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Le Ménec alignments, Karnag (Carnac), Breizh 2017.

The small villages of Carnac and Kerzerho in northwestern France🇨🇵 are famous for the Carnac stones, thousands of prehistoric standing stones spread across three alignments: Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan. They are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites🏛️ consisting of stone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli (burial mounds) and single menhirs (standing stones). More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local granite🧊 and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, and form the largest such collection in the world. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BCE, but some may date to as early as 4500 BCE, which would make them close to 7.000 years old. Although the stones date from much older times, modern myths were formed which resulted from 1st century AD Roman and later Christian occupations. A Christian myth associated with the stones held that they were pagan soldiers⚔️ in pursuit of Pope Cornelius when he turned them to stone. There are some own local versions of the Arthurian cycle. Local tradition claims that the reason they stand in such perfectly straight lines is that they are a Roman legion🗡️ turned to stone by Merlin🎆. -- #Carnac #Karnak #France #Kerzerho #Menec #Kermario #Kerlesan #megalith #megalithic #menhir #granite #preceltic #bce #christian #christianmyth #pagans #paganworship #pagansites #arthurian #arthuriancycle #burialmounds #stonetombs #tumuli #prehistoric #prehistoricsites #Brittany #Bretagne #Merlin (at Alignements de Carnac) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP8OrueJGe2/?utm_medium=tumblr