SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS 2023 > OM THE ROAD TO THE STONES … RDF, NFA, CIRQUE DU BLEURGH, BRAINSNIFF, etc … April 17, 2023sidLeave a comment this June see’s the festival campaign celebrate a decade of music, organisation and subversion @ Stonehenge – with a legal ‘all dayer’ @...
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The winter solstice amongst the stones is the perfect place to start feeling festive. The celebrations of the winter solstice have been called by many names, including jul in Scandinavia, or Yule in Britain. The 12 day Scandinavian festival which centred around the solstice has given us many of...
Stonehenge is an ancient prehistoric site which has been a place of worship and celebration at the time of Summer Solstice for thousands of years. This important site is seen by many as a sacred site – if you are planning to visit for summer solstice we ask that you please respect the s...
For our Neolithic ancestors, it was thus a midwinter festival equivalent to our Christmas or the Roman Saturnalia. We must now await further word from the academic discoverers of this new “Super-henge” on how they think its builders 4,500 years ago, like those of Stonehenge, directed it ...
“Although strongly associated with the summer solstice today, it is likely that Stonehenge was a place of winter, a shrine to the ancestors that was at its peak in the coldest season” There was once a circle of stones on the island of Ireland known as the Giants’ Dance. For millennia...
Stonehenge Summer Solstice Sunrise The Celts commemorated it with bonfires that supplemented the sun’s energy, Christians celebrated the feast of St John the Baptist towards the end of June and the Chinese commemorated the Summer Solstice with the festival of Li, the Goddess of light. Celebrator...