The 2nd secret to the mystery of Brú na Bóinne / Newgrange is that there was quartz found in the roofbox over the Dolmen doorway capstone. MJ and Claire O’Kelly discovered this quartz during excavations of Dagda’s Temple. The media accused him of invention! Professor Michael J. O'Kelly with his wife Claire excavated and restored the megalithic passage tomb at Newgrange from 1962 to 1975. MJ O’Kelly was the highest qualified archaeologist in Ireland at the time of excavation of Dagda’s Temple.
The excavation of the temple was done from funding by Aer Lingus (Ireland’s commercial aviation) and Bord Fáilte (Ireland’s tourism bord). The quartz stone is now lost... but we must be grateful that MJ and others recorded it by photographing it in place. He said that there was space for two such stones and that he only found one but that there were scratches that indicate that there was a second block of quartz. Note this - not as a wall but as as means of modifying the sunbeam.
So, we know that Dagda’s Temple was designed so that the Sun on the morning of the shortest day would rise and shine through the roofbox into the chamber 66 foot away. It did this through the two quartz blocks. This would modify the energy of the sunbeam. Think of the energy from the ‘Sun as dc’ or direct current and think ‘quartz making it into ac’ or alternating current and you can realise that this means switching of the current from direct to alternating current. Or you could make it even more simple by thinking of the battery (dc) in an ordinary wrist watch and the tick/tock (ac) it makes = direct into alternation through quartz... Dagda did this solar engineering in ancient times at the Temple that he built. These days there is an iron bar instead of quartz in the roofbox for anti access purposes but Dagda’s Temple was designed to work with a modified sunbeam.
Please see the excellent report and multiple images of the quartz block in the roofbox at
https://boynevalleytombs.wordpress.com/
See also http://irisharchaeology.ie/2012/12/images-of-newgrange-through-the-ages/
The many secrets in the mystery of Dagda’s Temple are currently being written into an upcoming book on Ireland’s ancient Calendar, Starlore and Mythology, for updates on its availability please join our moonthly free newsletter.
Please see the excellent report and multiple images of the quartz block in the roofbox at
https://boynevalleytombs.wordpress.com/
See also http://irisharchaeology.ie/2012/12/images-of-newgrange-through-the-ages/
The many secrets in the mystery of Dagda’s Temple are currently being written into an upcoming book on Ireland’s ancient Calendar, Starlore and Mythology, for updates on its availability please join our moonthly free newsletter.
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