BY WAY OF AN EPILOGUE

In the first place, over and above any other consideration, I must emphasize the astronomic nature of The Crowns. It would seem to depict an annual calendar of months or moons, showing a year divided into three seasons fragmented by the culminations of Fomalhaut, Sirius and Arcturus, circles U, K and O on my drawings. Knowledge of the historical division of the Pyrenean year has been one of my aspirations over recent years; the suspicion that a year divided into three seasons, as mentioned in the note accompanying this instalment, intuitively re-emerged in Ezkeriturritako Gaina —although I am unsure as to its degree of orthodoxy— and was subsequently confirmed in The Crowns, leaving a trail of unanswered questions in its wake which, given the absence of local historical antecedents, I will have to try and clear up even as a working hypothesis with the help of other sources. It seems unlikely that the knowledge necessary to erect a group of stone circles of this kind would have been acquired locally for no particular reason. I would rather tend to believe that the wisdom may have come from those who studied the firmament with more ease and continuity than in the Pyrenees. In this respect I have been placing my stakes, as reflected in Cromlechpyrene, on the similarity of Pyrenean astronomy with that of Mesopotamia, both considered within a large geographical area, in a work hypothesis which is taking shape slowly as a result of having observed different groups of stone circles in the field and of having carried out various etymological analyses. Likewise, the idea is taking shape, also insinuated by different authors and backed by experience, that some time in the first millennium BC there were geodetic specialists who, in addition to discovering the earth and its limits, directed their efforts towards matching the planet from Iberia and Corunna to Siberia and Korea —by way of an example—, from one side of the earth to the other, with the firmament and its revolutions in order that their findings serve as a model and “measuring tape”. Believing in this factor makes megalithism understandable, makes stones talk, and often makes sense of the toponyms precisely surrounding these stones. These thoughts are shared by Andis Kaulins, whom, at http://www.megaliths.co.uk, says: Megalithic Sites are Astronomy and Geodetics. It is impossible to give a shorter, clearer definition of the megalithic phenomenon, of which, as I have demonstrated over the years, the Pyrenean version is no exception. However, over and above the limits of this work, there are still a number of questions to be asked; for example, the historical and technical relationship between the different megalithisms and, something I talked about in www.Cromlechpyrene, the relationship between today’s Road to Santiago de Compostela with the first Path of the Stars.

The division of the year into three seasons as in The Crowns induces me to continue, hence, dividing these three seasons by 2, we would get 6, and by 3, 9, meaning that the former would lead us to a year divided into 12 parts and the second to one of 18, or rather of 27, as is the case of the Vedic Nakshatras. I could say, at least provisionally and having interpreted the stone circles in The Crowns, that the historical division could, with the arrival of the solar zodiac, have evolved from 3-9-27 to 3-6-12. A division which, here at least, initially justifies Ku-Or-Un.

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