For many years, Davd and I take a trip each equinox and solstice to document various sites of archaeoastronomical importance. By and large, we travel to the Four Corners region, especially to Chaco Canyon. We’ve also ventured to the Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming, and for winter solstice 2022, we did a great, big mounds tour in the Eastern United States.
This summer found us in the British Isles documenting stone circles, from the tippy top of Scotland, down to Stonehenge in the south of England.
This is such a big part of our lives, and we want to let you all know a little more about what we’re up to. We call our project Axis Mundi, and our goal is to create documentary films exploring cultural astronomy sites, stories, and customs all around the world. This is the first of what I hope will be a quarterly email about our goings-on.
We have doggedly been documenting the sun’s rhythms over the past dozen years, and now we are turning our attention to its complement: the moon. This year, we’ve entered the beginning of the major lunar standstill cycle (MLS or lunastice). That means that during this period, there are times when the moon can rise farther north and south than the sun ever can. There are a few archaeological sites around the world where it is thought that prehistoric peoples, acknowledging this strange behavior of the moon, incorporated alignments to the lunastice in their architecture. Over the next few years, during this MLS window, we aim to travel to and document as many of these sites as possible. To make this happen, we plan to travel internationally once a year, do a trip to the Eastern US once a year, and then do more local trips whenever we can.
We hope you enjoy this video showcasing Davd’s footage from our recent trip visiting stone circles in Scotland and England. We have footage from the Isle of Skye, the Isle of Lewis, the Orkney Islands, Aberdeenshire, the Lake district, Stonehenge, and Greenwich.
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