The Winter Solstice - Clava Cairns
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- The Winter Solstice is truly part of natures magic. The Sun has now made its furthest South position and begins its journey back to the Summer Sun!
Our ancient ancestors created monuments all over the country to celerate this remarkable time of year, the Clava Cairns are some of the most spectacular examples of these ancient structures. Dating back 4000 years!
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We can only wonder at the achievements of our ancestors. You bring it all to life. Thanks for another spectacular video.
Tapadh leat! Our ancestors need to be adored by all!
The red leaves enhance the stones beauty even more.
Aye, the whole day was perfect!
I really, really want to visit Scotland. It’s a dream of mine and the more I watch your videos the more I want to go.
Gotta come Dani!
@@ArranOfAlba 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Missed you Aaran! Good to see you man. You’re a fine storyteller & I always enjoy your videos. May the solstice continue to bring light & magick to our lives.✨ Thanks for bringing us along!
Cheers mate! All the best to you for new beginings but to never forget.
Great to see you back. What a lovely location. Thanks for taking us along and telling of some of the history.
Hey ma man! Ill always be back! 😁
One of my fav places to just sit about. It's been too long since I visited
Wowwww
Lovely stuff. These chambers are always more about rebirth than death. A child would take the name of an ancestor in the chamber. The unwrapping of a gift is the unburying of the ancestors possessions being handed down to the next life.
Beautiful, i have never heard about that! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you . Great to be reminded of a people that were appreciative of the heavens above and our relation to both it and the land . They were so aware . So grateful as am I . Good post .
They were so very very connected my friend.
Aww dam that was my absolute favorite! How breathing! Goosebumps!
Thanks bud!
Have not watched in ages. Love this one mate
Cheers bro! Really glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing video Arran 👍 Very atmospheric and the choice of music was hauntingly good ! A beautiful day with blue sky 💙 ✨. You are fortunate to live near this site !
Thanks Rona! It is an incredible place to unwind! 😁
Magic! ❤️✨
Beautiful gifts of nature and ancient wisdom. Thank you for that moment.
Thanks Natty! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video happy solstice
Thanks bro! 💥
Where you been Sir Arran of Alba?! So good to see you back again! 😊
Lovely vlog from such a beautiful, magical, mystical place! You can feel the presence of our ancestors there, its tangible. Thank you for sharing! 🙏🌻💙
And since you live way up there, and are close by, I’d love you to do a vlog from Culloden…xx
Dewi!! Thanks so much for all your support! I keep all notification off so ive just seen this now! Its such a magical spot, i have plans for Culloden when its the anniversary, im gathering stories from the oldies in the area because not all is clear and the last thing i wanna do is mislead!
Cheers bud, your support means the world!
@@ArranOfAlba Excellent! I’ll look forward to your tales from Culloden Moor when the time comes!
And, nae need to thank me for supporting you… your channels one of my absolute favs. The way you share with us the stories and history of our wonderful country is always engaging, interesting, with such enthusiasm and with a touch of humour! Love it!
Take care 🏴🌻xx
@@dewithistle910 Tapadh Leat! Your kind words mean a lot! Ill never stop following ma passion!
Alba Gu Brath!
@@ArranOfAlba 🏴💙🌻
Great to see you back brother :)
Please stop trying to advertise on my page! 🤣🤣
Great video!! Good to have you back, Happy Yule Arran
Thanks mate!
Good to see u back bud 😊😊
Cheers bud 🤙
Hi Arran - found your channel a few weeks ago. Have enjoyed your videos, love your style and been waiting for you to upload again. So thank you, this is beautiful - Mawlkin, (an ancient Druidess marooned in East Anglia, but at least alongside the largest of the Cambridgeshire 'war' ditches.)
Im happy to have you here my friend! I will always upload again just dont always wanna be on camera! 😁 cheers
The background colours are mad. Amazing as usual ma bro. Have a good Xmas.
Same to you big man!
Sooo, Awesome Arran. Thanks for the tour of such a rad place! You can feel the Ancestors and their Duthchas!
Happy Soltice🌅🙏
It sure it magic mate!
Thanks for this christmas gift.
My pleasure!
Thanks for a very emotionally moving video.
Thanks buddy! Im glad you enjoyed it!
Well hello 👋
Hello 😁
merry Christmas enjoy the videos
Thank you brother!
Thought that was you on Rab Ellen's live stream with Dougie Scott! Was up there in 1999 as the photographer for my mate who was doin his phd on the shadow casting aspects of the stones onto the outer kerb stones of the cairns. Somebody had persuaded Historic Scotland to let them cover over the north east cairn and passage with wood and heavy black plastic to simulate the original form. We were lucky enough to witness the the sun do it's sword of light thing-creeping up the passage as the sun dropped towards the horizon. Spine tinglin stuff! At exactly 2.30pm the sun got to the back wall of the inner chamber and perfectly framed the wee upright rectangular stone on the ground tier (6.07 in your vid). That one's made of quartz and once the sun hit it the whole inner chamber was illuminated with this amazing golden radiant light-absolutely mind blowing! Almost forgot to take photo's....the effect only lasted a few minutes,but will stay with me forever. And that wee stone is forevermore known as "The half past two stone". Cheers from The Debatable Lands-and aw the best for 22.
Wow mate that sounds incredible, I got the chance to chat with those amazing men around the fire. Dougie mentioned that he had covered the cairn as well! Something i must do one day but i think dougie wants to rebuild it! 😁 Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge and dont ever hesitate to help point me in the right direction and maybe we will meet one day! 💥
@@ArranOfAlba Aye,come to think of it,it was Dougie that got that together-unfortunately he missed it as it had been snowing all morning and the sky only cleared to the horizon about an hour before sunset. I can imagine rebuilding it would be on Dougie's "to do" list-he is an amazing font of information,and a hoot and a half. Yer a lucky fecker to live so close by. We were camping up there for nearly a week and spent quite a bit of time in the evenings sitting in the covered cairn-it was warm! Really noticed the difference-the place comes alive at night.....I was doing quite a bit of night time photography,long exposure star trails etc and always felt we were being watched-in a very benign way. Had the same feeling at quite a few other sites I've spent time at-Callanish and Dunino Den were particularly strong. I do like the idea of ritual reuse that Richard Bradley postulated-in the case of Clava that seems to take the form of the local lune's doing shrooms there during the season! Do you go up there at night?
@@alistairwilson5344 Just seen this message now, i never get the reply in my notifications. I've actually spent many a windy nights there the past few weeks. When the Moon shines the place just Illuminates! So crazy that words are useless. I lived in Harris for a while and every chance I had I would go to Callanish as well mate, another place that just sends my bones cold. They left us their spirits it's sad only some can find them, Cheers
My brother blocked your sunset 😅
🤣 it was all planned i reckon!