It’s The Last Day…..Orkney – Wiltshire?.......From ‘Free Tibet’….
by Bernie Bell - 07:41 on 16 August 2024
It’s the Last Day….
…..that the Ness of Brodgar dig is open to the public….and major finds are still being un-earthed…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dig-diary-day40/
Ceridwen’s stone reminds me of carvings in Fourknocks in the Bru Na Boinne, County Meath, Republic of Ireland….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/05/03/re-the-boyne-to-brodgar-programme-ii/
Drains can tell us a lot….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dig-diary-day-41/
Here’s my ‘drains’ poem again….
Thoughts about the drain, discovered at the Ness
It's not just Sky-stones,
Carved Balls,
Painted Walls.
It's the basics of life.
Making, Breaking.
The fragments which can say so much,
To those who pay attention.
Butchery - How?
Placement - Why?
Careful noting of the smallest detail,
Builds the picture.
The beauty, matters.
Beauty, simply, does.
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
The principle, works down the ages.
Beauty, mystery, and.....practicality.
LIFE.
Bernie Bell August 2015
AND….
An important reminder for those still questioning the closure…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/stone-lamination-example/
I’m wondering what the dig has produced in human terms, in the here and now – couples, babies, friendships.
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Orkney – Wiltshire?.......
First bit copied from the Orkney International Science Festival Facebook page…
“Now that Stonehenge’s famous Altar Stone has been shown to be Old Red Sandstone from the north of Scotland, with Orkney a real possibility, here’s a look at the implications for our picture of the people of the Neolithic in a new article in Frontiers magazine today. It adds to the case made in the past by people like Gordon Childe, the excavator of Skara Brae, who spoke of them as scientists of outstanding ability.
https://frontiersmagazine.org/stones-across-the-sea/
The new discovery also brings under the spotlight the ideas of Dr Mark Cooper of Washington University on Neolithic ships. He believes that like the vessels of the Pacific Islanders, the people of the Neolithic used trimarans, with a stone slab as central weight, providing rugged seaworthiness and substantial cargo capacity.
With an old piece of folklore speaking of the Stonehenge bluestones being moved over the sea in vessels, it turns out that there are other stories that speak of ‘floating stones’, and also an old Orkney story of a stone being carried over the sea. And the appearance of Orkney in old Welsh legends may have significance.”
And my tuppenceworth…
Dr. Mark Cooper has spoken at the Science Fest. before now - I tell something of it here...
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/08/26/more-about-boats-brodgar/
PS...
An even better article about the Stonehenge Altar stone...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02584-2
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From ‘Free Tibet’….
“The pillaging of Tibetan lands for profit has gone on long enough.
That is why I am joining Tibetans around the world to call for an international moratorium on resource extraction and megadevelopment in Tibet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsOxS8dol6U
Back in February, we watched on with horror as hundreds of Tibetans were beaten and arrested in Dege County. Their only ‘crime’ was to peacefully protest the construction of a new hydrodam that would see thousands of Tibetans displaced.
Six months later, we still cannot be certain what the situation in Dege County is now. With a police crackdown and a full information blackout in effect, there is no news on who is still detained or the peoples’ welfare.
It has never been clearer that Tibetan voices are not respected by the Chinese government. This project was imposed on Tibetans without their consultation or consent. To the Chinese government, the natural resources in Dege County were far more precious than the lives of the local residents.
When Tibetans do not even have a say in their own displacement, in how megadevelopment projects will affect their lives, and how the ecology of the lands they have settled on for centuries is protected, it is time to be talking about international action.
It is time to be holding corporations exploiting my country to account, to be demanding more from international governments.
It is time to be clearly saying: hands off Tibet’s land.
I, alongside other Tibetans around the world, are calling for an immediate halt to China’s resource extraction and dam construction in Tibet.
Right now, Tibetans themselves are not even seeing any benefit or profit from these operations. It is huge Chinese companies, employing workers from outside of Tibet who are reaping all the rewards.
Until Tibetans living in Tibet can make their own decisions around their natural resources and environment, until they are allowed to decide who is to profit from their lands, and until they are able to give prior full, free, and informed consent to these projects, they cannot continue.
We cannot allow this injustice to continue, nor permit China to carry on disregarding Tibetan voices.
I implore you to watch the video statement by myself and other Tibetans at the top of this email.
Together, we can push for change and ensure the rights of Tibetans are protected.
Thank you for your continued support.
Tenzin Rashi Rabga
Digital Officer"
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