Celebrating Britain's 5000 Year Old Festival in 2024
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- The celebration of summer solstice is arguably the oldest tradition we have in the British Isles (as anywhere really) and its still going on today. And there's no better place to celebrate it here than at Britain's most famous and yet one of its most mysterious ancient sites - Stonehenge. So I joined 15,000 other people in June 2024 to see what's its like to celebrate an ancient festival in the modern age.
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Ollie, another enjoyable watch, looks like a "fun" festival. I'm just glad that Stonehenge was repaired after the 1985 accident that involved Clark Griswold "Chevy Chase" backing his car into the stones and knocking them all over.....
Thanks to Ollie for all his time, work and posting.
Haha classic. Yeah I forgot all about that.
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Nice video, it always amuses me how the Druids have somehow hijacked the whole Stonehenge thing when it was in fact built at least 2000 years before the Druids even existed!!!
And modern Druidism is essentially barely 200 years old - with totally concocted ceremonies, dress and regalia.
Not been there at Midsummer but I have been there in Midwinter....you meet some cool people..
Thanks Ollie for travelling to the far lands of the South in the UK It, looked like a very charming, good natured and uplifting experience. Many thanks S&J
Stonehenge looks fantastic for sure
Shame it's not in the correct place any more.
Im a full-time vanlifer,, nomad who travels to Stonehenge alot and your video shows some of the best shots ive seen this year. Excellent 👍💯🤟🚐🙏
I was there last year and was really changed in a spiritual way i didn't know existed in me. Unfortunately covid stopped me from attending this year but i will be back, no doubt.
I love watching videos like this. It always cheers me up to see that, no matter how far down the mental slippery dip I might have fallen with the inexorable advancing years, there are still poor sods whose brains have turned to mush at much younger ages. 😉😊
Hahaha I'll take that as a compliment 😁😉
Hawkwind played there in 1984.
What a fine analysis and report of the solstice event. It's a danged good job it wasn't cloudy and raining the whole night through eh? My guess is that you could take a cross-section through any summer pop festival type gathering and you've got your young and old, rich and poor Stonehenge crowd profile right there. Personally I missed the whole "drumming and festival dancing" thing: I was more of an air guitar teenager so no hope for me hahaha I hope someone has the honesty to return your gopro.
At 2:12 thought that was the opening few bars of Rappers Delight 🤣
Hahaha its so similar!
So, was the celebration for the Longest Day or the Shortest Night!
I think both really. Just a way to celebrate the sun doing it's thing
A celebration of complete cobblers. All that is known about the Druids comes from Roman writers who were not the best or most disinterested sources. The Druids were a completely different culture from the people who built Stonehenge. It is not even clear whether Stonehenge is really about the summer solstice. There is a second site at Durrington Walls which may be a better candidate for a place to celebrate the summer solstice (no stones there, though). The druidic cobblers about Stonehenge started in the modern era with William Stukeley (1697-1765). I wish they would leave the stones alone instead of damaging them.
"Pretty sure some stuff made it in though" - mate, on camera you had a joint in mans mouth just a few minutes ago
My birthday! I might be a god/godess, who knows...