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Pagans celebrate Winter Solstice at Stonehenge on the wrong day...
Monsters & Critics ^ | Dec 22, 2006 | UPI

Posted on 12/22/2006 9:27:14 AM PST by DogByte6RER

Religion News

Solstice rite held early at Stonehenge

Dec 22, 2006

LONDON, England (UPI) -- Around 60 people turned up to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Stonehenge Thursday - on the wrong day. After negotiating with site managers, the crowd performed traditional solstice activities and left peacefully.

One reveller, who wished to remain anonymous, said: 'We formed a ring and held hands, and touched the stones. The man with the green cloak was there. But there were an awful lot of red faces,' she said.

The Pagan Winter Solstice celebration is one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world. Because the Summer Solstice occurs on June 21, they assume the Winter Solstice occurs Dec. 21, but it actually occurs Friday at 0022 GMT. Another crowd is expected at Stonehenge Friday morning.

Stonehenge is currently competing against other iconic structures from the Statue of Liberty to the Great Wall of China, in a global poll for the New Seven Wonders of the World. The poll is organized by the Swiss-based New7Wonders and the winners will be announced in July 2007.

Last year, permission was refused for a new visitor centre at Stonehenge but English Heritage plans to appeal the decision. It also said the much-needed improvements were now subject to a government review as a result of cost increases.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; duh; fakeholiday; godsgravesglyphs; goingtohell; kwaanza; megaliths; pagan; religion; solstice; stonehenge; unsaved; weird; wiccans; wintersolstice
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To: DogByte6RER

The article said they touched the stones, but I thought they put a fence around Stonehenge and didn't allow people to touch the stones anymore? Did these people have special access?


41 posted on 12/22/2006 10:41:43 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: reagan_fanatic

he got a red face after he got his stones touched.


42 posted on 12/22/2006 10:49:04 AM PST by printhead
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To: PacesPaines

Yeah...

I think it IS Bea Arthur and the cast from that liberal '70s sitcom "Maude."

Didn't the show "Maude" do an episode featuring Wicca and human sacrifices?!?!

lol


43 posted on 12/22/2006 10:50:11 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: PacesPaines

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/maude/maude.htm


44 posted on 12/22/2006 10:50:52 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
The Pagans MC. Their national HQ was once in Marcus Hook, Pa.

And the man who drove them out was Mayor, later Congressman, and soon to be out of work Curt Weldon.

45 posted on 12/22/2006 10:54:25 AM PST by Tribune7 (Conservatives hold bad behavior against their leaders. Dims don't.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

They must have utilized their magical powers of levitation to go OVER the fence...

OR

they rode in on their broomsticks.


46 posted on 12/22/2006 10:56:09 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
LOL. That is a picture of Bea Arthur from the atrocious "Star Wars Holiday Special" from the late 70's. I saw it as a kid. It only aired once and George Lucas has vowed to destroy every known copy. I have seen a tape of the special on bootleg and it is as bad as I remember: Chebacca's family celebrates "life day"; Carrie Fisher sings the Star Wars Theme (pure torture); Jefferson Starship and Diane Carrol perform disco fluff; Art Carney plays some lame friend of the Wookies...etc.

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/

47 posted on 12/22/2006 11:00:45 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: MaestroLC

I need a copy.


48 posted on 12/22/2006 11:05:09 AM PST by 2Jedismom
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To: DogByte6RER

>>>"Around 60 people turned up to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Stonehenge Thursday - on the wrong day."

Since the winter solstice is the point when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equatorial plane (according to the story, occurring just past midnight on the 22nd) revelers there on the evening of the 21st might have been closer to the correct time of the solstice than those that arrived on morning of the the supposed correct day of the 22nd.


49 posted on 12/22/2006 11:07:11 AM PST by NC28203
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To: MaestroLC

Yup...

Here is the cast at the link:

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/cast.htm

Bea Arthur (aka "Maude") played "Ackmena"

Since this was the Star Wars Holiday Special, I have to assume that the holiday they were "specializing" was the Winter Solstice (or maybe Kwanzaa!)


50 posted on 12/22/2006 11:10:02 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

This is just too sad. It's like a Jew not realizing the Sabbath starts the day before. OTOH, I often forget exactly which day Easter is (of course, the churches can't agree either, so I don't feel so bad).


51 posted on 12/22/2006 11:10:18 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: 2Jedismom
I think Lucas should release it. There seems to be a real demand for fans to own it, even though it is awful. Maybe people want to revel in its awfulness! LOL

I think you can find many bootleg DVD on Ebay. Enjoy!

52 posted on 12/22/2006 11:10:45 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: DogByte6RER

I believe it aired around Thanksgiving.


53 posted on 12/22/2006 11:11:38 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: DogByte6RER

That's ok - Christians celebrate Christmas on the wrong day.


54 posted on 12/22/2006 11:12:46 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: MaestroLC

Ackmena

Alternate Names: none

Actor: Bea Arthur

Description:
Ackmena is a cantina bartender trying to make ends meet by serving drinks to the exotic alien clientele, but she finds the Empire can be bad for business. She is assisted by her short sidekick friend and a bouncer named Tork. Cantina patron Krelman is in love with her, but Ackmena claims she has no time for such things.

Details:
Ackmena's cantina is one of a number of cantinas found in Mos Eisley. Unlike Wuher, the surly bartender at the Wookiee Chalmun's cantina where Luke and Ben met Han and Chewie, Ackmena is a lot more personable with her patrons, even lending them money or helping them out from time to time. There is some crossover in clientele between the two cantinas, and Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes have been known to play at both venues.


Quote: "Come back soon, I'll be waiting!"


55 posted on 12/22/2006 11:14:11 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: CharlesWayneCT
The article said they touched the stones, but I thought they put a fence around Stonehenge and didn't allow people to touch the stones anymore? Did these people have special access?

They open it for the fruitbats, who have some kind of permit.

Decades ago, there was no fence, but people abused the place by bashing hunks off the standing stones-For Magyck, or just to be ugly.

We were there, one solstice.

56 posted on 12/22/2006 11:15:40 AM PST by Gorzaloon (Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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To: MaestroLC

Too bad MST3K isn't around any more.

This would be a great show for them to rip on.


57 posted on 12/22/2006 11:16:26 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

We still have "Manos: The Hands of Fate"...... ;)


58 posted on 12/22/2006 11:19:42 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: randog

Stupid hippies...

59 posted on 12/22/2006 11:24:55 AM PST by GATOR NAVY
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60 posted on 12/22/2006 11:33:51 AM PST by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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