I admire these people's attempts to try and capture the traditions of the old beliefs. As christianity's iron fist slips from the world people are finding comfort in the cradle of the ancient religions. May the gods bless all rising pagans with a safe passage through life.
@lChilloutl No I am sorry but people who don't have faith of any kind are a joke. Just a bunch of angry nerds that need to get over the fact you were shoved in lockers and girls wouldn't go out with you in school.
@MrJpn1996 You dong. Now i am going to make you sit down n' shut up. ;)
Religion and faith is a myth that has been passed down from many generations to today. You state that your faiths are 'peaceful', but what is over 80% of all wars in the world consist of? Religion. Have we ever seen this so called 'God'? - no. Do we have proof of the big bang? - yes. Read and believe the facts. Sit down mate.
@emoisgay789 yes they are, paganism has many branches which includes wicca. like druidism and shamanism, are both forms of paganism, all earth based spiritual practice is paganism.
@hetrodoxly how am i a yank? im from the channel islands i.e. jersey. yanks are from america and i havent got a drop of american blood in me. i didnt know yanks talk like that do u have any personal experience? if not then i suggest you take ur sad little ego and take a look at ur life. grow up.
@therepth ur remark to me was an asshole remark... and my comment was not meant to offend at all, my deep apologies to you. im not a hater at all, im myself wiccan and i practice rieki im all for love and light, but i dont like when society downgrades magik and makes it look like a joke, thankfully people are becoming more open minded these days. you do not know me so dont go calling me names and judging me. blesse be.
Well, I don't know about "Satanic" as the place has always been considered a place of great light; probably built to commemorate the Ancestors, and as a sort of calendar to mark the Sunrise at Midwinter and Mid Summer.
Find me any evidence it was always a place of "great light." I think it runs the spectrum, like nature. Nature is light and dark. A place of the ancestors, yes. A place for funerary ritual where the suna nd moon played a part in taking the souls to the new life, yes.
I don't find that especially "light" at all. On the contrary. The atompshere is very charged and quite heavy.
Yes, a personal one and from much experience at interacting with the site, Anthropologically & archaeologically we know Stonehenge and other sites are connected with the ancestral dead. Maybe heavy is not the word - solemn & under the weight of all that has gone on (good and bad) might be more apt.
Definately not a fluffy site or a healing centre, that's all I'm trying to say.
I think you may agree that places where people have always congregated have an "Aura" about them, which some who are senstive can pick-up. Seemingly, the site of Glastonbury festival, in a hundred years time may give rise to "visions" of those who attended it?
Remember some died there, drug use was apparent in the early days and great joy was also felt.
However Stonehenge may give rise to feelings like when visiting ancient Battlefield sites??
That was the first time I'd ever been to Stonehenge and it was a truly amazing experience. I went again this year, and brought my best friend, who said that while she was there, it was the happiest and most peaceful she'd ever remembered being. A truly wonderful spiritual experience and I look forward to next year.
The drumming is annoying and the mystical connotations are absurd. Why not just appreciate these things for what they are? That is, an ancient stone monument built by ancient peoples for reasons we do not actually know for certain. Any absurd spiritual nonsense just ruins it for those with a true appreciation for such things.
I think any ritual as long as it is respectfully done is valid. People have a longing to invoke and remember their ancestors. People pray in many forms. Silent contemplation, bouncing up & down, banging drums & wailing etc. Which is correct? It all generates energy needed for magic to work. It's the arrogant & conceited nature of some small elements in the pagan community that seems at odds with what theyre trying to portray, & exactly what they try to get away from in organised religion.
Heart breaking it is to see what we have lost in place of what we have gained, we try to interperate what once may have taken place, Indeed i see those folks and it almost seems futile as they exclaim into the sea of time that separates us from our ancestors, a pitiful appeasement maybe, yet we try...
still, pleases me it does to see a connection with our forebear's made a ceremony...../(^\/^)\
I agree but people will always disagree about that "interpretation" though. Do Velvet cloaks & pentagrams have anything in common with our neolithic & bronze age ancestors? It's nice they make the effort, as long as they don't fall into the pit that organised religions have. It doesn't mean you can do what you want, neolithic society had laws & taboos. I'd love to see some pagans actually come in proper bronze age dress & not disregard things about our ancestors they find unpalletable.
Yes, but only to an extent. The thing we can be sure of is that they weren't these noble savages filled with love, peace & equality. If you don't want to take the Romans word, read the Irish legends. Men of learning, but fierce warriors and bloody with it. Of course you only have to look at 'the cult of the head' which had to have involved with druids. There's a huge gulf of time & intent between druids and the so-called ones of today.
There is an enormous gulf between the neo-druids of today, and what the druids of old actually were, or as depicted now; even cannibalism has been mentioned on a recent BBC documentary, but with not much evidence I have to say.
You're right. I've always championed that. The discussion was about the relation of the druids of old and the druids today however. Or rather, lack of relation.
Technically, they were hunter gatherers then but mixed with incoming neolithic farmers in turn who built Stonehenge. The recent DNA stuff is fascinating, really dispelling the myth of celts, invasions of saxons. All were a drop in the sea and never effected the genetic pool of the islands.
@hetrodoxly I agree, time testing with carbon proves that, but they HAVE found remains of people proving that Stonehenge has been used regularly throughout history by pretty much everyone who has lived there at some point. It was even a simple graveyard/cemetary for the bones of cremated people at one time.
We are all connected as One through time and space, why worry about Religions
ModernWizards 1 month ago
THE FIRST DOLMEN WAS MADE WITH SOUND
Them are inspired from the N side of Mt. Montserrat.
See a huge part of the mountain that look like a bull.
The priest projected the idea to the NW,... ever it was possible, but: INCLUDING SOUND!!
webspace.webring.com/people/or/ramonetriu/megalitos-sonoros.html
webspace.webring.com/people/or/ramonetriu/totem.html
webspace.webring.com/people/or/ramonetriu/serpiente.html
rrriu 6 months ago 2
@rrriu
Thanks.
mikesey1 5 months ago
This was all built with the assistance of an alien force!
yobolion 8 months ago
I admire these people's attempts to try and capture the traditions of the old beliefs. As christianity's iron fist slips from the world people are finding comfort in the cradle of the ancient religions. May the gods bless all rising pagans with a safe passage through life.
MrJpn1996 10 months ago 2
@lChilloutl No I am sorry but people who don't have faith of any kind are a joke. Just a bunch of angry nerds that need to get over the fact you were shoved in lockers and girls wouldn't go out with you in school.
MrJpn1996 10 months ago 2
@MrJpn1996 You dong. Now i am going to make you sit down n' shut up. ;)
Religion and faith is a myth that has been passed down from many generations to today. You state that your faiths are 'peaceful', but what is over 80% of all wars in the world consist of? Religion. Have we ever seen this so called 'God'? - no. Do we have proof of the big bang? - yes. Read and believe the facts. Sit down mate.
lChilloutl 10 months ago
@lChilloutl
I don't actually see any "Geriatrics" in this video!
I see you are obviously depressed
mikesey1 11 months ago
@emoisgay789 yes they are, paganism has many branches which includes wicca. like druidism and shamanism, are both forms of paganism, all earth based spiritual practice is paganism.
samanthaetain 11 months ago 2
@samanthaetain Wiccans are not pagans
emoisgay789 11 months ago
@hetrodoxly how am i a yank? im from the channel islands i.e. jersey. yanks are from america and i havent got a drop of american blood in me. i didnt know yanks talk like that do u have any personal experience? if not then i suggest you take ur sad little ego and take a look at ur life. grow up.
samanthaetain 1 year ago
@therepth ur remark to me was an asshole remark... and my comment was not meant to offend at all, my deep apologies to you. im not a hater at all, im myself wiccan and i practice rieki im all for love and light, but i dont like when society downgrades magik and makes it look like a joke, thankfully people are becoming more open minded these days. you do not know me so dont go calling me names and judging me. blesse be.
samanthaetain 1 year ago 2
@samanthaetain You're a total hater. You remind me of fundamentalists.
therepth 1 year ago
where do you get your robes/capes ? the cool
scraderz20 1 year ago 2
@hetrodoxly what you see in me you see in yourself. there is no need to be rude.
samanthaetain 1 year ago
@samanthaetain
"omg they are not even wiccan" ha ha ha lol, you've got to be a yank.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@samanthaetain
Apart from the procession in and out of the stones, no tourists see this celebration.
The Dolmen Grove is a group of pagans not specifically Druid.
mikesey1 1 year ago
I would love to take my rituals to Stonehenge. What a lovely and sacred place to do them.
Blessings D
wiccans1001 1 year ago 2
they were actaully allowed too walk throw the stones normally thats cut off too the public
charlieiscool1000 1 year ago
Where is Tim the Enchanter?
bleekblock 2 years ago 4
Perhaps one of the participants of this ceremony can help?
mikesey1 2 years ago
@mikesey1 That was a joke
bleekblock 2 years ago
Yeah i heard that the ancient people built these for satanic rituals.
Sc0ttPrian 2 years ago
Well, I don't know about "Satanic" as the place has always been considered a place of great light; probably built to commemorate the Ancestors, and as a sort of calendar to mark the Sunrise at Midwinter and Mid Summer.
The whole area around Stonehenge is sacred.
mikesey1 2 years ago
Oh yeah definitely. It seems to be a nice place to visit.
Sc0ttPrian 2 years ago 2
Find me any evidence it was always a place of "great light." I think it runs the spectrum, like nature. Nature is light and dark. A place of the ancestors, yes. A place for funerary ritual where the suna nd moon played a part in taking the souls to the new life, yes.
I don't find that especially "light" at all. On the contrary. The atompshere is very charged and quite heavy.
sonofherne 2 years ago 3
Well have it your way, but the description "Heavy" is a personal one, and I have never found Stonehenge so.
mikesey1 2 years ago
Yes, a personal one and from much experience at interacting with the site, Anthropologically & archaeologically we know Stonehenge and other sites are connected with the ancestral dead. Maybe heavy is not the word - solemn & under the weight of all that has gone on (good and bad) might be more apt.
Definately not a fluffy site or a healing centre, that's all I'm trying to say.
sonofherne 2 years ago 2
You have the experience of the place.
I think you may agree that places where people have always congregated have an "Aura" about them, which some who are senstive can pick-up. Seemingly, the site of Glastonbury festival, in a hundred years time may give rise to "visions" of those who attended it?
Remember some died there, drug use was apparent in the early days and great joy was also felt.
However Stonehenge may give rise to feelings like when visiting ancient Battlefield sites??
mikesey1 2 years ago
That was the first time I'd ever been to Stonehenge and it was a truly amazing experience. I went again this year, and brought my best friend, who said that while she was there, it was the happiest and most peaceful she'd ever remembered being. A truly wonderful spiritual experience and I look forward to next year.
FinalFallenFantasy 2 years ago 4
The drumming is annoying and the mystical connotations are absurd. Why not just appreciate these things for what they are? That is, an ancient stone monument built by ancient peoples for reasons we do not actually know for certain. Any absurd spiritual nonsense just ruins it for those with a true appreciation for such things.
Blndrfist 2 years ago
I think any ritual as long as it is respectfully done is valid. People have a longing to invoke and remember their ancestors. People pray in many forms. Silent contemplation, bouncing up & down, banging drums & wailing etc. Which is correct? It all generates energy needed for magic to work. It's the arrogant & conceited nature of some small elements in the pagan community that seems at odds with what theyre trying to portray, & exactly what they try to get away from in organised religion.
sonofherne 2 years ago 3
Heart breaking it is to see what we have lost in place of what we have gained, we try to interperate what once may have taken place, Indeed i see those folks and it almost seems futile as they exclaim into the sea of time that separates us from our ancestors, a pitiful appeasement maybe, yet we try...
still, pleases me it does to see a connection with our forebear's made a ceremony...../(^\/^)\
psuedosurfer 3 years ago 15
I agree but people will always disagree about that "interpretation" though. Do Velvet cloaks & pentagrams have anything in common with our neolithic & bronze age ancestors? It's nice they make the effort, as long as they don't fall into the pit that organised religions have. It doesn't mean you can do what you want, neolithic society had laws & taboos. I'd love to see some pagans actually come in proper bronze age dress & not disregard things about our ancestors they find unpalletable.
sonofherne 2 years ago 4
I think we know, very little about the
Druids of ancient times, other than that of Roman writers like Tacitus: possibly biased to say the least.
mikesey1 2 years ago
Yes, but only to an extent. The thing we can be sure of is that they weren't these noble savages filled with love, peace & equality. If you don't want to take the Romans word, read the Irish legends. Men of learning, but fierce warriors and bloody with it. Of course you only have to look at 'the cult of the head' which had to have involved with druids. There's a huge gulf of time & intent between druids and the so-called ones of today.
sonofherne 2 years ago 4
Agreed.
There is an enormous gulf between the neo-druids of today, and what the druids of old actually were, or as depicted now; even cannibalism has been mentioned on a recent BBC documentary, but with not much evidence I have to say.
mikesey1 2 years ago
@sonofherne
Stonehenge has nothing to do with Druids. it was built by the indigenous people who came here just after the last ice-age.
hetrodoxly 2 years ago 2
You're right. I've always championed that. The discussion was about the relation of the druids of old and the druids today however. Or rather, lack of relation.
sonofherne 2 years ago
Ok.
hetrodoxly 2 years ago
Technically, they were hunter gatherers then but mixed with incoming neolithic farmers in turn who built Stonehenge. The recent DNA stuff is fascinating, really dispelling the myth of celts, invasions of saxons. All were a drop in the sea and never effected the genetic pool of the islands.
sonofherne 2 years ago
@hetrodoxly I agree, time testing with carbon proves that, but they HAVE found remains of people proving that Stonehenge has been used regularly throughout history by pretty much everyone who has lived there at some point. It was even a simple graveyard/cemetary for the bones of cremated people at one time.
Jhimrey 2 years ago
That was interesting to watch, I wish I could have been there on that day!:)
ajdpadbury 3 years ago 19
Thanks. there shall be plenty of other opportunities for you!
Mike.
mikesey1 3 years ago