The Boyne Valley Calendar
In this book, The Boyne Valley Vision, published by the Dolmen Press, Martin Brennan provided a decipherment of the megalithic calendar incised some five thousand years ago on a large kerbstone at Knowth in the Boyne Valley. This amazing device shows the method of computing dates in those remote times, and may be the earliest calendar known to man.
This scientific tool from the oldest culture known to us traces the moon through its monthly phases, the occurrences of the vernal and autumnal equinoxes and the relationship of the lunar and solar cycles which is the basis for calendar computation.
The Boyne Valley Calendar has now been issued as a separate wall chart, printed in three colours on a fine heavyweight cartridge paper, size 20 x 15 inches (51 x 38 cm), suitable for framing. There are two reproductions from drawings by Martin Brennan and an explanatory text.
Price £1.60 net (£2 inc. VAT in the Republic of Ireland), postage extra.
THE DOLMEN PRESS
The Lodge, Mountrath, Portlaoise, Ireland.
May 1980
The Boyne Valley Vision
In The Boyne Valley Vision
Martin Brennan presents an entirely new
interpretation of these monuments, one which challenges the conclusions of earlier
studies and offers conclusive evidence which radically changes our knowledge of
megalithic culture in Ireland. The Boyne Valley Vision is a personal step-by-step
account of a quest that has resulted in some of the most astounding and profound
archaeological decipherments of our time.
Martin Brennan demonstrates in his text and in some ninety drawings and figures from his pen the vision of the universe transmitted by the artists of megalithic Ireland in their designs carved in naked rock. He shows that the ideas expressed by these artists are more substantial than the stones on which they are incised. His study exposes for the first time an entire cosmology, a vocabulary of symbols, the sundials, the calendar and other scientific tools of the oldest culture known to us.
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