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Though beer has become a purely recreational drink over the last century and a half, as changes in food production, water management, and attitudes towards alcohol have phased it out of daily life, for many of our ancestors it was essential – as sacred as fire, bread, and the other building blocks of civilised life.
There’s something about the solstices that seems to connect with a deep, fundamental part of the human psyche. The solstice is a moment where the world seems to hold its breath, the sun hung motionless overhead or hidden below the horizon, before it dives across the threshold of one side of the year to the other: light to dark and dark to light.
Siobhan Ball introduces readers to the history and folklore of the humble lentil, a legume associated with prosperity, good luck, and cures for hangovers, and offers a recipe for a delicious spiced lentil soup.
The only complete Neolithic cursus to be found in the British Isles to date has been located in Isle of Arran in Southwest Scotland in the Firth of Clyde
Wood henges are much less impressive to modern observers of the sites but are critical for understanding ritual practice in the Neolithic. Recent findings also tell us how long such monuments took to build.