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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 B.C. 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. Perhaps the most reknown of Megalithic Stone Circles throughout the ages is that of Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire, Southern England about three kilometers west of Amesbury.
Stonehenge was an ancient,
sacred landscape site with circular earth bank, ditch, wood, and stone
structures. Dating back to at least 3,100 BCE. Stonehenge measured around 330
feet in diameter.
About 2,100 BCE there was a circle of 30 sarsen sandstone, standing stones about 108 feet in diameter that supported sarsen lintels that were held in place by tongue and groove joints. Later on a horseshoe shaped circle of 5 pairs of standing stones with 1 lintel was added. Then sometime between 2000-1100 BCE, smaller horseshoes of bluestones were placed there. Even though the stones are orientated to the summer solstice sunrise, mystery stills shrouds the origins and purposes of the Stonehenge remnants. Besides being used as a solar temple, Stonehenge might also have served as an interdimensional portal. 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. Besides the Watch Stone, the
tumbled Stone of 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.... Continue on
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