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The Mystery of Skara Brae - Neolithic Scotland and the Origins of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
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The Mystery of Skara Brae - Neolithic Scotland and the Origins of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
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In 3200 BC, Orkney Island off the coast of Northern Scotland was
home to a small farming village called Skara Brae. For reasons
unknown, after nearly six centuries of continuous habitation, the
village was abandoned around 2600 BC and its stone structures
covered over--perhaps deliberately, like the structures at Gobekli
Tepe. Although now well-excavated, very little is known about the
peaceful people who lived at Skara Brae or their origins. Who were
they and where did they go? Drawing on his in-depth knowledge of
the connections between the cosmology and linguistics of Egyptian,
Dogon, Chinese, and Vedic traditions, Laird Scranton reveals the
striking similarities between Skara Brae and the Dogon of Mali, who
still practice the same cosmology and traditions they once shared
with pre-dynastic Egypt. He shows how the earliest Skara Brae
houses match the typical Dogon stone house as well as Schwaller de
Lubicz’s intrepretation of the Egyptian Temple of Man at Luxor.
He explains how megalithic stone sites near Skara Brae conform to
Dogon cosmology, each representing sequential stages of creation as
described by Dogon priests, and he details how the houses at Skara
Brae also represent a concept of creation. Citing a linguistic
phenomenon known as “ultraconserved words,” the author compares
words of the Faroese language at Skara Brae, a language with no
known origin, with important cosmological words from Dogon and
ancient Egyptian traditions, finding obvious connections and
similarities.
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