CHAPTER VIII

THE TESTIMONY OF ARCHAEOLOGY 397-426

Inadequacy of Pygmy Theory--According to the Theories concerning Divine Images and Fetishes, Gods, Daemons, and Ancestral Spirits haunt Megaliths--Megaliths are religious and funereal, as shown chiefly by _Cenn Cruaich_, Stonehenge, Guernsey menhirs, Monuments in Brittany, by the Circular Fairy-Dance as an Ancient Initiatory Sun-Dance, by Breton Earthworks, Archaeological Excavations generally, and by present-day Worship at Indian Dolmens--New Grange and Celtic Mysteries: Evidence of manuscripts; Evidence of Tradition--The Aengus Cult--New Grange compared with Great Pyramid: both have Astronomical Arrangement and same Internal Plan--Why they open to the Sunrise--Initiations in both--Great Pyramid as Model for Celtic Tumuli--Gavrinis and New Grange as Spirit Temples.