<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/645a57b1-b3b7-4f84-8dcc-bef0115b68ea/A8D73874-8A40-4406-81DE-697C66587ECE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html" href="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">mythicalireland.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mythicalireland.com/img/9ACB01EC-27D8-463F-BFE3-9AC187A8F0CE" alt="Mythical Ireland" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#ffcc66" size="5"><IMG height="25" align="texttop" width="25" src="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/../star1.gif" /> Is there an astronomical meaning to Stone Age symbols?<IMG height="25" align="texttop" width="25" src="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/../star1.gif" /></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ff0000" size="3">THE INTERPRETATIONS OF N.L. THOMAS FROM "Irish Symbols of 3500BC"</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mythicalireland.com/img/A946B6F3-2ABD-4411-9AE7-983F7261DDA2" alt="Martin Brennan's drawings" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ffcc99" size="2">Of these symbols, Brennan says the following: "Megalithic art is highly abstract and seems to be intentionally restricted to nine basic geometric forms, here called primaries because they combine to form all other marks and signs."</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ffcc99" size="2">"The primaries are shown in the first row of the diagram (1 dot or cupmark, 2 line, 3 circle, 4 quadrangle, 5 arc or crescent, 6 zigzag, 7 wavy line, 8 spiral, and 9 oval or elipse). Primaries are clearly distinguishable from each other, they recur frequently and have a wide distribution. This classification eliminates elements which are clearly compounds of primary elements. It also includes ovals or elipses, omitted from other classifications. Row two shows the principal ways in which the primaries form sets."</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A8D73874-8A40-4406-81DE-697C66587ECE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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