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Mystery: October 23, 2024 Issue [#12798]




 This week: The Alignments of Carnac
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There are many theories that attempt to explain the origin of the alignments, including that they were religious monuments, related to the worship of the moon or sun, or to the farming calender. One legend even has it that they were a Roman army turned into stone! But their origin continues to be a mystery. (Carnac Official Tourism Information)


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The Alignments of Carnac


It's nearly impossible to go through life as a Western educated person without hearing about Stonehenge. This collection of massive boulders is so famous that it is even part of the stock photos for Writing.Com. That one place in the UK is however not the only place where people set up large stones that are taller than a typical human and thick like horse or two.

The Alignments of Carnac in the Bretagne region of France is a site that covers several miles of fields filled with boulders in long, straight lines. The whole thing is so big that there are two competing tour companies that offer a ride around the 17+ kilometer loop. The whole installation was originally so big that villages were set up amongst the rows of stones. Some of them now form the fence line of some properties.

The rock formations were eventually declared a protected site, but the villages and those villagers with their boulder fences are still there. Walking amongst the rocks is possible, but only under certain conditions. The site is open to the public in winter, during the off-season. In summer, the only way to walk along the lines is only possible with a guide. There is a good reason for that. Some of the boulders are not very deep in the ground. One of them was tipped over by careless visitors.

These kind of places, that are neither mentioned in old writing nor explained through oral stories, have a whole different kind of mystery about them. There are so many questions and only guesses for answers.

Writers who want to use a historical site for a setting should look past Stonehenge. Even Carnac is relatively widely known. At least in France. But if you pull up the Bretagne on a satellite map and enter "menhir" in the search bar, you will see hundreds of such places sprinkled all over. They are clearly there for a reason. It's up to you as a fiction writer to decide who put them there and what they tried to accomplish.

Were you aware of the many sites where humans set up massive stones?




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