08 août 2007
The dolmen of Pierre Luteau in Ruan (Loiret)
Ruan,
whose name means “Street” in Old Latin, was called “Ruata” into 870.
It was discovered there an old Gallo-Roman villa. This village has a
church of XIIth century, Saint-Felix.
A dolmen was found, Pierre
Luteau, nested in the middle of the fields, nearest the locality “Le Montant”. It is property of the district and was registered in the
historic buildings in 1992.
He suffered, but remains a rather rare witness of the Neolithic time in Beauce.
Many
legends are attached to it, hawked by the popular tradition, and people
of speak about it like “druidic” monument …
The Godon stone, in Tillay-le-Peneux (Eure et Loir)
Tillay-le-Peneux
is a small town in the conty of Orgères-in-Beauce. Mentioned under the
name of Tilietum-Pagani, Tilletum in 1198, Teillay-le-Pesneux in 1629.
The name comes from the lime-trees present on the territory since a long time.
Close to the locality of Soignoles stand
the dolmen known as the Godon stone. Excavations were carried out
there by Guy Richard, of the regional service of the Archaeology of
Orleans. It brought its classification under the Historical Monuments
in 1979.
At the time of the excavations, about fifty individuals were found (30 adults and of 12 children). According to a dating with carbon-14, they were buried between -3400 and -3000 before J. - C.
On
the architectural level, 5 stones out of limestone or grinding,
originaly verticals, delimited space where deaths were deposited.
A small flagstone in cover into grinding of 2,3 m by 2,2m covered and
determined the funerary room.
In
addition to the human remainders, osseous teeth and fragments, the
sediments of the room included some small objects out of cut flint
or bone and rare fragments of pottery. A furniture which makes it
possible to specify two periods of use of the sepulchre. The first at
the end of the average Neolithic era was completed by partial collapse of the flagstone of cover on the ground of the funerary room. This
event which was perhaps natural on other excavated sites was caused by
the last users of the sepulchre. 
During
the second period of use, in the final Neolithic era, other dead people are
deposited in the content of the room after being introduced vertically.
A pollinic analysis of the sediment contained in a cranium gives some
information on the environment of the megalith at the time of the
burial in particular the existence of corn fields rather distant but
revealing of an agricultural activity as well as the presence of limes
which will still stand until the modern time as the name of the village testifies it.
This monument was saved in extremis from destruction in 1975.
http://www.intensite.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=3342
07 août 2007
The "Pierre-clouée" of Andonville
Andonville
is a french little town located in the department of Loiret (45). Its
church, built in XIVth century, under the term of Saint-Pierre and
Saint-Wolf, was in the beginning a castral vault. It was
included in the strengthened enclosure. A kind of crypt or
vault, in the undergrounds, contains the tombs of the lords of the
place. One still finds remainders of foundations of the castle,
destroyed in the XIXth century, and an enclosure.
Actually,the pilgrimage of Saint-Wolf is still attended. Near to the village, one finds the sources of Juine, Fountain and Saint-Jacob.
A
little further, by the road of Annemont, 600 meters in the south of the
borough, is drawn up a stone, the "Pierre-clouée", or Clouet, also said Pierre
Koraïre. It is a dolmen dated from the Neolithic era, classified
historic building since 1992. It has more than 6.000 years. 
In
the middle of the fields, it was, according to the
legend, the place of appointment of the Gallic chiefs of the vicinity.
Formed
of several blocks of sandstone, it presents on one on its sides, the
grooves of polishing machine. Its flagstone of cover was broken in
three pieces.
On
one of the stones, several cups were dug. Deepest in
top, then a series of smaller others communicating between them. In
the bottom of the stone under the dolmen, one can see a hole. With which ritual this
stone was used?
11 juin 2007
Dolmen mushroom
During a voyage, here is a curious mushroom. Normal, we are in the Dordogne!
It should not be awaked… It is quite quiet, far from the agitation of the world and the men…
Celà gives me desire for making you a gift: a history drawn from a work of Mr Maurice guingand:
Song of stars
In this night there, time did not exist any more.
No wind, not of noise. Only the growing clearness of the dawn made the rocks of surrounding darker.
In a circular valley, bathed orange light, an open crater whose intensity of the interior black made it possible to suppose the worrying depth.
Very close to this crater, on a monticule, a large dark, right stone like a menhir. Its silhouette was detached perfectly on clearness from surrounding grass and its shade moved there slowly, plunging what it covered in mysterious purple.
Further, with ground, close to the crater, another large stone, punt this time, shone like a broad blade or a giant mirror looking at the sky.
The large raised stone, hard contours of a beautiful dark blue, resembled the remote vestiges that unknown civilizations pointed towards the sky.
The more clearness went up, the more contours softened. It resembled now a human form which would have taken a large stone dress to cross without fear the awaited centuries. Then it took more precise forms, moved slowly; was turned over, like a petrified golem whose weights and the long alarm clock would have slowed down the gyration.
The metamorphosis is achieved gradually. Its last hard aspects were based and evaporated in a luminous halation.
It is a woman who was now still impressed stiffness of her sandstone sarcophagus, taking again life little by little. A large dress blue-black, color of the firmament under stars, covered it very whole, a shawl dissimulated its head and its fair shoulders and some wicks escaped towards the light.
Of face, there was not. Only two phosphorescent greenish gleams replaced the eyes and animated this face of vacuum.
Its arms moved somewhat and its two hands, long, fine, blanchâtres, slipped on the stiff folds of its dress. A growing murmur left its person then, taking more precise sounds to form words than the morning breeze carried.
“I of am meurée fixed taking into consideration star, said it, I was placed close to the mouth of the ground to hear his song and to listen to the music without end of the stars which surround us.
The movement has its rate/rhythm, its light, its melody and the vacuum its symphony. I was maintained there since centuries in a hard and cold body for an enchantment of my spirit. My partner, lengthened in grass, is made to hear and me to see and we can be complementary.
Now, times came. I can speak and I want to reveal well what I know. But that nobody seeks to see my face, or with the reconnaitre. I am that which remains incréee, that which was continued during millenia and that my coat of girl of the mountain dissimulated.
Part of my people still sleeps, inert in these heights. The other part is disseminated on the face of the ground, in as many sensitive beings. Some became useful things; others of the glorious things, others finally of the crowned things.
I.e. that each one of our pieces had only the language that the man agreed to give him. But it is as by the fault of the man and its ignorance as others are lost or wasted.
You point out ego.
Then you will learn how to live the stones, those which are raised in the mornings of North, those which one piled up under the more limpid skies, those which are carved for dawns softer.
You will have to seek their number and mine and that of my partner who still sleeps. “
While it murmured thus, the edge of the crater had become a large white circle and, slowly towards the east, the sun started its daily race.
The murmur began again.
“In your successive civilizations, there always were men who knew the mysteries of the walk of the world. They had fingers to determine them, to appear the symbols. They had stones for engraving there. Number came the sign, then sign the symbol and, later, the figure.
By the voice of the man, the number took a sound, then a range and finally a song. In this song, there was a rate/rhythm and all that caused a resonance, resonance of the heart of the man on the heart of nature, through the heart of the stones and this in order to be included/understood by the heart of the gods.
And the gods sent on ground of the fairies to guide the men towards marvellous perpetual. These fairies were women, but these women were dreams.
It plait with the man to revive these dreams, it plait to him to join these fairies, because these fairies sleep in the stone.
And these stones were the first médiums of the man towards creation and his harmony. “
It is in a weak breath that the last words disappeared. A sudden gleam was done in the green valley, spouting out above cîmes.
The eyes of the woman disappeared and a light fog leaving its empty face, like the morning dew, evaporated gently in the tepidity of the first rays of the sun.
One had been able to distinguish a smile from an unutterable softness and an inexpressible joy like a take-off towards a mysterious call. Volutes of these vapors matutinales, dew of the philosophers, stones of wise, were absorbed closely in their lively rise.
It did not remain soon any more, at the edge of the always dark crater, that a large stone solidified in the ground indicating the mysteries of a time.
Other stones will be other femmes.il may be that one of them, Venus hyperborean or girl of khéops, prêtrese of the sun or odalisque Eastern returned at the edges of the blue sea food all with its crystal memory a reminiscence of passed and a vibration of the future, like emerald in the middle of the red pinks.
The number will be perhaps cold for him, but it will also know that its shade is that of the mystery which veils the things and make them truer.
Knowledge brings a joy and it is this joy which we try to share.
Maurice Guingand
Shady walk of Oustau of the Wolf
Treated here:
http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/saint_gervazy__auvergne_/index.html
Menhir of Lou Donat
Treaty here:
http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/lavoute_sur_loire__auvergne_/index.html
Dolmen of the stone of the fairies
The dolmen of Elba Saint in Mazerat To combine is an imposing monument. It was very abimé at last century of the inconsistency of the men. There is a precise description of the megalith going back to 1880, where he is presented like a shady walk… a wild excavation, 50 years later, destabilized the Western line and caused its collapse. There was a very beautiful pavement, whose stones are now posed in heap in the close field.
The inhabitants of the village allotted construction of it to the fairies. A scholar wrote one century ago:
“The peasants of this region believe or tell that very small and fair, pale fairies and glazes of a veil, had carried the stones on their head while spinning their stopper rod. The children from time to time will dance on the site of this monument then have fear between them.”
Today, the children do not play any more on the stone but it kept its stone name of the fairies and there are still people who would not dare to venture on the site in the neighbourhoods of midnight…
Wasps began their house on the stones. Stones full with goodwill besides, but much too damaged to communicate.
The menhir of stone-card
It is located at Champeix, not very far from Issoire. It
rises with nearly 3 meters 50. Its total weight is 10 tons. It is
visible by far and is known under several appelations which testify to
its major print in the landscape and D
years the beliefs. Of course, from the fairies passed once again by there…
Menhir of Freydefond
In the north of Saint Nectary, this menhir of modest size (1
meter 50) is visible by far. It is located on a tabular basaltic plate.
It was surmounted by a small block of basalt in which a cross was
driven. It was broken with the revolution, was restored and again
destroyed for lack of maintenance. It works on the sphere “shock
absorber”. On its line, the dolmen of Pineyre.
Dolmen of Pineyre
It is distant only 500 meters of the menhir of Freydefond.
Its name points out glazing bar of pines which surrounds it. It is
enchassé in a tumulus of about fifteen meters in diameter, and only
part of the enormous flagstone of cover emerges whose weight is higher
than 25 tons. It is a basalt plate, torn off with a lava flow, which
slipped on the supports which are 4, and does not rest any more but on
two of them.
