Avebury Stone #42 Henge-Inward Marks Aquila as an Eagle

The creators of Avebury are pretty consistent in the way that the megaliths at Avebury Henge were carved to represent stars.

The henge-outward face marks "outer" stars toward the Milky Way, Ecliptic and Celestial Equator. The henge-inward face marks stars toward the center of the starry heavens (i.e. North Ecliptic and North Celestial Poles). Those henge-inward stars are immediately "above" the henge-outward stars in the sky. The narrower "sides" of each stone mark stars to the respective sides of the stars previously identified on the henge-outward and henge-inward faces.

This is also true for Avebury Stone #42, where the henge-outward face marks the stars of Sagittarius. Accordingly, when we "decipher" the remaining sides of that megalith, we already "know" where in the heavens the appropriate stars are, though re-drawing the figures found on stone is not always intuitively obvious, and it takes some work to figure out what the ancients were doing.

The henge-inward face of Avebury Stone #42 thus represents the stars of Aquila, the Eagle. The three images below show a photo clip of our original photograph of Avebury Stone #42, plus a tracing of the most prominent lines and markings on the stone via our zoom-enabled graphic software, and then the corresponding stars to the figures, lines and markings carved in stone, including the entire shape of the megalith itself.

Avebury Stone #42 Henge-Inward Face Our Photograph

Avebury Stone #42 Henge-Inward Face Photo Traced

Avebury Stone #42 Henge-Inward Corresponding Stars Aquila & Scutum

We forgot to circle the face in the lower left hand corner on the sky map.
Do you see it? Compare the stone and the sky map above.

Avebury Stone #42 Marks Sagittarius Henge-Outward as a Horse & Rider Reminding Also of the Mythical Half-Man Half-Beast Chiron

Avebury Stone #42 has such a "strange shape" for a megalith.

How could prior researchers have missed examining the possible connection of the strange but to us "familiar" shape of Avebury Stone #42 to the stars of Sagittarius, the equestrian archer of old and the astronomical Chiron?

The fabled early shape of Sagittarius in the stars, according to Richard Hinckley Allen's Star Names was as half-man and half-steed, either originally or later as an archer on horseback, and found later in the Centaur Chiron.

Directly below are four images: the first is the front henge-outward face of Avebury Stone #42, the second image is the astronomical "teapot" asterism of Sagittarius, the third image is the first image traced and labeled, and the fourth is an image of the corresponding stars in sky as carved on the stone:

• Avebury Stone #42 Facing Henge-Outward (we have lightened our original photograph to make the lines and markings more apparent)

• The "Teapot" Asterism of Sagittarius - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Sagittarius-teapot-asterism.jpg, public domain as uploaded to Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eoghanacht

• Avebury Stone #42 Frontal Face Henge-Outward Traced and Labeled (it is possible that our identified "saddle" is merely the rider's cloak)

• The Corresponding Stars to the Lines and Figures Carved on the Henge-Outward Frontal Face of Avebury Stone #42 (extended "tail" of the horse is carved further on the narrow side of the megalith)

We are pleased here to publish our decipherment of Avebury Stone #42, including the images above, which clearly demonstrate by lines, figures and markings on the carved stone and corresponding stars that:

• the henge-outward ("Milky Way directed") face of Avebury Stone #42 marks a steed and its rider (as the Sagittarius teapot "asterism"),


• the henge-inward face of Avebury Stone #42 marks the neighboring stars above Sagittarius (i.e. inward toward heaven's center), i.e. Aquila,


• the "right side" of Avebury Stone #42  (seen henge-outward) marks stars next to Sagittarius toward Capricorn, including the back end and tail of the Sagittarian steed (marked in stars we today assign to the region of the stars alpha and beta Capricorn), a tail similar in extension to the modern Sagittarian asterism of "the teaspoon" (see http://www.go-astronomy.com/constellations.php?Name=Sagittarius)


• the "left side" of Avebury Stone #42 (seen henge-outward) marks stars next to Sagittarius in the direction of Scorpio, including the portrayal of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy as a chair-type "throne" at the galactic center, whose design reminds of the throne of Minoan Knossos and generally recalls our work on the Phaistos Disk.

The other three sides of Avebury Stone #42 are deciphered in the immediately subsequent postings.

Total Decipherment of Avebury Stone #9 : All Four Surface Shapes In their Deciphered Stars Results in the Figure of a Bearded Man Wielding an Antler Tool

Some of the diverse talents of ancient man become visible when we examine collectively all four sides of Avebury Stone #9 in the heaven of stars at once.

What is the result? Note how the two broader faces and two narrower sides of the stone mark stars that are immediately adjacent to each other.

We were astonished to find that placing all four surface shapes together at the location of our decipherment of their applicable stars resulted in the image of a bearded man wielding an antler tool. This we did not expect. We were initially only trying to get a more comprehensive sky map representation.

Whether that artistic creation was intended by its makers to represent the craftsmen and workers who erected Avebury or whether a heavenly maker was viewed at this central location is surely a matter of personal preference....

Image 1 :
Placement of the Four Faces viz. Sides of Avebury Stone #9 in the Sky at Once (Each stone face viz. side is a different color to aid identification)

Image 2: Black/White Version as a Blending of the Above Image

Image 3: A Color Version of the  Bearded Man Wielding an Antler Tool with various Lines Connected in Order to Show the Image More Easily

Truly amazing.