What do you think about this?
In a green field in eastern Ireland sits a mound of earth and stone that is older than the Great Pyramid of Giza and older than Stonehenge. Newgrange was built around 3,200 BC, more than five thousand years ago, by a farming people with no metal tools and no written language. From the outside it looks like a grassy hill ringed with carved stones. Inside, a single narrow passage runs nineteen metres straight into the heart of the mound, ending in a stone chamber.
For most of the year that chamber sits in total darkness. But the builders left an opening above the entrance, a small stone slot now called the roof box. For a few mornings around the winter solstice, the shortest days of the year, the rising sun lines up perfectly with that slot. A thin blade of light slides down the entire length of the passage and creeps across the chamber floor, lighting the deepest, darkest room for about seventeen minutes before the world goes dark again.
This was no accident. Five thousand years ago, people we are told were primitive tracked the sun precisely enough to build a structure that catches one specific sunrise a year, and they aimed it dead on.
Is it possible these so called primitive builders understood the sky far better than we give them credit for?
A tomb, a temple, a calendar, or a doorway meant for one day a year? What do you think Newgrange was built to do?
