Morreion 2
- MORREION 2 - A black ink and gray pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appears in the book, "Morreion," by Jack Vance, published by Underwood-Miller in 1979.
There are mysteries that we encounter from the amazing things we uncover from the past that present us with questions for which we can find no answers. "Stonehenge" is one of those mysteries; On the plain of Salisbury, England, stands an arrangement of gigantic stones dating back to prehistoric times. How long have they been there? Who put them there?
The people who lived at that time only had tools made of stone, bone, and sticks! Those people, who had not yet invented the wheel somehow managed to transport over 40 monstrous boulders of stone some 20 miles from their original site at Marlborough Downs, to the plain at Salisbury. Some of the stones stand 20 feet high, weighing over 30 tons!
Incredibly, at Salisbury, those people managed to lift some of those stones in an upright position, arranging them in a circle. And by some unknown method they actually managed to raise other stones weighing tons, and placed them horizontally on top of the standing stones, forming a ring on top of the circular design. By what primitive ingenuity did they manage to do all this?
It must have taken thousands of people, struggling for many years to transport the stones and to build "Stonehenge," and today, thousands of years later, most of them are still standing!
We don't know who these people were, where they came from, where they went . . . We can only look at what they did, and wonder . . . How did they do it? . . . And why?
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