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Submitted by Andy_B on Friday, 06 October 2006 Page Views: 4215
ResourcesAlun S writes: Last week I was up at some stone circles in the peaks and ran into some New Age enthusiasts. Because it was just after the equinox I found plenty of evidence of pagan use of the stones. A friend was was also enjoying the day out and she was amused by the different reactions to some of the site between myself and these people.She felt it was a contrast between head and heart, that I knew more about the sites but the New Age visitors were experiencing it. I can’t agree. I can’t agree. One reason is that there is a joy in finding things out, asking questions about something rather than simply accepting it isn’t an emotionless activity.
I don’t agree with their claims about spirits etc because I can’t verify them, but I’d be amazed if the people who built these stones didn’t have complex supernatural beliefs. I’ll bet that they couldn’t prove the existence of their spirits either, but I also suspect that modern and ancient Pagans share a respect for nature and for the megalithic sites, so I don’t find the idea of sacrifices at stone circles ridiculous. I can’t help thinking ancient sacrifices would have been a bit more bloody, but understandably no-one is keen to leave a severed goat’s head around a site in these times. Like Christianity or other religions Paganism has moved with the times.
This is why mockery of paganism bothers me. I picked up this story about a druid who is balancing energies in a cave in South Wales via Ma’at. It’s because the bones of the Red Lady of Paviland are in Oxford and this is causing psychic trauma. It’s easy to mock, but the idea that it’s ok to mock someone because he’s a "self-styled druid" and it’s the druidism that is silly that bothers me more.
Read the full version, with pictures at Archaeoastronomy.co.uk .
Alun has relaunched his site Archaeoastronomy.co.uk, partly as a Wordpress blog and partly as an index of various archaeoastronomy articles he's written for it with some from elsewhere. Sadly this messes up all the links from the Portal to him in the process but there you go, that's progress for you (just a little pet hate of mine- Ed). Anyway, the rest of his site is worth a look.
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