'Durrington Walls' is the heading I'd hoped would attach itself to my thoughts on last night's Channel 4 Time Team Special programme, but it came up with 'Stonehenge Riverside Project' for some reason. Never mind.
Just musing on the symbolism of those ideas I had, *IF* they were viable, for that day-long ceremony:
The Midwinter Solstice sunrise at Durrington Walls recalled the Birth of the dead ancestors and the lightness of their most youthful years,
The trip down the waters of the river Avon represented the winding passage of their Lives,
Then the procession to Stonehenge via The Avenue (a long walk full of anticipation, with a grand final approach) reflected their acquisition of Respect and Reverence as they journeyed to the End of Life
Culminating in the celebration of their Joining with the Spirits of the Otherworld at the awesome monument of Stonehenge, when their ashes were scattered in its circle as the sun set on Midwinter Solstice.
I must be the millionth person who's thought of this!
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