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Littlestone
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Re: Offerings at stones
May 13, 2006, 15:08
>In actual fact offerings are as old as the hills themselves, a need to placate the invisible beyond the physical world...<

Agreed, but offerings made prior to modern times were made by people who knew the deity they were offering to (they may even have been the builders or caretakers of the sacred place itself) and consequently there would have been some sense of 'ownership' of that place by those people.

Not so today. Offerings left at the Swallowhead are left not to the original deity of the place (as no-one knows for sure what that may have been) but rather to the various religions, or belief systems, that the people making the offering adhere to. And therein lies the rub. There is no consensus for the use of 'megalithic' sites and therefore no agreement on how they should be used. If it was a known fact that the Swallowhead was dedicated to the goddess of turnips, and turnips had been offered there continuously from time immemorial, we would not object to the place being overrun with the things today... nor would we be having this discussion.

Were turnips around in Neolithic Britain :-?
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