BRYN CELLI DDU, Anglesey, Wales

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Bryn Celli Ddu is an imposing 5000 year old burial-mound, 85 feet in diameter, fully intact and covered with earth.  This is one of the most famous  megalithic sites in the UK and is held in reverence by druids, witches, and those who revere the Earth Mother.

As you approach there is a ditch which encircles the mound and on the left side you can see what appears to be  a stone entryway into the mound with a large standing stone out in front.  When you get close you can see that the entry itself consists of two good sized standing stones on top of which sits a large lentil stone, but it is blocked off.  As for the standing stone, it is a replica with the original in the National Museum of Wales and it is covered with carved wavy patterns.  No-one knows for sure their meaning but they looked like energy lines to me and this is definitely a strong energies place.

Continuing on around the mound you find yet another entrance on the opposite side.  There is a stone lined pathway that leads right to the mound and an open doorway. Looking inside you see a slightly intimidating 27 foot long passageway into the inner chamber. Floor, walls, and ceiling are created from large flat stones and walking down the passage and into the chamber you  really feel as though you have entered a womb.  In fact, this passage is aligned with the rising sun on summer solstice at which time a beam of sunlight (the male energy) shines down the passageway into, and illuminating, the Mother’s womb. The presence of Mother Earth is definitely strong here.  If you open to her you can feel it. 

The chamber itself is about eight or nine feet across, squarish in shape, and is walled and roofed with massive individual stone slabs.  There is one good sized round column-stone inside which goes from floor to ceiling (almost).  It really does look like a petrified tree trunk and was, in fact, thought to be one for awhile.  It has now been proven to just be a cool shaped and textured stone.  That however, does not mean it wasn’t chosen because it looked like a tree and placed in the tomb for that very reason.   Representing The Tree Of Life maybe? 

Looking around the chamber I saw a stone shelf where many people had left seashells as offerings.  In the corner behind the standing stone someone had left a drum for use in rituals, and over the inner doorway the Awen symbol had been drawn onto the stone.  This is an important symbol to druids and there is an active order on the island called the Druid Order Of Anglesey who do use the chamber for celebrating certain events like solstices.

This is a special place and if you can get there and spend time alone in the womb you will be better for it.

Patrick Ford is the author of Stone Journals Journeys to the Stone Circles of Europe

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