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11/17/2006
8:03:09 am EST
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More: How Welsh Bluestones Helped Heal The Ancients
Author: Paul Carey, Western Mail Source: icWales
Title: HOW WELSH BLUESTONES HELPED HEAL THE ANCIENTS
Stonehenge was a place of healing and not a place for the dead, according to a scholar who attributes its powers to its Welsh origins.
Professor Timothy Darvill shed new light yesterday on the purpose of the ancient stone circles of Stonehenge.
The academic says the basis for his findings is found in the Preseli Mountains in West Wales, where he and colleague Professor Geoffrey Wainwright have found bluestones used in the construction of Stonehenge's stone circles 155 miles away.
He said they should instead visit during the winter solstice when the ancient stones are at their most potent.
"It was believed these particular stones had many healing properties because in Preseli there are many sacred springs considered to have health-giving qualities.
"The water comes out of the rocks used to build Stonehenge and it's well established that as recently as the late 18th century, people went to Stonehenge to break off bits of rock as talismans."
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| Vandalism Is Not Healthy | Nov 17th. at 8:36:50 pm EST
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argilcath (Rapid City, Colorado) - Email Me
There are no end of theories about these sites; keeping them intact while making them available to visitors is one way to preserve them for study well into the future.
It has been my great privilege to visit many noteworthy sites (both Pagan and Christian) in England, more than once.
Funny; it never occurred to me to break off pieces of these hallowed monuments (e.g.: vandalise them) to use for "good luck charms". I respected that country, its people, and the sites enough to want to see them preserved for many generations to come, not hacked into Pagan versions of the True Cross. But then, I've read Chaucer, not just bragged about his place in my library.
-argilcath
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| Well. . . | Nov 17th. at 12:38:26 pm EST
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Dynnys Derwydd (Lubbock, Texas) - Email Me
. . .just because they "sacrificed" animals didn't mean they didn't eat them as well.
In most cultures in which animal sacrifice is a part of religious observance, only certain parts were laid upon the fire for the gods, while the rest was distributed and eaten.
There's an ancient Greek story, which I'm doing my best to remember in full, that told how the Gods were tricked into only accepting what may be considered inedible portions burned upon the holy flame, while the populace ate the good parts in honor of the Gods. Or maybe just because they were hungry.
Though about Stonehenge; well, new theories abound every year, and until we're able to go back in time and see for ourselves, we may never know the full truth. Though the place will always remain holy and magickal.
Fight with knowledge, not in ignorance.
honi soit qui mal y pense,
Dynnys Derwydd
"I sacrifice the sweet smell of this steak to the Gods, but the rest is mine to eat!"
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| Animal Sacrifice Or Feasting? | Nov 17th. at 10:18:48 am EST
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arinna (Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina) - Email Me
How do you tell that an animal was sacrificed versus being the main course in a feast?
Here in North Carolina every summer pigs are regularly 'sacrificed' over barbque barrels at church picnics and weddings etc.
Will archeologists thousands of years from now puzzle over why 20th century humans sacrificed cows under the symbol of the Golden Arches?
In one of my favorite Buffy episodes Anya once described our Thanksgiving tradition as a ritual sacrifice of Turkeys.
It seems it's all in the interpretation.
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