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Music festivals have been happening at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury since 1970. It has grown bigger and bigger over the decades and around 200,000 people are expected to attend it this year. It has attracted some of the biggest names in the music industry with people like Paul McCartney and Elton John playing at the festival. But is there a darkness to Glastonbury? Is it something MORE than a Music festival, is it a satanic mind control camp?
Let’s just take a moment to understand the area in which this festival takes place.
With its top-heavy shop fronts and honey-gold limestone, Glastonbury Town is nestled in the Somerset Levels, a low-lying landscape reclaimed from the sea. Above this English idyll stands the looming bulk of Glastonbury Tor, a lonely hill capped by St Michael’s Tower. The turret is all that remains of the church built in the 14th century after an earthquake destroyed the previous site. But that’s really just the tip of the iceberg. The hill has been home to Roman, Celtic and neolithic fortifications and, if we are to believe the stories, has watched over all manner of mythical and religious figures. Joseph of Arimathea, King Arthur, Jesus: all of them are said to have walked through Glastonbury’s “pleasant pastures”, as William Blake later wrote.
This area is steeped in mysticism and that goes back centuries but consider the actual Festival which really started 54 years ago. Within a year of it starting, the festival featured the first incarnation of the “Pyramid Stage”. Conceived by Bill Harkin the stage was a one-tenth replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza built from scaffolding and metal sheeting and positioned over a “blind spring”, a term used to describe a hypothetical underground body of water in the pseudoscientific practice of dowsing. So from the get-go there was an interweaving of mysticism and ancient lore into this Event.
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