Stonehenge
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| “ | In ancient times, 'undreds of years before the dawn of 'istory, there lived an ancient race of people: The Druids. No one was sure who they were, or what they were doing. But their legacy lives on, hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge. | ” |
Stonehenge is a landing-pad for alien spaceships, built by the ancient Druids, in consultation with their alien masters, on a powerful intersection of ley lines running towards Atlantis and El Dorado.
Seriously, Stonehenge is an old structure in the United Kingdom that some believe has supernatural origins and some neopagans think was a place of worship for the "old religion". In actuality it is not known when or for what reason Stonehenge was constructed. Archeologists note the monument is older than the Druid religion which dates from the Iron Age, but this has not kept various theories linking Stonehenge to the Druids from proliferating. This is, however, dispelled by the fact that Stonehenge was built 2000 years before Druids first arrived in the area. While some archeologists would like to think Stonehenge had just a singular purpose, many neopagans believe that it probably had multiple purposes, because it is designed to align with multiple events (such as the lunar cycle).
Something interesting about Stonehenge is that is partly made out of a blue stone called, er, bluestone. Bluestone had to be brought from over a hundred miles away, possibly by sea, or more likely levitated into place by Merlin. Hang on a minute, that can't be right... look -- it's Julian Cope!
