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Druidry Druid Druidic Treelore
Hallowed Symbols and Holy Ground
Sun Wheels were worn as protective amulets and healing talismans. They symbolized the sensual solace of bountifully fruitful fecundity and the heartening warmth of productively crucial comfort shedding their illuminating light into the cold disappointing darkness of shadowed chaos and the sorrow provoking cruelty of ominous passages.
The brilliance of the Sun dispelled illusory confusions and banished bindings by shining solar radiance into the murky corners of the soul. The sunshine of cheery mindfulness transformed stagnant areas of persistent pain and skulking sorrow into renewed hope and reinvigorated trust.
Small clay Goddess votives, decorated with Sun Wheels, were offered prayerfully at curative springs, holy shrines, and sacred lakes. The figurines were also buried with the dead to help them navigate the mysterious journey to the Otherworld.
Another example of Megalithic Standing Stones are "The Stones of Stenness", which are located just east of B9055 in Orkney, Scotland. According to radiocarbon tests, the three remarkable Stones of Stenness, which still remain upright, date from sometime around 3,000 BCE, the same period as the pottery from the Skara Brae coastal settlement.
The original circle of
twelve standing stones was about 30 meters in diameter and was set inside a rock
cut ditch similar to that of the nearby Ring of Brodgar.
Spring Equinox Sunrise Illuminates Loughcrew Backstone Sun Wheels
Image Courtesy of Michael Fox, Knowth.com
Besides the Watch Stone, the tumbled Stone of God Odin, where bargains were sealed and love troths plighted in ages past through a small hole in the stone, was also once in close proximity to the Stenness Stone Circle.
Sacred Mounds shaped like a large female breast, graced the Druidic Celtic landscape, bringing the benevolent motherly blessings of the Divine Feminine into outward expression, grounding the goodness of caring kindness and nurturing giving into manifestation for the people of the Earth.
The Celts were the original global Mound Builders. Many of the former Druidic Sacred Mound Sites, from ages long ago, dedicated to the gracious virtues and courteous ethics of the Mother Goddesses were supplanted by pyramids and churches.
The Sacred Mound now called Silbury Hill is located just south of Avebury village. Nearly 130 feet high with a circumference of 1,640 feet, the gently rounded, cone shaped mound covers over five acres.
It was built in three
stages beginning around 2,660 BCE. During the final phase, six concentric,
chalk, step terraces were covered with flints, gravel, and soil. Despite several
legend inspired digs, no burial remains have been found, leaving its ancient
usage a mystery....
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Megaliths and Sacred Mounds,
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Druidry Druid Druidic Treelore Copyright © 2002-2008 Maureen Grace Burns, Blessings Cornucopia. All Rights Reserved.
Permission to use Image Spring Equinox Sunrise Illuminates Loughcrew Backstone Sun Wheels given by Michael Fox © Knowth.com [http://www.knowth.com/loughcrew-equinox-mar05.htm]. Accessed January 15, 2007.
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