A vision from a visit to a stone circle attributed to the pagan Galindian people , located in Długi Kąt (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship). The site is located in a forest, surrounded by a wooden fence, and the circle itself is almost invisible; only scattered stones remain.
I enter the circle, sit down at one of the stones, and feel the energy of my surroundings. I see a single priest: he wears a hat that looks a bit Andean, a bit Sumerian, with a pointed peak, and long strips of cloth trailing down his ears. He's alone, with torches on tall poles around the circle. On a flat stone inside the circle, he's sacrificing an ox, cutting out the internal organs, and raising them up. There's a lot of bright red on the altar. I get the impression that this priest is alone, as if there were once about 20 people standing around this circle, but over time, fewer and fewer, until finally, only he remains. The priest realizes that he's the last of his line, the last of those who cultivate ancient traditions.
I stand before him in a luminous form, he sees me and treats me as God. It's unlikely we can speak to each other precisely because he is somehow intimidated or scared and isn't on an equal level of communication. So I convey my wishes for prosperity and well-being, but I sense that he's already drawn the line at life, that he thinks it's all over. I see his village surrounded earlier by horsemen, quite heavily armed, wearing long cloaks with black crosses, so they were probably Teutonic Knights. They eradicated all local religions, and he was the last one standing.
As for the circle itself, these people didn't create it. It's something older, perhaps a Goth stone circle, a civilization that may have lived there hundreds of years earlier. They arrived and moved on, and they simply took advantage of this magical place to perform their prayers and rituals.
I bid him farewell in my luminous form and depart, leaving this place closed. It will no longer serve anyone; it will be forgotten with the departure of the last priest and his religion.
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