I just had a strange msg from a lady who wiccasplained to me that she was confused as to why I keep sharing pictures of stone circles and standing stones. She seemed to think that stone circles were made by druids and Celtic people so have nothing to do with Woden / Odin and for me to keep suggesting that there was a connection was cultural appropropriation (lolol). My reply is as follows:
Firstly, the Germanic Englisc folk took this land by the glorious action of heroes who wielded their mighty swords and spears making England the land and people we know today. We can appropriate whatever we want........... Secondly, most of the standing stones and stone circles were built by neolithic people BEFORE our Aryan / Celtic / Druid / P.I.E. ancestors even stepped foot on these shores. So,the celtic druids have no more claim to them than us, though they did use them as well.
When our Aryan Englisc ancestors started to live here, forming the proto Englisc kingdoms they changed the names of all the standing stones and stone circles etc and used them for the worship of our own Gods. (as did the later vikings when they came). The stone monuments were considered a place of power that helped us build a spiritual connection to the afterlife / underworld / hidden world. Odinists still do this, to this day all over England. The point being that these stones stay in the same place for many thousands of years, be they naturally forming or created by man. Over the eons, so many ashes of our ancestors are spread beneath the dirt and so many people use the stones to make a spiritual connection to our ancestors, the Gods and the natural world that these stones become a place of power with a strong connection to the afterlife. When we perform blot here we know that a thousand years ago our ancestors did as we are doing and in a thousand years from now our descendants will also be doing the same. We thank the stones and the land wights for giving us such sacred places.
Examples of how we changed the names of the stone monuments include Weyland the smithy monument and the famous Stanton Drew Stone Circle in Somerset. The name 'Stanton' is from the Old English for stone enclosure / settlement. There is also a Stanton Moor in Derbyshire with several stone circles and burial mounds nearby. I would aso draw your attention to the famous standing stones that now mark the burial of Horsa in Kent. Hengist & Horsa being the brothers that can arguably be called the founding fathers of England.
The picture is Aggle Rock in Swanage Dorset. A natural formation used by our Anglo Saxon ancestors for cremation ceremonies and for ritual going back several thousand years by other celtic and neolithic folk bwere them too. The name 'Aggle' comes from an Old English word for 'wobbly'.
