Photo: Sue Vincent
They filed into the toothy circle, a long double line, holding hands over the green strip that split them apart.
The stone pillars stood, immobile, ever present, waiting.
There have always been golden fields in all directions. Wild, then cultivated. The rustling of the ripened plants replacing a hush that would otherwise feed unease.
For there will be no voice heard.
No word.
No song.
No shout.
Nothing said.
Just a long line of humility, stepping up the path and through the eye of the ancient circle. Waiting to be cleansed.
To be whole.
To be seen.
To walk on.
Ahead.
Out the other side and down the second path where a widening triangle fanned into the distant horizon, mirroring the measure of relief.
And from the far far spaces, well beyond the hills, the sound of voices, whispers freed, a humming on the breeze.
Na'ama Yehuda 
Walking to one of these ancient sites feels like a pilgrimage… whether that’s the spirit you set out in or not. To stand within the stones… impossible not to feel awe
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I haven’t been to this site, but I have been to some other ancient sites, and I know what you mean. If nothing else, there’s the sense of weighted history upon these places. And it may well also be that the very energies that led to these places being chosen in the first place, persists still. Amazing, isn’t it?
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I’d say the same. That the energy is pre-existing, rather than it being due to a build up of energy over more recent millennia
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Yes, that’s my sense of it, too. Though … who knows. It may well be an and/and … 🙂
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No way of knowing. Except… why honour one place over another?
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Totally! I think there are places that hold energy that people have gravitated toward from time immemorial. Whether the energies of people have added (or detracted) from the energies of these places is a theoretical for me, because I truly don’t know. 🙂 Still, there is palpable energy emanating from some places, that is unmistakable to me. And yes, why would people choose a certain spot over all other possible ones? 🙂
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Agreed 🙂
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😀
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This left me in tears at its beauty, Na’ama.
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Oh, wow. Thank you … for a reader to be moved is a writer’s ultimate satisfaction. It is a beautiful photo of an evocative place, though, so I’m not sure it is only my words at play …
XO
Na’ama
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Perhaps… there are memories too, but your words evoked them.
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XOXO!
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It does feel like a pilgrimage. Beautifully done, Na’ama.
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Thank you, Dale! There is something so immensely evocative about such places, isn’t there? 🙂
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Absolutely!
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🙂
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