I’m still not here. With one thing and another my best guess would be January for a return, but you’ll notice I’m not committing myself to a year. In the meantime I get email, so I thought I’d answer the most common questions sent to by people many of whom need the answers TONIGHT for a report.
Really, what is an equinox?
I’ve annoyed quite a few young people by posting something which suggests you could define it half-a-dozen ways. As Anonymous says dis is not very useful, so after some research here’s the answer.
An Equinox is a small marsupial found in Australia. It’s four-legged, about twelve inches high off the ground and looks a bit like a cross between a horse and an ox, hence the name Equine Ox, which was shortened to Equinox to save wear and tear on the letter ‘e’ back in the days when people used typewriters. It eats grass, leaves and rabbits which it hunts in packs. Equinoxes are very important in astronomy as they always face away from the sun, as this photo proves. This is why so many telescopes are built in Australia as the equinoxes help the astronomers work out where the sun is.
What is a henge?
The birds would perch on the crossbeams.
It’s a place for perching birds, usually chickens (hence ‘hen’ge) but also ducks, geese or swans. It’s what farmers used to use before they invented battery hens. That’s why you have perches with the supports underneath. Stonehenge is a henge built in stone, and obviously it’s larger than your usual henge. In the stone age chickens were larger, they’ve only been minaturised in modern times to fit into the plastic bags at supermarkets. Still I don’t think they were THAT big, so it looks like someone was showing off. Hens were important as their eggs were symbols of rebirth. That’s why we hand out the chocolate eggs that rabbits lay at Easter.
Where was Atlantis?
This is probably a mystery due to a mix-up in words. Plato is said to have written the ‘The Civilisation Atlantis’ but that was probably an error introduced by a spellchecker. Earlier drafts of his work show he wrote ‘The civilization is at Lant’. Lant is an old word for ‘light’ which is where we get the word Lantern from. It’s also a word for ‘Moon’, and the failure of people to find Atlantis on the Earth strongly suggests that the Moon is the place to find it. This explains who built the golf course Alan Shepherd found on the Moon.
Best of luck with those reports!
