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3/08/98
Yesterday was
the twelfth anniversary of the day I took my first
steps towards decoding the Pyrenean stone circles
in circumstances which, as I said at the time,
are of no importance here. I have always known
and been aware of the fact that if the stone circles
represented stars, I couldn’t stop without solving
Okabe to my complete personal satisfaction.
Okabe, perhaps
the most emblematic stone circle site in the Atlantic
foothills of the Pyrenees and the key area which
unifies all of the stone circles stretching from
Pico de Orhi to the Cantabrian Sea. It has at
least twenty-four obvious monuments. On first
studying the group in the 90s I didn’t get one
single match right. Eight years later I have a
solution which I would say is pretty good, although
it is also possible that I am mistaken yet again.
I have only kept the last part of this work:
«All of these
almost unbelievable things are said about Okabe
because Okabe is an extremely complicated site
regarding the finding of a complete solution to
the circle seen as an asterism, and then, above
all, believing it. What I can say of the Okabe
site, really and truly, is this: that it contains
a series of stone circles on the ground and up
in the night sky there are stars. But in the middle
there is nothing! Somewhere lost in the past is
a person plotting incongruities and trying to
find sky-earth signals, with the secret hope that
other men in this same past would have done the
same but in the other direction in an incipient
homage to the great beyond of the stars.»
Today I no longer
see Okabe as an asterism in the strict sense of
the word, but instead interpret it in another
way. I believe in what I say and am of the opinion
that I wasn’t too far off track in the last paragraph
of that mistaken initial work. It is more important
to point in the right direction than to be right,
given that being on the right track and recognizing
your own mistakes and perseverance eventually
leads to results.
Occabé, as the
French write it, together with northern Oianleku,
are the Atlantic alpha and omega of the Pyrenean
stone circle and its double Sistine Chapel. Oianleku
is in a nearly gaseous state and was interpreted
in Del crónlech
pirenaico, Editorial Txertoa 1998 in a manner
that I essentially maintain. Okabe, on the other
hand, is in good condition and I have always believed,
as I said earlier, that either I achieve complete
personal satisfaction with respect to the stellar
match of its twenty-four monuments, or the Pyrenean
stone circle = star theory will be doubted by
the only person who supports it so far – the author
of these words.
Those were my
thoughts in ’98. Now, in the summer of 2003, on
sorting out old writings in order to put together
the definitive exposition of the group decoded
for years now, in reality since Oianleku, I cannot
resign myself to deal with it in an aseptic manner:
various coordinates, drawings, matches, etc. It’s
not the time in the home run to give in to the
styles and presentations of others; but I’m going
to try all the same.
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Geographically speaking, Okabe stands
on the coordinates: latitude N. 43º 02’ 19”, longitude
W. 1º 03’ 39”, altitude 1380 metres. With respect to
the stone circles as a whole, Okabe has a paradigmatic
location:
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Pico de Annie stands at 108°.
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Pico de Orhi, stands out at around 126°, depending on from
which stone circle you make your measurements.
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Moreover, Okabe is located on a clear and specific EW mountain
axis of similar stone circle substance as Auza-Mendaur-Ernio
and Aizpitxa-Izu-Adarra-Izarraitz, about which I have
already discussed in other works. In simplified terms this axis runs from the crest of Organbideska — at
1445 metres — to the east, hence justifying its name
Orga-bide-eskas —‘limit of the path of the Chariot, or Wain, of the
Ursa Major’— when observed from the Millagate stone
circles. It then crosses Okabe and continues to the
west, first past Errozate and Urkulu, and then, further
on in the same direction, to Velate, passing through
Lindux, Adi —slightly further south— Sayoa and Irumugeta,
among other emblematic mountains. Groups of stone
circles sit at the foot of the mountains, serving as
the southern limit of these monuments and following
the dividing line of the Atlantic-Mediterranean watersheds.
The monuments represent not only the most flowery aspect of the firmament,
which I would have said years ago, but a large number
of the stars making it possible to start observing and
perhaps understanding stone circles from a point of
view which, without abandoning the strictest astronomical
technique in the slightest, goes hand in hand with the
old proposals thought out anew, on the way to the great
beyond of the stars.
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To the precise north, some twelve kilometres
away in a straight line, are the two Orgamendis, with
altitudes of 624 and 639 metres, once again confirming
that in the distant past, in these latitudes, Ursa Major
and its Chariot, not to mention Artz —Bear— as reasoned in Oiartzun and
Artikutza, was principally named Orga
—Chariot.
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Outstanding when seen from the centre group,
via the NW quadrant, are Baigura at 333°, Iparla at
317° and Auza at 295°, and beside Auza on the horizon,
Peñas de Aia. All of these sites have stone circles,
which, apart from forming the EW axis already mentioned,
constitute a strip centred on the 120-300 degree axis
— Pico de Orhi-Okabe-Auza-Peñas de Aia — which may well
have given its name to the Bay of Biscay and are written
pages which narrate, with modest means but a firm and
understandable letter, the history of the Pyrenean stone
circle —Psc.
In this axis, or rather in the strip
constituting the axis, proof was left all the way to
the Bay of Biscay of the two stars at either end of
the Milky Way, Sirius and Antares, rising over Pico
Orhi, and of the synchronous ephemeredes of the setting
which underlined the risings in the opposite direction.
Thus, as it was said at Pagolletako Gaña, the rising
of Sirius over Pico Orhi was marked by the simultaneous
setting of Altair over Izarraitz; moreover, in the rather
nebulous and as yet unpublished Agiña I, the rising
of Antares over Orhi is marked by the setting of Capella
and its stars over the nearby Peñas de Aia. This strip,
Orhi-Peñas de Aia and surrounding area, should be treated
as a whole; with regard to the religious aspect at least,
therein lies the essence of the Pyrenean stone circle
—Psc. So, let’s begin with Okabe.
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