A Letter To Indi Bains About Her Attempt To Discredit Paul Griffin's Hypothesis That A Solar Eclipse Is Represented In The Megalithic Art Of Loughcrew's Cairn L

I wrote this post over a year ago on April 5th, 2024, but never published it. In light of recent claims made by a couple of Irish archaeologists or researchers that there is "no evidence" aka "zero evidence" supporting archaeoastronomer Paul Griffin's decades old hypothesis that the overlapping concentric circles in Loughcrew's Cairn L represent a solar eclipse, I have decided to publish it now. It contains a link to a post in the Irish Megalithic Research Group that I did publish on April 5th, 2024.

 

 

Hello Indi,

Your article "Is This the World’s Oldest Eclipse Art" was brought to my attention via this post in the Irish Megalithic Group earlier today:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2399377773554039/posts/2724726697685810/

There are multiple flaws in the article, not only in terms of what you wrote yourself, but also in the questionable quotes from your various sources, who are quite evidently not very well versed in how solar eclipses influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs and symbolism etc.

Herewith is my initial response to your seriously flawed article, which was posted as a comment in response to that post in the Irish Megalithic Research Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2399377773554039/posts/2724726697685810/?comment_id=2724963127662167

Let me know if you have any questions.

Unlike Paul Griffin, I am easy to get in touch with and, at this point in time, I can confidently say that I know considerably more about how solar eclipses influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs and symbolism etc. than he did.

An overview of my Eclipsology research can be watched here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=1188s

Elizabeth Shee Twohig clearly knows next to nothing about how solar eclipses are represented in Ireland's megalithic art, and the same can be said about Susan Johnston. Former Keeper of Irish Antiquities at the National Museum of Ireland Mary Cahill would have been a much better source of information, as would another former Keeper of Irish Antiquities at the National Museum of Ireland Eamonn P. Kelly.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tIeoPcw4D8

And: https://www.academia.edu/40567848/The_Solar_Boat_at_Knowth_County_Meath_

I suggest interviewing me so you can acknowledge that Paul Griffin, and various other serious researchers, including myself, have very good reasons to believe that solar eclipses are pictorially depicted, or symbolically represented, in the megalithic art of Ireland.

For the record. the oldest possible depiction of a solar eclipse that I am aware of is 10 to 15 millennia old, and it's not in Ireland.

I will fill you in about it if you decide to interview me.

Sincerely,

Robin Edgar

 

Indi Bains declined to interview me or make any revisions of her poorly researched article.