#Callanish

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Callanish Standing Stones

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Calanais Standing Stones Isle of Lewis

An extraordinary cross-shaped setting of stones erected 5,000 years ago. They predate Stonehenge and more than two thousand years olde the Egyptian pyramids, they are thought to have been an important place for rituals.

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Outstanding in their field: Sunset over Callanish, courtesy of John Lawrie.

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[victusinveritas]

Callanish in the snow

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Callanais (Callanish) standing stones, Lewis, Scotland

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[ukdamo]

The Callanish Stones

Nikki Robson

July. Summer on the island

muffles in scarves.

Merino-socked, Berghaus-booted,

swap cocoon of car

for hilly slither. Pilgrim-trail

with sodden strangers,

step in time to the cadence of rain.

White-trainered Americans patter: there isn’t a bus,

Earl, I can’t believe there isn’t a bus.

Even taped seams leak. Cold as

Lewisian gneiss, circle

the circle of Neolithic ritual.

Reach out, for Callanish grants

what Stonehenge forbids:

it feels like wet stone.

On the downhill squelch,

the final syllable’s a sneeze.

I buy a fridge magnet.

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#callanish #megalith #moon https://www.instagram.com/p/Cetrs0KsU7h/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nickjb]

I made some videos!

I'm visiting the Isle of Lewis at the moment, and spent most of today at the Calanais standing stones. Here's a couple of videos I made, talking about them and art and stories we pass on across the generations.

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callanish standing stones by Steve Adams

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Callanish stones, Isle of Lewis.

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📷 calco macleod

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Loch Roag, Callanish. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You can see the weather changing, there's a wind whipping up and the odd spot of rain is falling.

This body of water on the West Coast of Lewis, is a large sea loch, divided into East and West by the island of Great Bernera and other smaller islands. Its waters are said to be very clear and home to salmon and mussel farms, I didn't venture far from the stones and it's visitor centre, electing to stay dry and warm as I await the bus back to Stornoway.

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Callanish Standing Stones (Isle of Lewis, Scotland) reaching for a dramatic sky. :: [h/t Ian Sanders]

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“The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of this scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distance. This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is in the color blue.

For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains.” ― Rebecca Solnit

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Callanish Stones, Isle of Lewis, Scotland

From “Contemplation and Garden of Memory”

Photo by Takeshi Shikama

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