Archive for June, 2007
Hail to the Stonehenge Gods
12:50 am
At the 2007 Summer Solstice, 24,000 people braved the elements to go to Stonehenge and you can watch a brief BBC video of this event here, if you wish. Impressive though these figures are, they pale in comparison with the hordes that turned up at the Oakland Coliseum on the 23rd and 24th of July 1977, to watch what were to be Led Zeppelin’s last concerts in America.
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The Druids and A Voice in the Night
10:43 pm
As Thelma Wilcox pointed out in her comment on the previous post, strange sounds can often be heard emanating from many of the swallets on the Mendips, mainly on account of the hidden watercourses far beneath the earth. You can read more about this for yourselves if you look at Jodie Lewis’s work, either by acquiring her publication “MONUMENTS, RITUAL AND REGIONALITY: THE NEOLITHIC OF NORTHERN SOMERSET” 2005 JODIE LEWIS, BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS, ARCHAEOPRESS, OXFORD, or else by clicking on the relevant link I supplied in the last entry.
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