SUMMER SOLSTICE | MIDSUMMER | Ancient Spiritual Meaning | Sites, Celebrations | Stonehenge

Take a visually stunning, guided journey through the ancient sites, traditions, and myths of the summer solstice and midsummer to understand their deeper spiritual meaning and relevance today - with a section dedicated to Stonehenge, which is the most famous ancient site aligned to summer solstice.

In this video, I delve into the celebration of the summer solstice throughout history. I give many examples of ancient sites aligned to it, exploring the symbolism contained in some of the most amazing examples, including Stonehenge in Britain, the Sphinx and Great Pyramids in Egypt, Ales Stenar and similar sun ships in Northern Europe. I talk about how its celebration was an important part of an ancient religion of the sun that spread to different parts of the world in prehistory, exploring its symbolic relationship to an epic spiritual journey that begins in darkness before returning to the light.

The summer solstice, the time of most light in the year, was one of the largest religious occasions in pre-Christian times. Ancient cultures across most of the world venerated the sun at the summer solstice and aligned some of their greatest sites to it. Many thousands still honor it according to their ancient traditions, especially in Europe where it is known as midsummer. Why is the summer solstice such an important event and what is its spiritual meaning?

As part of this video, I discuss some original theories put forward by myself and my husband Mark including:
The symbolic meaning of Stonehenge's design and its purpose as an Ancient Portal Site, as part of our Ancient Europe OBE Theory.
The symbolic meaning of the summer solstice alignment at the Great Pyramids and Sphinx.
The symbolic meaning of Ales Stenar and other ancient stone ship settings, and their possible ritual purpose.
The symbolic meaning of the maypole and its relationship to the design of ancient sites.
The deeper meaning of the halo and flower wreath.
How the annual journey of the sun was used in ancient religions to symbolize the path to enlightenment (our Sacred Sun Path Theory).
That these ancient sites and traditions were connected as part of a now lost religion we call the Religion of the Sun.

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This video is part of a series about the spiritual meaning of the solstices and equinoxes. You can watch the other videos in this series here:

Winter solstice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhU-bw0gPI
Spring equinox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLdf5jW9IhQ

I’ll be making a video about the autumn equinox in the coming months.

My website: https://sakrosawel.com/

My husband’s book (which I helped co-author) which discusses the spiritual meaning of the summer solstice and ancient sites aligned to it in detail, as well as how to celebrate it:

Ancient Solstice https://sakrosawel.com/ancient-solstice/

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Contents of this video:

Introduction 00:00
What is the Summer Solstice? 02:16
Why People Worshiped the Sun 03:14
Life of the Sun God 04:32
Modern Celebrations 06:28
Meaning of the Maypole 08:02
Sites With Summer Solstice Alignments 10:36
Stonehenge Symbolism 13:55
Great Pyramids and Sphinx Meaning 29:01
Ales Stenar and Sun Ships 37:38
Ancient Texts and Traditions 45:30
Hinduism 45:43
Mithraism 46:57
Jesus, the Essenes and Gnosticism 49:56
Meaning of the Flower Wreath 56:17
Conclusion 56:47
More Information 59:42