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Robin Edgar
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"Retired" professional photographer and "Cultural Eclipsologist" researching how eclipses, especially total solar eclipses, influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs and iconography. Look for my #Eclipsology hashtag.
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LOTS of your fellow #UnitarianUniversalists engage in various forms of #censorship & suppression of #FreeSpeech, especially when the subject is #UnitarianUniversalist #ClergySexualMisconduct aka #ClergySexAbuse that includes #ChildSexAbuse.

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#UUA #UUism
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I enjoy a good play on words, but the fact remains that Dr. Shee Twohig & the RIA are misleading the public by stubbornly insisting that the "circles and spirals" & "radial line motifs" etc. in Irish #MegalithicArt are geometric "non-representational art" that "cannot be understood".

Some *can* be.
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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My perfectly reasonable ideas, that in all probability correctly interpret & therefore shed some actual understanding on the meaning of *some* of Ireland's #MegalithicArt, could have & should have been seriously considered br Dr. Shee Twohig &or the Royal Irish Academy in late 2021, or early 2022.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Thanks for "engaging" Neil.

It's not a question of "feeling" I'm not being heard.

It's knowing with certainty that I've been studiously ignored by both Dr. Elizabeth Shee Twohig & the Royal Irish Academy for over 4 years now, if not longer.

See: www.facebook.com/RIAKnowthExc...

#KeepDiscovering
Robin Edgar I am quite concerned by Elizabeth Shee Twohig claiming that because "the carvings are geometric, we can't decipher them with any certainty", and "but we can appreciate the achievement of the artists and builders of Knowth 5000 years ago, even if we cannot understand the art." Her suggestion that "perhaps its symbolism was a secret, even in its own time, except for certain people" only deepens the "mystery". Thankfully Ms. Twohig does acknowledge, "The fact that the people who built the "passage tombs" had an interest in astronomical alignments might suggest that some of the art is related to this, such as the radial representing the sun perhaps." Perhaps? Isn't it glaringly obvious that the "radial lines" around circles and rings are rayed sun symbols? Doesn't the readily observable fact that the sun shining into the passage of Loughcrew's Cairn T on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes lights up circles with radial lines on Loughcrew's "Equinox Stone", as it did this morning, all but conclusively confirm that the "geometric" symbols that are circles and rings with radial lines radiating outward around them represent the sun? Is there any credible hypothesis that these rayed circular symbols represent something other than the sun? Is there any credible hypothesis that these rayed circular symbols represent something other than the sun? Scientists very credibly hypothesized that rayed sun symbols are ancient (even prehistoric) representations of the sun surrounded by its corona, something that is only seen during total solar eclipses, decades ago. I noticed that four of the seven rayed sun symbols carved into Dowth's "Stone of the Seven Suns" are almost identical to a scientific astronomical drawing of the 1851 total solar eclipse in the mid-1990s, and published my hypothesis to the internet in the late 1990s. Others have presented credible hypotheses to the effect that overlapping concentric circles or spirals represent the moon covering the sun during a solar eclipse. I have been researching how solar eclipses, especially total solar eclipses, influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs and iconography since the early 1990s. I have an overview of diverse cultures all around the world. I have identified solar eclipse symbolism at Dowth, Loughcrew, Knowth and Newgrange. There were three total solar eclipses and three annular eclipses above Ireland during the 4th millennium BCE. I really don't understand how the academic "experts" can just give a passing nod to the mere possibility that *some* of the "geometric" patterns known as circles, concentric circles, rings, and spirals "might" represent the sun "perhaps". Don't these very same "geometric" patterns, especially the circles with "radial lines" radiating outwards from them, represent the sun in diverse other ancient cultures? Why would these symbols represent anything other than the sun (and moon) in prehistoric Irish culture? Especially in light of the fact that the Neolithic "passage tomb" builders in Ireland's Boyne Valley "had an interest in astronomical alignments" that include, but are not limited to, winter solstice sunset alignments (Dowth), winter solstice sunrise alignments (Newgrange), and equinox alignments at Knowth. . . While I cannot claim to completely and definitively "decipher" ALL of the rock art at Knowth, Newgrange, Dowth, Loughcrew, Fourknocks and other Irish megalithic sites, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that the circles, rings, or holes with "radial lines" carved into Dowth's "Stone of the Seven Suns", Loughcrew's "Equinox Stone", and Knowth's inner passage housing its stone basin do in fact represent the sun. More specifically, these rayed sun symbols are almost certainly inspired by prehistoric observations of one or more of the three total solar eclipses that occurred above 4th millennium BCE Ireland. Once one understands that "a rosette is a rosette is a rosette" as it were. . . the "geometric" symbols suddenly became quite easy to "decipher. A quite universal symbol used to represent the "union" of the sun and moon during solar eclipses is an upturned lunar crescent cupping or embracing a solar disk, or other solar symbol, such as a rosette. I am pretty sure that I see a 5 millennia old version of that universal symbol for solar eclipses carved into the outer perimeter of Knowth's stone basin. An almost identical symbol was engraved in a pot or basin found in or near Knowth that is now "lost". Inside Knowth's stone basin is geometric shape known as a circle with radial lines extending outward from its "equator", it compares very well with some 19th century astronomical drawing of total solar eclipses that displayed the "winged sun" coronal pattern. Herewith a video of my Eclipsology interpretation of the "geometric" patterns carved into Knowth's stone basin. I hope that the final publication of this important archaeological-anthropological book will give more than just a passing nod to the possibility that *some* of the symbols "might suggest" the sun "perhaps", and the final publication will not suggest that "we cannot understand the art", and even authoritatively assert that "we can't decipher the the carvings with any degree of certainty" because they symbols are "geometric". Robin Edgar
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Is not the purpose #archaeology to "understand and interpret the past"?

Yet Dr. Elizabeth Shee Twohig & the Royal Irish Academy fail & even refuse to do so.

They abdicate that responsibility by pretending Ireland's #MegalithicArt "cannot be understood", & insisting its meaning remains a "mystery".
The scientific astronomical drawing of the 1851 total solar eclipse on the left is almost identical to the captioned photograph of one of the "radial line motif" petroglyphs carved into Dowth's "Stone of the Seven Suns" which was published in TIME-LIFE book 'The Monument Builders'. The "radial line motif" petroglyph from Dowth, a "passage tomb" that has a south-west passage facing the annual "death" of the Sun during the winter solstice sunsets, can be readily interpreted and understood to depict "either the Sun or an eye" as is stated in the caption, but this is a false dichotomy because this "radial line motif" can also by reasonably and plausibly interpreted and understood to be a quite accurate 5 millennia old depiction of the total solar eclipse "eye of God".
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Is the double entendre of "enduring" intentional?

Because you know sometimes words have two meanings. . .

www.dictionary.com/browse/endur...

See also:

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#SPVM #MySPVM #MonSPVM #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceRepression #PolMTL #CMMTL #PolMun #PolQC #PolCan
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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According to the #UnitarianUniversalist Ass.'s #StikemanElliott Canadian attorney Maître Marc-André Coulombe, #PointingOutFacts about "such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape" committed by pedophile*rapist #UUAclergy is a crime known as #BlasphemousLibel. 🤣😇

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#LawSky
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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"Au cabinet de la nouvelle mairesse, on souligne qu’il est courant qu’une nouvelle administration nomme des gens partageant sa vision à des postes clés, y compris le soutien aux élus."

Les 7 employés responsables du soutien aux élus "étaient étroitement associés à l’ère de #ValériePlante."

#PolMTL
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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"A city, and a community, can be judged on how it treats its least fortunate, & any mayor of a city as wealthy & fortunate as ours should be ashamed of allowing this problem to persist."

So #ValériePlante, & #ProjetMontreal as a #community, should #BeAshamed of allowing this "situation" to persist?
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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"The city should immediately expropriate the abandoned Shriners and Miséricorde hospitals before the start of winter and convert them into #HomelessShelters and treatment facilities."

I'm pretty sure winter got off to quite a spectacular start last weekend. . .

cc: @sorayamartinezf.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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In related news, the #UnitarianUniversalist "church" presents itself as a champion of #FreeSpeech, but in reality #UUism barely tolerates dissent & threatened me with prosecution for #BlasphemousLibel for blogging about #ChildSexAbuse.

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#UUA #BlasphemyLaw
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A few photos of today's Remembrance Day ceremonies held at Place du Canada in Montreal on a cold and snowy Tuesday November 11th 2025.

#RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 #RememberThem #LestWeForget #MontrealMoments #MTLmoments #PolMTL #PolQC #PolCan
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Indigenous veterans from Kahnawake participate in Remembrance Day ceremonies at Place du Canada in Tio’tia:ke aka Montréal Tuesday November 11th 2025. I accidentally uploaded a short video clip instead of photos.

More later.

#RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 #MontrealMoments #MTLmoments
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"If you’re not with Poilievre. You’ll be treated as a non-person whose views aren’t worth listening to or considering."

Marc Bourrie

One could say the same thing about #ValériePlante & other #ProjetMontreal politicians who don't think the views of citizens are worth considering.

#PolMTL #CMMTL
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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What better day than Remembrance Sunday to remind people that there IS such a thing as "Good Harassment", other than Remembrance Day itself?

#RemembranceSunday #RemembranceDay #BattleOfBritain #Harassment #GoodHarassment #WWII #Nazis #Nazism
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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And #UnitarianUniversalists. . . 🤣😇

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&

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&

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#UntarianUniversalism #UnitarianUniversalist #UUism #UUA #ClergySexAbuse #CSA #ChildSexAbuse #BlasphemousLibel #LawSky
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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In 2012, the #UnitarianUniversalist "religion", as represented by the UUA's Canadian attorneys, tried to abridge my #CivilRights aka #CharterRights to #FreeSpeech on account of its belief that pedophiles & rapists are sacred to #UnitarianUniversalism. 🤣😇

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November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Does she really?

Why do you think #ProjetMontréal was shown the door on November 2nd?

Why do you think "l'homme de la situation" decided she did not want to seek a third term more than a year before the 2025 municipal elections?

She deserves plenty of condemnation, & she got it from many people.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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In 2012 #UnitarianUniversalists somewhat inadvertently chose to make pedophiles & rapists sacred to #UnitarianUniversalism when the #UUA threatened me with prosecution for #BlasphemousLibel for #blogging about #UUpedophiles & #UUrapists. 🤣😇

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#UUtheology
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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In 2012 a Unitarian guy, & a #Unitarian gal, both #atheists, tried to make pedophiles & rapists sacred to #UnitarianUniversalism when they threatened me with prosecution for #BlasphemousLibel for #blogging about #UUpedophiles & #UUrapists. 🤣😇

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#UUtheology
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Yes, #CiviliansMUSTbeProtected amid escalating RSF attacks in Kordofan region but, by the same token. . . #Canadian civilians, including #journalists, #photographers, & #videographers MUST be protected amid escalating #SPVM attacks in #Montreal.

What is #AmnestyCanada DOing about that?

#MySPVM
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Je suis d'accord, les #droitshumains, c’est surtout quand #ÇaVaMAL qu’il faut s’y tenir.

Les rendre universels et surtout les rendre accessibles à TOUS et TOUTES a du guider les #décisionspolitiques de #ProjetMontréal. . .

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#ProjetMTL #PolCAN #PolQC #PolMTL #SPVM #MonSPVM
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Oups!

Je viens tout juste de noter que j'ai écrit:

"Mais des d'objections sémantiques peuvent être TELLEMENT de fun!"

au lieu de:

Mais des #objectionssémantiques peuvent être TELLEMENT de fun!

Je ne suis pas comme François Limoges, #ValPlante et #ProjetMontréal.

Je corrige mes erreurs. . .
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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#EnsembleMontréal ’s campaign slogan was: “Listen and Act”.

The listening part will be particularly important.

#ProjetMontréal ’s #ToneDeafness is probably the main cause of its defeat.

Yes, #ValPlante & other #ProjetMTL politicians were NOT good listeners.

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#CMMTL #SPVM
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Most ironically, when it comes to how they negligently &or evasively respond to requests-demands arising out of #ClergyMisconduct. . . many #UnitarianUniversalists, inc. top-level #UUA leaders & #UUAclergy, seem to suffer from #PathologicalDemandAvoidance.
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A PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) profile is a pattern of behavior associated with autism, characterized by an intense need for autonomy and control, leading to an extreme resistance to demands, requests, and expectations. Individuals with PDA may go to great lengths to avoid tasks, even if they want to do them, often by creating distractions, making excuses, or using social strategies. This can be triggered by anxiety and a highly sensitive nervous system that perceives demands as threats, potentially leading to meltdowns or panic attacks
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM