But now he sang of the future, of how he would build a house for Eurydice, charming the stones into perfect alignment; of the children they would have, of their names and nicknames and their children's children; of how he would be reconciled with goodly Aristaeus; of the many wedding anniversaries they would celebrate; of their grey old age and all their reminiscings.
Smaller stones in perfect alignment remind the eye of a modern cemetery, but the fact that no bones are left makes it impossible to confirm the true meaning of the strange stones.
Being a henge and stone circle site, astronomical alignments are a common theory to explain the positioning of the stones at Stanton Drew.
MYSTIC Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center "Winter Solstice Walk at Gungywamp," investigate evidence of astronomical alignment in the stone structures.
In Pillar and Moon, you notice the alignment between the stone ball finial on the top of the pillar, and the full moon in the sky: two globes, the same size, set almost at the same level in the picture.
It is possible that the shapes and alignment of the stones, which have an almost geometric precision, had some astronomical significance.
Northwestern Pembrokeshire (including the southern slopes of the Preseli Hills) is especially rich in megalithic remains dolmens, alignments, standing stones, and stone circles.
For Stonehenge, the special day is the summer solstice, when the Sun rises in perfect alignment with several of the stones, signaling the change of season.
In 1998, Johan Reinhard, José Chavez, Constanza Ceruti and a team of collaborators, excavated the Inca ceremonial site located inside the volcano's crater, which is marked by unimpressive rectangular and circular alignments of stones.
Thousands of druids are expected to gather at Stonehenge in Somerset to celebrate the event and witness the sun rising in alignment with the site's ancient stones.
