Stonehenge was a spiritual centre long before the stones were erected. As to the why, that is lost in the past but Stonehenge was a community of about 10000 people drawn to ?????.
Similarly, Thornborough Henge, same age as Stonehenge. At first sight, it is nothing special in location - flat land in the Vale of York at the foot of the escarpment leading up to the North York moors. Now there's another spirituality puzzle - there are tens of thousands "special places" on the moors and around 10000 Neolithic and Bronze age burials mounds.
A few weeks ago, we held our usual celebrations of Mabon at Thornborough and opened the celebration in the usual manner, calling to the spirits of the land and the Four Lords of the Power of the Elements. At the calling of the Lord of the North, the mundane physical world, I received a heavy blow to the chest and many of the circle were weeping towards the end. High energies indeed !
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