![]() ![]() Sticking with Vikings, the cyclical nature of Norse mythology, from the beginning of time to Ragnarök and then the birth of a new world sees a more abstract cosmological ring brought into being. The circular and spiritually-significant torques of the ancient Celts and arm rings of Norse warriors see the motif appear again. Then there are stone circles like Avebury, Stonehenge and the Rollright Stones.Īn ancient pagan practice in England, called passing through and under, made use of holes in trees and stones – either natural or man-made – as a healing ritual.Įven looking through holes was a ritual for the Norse, with descriptions and art showing that the forming of a ring shape, by bending the arm and placing a hand at the hip, formed a portal which could be gazed through to see another world or a god, such as Odin. There is too King Arthur’s round table and the sacred geometry of rings as demonstrated at Glastonbury Abbey’s octagon and circle-based design. On a general note to begin with the shape of rings holds an ethereal innate power in and of itself.įrom ring-shaped settlements like the mystical isle of Avalon, thought by some to have been at Glastonbury Tor, to the concentric rings of the harbour at the mythical island of Atlantis, the shape has occupied prime positions in some of the most perplexing and intriguing mysteries of history and mythology.
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