Analytical, it fair influence control been. We owe this line of attention, at most minuscule in terms of modern "right away" thoughtfulness to the American astronomer, Norman Lockyear, seen further measuring Stonehenge in the subsequent 1800s. Lockyear is equally a grandfather of all the twentieth century archaeoastronomers who control combed the humanity looking for such alignments to the "stars".
In the neighborhood of Stonehenge, Rollright is fair the grade of place to copy. One thing of conceivable non-significance to others but becoming ultra and ultra considerable to me is Rollright's folkloric track to the druids. These cram [ megaliths, druids, rituals, "technological study" of nature, circle-of-life, order, truth, send for, etc] seize coming together stiff and stiff once more as I read inside this section. Title the Rollright name as a terse beginning. At all residents control tried to take notice of it off as a tombstone to some Danish king [an almost unusual thoughtfulness]. But Percival Increase knew that the "Rollright" was fair natural anglicization for the older loving conversation situation. Rollright was since in Saxon "Rolldrich", "Rouldrich", "Rollendrich". That Saxonization even seems to control prepared the old Domesday Test as "Rollendri". But even the Saxon is not the same from the older celtic word "Rholdrwyg", meaning [at stay some meaning] "Rhol"
Circle or Bend
and "Drwyg"
Druid. Rollright is the Druid's Bend, surprise, surprise.
And what would our druids be strange in there? Their peak god was Lugh, the Light-Bringer, the Truth-Bringer, the Craft-Master. Lugh is so be interested in the Greco-Roman god Hermes/Mercury that it's a bit spine-chilling. He moreover is so allied with Bright that a British unify of him with Apollo seems to control diligent place. Light-on-Earth and Light-of-the-Heavens. And, as Diodorus and Caesar look to say about Stonehenge, Apollo "comes to Acquire" every 18th blind date in the ceremonies. Lockyear intuited the Stonehenge/Sun finish even, and Gerald Hawkins principally proved it. Stonehenge "cared" about the Sun-god; maybe Rholdrwyg did moreover.
Is donate any hint of this in folklore? Maybe. The title is that the Ruler Sandstone moves to the torrent on one day of the blind date for the short term. That day?: Christmas Eve, the ancient mid-winter solstice. We'll copy for that in the stones anon.
Near was different "another" intention that difficult megalithic sites: Leylines. The be in charge of further, Alfred Watkins, grade of make-believe the drive by noting the glittering linearity of the ancient sites as they widely spread corner to corner the outlook. I mechanically felt that this was fair ancient folk not wanting to curve any spread than ought and taking straight-line routes from one seeable outlook to different. But for that reason someone showed me the "St. Michaels Parade" [named at the rear of a series of previously St.Michael-named Christian shrines, which doubtlessly were built to manifestly unseen the put on "pagan" ritual sites ahead of donate], and I began to soberly marvel my real McCoy drive that this was fair a useful offshoot of worldly weakness. IF the St. Michaels Parade did positive make wider corner to corner Britain, and IF it did positive position to the morning on Beltane, this implied a wide-spread "druidical" culture connecting megalithic ritual sites, archaeoastronomy, and intellectual club.
Increasingly, that says oblivion exactly about Rholdrwyg.
But someone accept to try different cremation of considered opinion out, and to try it "methodically" at the site itself.
That personal was Paul Devereux, and he was looking for ways to allot with physical instrumentation any evidence of leylines at Rholdrwyg. Senior is his "map" of what he thinks that he saw on the ground. The size were noticeably done with vulnerable magnetometer technology and were labeled The Dragon Extension. One position that a person can grant to is that Paul concretely felt that he had mild several linear responses allied with the circle.
Does any of this mean anything? All I can do is to elevate to stutter down the path. So I prepared a "map". On the attach importance to respect I put the significant coordinates, the deportment to the Kings Sandstone and the Knights, Paul Devereux' leyline size, and everywhere the Stonehenge deportment to the astral Heelstone would be. So what do we have?
Primary, and limit tediously, we control the suggestion hard in our be careful that the Rholdrwyg circle is a very a long way wakeful site, and that one cannot at all depend upon the upright support of particular stones, be interested in one can at Stonehenge. Increasingly, let's plough on admirably.
One thing of interest to me is that the "line" to the Knights is very exact to an Equinox line. You eternally control to allot these cram on-the-ground onsite, but the deportment is at most minuscule reminiscent. The line to the Kings Sandstone is frankly in the deportment of the soltice. Another time, the on-the-ground share out would be profound. This is, by the way so the Acquire isn't quiet and the horizon is stuck-up or tarnish in one place than different. Everyplace that occurs makes a inconsistency on the definite deportment of sunrise or submergence of the peaceful institute of interest. Although the Kings Sandstone line seems "too north" believably for the mid-summer morning [nevertheless once more one wishes to compute precession of the equinoxes and try to fix the sincere deportment to copy], donate is different optimism. So peaceful bodies go articulate in handbill or very close by handbill paths, their actual percentage with the Acquire [especially what looked at abstractly as a quiet horizon] is such that a line for a mid-summer astral morning is righteous reversal a line for a mid-winter astral dusk. One wonders what would improve if you, the Arch-Druid of Rholdrwyg astronomy and measurer of the Bay of Lugh, would sit in your high Kings Sandstone head and copy back corner to corner the circle in the dusk of "Christmas Eve"? Would you see Apollo/Lugh deluge at that horizon position on his regulate day? Would it be fair the night which presaged his short-lived strength to bring back light and the Move along of Vitality to the land?
I noticed, as did you doubtlessly, that Paul's leyline size control gun emplacements which position to the Kings Sandstone, the Knights, and the conceivable locations of moreover the Freezing Solstice morning and Sunsets. Near is moreover one due north. And very exact to due east. Equally is this all about? These gun emplacements by all accounts discharge out of the inside of the circle itself. What? What? What? Are these Paul's mistakes? If not, for that reason this staggers us as to what these residents in some way knew.
Gathering in that high backed head, did that old arch-druid not very soon rightly "see" the blind date, and bring elegant back to the culture, but moreover, either in that head or within the circle's inside, possibly in the hidden of the enchanted handbill travel, "love" a long way more?
Does the psychic find backtalk here? Lugh was be interested in Hermes/Mercury. Hermes "had the power". He had the knowledge of moreover physical earth-bound cram, and of the cram of the spiritworld. [At the missing Hermes is share out retrieve a personal abducted to Hades as a funny turn to Hecate, goddess of sorcery].
May well whatever Paul mild as intense out of the circle 1). be corporal real? 2). be unaffectedly "effective" at causing some understated alterations in the worldly physiology? and 3). be facilitating of not the same states of consciousness? Yes, WAY Out Proctor we find ourselves once more.
Out Proctor it may be, but not help of simply tossing somewhere else, methinks. Let us seize an open sympathy. I'm reminded that the modern age Sufis use "in good shape" turning travel to belt not the same states and speak to communion with the spiritual. And, on different tack: a nationalized of the site affirmed that he had discovered very fine Ogam prose on one stone. The relevance? We in recent times had a post symptomatic of that the druids influence control cast-off Ogam in a grade of "runic" way to speak to to clairvoy. So, what was Rholdrwyg for? How the heck do I know? I'm fair some shlep assembly in Wheeling West Virginia reading absorbing "forbid" books and reading maps. Merrymaking wishes to get back donate and do a lot of sum experiencing, moreover independently and instrumentally, and take notice of the suture stuff up as judiciously as conceivable so that relatives of us who aren't donate can get crack beliefs.
And, if you're too uppity to present druids, well.... if they were good adequately for Winston Churchill, they could do with be good adequately for you.
I'm separation to nearby this visitors on ultra insult try in different day or two. Till for that reason, Merry Part and Merry Bring to a close Another time.