CARNAK STANDING STONES

 

WHAT ARE THE CARNAK STANDING STONES?

 

The Carnak Standing Stones are in the Timeline at 7000 years ago, according to traditional scholars this is the probable date ranging up to 4,000 years ago.  I just don’t think Carnak is that young.  If it had been built at 4,000 years ago, written history would have noted it or the Greeks and Egyptians would have documented it.  No way. 

The age of the Carnak stones is actually unknown.  I read that they actually extend out into the sea shelf now underwater but probably was dry land during the Pleistocene.  This would date them as prior to 14,000 years ago, prior to the first meltwater pulse.  This puts them in the megalithic culture, the stonemasons, the ancients who knew how to hew and place huge stones.   There are some 3,000 remaining visible stones that extend for 8 miles.

 

Figure 90:  Aerial View of part of Carnac    https://www.truthcontrol.com/forum/myth-and-enduring-mystery-carnac-stones

 

What was Carnak?  Local legends say giants built it, or it was a dangerous Roman army frozen by a local sorcerer or nobody really knows who built it.  Giants again?  The legends keep popping up.  Why not Giants in the Pleistocene?  There were giant horses and camels and elephants.  Why not giant humans? 

But back to the question of what was Carnak?                                         

I read an account that solstice, equinox and moon movements were traceable through the orientation of the rocks, every which way and all you need to know is which ones.  Another account said the Carnak rocks were actually star sky trajectories that lead to specific locations on the planet, like the Orkney Islands, England,  North America, Cuba, South America,  and all you had to know was how to take a sighting along the star line leading to your destination and sight your sailing by the stars to go and return.   You could sight your way to the Bermuda Rise, which used to be an island when the seas were low during the Ice Age.   I think that Gobleki Tepi in Turkey serves the same purpose of sighting trajectories for travelers.  The history of humanity is centered on travel, migration, trade and invasions so why would the ‘spiritual’ rule, rather than the practical when building huge structures? 

Carnac is situated beyond a bay that looks like an ancient crater, with the raised outer edge protecting the harbor, which dropped off deep at a certain point, a perfect mooring for large vessels.  Beyond the bay is the wild Atlantic and probably the lost city of Atlantis.  I think Carnak dates from the time of Atlantis, during the Bolling Allerod.  It may have been used by the Phoenicians as a route setting harbor, but nobody knows.  The Phoenicians were secretive about their trading posts and travel and did not share maps or knowledge. 

What is Carnak?  I don’t know.  Was it part of Atlantis?  Did the Megalith culture go from Atlantis to the Continent or was Atlantis a colony of the mainland, rather like the USA?  The Greeks insist that Atlantis warred on those inside the Mediterranean Sea, which would indicate a date of after the modern Mediterranean Sea was formed.    Plato puts the demise of Atlantis at about 11,650 years ago, well after the first meltwater flood of 14,000 years ago.  That was plenty of time for seafaring cultures to develop and invade the Mediterranean Sea.   Plenty of time for wars to be fought and forgotten. 

That part of the world is heavy with prehistory, home to the Lascaux Cave Paintings, numerous dolmen, megalithic structures, Neanderthal / Heidelbergensis phenotype remains, as well as more modern artifacts like Chatelperronnian Neanderthal Sapiens generated tool kit.  

In later years home to the Celts.  Did they know the purpose of Carnak?  I think the knowledge was lost by then and that it was initially lost during the cataclysm that sunk Atlantis, some 11,650 BP but it remained a remnant of physical presence without any meaning remaining.  I wonder if the world shifted at that time, leaving the ancient searfaring knowledge represented by Carnak to be now in need of correction.  Is that why there are so many rows and the rows are so long?  I count 11 rows which  makes me think of moon things.  Seafaring by moon position would be possible but would require an intimate knowledge of the moon 18 year cycle.  What could the 18 year moon cycle be used for?  To predict tides?  To predict harbor accessibility?  To predict fishing runs?  

A Druid?  Figure 91:  https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g187096-d1788450-i147731910-Megaliths_of_Carnac-Carnac_Morbihan_Brittany.html

I wonder if all the Carnak stones were originally artwork, but are now eroded. 

A transition to later times shows Carnak still standing but nobody living knows what it meant because it was part of the Ice Age civilization that perished during the first meltwater pulse 14,000 years ago.  As the climate warmed into modern times the Vikings and doubtless other seafarers spread out colonizing, raiding and spreading ideas. 

The prolific times of the warming of 8,000 to 4,000 produced the reestablishment of ancient contacts remembered from antiquity, like the Legend of the Northwest Passage.   This is 2019 and it is a warm year so far and maybe it will open up again like it was 130,000 years ago.   Inland empires competed and the horsemen migrated and the Silk Road filled with travelers.