The speckled Stonehenge Bluestones are in the news again for Carn Goedog
as the likely major source of Stonehenge doleritic bluestones. See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313003956
Obviously,
these were dark speckled lunar bluish "moon stones" and were chosen for
being similar to the starry night through their speckled appearance.
They were used for lunar and eclipse cycle calculations.
In this
same Preseli area of Wales, I have been able to decipher Carn Arthur,
Wales, Pembrokeshire, as hermetic astronomy, "as above, so below",
showing that Carn Arthur marks the stars from Cancer to Cepheus and
Pegasus, which corresponds roughly to the stars extending from the
Spring Equinox to the Winter Solstice in ca. 4000 B.C. Always
remembering that the ancients may not have had a 1-to-1 correspondence
with our current stellar constellations, but close to them, Carn Arthur
shows Canis Major and perhaps Canis Minor as a cat and puppy dog, Cancer
as a woman, Gemini as two chicks (chickens), Orion as two persons with
some kind of relationship to fertility, perhaps showing the birth of an
infant and older children's faces, Lepus as a face of some kind, perhaps
the mother-in-law (:-)), Auriga as a duck, Taurus as an extended
serpent, Pisces as a fish, the Pleiades as baby ducks (Latvian PÄ«lites =
baby ducks = Pleiades), Perseus as a head, Andromeda as a larger head,
Cassiopeia as the "ribbon" in the hair of that head, Cepheus as a head,
torso and leg from the side and back, and Pegasus (the Great Square) as a
head.