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The Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis, UK
Stone giants
There are other standing stones on the Isle of Lewis, but none more impressive than the Callanish Stones. The entire arrangement forms a cross shape on an area of the Scottish island’s west coast. The stone circle at the centre is thought to be the oldest portion of the pattern, erected roughly 5,000 years ago. Historians aren’t sure what purpose the Callanish Stones served, though there are plenty of theories. One of most prominent of these suggests that the stones formed a kind of astronomical observatory. Folklore on the island goes that the stones were once giants who became petrified when they refused to convert to Christianity.
Stone giants
There are other standing stones on the Isle of Lewis, but none more impressive than the Callanish Stones. The entire arrangement forms a cross shape on an area of the Scottish island’s west coast. The stone circle at the centre is thought to be the oldest portion of the pattern, erected roughly 5,000 years ago. Historians aren’t sure what purpose the Callanish Stones served, though there are plenty of theories. One of most prominent of these suggests that the stones formed a kind of astronomical observatory. Folklore on the island goes that the stones were once giants who became petrified when they refused to convert to Christianity.
Folklore has it that these towering megaliths are giants who were cursed and turned to stone.
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