Sorry, but this Section has been temporarily abandoned while I track down the writings of the 18th Century commentators and translators. Too many modern writers are expounding theories, and the best way to "prove" a theory is to distort things to fit, and ignore anything that cannot be bent to fit, wherever things are awkward.
As said elsewhere on the site, my principal intention is to
strip away the accumulation of supposition that masquerades as
proven fact, to find the core of the subject. It has become like
an ancient house that has been altered and extended over the
years. Some alterations and additions have added to its basic
attractiveness and usefulness, but much has obscured and degraded
it. Beneath the plasterboard and plastic there is...? Who knows?
Maybe just a humble but-and ben. It doesn't matter. Sometimes it
is just as valuable to know what isn't true, as to know
the truth.
Space-exploration is a fantasy,
but it is the realities of physics and chemistry that make it at
least do-able.
Were the brochs memories of
ancient nuclear reactors from the Lost Civilization of Atlantis?
Just joking! I'm neither as cynical nor as daft as Erik von
Daniken who fully occupies his own alternative universe somewhere.
Unfortunately, I am also not
able to translate Latin or Old Irish manuscripts, even if I could
get my hands on them, so I will be depending on the afore-mentioned
19th Century scholars to have got it right in the main, but try
to ignore anything they said that has been disproven since their
day.
Are the King-lists important, you may ask. Read my essay on
them, to answer that one.
Whether you agree or not is entirely up to you. The greatest
democracy of all lives in your brain.
At any rate, once I am satisfied with the evidence, I shall post
the results here, for your own use.