About 10,000 people have marked the summer solstice at Stonehenge, including a man called Larry who says he was a raven.
Banging drums and cheering as the sun came up, around 10,000 druids, pagans, New Age travellers and – in line with ancient traditions – Instagramming tourists marked the summer solstice at Stonehenge.
Constructed in several phases from around 3100 BC to 1600 BC, in prehistoric times people – mostly farmers and gardeners, travellers and builders – gathered at Stonehenge at the summer and winter solstices to witness the pivotal changes in the movement of the sun. They conducted rituals and ceremonies relating to the changing seasons, the sun and the sky.
You can buy hoodies and caps, vegan burgers and a milky, weak flat white. The vibe is like nothing else. If you’re looking for a place to be your unabashed self, this is it.The skies, our tour guide points out, were important for practical information about the weather, timekeeping and navigation, but were also closely entwined with stories, myths and beliefs about the cosmos.
“We were chanting, and we were honouring the union of the Earth and the Sun. Without them you wouldn’t have a spring, and without a spring you wouldn’t have a summer,” he said afterwards.Among the things Pendragon’s wound up about are plans for Stonehenge which involve widening the road there from two lanes to four in a six-kilometre stretch of tunnel that would hide the ancient monument from the view of drivers.
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