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The fabulous Newgrange was a Neolithic tomb dating back 5000 years – before Stonehenge and the Pyramids.
This broadcast tells the story as the shaft of light hits the inner chamber on the Solstice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08590kbPosted in religionTagged Alternative, Idealist, Newgrange, Opher, Opher Goodwin, opher’s world, Winter Solstice, Writing, Zeitgeist2 CommentsEdit
In the churchyard at Rudston, there is a massive neolithic monolith, supposedly the largest in the whole of Britain. It is as much underground as it is over! How they got this massive rock into place is incredible to think.
I bet there was a stone circle where the church is now. The Christians had a habit of desecrating pagan sites.
I love to connect with ancient Neolithic sites. They resonate. Shame about the church.
There is something mysterious about the old stone circles, standing stones and burial chambers. They not only connect me to ancestors who lived extremely different lives, long ago, they have an energy.
There they are. In the middle of nowhere. Structures that would have taken huge efforts from the small populations that lived there. Artefacts that are still impressive thousands of years later.
Whenever I stand in a stone circle or see monoliths or standing stones I am transported. They have some strange resonance, a connection to the past.
It feels like I’m connected.
My ancestors used to gather in these places and perform all manner of rituals. They were powerful places.
Those religions are long gone but the mystical, spiritual connection still feels powerful to me.
