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http://www.megaliths.co.uk/glasghu.htm
Now I've seen this stone in person (incidently is is a bloddy BIG stone) and arrangement of the carving is certainly not random. I'm not sure that I agree with http://www.megaliths.co.uk and their "decryption" of it I think it may be a case of seeing patterns that are not there, although their conclusions look accurate.
I was just wondering what my fellow Forteans think about the pattern on it?
The Glas Ghu (Glasgow) Stone in the Kelvingrove Museum was found in Blue Bell Wood near the mouth of the Clyde River and represents the geodetic astronomical Hyades and Pleiades, i.e Taurus. This stone gave Glasgow its name, since Mesopotamian and Indo-European Ghu- was Taurus (see Richard Hinckley Allen, Star Names).
Also represented by cupmarks on the across side of the stone are the three front stars of Scorpio, which are on the other side of the heavens from Taurus. The interlocked whorls in the middle (these are not the same as isolated whorls on other stones or megaliths) mark the line of the solstices which are crossed by the line of the equinoxes, and might use the same system as at the Clava Cairns. The stone can be calculated to date to ca. 3117 BC by these markings.
Now I've seen this stone in person (incidently is is a bloddy BIG stone) and arrangement of the carving is certainly not random. I'm not sure that I agree with http://www.megaliths.co.uk and their "decryption" of it I think it may be a case of seeing patterns that are not there, although their conclusions look accurate.
I was just wondering what my fellow Forteans think about the pattern on it?