NODE 07: THE CENTRAL MEGALITH

The central menhir is by far the tallest stone, at just over 15 feet high. At one time, however, it appeared to stand only ten feet high due to the peat that had built up over the centuries since its erection.

More than any other megalithic configuration, Callanish has an obvious "key" or "focus. This is a single, particularly striking menhir....Although the most regular of megaliths, it had irregularities to strangely enhance its severe beauty; its base broadened out as if to strengthen its roots in the earth, and third of the way up on one side it had bulge like that of a knee or elbow.

-M. Scott Peck, M.D.
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