Very interesting and informative video. Such an effort was put in to the design and workmanship of these Neolithic ployhedra approximately 4,000 years ago!
They were used in a way that's either related to food, clothing or killing, those were the priorities and I'm sure time and effort was not wasted on much else.
I think these things are ‘apprentice pieces’ or suchlike, so that you can show off how good you are at working with at working with stone, therefore more likely to be commissioned to make a stone tool or a stone mace head etc? Why not?
Consider Frank Chester's work for another perspective. Sacred geometry was GEO metry - that is of the recognition of underlying qualities and relationships of the matrix upon which we 'experience' the Elements. So rather than explicit technology we have implicit meaning or significance. Whatever we embody expresses a current consciousness, but as we explicate such a consciousness in tools and their effects - we become as it were locked into our toolset. The idea that the latter is progress is an assertion of the current over its past that is then an invalidation of our past - as if - now we are 'better'. To the degree we can release the arrogances of our current mindset, so may we access perspectives that were ruled or filtered out by it, and perhaps become curious anew - rather than seeking to fit the new wine into the established paradigm. Foundational shifts operate a shift in the whole structure - and while math can be used to obfuscate and dissociate - this is because at it very foundation is the nature or ratio and relation that in my view serves a translation of qualities to quantitative expression - or the formless to form. Our concept of WHY? is rooted in getting something or somewhere else - as defined within a restless world in motion. But the unfolding of wonder is a direct communion with Existence - of which we are NEVER truly separated or apart - regardless the obfuscations and dissociations of a private sense of self-becoming. Attunement and alignment to the 'whole' or 'source-nature' as a way of holding balance in our life in relations (world) cannot be over-valued. But a loss of such resonance allows any and every conflicting and competing 'part' to war at expense of wholeness. I can only point and invite a willingness to consider anew.
I believe, in a world with no paper, tools or machinery, if you wanted an artisan to make you a stone axe etc, you could carry one of these balls as an example of your expertise in working stone. Seeing such work would undoubtably make you consider hiring this man to make you an axe or something similar? So the stones were a portfolio of a man (or woman's) expertise in their work. I would certainly hire one of these guys to make me a simple stone axe.
Good grief - these are the people we entrust with interpreting our past? Terrifyingly blinkered nonsense. One of, but not *the* most, ridiculous, imo, is the suggestion that since they are found near megalithic sites, they could well have been ball bearings for moving megalithic blocks of stones. Let's just completely ignore the sophisticated mathematics and knowledge of astronomy that these sites are well-proven to display...and not ask whether these stones, which display such astonishing mathematical properties, may have been a mathematical tool in aiding the architects. No, that can't be, "because it can't be". Let's rather look at modern carpet bowls - a game. Well, these balls look a bit similar (no, not really, not even close actually.) These stones, displaying advanced mathematical knowledge purely by accident, it would seem(!) must be toys. A game. A bit like archaeologists thousands of years from now finding surveyors' tools left behind at our building sites, and concluding they are toys because their culture has some toys that have a loosely similar shape. It's gob-smackingly irresponsible, unscientific, and frankly infuriating. Shameful, cowardly, lazy, smug, and embarrassing are just a few other words that are not inapplicable. Yes, there are many examples of these 'çarpet bowls' that have no resemblance to the five Platonic solids. There's a large variety of forms. Maybe some even were balls for games, because even megalithic builders take lunch breaks and we humans do love our games. But this guy....well, he concludes we will probably never know or understand, because "new breakthroughs in our understanding are unlikely." You think?? If you start with the conclusion that there will be no new discoveries or breakthroughs, because you won't even ask the questions or search for evidence to make new breakthroughs, then those breakthroughs definitely won't ever come - from you or your institutions. It's called self-fulfilling prophecy. Thankfully, plenty of intelligent researchers outside of the hallowed halls of academia are not afraid to ask the questions, search for answers, and seek breakthroughs.
Very interesting and informative video. Such an effort was put in to the design and workmanship of these Neolithic ployhedra approximately 4,000 years ago!
They were used in a way that's either related to food, clothing or killing, those were the priorities and I'm sure time and effort was not wasted on much else.
Of great interest to me, these solids. But went to search for "Scottish balls" and the results were a bit hairy.
European Cavebeast
Lmao
Truly fascinating. Remarkable.
I think these things are ‘apprentice pieces’ or suchlike, so that you can show off how good you are at working with at working with stone, therefore more likely to be commissioned to make a stone tool or a stone mace head etc? Why not?
Those bumpy little spheres may simply have been game pieces? They gambled like mad back then!
Excellent. Thank-you.
Consider Frank Chester's work for another perspective. Sacred geometry was GEO metry - that is of the recognition of underlying qualities and relationships of the matrix upon which we 'experience' the Elements. So rather than explicit technology we have implicit meaning or significance. Whatever we embody expresses a current consciousness, but as we explicate such a consciousness in tools and their effects - we become as it were locked into our toolset. The idea that the latter is progress is an assertion of the current over its past that is then an invalidation of our past - as if - now we are 'better'. To the degree we can release the arrogances of our current mindset, so may we access perspectives that were ruled or filtered out by it, and perhaps become curious anew - rather than seeking to fit the new wine into the established paradigm. Foundational shifts operate a shift in the whole structure - and while math can be used to obfuscate and dissociate - this is because at it very foundation is the nature or ratio and relation that in my view serves a translation of qualities to quantitative expression - or the formless to form.
Our concept of WHY? is rooted in getting something or somewhere else - as defined within a restless world in motion. But the unfolding of wonder is a direct communion with Existence - of which we are NEVER truly separated or apart - regardless the obfuscations and dissociations of a private sense of self-becoming.
Attunement and alignment to the 'whole' or 'source-nature' as a way of holding balance in our life in relations (world) cannot be over-valued. But a loss of such resonance allows any and every conflicting and competing 'part' to war at expense of wholeness. I can only point and invite a willingness to consider anew.
I believe, in a world with no paper, tools or machinery, if you wanted an artisan to make you a stone axe etc, you could carry one of these balls as an example of your expertise in working stone. Seeing such work would undoubtably make you consider hiring this man to make you an axe or something similar? So the stones were a portfolio of a man (or woman's) expertise in their work. I would certainly hire one of these guys to make me a simple stone axe.
Good idea but wouldn't the craftsman be buried with examples of his work?
12:50 Carpet balls? (My American ears can't understand some of his accent.)
Bowls.. as in lawn bowls, carpet bowls etc
@TheTruthHurtsEvil time machine??
"em - "em"...
Good grief - these are the people we entrust with interpreting our past? Terrifyingly blinkered nonsense.
One of, but not *the* most, ridiculous, imo, is the suggestion that since they are found near megalithic sites, they could well have been ball bearings for moving megalithic blocks of stones. Let's just completely ignore the sophisticated mathematics and knowledge of astronomy that these sites are well-proven to display...and not ask whether these stones, which display such astonishing mathematical properties, may have been a mathematical tool in aiding the architects.
No, that can't be, "because it can't be". Let's rather look at modern carpet bowls - a game. Well, these balls look a bit similar (no, not really, not even close actually.) These stones, displaying advanced mathematical knowledge purely by accident, it would seem(!) must be toys. A game. A bit like archaeologists thousands of years from now finding surveyors' tools left behind at our building sites, and concluding they are toys because their culture has some toys that have a loosely similar shape.
It's gob-smackingly irresponsible, unscientific, and frankly infuriating.
Shameful, cowardly, lazy, smug, and embarrassing are just a few other words that are not inapplicable.
Yes, there are many examples of these 'çarpet bowls' that have no resemblance to the five Platonic solids. There's a large variety of forms. Maybe some even were balls for games, because even megalithic builders take lunch breaks and we humans do love our games.
But this guy....well, he concludes we will probably never know or understand, because "new breakthroughs in our understanding are unlikely."
You think??
If you start with the conclusion that there will be no new discoveries or breakthroughs, because you won't even ask the questions or search for evidence to make new breakthroughs, then those breakthroughs definitely won't ever come - from you or your institutions. It's called self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thankfully, plenty of intelligent researchers outside of the hallowed halls of academia are not afraid to ask the questions, search for answers, and seek breakthroughs.
I know
golspie, aberdeenshire...? and from a scottish proff......
Hermes trismegistus
The balls are old contraceptives.
he history of the world is not as we are told
You have to be careful when it comes to the authenticity of the British scientific community. Piltdown man!
Stoo being silly that hoax was over 100 yrs ago and evidenced as a hoax for 60 yrs plus.
sum of us are not if ur to understand u will lolz dulra dan firinnan drui gu bragh
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