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Wikipedia: The Externsteine [ˈɛkstɐnʃtaɪnə] are a distinctive rock formation located in the Teutoburger Wald region of northwestern Germany, not far from the city of Detmold at Horn-Bad Meinberg. The formation consists of several tall, narrow columns of rock which rise abruptly from the surrounding wooded hills. The name probably means "stones of the Egge".
Externsteine is a natural outcropping of five sandstone pillars, the tallest of which is 37.5 meters high and form a wall of several hundred meters length, in a region that is otherwise largely devoid of rocks. The pillars have been modified and decorated by humans over the centuries. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of Northern Europe at the time.
It is generally assumed that Externsteine was a center of religious activity for the Teutonic peoples and their predecessors prior to the arrival of Christianity in northern Europe. This notion can be traced back to Hermann Hamelmann (1564).
However, archaeological excavations did not produce any findings earlier than the 11th century other than some Paleolithic and Mesolithic stone tools from before about 10,000 BC.
Whatever its early history, in 1093 the land surrounding the stones was supposedly bought by the Abdinghof monastery of Paderborn, as a questionable inscription inside the Stones indicate. Another dating suggests an early monastery, which might have been founded as early as 815, after the destruction of the Irminsul by Charlemagne. The findings, however, are not yet conclusive, though the dating of 1093 has been proven as false by art historians, dating the relief as early 9th century.
The last pagan inhabitants of the region were Saxons until their defeat and conversion by Charlemagne. Charlemagne is reported to have destroyed the Saxon Irminsul in 772; and Wilhelm Teudt in the 1920s suggested that the location of the Irminsul had been at the Externsteine. In 1933 Teudt joined the Nazi Party and proposed to turn the Externsteine into a "sacred grove" for the commemoration of the ancestors.
Heinrich Himmler was open to the idea, and in 1933 initiated and then presided over the "Externstein Foundation". Interest in the location was furthered by the Nazi Ahnenerbe division within the SS, who studied the stones for their value to Germanic folklore and history.
At the top of the tallest stone is a now-open chamber. Formerly used for sacrifices,[citation needed] little decoration remains apart from one wall with a circular hole shaped into it. Studies have shown that this is some form of calendar. On the exact day each year where Summer turns to Winter, the sun fits perfectly into this hole.
Some Neo-Pagans continue to believe that the Irminsul was located at the Externsteine and identify a bent tree depicted beneath the cross in a 12th-century Christian carving with it. The site has also been of interest to various German nationalist movements over the years, and continues to be a frequently visited point of interest.
Horn Bad Meinberg - Germany, NRW, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Externsteine
These rocks besides their geological history, are regarded by many people as a mystic place and they come here for all kinds of meditation. There was a tent on the meadow and somebody was preparing coffe
Was war das heute für ein unglaublich schöner, erholsamer Tag! Die Kinder waren total beeindruckt von den Felsen, eigentlich unglaublich, dass wie vorher noch nie zusammen dorthin gefahren sind.
Dann noch lecker essen beim Felsenwirt und anschließend einen feinen Eisbecher... So kann der Sommer weitergehen! *seufz*
Horn Bad Meinberg - Germany, NRW, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Externsteine
Early morning light reached only the top of the rocks and the forest behind stayd in a cool misty shade.
Mamiya Sekor 105 -210 mm/ 4.0
The Externsteine is a distinctive sandstone rock formation located in the Teutoburg Forest, near the town of Horn-Bad Meinberg in the Lippe district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The formation is a tor consisting of several tall, narrow columns of rock which rise abruptly from the surrounding wooded hills.
In a popular tradition going back to an idea proposed to Hermann Hamelmann in 1564, the Externsteine are identified as a sacred site of the pagan Saxons, and the location of the Irminsul idol destroyed by Charlemagne; there is however no archaeological evidence that would confirm the site's use during the relevant period. The stones were used as the site of a hermitage from the early 9th century, and by at least the high medieval period were the site of a Christian chapel. The Externsteine relief is a medieval depiction of the Descent from the Cross.
De Externsteine zijn een formatie van zandstenen in het Teutoburgerwoud in Duitsland, niet ver van de stad Detmold. De formatie bestaat uit enkele lange stenen, die abrupt uit het heuvelachtige landschap oprijzen. De stenen zijn van zandsteen en zijn ontstaan in het Krijt, ongeveer 120 miljoen jaar geleden. Deze bezienswaardigheid in Noordrijn-Westfalen is als natuurmonument alleen al indrukwekkend, doch er is ook nog een raadsel aan deze rotsformatie verbonden. Dit komt omdat er sporen van menselijk gebruik uit de middeleeuwen, mogelijk zelfs uit de prehistorie, op zijn teruggevonden.
Bron wikipedia
model:
bokogreat-stock.deviantart.com/art/That-Man-198361209
-pictures from the past
-wotan at work
-wisdom
i remember some articles about wotan as something like a dark force. but my own experience from "wode" is something else. it has to do with the deep rooted spirituality, love for mother nature...you can only talk in poetry when you talk about him.
the best description i found was in a book about german mythology from voenix alias thomas vömel ("weltenesche- eschenwelten").
nordische mythologie:
www.lokis-mythologie.de/Nordische Mythologie.html
The Externsteine is a row of large rock formations in the Teutoburger Wald near Detmold in the Lippe district of North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. They are particularly noteworthy as there are few other large rocks in this part of Germany. Historically and culturally the stones have been linked to Saxon paganism, the irminsul, Charlemagne, Goethe, German nationalism, and Nazi propaganda.
music:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y7QEthfjro
tree:
www.flickr.com/photos/eddi_07/6314397450/in/photostream
all the talk is a speech to yourself.
destroy yourself that you can hear the silence within.
geburtskanal, selbstgeburt, transformation