On our way to the Temple...

Seems that the single most-asked question about this World Heritage Site is, "What was its purpose?" Theories abound, from Stonehenge being an observatory, a megalithic-sized calendar, a cemetery, a place of contemplation, a meeting place, a healing center, a temple. Of that particular list, I favor the final two: a healing center and a temple.

Today, appropriately after an early morning Stonehenge access visit and worship with the congregation of a 1,030 year old Christian church in Amesbury, several of us pilgrims walked some of the immense and panoramic Stonehenge Environs. In the photo above, we are moving up the ancient "Avenue" toward the Temple in the distance. As the Salisbury Plain gracefully undulates, the Temple seems to play a game of hide-and-seek, first appearing on the horizon then disappearing from view. As we make our final ascent, those familiar Sarsen trilithons stand visible and majestic.

Thin Places? You bet! Thankfully, from morning till night...just like those Celts of old... :-)