EPILOGUE

In this note, the author has tied to make his entire thesis evident and weave together any loose threads, knowing that a more systematic and extensive demonstration is still needed.
To sum up, the points I maintain or am worked on are the following:
1- All Pyrenean stone circles represent stars. (Proven).
2- One of the motives for representing stars was religious. (Proven).
3- All past religions had a beginning and an end. (Obvious)
4- The foundations of Pyrenean astral religion appear to come from Mesopotamia. This religion began its decline with the Roman conquest and ended with Christianity. (Co-herent suppositions in the process of demonstration)
5- Pyrenean astral religion ended its fusion with Christianity with the assimilation of its final supreme ritual: the ancient path of the stars, now the Way of St. James. (Working hypothesis)
The limit of the stone circle in what is today Huesca and Navarra led to the construc-tion of a number of Christian sanctuaries all along the Way of St. James, often times erected on top of earlier pagan temples that were based on, shall we say, geographic-astronomic criteria, easily recoverable due to their simplicity. I don't know if there is a de-monstrable astronomic inspiration throughout the entire length of the Way of St. James, but this seems to be the case at the Psc-Romanesque juncture at the beginning of the Way. The sanctuary of San Miguel de Aralar might be a good point of departure for a systematic study of the relationship between the Pyrenean astral religion and Christianity. This rela-tionship has all the elements to be another point of inflexion in this study, somewhat like what Pagolleta represented for Sirius and the Psc. A good number of the elements of the ancient religion are present at San Miguel de Aralar, underscored by a subsisting land-scape, in harmony with its syncretic replacements.
Rather neatly tying up all of the loose ends revealed during the course of this re-search, the author has chosen to leave dangling for two reasons: first, because we can still dig deeper and understand them better individually; and secondly, because I am sure that anyone interested in studying the Psc and Romanesque art in the Pyrenees from the ground up and with no preconceived ideas has sufficient material to weave for themselves the real-ity of our distant past.

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