From Saint Patricks Chair/Boheh Stone the sun seems to roll down the Croagh Patrick mountain at Lunasa.
The declination of the setting sun matches the slope of the mountain and the Boheh stone is heavily decorated with cup and ring marks. Petrglyphs of another style to the passage tomb builders.
The passage tombs that align to the winter solstices and equinoxes are the tribal centres of one ethnicity in Ireland, the highest in status. The other ethnicities couldnt muster the manpower to anchor themselves to the sacredness in the landscape in the same way. So they picked places where the landscape seemed to be particularly or spectacularly sacred.
In marsh land near Croagh Patrick the winter solstice can be observed at standing stones and an earth work. As the low winter sun sets at 2pm it seems to rest on the top of the phallic shaped stone before disapearing into a V in the mountains leaving the site in the shadow of the mountain.
The experience has a unique feeling. Its so natural its like humans never existed and theres a sense timeless magic and extreme cold. It could almost be the cold before the big bang or it could be cold because its the winter solstice and we are all knee deep in water.
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