Stonehenge

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Revision as of 17:06, 17 March 2008

In ancient times, 'undreds of years before the dawn of 'istory, there lived an ancient race of people: The Druids.

No one was sure who they were, or what they were doing. But their legacy lives on, hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge.

Seriously, Stonehenge is an old structure in the United Kingdom that some believe has supernatural origins and some neopagans think was a place of worship for the "old religion". In actuality it is not known when or for what reason Stonehenge was constructed. Archeologists note the monument is older than the Druid religion which dates from the Iron Age, but this has not kept various theories linking Stonehenge to the Druids from proliferating. This is, however, dispelled by the fact that stonehenge was built 2000 years before druids first arrived in the area. While some archeologists would like to think stonehenge had just a singular purpose, many neopagans believe that it probably had multiply purposes, because it is designed to allign with multiple events (such as the lunar cycle).

Something interesting about stone henge is that is made out of stone called sarscen. Sarscen is an incredibly hard material, but it is only found in an area hundreds of miles away from the actual location of stonehenge.

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