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"although I'm afraid that word always makes me think of Hammer-Films-style mobs carrying flaming torches and pointy sticks. Which is not at all appropriate, clearly, I hasten to add."
Except at Whitby Abbey!!
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I would be surprised if any of the surviving stone circles had anything to do with the late IA druids on the grounds that when the religion was supressed by the romans why would they leave their centres of worship stil standing?after all when they put down the Jewish revolt they destroyed the second Temple of Solomon in A.D.70.
This sugests to me that these monuments were probably just curios in the landscape by the roman period.
What is this "God delusion" book-never heard of it.
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Weegie. You are of course right that our Pagan friends are as much stakeholders in our heritage as anyone, and EH clearly does and should talk to such groups.
With Silbury some in the media seemed to use that dialogue with druids as a stick to beat EH. Can't win eh?
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You might say that, Mercenary. I couldn't possibly comment.
As for my esteemed chum m300572's comment, we never found that we needed pointy sticks at Whitby, not even during goth week.
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I'm curious as to what is the connection between modern paganism in this country and prehistoric monuments-i thought no one knew what religion was practiced in the neolithic.[?]
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This is a good question, DDL, but a curiously irrelevant one. Whatever you or I might think about the phenomenon of modern paganism (which includes a wide range of groups of varying origin, antiquity and beliefs), there is no doubting the strength of their identification with these monuments, or the sincerity of their feelings about them.
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Actually Weegie has a valid point, whereby a monument can have changing relevance or meaning to groups through time... take even sacrd sites of the past, that change the GOd/goddess but retain the sacred nature.. (look even at the Temple Mount - 3 major religions all assign sacred significance to the same space ) Being of the 'pagan' persausian myself .. a very quiet one who just does his own thing.. I do take places to be sacred, even though I can't carry out the same ceremonies that were once enacted there. The Saxons did it with Burial mounds after all
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Khufu
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Just side tracking the very interesting druid converstation for a mo... i was once allowed to read the will of the gentlman who left the stones in the care and gardainship of the M.O.W, D.O.E AKA EH and in that will he had stated a number of clauses, about right of accses, charging entrance money, plus a few others..all of which have been broken and swept under the carpet by the differant goverment bodies who have been responsible for the site,,, when i pointed this out to a relitivley high up officer of EH i was told "so what he's dead, whats he going to do".... :-(
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I seem to have caused a bit of misunderstanding with the question (i support the right of every person to enjoy freedom of worship of whatever religion and wherever they feel the need to worship);it was asked out of sheer curiosity due to my own lack of knowledge,after all with knowledge hopefully comes understanding of those who differ in opinions of religion-and with understanding one can feel akin to ALL people on this fair world we call home!
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has anything happened yet at Stonehenge?
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
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