The Goddess of the Stones: The Language of the Megaliths

by George Terence Meaden

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, A good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards with a good dust jacket. The goddess of the the language of the megaliths. 224 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm.. . Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index.. .

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Pilar · Rating 2 out of 5]

The beginning of this book was wonderful, suggesting a possibility that is both creative and plausible. However it quickly loses its original curiosity and devolves into an attachment that insists on its own limited view, ignoring all contrary evidence. It’s quite a disappointing read in the end.

[Gavin White · Rating 2 out of 5]

Umm. Plenty of good photos and illustrations here but I do have a lot of reservations about the text.
The author's central idea is that the ancient circular monuments of the British Isles - stone circles, causewayed camps, round barrows etc - are inspired if not directly derived from whirlwinds creating crop circles. Its an original idea but, to me at least, not very convincing.
In the second half of the book the author moves onto the symbolism of spirals. This didn't convince me either. Based on the inherently dual nature of the spiral - inward-outward, clockwise-anti-clockwise - the author derives a very New Age interpretation of these forms in terms of the dualities of life-death, the god and goddess, involution and evolution. The application of this theoretical framework became rather tiresome. Indeed several of the illustrations in the book seem to directly contradict such an approach.
In the broader arena of the study and interpretation of ancient monuments I think this book will end up being little more than a footnote.