The great Stone Age monument in England known as Stonehenge is one of the most important prohistoric religious sites in the world. Its great stones stand in a circle, the mystical symbol that represents the secret of life - "what goes around, comes around," like the eternally recurring cycles of the Moon, Sun, and Earth. The circle and the Spiral - endlessly swirling in and out - were the forms choosen for magical dances, and Stonehenge is also known as the Giant's Dance, as if the great standing stones were once superhuman dancers frozen for eternity in mid-step.
The extraordinary effort and skill required to bring the stones to the site, and to construct the monument (between 4,000 and 1,500 BC) with limited technology shows the huge significance it must have had for our ancestors. In this ancient temple open to the sky, the standing stones and the spaces between them are placed with unerring accuracy that aligns with key points in the Sun's course. At Midsummer, the Sun rises directly behind the Hele Stone, pointing a long, blue finger of shadow into the middle of the circle, like a line on some vast and stupendous sundial.