June 22 and the mystery of the stonehenge

June 20 or 22 just passed rdinarily to most of us in the Pjilippines. Not concerned that this date had some astrological significance. Yes the day of the summer solstice. What is solstice? It is the time of year when the sun is farthest from the equator to the north- summer solstice And when the sun is farthest from the equator in the south - the winter solstice, December 21 or 22. Solstice happened twice a year. So what? A few months back I was so surprised a friend of mine, Obet the fellow who has never traveled beyond his hometown in Pasig City. I saw him by his picture in his facebook account like real pushing up the Stonehenge, yes, the real Stonehenge in the British United Kingdom. None of his friends knew he was leaving for the UK as a foreign worker. Now his friends call it the strange twist of the OFW phenomena. Anyway what of the Stonehenge? The United Nations had identified it as a protected World Heritage and at present a major tourist attraction in the United Kingdom. Well it has been such for a long long time. Today the summer solstice day the Stonehenge structure has some astrological strange meanings. Because until this day British expert anthropologists and geologists and even astrologers have not concluded with finality why the stone structure was there who built it and what was the purpose of the structure, that is estimated to be more than four thousand years old. There were some expert sugesstions as to the historical purpose of the Stonehenge. And among the most credible and coceivable accounts are- that it was built as a religious site, a burial site and as an astrological calendar. A calendar since at one point in the stone structure where some stones are aligned directly pointing to the morning sunrise and the stone's shadows directly aligned to the sun, most likely intended to tell the people it is mid-summer
(solstice) and the weather may start to change for whatever purpose. Of course not our present day climate change. To many of us in the Philippines the Stonehenge is mere picture we saw in calendars and souvenir cards and in our internet websites because majority of us have not gone there and may never in our lifetime go there ta da. # Mel bye