GEOGRAPHICAL FRAMEWORK

The Pyrenean stone circle stands along the Pyrenean mountain range, from the Can-tabrian sea at least to the Arán Valley and birthplace of the River Garonne, covering an area, the principle axis of which, E-W, stretching for some two hundred kilometres. The circles stand along the Atlantic-Mediterranean watershed, on either side of the crest, and on the foothills of the range until the Bay of Biscay.
The western boundary is sufficiently defined by the River Leizarán and its prolonga-tion to the Aralar range. To the east of the Pyrenees, however, the boundary of the Psc con-sidered as a whole and geographical enclave on the mountain range is as yet undefined; this could, in principle, without categorical affirmation, demonstrate knowledge of the ex-istence of at least one stone circle, in the Plat de Beret -Arán Valley-, the last valley to receive the waters poured into the Atlantic Ocean via the River Garonne; hence this valley could be considered to be a provisional boundary.

Given the above, apart from this location which could be considered as local, the peculiarity of the astronomy and religion reflected by the stone circle and, above all, by certain toponymic matches, have directed my research into such remarkable monuments towards a series of hypothetical Asian origins. Currently, my working hypothesis is that, in the first millennium BC, the world as it was known at the time stretched from Siberia, Korea and Japan, or in other words the East, all the way to Western Iberia. The Eastern Iberia was located between the Black and Caspian Seas, to the east of Colchis, on the eastern borders of the Black Sea and to the south of the Caucasian mountains, the highest peak of which, measuring 5,642 metres in height, is mount Elbrus -Ebro?-, and Eastern Albania which bordered the Caspian. Between them, Colchis and Iberia occupied a space approximately equivalent to today's Georgia. Colchis existed until 100 BC and was the home of the Golden Fleece -Aries, or the sun in Aries or...?- sought by the Argonauts. The point is that the two Iberias coincided on the same parallels, precisely between 42 and 43, aligned with the Asian Colchis and Iberia, in the mountains of the brilliant Anu, the Pyrenees, and the Way of St. James which, at that time, like in other Megalithic areas, ended at the cape of Finisterre, on the "road of the stars" and of the Golden Fleece?
To the south of Colquis and of Iberia, were Uruatri, later Urartu, now known as Armenia. The capital of Urartu was Arzashku. This was an area of Indo-European migration towards Asia and vice versa, and their inhabitants spoke as many as five dialects. The Encyclopaedia Britannica indicates that the "Urartians" had points in common with the Hurritas and that their geographical and personal names existed widely in the valley of the Euphrates. In Urartu, to the NW of Lake Van and NE of Lake Urmia, was mount Ararat, bordered to the north by the River Araxes more or less similarly to the way its homonym borders the north of the Aralar mountain range -SW limit of the Psc-, and further south Mesopotamia, the inhabitants of which already had astronomic and geodesic knowledge.
These geodesic specialists, carriers of an astral religion ending with Rome and Christianization from one side of the earth to the other, show similarities with respect to the structure of the firmament: Iberia-Colchis between two seas, Caspian-Black; Western Iberia between another two, Mediterranean-Atlantic, theorizing on the basis of a technical and global approach, seeking analogies, not only earth/sky as indicated by the Psc, but terrestrial similarities. I would say that the Psc is the lost link which, when astronomically decoded, makes it possible to understand the then existing astral religion and its conversion to Christianity, and the deduction of ancient geographical analogies which, though not to be found in proven documents, would seem to make a certain amount of sense.

Studying the Pyrenean stone circle requires a systematic geographical classification considering the phenomenon as a whole. In Del crónlech pirenaico (descodificación as-tronómica de una religión olvidada) -On the Pyrenean stone circle (astronomical decod-ing of a forgotten religion)-, Juan José Ochoa de Zabalegui, Editorial Txertoa, 1998, I began, starting from the west and the rivers standing within the Pyrenean stone circle area, a decimal geographical classification which could be useful in this task if extended towards the east.
Although the number of monuments standing in the Pyrenean stone circle enclave is unknown and unrecorded as a whole, there may well be over a thousand circles. A thou-sand circles for a thousand stars.

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