For the first time since the start of the pandemic, thousands celebrated the summer solstice Tuesday at England’s Stone Age monument, Stonehenge. When the sun appeared on the bright horizon just before 5 a.m. on the longest day of the year, cheers erupted from those in attendance.
About 6,000 people attended the event, according to the Wiltshire County Police Department, which is regularly attended by people who identify as pagans or druids and perform fake rituals.
During the pandemic, the summer and winter solstices at Stonehenge were broadcast online.
At the summer solstice on June 21, the sun rises just behind the so-called Heel Stone, the entrance to the millennia-old, world-famous stone circle, and the sun’s rays fall in the center of the monument. The stones are exactly aligned with the position of the sun on the summer and winter solstices. The two days are believed to have been celebrated at Stonehenge in England for thousands of years.
What the stone colossi of the Neolithic were originally intended for is still unclear. Scientists suspect that Stonehenge could have served as a sanatorium or observatory, for example.
Source: Krone
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