are three altars of sorts inside the mound, and it's been theorised that the bodies of the dead may have been cremated before their ashes were brought to the altars for a ceremony.
@@LordZama Probably because you're looking at what it has become today, not what it once began as. I'm sure there were hundreds of generations of modifications, additions, and repurpose. Not to mention it's hard for you to fathom living in anything less than a two-story five bedroom house. Especially after that cheeseburger lunch, and jeans that are ready to burst at the seams. It's counterintuitive I know, but all the evidence shows that these massive megaliths were built by tiny little people compared to today's population. This would have been a palace to a Mesolithic HG or Neolithic farmer. But who knows for sure? When you get your time machine running, come back and let us know.
@@MOEMUGGY I'm sure it has been modified over the thousands of years it's been there, it'd be stranger if it hadn't changed. Could it have been a palace as you said? Sure. I seem to have struck a nerve. I'm not sure why you felt the need to go on the offensive, but sure, go for it, whatever helps you sleep at night, mate. Nothing makes your position seem more robust than an unprovoked personal attack. On that note, my time machine appears to be broken, flux capacitor up the left as per usual, and with all these cheeseburgers busting my gut I can't be arsed to fix it! So instead of postulating unsubstantiated bullshit, I'm going to stick with the evidence and the conclusions drawn by experts. Feel free to take it for a spin if you get it up and running though!
@@LordZama It was just a joke to add levity to my response. Sorry, I wouldn't have made it if I knew you were a little sensitive about your weight. In my defense, You did say it was fairly cramped inside... lighten up
Why are these comment sections always full of idiots that think there's some secret purpose to these monuments that only they know? You've clearly never been to Newgrange. There's a passage and three small chambers. It's not a dwelling. No, it wasn't rebuilt, if you've been there you could tell that's way too much work for no reason whatsoever. There's a reason you're resorting to ad hominem attacks. You're immature and ignorant.
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@alex hayden Sadly, you don't know how right you are. It's OK to be anxious. Everyone's frightened of something. But don't let yourself be manipulated and exploited by yer man and those of his ilk. I genuinely wish you well.
There's tons of this kind of stuff on the Isle of Britain. They never got around to destroying a lot of that. I guess they were too busy messing up Irish lives.
Me, neither, though Romans often adopted the gods and goddesses of other groups into their pantheon. For example, at Bath, there is a statue of Sulis Minerva. For Romans, Sulis was Minerva and vice versa, though Sulis was and remains a Celtic deity. So a Roman offering at Newgrange may not be so strange.
I had the privilege of visiting Newgrange, Stonehenge, the menhirs of Carnac, Incan pyramids in Mexico and the creativity and ingenuity of Stone Age man is mind blowing. This video is spectacular - thank you.
Hi, I am an archaeologist and I would like to point out there is no evidence these monuments were built for burials. These were all calendars, observatories and temples. Also, we don't know who built them and how they were built and there is no evidence for your story - floating megaliths on the river?! Surely all of these is much older than any known peoples and culture that we could link with todays people living on that place. But it is nice to take care of our world heritage as your own, thank you.
I would love to know how they got those Stones off the Shoreline and onto, what did you say there were using, skin boats... and each stone looks like it would way at least a tonne...
I'm from western Ireland and I guess that cloud in the sky obscures the Winter solstice beam more often than not. One is lucky to be inside Newgrange on a sunny morning.
The 'high places' of the Sun worshipers... (Ezeikiel 8:16). They worshipped a ball of gas, rather than the Creator of the ball of gas. Not very smart... "..who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator..." (Romans 1:25)
Can you imagine, winning the "Newgrange solstice lottery", and then standing there, in a stone age cave, along with various hippies and druids, like a fool, and then it turns out to be a typically cloudy December morning with no visible sun? That would be the most Irish thing ever! Do they give you tea and sandwiches? No!
Our daughter took my wife and I on vacation to Ireland from the US back in May. We planned it for a year. The one place my daughter and I agreed that we had to visit was Brú na Bóinne. I bought all 4 of us that went a year of OPA membership. Not only did it cover the admission to Knowth and New Grange (that alone is worth the price) but any other sites we visited in Dublin. On our trip we also went to the National Botanic gardens Kilmacurragh and many other places. Unfortunately, the vacation was only for 1 week. I think it would take more than 1lifetime to see all I wanted to see in Ireland.
I visited Ireland and it was beautiful--I guess my adopted father thought I should see where most of my heritage came from. I remember it as a very lovely place. I'd love to visit the holy places, like Tara and Newgrange...maybe one day.
My wife and I have been there three times for a total of 48 days. Still so, so many places to see. Such a historical island!
Americans and Ireland hahaha
I'm irish and worked in Navan fir a few months. There's something magical about the countryside there. Not rugged like the west of Ireland.....just beautiful in its own way
I was at the Hill of Tara a few weeks ago. I had to drive through Navan to get to it. Navan seems relatively normal, but I didn't stop. The Hill of Tara is covered in dogshit, west-brits, and disappointed foreign tourists. I'd rather be under a tree west of the Shannon in a hurricane that go there ever again.
10:17 ... ' time of whom?
The time of the Roman imposition of some character appropriated from Jewish folklore and mythology...?
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Christianity destroyed the authentic cultural heritage of these people and replaced it all with some anachronistic and rather irrelevant imported religion from the Levant, with "Moses" and "Abraham" and "Jahweh"...
The sun rises from the underworld, emerging from the darkest part of the year, ever vibrant with life, carrying with its rays the souls of the dead, of the glorious ancestors and casts upon the stone and bones that ancient vitality. And in this way, again, do our ancestors commune with and speak to us.
It is a moment of returning, of rebirth, and a promise that the cycle will process ever on. If only we'd still remember.
Thank-you for writing that.
That was magic! Beautifully filmed and narrated. Thank you!
Absolutely wonderful! The narrator's lovely Irish brogue lends such authenticity; clearly a highly intelligent, cultured woman. Amazing how New Grange has survived intact. Robin Witting
Oh, iffits a Colleen it's a lovely Irish Lilt, man!
Ah how times have changed. It wasn't long ago (and still true in some places) that an Irish accent was not a mark of "highly intelligent, cultured" people as you say, but quite the opposite. :) Here's a great description of the Irish from days past: "They use their fields mostly for pasture. Little is cultivated and even less is sown. The problem here is not the quality of the soil but rather the lack of industry on the part of those who should cultivate it. This laziness means that the different types of minerals with which hidden veins of the earth are full are neither mined nor exploited in any way. They do not devote themselves to the manufacture of flax or wool, nor to the practice of any mechanical or mercantile act. Dedicated only to leisure and laziness, this is a truly barbarous people. They depend on animals for their livelihood and they live like animals".
@@user-wr4uz8pg7m yes, we were portraid in many ways and that served only those that wanted to justify taking what was not theirs.. its still not theirs, yet they're still here..for now.
@@user-wr4uz8pg7m oh yes, when we came to the US, we were a scourge on the land! Fortunately, the Irish are now fully appreciated for all the beautiful culture and skills they brought to our lovely melting pot.
@@Hurricanehamo what??? Do you see Europeans being...evicted? Or are you saying that the tide will change, eventually?
Sadly, right of conquest was the point of view, during exploration, and many excuses were made up for murdering innocent people, or enslaving them.
Sickness killed many people, despite what liberal professors are saying, these days. It really did. The eastern seaboard was wiped out(up to 95%) from illness in between the time that Squanto(Tusquqntum?)was abducted, and returned to New England . He left a thriving north east, a decade or so later, it was DESOLATE, an entire seaboard without life. Malaria was awful, Hepatitis A is the illness that supposedly took so many lives during the 1500s, on eastern seaboard. Things like smallpox, plague, and diseases like dysentery, all were a bitch, with little cure, or preventative measures, as well as all the childhood stuff were vaccinated against.
Believe me, Native American people deserve recompense, absolutely. They lived through trickery, and atrocities that we might not be able to imagine, today. I have love for all people, and races. Just be careful exactly what you choose to believe these days. Make your own decision based on fact checking, and NOT what a professor believes, and says. Remember, professors are human, too! Sometimes they use their position to mold students minds into what THEY want, which is often based on an opinion, not fact. Make your own opinions!
the script of this narration is beautifully written
Bards and poets were highly respected and held high positions in bru na bionne and throughout Ireland and as you can hear in the narration of this documentary it carry’s through in its people to this day.
It is a very magical place but I'm not totally convinced they were actually built as tombs. Glad I got to visit tho.
I couldn't agree more. The fixation of 'modern' archeologists to label such sites as tombs tends to detract from the geo-astronomical significance of construction methodologies and hence intention and purpose of their builders.
Simplicity and a seeming lack of technology does not make ancestors quaint but these skilled, highly organised and perhaps literally worldly-wise are considered superstitious and primitive. These viewpoints tell more about the history of archaeology rather than the nature of the megalithic builders.
@@toastwelldunne I wonder if they might have been built in memory of when we would worship in spaces in caves, There is something very womb-like about these tombs, ike the Womb of the Earth Mother.
Human Ashes were found inside
@katiegriffin9354 there are burials in modern churches but the building is not just funerary is it
00:37 "Five thousand years ago Stane Age farmers in Europe were the first humans to leave their mark (on?) the natural landscape..." When was this made? That statement is just plain wrong. For one, Göbekli Tepe is nearly twice as old.
I think you can only carbon the human remains but not the stone. I think they built the tomes away before they start to cremate the remains. They live a survived in there during the iceage.
The amount of 'Ancient Aliens'-level speculation in these comments is staggering. Passage Tombs weren't built for dwelling places, they're not tens of thousands of years old, they weren't built by Atlanteans, and they are far more fascinating for none of these things being true. There are hundreds of thousands of Neolithic monuments all over Western Europe that we have learned from. Archaeologists have a pretty good idea when they were built, who built them, and what they were built for. Instead of spreading nonsense, just spend sometime on Wikipedia and learn something for a change.
I couldn't have said it better myself, too many people underestimate the skill of the monument builders and claim the involvement of aliens or some super advanced civilisation instead. Ancient Aliens seems to be considered as a history programme rather than the daft fantasy that it is. They were well able to build a landing pad for a spaceship without the help of the aliens....
People just cannot seem to "get" that ancient societies were much more capable than they are given credit for. I think that the "Ancient Aliens" hypothesis is insulting to our ancestors. Just because we don't know what tecniques were used, it doesn't follow that "aliens must have done it".
JRR Tolkien, after staying in the West of Ireland, described the land as "evil". Having lived in the West myself, I can understand this. The land is bleak, dark and to survive there in the past must have been a tremendous struggle. Had Tolkien gone to Meath, he likely would have thought otherwise.
One does not simply walk to Meath
@customsongmaker To do so would be folly
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What is even more amazing, is that the level of engineering and astronomical know how required to align the "windowbox" correctly with sunrise on the winter Solstice implies that the culture which built Newgrange, had to already have had centuries of astronomical observational continuity as a pre literate oral society , just to have built it
Or Craige, they could get a good idea of where they needed the entrance to be, build up to that point where the shadows and light stops going in direction and starts going in another direction. Since cultures divided by time and thousands of kilometers figured it out, it can’t have been that hard to figure out. China, England, Ireland, Cambodia, Maya, Aztec, Inca, pueblo people’s of southwestern America…all figured it out.
All agricultural societies do this. Marking the movements of the Sun is *the* most important thing to such a level of civilization. It's why these monuments are almost exclusively a development of the Neolithic and are the first to appear before even cities and writing. If you want to grow food, you must observe the heavens. Period.
I think that they just had a different type of “smarts” back then. God knows I can’t figure things out like that… except where the west is when the sun is out. It’s always seems to be where my bed room is located & the hottest place in the house. 😎 🇺🇸 ✌🏻
Nice story, lovely voice... we have no idea when, how or why any of these monuments were made.
Just because something organic made its way to the base of these monuments does not constitute when these were placed.
All statements need be preceded by "The best way we can come up with is..." and followed by "... but, alas, we have no idea."
These sites could have been the contemporary equal to TV and more appreciated by the regularity and length of time between shows. Imagine not having to change channels! And what would clouds covering the sun on the solstice portend?
Like all ancient sites the world over, these gain thousands of years as we learn more about them. And how old are the megalithic sites covered by water in the depths around all the Isles Of Bridgid? Old beyond counting before the melting of the great ice sheets when livestock could be walked from Ireland east across Doggerland to Scandinavia and south to what is now mainland Europe.
They age is so wrong
Correct, no one knows and all comments should be qualified with: "It appears". The when can be determined to a point somewhere in the great year cycle, which cycle may even be known by studying the hints left in the carved stones as they hid nothing; the why is astounding but very simple, the how is simply using the materials at hand which just so happened to be stone and earth to build the edifice to the masterplan scribed out on the ground by the architect who drew up the plans.
Exceptional, remarkable. Thank you from Oslo.🥀
beautifully told and filmed...I'm surprised that you gave no credit to Martin Brennan who was the first to suggest the Solstice alignments to archeologists (Mr o'Kelly included) in the early 70s...which they ignored at the time, and now has become a key insight into the ancient knowledge and practices at the sites which you have included here. He tested his theories over 6 years at Loughcrew as well as Carrowmore and Newgrange.
The magnitude of the disaster that must have happened was so great it got many many people scared enough to build this in expectation of the global disaster/ flood/ meteor strike. The info was passed down from the few survivors
We've yet to find all the impact craters on earth or to date them. So yes, there coud very possibly have been an impact thousands of years ago and we've yet to find it..
My mother was from Drogheda maybe rebirth of the sun every year brought hope of renewal for the people. That they had hope for another year.❤
Great documentary, I just cant understand half of the comments written here. Are half of you incapable of writing a half intelligent comment on an incredibly advanced society that achieved more and capable of more than we ever gave credit to up ontill recently . One person just wrote "Stonehenge " ?? What does that even mean. 😂
Wonderfully informative, beautifully written and filmed, and a top-notch golden voiced narrator. Thank you for this pleasant mini-journey! Thoroughly enjoyable!
Stop calling them ‘stone age’ farmers. That’s our term for them. Why not refer to them as humans who lived millennia ago? They almost certainly didn’t refer to themselves as Stone Age farmers. The expression stone age is nothing more than our inability to comprehend anything more advanced than ourselves, and the arrogance in the face of monuments that defy belief even today, is embarrassing. Humans who lived millennia ago knew more about life and living and surviving than the mere sheep alive today.
I think the term stone age farmers is used to distinguish between settled people and the nomadic peoples that came before them. I don't think anyone uses the term to denigrate them and archaeologists don't think of them as primitive at all, in fact the monuments they built show how advanced they were for their time.
@@markgallagher5908 Hi Mark. I take your well-made point. I share your distinction. Perhaps because the term Stone Age carries a Hollywood-ish negative connotation (clubs, caves and ‘dragged wenches’), might it not be better to refer to these people as settled or nomadic?
@@petertrebilco9430 Hi Peter I'm assuming that the term "stone age farmers" is used because when farming was developed it freed up a lot of time that was previously used for hunting and gathering food. Being able to somehow mark time became important as they needed to be able to know when to plant crops, they then realised that that by paying attention to the position of the sun on the horizon at sunrise that they could then predict when to plant crops this made astronomy an important subject. All the ancient monuments incorporated astronomical alignments. They may have been "stone age farmers" but primitive they were not. I guess the term was used for them because the development of farming was so important, but settled or nomadic is also a viable designation.
Farmers should plant trees
According to the last Druid's these buildings are not burial place s or wheat storage but shelter against the electric storms coming from the Sun 🌞
Very informative and well presented
Thanks
The white stone facade is a modern interpretation of what 20th century people think it might have looked like.. as the video shows, the mound was very delapidated when 'discovered'.
I was at New Grange in the year of 1972 or 1973 during my vacation in Ireland during my studies.
Therefore I enjoyed this video very much.
I don't remember the white stone walls. As I remember it looked like a huge earthen mound in a field.
We had to call a local farmer(?) who showed us in. I remember the iron gate at the entrance. It was completely dark inside. Due to the striking light of the flashlight or paraffin lamp we could see the carvings on the stones on the sides. As soon as the light was directly on the stone the carvings were barely visible.
What was not mentioned in this video was that the corridor that led to the chamber has a slight bend so that the light beam that came in thru the window above the door is only a narrow beam as it hits the chamber and the offering table.
It made a huge impression on me.
It reminds me of the grave of Ramses II in Egypt. It had the same lay out. On the shortest day of the year the sun would shine all the way in to a chamber where offerings could be made. Exactly the same as in New Grange. Sadly the grave was moved in it's entirety because of the building of the Assuan dam. Now it is not working anymore.
I have always thought that there must have been a connection between the two.
The White Walls are reconstructions.
It's not impossible , have you ever read any Conor Macdari books. Ancient Irish wisdom preserved in the Bible and Pyramids.
Exactly! I have never been to Newgrange or Knowth or Dowth, but i'd love to one day, it's amazing after 5000 years the structure of Newgrange is still intact!
Also i see you have a Captain Haddock image for your profile picture, my favourite character in Tintin! haha
I, too, was there in the early 70s before they tarted the place up for the tourists and altered it. Then the white stones circled the mound as in a processional path. The internal was reconstructed according to the best guess of a 18c clergyman.
Scholars liken Daghda to Odin (Norse), Sucellos (Gaulish) and Dis Pater (Roman).
They'll build a mosque on it.
Why you gotta be a hater? You must be a sad person. I feel sorry for you.
There's History, Ancient History, and the "Mainstream Academic 19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline Story"
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The Grail Kings by Laurence Gardner and his vidoes on youtube help to consolidate the Kings of Ireland, Britain and Europe back to Egypt and Suma and provide bits of backdrop to these sacred mounds
Hawklord100. Excellent advice. Looked him up and discovered a whole plethora of his work and associated subject matter. Thank You for your input and consideration for those of us who are not familiar with Professor Gardner.
"He used his books to propose several theories, including a belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and had children, whose descendants included King Arthur and the House of Stuart.[1] In Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark he claimed that the Ark of the Covenant was a machine for manufacturing "monatomic gold" - a supposed elixir which could be used to extend life" oh yes seems perfectly reasonable
@@fishcake959 So you bought his books then, I presume there was enough information you agreed with to have you go back and buy more ?
Wonderful documentary, incorporating more recent history of these sites from 1690's to 1960's. Prof MJ O'Kelly was a living legend when I studied Psychology at University College Cork 1970's. However, not wishing to sound pedantic, but the proper pronunciation of the name of the "Celtic god Dagda" sounds like 'Dye-dah', not 'Dog-dah' or 'Dag-dah'. ☘Happy St Patrick's Day 💚2023!
Hi. Thanks for this. Do you have a reference where I can read more about the pronunciation of The Dagda ? I've never heard it pronounced the way you describe it (dye-dah) but always as Dag-da. Thanks.
I've never heard it pronounced that way. Curious as to where you're getting that?
@@user-wr4uz8pg7m Because I speak the language, my native tongue. Spelt correctly, there should be a dot over the letter 'g' to indicate it is 'silent'. 🤫
@@LordZama Gaelic Irish is my native tongue, so I know the rules of spelling & pronunciation. FYI, Irish is the 3rd oldest written European language, after Greek & Latin.
It is beautifully filmed and narrated but not sure how reliable some of the information is. At around 6.30 an illustration of the step pyramid of Djoser is show, built some time between 2667 and 2648 BC, and we are told that Newgrange is a thousand years older than the pyramids of Egypt. Newgrange is usually dated around 3200 BC and so is a little over 500 years older than the first major pyramid building in Egypt.
When you realise that they rebuilt Newgrange in the 1970's then its difficult to take what the narrator says seriously.
Does anybody know a little bit about living conditions for the Irish aristocracy during the golden age, and into the Viking period (so in other words the dark ages I guess)?
I’m curious to know what an average Irish chieftain’s home was like during this period, but my internet research has revealed very little. I have at least three books on Irish history as well, but they are not much help either. In every source, it is just mentioned in passing how this Irish king, or that Irish chieftain had their main hall in this place, or that place, etc., but absolutely no details on what these places were like. Did they have two floors, or just one for instance? How were they built and laid out? Where did their court congregate, and how? Did the chieftains and kings have separate quarters or did they all just sleep together in heaps by the hearth? Were these halls or “palaces” built to impress, or were they just utilitarian, and perhaps only larger than homes of the commoners?? I just want to gain a little info on this type of thing, but it apparently doesn’t seem to interest anybody else, to attempt to provide some details, which surprises me frankly. How am I the only one interested in this??
its a destroyed building, and colomns were holding the fallen roof
I think Y-DNA evidence has shown that the people who built Newgrange and the other monuments are not the ancestors of the current Irish population. The Neolithic remains found in the monuments were from the Y haplogroups I and H, however by the Bronze Age, Y DNA in Ireland was (and is) shown to be from the R haplogroup. While I agree that the ancestors of the current Irish people were intrigued with and used the monuments, I was disappointed that the documentary did not highlight the evidence that the monuments were built by a group of people who for whatever reason did not survive the Bronze Age.
Indeed. The Neolithic farmers came initially from the Middle East via Iberia, not Britain. We're more related to the Gaels who came in the Bronze age. Beginning as the Yamnaya culture of the Pontic Steppe. Corded Ware by the time the got here. The latest DNA study is fascinating. I wish more people would talk about it, rather than perpetuating the old 'celt' theories of the Victorian age.
Hi Heather, can you suggest further reading on the DNA based evidence you are referring to? I gave up on this as baloney after 5 minutes< There was not a single source or academic reference mentioned - very disappointing really that there are still panderings to Victorian tropes.
@@fincorrigan7139 There are two papers by Cassidy that you can google which give the information. They are "Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome" from 2016 and "A Dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society" from 2020. You can also google search "Ancient Ireland’s Y and Mitochondrial DNA - Do You Match???" and that should give you a link to a post on a genetic genealogy website.
Some of this information is also found in the paperback version of JP Mallory's "The Origins of the Irish". The paperback was published after the hardback version and was updated to include the new "Ancient DNA" evidence.
Hunter gatherer theme, we're still hunter gatherers,I hunt, I gather, animals hunt,, gather.. Those hunter gatherer people built pyramids in Egypt Mexico and Europe
It would be nice if someone recorded the illumination from inside the tomb so that everyone could experience the event.
It's not quite what it was originally - but still ;- ) .. th-cam.com/video/ngADMns8W78/w-d-xo.html
@@pixiepostcard2090 Thank you for that it’s a shame we can’t see it as they saw it but fascinating all the same thank you again .
There are definitely recordings somewhere online
Typical post flood shrines built in memory of the ark of noah. The watercraft was the matrix or passage way from pangaea, the supercontinent which broke into seven pieces to the post flood world we currently reside. As it was, in the days of noah, so shall it be when the son of man returns.
I was in a new grange when inside it they turn off the light/s I look up to the ceiling I could see all blue energy up there maybe I am a natural healer I feel the energy from everything that has energy in our world that's why I was able to see it
The petroglyphic symbols are found worldwide as are the motifs which are nautical and reminiscent of the events in genesis, that dusty old book on grannys side table.
When we lose the connections to our ancestors, we lose our identity and our place in the Tale.
Brilliant video! Thank you so much for you effort - new subscriber!
Sorry you are wrong, the last ice age ended 40 thousand years ago. To be able to make such holy shakes, they must be able to have iron tools
Thank you for this powerful video
I'm finding far too much romanticising and not remotely enough hard archaeology regarding Irish prehistory.
This was only used as a tomb long after the original builder was gone. Surely this was used a dwelling first. A very, very safe bunker-like dwelling. Safe from Cold, Heat, Wild animals, Invading hoards, and yes, even Comets.
I've stood inside of the Newgrange mound and I can assure you, it's not at all suited to being a dwelling. It's very large from the outside but inside it's fairly cramped. Obscenely overbuilt structure if it started as a dwelling. Why build an enormous, complicated mound when a hut would provide the same benefits?
It's also worth noting that it's not a 'tomb' per se, it's more a place of ritual were the remains of the dead may have been brought before moving elsewhere. There are three altars of sorts inside the mound, and it's been theorised that the bodies of the dead may have been cremated before their ashes were brought to the altars for a ceremony.
@@LordZama Probably because you're looking at what it has become today, not what it once began as.
I'm sure there were hundreds of generations of modifications, additions, and repurpose.
Not to mention it's hard for you to fathom living in anything less than a two-story five bedroom house.
Especially after that cheeseburger lunch, and jeans that are ready to burst at the seams.
It's counterintuitive I know, but all the evidence shows that these massive megaliths were built by tiny little people compared to today's population.
This would have been a palace to a Mesolithic HG or Neolithic farmer.
But who knows for sure? When you get your time machine running, come back and let us know.
@@MOEMUGGY I'm sure it has been modified over the thousands of years it's been there, it'd be stranger if it hadn't changed. Could it have been a palace as you said? Sure.
I seem to have struck a nerve. I'm not sure why you felt the need to go on the offensive, but sure, go for it, whatever helps you sleep at night, mate. Nothing makes your position seem more robust than an unprovoked personal attack.
On that note, my time machine appears to be broken, flux capacitor up the left as per usual, and with all these cheeseburgers busting my gut I can't be arsed to fix it! So instead of postulating unsubstantiated bullshit, I'm going to stick with the evidence and the conclusions drawn by experts. Feel free to take it for a spin if you get it up and running though!
@@LordZama It was just a joke to add levity to my response.
Sorry, I wouldn't have made it if I knew you were a little sensitive about your weight.
In my defense, You did say it was fairly cramped inside... lighten up
Why are these comment sections always full of idiots that think there's some secret purpose to these monuments that only they know? You've clearly never been to Newgrange. There's a passage and three small chambers. It's not a dwelling. No, it wasn't rebuilt, if you've been there you could tell that's way too much work for no reason whatsoever. There's a reason you're resorting to ad hominem attacks. You're immature and ignorant.
Stone Age visitors! Me, too, in 2003!!! Astonishing place.
Their diety was not the sun, the sun is used to represent the diety the same as some modern beliefs and religions use other symbols.
“... from all over the island of Eire” is the correct phrasing.
“... from all over the island of Ireland” is redundant and bloody Anglocentric.
Eire is the correct phrasing. Wrong. Eire translates to encumbered. Éire is the correct phrasing and spelling
You have to ask the question: What is, 'IRELAND'?
Were you asked if you want to be REPLACED?
'The demography of Ireland and future projections'. - Stefan Molyneux - Ireland 2040
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Nobody's being "replaced". Go out and get some fresh air, lad. You'll be grand.
None so blind..........................
@alex hayden Sadly, you don't know how right you are.
It's OK to be anxious. Everyone's frightened of something. But don't let yourself be manipulated and exploited by yer man and those of his ilk.
I genuinely wish you well.
@@alexhayden2303 All populations change over time. Get over it.
@@harrietharlow9929
In a few decades?
Very interesting docu btw !!!!
How is it that the Brit’s didn’t destroy all this kind of stuff when they were ruining our Irish lives at any of this time.?????
There's tons of this kind of stuff on the Isle of Britain. They never got around to destroying a lot of that. I guess they were too busy messing up Irish lives.
This is lovely.
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Every bit as amazing as the pyramids and Stonehenge.
No- the is a reference to no ah which means dark, since it was dark in the ark made of bark.
This (Newgrange) is an amazing link to our past.
This was great
Thanks
The best description of New Grange I’ve come across. So well done. Never knew Roman coins were found there.
Me, neither, though Romans often adopted the gods and goddesses of other groups into their pantheon. For example, at Bath, there is a statue of Sulis Minerva. For Romans, Sulis was Minerva and vice versa, though Sulis was and remains a Celtic deity. So a Roman offering at Newgrange may not be so strange.
Wonderful.....thank you...and much love.
Got as far as 2:10 ,and then when it came to my attention that it was the english not the Irish who built them, was very disappointed I must say.
You don't think there was popuation flow from Britain to Ireland and vice versa?
I had the privilege of visiting Newgrange, Stonehenge, the menhirs of Carnac, Incan pyramids in Mexico and the creativity and ingenuity of Stone Age man is mind blowing. This video is spectacular - thank you.
Hi, I am an archaeologist and I would like to point out there is no evidence these monuments were built for burials. These were all calendars, observatories and temples. Also, we don't know who built them and how they were built and there is no evidence for your story - floating megaliths on the river?! Surely all of these is much older than any known peoples and culture that we could link with todays people living on that place. But it is nice to take care of our world heritage as your own, thank you.
I would love to know how they got those Stones off the Shoreline and onto, what did you say there were using, skin boats... and each stone looks like it would way at least a tonne...
Fascinating.. But a lot of unproven statements.. & what they've done to Newgrange is shocking.. I was there in early 2000 it was beautiful
Thank you for creating this wonderful experience through Bru na Boinne! Looking forward to a scared visit May 2024.
Past druid life time remembered. The stone circles are calling me back.......to center once again. ~ Blessings.
Great documentary with nice footage and narration. How ancient is the name of the village? It has a lively pronunciation in this vid.
Love the megaliths wow
Several decades my ass.
My dad is from co Meath so I spent a lot of time there and was at newgrange countless times it’s a beautiful part of Ireland ✝️❤️
top notch this
It's always amazing that these youtube channels have so few likes and subscribers.
Pretty big assumption that the entities that actually built these structures were the same size as we are today.
It’s most amazing that a population was motivated or coerced into building these
What a superb documentary.The narration was perfect too.
What a beautiful site... and fully of mystery and mysticism.
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Thank you for sharing this video. It is w😮. 💕
These guys never heard of a DARK RETREAT?
Is there actual proof they were floated up the river?
This is the best presentation of Newgrange I have seen.
I never knew the Roman connection either.
Top of the morning to ya
Yeah this is bs
what a brilliant comment,you put a lot of thought into it
Very interesting thank u 🙏
Most definitely not tombs.
Lovely! Thank you!
What if on winter solstice there is no sun to see but only clouds ?
I'm from western Ireland and I guess that cloud in the sky obscures the Winter solstice beam more often than not. One is lucky to be inside Newgrange on a sunny morning.
Great share
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The 'high places' of the Sun worshipers... (Ezeikiel 8:16). They worshipped a ball of gas, rather than the Creator of the ball of gas. Not very smart... "..who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator..." (Romans 1:25)
Gas? It's nuclear fusion and the bible is fairytales
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Can you imagine, winning the "Newgrange solstice lottery", and then standing there, in a stone age cave, along with various hippies and druids, like a fool, and then it turns out to be a typically cloudy December morning with no visible sun? That would be the most Irish thing ever! Do they give you tea and sandwiches?
No!