STONEHENGE

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STONEHENGE

• Druids
• Lay-lines
• Stonehenge
• The bluestones

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DRUIDS

• In the Celtic religion the word Druidry
• means the practices of the ancient
• druids, the priestly class in ancient
• Celtic societies. Their influence was as
• much social as religious infact they
• could be philosophers, scientists,
• teachers, judges and councillors to the
• King. The Druids linked the Celtic people
• with their numerous gods, the lunar
• calendar and the sacred natural order.
• The Ancient Order of Druids was
• founded in 1781 by Henry Hurle.

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Lay-lines

• Lay-lines are energy lines passing through
• the Earth and one of them crosses
  Stonehenge.

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STONEHENGE

• Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument
  located near
• Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire,
  about 8 miles (13 km)
• northwest of Salisbury. It is composed of
  earthworks surrounding a
• circular setting of large standing stones, known
  as megaliths. There
• is some debate about the age of the stone circle,
  but most
• Archaeologists think that it was mainly
  constructed between 2500
• BC and 2000 BC.
• Stonehenge is surely Britains greatest national
  icon, symbolizing
• mystery, power and endurance it was a temple
  made for workship
• of ancient earth deities.
• Many of the original stones have fallen or been
  removed by
• Previous generations for home construction or
  road repair.

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THE BLUESTONES

• The Bluestones are the stones used in the first
• stone circle and they come from the Prescelly
• Mountains of Wales.
• They weigh up to 4 tons each and about 80
• stones were used, in all. But the question is
• how could men manage to move them?
• Is thought that theyre brought for kilometros
• only with the mans power!
• During the ages many of them were moved
• away and the mythology attached to the
• moving has been attribuited to the magic of
• Merlin.