If, as many archaeologists believe, Calanais was the center of the Hebrides and of a seagoing northern Neolithic world that encompassed Orkney, the Boyne Valley in Ireland, and Carnac in Brittany, perhaps Cnoc an Tursa—this rocky outcrop a hundred feet above where my sister used to live—was the sacred center of Calanais. Perhaps everything led here, another axis mundi linking worlds as unbreachable today as they were five thousand years ago. Unbreachable and unfathomable, but no more so, to me, than the twenty-five years since my sister died.
Source : The Stones of Lewis, Portals in Time
