Stone Circles and Standing Stone
Stone circles have been discussed in detail over the last two o three decades. I’ve actually read an article that I agree completely with. However, I will leave it at that because my book was written before I read the article. Now, stone circles is another of the Israelite monuments to be easily figured out, just like the marker stone and the mound. The picture put right next to the Scripture, and the answer becomes obvious.
Joshua 4:19-24. “The people came up from the Jordan…and camped at Gilgal on the eastern limits of Jericho. Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the 12 stones. they had taken from the Jordan, and he said to the Israelites, In the future when your children ask their fathers, what is the meaning of these stones…This is so that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord’s hand is mighty.”
Now,, it is understood that Scripture is a translation from the original Greek and Hebrew. So, there will be slight issues with words that are actual names and have other forms like nouns or verbs. This is one such situation. Gilgal is a name of at least two cities of Israel in Biblical times. Gilgal also has a definition of being a wheel or circle in Hebrew. So, the translator could have been wrong in this instance and in this he caused the mystery of the stone circles to persist to this day. The Gilgal where Joshua was said to have set up stones in, this Gilgal was most likely to be the definition of a wheel or circle.
The makers of these monuments must have anticipated these types of errors because they went thru great lengths to combine all of their personal iconic monumental structures together, with Stonehenge being the greatest, so that we could not debate whether or not these structures belonged to someone else. Each monument made by these people has been arranged in a combination with a different type of monument as a sign of evidence that it was the same people who made them.
So, a stone circle is attributd to Joshua in the Bible.
Standing Stones are single stone monuments made in isolation. They sometimes appear in a distance from other monuments, but are mainly by themselves.
The Scripture that authenticate this form as one belonging to the Israelite class is at Genesis 28: 18-22 “Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it and named the place Bethel….This stone I have set up as a marker will be God’s house and I will give you a tenth of all that you give me.”
I know that this is referred to as a marker, but I think the two different instances and reason for erecting constitutes a difference in recognition. So this standing stone is the upright stone in isolation,whereas the upright stone accompanying another Israelite monument is the Marker Stone.
This is the Standing Stone of Stonehenge
The standing stone is normally an isolated monument, but because Stonehenge is an accumulation of all the other monuments, the standing stone had to be included. The marker stone of Stonehenge would be the Heel Stone. The Heel Stone characteristicly and locationly fulfills the dynamics of the marker stone.
This is the stone circle built inside Stonehenge
There are many forms of stone circles. Some circles of stone are made inside one another while others are created next to the other. Some circles are fully made in a complete circle whereas others are incomplete circles. Stonehenge’s circle of stone is incomplete, but, as will be shown later, it is for a reason why the circle is incomplete. So, Scriptural proof is the evidence needed to understand these great monuments. Without Scripture, Stonehenge and these other immense structures would have undoubtedly never been resolved.