Summer Solstice 2022

Yesterday was the official summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The day lasted almost sixteen hours in New York and the sun never set in Murmansk, Russia. I woke well before the dawn and went to sleep far past sunset, as the Earth polar cap tipped toward the nearest star 93 million miles away from our home planet.

Five hundred year after the discovery of beer by the Celts the Druid priests gathered the tribes to erect this monolithic bluestone clock to record the rising and setting on the sun and the passage of the stars. To this day modern archaeologists will not attributed this great feat to the Celts, because the true tribe supposedly arrived in Britain in 600 BE before Caeser's reign over Rome.

Fucking Brits haven't even discovered its ancient name.

No one has come even close.

No one.

Not even us remaining Neanderthals.

The Avebury henges followed Stonehenge's creation. By whom no one knows.

Back in 1994 I drank in a good pub at the northern entrance.

I also climbed to the top of the Avesbury Mound.

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Summer Times Blues

Yesterday was the last day of the thrre-day official summer solstice for the northern hemisphere. The day lasted almost sixteen hours in New York and the sun never set in Murmansk, Russia. I woke well before the dawn and went to sleep far past sunset, as the Earth polar cap tipped toward the nearest star 93 million miles away from our home planet.

Five hundred year after the discovery of beer by the Celts the Druid priests gathered the unknown tribes to erect this monolithic bluestone clock to record the rising and setting on the sun and the passage of the stars. To this day modern archaeologists will not attributed this great feat to the Celts, because the true tribe supposedly arrived in Britain in 600BC before Caeser's reign over Rome.

Fucking Brits haven't even discovered its ancient name.

No one has come even close.

No one.

Not even us remaining Neanderthals.

The Avebury henges followed Stonehenge's creation.

Back in 1994 I drank in a good pub at the northern entrance.

I also climbed to the top of the Sillbury Hill.

Scientist have calculated that its construction took five hundred men fifteen years.

And over two seas of beer.

The exact purpose of the hill remains unknown.

The view from the top is good, but nothing special.

Stonehenge has its rivals such as the Hopewell Project in Bangkok

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Or Manhattanhenge in New York.

And who can forget the eternal bliss of Foamhenge in Virginia.

It's now 2:33PM

In Brooklyn.

I am ready for a nap.

Longest day of the year or not.

With my head to the west.

As it should be on the summer solstice.

tNothing like Blue Cheers SUMMERTIME BLUES

THEY WERE ONCE THE LOUDEST BAND IN THE WORLD.

Foamhenge

Stonehenge in Wilshire England has existed as a solar calendar for over 10,000 years. The current stone structures were erected around 5000 years ago. Access to the monoliths was restricted by the English Heritage Commission in 1977, although I can recall visiting the epic steles with a British friend in the 1990s.

Few tourists were on the site. AJ and I looked at each other and shrugged wordlessly that laws were for other people. We wandered amongst the squat stones and no one said anything about our incursion. Times were different in the last century, however the same laws against approaching Stonehenge is in place for its replica Foamhenge in Virginia.

Foamhenge has been a full-sized replica drawing thousands of visitors to Natural Bridge, VA according to Wikipedia.

Sadly the foam hasn't weathered as well as the neolithic monuments of Europe and some of the foam monuments have cracked in half.

Others must be supported by wooden supports once more proving that we can't build them like they used to.don't build them like they used to and to this day scientists can not figure out how Neolithic people constructed Stonehenge without modern technology. The answer is easy. They used Magic.