Newgrange Winter Solstice

[JosiahPlummer1988]

Nice music; very atmospheric. As a side note, I like the picture near the end that shows Newgrange from a distance and a spider's web in the foreground. We tend to think of spider webs as belonging in areas that have been deserted or that see little activity, so the aforementioned picture juxtaposes that idea against Newgrange itself, which is far more isolated, deserted, and timeworn than spider web homes.

[777azathoth]

strangely enough,the interior of this 'cave' is remarkably similar in appearance to a woman's birth canal! pretty crazy eh?!

[tubelookjohn]

@777azathoth Well there is a theory that this is actually what they are trying to recreate!

[imtherealsilvertrick]

@tubelookjohn -_-' Nerds

[HeartoftheDragonColo]

@tubelookjohn It's more than a theory. The sunlight travels up the birth canal until the moment when it reaches then end, symbolizing the rebirth of the Sun God & the turning of the Wheel of the Year. The Sun God returns on this day, which is why the celebration of Christmas was placed about this time.

[vincikd007bg008]

does the moon shine in through the door ?

[jrm33lover]

@vincikd007bg008 No the sun lol

[predators41]

@jrm33lover i think he ment would it

[bheadh]

Ta se an-shean anseo. Mhothaigh mise na daoine sidh ansin. Ta suil agam go bheidh me anseo aris. Ar ball. Beannacht De le Eireannach daoine ar fud an domhain agus beannacht De na hanamacha na marbh. Taim a ghra ar teanga fein chomh maith. Ba mhaith liom go dti an Grian on Aileach la eigin. Is e mo bharuil an bliain seo chuigeann le cuidiu De. Go raibh maith agaibh.

[ChaoticRyan]

Oh How I Miss Living In GlalWay.

[BaldEagle841]

I honesty wonder though how important. Can Newgrange be if it was lost for 400 years? The guy that rediscovered it was a farmer walking his dog. When his dog fell threw into what the farmer described as a small cave. I mean to me its one of the seven wonders of the world. Older then almost everything. As mysterious as Stone Henge. Older then the Pyramids of Egypt and its been getting the winter Solstice since 3,200 b.c.e. minus the 400 years it was all blocked up. Due to over growth. Knowth.

[NICKY752]

worst video EVER

[John27346]

Can anyone tell me how the rising sun at newgrange looks on the days before and after the winter solstice?

[shtookatz]

@John27346 this question came up in a discussion I had with an archaeologist. He laughed and said the solstice lasts about five days as the sun is effectively stationary in the sky during this time (it's only our modern obsession with fixed dates that ties it down to one) and so the rising sun looks exactly the same over this period. So we might as well go any time that week to avoid the crowds who think they are there for the one chance of witnessing the solstice... and enjoy it in peace!

[flyingtoothpaste]

lol nice ^^ I was just clicking randomly to have some background music and when this song came I thought 'Hey, I recognize this' xD I listened a lot to it when I was little ^^ nostalgia...

[KidsOnCrack33]

december 21st 2012.... ah scary shit.

somting postive will happen doh. for a fact.

and irish men didnt build this they got help from other beings for deffo.

[VivaLaPol]

Why couldn't an ancient people build this.? It's only rock and dirt. The people back then weren't stupid. All ancient races studied astronomy and built impressive structures which were aligned in a particular way with the stars. It's a good way of knowing when to plant your crops.

[LadyPortia777]

@KidsOnCrack33 Spot on and those beings are back for the closing of the cycle.

Do you know who those beings were?

[KidsOnCrack33]

@LadyPortia777 I honestly dont know. but iv been doing huge reading about for years about about where mankind came from and how it all began. FUCK EVLUOTION AND THE IDEA OF GOD but check out the annunaki and the prymaids and places like peru and find out about the surmerians sorry man im too tiered to think ri now

[IIICyrenaica]

Went inside last year on my Irish safari. Older than the pyramids and very claustraphobic but awesomely fascinating.

[Druid1tothe21st]

Keep Britain Irish! (unknown grafitti artiste) Brixton, London, U.K.

[seonidh]

newgrange all of that wite wall is concrete it never existed there and is so wrong to have it. The white wall in newgrange is very contriversal in the archaelogical community.

[sonofherne]

@seonidh .It had a white quartz wall in prehistory, but unfortunately when they restored the mound they gave the retaining wall too much of a slope (and probably put the white balls in a too regular pattern).

[seonidh]

@sonofherne actually in the study i read it stated that NG had the quartz layed out in an apron pattern outside the entrance not the wall.

[treefrog2108]

we are so removed from nature now with our face stuck in ipods,xbox's iphones and god knows what. kids have lost their spirituality and their relationship with nature. its not a good sign for future genrations cause they'll cover the worlds ancient forests in concrete and cold steele in the name of progress. its cool to live in a little concrete tower on top of a shopping centre, shopping for stuff you dont need is a hobby. I say walk the meadows,wade across the streams and smell the earth.

[Jyotinanda108]

@treefrog2108 But you could also say that technologly allows the free flow of infromation and knowledge causing new form of enlightnment, the information age, we understand things now we didnt before, but i do know what you mean though

[NoZenIsZen]

What a sacred place. It pre-dates even the oldest pyramids in Egypt and it's build out of crystal. There isn't a clue how it was build, the builders where unbelievably sophisticated!

There is no way that our ancient ancestors where 'primitive'!!!! WE are the ones who have the problems. WE are the ones who lost the druids who where the healers of our civilization. WE are the ones who lost the bards who where the keepers of the ancient records (in their minds!). WE are the ones who are degraded...

[ANDROID697]

The Vatican/Romans has RAPED our lands with there Flat Earth.

Only Europe went through the dark ages because of Roman/Vatican via St Patrick(removed wisdom,snakes) supression!

This is linked to Mayan/Eygptian/Indian/Aborigin­al/Zulu/ astronomy also(pre-Columbus).

Yus'hua Christ also mentions a round Earth in the Bible.

TRUTH WILL OUT!

[IIICyrenaica]

@ANDROID697 Whoa there. I think the collapse of Rome's armies fighting endless waves of barbarians (and each other) might have had something to do with the advent of the dark ages. Just saying. . . .

[ANDROID697]

Have you watched Micheal Tsarion -Irish origins on YT? He is highlighting some VERY important knowlegde that links the megalithe stone circles/Pyramids/mayan temples etc, around the world! It was the Roman Empire/ Vatican that destroyed the links and forced a FLAT Earth on Europeans. This is why we have PAGAN holiday at Xmas and Easter that's been cloaked by LIES!

The Proof/math is undeniable.

[LadyPortia777]

@ANDROID697 Spot on.

[Outofmycrazymind]

Its so sad that few people even pay heed to the Pagan faith anymore... not so much a faith as it was an ideal, a harmony brought to reality by simple people who loved the world around them, and embraced it in such a way that they could create their own beliefs, wether they were true or not didn't matter, the principle of their rituals was to bring about a continuing harmony that worked marvelously for them and those around them, so few respect them anymore... Im not Pagan, but I understand them.

[frankeeirish04]

@Outofmycrazymind I was in Newgrange and Knowth there a few days ago, and I felt sorry for the way the tour guide not once aknowledged about the Pagan religion during when this religion had been here when these structures were built, I felt they pushed christianity here even though christianity hadn't been there at this time!!

I mentioned to the guide about the Pagan religion and she sort of cut me off from my statement!

[LadyPortia777]

@frankeeirish04 LOL- mention Paganism in Ireland!!!!

There was no "religion" at the time of building Bru Na Boinne- Palace of the Sidhe.

Thier book was called The Book of Love.

If Paganism was so Eve ill, then why did the Patriarchs/Patrick build their churches on top of the Pagan sacred sites?

[sonofherne]

@Outofmycrazymind . Your being a bit fluffy bunny here.The neolithic people of Ireland and Britain had a cult of the dead, used human remains in rites,and there is some evidence for occasion human sacrifice. they feared nature as well as living near to it,and hence tried to placate/manipulate the powers of the forces around them. Most died before 40,and there's a lot of evidence of cranial trauma and arrow wounds!

[LadyPortia777]

@sonofherne Bru Na Boinne has nothing to do with any cult of the dead. It was and is the Palace of the Sidhe.

The spirals represent the 3 energies in one- sacred feminine energy of mother Earth herself.

The death is merely the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. The Sidhe knew there was no death- in the sense that we were brainwashed to believe. The church makes a fortune from that death cult- taking money from innocent people in pretence of getting a soul into "heaven"

[sonofherne]

@LadyPortia777 What then are these cremated remains that are contemporary with the building of the monument? I am 100 percent familiar with the legends and folklore attached to many of these monuments. What you are saying sounds like new age doctrine from california. Find me evidence in celtic myth where they say we actually worshipped a great mother? You won't find any.

[LadyPortia777]

@sonofherne the triple spiral is the Great mother Goddess.

You will find if you look- OK most were destroyed by the church.

Google sheela na gig - images. One still exists in Tara hill.

[sonofherne]

@LadyPortia777 Newgrange was an open place and people were visiting right up until & including the 18th century. Why didn't they erase evidence of the triple spiral and why do sheela na gigs still adorn many churches and abbeys now? they left no written writing so how you can say so sure that this is an indication of the mother is just your interpretation.

[LadyPortia777]

@sonofherne there was no writing as truth was passed down through word of mouth.. and that was for a reason.

I am positive of my interpretation.i have done the journey. have you?

[LadyPortia777]

@sonofherne the Great Mother is mother Earth herself.

[sonofherne]

@LadyPortia777 Again, mother earth/gaia is a new concept. There is nothing in irish myth which states they worshipped her. There is Dannu who was the mother of the Du'atha but does not play an active part in it. there is a pile of other goddesses however.

[LadyPortia777]

@sonofherne "Womb as tomb"

"One of my favorite theories was shared with me by Sligo Artist Michael Quirke. He believes that the sheela image is the third in the Celtic goddess trinity of maiden-mother-crone. In her aspect as the crone, she invites the hero back into her womb to death. Through this stark figure, we are reminded that we are all born of Mother Earth, and we will all return to the earth in death (through the same "door"--the womb of the earth)."

[Outofmycrazymind]

@sonofherne Im not saying they were without brutality... Come on, throughout history Humans have shown violence in every conceivable form, Im only saying that before the christian faith pushed its way there, things were much simpler, and people were content, whether it seems appropriate to us or not. To me, ignorance IS bliss, and if you can embrace it, you can't have too many worries. Im not trying to take a strong stand on this, so no one try to offer counter arguments... :P

[sonofherne]

@Outofmycrazymind How ridiculous. If this is what you want to believe and it makes you cope with the world & how it works better, go ahead. It doesn't mean it's the way it was. Unless we learn from the past, we're doomed to repeat it.

I'm far from agreeing with christianised oppression, but, it wasn't some Golden Age paradise beforehand. There's just no evidence for it and these concepts were a modern invention born out of a longing to return to a more simpler existance.

[Outofmycrazymind]

@sonofherne Not entirely sure you're quite grasping what I'm trying to say here... But never mind. Maybe I just suck at explaining my opinion.

[Threetails]

@Outofmycrazymind I'm not sure what ignorance had to do with building something this magnificent. These were people who watched, knew, and observed the earth in great detail. If anything, modern people are ignorant; we don't have to know anything about the cycles of nature because someone does it all for us. In the past, ignorance was death, because ignorance meant not knowing when to plant, when to reap, when to hunt, and when to fish. Ignorance is not an enlightened virtue.

[Outofmycrazymind]

@Threetails Let me explain... In ignorance I simply mean that their minds were free of burden with the rest of the cosmos, and mind you ignorance and foolishness are two different things. Yes, if someone was a fool back then they were dead, which resulted in A LOT of deaths, but in ignorance there was a much better chance. I suppose I meant to say that in certain aspects of thinking ignorance is bliss, and that these people possessed it so that they COULD build things so grand.

[Outofmycrazymind]

@Threetails And I suppose even in that I managed to explain it in an ignorant way, as one might say... Just drop the whole thing, please, it was never my intention to spread a large argument in this video to corrupt its splendor.

[dmcc20012]

Ill go up next year and have a look, always wanted to be up there for the sostice

[LadyJustice666]

Lovely place except for the concrete- millions of pounds of concrete poured into the new centre thus destroying the Sacred Rock and Sacred Well.

No one mentions this truth however.

Not mentioned either is the theft of the Stones of Time after excavation.

The powers that be make sure the sheeple are only told what they want you to believe is His Story.

[ofmay]

there is a set of three concentric circles an the path to lake tear in the clouds in the Adirondack in New York. The are on a moist external rock face yet the lines of the circles do not grow any liken or moss.

[jwlundgren]

nice music!

[Druid1tothe10th]

Forget number crunching with dates. Some "genius" in 1752 noticed that the calender was off by two weeks. So they advanced the date, September 2nd, to September 12th or 13th, something like that. They adjusted the date because somewhere in time, lunar calculations threw off the "timelords". They set it henceforth to the Sun.

Think of New Grange as a "hut' for weary travellers..... from "far, far away".

[LadyPortia777]

@Druid1tothe10th the travellers are still there for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

[seonidh]

This truly is a beautiful place, except for one thing. The excavator poured concrete along the face of the mound and placed the quartz crystals in the concrete. That part of the mound ie the white wall was never there and its a crying shame they did that. Also they whitewashed the monument again this would have been impossible for the builders to do. It was a mound like at Maes Howe in Scotland or Belas Knap in England. Why ruin something so special to Ireland.

[Psychickay]

There is a place on the east Mysterious ring, a magical ring of stones The druids have lived there once they said, Forgotten is the race that no-one knows. Chorus: Rum de rum rud a derimo Rum de rum rud a derimo The circled tomb of a different age Secret lines carved on ancient stone. Heroic kings laid down to rest Forgotten is the race that no-one knows. Wait for the sun on a winters day And a beam of light shines across the floor.

[LadyPortia777]

@Psychickay yes, that is the clue.

[365367368]

@Psychickay I love that song! Orla Fallon sings it so well!

[merseybeat1963]

@365367368 Moya Brennen/Clannad

[tanith666]

@Psychickay

Thats Clannad

[predators41]

@Psychickay not sure if you have red it but this is not bec by darren shan

[EthanSurbaugh]

I've read that they used these passages for the reincarnation of kings. "Ex. the child would be conceived on Easter, then born 9 months later on the winter solstice in these passages with the bones of the dead king nearby" I might have skewered that theory in my description but oh well. Still a phenomenal and breathtaking structure. Must have been well known for miles around back then.

[pseudoslave]

Yep its all about the sun / son it sinks on 22 Dec it stays in same position for 3 das then it rises on 3rd day ..............25th of Dec, the birth of Christ, the rising of the sun by 1 degrees North. The structure is surrounded by satellite smaller mounds..........a message to the GOds.

[EthanSurbaugh]

that's it! I remembered the 3 days where the sun stays at its southern most position, that the solstice starts on 21st of December, but had forgotten completely about the 3 days beginning on the 22nd and ending on the birth of the son or as we know it today the birth of "Christ!" thanks for the memory jog!

[sonofherne]

@EthanSurbaugh .I quite like this idea. Death and regeneration was foremost in the neolithic mind. hence the cremated bones in the bowls...yet there was a huge stone phallus found at nearby Knowth.

[EthanSurbaugh]

@sonofherne lol, well yes there's that too. I remember reading about them finding a few of those stone phallus's around, including a smaller stone one actually inside of the newgrange passage.

[Goetterhand]

Grüße aus der Oberlausitz!

Stonehenge in Saxony

[LadyJustice666]

The Governemt has hidden a lot of our true his- story re Newgrange....and most of the people have no idea.

[pseudoslave]

yeah what about her story still irrelevant isn't it??

[LadyPortia777]

@pseudoslave Bru Na Boinne is all about the sacred feminine- triple spiral.

[LadyJustice666]

Nice place to visit- but you have to be white, Catholic and irish to be welcome as the Catholic Cult still controls schools, hospitals etc and the first question is- what religion are you,?

[dsadaf1]

Don't be so ridiculous that is such bullshit and I am Irish and Muslim and certainly not a question ever asked, more welcoming than many other places.

[LadyPortia777]

@dsadaf1 You are entitled to your opion and experience, just as others have different experiences in Ireland.I have met many peope from Ireland who speak of serious discrimination there. I lived there, so i know all about the Irish and our discrimination of non Catholics.They might not say it to your face.

[blackcocksfeather]

are you for real ??

[sonofherne]

@LadyJustice666 .Are you nuts? People from all over the world visit this place,as they do Stonehenge and others. I can just see it now, you go to the ticket box and they asked you to say a hail Mary and ask for your dna test.

[LuxuriousLuxembourg]

Ireland is so fucken nice!

[preacain]

all are welcome

[pseudoslave]

no you again.....was up there yesterday with my kids....wow the darkness the smallness the precision, the enormity .......wow

[preacain]

what do you mean - no you again.....?

[pseudoslave]

sorry was just jesting with you....we had a "discussion" over Ireland recently and I was amused to see your name here. That's all the slave morality doppleganger!!

[tommylourdes]

what is the symbol, three spirals joined..starts around 2:45.. i have similar designs on gravestones around here in CT

(USA).

[73MLK]

I read about it and it seams to be a "triskelés" (greek) in an odd form, it could be a sign for the sun. The ones you have on gravestones is probably a mark of "trinity" (father, son and the holy spirit". =)

[dsadaf1]

no Newgrange was before christ not after

[pseudoslave]

the spirals are common forms/shapes seen under deep trance induced by drugs, deprivation or seance. Most cultures have similar symbols and they are peculiar to trance and are universal......check out Hancock's book supernatural.

[EthanSurbaugh]

Spirals were sometimes used to chart celestial movements as well by older cultures. Good example would be the Chaco Canyon Indians.

[LadyPortia777]

@tommylourdes the triple spiral was used by the mound builders- triple energy.

The same mound builders were in USA- we had been travelling and visiting each other long before Columbus. That was what history taught us, but is untrue.

[MagicTellaVision]

My business objective is to film BC Celtic Druid Brehon Laws in Gaelic with English Subtitles which has been committed to memory since the being of the Ice Age.

[iiiiiiDANNYiiiiii]

it was so the dead would leave through the light ,we are the de dannan ,oldest stone building in the world also the fur blog the under ground people, its are breed.

[Vince1303]

was referring to another post from someone here. I took the battle to him offsite. Why dont you just remove my post. Sorry

[zaaritha]

This is good!

[bevskiwolf]

Are you kidding me? Are you referring to the video or a post here from someone else?

[oirambarr]

Beautiful music from Clannad (pastpresent)

The Sun is the source of all life in Earth. We should celebrate solstices and equinoces.

[revadb]

You should read "Uriel's Machine".

[Zanoske]

does anyone else find it more than coincidence that the solstice lights beam into the halls of newgrange on dec. 21st? As in Dec 21 2012? I didn't know much about newgrange until today but this was fascinating. good luck to you all

[0fall0out0girl]

its supposed to have been built by sun worshipers

[CrazyForCooCooPuffs]

all that world ending is bullshit..just like Y2K

[sellout87]

check out Quest for the lost civilization - Graham Hancock. its pretty interesting if it is actually true. after watching it i thought of newgrange

[Druid1tothe21st]

Niver moind all the 'petty' stuff of all past world history. ... Stay with NASA. There is after all only 1 ocean and only one earth.... LOVE THE EARTH!!!

[jimmy27paul]

The first thing St patrick did when he came back to ireland was organise a book burning.Thousands of yrs of druidic knowledge lost forever.

[yubbles09]

i had no idea, thanks for the info, thats terrible

you won't see me wearing green next year

[Zanoske]

makes sense seeing how the catholic church/illuminati have done nothing but try and destroy humanity, the planet, and our connection to the earth for centuries.

[strathroy1972]

where did you get that info from ??

[katrina25045]

I had no Idea,

[jimmy27paul]

Im afraid jessica maree is absolutely right.We irish must start learning our real history.

[pokemonlord09]

dia duit conas ata tu?

[Druid1tothe10th]

' Couldn't say JessMaree'87'........ It's a secret.......... sort of. You might want to contact the National Aeronautical and Space Administration at Cape Canaveral..... or whatever they're calling it nowdays.

[Druid1tothe10th]

It's somewhat stately actually. It's no kennedy space center mind you.

[TheDarkProphetRaven]

i think i like orla fallons version of new grange better

[JessicaMaree1987]

im not irish, but love the history for the place and am drawn there. just wondering, does Ireland remember its ruid ansestors, are they proud of them? te duids and 'witches' made ireland what it is, up until the christians (st. pat) drove them into the sea. so, are the irish proud of their history? are children taught that ireland was a heathen land that was saved by st. pat? or are they told the truth? that St. Pat got away with genocide?

[paddiegirl00]

What are you talking about- St. Patrick a mass murderer?? Ridiculous. The Irish people made Ireland what it is... not the witches.

[Howtheylikeit]

WHAT!!!!! The "snakes" were a metaphor for sins and pagan gods no one was actually killed. DUHHH

[enigmaticatherealone]

I hear you

[tigerspuds]

Proud to be Irish and also proud of our past, present and future.....

[pokemonlord09]

we are proud of our past

[blackcocksfeather]

great comment..i'm proud of what we once were...sadly my countrymen are brainwashed....

[LadyJustice666]

@blackcocksfeather

Few people remember who we truly are.

The brainwashing by the Vatican worked well and now our people live in fear, while giving away their sovereignity bit by bit.

[tanith666]

@blackcocksfeather

Totally in arms with you on that sentiment, nobody understands the complexity and beauty of our heritage, materialism is more fufilling, we probably should'nt judge because the path to fifillment is easier for  some. I would have loved to be at Tara or Newgrange for the summer solstice, but I was there in spirit )0(.

[JAMD456]

@JessicaMaree1987 Part of that culture survived in the West of Ireland for a time, as did some of the occult practices of the Ancient Irish, but as we became "modern" our ancient knowledge was lost to us. It is not hard to be proud of the Druids of old, I would love to have been able to talk to one.

[mythicalireland]

The most comprehensive overview of the astronomical and mythical significance of Newgrange and the Irish ancient sites is given in the book "Island of the Setting Sun - In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers", which has just been republished as a revised and expanded edition. This acclaimed book is written by Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore.

[mtfssjr2]

Really nice calming video, thank you!

[OutlawIV]

Magnificent video John The spider in the web was amazing...Music accompanied the tour excellent as well Thanx for the posting Slainte \~/ \~/

[tubelookjohn]

Thanks, Yes it was a frosty morning when I saw the web along the River Boyne and the Tomb in the background. Check out my website for a virtual tour inside Newgrange.

[smilylauren]

Really nice!

[jeffhegarty]

What a video, what a tune, what a band

[AntaresInScorpius]

yeah i knew about this being webcast but for somereason, i could get the sound but not the images.

[celtictigress]

nifty!

[chris6770]

Loved the music - I've been a fan of Clannad for over 20 years - great that they webcast the event today :)

[barrymah]

Did you know the solstice sunrise was webcast this morning?? It was a beautiful cold, crisp morning in the Boyne valley and the beam in the chamber was very clear. It is on again to-morrow (08.00 GMT) but the weather forecast is not good.

I am trying to locate a vid of todays stream, I missed some of the webcast.

[stephsp304]

Who sings the music in the background?

[tubelookjohn]

Clannad sings this song - it's called Newgrange

[tubelookjohn]

Take a look inside Newgrange burial chamber