This stone circle has a “sundial” within it. There are also separate stone arrangements between the two stone circles. Can you find it? How does it look compared to the sundial stone circle from Nonakado?

We don’t know for sure if these are sundials, but the idea of a stone circle can be considered as a way to tell time. The shape of a circle represents the cycles of nature, and thus the stone circles may have acted as a compass, to tell the people when they should be hunting and gathering. And by worshipping the ancestors at these stone circles, they must have felt their blessings of nature being answered.

Try to draw a line between this “sundial” stone and the “center” stone of the Manza Stone Circle. Then, if you continue the line it will connect further to the “sundial” in Nonakado as well as to the stone in the center of Nonakado. And if you extend that line to the distant mountain range, the line will point to the spot where the sun sets on the summer solstice. In a way, it’s all connected. Now, is that just a coincidence?

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