Gods of Stonehenge

Myth and Legend at the World's Most Famous Stones

De: J.P. Reedman

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A short look at mythology and folklore connected with Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle, and with other megalithic monuments. Who is the sinister 'Bowed One' and what relationship do the bones of a silver-handed saint have to an Irish deity of healing, mist and dogs? Did a Man in the Moon stare down at Stonehenge, and a female sun ride across the skies in a chariot with spoked wheels...or was it the reverse? Howling blue hags with single eyes bleary as the setting Midwinter Solstice sun; dancing stones drinking at the river; petrified women, wedding guests and hurlers; spirits out of mounds, benign or malign; healing bluestones and Merlin the Wizard with his stones from the West, desconstructed by 'ingenious devices' before being brought to Salisbury Plain. All Folklore mixed with potential folk memory...in which there may be an existing grain of truth about the gods and spirits of ancient Stonehenge.