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mirrored file at http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ For complete access to all the files of this collection see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php Age of Rituals Early round at DalOn Dal we have the key to understanding Scandinavian rock-carvings.Here we find an organised symbol language telling about the ritualyear of our ancestors. Then we know at least something about theirideas and understand a bit more of their lifeElks' land, time law, dating, Ramadan, myth of agriculture, Dal, runicstaff, shaman, rock-carvings at Alta Norway, ritual axes, elk anddeer, nobility, boat axe, ground axes or chisels, slab stone cistIntroductionMany Mothers [bviolet.JPG]-[bviolet.JPG]... to sitemapDedicationLeading LadyYour rootsNaked mothers[bred.gif]-[bred.gif]... homeThe bookGood mothersThemes:A mysteryImages of goddessesRitual AgeNot easy to be godTime lawKimberleyInanna myth Bronze AgeGwion Gwion GirlsInanna steps downLawPilbara mothersInanna lured the boysMore onConclusionsUnder the apple treeLinked files:Follow in suite Early round at DalDolmen & barrowSuites of the GoddessThis is Elks' LandMore on SumerStony suites at CarnacTime LawStanding stonesDatingIsis mythCist periodFollow GyrFollow HerMore on EgyptThe early roundMyth of resurrectionSongs from pyramidsPeople of the daggerPlutharch about IsisWhite spot Dal?[bblue.JPG]-[bblue.JPG] This is Elks' land[Image1795.JPG]"This is the Elks' land". A greeting at the mouth of Dalbergsaa,Southern Dal.This is the oldest complete calendar found on Dal. This is the normalform of simple calendars. It has a picture in the centre and the moonsor the counting of summer as a half circle. The spring rituals aremost important. Then comes second the Ramadan or beginning of thewinter but without specific planning. In Egypt winter was seasons ofthe goat and later the cow.[Image1796.JPG]View towards Vaenersborg at the rock. The carving faces Lake Vaenernnear the mouth of Dalbergsaa river. The river was the road to thesettlements deeper in the land.It is easy to associate to hunting and also to the carvings withanimals in Northern Scandinavia. Although they are probably the oldestand not as simple as one may think. The carving may look primitive atfirst sight. They say this with the same mind, as when I as a boythought that living it during Stone Age would have been easy. As therewere large free land and plenty of animals one had only to take a bowand an axe and go for a hare. However I guess one will never get theskill to come near animals at once. Hunting animals have often 10 to20 trials behind a killed animal.It is quite normal that many of the ritual rock-carvings inScandinavia have been made near the ancient waterline. Their Time Lawwas much connected to water and water-flow in heaven and on earth. Theother main location is at the border of ancient fields and graveyards.[Image1797.gif]Details from the carving. A. Icons of spring, B. Counting 22 periodsof nine days, C. Ramadan is half year in autumn.Have you tried to go fishing with the demand on coming home with fish?I have one summer because the cats were waiting at the gate. Mostly Iwas at the river in the evening but sometimes even in daytime. Ofcourse the cat got catfish. Nevertheless, one cannot come to your wifeand children and say: "Bad luck, we have to suck the thumb thisevening". This sort of problem was the birth of Mother Invention.Women had to compensate the lack of foreseeing in man mind.[bblue.JPG]-[bblue.JPG] Time law makes the world go aroundTime was as important to our ancestors as it is today. This is validsince mankind has lived in organised settlements. Signs of this arefound as rock-paintings in caves and on different kinds of remains.Moon-calendars have been for more than 20,000 years as far as we know.Using stellar constellations may also be that old. The beginning ofcontinuous agriculture required a more detailed calendar and with itthe myths of agriculture. That is in our word instruction or timetablefor the season. They made most of the early calendars for six to sevenmoons. I suggest you, have a look at stars and constellations beforereading this book.It was an ingenious idea to "paint" the myths on the night sky. Theygot an automatic big clock to watch in a certain direction at adefinite time during the night or in the morning. Thus, they gave theconvention to follow the ecliptic and the sunrise during the year.They discovered the equinoxes and the solstices and got four stabletime limits during the solar year.Then followed the convention of using a spring equinox as start of thesummer. Although in southern cultures, it was more suitable to usehalfway between winter solstice and spring equinox as in Egypt. Tothis came the moon counting which divide the year in moons.This is not more complicated than the yearly ritual of church andChristianity starting in the spring. To decide the right time is noteasy as we in Sweden know twice a year when setting our watches forsummer time and wintertime.The church has set the almanac for many decades ahead. That is becauseour ancestors investigated the cycles and periods of the moon and sun.The greatest effort was for an example when they ground grooves for amillennium and learned about the moon cycle.Still, first moon after the spring equinox is used as start of theritual year in many cultures including our own. In this book we shallsee how they put together the years and rituals to lead the activitiesof a year.[Image1798.JPG]The elk is the target for tough guys still today. Yet, it has nochance against automatic riffles. This elk is supposed to come fromKarelia and was found in Alunda, UpplandUsing the old moon counting to get longer periods with which to handlewas convenient. It was probably natural that all these intereststowards the sky and the celestial sphere lead to enlightenment.Knowledge increased about the cyclic action of the water circulationand organic life overall.So they told the myths to store information about the nature ofgeneral environment. Not in our words, but in myths and had to includemany aspects in a short myth.It is supposed that this took some thousand year and many differentvariants on the same theme. The main demand was that the youngest andthe slowest thinker should understand it. Heavens become an organisedcommon brain of mankind. Still, today most of the peoples in the worldhave their god or gods in the sky. In practice the figures thought inheavens become a model for the sites and settlements and their ritualsof the year.[Image1799.JPG]An indefinable animal at Bolet, Aanimskog. Shape and size suggest itbe the oldest carving on Dal. There are some cup-marks at the rocktoo.Still the hunter in man has his "real thing" or the high game of theritual animal. In our days it is Thi Elk. In Southern Scandinavia itwas maybe the Deer and in East Sweden the wild Boar. The Bear has beenthe high game in entire EuropeThis is found in many carvings in Scandinavia. Observe that this isnot the only form of information one may get from the rocks. They saythat Dal is "A miniature of Sweden" and some investigator has saidthat Dal has the most various carvings in Scandinavia. This is true.However, we on Dal have also the key to understanding a part of ourancestor's story. Observe also that we say "on Dal" as a local tongue.In a cave dated 7,900 BC at Vistehula Stavanger, Norway was foundbones from about seventy species of wild life. Further more are allspecies belonging to gathering from all herbs and so on. Tools leaveonly remains of stone or hard bone.Man had to know when, how, with what, how many etc. when collectingall raw materials. They had also to know when were the best seasonsfor every specie. When did they have time for work on houses, boats,tools and so on?[Image1800.JPG]Today we find only the stony and bony remains when digging for ourancestors.The runic staff with the important days as symbols is much older thanMiddle Age. It is perhaps seen on ten to twenty millenniums oldartefacts as secret symbols or in our carvings. Man had to know thetime... or as they said the time and room of doing or living. A timeto be born... a time to live... a time to die... with all theactivities at those times.[Image1801.JPG]Axes for everyday purposes. These occurred for millenniums.Dividing time and living room is artificial. It leads to contemplationone's navel and thus forgetting the surrounding environment.The foreword to this book is a reminder that we all wear masks. Sometell who the man is and what he knows. Others like the manager inblack and attache' case wears almost a suit of armour telling he isfrom the Otherworld. Our ancestors would have loved the word.Different times and places require different masks.Often our valuing stands on the outlook. The shaman stands for takingthe guise. It still essential in all researches today if we wantreally to understand an object or environment. An old Owl teaching metechnique taught me to think technique, the at once it was easier tounderstand the calculating. In my branch it was about 90 percentmathematics and only 10 percent reading. Without imaging reality therewere no life in the numbers.In fact I have found only one "possible" shaman in Northern carvings.They say that another is, but it is in the middle of a row ofimaginative creations and may be a god as well. Nevertheless, whoknows what gods are like?However, the Northern pantheons do not have as wide range as in Egypt.Many figurative idols on our carvings have bird head like in the earlyMiddle East. It is perhaps a symbol for the flying thought, which isalmost non-existing. Maybe I do not have the imagination to seeshamans and magic rites everywhere in the past. Instead I try to see anormal life among people millenniums ago.It seems that the carvings of Northern Scandinavia's including KolaPeninsula are the oldest. Large figures of ritual animals characterisethe Mesolithic period mostly before c.4200 BC. Nevertheless, from thebeginning of the New Age 4200 BC one may find symbols or ideogramsbelonging to the methods of astro-rituals... not to relate withastrology.[Image1802.JPG]Carving at the vicarage of Aur on Dal. The small figures associate tothe myth of Inanna and the upper wheel divides the year in fourquarters.They used simply the sky as an almanac. They shifted constellations ofstars sometimes more often than the standardised zodiac of our time,due to precession or other needs.[bblue.JPG]-[bblue.JPG] DatingThe rock-carvings of Alta Norway give the best lead to a chronologybecause of the elevation of earth. It is about five metres amillennium. They have made the carvings near the water level inepochs. Under vegetation the oldest are found and have been untouchedfor millenniums. At Dalbergsaa the big elks and the big boatsassociate to those early carvings of Alta, but may be as late as 3100BC.Pollen analysis on Ireland shows a remarkable increase of grasses andash while they introduce wheat around 3800 BC. They call thephenomenon elm decline because of the drastic decline of elm. Oak andhazel increased at the same time suggesting a more pastoral landscape.Wheat is seen for only some generation and returns about 2400 BC for afew generations. Grasses, ribwort plantain, ash, hazel increases againand oak stays at a higher level than before the first elms decline.[Image1803.JPG]Ritual axesfrom the fourth millennium. The shapes are not practical but forrituals and probably an early ritual of Inanna in fourth millenniumBC. To the right a boat axe made locally.Some call these axes battle-axes. However there is no evidence andfinds are relatively few. They also say that the society wasstratified. The question is, was there enough people? I doubt, and ifonly in few places. The men buried with ritual axes have surely beenpriest kings or leaders of the small settlements with ritual asleading organisation. This may be compared with the buried high priestat Stonehenge. He had his insignia with him because they saw it as theera of him was gone. In a way they buried time too.The conclusion is that the early farming has given an increase ingrasses and conditions for domestic animals and for wild grass eaterstoo. In Germany they notice the same and in Southern Scandinavia theelm declines come a few centuries later. Nevertheless, on Dal it maybe only local experiment and of lesser scale.In Bohuslaen the carving of Bronze Age contends at places a lot of elkand deer. Maybe they have seen all animals as their cattle. AtAspeberget is the oldest game law in hunting deer. It says thathunting sucking roe deer is forbidden.At Drammen, Norway symbols on the same theme are found, The Norwegianof today seems less educated when they are knocking baby-seals forluxurious urban jet sets.Our ancestors knew the same I experienced when I found a deep-hole ina river and took all the old perch. Some had more skin than flesh. Onecannot go fishing there again for a decade. Nature is generous butonly to those who know to love and handle it with care and not takemore than the reproduction rate.This book is about the ideas and thoughts of an early population. Icall it the nobility because those with rituals and laws take priorityand make the laws. This is general "law" everywhere.The earliest indications are ritual axes, double axes or facet axes. Aspecial form is the boat axe found in a few specimens. We have nopassage graves on Dal to tell about a huge population. Still, wecannot talk about a primitive people those days. The few remains onlysuggest large ritual spheres during the fourth millennium BC andpossibly the ritual boat axe some centuries of the third.In the third millennium BC many more ritual finds are present. Theseare big ground axes or chisels. They brought most of them from Skaane.I suppose the axe type of ritual weapon was used in the moon rituallike that of Inanna. (The other main ritual was that of Isis with adagger as weapon and supposed to have been introduced with the slabcists... se next chapter.)[Image1804.JPG]A ground ritual axe from Rolfskaerr, Tydje. The flint tells that itwas maybe bought in Skaane. The length is 44,5 cm and longest found onDal and from the third millennium.'It is a good hypothesis to connect these to a ritual of grindingleaving grooves. At Gotland they are found in 68 places and at FlyhovVaestergautland are 55 grooves in a row. They probably grind these asa spring ritual intending to synchronise the first full moon afterequinox and star Antares in Scorpio. They make these in step with theMoon period. That is 19 years as the periodicity of the moon. Thus, 55grooves mean about 1045 years of continuous ritual from c.3100 to 2150BC.Of the ground axes there is a lot more in our museums. Perhaps theydivided Dal in a lot of folk lands during the third millennium BC.[Image1805.JPG]My grandpa was a great bear-hunter with 63 nose rings as trophy. Thisbear-headed club was found in Eastgautland and it is supposed to beKarelian origin.All remains and especially megalithic or other big stone remains havebeen a claim from generations of owners. That stands for graves,carvings, and late runic stones as well.Some special forms of claim marks are those where they make some sortof time mark. That is the four quarters and a mark for a springequinox. It is as when we put a date on important documents.Of the territorial claims is that to Mother Earth of the secondmillennium BC. The other two are approximately from about 2000 BC andthe period when they made the slab stone cist. In the writing I usemaybe the short "cist" sometimes.The carvings are in the neighbourhoodof cists. Shortly I call them cists because there is no other of thekind in this topic. Se more about claims in chapter about calendars. Next chapters are about the same time. It was the time when Dalbecomes really organised and opened in the fittest places of MotherEarth.[bblue.JPG]-[bblue.JPG]