A caption of a photo of one of the "radial line motifs" carved into Dowth's "Stone of the Seven Suns" published in TIME-LIFE book 'The Monument Builders' says, "Either the sun or an eye may be signified in this carving in a curbstone of a retaining wall that was built to protect the base of a burial mound at Dowth, County Meath, Ireland.
A line drawing of Dowth's "Stone of the Seven Suns".
A map of the path of totality of a Neolithic era total solar eclipse above Ireland.
An astronomical drawing of the 1851 total solar eclipse on the left compares very well with a photo of one of the "radial line motifs" carved into Dowth's "Stone of the Seven Suns" published in TIME-LIFE book 'The Monument Builders' which is captioned, "Either the sun or an eye may be signified in this carving in a curbstone of a retaining wall that was built to protect the base of a burial mound at Dowth, County Meath, Ireland. Total solar eclipses look very much like the pupil and iris of a disembodied "eye in the sky", so much so that even modern well-educated people, including professional astronomers, have been moved to at least metaphorically describe total solar eclipses as "the eye of God".
Regardless of whether or not the #Neolithic "passage tomb" #Newgrange interred a #prehistoric Irish king, it's passage aligned with the #WinterSolstice sunrise suggests it's concerned with the "death" & "rebirth" of the Sun. Nearby #Dowth displays 7 #TotalSolarEclipses on #TheStoneOfTheSevenSuns.
![The Dowth cairn is 85 metres in diameter and 15 metres high,[3] and surrounded by 115 large kerbstones, some of which are decorated. Quartz was found fallen outside the kerbing, suggesting that the entrance to this tomb was surrounded by glittering white stone, as at Newgrange. Three stone-lined passages lead into the mound from the west. These comprise two passage tombs (known as Dowth North and Dowth South) and a souterrain.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2apsukog3vg45xrn4jnurkp/bafkreigk7htsitfytfpeglb5ywl47zohwnf2zsop45iix5by6fjh5zkzti)
