Fernand Niel
Fernand Niel (born September 4, 1903 in Béziers , † December 15, 1985 in Paris ) was a French writer.
He was particularly concerned with the study of megalithic cultures and Neo-Catharism . Like René Nelli , Niel began his public career by consulting the author of the Catharism at the time, Deodat Roché . From 1948 Roché organized the first Katharistik congresses; there, in 1949, Niel presented his own dissertation on the Cathar castle of Montségur . This work was published by the Institut d'études occitanes that same year . As a daring mountaineer, he had climbed the castle himself to explore it meticulously, and scoured the holdings of the National Library to get all the information available on the Cathar movement . After all, he describes the castle as the last " sun temple " in Europe.
A detailed study of the megalithic buildings in England and Brittany made it possible for him to further argue that Stonehenge was already a temple of the sun. It is a well-known feature of this monument that its central "horseshoes" and the stones placed vertically in front of their openings seem to aim precisely at the sun rising at the turn of summer , whereby Niel notes that this' temple exit 'with the south-facing' entrance 'forms an angle which approximately corresponds to the so-called golden angle . This is a proportionality (in this case 19 to 11 in the total of 30 stones comprising the sarsen), which today's research considers to be a decisive factor in the phenomena of aesthetics, structural stability (“order” in chaos) and the biological Growth applies. "That would explain the sense of harmony and balance that you get when you look at this part of Stonehenge."
Beyond these possible links to prehistory, the author considers the Cathars to be heirs to the Manichaean religions of ancient Persia. Various historians criticize his statements as being too imaginative.
Individual evidence
- ^ Roché, Déodat .: The Cathar Movement: Origin and Essence . Ogham-Verl, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-88455-714-9 .
- ↑ Niel, Fernand .: On the trail of the great stones: Stonehenge, Carnac ud Megaliths . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-404-01344-1 .
- ↑ Golden ratio: the most irrational of all numbers. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
- ↑ The Golden Ratio - The Mystery of Beauty (Dr. Dr. Ruben Stelzner). Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niel, Fernand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beziers |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1985 |
| Place of death | Paris |