Megaliths and Stone Constructions
Poor Pythagoras!
Near
the
town
of
Carnac
in
Brittany,
France,
there
are
thousands
of
menhirs
in
long
rows.
Dr.
Bruno
P.
Kremer
from
the
Institute
of
Natural
Science
of
the
University
of
Cologne,
who
has
published
several
papers
on
this
arrangement
of
stones,
estimates
the
number
of
menhirs
still
existing
today
as
"more
than
3,000."
And
Pierre-Roland
Giot,
the
leading
expert
on
Brittany
in
France,
is
of
the
opinion
that
something
approaching
10,000
menhirs
must
once
have
stood
in
the
landscape.
Many
of
the
granite
blocks
have
been
destroyed
today,
worn
away
by
wind
and
weather.
The
ranks
of
three
to
10
stones
give
the
appearance
of
a
petrified
army.
The
smallest
are
barely
1
meter
tall;
the
giant
among
them,
the
menhir
of
Kerloas
ne
ar
Plouarzel,
is
12
meters
high
and
weighs
150
tons.
The
largest
"long
stone"
in
the
whole
area
is
the
menhir
of
Locmariaquer.
It
lies
broken
on
the
ground,
was
once
21
meters
high,
and
weighed
a
good
350
tons.
The
most
impressive
thing
is
probably
the
long
parallel
columns
of
the
Alignements
(alignments).
Near
Kermario,
there
are
1,029
menhirs
in
10
rows
on
an
area
about
100
meters
wide
and
1,120
meters
long.
At
Menec,
there
are
1,099
standing
stones
arranged
in
columns
of
11.
The
Alignement
of
Kerlescan
comprises
540
menhirs
in
rows
of
13
and
at
Kerzehro
we
can count another 1,129 menhirs in columns of 10.
These
are
just
some
of
the
details,
but
they
give
an
idea
of
the
enormous
work
which
was
undertaken
by
someone
at
some
stage.
Carbon-14
dating
at
the
dolmen
of
Kercado
produced
an
age
of
5,830
years.
May
the
gods
be
thanked
for
this
date,
even
if
it
might
subsequently
turn
out
to
be
too
recent.
At
5,830
years,
all
the
nonsense
put
forward
in
all
seriousness
in
the
previous
literature
can
at
least
be
put
to
rest.
It
has
been
suggested,
among
other
things,
that
primitive
nomad
tribes
had
cut
and
aligned
stone
blocks
in
European
pre-history
to
copy
the
peoples
of
the
East
who
possessed
mighty
structures
in
Egypt
and
elsewhere.
Another
current
of
thought
suspects
that
the
whole
of
the
area
which
is
Brittany
today
had
once
been
sacred
land
of
the
Druids
-
but
they
reached
their
height
in
the
last
pre-Christian
century.
If
therefore
the
Druids
located
their
holy
places
in
the
network
of
menhirs,
they
must
have
taken
over
a
complex
that
had
already
been
finished
and
completed.
It
was
originally
believed
that
the
stone
columns
were
gravestones
-
but
no
bones
ever
materialized.
Then
someone
thought
it
was
a
gigantic
calendar
in
stone.
Error.
Even
an
astronomical
alignment
was
assumed
to
be
behind
the
long rows. In the meantime, we know better: they are about sophisticated geometry.
The
western
cromlech
near
Le
Menec
includes
two
Pythagorean
triangles
whose
sides
have
a
ratio
of
3:4:5.
Pythagoras,
the
Greek
philosopher
from
Samos,
lived
at
ab
out
532
BC.
He
cannot
have
instructed
the
"nomad
tribes
and
gatherers
of
berries"
in
his
teachings.
Poor
Pythagoras!
Your
helpful
theorems
were
already
applied
millennia
before
you.
Read:
Evidence
of
the
Gods, page 195