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Summer Jackel@summerjackel.bsky.social |
turns out that this is a WW1 memorial, the country's first, with construction beginning before the war was over. A rich guy who owned a lot of Maryhill visited Stonehenge and was told that human sacrifices had been made there in ancient times (something that is no longer believed to be true).
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Summer Jackel
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horrified by the war, he likened fallen soldiers to human sacrifices and was inspired to raise this extraordinary reproduction. Stonehenge's likely actual ancient use was as a solar calendar; while this one is aligned accurately, local geology is such that it doesn't 'work' like the original does.
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