2014
DOI: 10.3989/aespa.087.014.006
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Una hierofanía solar en el santuario ibérico de Castellar (Jaén)

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“…In a similar way to case study 3, several are the megalithic monuments where light and shadow were harnessed and integrated into the architecture -Newgrange (Prendergast 2011) and Maeshowe (Hedges 1984) are perhaps the most notorious international examples. In the Iberian Peninsula, however, and closer in style to our case study, several Iron Age cave sanctuaries integrate solar hierophanic elements, as in the Sanctuary of Castellar (Cueva de la Lobera) and La Nariz (Esteban et al 2014;Esteban and Ibarrs 2016). Finally, in like manner to our case study 2, the orientations of megalithic enclosures and stone circles have also been considered with respect to the celestial objects, as the very popular cases of Stonehenge, the Scottish Recumbent Stone Circles and the Irish Axial Stone Circles attest (e.g.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 69%
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“…In a similar way to case study 3, several are the megalithic monuments where light and shadow were harnessed and integrated into the architecture -Newgrange (Prendergast 2011) and Maeshowe (Hedges 1984) are perhaps the most notorious international examples. In the Iberian Peninsula, however, and closer in style to our case study, several Iron Age cave sanctuaries integrate solar hierophanic elements, as in the Sanctuary of Castellar (Cueva de la Lobera) and La Nariz (Esteban et al 2014;Esteban and Ibarrs 2016). Finally, in like manner to our case study 2, the orientations of megalithic enclosures and stone circles have also been considered with respect to the celestial objects, as the very popular cases of Stonehenge, the Scottish Recumbent Stone Circles and the Irish Axial Stone Circles attest (e.g.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 69%
“…However, further into the cave, in a third chamber, not yet excavated, a special light effect takes place over an artificially placed speleothem which is illuminated by the light of the rising sun only at the Equinoxes (Figure 6). This possible light hierophany inside the third chamber occurs about two days after the spring equinox and about two days before the autumn equinox -dates that may not be random, but rather correspond to a conception of equinox that is obtained by halving the number of days between the solstices (Esteban and Cabrera 2005), as is seen in several pre-Roman Iberian cave sanctuaries of the Iron Age, particularly in the Cueva de la Lobera, where numerous votive artefacts were found associated with belief on a mother-goddess (Esteban et al 2014).…”
Section: Case Study 3 -Morgado Superior a Collective Tomb In A Natural Cavementioning
confidence: 98%
“…Teniendo en cuenta que el diámetro del disco solar es de unos 0,5º, tanto el borde norte del disco durante el orto más cercano a los equinoccios, como el borde sur en el orto correspondiente al día mitad tocaría la cumbre del Córcobo. Como este cerro es ancho y redondeado y la parte más elevada está situada hacia el borde sur del cerro, si consideramos su parte central (que presenta una anchura de unos 1,5º) como referencia del marcador, sería más consistente con el día mitad, como ocurre en la hierofanía solar de la cuevasantuario de Castellar (Esteban et al 2014) o en el espectacular marcador de La Malladeta.…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…9 Como ya se ha discutido en distintos trabajos (Esteban 2002(Esteban , 2013Esteban et al 2014), el equinoccio astronómico es un concepto geométrico y abstracto que quizás ni fuera conocido por los iberos y probablemente careciera de utilidad práctica para ellos. Por el contrario, el concepto día mitad entre el solsticio de verano y el de invierno es mucho más concreto y coincidiría igualmente con el cambio estacional.…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…Las tres son cavernas de distinta profundidad donde se producen fenómenos de iluminación en su interior durante el ocaso en momentos singulares del calendario solar. En La Lobera, Esteban et al (2014) encontraron que la luz del ocaso solar del día mitad entre solsticios penetra por una ventana de la cueva, iluminando exactamente una hornacina natural que ocupa el extremo oriental de la cavidad. Esteban y Ocharan Ibarra (2016), mediante observaciones directas en el interior de la Cueva de La Nariz, encuentran que, en una de las dos galerías paralelas que conforman el yacimiento, el ocaso solar del solsticio de invierno ilumina una cubeta excavada en la zona más interna que recoge el agua de un manantial.…”
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