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Stonehenge - the temple of Avalon

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The south west of England is quite a magical corner. Near Glastonbury you can find a hill called Glastonbury Tor, once the mysterious isle of Avalon, topped by St Michael's Tower. The myths associated with Glastonbury Tor are extraordinary. It has been called a magic mountain, a faeries' glass hill, a Grail castle, an Arthurian hill-fort and much more. There is also the saying that if a rainbow is seen over the Tor, someone has seen the Holy Grail. And then there is Stonehenge, a massive circle of standing stones weighing up to 50 tons each, erected about 4,500 years ago and earthworks in the middle of a green field what is now in the south west of England. These stones have seen many races rise and countless kingdoms fall since an ancient civilisation raised this broken ring of huge, massive and roughly rectangular stones in a field in what is now Wiltshire. Wild theories about this monument have persisted since the Middle Ages, with 12th-century myths crediting ...

Marigold, healing from heaven

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'Marigolds have been used dating back to ancient times. They have  remarkable medicinal properties. Not all marigolds are created equal.  Marigold you find in most home gardens is of the tagetes variety, which are purely ornamental. The marigold variety that delivers health benefits beyond any Placebo Effect is calendula. One of the traditional uses of the leaves ha...