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GENERAL
INTERPRETATION
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The biggest circle in the group: marked with an O on drawing
3, has a diameter of around 9 metres. A priori, there seems
to be no doubt that it represents Sirius, the brightest
star on the firmament. Sirius is represented profusely
in the Pyrenees with differing intentionality and varying
diameters. The Canis Major alpha, when present, is always
the biggest circle in the group, but the diameter of
the circle it represents varies from group to group.
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If my memory doesn’t
fail me, the biggest diameter —corresponds to
the Sirius of Ezkeriturritako Gaina, located in
the Navarran village of Arano; the smallest —some
7 metres— is to be found in Okabe. The former,
according to the witnesses in its circle, principally
indicates risings. The latter, given its witnesses
and the Pico de Orhi, ranges from rising to culmination
in a sequence ending with the rising of Spica.
Sirius, in the Pyrenees, we could deduce, prior
to arriving at the Crown, from the residual toponym,
has been identified as Bel, as Or, as Saint Michael
and with epithets such as Tximistako —+/- ‘Carrier
of the Ray’— and Eskeriturritako —+/- ´Fountain
of Grace’.—.
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Circle O,
like most of the stone circles in the group, having
seen the witnesses and established the landscape with
the help of a map, can with difficulty be considered
to be a rising or a setting Sirius, in fact, in an area
slotted into the surrounding mountainous landscape,
as is the case here, neither make much sense; this said,
given the precise northern and southern witnesses, a
Sirius in culmination seems to make astronomical sense,
although I will keep this thought to myself for the
moment.
2- The circle corresponding to the northern
subgroup, U,
shown in drawing
2, second in diameter of the group, today
excavated and therefore lying open to the inclemencies
of the weather, is enclosed with a wooden fence and
has enjoyed the fortune not shared by its close neighbours
to the south of being an important circle of over 7
metres in diameter built with powerful, emphatic witnesses
which, for the time being, have saved it from disappearance.
The circle has outstanding setting witnesses on the
arch ranging from 298° to 318° and the same as circles
O and K on the N-S axis. Having tested
all sorts of theories about this circle lasting for
months due to the fact that it is of such a size that
it can only represent a star of tremendous magnitude,
I finally matched it to Arcturus, a Boötes, Unai or Unain in Basque, which is translated in the dictionary
as Boötes, and which I imagine comes from On 10. Lord/Un. 9 spirit and
—ain let’s say height ‘Lord or spirit of the heights’?,
Shupa, the god Enlil according to the Mul-Apin tablets.
3- Fomalhaut, the Fish, Ku on the Mul-Apin tablets, first star on the Path
of Ea, was suggested and subsequently sought out given
the name with which the group is known:
La Corona de los muertos.
According to my first theory, requiring clarifications which I won’t make
at this point, the layout of the stone circles corresponding
to La Corona de los muertos, The Crown
of the Dead represents stars mainly located on the
path known as the moon path, and responds to Mesopotamic
celestial geographic principles reflected in its ‘astrolabes’
which divide the sky into three strips from east to
west. The northern strip is identified with the Path
of Enlil, the one in the centre with that of Anu, and
the southern one with that of Ea. Later on we will see
the influence of these paths on The
Crowns.
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