The new issue, NE170, is now being put into envelopes and delivered to shops! Look for it on your doormat or in your local retailer in the next week or so! Among its contents are these articles by leading authors: Getting Wise about the Royal Mile The recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II and […]
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A small stone circle sits on a low hill in Okayama, Japan, at the hub of a remarkable sacred landscape featuring alignments, stone groupings and megalithic architecture, and narrativised by local legends. This article was prepared by John Billingsley in 1991 for a book on international landscape mysteries that to the best of our knowledge
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A curious feature of a number of Japanese artefacts and funerary sites of the Kofun period (c.250-600 CE), particularly the 4th century, is a fragmented design based on spiral geometry, known as the chokkomon. John Billingsley introduced this design and its deployment in liminal contexts to aficionadoes of mazes and labyrinths in the 1980s (hence
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The full sequence of Essex Landscape Mysteries, one of the best of the crop of regional earth mysteries magazines of the 1970-80s, is now available on our website, courtesy of Alby Stone and the late Jim Kimmis. Also included in the new upload is Jim’s introduction to the Ongar Zodiac – a terrestrial zodiac which
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In the 1990s, a new magazine of forteana, mysteries and related subjects, Beyond, was launched, ran for three issues, and ceased… NE’s editor John Billingsley supplied an earth mysteries column for this short-lived venture, and we reprint those three columns here. 1. Associations with places I don’t know what it is that attracts people
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John Billingsley walks a haunted and fated ‘spirit road’ in Japan’s spiritual heart Ujibashi: The bridge and torii mark the entrance to the sacred precincto Amaterasu at Ise Naikū shrine. It is aligned on the winter solstice sunrise Visitors purify themselves in the isuzu River at Naikū The Grand Shrine of Japan’s
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Ronnie Gallagher and Tom McLellan offer evidence associating solar alignments with simulacric images, serpent worship, and indications of a significant prehistoric ritual landscape. Introduction. A work secondment in Azerbaijan alerted Ronnie to large-scale anthropomorphic and zoomorphic imagery at archaeological sites.1 Studies by Dr. Leonid Marsadolov in the Altai region of Siberia have indicated solar reverence,
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Steve Sneyd describes a legendary spiritual journey in West Yorkshire Berry Brow is a hillside suburb a little south of Huddersfield. It is also the location of an unusual natural feature notable equally for its name and its associated weight of folklore. Deadmanstone is a massive rock, perched above a dogleg of a minor road,
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