I designed the Boyne Valley site map for the purpose of comparing it with the old stone star map.The rayed object from the star map was duplicated by a Moat at loughcrew but I failed to find a duplication for it in the Boyne Valley so I will have to delete it from the star map comparison.It is possible that it is South of the enclosure someplace or it may have been destroyed in the course of 5,000 years.
The second change I have made is to highlight the small star in the star map in the colour red and I have also highlighted Newgrange from the Boyne Valley site map with Yellow marker. This is to empasise their positional duplication in both maps.
Below is the old stone star map.Just below the star map is the Boyne Valley site map.They both have a reference line running from Northeast to Southwest.
The one thing that entirely confirms the accuracy of the star map is the duplication of the small star with Newgrange .Position wise they are both below their relative MAP lines and they are also in the same positions relative to the rest of their groups.
In my notes on Loughcrew I stated that the small star had recently been born and was probably of a very bright white colour.Newgrange which duplicates the small star on the ground should have some of the characteristics of the small star and which I will now outline .
A large proportion of the Newgrange mound is covered with white sparkling spar this must have been intended to make the mound glow like a star in the moonlight.
The rest of the Boyne Valley mounds did not recieve this treatment which would again suggest that Newgrange was a very special monument which duplicated a young sun god.The ancient people would regard the arrival of the small bright star as the Sun giving birth to an offspring.
There is another factor that ties Newgrange to the small star and that is the Irish god OG or OGE his name means young in the Gaelic language.There are historical and mythical references connecting OGE to Newgrange.
Just to summarise there is a small star in the star map which is duplicated on the ground by the glittering mound of Newgrange this mound is also associated with the young Irish god OGE .This god OGE would be the same as the young Egyptian god Horus who was a sky born diety.Finally the name Newgrange connects the mound to the heavenly bodies .The NEW part of the name can be discarded as the English put this attachment on to many of their place names.The word GRANGE has been interpreted as the Gaelic words GRIAN OGE. In the Gealic language GRIAN means SUN and OGE means young translation prabably means SUN GOD.
I feel I have spent enough time on Newgrange and it is time for me to move on and try to produce evidence that the eastern enclosure was once a large mound.There is plenty of evidence that a lot of destruction was done to the other mounds in the Boyne Valley most notably Dowth which is the mound nearest to the enclosure.It has been estimated that there could be as much as a third of this mound missing.
The preservation of a mound depended on who owned the land that the mound was sited on.
