The solstice sun is up and here where we are summer has arrived.
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Members of the Ancient Order of Druids celebrate the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, Stonehenge, 22 June 1979.
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If anyone wants to watch the solstice sunrise over Stonehenge, the English heritage twitter broadcast is still live, just any case anyone needs something calming to watch:
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Sunrise on the winter solstice.
by @Climatologist49
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Solstice sunrise is approaching and the moon is hanging around to watch.
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"The World of Stonehenge", Julian Bell
Such broad-brush lyricism comes with an elegiac rhetoric. The Mesolithic salmon-fishers by those rushing streams were, the curators assure us, still ‘working with nature’, leading ‘successful lives’ that were reabsorbed by their environment. The pendant, however, witnessed an age when ‘skirmishes, raids and large clashes of trained warriors became a grim fact of life’ and when ‘damage was wrought to both bodies and objects, including frequent ritual deposition of metalwork in watery locations.’ (It is preceded by bronze weapons and shattered bones from a battle fought in Brandenburg around 1250 bce.) The moral itinerary crossing the eight intervening millennia takes many turns but runs prevailingly downhill. Farming, coming to the archipelago around 4000 bce, created distinctions between wild and tamed land, an aspect of this new take on space being the place-making practice of stone circle erection which ‘drew together large numbers of people in works of collaboration and creativity’. But ‘growing inequality and social differentiation’ gradually gathered force, eroding their fellow feeling. From monuments that all could share in, creative initiative switched in the second millennium bce to metal finery meant exclusively for powerful individuals. A sorry tale about Britain’s recent centuries is extended to cover its remoter past: from around 1500 bce, ‘acts of enclosure controlled access to the most important sites, cemeteries and agricultural land.’
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Summer solistice, Krakow
Photograph: Jan Graczynski
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The 2022 summer solstice arrives at 5:14 a.m. Eastern time. At this precise moment the sun appears directly over the Tropic of Cancer — as far north as it appears in the sky all year.
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Summer Solstice
Today is Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Emisphere!
Stonehenge – Image from Internet
This day is celebrated since thousands of years ago and the celebrations involved sumptuos and joyful feasts, lighting bonfires at night to ward off dark forces and evil, chanting, playing music, and dancing, recreating our bound with Nature.
Many today will meet in Stonehenge to…
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My first Welsh mountain, Yr Wyddfa. The layers are chef’s kiss.
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