Sacred Earth Protectors Deliver Prayers for Stonehenge
On Sunday 21th March, a coalition of conscious Earth protectors came to the Stones with love and prayer, delivering messages from all corners of the United Kingdom, demanding protection for the UNESCO World Heritage site and the precious biodiversity of the fragile chalk grassland landscape.
Standing for Stonehenge, in the face of damaging infrastructure development, campaigners from Sacred Earth Activism, the Stonehenge Protection Camp, Earth First and Extinction Rebellion along with concerned local people, brought love, song and banners saying “Defend the Sacred”, “Save Stonehenge”, “Protect Blick Mead”, “No New Roads”, “Stop RIS2” and “Protect our Heritage”; demanding that all construction work be stopped.
The proposed road and tunnel development at Stonehenge is at the intersection of many different campaigns, for the protection of our heritage, our sacred lands, the resting places of our ancestors and our environment. Finishing at the Heel Stone, a peaceful and respectful procession, with hand painted banners and a "Dragon" symbolising the Spirit of Earth awakening, demonstrated these many concerns.
Hatherley, 51, from Somerset said "Digging up our ancestors and destroying our sacred sites - is this really the legacy we want to leave?"
Indra, another of the Earth protectors said: “Stonehenge comes of a time when people revered nature not profit. For thousands of years people have gathered here to celebrate life, we need this place now more than ever to bring us courage and certainty more than we need to get to our destination 10 minutes earlier on a billion-pound expressway”
After the peaceful, respectful and Covid-safe celebration, the banners were taken to be displayed on the main A303 roadway, adjacent to the site, where the support of the local community could be heard with successions of car horns.
While the developers continue to make preparations in the area, for the road and tunnel development, the essential work of sacred activism must also continue to show our solidarity with the land and opposition to its destruction. We support and thank those that walked the paths of our ancestors to show solidarity with Stonehenge.
