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It is dawn on Midsummer morning and I am standing in the Neolithic temple that today cohabits with the village of Avebury in Wiltshire. Like hundreds of other like-minded souls, I have come to watch the sun rise over Avebury's famous stone circles. Swathed in blankets and huddled together in groups, we are hard to unite under a single banner, for we come from all walks of life.
After a night during which we were entertained by fire dancers, the first rays of the sun are greeted with the sound of drumming as arms are raised to the east to salute the summer solstice. Dawn has broken on the longest day; it has also broken on the distinctive swirling marks of a crop circle on Waden Hill above the Kennet stone avenue that leads away to the south from the central Avebury henge.
As in many crop circles of recent years, the design is a complex pictogram with one half of the perimeter comprising circles of expanding and contracting size radiating out from a central point. In the other half, a perfect yin/yang symbol has been imprinted in the corn.
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