The greatest tribute a visitor can pay to this beautiful and unique sacred site is to tread gently and to respect the sanctity of the stones, leaving The Longstone exactly as they found it – and might perhaps hope to find it if, or when, visiting again, in this or another lifetime. Parent County [edit | edit source].

were massacred for their beliefs. Probably the Isle of Wight's most popular New Age Metaphysical supply shop selling a wide selection of Crystals, Gemstone and Minerals; Fairies, Dragons and Magical Curiosities; Incense and candles, Books and Cards and lots, lots more even Steampunk!

During Pleistocene glacial periods, sea levels were lower and the present day Solent was part of the valley of the Solent River.

His name may have been "Aruald", "Arwald" or "Atwald" - Bede 's script is often difficult to read.

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Pagan River is displayed on the Mulberry Island USGS quad topo map. And the Saxons and Jutes who later dominated the area are also believed to have used the site as their local parliament. - only to die ten days later. One such powerful bishop was called Wilfred who befriended a man called Caedwalla, a barbarian king of Wessex, a warmonger with revenge on his mind mainly because, as a youth, he had been exiled from Wessex.

Post was not sent - check your email addresses! ( Log Out /  In Roman days it is claimed to have been a widely-renowned centre of the military Mithras bull-worship cult, visited from near and far. This Wiccan group is open to any Pagan with an open heart and mind, whether experienced in the Old Ways or not. The Longstone, in a downland fold above the tiny village of Mottistone on the Isle of Wight, has as many moods as there are days in each year, in the perpetual cycle of death and rebirth that plays out here and roundabout day and night around the ever-turning wheel of each year, over which it has watched since time immemorial. respect them again, for without them we would not be here.

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. They were described as 'the first fruits' of the massacre of the population of the Island, and later canonised collectively as St Arwald, in memory of King Arwald. It's probably not a surprise to find out that in the Early Middle Ages, while the rest of England's inhabitants had been converted to Christianity at sword-point, the Wightwarians, as they were known at the time, were still independently pagan and ruled by a king called Arwald.

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Round bowl, bell and disc barrows of different periods dot the hillsides above, where rises Five Barrows Down (although, in fact, a total of eight barrows are to be found there). Merciless Slaughter Dagrun Wahl of the Warinni is guardian of the stones.

Offerings are almost always to be seen on or around the stones, usually mercifully biodegradable but sometimes regrettably not.

Pagan River is displayed on the Mulberry Island USGS quad topo map. ( Log Out /  The latitude and longitude coordinates of Pagan River are 37.0098703, -76.5682864 and the approximate elevation is unknown feet (unknown meters) above sea level. King Arwald was the last Jutish pagan king who ruled the Isle of Wight in the 7th century and died defending it from a merciless Anglo-Saxon barbarian, making it the last place to be converted to Christianity in England.

King Arwald's unnamed brothers were forced at sword point to convert to Christianity and later canonised as saints and celebrated on St Arwald's Day every 22nd April.

Although not directly under threat and only a couple of hundred yards from an isolated National Trust-owned cottage, the site is beginning to suffer from erosion to its sandy soil from its many thousands of annual visitors and the stones themselves from damage to their age-old lichen, as a result of being climbed and clambered on by the misguided. This blog-driven website is the online home of the Pagan Federation’s Isle of Wight region. The Wihtwara were a spiritual, peaceable race of people who

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While much of England was being converted from paganism to Roman Christianity, the Island was peacefully unaware of the slaughter to come.

“We only truly die when we are forgotten!”. This Wiccan group is open to any Pagan with an open heart and mind, whether experienced in the Old Ways or not.

MERRY MEET, MERRY PART, AND MERRY MEET AGAIN. In 686 A.D the Christian led invasion of Wihtland (Isle of Wight) killed the Pagan islanders, the Wihtwara, because they would not give up their worship to Nature and their Goddess Nerthus. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.

We are Gardnerian Wicca based, but eclectic, using material from many traditions which we find useful, including the wisdom of Druidry.

The regional co-ordinator organises pub moots – monthly meetings – where Pagans of any and all spiritual persuasions can get together informally and exchange ideas, information and/or just have a good-natured chat with like-minded folk. They were connected to nature and worshipped pagan gods like Woden and Thor.

She discovers It was written that he went through the English counties 'by merciless slaughter'. Sign up to hear about all of the exciting things that are happening across the venues on the Isle of Wight.

England during Arwald’s reign was divided into kingdoms controlled by tribal lords forever fighting each other. Change ), The online home of the Pagan Federation on the Isle of Wight. Of the oldest churches in the United States is in this County. If you consider yourself Pagan it’s a great place to meet others with similar beliefs or philosophies in a relaxed social atmosphere.

The Longstone, in a downland fold above the tiny village of Mottistone on the Isle of Wight, has as many moods as there are days in each year, in the perpetual cycle of death and rebirth that plays out here and roundabout day and night around the ever-turning wheel of each year, over which it has watched since time immemorial. In 686 A.D the Christian led invasion of Wihtland (Isle of Wight) killed the Pagan islanders, the Wihtwara, because they would not give up their worship to Nature and their Goddess Nerthus. Picture of the Isle of Wight, a lavish guide book featuring many of artist/author George Brannon’s original engravings: ‘MOTTISTONE: a pretty hamlet nearly shrouded in wood, with a very picturesque church. Fruits of the Massacre

Jutish Iron Spear head from Chessell Down graveyard © Isle of Wight Council. The ancient Brythonic Druids are believed to have met at The Longstone, the most central of their Island sites, before their banishment farther North and West. King Arwald was killed in battle as the last pagan king of the Isle of Wight until the Vikings settled. Dagrun Wahl of the Warinni is guardian of the stones.

Yet at midsummer, with your back to the ocean way below and the rich chalklands all around garlanded in their finest deep greens, yellows and blues, with the hill ponies nudging the stones as they graze and the imposing upright crowned by a tunefully warbling little yellow bird, it is as though the wights are slumbering gently, happy and replete at the feast and comfortable in your company. King Arwald.

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