Northern European Mythology
Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids: Index
Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, by William Stukeley, [1740]
| STonehenge the latest of the Druid temples, | Page 1, 17, 66 |
| Older than the time of the Saxons and Danes, | 1, 2, 3, 7, 47 |
| Older than the time of the Roman Britons, | 1, 2, 32 |
| Older than the time of the Belgæ, who preceded the Roman invasion, | 4, 8, 9, 47 |
| The history of the Belgæ seated about Stonehenge, in Cæsar's time, | 4, 8, 47 |
| Our Welsh the remains of the Belgæ, | 8 |
| The Cimbrians the same, | 48 |
| Of the Wansdike: made by Divitiacus, | 4, 47 |
| Of Vespasian's camp Ambresbury, | 49 |
| The stones of Stonehenge are from the gray weathers on Marlborough downs, | 5, 47 |
| Of their nature, magnitude, weight, | 5, 6 |
| Of their number, | 30 |
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| Mr. Webb's drawings of Stonehenge false, | 3, 22, 25 |
| Absurd to compare the work to Roman or Grecian orders, | 6, 10, 16, 20, 21, 28 |
| The cell not form’d from three equilateral triangles, | 3, 18, 24, 33 |
| But one entrance into the area, | 3, 18, 23, 33 |
| He makes one side of the cell out of a bit of a loose stone, | 29 |
| He has turn’d the cell a sixth part from its true situation, | 3, 22 |
| The cell not a hexagon, but an oval, | 20, 22, 29 |
| Demonstrated by Lord Pembroke's measure, | 28 |
| Demonstrated by trigonometry, | 22 |
| Proved by the surgeons amphitheater, London, being an imitation thereof | 25 |
| Stonehenge not made by the Roman foot, | 6 |
| Webb makes the inner circle, of thirty stones, instead of forty, | 20 |
| He contracts 119 feet to 43, | 33 |
| He draws a stone on the vallum 120 foot out of its true place, | 14 |
| Stonehenge not a monument, | 40 |
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| The Druids came with an oriental colony, upon the first Celtic inhabitants, | 62, 63 |
| Introduc’d here by the Tyrian Hercules, | 7, 31, 32, 50, 52, 55, 63 |
| The colony were Phœnicians or Arabians, | 63, 66 |
| They found out our tin mines, | 32, 55, 63 |
| The Druids came bitter about Abraham's time or soon after, | 2, 7, 31, 32, 49, 52 |
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| They were of the patriarchal religion, | Page 1, 2, 17 |
| Which was the same as christianity, | 2, 54 |
| Stonehenge prov’d the work of the Druids from the infinite number of the like, all over the Britannic isles, | 3, 8 |
| Farther suggestions: because accounted sacred, made by magic, medicinal, came from Ireland, Spain, Afric, Egypt. In some places the name of Druids remaining, | 3, 5, 9, 47, 48 |
| From the antiquities dug up about them, | 4, 45, 46 |
| Schetland isles the Hyperboreans of the Greeks, thence Abaris the Pythagorean philosopher, | 40 |
| Stonehenge not built by the Saxons, deduced from its name, | 7, 47 |
| Demonstrated to be older than Roman times, | 9, 10 |
| Such in countries never conquered by the Romans, | 3 |
| Stonehenge and such works built by the Phœnician colony, | 8, 9, 32, 49 |
| The cathedral of the Arch-Druid, | 8, 10, 32 |
| Called antiently the Ambres, | 9, 47 |
| Thence Vespasian's camp, and Ambresbury nam’d, | 49 |
| Stonehenge call’d choir gaur: the great church or cathedral, | 4, 47 |
| Made with mortaise and tenon, unusual with the Romans, | 18 |
| Made by the ancient Hebrew, Phœnician cubit, | 6, 12, 28 |
| Its proportion to our foot, | 6, 11, 15, 26, 30, 32 |
| The ancient decem-pedum, | 12 |
| The Druids were geometricians, | 16, 18, 27, 42 |
| Knew the use of the compass, | 57, 63 |
| They carried a little ax to cut down misletoe, | 39, 48 |
| The Druids letter, | 31, 54 |
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| The patriarchal temples were open, | 19, 23, 30, 39, 40, 46, 52, 54, 58. |
| Moses's tabernacle the first cover’d temple, | 23, 24, 58 |
| Patriarchal temples, | 19, 40, 46, 50, 51, 54 |
| Of rude stones, unchizel’d, | 66 |
| The kebla, | 24, 30, 40, 54 |
| Had no statues, | 55 |
| Patriarchal altars, | 30, 50, 52 |
| Their temples fronted the east, | 35 |
| Their temples were consecrated and endowed, | 52 |
| Paying tythe, | 52, 55 |
| Bowing, a part of worship, | 33, 34 |
| They officiated barefooted, | 55 |
| They practised chastity, before officiating, | ibid. |
| The priests wore white linen surplices at the time of officiating, | 24, 55 |
| Their publick demotion was call’d praying, or invoking, in the NAME, | 52 |
| They believ’d a future state, | 31 |
| They gave notice of religious festivals by fire, | 37 |
| Those were the quarterly sacrifices, | ibid. |
| The manner of sacrificing, | 34, 54 |
| They us’d water for purification, | 11, 13, 14, 34 |
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| Of the water vases at Stonehenge, | 11, 13, 14, 34 |
| The stone table there, | 34 |
| Of the stones and cavities on the vallum, | 11, 14 |
| Crwm-lechen, bowing stones, | 33, 34 |
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| Human sacrifices, | Page 54 |
| Heathen imitations of the Jews, | 46, 60, 62 |
| Main Ambres, rocking stones, gygonia, petræ ambrosiæ, Bæthylia, | 18, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54 |
| Ambrosia what? | 51, 52. |
| Horned, anointed, analogous to sacred, consecrated, | 52, 59 |
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| The time when Hercules lived, | 52, 53, 58 |
| Hercules built patriarchal temples, where-ever he came, | 54, 57 |
| Probably he made the Main Ambre by Pensans, and Biscawoon, | 54 |
| Persepolis a patriarchal temple, | 19, 45 |
| Of the avenue of Stonehenge, | 35, 39 |
| Of its two wings, | 35, 38, 41, 57 |
| Eastern wing, its variation, | 36, 56, 57, 64, 57 |
| Of the Hippodrom or Cursus, | 13, 41, 56 |
| Its variation, | 42, 57 |
| The Romans borrowed the British chariots, | 42 |
| The eastern meta, its variation, | 57 |
| Other like works, in other parts of England, | 43 |
| The via Iceniana, | 9 |
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| Of the barrows or sepulchral tumuli, | 43 |
| Druid barrows, | 10, 45 |
| Arch-Druids barrows, | 38 |
| Urn burial, | 44, 46 |
| The bodies lay north and south, | 45 |
| Beads of amber, glass, gold, &c. found, | ibid. |
| Horses, dogs, and other animals buried with them, | 46 |
| Carvilius's tomb, | 4, 44, 46 |
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| The magnetical compass known to Hercules, the Phœnicians and Arabians, | 57 |
| The oracle of Jupiter Ammon had a compass, | 59, 61, 62 |
| The golden fleece was a compass, | 60, 62 |
| How the compass was forgot, | 55, 58, 63, 64 |
| Apher grandson of Abraham, companion of Hercules, from Arabia, | 53, 62, 63 |
| He gave name to Africa and to Britain, | 53, 62, 63 |
| A scheme of the variation of the compass, | 65 |
| A conjecture therefrom, when Stonehenge was founded, | 65 |
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