| 词条 | Terence Meaden |
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| name = Terence Meaden | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|05|06}} | birth_place = Trowbridge, Wiltshire, U.K. | birth_name = George Terence Meaden | known_for = | occupation = author, archaeologist }} Terence Meaden is an English author who writes on archaeoastronomy, mostly focusing on the megalithic sites of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Drombeg stone circle in Cork, Ireland. He is a retired physicist with a doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Oxford and a master’s degree in applied landscape archaeology also from University of Oxford. Meaden argues it was the power of a strong religious narrative that underlies the purpose of these megaliths. The Drombeg stone circle is based on the cosmological fertility drama of the marriage of the sky God and earth Goddess known to the Classical Greeks much later as the hieros gamos. He states that the same principles also explain the placement of megaliths at Avebury and Stonehenge, although both sites are now damaged and incomplete. Fertility symbolism explains the religious elements behind the culture of the farming communities who were very dependent on the timely arrival of seasonal weather and the fertility of crops, livestock and women.[1] Additionally, he has studied ancient religions, surviving tribal religions and cultures, anthropology, mythology, and symbology in order to more fully understand megalithic culture. He determined the core idea behind the building of Stonehenge and Avebury by spotting and interpreting key symbolism and was featured in a documentary filmed in 1998 for Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel regarding his hieros gamos concept.[2] At Stonehenge on midsummer morning, a phallic shadow is cast from the "Heel" stone; this penetrates to the centre of the monument where its tip touches the "Goddess" stone. [3] In his book, "Stonehenge, Avebury and Drombeg Stone Circle Deciphered", he wrote that most stone circles were planned as sunrise fertility monuments, and so need to be studied at sunrise.[4] At Drombeg stone circle, photographs taken at sunrise on each of the eight festival occasions demonstrate Drombeg’s builders used solar archaeoastronomy when designing their circle. Meaden writes that this Neolithic calendar was based on the eight festival dates of traditional agriculture, corresponding to the pagan Wheel of the Year. [5] Meaden is influenced by the work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas who wrote about the Goddess worshipping Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe". [6] Bibliography
Notes1. ^{{cite web|title=Journal of Lithic Studies of the University of Edinburgh. (2017) Volume 4, Number 4.|website=journals.ed.ac.uk |url=http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/issue/view/160/|accessdate=23 March 2019}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh7Qve6QY-0 |title=Stonehenge - Secrets of the Stones - 1998 |website=YouTube.com |accessdate=2019-03-23}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGfmGkUJQ68 |title=Stonehenge - Ancient Astronomical Shadow Effects and Fertility Symbolism |website=YouTube.com |accessdate=2019-03-23}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Deciphering-stone-circles-Drombeg-and-Stonehenge|website=oxford.academia.edu |url=http://oxford.academia.edu/TerenceMeaden/Deciphering-stone-circles-Drombeg-and-Stonehenge/|accessdate=23 March 2019}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Deciphering-stone-circles-Drombeg-and-Stonehenge|website=oxford.academia.edu |url=http://oxford.academia.edu/TerenceMeaden/Deciphering-stone-circles-Drombeg-and-Stonehenge/|accessdate=23 March 2019}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qb4AEdZkGg |title=Terence Meaden Moon Goddess in the Land|website=YouTube.com |accessdate=2019-03-23}} External links
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