Lys-kur fra himmelrummet

Af OVE VON SPAETH, forfatter og forsker

Solhverv ved oldtidens berømteste astronomisk baserede kultsted, Stonehenge - den 21. juni 2005.

Stjernebaseret healing givet på oldtidens observatorier forudsatte en

viden om visse vigtige stjernes forskelligartede lysspektre.

I mine bøger og artikler om den historiske Moses og  om det gamle Egypten førte min udforskning af de gamle kilder og materialer gang på gang ind på dette, at templer og hellige steder altid som en selvfølge var relateret til stjernerne og kosmos.
          Stjernekundskaben blev varetaget af præsterne og observatorierne var tilknyttet templerne eller var direkte i sig selv hellige steder.
          Fra tidernes morgen har man fortaget healing i templer og på hellige steder - men ofte netop også i forbindelse med stjerner og himmellegemer, hvor man kunne efterprøve, om hvorvidt der var påvirkninger, til at kunne give patienterne særlige former for  "lys-kure" fra himmelrummet.

          Dette var blot en særlig del ud af flere helbredelsesformer udøvet ved  oldtidens berømte templer. Det fremgår bl.a af dette uddrag fra min bog "De Fortrængte Optegnelser", kap. 10:
          "... Det var i oldtiden en udbredt tradition ved særlige situationer at sove i templet (især kendt fra den senere lægegud Asklepios' tempel) - i inkubatoriet - ofte ved foden af en særlig søjle, der opfattedes tilknyttet en speciel kraft, hvorved den sovende i en drøm ville få oplysning f.eks. om sit helbredelsesmiddel eller om noget af vigtighed for sin fremtid.
          Gaver givet af taknemmelige kunne hobe sig op ved søjlens fod, som var det - med et nutidigt billede - ved juletræets fod. Det kunne ske, at hele tempelskatte blev grundlagt på denne måde.
          Det helbredende eller magiske ved søjlen (der repræsenterede Verdenssøjlen på himlen, dvs. Mælkevejen) genkendes i bibelteksten om Moses, der under ørkenvandringen proklamerede, at syge israelitter skulle blive raske, når de lagde sig ved en hellig pæl, som han lod opstille i ørkenen.
          Bibelen beskriver, at der på pælen var anbragt en kobberslange - Moses' pæl med slangen er den ældst kendte udgave af det stadig anvendte lægesymbol, der siden græsk-romersk tid kaldes "Æskulap(Asklepios)-staven". ..."

          Det er interessant, at motivet også kendes som navn på et stjernebillede. De gamle grækere, der havde meget af deres viden fra Egypten, kaldte disse stjerner for Ophiochus, der helt frem til renæssancen sattes i forbindelse med Asklepios.
          Prøv også at se nogle træk her: www.moses-egypt.net .
          Der kan især henvises hertil:  Nyeste forskning om healing i Stonehenge
og om Stonehenge som hospital

Ove von Spaeth

- info om forskningen, bl.a. fremlagt i mine bøger og artikler, se: www.moses-egypt.net

www.moses-egypt.net

Stonehenge Once a Healing Sanctuary?

Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

Stonehenge might have been seen as a healing destination for ailing Neolithic and Bronze Age pilgrims, according to a new investigation into the megalithic monument.

Nov. 30, 2006 — Stonehenge might have been seen as a healing destination for ailing Neolithic and Bronze Age pilgrims, according to a new investigation into the megalithic monument.

Thought to have been built around 2700 B.C., the ring of standing stones has long puzzled scholars. Theories on its origins range from the possibility that it served as a mortuary to it being designed for human sacrifice or astronomy.

But according to Timothy Darvill, professor of archaeology at Bournemouth University in southern England, Stonehenge "was a sanctuary that served as an oracle and a place of pilgrimage for the sick."

Darvill, who has detailed his findings in the book "Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape," suggests that the key to understanding Stonehenge lies in the Preseli Mountains in western Wales.

There he and colleague Geoffrey Wainwright located the quarry where the bluestones forming Stonehenge's inner circle were cut around 2500 B.C.

Weighing about 4 tons and standing between 6 and 9 feet tall, the blue-grey stones had to be transported 240 miles to the Stonehenge site in Wiltshire, England. According to Darvill, they were carried so far because they were regarded as holy.

"It was believed that the bluestones had many healing properties because in Preseli there are many sacred springs that are considered to have health-giving qualities," Darvill told Discovery News.

The belief that the stones held special power survived into the late 18th century, when many people went to Stonehenge to break off bits of rock as talismans.

Other evidence for his argument is found in the burial sites at Stonehenge, Darvill said.

"Amongst these burials, there seem to be a good proportion of people who show signs of being unwell — they would have walked with a limp or had broken bones and so on — just the sort of thing that in modern times pressures people to seek help from the Almighty," he explained.

The deities worshipped at Stonehenge would have been the prehistoric equivalent of the Greek and Roman god of healing, Apollo, and his twin sister Artemis, says Darvill.

"Although (Apollo's) main sanctuary was at Delphi in Greece, it is widely believed that he left in the winter months to reside in the land of the Hyborians, usually taken to be Britain," Darvill said.

Raimund Karl, a senior lecturer in archaeology and heritage at the University of Wales, Bangor, found Darvill's view of Stonehenge as a major international prehistoric healing center "an interesting idea, which cannot be ruled out as a possibility."

"However, I'm not convinced that healing properties were already ascribed to the stones at any time in prehistory and that there was a predominance of sick people buried there," said Karl. "Generally speaking, the health of people in prehistory was not particularly good."