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Mysterious Don Valley stone circle
Nov. 27th, 2017 06:15 pmI was out up the Lower Don today and I found this mysterious stone circle thing. Now I've seen enough archaeology programmes on TV to know that stone circles are only ever built for ritual purposes. You can see these stones aren't there by accident. They are clearly arranged and carved.
And you can see from these two shots that the recumbent male figure is clearly central. Now what's really interesting is that this dude is aligned absolutely accurately east-west.
Which suggests to me that he's something to do with measuring time. And pretty much the only people who could get big stones to this location are the City Works Departent (it's on a cycle path). So naturally I speculated whether this might not represent the deity Ontime worshipped by the notorious Pmbok cult. Clearly they would need such a mensuration device to figure out how many years late their projects are.
This idea was reinforced by other stones that seemed to represent the other deities of the Pmbok Trinity. This unhappy specimen appears to represent Onbudget though some students of municipal cults have doubted the existence of such a concept.
If I'm right this is likely Onspec; the third member of the Trinity.
Further evidence is provided by some of the secondary stones which could easily represent city project managers, or perhaps more likely, citizens waiting for a project that impacts them to be finished.
Radio carbon dating and isotope analysis date the structure to being between four and six weeks old.
And you can see from these two shots that the recumbent male figure is clearly central. Now what's really interesting is that this dude is aligned absolutely accurately east-west.
Which suggests to me that he's something to do with measuring time. And pretty much the only people who could get big stones to this location are the City Works Departent (it's on a cycle path). So naturally I speculated whether this might not represent the deity Ontime worshipped by the notorious Pmbok cult. Clearly they would need such a mensuration device to figure out how many years late their projects are.
This idea was reinforced by other stones that seemed to represent the other deities of the Pmbok Trinity. This unhappy specimen appears to represent Onbudget though some students of municipal cults have doubted the existence of such a concept.
If I'm right this is likely Onspec; the third member of the Trinity.
Further evidence is provided by some of the secondary stones which could easily represent city project managers, or perhaps more likely, citizens waiting for a project that impacts them to be finished.
Radio carbon dating and isotope analysis date the structure to being between four and six weeks old.
