The Reason for the Season

"Undaunted by Tuesday's dreary skies, a Druid at the United Kingdom's ancient Stonehenge monument prayerfully greets the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice. This first day of summer and longest day of the year has long been observed by cultures worldwide."

"At Stonehenge, celebrants in the center of the standing stones can still watch the summer solstice sun rise over the Heel Stone, just outside the stone circles."

"This year British Druids celebrated the solstice for the first time as members of an officially recognized religion, following a controversial vote by the national Charity Commission for England and Wales last fall."

From National Geographic.

More than a millenium separates the ancient Druids (so loathed by Caesar) and this modern jumped-up bunch, which can trace its origins only to the Eighteenth Century, and that badly. Stonehenge long antedates the Celtic Druids, having been erected around 2200 B.C.