03048nam a22003137a 4500 pucpr 20241025105412.0 131205s2012 ie a b 001 0 eng 9781908308245 paperback pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET GN776.22.I73 M877 2012 936.182201 Murphy, Anthony (Journalist) 256547 Newgrange : monument to immortality. / Anthony Murphy. txt Dublin, Ireland : The Liffey Press , 2012. xi, 276 p. color ill. ; 24 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) Contents : Preface vii -- Acknowledgements x -- 1. Connections 1 -- 2. Stone and Bone 19 -- 3. Community Effort 39 -- 4. Sun, Moon & Star 57 -- 5. Vallancey and the Armed Kind 81 -- 6. The Test of Time 99 -- 7. Tomb or Womb 117 -- 8. Towards the Light 133 -- 9. Cave Myths 149 -- 10. The Divine Child 167 -- 11. Inside the Chamber of Light 185 -- 12. What Came after Newgrange? 205 -- 13. What Have We Lost? 223 -- 14. How Can We Go Back? 239 -- Endnotes 257 -- Index 274 -- Many people who visit the ancient and magnificent Newgrange monument in the Boyne Valley are driven by some deep longing to connect with their most distant roots. The giant 5,000-year-old megalithic construction evokes awe and wonderment, and a keen sense of melancholy for the community of people who created and fashioned it from stone and earth in the remote past, a people now lost to time. For the past two centuries, archaeologists, antiquarians, writers and researchers have been probing Newgrange in the hope of revealing something about its purpose, and something about the mysterious people of the New Stone Age who created giant structures using primitive technology. What has become clear from these investigations is that Newgrange is a uniquely special place, and that its construction was carried out not by a grizzly mob of grunting barbarians, but rather by an advanced agrarian community who had developed keen skills in the sciences of astronomy, engineering and architecture. In "Newgrange: Monument to Immortality", writer and researcher Anthony Murphy goes deep into the mind and soul of his Neolithic ancestors to attempt to draw forth some answers to these questions. In a deeply moving, poetic and philosophical exploration, he looks beyond the archaeology and the astronomy to reveal a much more profound and sacred vision of the very spirit of the people who were driven to such marvellous and wondrous efforts -- Ireland Newgrange Site. 116005 Local Antiquities , Prehistoric Newgrange Site 53363 Ireland Passage Graves culture 301697 Ireland Boyne River Valley. lcc 6 GN776.22.I73 General M87 2012 241990 241990 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2013-08-11 amazon 24.98 519160 0 General GN776.22.I73 M87 2012 91000000035352 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 34.98 2013-08-11 6