Stonehenge

A Noted Megalithic Monument. 18 June 2025, 22 Sivan, 5785.

Just to remind ourselves, our main inspiration for studying Megalthic monuments is Jeremiah 31:21.

Jeremiah 31:
20 Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For though I spoke against him,
I earnestly remember him still;
Therefore My heart yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

21 Set up signposts [Hebrew: Tsionim],
Make landmarks [Hebrew: Tamrurim];
Set your heart toward the highway,
The way in which you went.
Turn back, O virgin of Israel,
Turn back to these your cities.

The Hebrew words for signposts [Hebrew: Tsionim], and for landmarks [Hebrew: Tamrurim], according to Rabbinical Commentaries (e.g. Radak, Abarbanel) are referring to Megalithic type monuments. There are trails of such monuments linking Western Europe to the region of Israel and its near neighbors.

A noted megalthiic Monument is Stone Henge.

Here is a Video Clip concerning Stone Henge:

Groundbreaking Discovery at Stonehenge Rewrites History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSliZqaIy6s
Michael Button

Extracts from the transcript of the above Video Clip:

One stone, the "Altar Stone, " in Stonehenge came from northeast Scotland.
... the largest Sarsen stones appear to have been sourced from the West Woods area about 25 km or 15 miles
north of Stonehenge .... even more remarkable are the blue stones a set of smaller but still massive stones weighing up to four tons each which somehow were transported not from this area, not even from England, but all the
way from southwest Wales! A staggering distance of over 250 km or 155 miles. ... the monument is
precisely oriented to the summer and winter solstesses creating a dramatic solar spectacle that still draws crowds
today. This suggests astronomical knowledge and the precise advanced geometry baked into the architecture of
the monument ....
Stonehenge may have been designed with acoustic sound resonance in mind as certain frequencies are enhanced within
the space and the dense dollar stones ring like bells when struck. The altar stone is also a type of rock that has an
unusually high metal composition.
Did they know this?
Is this why they chose it?
... We see over 1,000 stone monuments from this period all across the British Isles.
We are seeing the echoes of a culture that:was more advanced and interconnected than we ever thought.

Wikepedia ("Stonehenge") tells us:

# Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among contemporary monuments. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds).#

Pictures of the Altar Stone.

Place of Origin of the Altar Stone.

It is claimed that this was set up about 3000 BCE still within the Stone Age and stretching into the Bronze Age in ca. 2500 BCE.. The methods dating ancient findings (using Radio-Carbon dating etc.) however, are unreliable. The building of Stone Henge and the other Monuments shows organization, political unfication, co-ordination, sophistication, engineering expertise, mathematical and astronomical knowledge, dedication of vase resources, utilisation of manpower, etc. In other words a whole civilization with definite aims and purpose.

According to archaeoligical understanding the agricultural infrastructure and the available population in the times given was not sufficiant to carry out the feats attributed to them. Only later, closer to Roman Times, would there have been enough people in the British Isles to support such endeavors.