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Druidry Druid Druidic Treelore
Hallowed Symbols and Holy Ground
Some of these blessed countryside settings were further enhanced for ceremonial connectivity purposes by the addition of Megalithic Standing Stones, Passage Cairns, and Stone Circles.
The weathered limestone "Rollright Stones", for example, are located on a prehistoric trackway near the village of Chipping Norton about a mile from the town of Long Compton.
In the past, "The King's Men Stone Circle", "The King Stone", and the megalithic tomb known as "The Whispering Knights" were considered "Holy Ground" by the local peoples because of their mysterious purpose and their pagan powers.
A sense of mystical magic, of timeless transcendence, and of "Wyrd Wisdom" envelopes this ancient site, lending some credence to the large collection of folklore and legendary tales involving kings, witches, and fairies associated with the stones.
A repository for Earth
Goddess knowledge and strength, this planetary Druid's wheel of alternating
female/male charged stones, concentric circles with spokes of radiant light
energy, and rainbow spirit path guidelines, forms the regenerative transition
portal for the "Once and Future k-Ing" energies.
Avebury Henge Standing Stone
Image Courtesy Michael Fox, Knowth.com
The world's largest stone circle, Avebury Heng, was located near the village of Avebury about six miles west of the town of Marlborough.
With an average stone weight of forty tons, the ancient henge was formed by a ditch and bank about a mile in circumference which surrounded an Outer Circle of stones 421 meters in diameter that partially encircled Avebury village.
Inside of the Outer Circle were two Inner Circles. The Northern Inner Circle represented the "Divine Feminine" with cove stones; while, the Southern Inner Circle represented the "Divine Masculine" with a large obelisk.
Two avenues of megaliths (Beckhampton Avenue and Kennet Avenue), with alternating pillar shaped (masculine) stones and diamond shaped (feminine) stones, connected with the circle.
The male/female imagery of
the megalithic shapes reflected the reverence the local peoples had for Nature's
Ways, as well as, all aspects of the local landscape, like the springs at
Swallowhead between nearby Silbury Hill and the West Kennet Long Barrow...
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Druidry Druid Druidic Treelore Copyright © 2002-2008 Maureen Grace Burns, Blessings Cornucopia. All Rights Reserved.
Permission to use Image Avebury Henge Standing Stone given by Michael Fox © Knowth.com [http://www.knowth.com/wallpaper/avebury-800.jpg]. Accessed January 4, 2007.
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