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FINAL
COMMENTS
Astronomy
and religious mythology are not sufficient to extract
all of the informa-tion apparently hidden by the psc,
but would have to be intermingled with other questions
related to the history and period in which it was used.
The first step to be taken in order to research into
these and other fields would be to draw up a chronological
list of psc's, not only to establish the period of their
construction, but to make sense of what they represent
to the history of man.
The
interpretation of Arihouat, made prior to visiting the
site, has shown that, at least on occasions, when we
find a good work on a group of psc's, its astronomical
decod-ing is possible. And, by analogy, as is the case
throughout the psc, we must suppose that if the construction
of Arihouat was inspired by astronomy, the other 'nécropoles
en cercles de pierres des Pyrénées', must
similarly have the same inspiration. Thus, at least
-pp. 179-180 of Müller's work-: Bordes-de-Rivière
-some thirty circles-, Plà-de-Bèret -some
twenty circles- and Ayer -some twenty circles-, or rather
what's left of them in writing or on the field, including
the landscape, should be studied in order to establish
the 'spirit' of the western limit of the psc.
Making
deductions based on what we now know, the psc, as a
whole, would seem to extend at least from its known
western limit-the river Leizarán- to its until
now eastern and let's say provisional limit, the start
of the River Garonne in its numerous offshoots.
The
results of having astronomically interpreted the psc
lead me to think that during the period of construction
and use of these monuments, there were beliefs of different
kinds that evolved with time, in probable keeping and
varying syncretism with other relig-ions. However, going
into these questions, without first of all having collectively
recovered the forgotten meaning of the psc, seems to
me to stray from my single proposal extracted from among
those made over the years, i.e. that Pyrenean stone
circles represent stars. I would similarly categorically
add, after having studied André Müller's
work, but without having visited what remains of the
group on the field, that exactly the same principle
ap-plies to the "nécropoles en 'cercles
de pierres' d'Arihouat à Garin".
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