Lyneham Stone Oxfordshire at Megaliths.net

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Update, 2013:
Mediterranean type axe carvings
have now been found at Stonehenge
by laser scanning. Well, interesting.
But it may have nothing
to do with Lyneham.
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Legends of the Scots, Welsh and Irish
claim that there was influx to the British Isles
from the Mediterranean Sea in ancient days
and that the ancient kings of Britain
were related to the Pharaohs.

The Lyneham Megalith may suggest
that these legends are true,
since one side of the stone
looks definitely Pharaonic
and the other apparently indigenous,
but it could also just be
a man and a woman
with gender hairstyles.

In recent years Norse-type longboats
capable of sea voyages
have been found at Abydos in Egypt,
dating to ca. 3000 BC.
What is the significance of these boats?
Were there ancient ties
between Egypt and the British Isles?

Ivory and wooden tablets of Pharaoh Djer
could be interpreted to indicate
that one son of a pharaoh
departed for distant lands.

Was there some kind
of technology transfer at this time?
There is much similarity
between the stone work on the Orkneys,
for example, and the pyramids,
both showing corbelling and cladding technology
not in evidence elsewhere at this time.

Below is a replica of the Djer tablets,
showing a pharaonic figure
being held in the air
and being taken to a boat.

Someone either left voluntarily or was exiled,
and based on the above tablets,
went off in a boat.
Who went? And where did they go?

We suggest very speculatively
that these tablets may relate
to the start of the journey
of the ARGONAUTS,
and although called "Greeks" in later legend
these may not be the Greeks of Hellenistic Athens,
but their relations far before that era,
who could be the Minyans (Minoans?) of Egypt,
for the kinds of boat(s) which the ARGONAUTS used
are first in evidence in ca. 3000 BC (e.g. at Abydos)
and already are well-known
by the time of Hellenistic Greece.
Perhaps the boats found at Abydos
which were found at the temple of Hor-Aha
(who we equate with King Orry and King Arthur)
ARE the boats of Jason and the Argonauts,
who were sent of to find
the Golden Fleece at Colchis.

See the
Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius at
http://sunsite berkeley.edu/OMACL/Argonautica/
and
Bulfinch's Mythology
at http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull17.html
where it is written as follows:

"There was another kingdom in Thessaly
near to that of Athamas,
and ruled over by a relative of his.
The king AEson
[Our comment: Hor-Aha?],
being tired of the cares of government,
surrendered his crown
to his brother Pelias
[Our comment: Djer?]
on condition that he should hold it
only during the minority of Jason
[Our comment: Den?],
the son of AEson.

When Jason was grown up
and came to demand the crown from his uncle,
Pelias pretended to be willing to yield it,
but at the same time
suggested to the young man
the glorious adventure
of going in quest of the Golden Fleece,
which it was well known
was in the kingdom of Colchis, and was,
as Pelias pretended,
the rightful property of their family.
Jason was pleased with the thought
and forthwith made preparations
for the expedition.
At that time the only species of navigation
known to the Greeks consisted of small boats
or canoes hollowed out from trunks of trees
[this puts the date back to several millennia
prior to Hellenistic Greece],
so that when Jason employed Argus
to build him a vessel
capable of containing fifty men,
it was considered a gigantic undertaking
[and one that needed previous technology].
It was accomplished, however,
and the vessel named "Argo,"
from the name of the builder....
Jason sent his invitation
to all the adventurous young men of Greece,
and soon found himself
at the head of a band of bold youths,
many of whom afterwards were renowned
among the heroes and demigods of Greece.
Hercules, Theseus,
Orpheus, and Nestor were among them.
They are called the Argonauts,
from the name of their vessel."
[We add: argos could have meant
"Earth, Clay".
The Argonauts were
"the first surveyors of the Earth".]

Well, that is the speculative theory.
Years that come will prove
if it has any basis.
If so, perhaps the megaliths
in fact have a connection.

Update, 2013:
Mediterranean type axe carvings
have now been found at Stonehenge
by laser scanning. Well, interesting.
But it may have nothing
to do with Lyneham.

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