Questing at God's Gift Ltd ~ The Avebury Swan-Serpent hybrid.
Background
In his book Cygnus Mystery, Andrew Collins discusses the concept and the winged serpent and
examines some important sites and references. One of the sites mentioned is Avebury, where the 72 remaining stones stand. Andy was interested in the findings of John Wakefield, who in his book Legendary Landscapes: secrets of Ancient Wiltshire Revealed, identified a possible swan-serpent carving on one of the standing stones. The line drawing in Wakefield’s book is clearing indicative of swans head, with a strong impression of a serpent body or a winged serpent.
We wanted to locate the carvings to see for ourselves if these were indeed natural effects or purposely carved. From the texts we had, It was impossible to identify which of the stones was the one know as # 25s. We knew the stone was in Kennett Avenue, but more than this had not been revealed.
Avebury
It was a cold and very windy day in Avebury (October 2006), so we had the Stones pretty much to ourselves. Our questing began with walking through the stones and meditating on the images we had seen. We looked at some of the stones carefully and waited to see which stones we were drawn to.
We had no intention of searching through all the stones, the task would have been too much for such a cold and windy day. We ran our hands over the stones noticing the different temperatures and energies emanating from them.
It was then that we became aware of two small carvings, or at least they appeared to us as carvings. We thought maybe we had managed to trace the carving that Wakefield referred to and photographed them. At this point we abandoned our search in favour of a warm fire and real ale. We contacted Andy and Sue Collins and arranged to meet them at Avebury to verify
the carvings.
It was during this second trip , we found the location of the original carvings, they happened to be on the next standing stone to the ones we had identified!
The proximity of the carvings and the similarities adds weight to the argument that these carvings are not natural occurrences and were created, suggesting the Avebury standing stones are linked to the winged serpent concept
