Some science behind the scenes
Sacred geography - hollow roads
Physically, a hollow road is a path or track with extremely steep sided embankments, often planted with trees whose branches form an overhang. The overall effect is to create a tunnel and indeed this is exactly what they symbolically represent.
Alfred Watkins – The Old Straight Track
It will probably be said that the sunken roads are due to the wear and tear of centuries of traffic. This is so in some cases … but in several cases there is a ridge or raised bank on one side of the hollow road. Such a bank against a climbing sunk road is found in the Navage Wood, Stanner Rocks. It is difficult to see how wear and tear piles up an embankment on one side. I have found several examples of the straight deeply cut hollow roads down to fords; two close to the Pontrilas Pandy road, not now used, far too narrow for wheels and obviously not water torn ……….. It is strange that notches, often go in pairs together
In other words, these hollow roads cannot be used by wheeled traffic, go down to rivers and streams [where there may or may not be a ford, he provides instances of roads which lead down to a non-forded river] are man-made, and are sometimes in pairs.
In effect, hollow lanes or notched paths are symbolic as well as practical. The paired paths simply indicate paired spiritual lines - for more details see twin horns and kundalini. These paired lines are a recognised phenomenon in other cultures with a history of shamanic flight [the Nazca lines, the native American Indians Dream maps, the Sioux, Australian aboriginals and other Indian ‘desert pathways’].
Observations
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- Brittany - Carnac and its symbolism
- Brittany - Spook weg, corpse ways and ley lines
- Celtic - Diodorus Sicilus and Pindar - Stonehenge
- County Meath - Tara - Lia Fáil
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - Carnac, the Messenger and the Labyrinth
- Glastonbury
- Hernan Cortes - Aztecs and Mexica - The view from Tlatelolco
- John Michell - The View over Atlantic – The sacred geography of China
- Macfarlane, Robert - Chanctonbury Ring
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 09 Creating a sacred geography
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - Adam of Bremen
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - The Three Great Mounds
- Norse - Gamla Uppsala - The Ynglinga and Njals saga
- Norse - Gutasaga
- Norse - Jelling
- Norse - Jelling - The North and South Mound
- Sacred geography – Picts
- Sacred geography – Picts – Citadels 03 – Orkney and the Brough of Birsay
- Sacred geography – Picts – Mark stones
- Symbols – Picts – Sacred site - Concentric circles [Complex site]
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - Avebury henge
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - Silbury Hill
- The Ancestors - Avebury World Heritage site - Windmill Hill
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - A Dowsing survey by Norman Fahy
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Cairn
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Henge
- The Ancestors - Bryn Celli Ddu - The Ritual Pit
- The Ancestors - Cornwall - Carn Euny
- The Ancestors - Somerset - Cadbury Castle
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 01 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 02 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Ancestors – Stonehenge – 03 Dr Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes
- The Sacred geography of the Amazon basin
- Using sound to levitate
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Celtic Sacred sites and their conversion to Christian sites
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Pyramids as the site of the Mysteries
- Watkins, Alfred – The revelation that helped the discovery of the UK’s sacred geography