Stonehenge solstice
We didn't make it, and now I see why the locals dislike the solstice.
STONEHENGE, England — Thousands of dancing and drumming spectators cheered the summer solstice at Stonehenge as an orange sliver of sun rose over the Heel Stone on Wednesday morning.
Cloudy skies, dense fog and spurts of rain did not seem to dampen the energy of smiling revellers who bobbed and swayed to cheerful beats with arms outstretched and shouts of "Feel the solstice!"
About 19,000 New Agers, present-day druids and partygoers gathered inside and around the ancient circle of towering stones to greet the longest day in the northern hemisphere as the sun struggled to peek out against a smoky grey sky at 4:58 a.m.
"This is the nearest thing I've got to religion," said Ray Meadows, 34, of Bristol, England. The solstice "is a way of giving thanks to the earth and the universe."
Meadows, wearing a wreath of pink carnations over long pink hair-wrapped braids, identified herself as a fairy of the Tribe of Frog.
Here's a much nicer way to see it.
STONEHENGE, England — Thousands of dancing and drumming spectators cheered the summer solstice at Stonehenge as an orange sliver of sun rose over the Heel Stone on Wednesday morning.
Cloudy skies, dense fog and spurts of rain did not seem to dampen the energy of smiling revellers who bobbed and swayed to cheerful beats with arms outstretched and shouts of "Feel the solstice!"
About 19,000 New Agers, present-day druids and partygoers gathered inside and around the ancient circle of towering stones to greet the longest day in the northern hemisphere as the sun struggled to peek out against a smoky grey sky at 4:58 a.m.
"This is the nearest thing I've got to religion," said Ray Meadows, 34, of Bristol, England. The solstice "is a way of giving thanks to the earth and the universe."
Meadows, wearing a wreath of pink carnations over long pink hair-wrapped braids, identified herself as a fairy of the Tribe of Frog.
Here's a much nicer way to see it.
posted by Smitty Werbenmanjensen at 4:29 PM
5 Comments:
Aw, come on. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. :)
see, what did I say...druids!
If druids want to overlay druid tradition on Stonehenge, I guess we can't stop 'em. But they had nothing to do with building it.
No, Druids didn't build Stonehenge. No one knows who did, or for what purpose. You can read my on-going blog on the subject (part one of several) at www.tenthousanddays.blogspot.com/
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