2014 Stonehenge Summer Solstice + Druid Ceremony

Happy Solstice Megalithomaniacs!
www.megalithomania.co.uk - A Summer Solstice visit to Stonehenge to meet up with Druids, Pagans, and around 36,000 revellers to celebrate the longest day. Interviews with Arthur Pendragon, Rollo Maughfling and Simon Banton. Help them stop the blocking of the local byways that have been used for decades by going here: www.warband.org.uk
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[@HexNottingham]

Summer Solstice 2014 Was a great year at the Giants Dance. That was the first year I was permitted to lead the people in a three note Awen chant during the Sunset Ceremony in the centre of the Stones. Thousands of you chanted along, and you sounded so absolutely brilliant. I so wish to find a video of this moment one day. The audio of my drum came out great in this video. Many thanks. Rest in Peace Lady Donna. Blessed Be. /|\

[@jaenmartens5697]

Thank you! Happy Solstice from California

[@SASculptor]

I've got to go to one of these someday. Great video!

[@movingtothesun177]

thank you for sharing this with the rest of the world who couldn't be there with you! sending much love from the U.S.

[@scruffybonbon5788]

the scale of it all is inspiring as all get out

[@terrymckenna3382]

That was the best sunrise ive seen there. Ive been each one since 91

[@myboythom]

gr8 sunrise this year i wasn't at the stones but i was in anglesey to see it....bang on for thee 30th anniversary since the last fest....and numbers seem to be growing at solstice each year......hopes for getting our festival back....yeah i know when hell freezes over....one can hope eh!...HOPE....

[@maxwell1470]

What a beautiful site!

[@rosettebraeken9689]

I was there on te summersolstice. Lovely!

[@Moonwitch1996]

I didn't even know that Druids were real... I learn something new everyday.

[@emigr07]

Lovely!

[@sallyclayton5163]

that is great! i was a bit upset at the graffiti on one of the standing stones on the periphery of the site. i do hope to visit Stonehenge one day.

[@movingtothesun177]

maybe it was chalk? i don't know, but at least they seemed to be messages of love and peace

[@connorward3643]

Me too. I'm 12 and I'm wiccan, but I'm already making plans to go to the StoneHenge.

[@indianmilitary]

This famous temple is the well-known stonehenge. It has been carbon-dated to be of 2000 B. C. The temple has astronomical marking to chart the raising and setting of the sun and moon. Its presiding deity used to be taken in a procession to the Avon river three miles away. The deity was so consecrated as to be illumined by the rising sun’s rays on the longest day. These are all hindu Vedic traditions. Ancient churches throughout Great Britain and Europe are astronomically oriented which proves that they are captured Hindu temples since Hindus were the only people known to be shaping their lives day after day on astronomical considerations at that remote age. The information about the Stonehenge and its above-mentioned implications is recorded in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Source: Global existence of Hindu/vedic culture/civilization - Stephen Knapp The Russian Stonehenge more grander and much older than the British Stonehenge was unearthed at Arkaim, Cheliabinsk, at the Urals. Putin went to visit the site, when they found the ancient Hindu/Vedic Swastika symbol . Source. STONEHENGE OF ARKAIM RUSSIA - CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL But western historians over brandy and cigars wrote trillions of words fabricating history about Stonehenge how their ancestors (White ancestors) were so advanced. LOL. Well, their ancestors were Hindu/Vedic people (Druids/Celts) from Indian civilization (Present day India). Descendants of these Hindu/vedic people were called as "Pagans" by Vatican cult which is just 20 centuries old. Islam is just 14 centuries old but always remember that Hinduism is almost 120 centuries.old. To keep long HIS STORY short Every advanced civilization of this world were founded by Hindu/vedic people Sumerian, Greek, Mayan, Aztec, Inca, Roman, Indus valley etc Every language is an offshoot of Hindu/Vedic language -SANSKRIT Every religion is an offshoot of Hinduism. If you compare our Vedic puranas written down in 5000 BC (and oral tradition before that), just 20 centuries old Christianity and 14 centuries old Islam lifted lot of their ideas and concepts from Hinduism eg OM (Hinduism), ShalOM, Amen, 786 (Islam) or whatever. eg, Manu with a huge boat saving the world (Hinduism), Noah is doing the same thing (Christianity). eg. The so called star of david on Israeli flag is nothing but South Indian Dravidian emblem of six pointed star. The six point star below is from a 7000 year old dravidian temple.(Southern part of India) eg, We all know that Jesus christ studied science, meditation, philosophy in India before suddenly appearing in Jerusalem Every body is a descendant of Hindu/Vedic civilization.. Both Jews and Muhammad's family originated from Hindu/Vedic India (Irony is that they originated from the same state called Kerala. Ancestors of both Jews and Muhammad were called Namboodiri Brahmins of Kerala.(South India) Source: Hindu/Vedic civilization is the mother of all civilizations - Ajith Vadakayil We have to look at 4 proofs 1. Genetic evidence - According to a recent racial study (The History and Geography of Human Genes by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza ), it has been confirmed that all people of Europe, the Middle East, and India belong to a single Caucasian type race. This means that they had to have come from the same source. Thus, we are all descendants of this great Hindu/ Vedic culture, the center of which is India. 2. Archaeological evidence - Plenty (given by both PN OAK and Stephen knapp). For instance a. An archaeological evidence in the form of a 32,000 yr old man-lion carved out of a mammoth tusk was exhibited in a museum in the town of Ulm in southern Germany recently. The man-lion sculpture is obviously the Nara-Simha incarnation of divinity in Vedic culture. Obviously the deity had a mace in hand.The scientific dating of this find with the carbon-14 method dated this sculpture to about 32,000 yrs old, making it the oldest existing find of a figurative sculpture of the world. This is one additional proof of Germany and in fact the whole of Europe having been part of the Vedic world). Since Germans constitute the Vedic "Daitya" community, it is but proper that the Nara-simha i.e. Man-Lion idol should be found there. Because Prahlad was the son of the Daitya ruler Hiranyakashyap. The latter stopped son Prahlad from engaging in divine contemplation. Sensing danger to Prahlad's life God incarnated in the form of a Man-Lion (Narasimha) and killed the tyrant Daitya king. That is a Vedic legend) b. According to Stephen Knapp- The Hindu temples abounded in ancient Britain when Vedic culture pervaded the West. It has been already explained above that place-names ending in ‘shire’ testify to the existence of Shiva temples. Ancient Hindu temples lie in unrecognizable ruins throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Christian fanaticism prevents modern European scholars from publicizing them. One such famous temple existed on the Hill of Tara, alias Taragarh, (in today’s Indian parlance), in Ireland. The Hill of Tara consequently a sacred site on which Sanskrit-speaking Hindu Kshatriya kings used to be crowned for centuries. A 5000 years-old Vedic temple was discovered late in 1997 A. D. in Stanton Drew village in Somerset. 3. Etymological evidence. Just three examples to keep it short - a. Godfrey Higgin’s book titled “The Celtic Druids” leads valuable evidence indicating that Hindu had colonized the British isles long before the Roman conquest. That book, published in 1829 A. D. is available in the British Museum library in London. Under Roman rule London was known as Londonium. This is a corruption of the much ancient Sanskrit terms Nondanium signifying a pleasing place. b. Sanskrit: Skanda + Naviya ->Skanda is the son of Lord Siva. Naviya is Sanskrit for naval settlement. Scandinavians were the mariner descendants of the Vedic ksatriyas who worshipped Skanda. c. Hey Germans, your own popular airliner "Lufthansa" has got it's name from the sanskrit derived term "lufthansa" meaning in sanskrit "Lupt-Hansa"... that means "a rare-bird-to-see"......... This is just an instance to show, Sanskrit is the Mother of all. Not only german but, most of them. 4, Vedic puranas - “There are eighteen Puranas and sub-Puranas in Sanskrit. According to them, only those who settled on the high mountains of Central Asia and around the Caspian Sea, after the end of the fourth ice age, survived from the glaciers and deluge. During the period from the end of the fourth ice age and the great deluge, there were 12 great wars for the mastery over the globe. They divided the global regions into two parts. The worshipers of the beneficial forces of nature, or Devas, settled from the Caspian Sea to the eastern ocean, and the worshipers of the evil forces of nature occupied the land to the west of the Caspian Sea. These became known as the Assyrians (Asuras), Daityas (Dutch), Daiteyas (Deutch or German), Danavas (Danes), and Danutusahs (Celts). Some of them migrated to the American continent. The Mayans, Toltecs, and the rulers of Palanque (Patalalanke), are considered to be the Asuras who migrated to the Patala (land below), or the land of immortals, Amaraka. Secondary source: Global existence of Vedic culture by Stephen knapp. To keep it short -one example - How Hindu/vedic people founded greek civilization - Edward Pockoke wrote in "India in Greece" book “The people or clans of Magadha were styled as Grahika with king’s residence area in the city called Raj-Grihi. After Jarasandha’s death his clan Grihikas moved to Greece giving the name of Grihik-Desh to Graikos to Greece. The clans of Magadha settled in North and called their country Magadan to Magadhania to Makedonia to Macedonia.” These Indian migrants included poets, philosophers and scientists also and they founded cities in Mediterranean. Source: Global existence of Hindu/vedic culture/civilization - Stephen Knapp

[@fredkay6743]

First of all, I find your comment to be quite laughable considering the shear amount of errors you made. First of all, Stonehenge has been dated to as far back as 3100BC and peaked somewhere around 2500BC and has nothing to do with Hinduism or Vedic traditions. It was not built by Hindus at all, it was built by Native Britons whom had their own culture and religions/cultures. Just because there are a couple similarities concerning astronomical markings between one culture and the next it does not mean it was the result of the same culture. Secondly but relating to my first point, the natives of Britain at that time were largely isolated from the rest of the world and had been since the last Ice Age 10,000BC. If Stonehenge had been built by Hindus, then explain how because surely Hindus must have had time machines. Hinduism wasn't a thing until 1750BC, not 5000BC as you seem to claim. Stonehenge was built at least a thousand years before Hinduism even started so explain to me how you made this connection?

[@fredkay6743]

My third point is about your so called "Russian Stonehenge". There's no such thing as a Russian Stonehenge. Arkaim is a prehistoric settlement much like the hillforts of England. I took the liberty of researching a bit about Arkaim and found no information supporting your claim, put simply, so there is no Russian Stonehenge and you simply lied about it. Furthermore, Arkaim is nowhere near as old as Stonehenge. You claim and I quote " The Russian Stonehenge more grander and much older than the British Stonehenge", Arkaim is at best 1700BC which is 300 years after the date YOU claimed to be when Stonehenge was built so clearly you have no idea about how dating works. Also, Stonehenge is HUGE and it isn't just a stone circle. Its surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch (a part of the original structure) and a wide causeway which stretches out for about a mile. It is surrounded by a complex of burial mounds, structures and enclosures which is all linked to the Stonehenge monument. Arkaim is simply just another settlement, nothing too special about it.

[@fredkay6743]

There are many other errors you made but unfortunately I can not be bothered to point them out, actually to be honest most of what you said is wrong and without foundation. Put simply, I have better things to do than discuss errors with someone who is racist towards white civilisations and who thinks that all cultures came from a people (Vedic) who's culture is younger than the Indus Valley cultures, the older Andronovo cultures which in turn was based around the even older Yamna Cultures. Celtic/Druidic cultures evolved from the Danube Cultures of Southern Europe (3000BC to 2500BC) which predates both Indus Valley cultures and indeed the Vedic culture. So everything else you wrote is now completely invalid information.

[@bendream544]

It still all gibberish anyway

[@tiamat2009yt]

Jeez... to paraphrase Chief Wiggum: "how many henges do you shemales need?"

[@Sam-no8tt]

what is the druid smoking?

[@Lululila67]

No Samhain gathering?:(

[@tiamat2009yt]

What the hell happened... did broadmoor open the gates or something?

[@sharpteeth17x929yw]

Has anyone looked into the copper pyramid?.....to sit in a copper pyramid is to work wonder in meditation and healing !

[@mkaralis5766]

About druids - my comment for ...Islamists here.

[@oceansurfer100]

I wish they didn't try so hard to look weird. I mean why they can't look and dress like normal ordinary people and be pagans, druids, witches or whatever their beliefs are. Being pagan, Wiccan, Druid, witch doesn't mean to dress, look and behave weird.

[@tiamat2009yt]

1987greenman Tradition? So they were using tablets to record the ceremony for uploading to youtube in neolithic times?

[@tommywest684]

If the world were mostly Pagan or some other faith we would all think Christian priest dressed and behaved oddly wouldn't we? Though as a Pagan I gotta say I cringe a little every time I meet someone dressed in all black who tells me they are Pagan. It certainly is not a requirement and often leads to further stereotypes.

[@WhoAmi-kt1qb]

dressing up is fun

[@rappersdelight3064]

Positive vibes coming your way !!!!!

[@bendream544]

Just like to point out that fake arthur's so-called ceremonies are null and void because he is as much a part of the corporate world as everything he claims to fight. And his bullshit claims of ancestral descendance from whoever are laughable in the extreme. Should be boycotting the corporate Stonehenge instead of tucking into the fare dished up at the stones these days, twat,oh and hes a womaniser as well