GGG Ping.
I've always been intrigued by the cultural mindset that would find it necessary to do such a thing. "Haunting" is a very good word for it, considering the view these people must have had of the world around them, populated by forces they could not understand, but could only hope to appease.
Those stones appear most eerie at night.
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one item usually not clear in pictures is that one entire angle of the view is usually not published since there are houses 50 yards away. it can be irksome if the sun is in the wrong place.
There are much smaller circles visible from the callanish stones as well. You gotta wonder what there is below the bog which has grown up around it, what we see is only what is high enough to not have been covered in peat the last 5 millenium.
" It seems to be linked to the rising of the moon in the south when, at a major standstill, it barely enters the sky, seeming to roll along the horizon to set among the stones. This would be a magical sight that took place every 18.6 years."
I am surprised a more regular event was not found as a possible association with the circle. something this infrequent, if you throw in the much lower longevity and potentially bad weather on the key day, might have not been actually seen at time by any adult or their parents in their lifetime in the area of the stones. I weonder if the moon theory is grasping at straws for this reason.
Interesting, wish we knew more about those that erected them and why.
Great post - gneiss pictures, too!
Another PR piece appears, same site, same tone.
Myths & Mysteries
Thu 15 Jun 2006
Druids and moon worship in the sacred landscape of Callanish
Diane MacLean
http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=875562006
Isle of Lewis
Look at this devolve!