The Belinus Line
from GlastonburyCircle Website


 

Britain with the Belinus Line and the St. Michael Line

 

I believe the Belinus line shares many similarities with the Michael line. This was first visualized by John Michell as an alignment east/west across Britain connecting many ancient sites such as hilltop shrines to St. Michael, stone circles and churches built on pre-Christian sites. The Michael alignment takes in the longest part of Britain east/west and the Belinus line takes in the longest part of Britain north/south avoiding the sea. Some of the important sites that connect with the line are:

  • St. Catherine's Hill Winchester

  • Uffington

  • Rollright stones

  • Meon hill

  • Biddulph,

  • Shap circles

  • Long Meg

  • Rosslyn

  • Pitlochery (geographical centre of Scotland)

  • Lairg

It was Guy Ragland Phillips who discovered a web network of Leys that pivoted on a north/south alignment in Brigantia (Celtic name for the north of England), which he named the Belinus line. He then subsequently wrote about this in his book "Brigantia a Mysteriography". Guy projected the line south to Lee on Solent and northwards to Inverhope. He believes that this line followed the course of one of the old straight roads built in the reign of the legendary King Belinus (ruled 380-363BC), hence the name.

'Bel', was the Celtic/Roman sun god of hilltop sanctuaries across Europe and was also known as Belinus, particularly in France and then subsequently known as St. Michael when Christianity arrived. The British festival of Beltane (May 1st) was celebrated by lighting hilltop fires calling on the power of the sun god 'Bel' to fertilize the land at springtime.

At the centre of the Michael line is the great stone circle of Avebury with stone avenues leading from the circle. I was amazed to discover that at the centre of the Belinus line is the megalithic complex of Shap, which had great stone avenues connecting stone circles. The megaliths at Shap are made from local pink granite and some are as large as the Avebury stones. Sadly most of the great stones were broken up for construction, but there are still a few to be seen today. It is interesting that at the centre of the Belinus line and at the centre of Britain is an area of pink granite an appropriate colour for the heart centre of Britain. I believe that Shap, like Avebury are both Serpent temples each positioned at the centre of the two great energy flows in Britain.