Beltane at Thornborough Henge 2008
Sunday 4th May - Starts 1pm
Admission FREE - Everyone Welcome!
At Thornborough Henge, near Ripon, in North Yorkshire, England.
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The Merry Month of May is Upon Us...
A time to celebrate life and love and all things good.
So come on down to Thornborough Henge and help us to bring in the summer in the festive tradition of Beltane!
The Sacred Brigantia Players present a Mystery Play:
The Fall & Rise of John Barleycorn
(with apologies to Robert Burns, for this twist in the tale!)
We invite children coming to the event to bring water pistols
so that they can participate in the Mystery Play!
A short film about Thornborough Henge with good aerial shots
Thornborough Henge older than Pyramids
Article from: bbc.co.uk/north_yorkshire/
An ancient North Yorkshire monument has been recognised as being almost 1,000 years older than the pyramids of Giza.
Researchers at Newcastle University have found the Thornborough Henges are one of the earliest major monuments aligned to the constellation Orion.
The 5,500-year-old earthworks, north of Ripon, and the Egyptian pyramids are thought to have been built to mirror Orion's belt for its religious focus.
Senior lecturer at the university Dr Jan Harding said they used a three dimensional model to confirm the stellar alignments of the henges, which date back to the Neolithic period.
"Thornborough was a sacred landscape, a place of religious worship, and we should try to interpret these astronomical orientations within that context."
"This astronomical association was emphasised by the banks of the henges being coated in brilliant white gypsum."
"Neolithic people surely felt they were at the centre of the very cosmos as they worshipped the heavens above."