Friday, June 24, 2005

There was this program on Stonehenge on Monday and Tuesday coinciding with the summer soltice. It talked about all the facts that people know about Stonehenge, which are very less in number when compared to the stuffs that experts don't know about, and tried to recreate the rituals that would have taken place 4000 years ago during summer soltice. The programme's main focus was on creating a replica of the Stonehenge but questions from viewers were also answered. The second part of the two part programme was the fun part. Taking reference from the bodies that were preserved in Denmark as pointers, the team of experts designed clothes and with cross reference from other cultures a mock ritual was staged in the new Stonehenge. Before that happened, at sunrise Druids came to the new site and cleansed and did rituals to protect the stones. Nobody knew what, why, how, who performed the rituals. The whole exercise was a very good one. Saved me a trip to Salisbury.