Helleristning
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En helleristning er symboler og figurer udhugget i sten, sædvanligvis udført af forhistoriske mennesker.
Mange helleristninger anses for at repræsentere noget, som vi ikke hidtil fuldt ud har kunnet afkode.
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[redigér] I Skandinavien
I Skandinavien stammer helleristninger hovedsageligt fra bronzealderen, men kan også stamme fra den ældste del af jernalderen. De fleste findes i Bohuslän i Sverige og omkring Oslofjorden i Norge. I Danmark findes de overvejende på Bornholm
Der findes mange små, skålformede fordybninger (skålgruber), der tolkes som soltegn. Der forekommer også hjul, mænd med våben, skibe, processioner, øksebærende mænd med rejst fallos, dyr, jagt- og parringsscener med mere. Ristningerne antages at have religiøs eller magisk betydning.
En teori siger, at de små skålformede huller stammer fra udvinding af medicin af stenen. Hvilket ville forklare, hvorfor skålgruberne kan forekomme på stenenes kanter. Måske betød stenpulveret gradvis mindre, efterhånden som fugerne i stenen med tiden blev smallere og lavere. De yngste er skåret med kniv i skifer. Ifølge Tacitus symboliserede skibstegnene den ægyptiske gudinde Isis.
[redigér] West Virginia helleristningerne
Det er værd at bemærke West Virginia helleristningerne pga. de kontroverser, som udbrød på grund af dem i 1980'erne. Barry Fell (Howard Barraclough Fell), en professor emeritus i marinbiologi ved Harvard University, offentliggjorde en artikel i 1983 med beskrivelse af, hvordan han havde dechifreret adskillige helleristninger i det sydlige West Virginia. Han anså helleristningerne for at være skrevet i ogam, en irsk, keltisk skrift dateret til 6. århundrede til 8. århundrede. Adskillige landes sprogforskere har forkastet hans dechifrering.
[redigér] Kilder/referencer
- Debunking of Ogam theory about West Virginia petroglyphs
- Kontroversiel: Some revelations about american colonization by dr. Barry Fell of Harward University e.legner@ucr.edu Citat: "...Barry Fell, a marine biologist at Harvard, offered astonishing evidence that there were men and women from Europe, not merely exploring but living in North America as early as 800 B.C...the script of the Carthaginians and Ogam, an almost forgotten script used by the pre-Christian Norse...Ogam inscriptions were located at another site in central Vermont..."
- Kontroversiel (omfattende): European bronze age visitors in America e.legner@ucr.edu
- European bronze age visitors in America e.legner@ucr.edu: Introduction Citat: "...Nevertheless, there is considerable evidence of a voyage or voyages of a Bronze Age Scandinavian king, Woden-lithi, to North America around 1700 BC from texts found inscribed in the rocks at Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (Figs. 18 & 19 & MAP), and other North American sites...One alphabet, "ogam consaine" was employed by the ancient peoples of Ireland and Scotland (often erroneously referred to as Celts..."
- Archeology, Epigraphy, Pre-Columbian Contacts in America e.legner@ucr.edu
[redigér] Se også
[redigér] Eksterne henvisninger
- Helleristninger - bornholms hellige billeder. fotos, megen information og links
- Arild Hauges billeder af skandinaviske helleristninger
- Petroglyph Provincial Park Official Website
- Northumberland Rock Art
- Three Rivers Petroglyphs in New Mexico
- Petroglyph Provincial Park, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
- EpigraphyUSA - Central Registry for Precolumbian Inscriptions
- Ancient Archaeology - List of remarkable archaeological finds
- Kontroversiel: Ancient Mines of Kitchi-Gummi Citat: "...Language Evidence of a Second Culture...The Newberry Tablet was discovered just north of Newberry, Michigan in November 1896...It has since been discovered that it is written in an ancient script known as a Cypriot Minoan Syllabary (left picture)...This Copper Snake was discovered in the Nippissing Beaches a few miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...This is only one of the Minoan/Canaanite symbols found among copper culture artifacts...The drugs Nicotine and Cocaine have been found in mummies from Egypt. These plants are only native to the Americas..."
- World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Fuente Magna - Rosetta Stone of Americas Citat: "... The Fuente Magna has not been shown in Bolivia until year 2000. It was considered false, until we began the investigations...It contains two texts, one in cuneiform and another Semitic language of possible Sinaitic extraction cuneiform influences...Chronologically, this leads us to the 3500/3000 B.C., the Sumerian/Akkadian period...Monolith of Pokotia...the monolith from an early Tiahunaco`s period that nobody doubts is not a fake...Semitic and cuneiform writings in Tiahuanco - this has enormous significance...Chapter 3 - Decipherment...During Inca (Sumerian: En-ka "Great Lord") times..."