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Post by Sìle on Jun 17, 2011 19:20:06 GMT -1
Druid has to miss Avebury Solstice ... " Druid Keeper of the Stones Terry Dobney who traditionally leads a Pagan greeting to the rising sun will be missing from the Summer Solstice celebration at Avebury on Tuesday." Early birds wanted for 3am Stackpole summer solstice walk ... " Over 30,000 people are expected to greet the dawn at Stonehenge on the longest day of the year, but you don’t have to don white robes and travel to Wiltshire to celebrate the summer solstice.
For the first time ever the National Trust in Wales is opening its doors in the dark of night for people to enjoy midsummer sunrise at a few selected locations. "
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Post by Sìle on Jun 22, 2011 17:19:26 GMT -1
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Post by Brochfael on Jun 23, 2011 11:51:39 GMT -1
If you look at the original guardian article on their website, I've posted a response there.
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Post by dreamguardian on Jun 23, 2011 14:03:03 GMT -1
If you look at the original guardian article on their website, I've posted a response there. What was your comment, mate. I lost the will to live halfway down the first comments page
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Post by redraven on Jun 23, 2011 19:10:26 GMT -1
What was your comment, mate. I lost the will to live halfway down the first comments page Broch's post reads..... On reading this article I was surprised to find it in The Guardian rather than the Daily Mail. Mr Jones demonstrates a judgemental bigotry and paucity of scholarship not generally seen here. The prefix pseudo indicates not real, and therefore when applied to religion would denote that few if any people truly believe in it as with the church of the flying spaghetti monster and the church of the invisible pink unicorn which were set up as satires on fundamentalist Christian attempts to teach creationism and intelligent design in U.S. Schools. Contemporary Paganism, as anyone who has even the most basic contact with it's adherents immediately realises, is manifestly not a satire nor are it's adherents insincere in their belief. It is certainly true that contemporary Paganism is precisely that: contemporary, and can claim only the most tenuous links of inspiration to the Paganisms of ancient times such as the beliefs held by the builders of Stonehenge. however to claim that Stonehenge has no connection to contemporary Paganism is disingeneous and ignorant. Contemporary Paganism emerged from the romantic movement, a response to the enlightenment (See publications such as Triumph of the Moon and Blood and Mistletoe by Prof. Ronald Hutton). Contemporary Druid orders have definitely been holding solstice observations at Stonehenge since 1905 and there are suggestions that celebrations were held there as early as 1867 or even 1810 (See Andy Worthington's Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion, Barbera Bender's Stonehenge: Making Space, Bob Trubshaw's Sacred Places and Adam Stout's Creating Prehistory). As an anthropologist I am bound to a code of professional ethics to ensure the accuracy of my scholarship and publications. I would expect writers in quality newspapers to adhere to a similar professional code. I hope to see an improved quality in Mr Jones writing in future.
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Post by redraven on Jun 23, 2011 19:18:47 GMT -1
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Post by dreamguardian on Jun 26, 2011 9:17:56 GMT -1
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