Posted on 06/21/2008 7:29:26 AM PDT by yankeedame
The soggy solstice: 30,000 gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the longest day
By Chris Laker
Last updated at 12:15 PM on 21st June 2008
...wind and rain failed to dampen the spirits of around 30,000 people from descending on Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice...
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[See link for photos, which had to be removed because of copyright problems with AP and Getty]
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W00h00!
Drum circle!
L0L
Boy, they're going to be kind of embarrassed if they find out Stonehenge was an early industrial/commerce center and had nothing to do with Gaea worship.
In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people... the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge
Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge! Where a man’s a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
Hey!
Stonehenge! ‘Tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise with a dragon’s face
Stonehenge! Where the virgins lie
And the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won’t you take my hand?
We’ll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there, I will show you how
Oh!
And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon
And where are they now?
The little people of Stonehenge
And what would they say to us?
If we were here... tonight
Look at all of the trash on the ground.
fascinating.
...I was just following your diagram...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2023287/posts
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/stonehenge-was-domain-of-the-dead/20080529115809990001?icid=1615988631x1203354246x1200308308
BTW....this "gathering" was typical of any congregation of leftist lunatics...trash strewn everywhere. No matter where the left is, it is always up to someone else to clean up their mess....
The builders of Stonehenge were thousands of years dead when the Druids first worshiped there.
Dang, can’t procrastinate on a Spinal Tap thread...
Things have certainly changed. When I was a lad, back in 1952, I biked across Europe with a sleeping bag and a poncho and a few odd changes of clothes. I happened to arrive at Stonehenge on the evening of the 20th of June, so I spent the night in the middle of the circle, in my sleeping bag, to witness the sunrise the next morning.
I was awoken in the dark before dawn by a group of local schoolgirls, in the uniforms they wore in those days, who had come to see the sunrise. Imagine their screams when a dark shape suddenly arose from the ground in their midst.
Anyway, it was the morning of the solstice, but in those days no one had ever heard of Gaia.
I'm surprised they let them up that close to the stones. There's usually a rope line and path you have to keep on while viewing the stones. I wonder who is going to pick up all the garbage these people left behind? I'll bet the folks who visited the site originally, didn't leave as big a mess as these pigs.
Twinkyhenge??
9 yrs ago today I was at Teotihuacan and climbed the Pyramid of the Sun. There were about a half dozen wacko pagans up at the top with horns, tambourines, and other crap. They didn’t stay long, because it rained like a sonofagun.
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