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STONEHENGE IN ENGLAND (02)
(2007-03-31 15:27:39)
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This
is an ancient monument of huge stone standing on the vast
Sablisbury plains in England has captured our imaginations for
centuries. It’s the most enigmatic pre-historic monument on
earth.What makes the structure at Stonehenge unique is
the fact that for the first time they re shaping stones on a
massive scale.
Dating back as far as 2950B.C.,theories about who
built Stonehenge have included the druids and the Greeks.
Speculation as to its purpose, range from astronomy to a UFO
landing site.
Now a ruin with many of the original stones fallen
or removed, this site Sun attracts nearly five thousand tourists
everyday.Around the same time as the ancient Egyptians were
building the pyramids, the first stones arrived here at Stonehenge.
The mystery of this stone is that they are only found in the
Brescelly Mountains in south Wales, nearly 150 miles
away.It was a huge job to transport these stones from
Wales, because originally there were about 80 of them here at
Stonehenge weighing up to four tons each. Now, if I got m my car it
would take me about five hours to dive all the way to Wales. But to
those people, it would ve been m enormous distance.The stones were brought by boat from the mountains
and pulled from the coast by sledge to the site.I think you need a minimum of about 150 people,
simply to move one of these massive forty-ton stones.Getting the stones to the site was an amazing
feat, but building Stonehenge was much more complex. It is not just
simply one stone piled on to top of another, they re joined
together, this hole in the arch on here that s been pounded out
using stone hammers, and that originally fitted on the top of that
stone.After nearly 5,000 years Stonehenge is still
standing.
We now know how it was built. The question "why"
is a bit more problematic. Twenty century followers of ancient
mystical beliefs are sure that Stonehenge has a connection with
summer and winter solstices. "As a druid, as a priest of the land,
I feel Stonehenge to be one of the key sacred temples in the world.
Stonehenge evokes in us a connection between some deep ancestral
intuitive soul and the power of nature around us."Nature may well know all the answers, but science
has yet to prove its theories. It seems Stonehenge isn t ready to
reveal all its secrets just yet.
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