02/06/2009

Stonehenge Memorial

The true purpose of Stonehenge, the famous prehistoric monument, has been discovered. Instead of being a site of worship, as the guidebooks say, it was in fact a giant memorial to their ancestors. This strikes me as a far more elegant truth than any other, and makes me look at the shape in a different way. What was a group of archways now seems to me to be a circle of abstract human figures, arms outstretched and interlocking, watching the sunrise at the Summer Solstice.

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