You can watch the Newgrange Winter Solstice live stream right here on IrishCentral from Monday, December 20 to Wednesday, December 22!
The last live-stream is Wednesday, December 22 at 08:45 am Ireland / 3:45 am New York.
At sunrise on the shortest day of the year, for 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument, not through the doorway, but through the specially contrived small opening above the entrance known as the ‘roof box’, to illuminate the Chamber.
"Watching the light creep into the five-thousand-year-old passage tomb in real-time is a moving event that has the power to fill us both with wonder at the ancient architects’ ingenuity and with hope for the future.” - Office of Public Works (OPW)
TRUTH: Newgrange was commissioned by Aengus - Welcome to Newgrange (The Tomb of Aengus - in Mac Oc) (The Tomb of Aengus - the Young son). Aengus was Teia Tephi's son. Teia Tephi was the daughter of king Zedekiah of Jerusalem. She became the Queen of Gibraltar and Queen of Ireland.
Her [Teia Tephi] third child was a son she named Aengus, who was brought up by Eochaidh’s sister, Maistiv in Mullagh, Co. Cavan. Because Teia’s first born Aedh died in his teens, Aengus succeeded his parents to the Throne, but grew up to be arrogant and worshipped gold, rather than God. He had the grandest tomb in Ireland constructed for himself to become immortal in, when the Winter Solstice sunrise entered his tomb. Part of his wish was accomplished, by his being immortalised in human memory for his magnificent tomb at Newgrange, which is confirmed by the hieroglyphics "written in stone" on Stone C4 in the West Recess inside of Newgrange, where his name Aengus is written in Ogham Script. A Brief Summary of The Book of Tephi, queen of Tara and Gibraltar
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Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the "I AM" thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. King of kings' Bible - Deuteronomy
Agreed. That would bring joy in the midst of these lockdowns and restrictions for the children. Children need interactions for the benefit of their spiritual health; few think about that anymore.
People gathered at Newgrange this morning 21 December to mark sunrise on the shortest day of the year, also known as the Winter Solstice.
People around the world also tuned into the Winter Solstice sunrise at Newgrange that was live streamed.
At sunrise on the shortest day of the year, for 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Neolithic monument to illuminate the chamber of the Stone Age tomb through a small opening above its entrance called the ‘roof box.’
Meanwhile, a new Irish documentary crew have discovered evidence that a second chamber may exist in the prehistoric Newgrange monument.
After a nine-day survey of the site in 2022, a team of researchers believe they may have made the biggest discovery about the Co Meath cairn in over fifty years.
Rún na Bóinne (Secret of the Boyne), which aired last night on TG4, follows a geophysics team from Ireland and Slovakia carrying out non-invasive tests to find out more about the site’s architecture and history.
The results indicate that spaces in the cairn that look like collapsed cavities could have once been extra chambers, similar to the existing chamber, which the cavities are oddly in alignment with.
Is there a secret, second chamber at Newgrange? TG4 doc attempts to find out
Newgrange is the jewel in, and pinnacle of the Boyne Valley Neolithic complex. It is believed the ancient Irish built these vast complexes as tombs or ceremonial burial sites for an elite. But as Seán’s investigation reveals, passages and chambers in Newgrange’s sister monuments Knowth and Dowth are also constructed to capture alignments to key dates. Could a second chamber at Newgrange also target a celestial event and if so, are these monuments much more than passage graves?
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In Rún na Bóinne, they embark on a tight, nine-day survey of the mound and the documentary revealed the findings of evidence for a second chamber at Newgrange.
Research done during the filming of a just-aired documentary has found evidence of a second chamber at Newgrange. Rún na Bóinne [Secret of the Boyne], which aired on TG4 on Wednesday night, followed a geophysics team from Ireland and Slovakia as they carried out a micro-gravity survey and geo-radar scan of Newgrange, a Neolithic passage tomb. The site in Co Meath was never fully excavated and the vast majority of this ancient structure remained untouched. Rumours persisted of a second, as yet undiscovered chamber. The results of the recent survey indicate two anomalies deep inside the cairn, positioned side by side and bearing the hallmarks of a collapsed cavity.
