a_fairy_chain Mahayana: Zakah: +Mt. Kalmit | | | +Old crossroads | Moat of Hanhofen Castle | | +Hanhofen church | | | Dudenhofen church | | | +City gate | +Mayploe | +Stone basin | +Speyer cathedral 020106 ... silent storm We walked in the woods behind your white country house, getting lost in each other. In a warm embrace on that chilling autumn evening, we felt something magical. Looking up, the stars seemed to be flying, like a chain of fairies over our heads. 020107 ... Mahayana [minuscule silvered butterflies adorning & protecting throat regions... whispered aide memoires that by no means ever shall you misplace your right to be heard] 020504 ... Mahayana Ley Lines: ley lines, or Leys, are alignments of ancient sites stretching across the landscape. ancient sites or holy places may be situated in a straight line ranging from one or two to several miles in length. a ley may be identified simply by an aligned placing of marker sites, or it might be visible on the ground for all or part of its length by the remnants of an old straight track. earth mysteries: ley lines the old straight track: "imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak, as far as the eye could reach, and paid out until it reached the 'high places' of the earth at a number of ridges, banks, and knowls. then visualise a mound, circular earthwork, or clump of trees, planted on these high points, and in low points in the valley other mounds ringed around with water to be seen from a distance. then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals, and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up.... here and there, at two ends of the way, a beacon fire used to lay out the track. with ponds dug on the line, or streams banked up into 'flashes' to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day. all these works exactly on the sighting line." 020504 what's it to you? who go blather from