Holed stone found in Sicily marked the winter solstice 5,000 years ago
Posted On: Feb 12th, 2017 at 16:00
Italy
First of all let me vent my annoyance at the media’s (whoever they are) incessant comparison with sites like Stonehenge every time there’s a discovery. It’s sensationalist bull crap, designed for page clicks only. As a “professional” I find this kind of thing extremely irritating.
An incredible discovery in Sicily; a rock with a man-made hole in it was clearly designed to line up with the winter solstice. Dating to 5,000 years ago, the rock was discovered only recently and, after GPS and digital calculations, has been proven to be genuine. In other words, the chances of this hole being made naturally, or for any reason other than measuring the winter solstice, is unlikely in the extreme.
The rock is located near Gela, on the southern coast of Sicily, and the area is also full of burial tombs. Not only that, a 16.4-foot standing rock (now fallen), is located some 26 feet from the holed stone, directly in front of it. These maker stones are often the smoking gun when these kinds of discoveries are made – they were used for the accurate alignment of the sun’s rays through whatever passed as the measuring tool, in this case a holed stone. Since the sun only moves slightly in the sky each day, accurate measurement was required to locate the solstice, which would last for three days (December 21 – 24 +/-); during the winter solstice the sun appears to be stationary for three days before it starts its rise towards summer. This is the reason Jesus Christ supposedly was dead for three days before rising again, as he is a representation of the sun god (not the “son of god”). But that’s another story…
