成人快手

Summer 2006 starts at 13.26 hours on June 21st, hopefully the day this post gets published. Bearing today's [20th] awful weather in mind, it's unlikely any punters over at Callanish will be able to see the sun rise through the stones. Even in clear weather, that is actually not what the monument is designed to be used for.

Although we cannot be certain, there is a school of thought which states that the Callanish Stones are a lunar monument. At a certain point in an 18 year cycle, the moon, when viewed from the Stones, will appear to skim a mountain range about 10 miles to the southeast. It will then drift between tops, disappear behind the next one - and magically reappear. The mountain range is colloquially referred to as the Sleeping Beauty Mountain, part of a range of hills in the far north of Eishken, about 3 miles east of Airidh a'Bhruaich. From Callanish, they resemble the form of a reclining woman.

Leaving that to one side, the Callanish Stones are one of the wonders of the ancient world, wrested from the peat, dating back 5,000 years. We can but marvel at the ingenuity of those that built it.