Country Archive
December sun worship in pagan Ireland
Date: 12/01/2004
Author:
Steenie Harvey
In Ireland, you'll come across plenty of evidence that its prehistoric people marked the Winter Solstice. Older than the Egyptian Pyramids, a huge chambered passage grave at Newgrange in county Meath is mysteriously decorated with solar discs and other cosmic symbols.
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