This link is interesting as it ties into the post a couple of days ago, 8 Year Span, which concerned Gothic alignments in Sweden. More precisely at Iron Age Old Uppsala, which is located north of Stockholm. The alignments were made to the moon and the rising Sun with the purpose of arriving at a date for the Great Winter Sacrifice, in effect a sophisticated calendar that was surprising for a date in early AD, and yet we now have a similar alignment purportedly dated somewhat earlier -see https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/09/monument-with-human-bones-found-czechia/ … In fact, quite a bit earlier, somewhere between 4500 and 4000BC. The general thrust of internet reports claims it was at least a 1000 years older than Stonehenge which also has similar alignments to the phases of the moon and the rising sun. It is believed.
However, there is a caveat as the link goes on to claim the Chleby enclosure had links with the Unetice culture which thrived during the Bronze Age – mainly the second millennium BC and therefore much later than 4000BC. Perhaps the enclosure remained in use over a couple of thousand years or so, as a contemporary of Stonehenge. It was perhaps just too good a click bait to emphasise the earlier than Stonehenge foundation of the enclosure. Part of the article claims a link with early farmers in Czechia and Slovakia, even in parts of Poland. That would place it at 4500 years ago – but were the same people living a couple of thousand years later during the Bronze Age. In effect, the Bronze Age bit is an even better parallel with Iron Age Old Uppsala, as it is separated by a much shorter period of time. This calendar, of sorts, as it is all a bit murky, would have been common right across central Europe over a long period of time. The same people are known to have migrated further, into Poland and Scandinavia, in one direction, and into Germany and France. Ultimately, across the sea into Britain – around 4000BC. Hence, establishing a precise date for the Chleby enclosure first construction phase is important. Was it before or after the excursion into Scandinavia and NW Europe?
Chleby is described as being aligned to two different celestial rhythms. One was aligned to follow the lunar cycle, the movement of the position of the moon in the sky, tracking it as it moved to its extreme settings and came back round again. At Uppsala this was an 8 year span, hence the title of the previous post. The other alignment was to sunrise – presumably at the solstices. They draw attention to the fact this is similar to alignments at Stonehenge – even though some people reject the lunar alignments as too elaborate for the era. If the Czech archaeologists are right in their diagnosis this would imply the Stonehenge lunar alignments need to be taken seriously by the usual detractors. Another problem here is that those same archaeologists interpret this calendar, keeping track of heavenly bodies, as solely to mark the sowing and reaping time in the agricultural year. The usual mainstream weak diagnosis. The people were, after all, early farmers gradually colonising Mesolithic Europe. Conversely, we may note there is an 8 feet deep ditch surrounding the enclosure. Here, the Czech archaeologists discovered human remains and many animal bones. One is left thinking about the Mid Winter Sacrifice at Uppsala. Could they represent people that had been sacrificed, some 18 have been found – along with animals?
However, the really important find at Chleby, as also occurs at many sites in Neolithic Britain, is the discovery of the skulls and horns of bulls near the entrance. The archaeologists are in no doubt these are victims of sacrifice and suggest there was a cult of the Bull – which required sacrifices. They point to bull cults in other parts of the world, including southern Europe. John North, in his book, Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, claimed many long barrows and other monuments were aligned to stars or groups of stars in the sky. They included the bright star Aldebaran in the constellation of Taurus, the so called Bull’s Eye, as well as the Hyades and the Pleiades. North’s alignments were not confined to the constellation of Taurus, and included other constellations in the sky. In this instance the bull cult is firmly associated with Taurus the Bull in the sky. Hence, if people were making sacrifices at Chleby, or anywhere else in the world at this point in time, it was to the Bull god [or a similar horned animal, or one with a long trunk]. The Hyades, we may note, was otherwise known as the Jawbone of an Ass. This was the instrument used by Samson to strike his enemies. Samson is a Levantine version of Herakles. The Pleiades were an important component of myth around the world – even amongst Australian Aborigines. They too feature in the Biblical narrative.
Some 18 separate human remains were found in the ditch. It is supposed by the archaeologists they held a special place in society at that time. Quite why farmers would feel obliged to sacrifice a bull in order to aid in the sowing and reaping is unclear. After all, at the summer solstice crops had long since been sown and harvest did not begin for another 2 months. Yet, they seem pretty sure of their interpretation. Possibly as a result of it being an explanation bandied around on countless other occasions. Repetition on the hoof. Then we have an added hippy type of explanation – the connection between sunrise at summer solstice symbolised a beginning and the winter solstice represented an ending. As noted in previous posts one of the major Taurid streams of meteors occurs within a few days of summer solstice. That, it has been suggested, is why many of Thom’s stone circle alignments were out of focus with the actual date of the solstice. They were offset – and we may note that a similar calendar as used at Chleby and Stonehenge, as well as Old Uppsala, probably lay at the root of the Thom alignments. Euan MacKie wrote a useful article on this very subject – inferring a Celtic calendar. The Celts, we may note, had a strong affiliation with central Europe. The Thom’s are the only people that have done sustained and prolonged research, in Britain, on such alignments. They used modern surveying techniques that were superior to what the Neolithic people had in mind but assumed, never the less, that summer solstice was the target. Like everyone else. Chleby and Old Uppsala tend to favour the Thom’s thrust in argument, contrary to what archaeologists, and others in the 1950s and 1960s thought. Perhaps their arguments were just too difficult for most people to take in. After all, these people were just farmers – not scientists or astronomers. How could they have set out such sophisticated alignments without writing or modern tools. The point is, what has emerged, is that they did just that. When it comes to a recurring catastrophic cycle associated with bodies in the sky, that can well concentrate the mind on a way to understand and predict the points in time of danger to communities on the surface of the earth, below. It also allows us to see religion in a new light. Both the Jewish god Jehovah, and the Islamic god, Allah, were no doubt originally the same god the Goths worshipped, and sacrificed to. He was vengeful, violent, and he who must be obeyed, according to both modern versions of the written word. As the Old Testament is part of Christianity it implies a similar sort of origin – but one mixed with the old gods of the classical era, suitably divested of their ferocity. After all, the abode of God is always in the sky – in heaven. Or paradise. Thunderbolts, we may note, could arrive out of a clear blue sky – and create havoc. Contrary to a lot of modern thinking religion really did have a logical origin. No doubt usurped by the elite in order to control the plebs.