Kulesi sicelo, kubukeka uMcCarthy engeke abe nayo inkinga. Ezinyangeni ezedlule umengameli waMaZulu, uSandile Zungu watshela Isolezwe ukuthi uzimisele ukuthengela lo mqeqeshi noma imuphi umdlali. "Yebo, ikakhulukazi ngenxa yengqondo yakhe. Akazange alahlekelwe yingqondo yakhe, ayikho into ayenzayo. Yiqiniso, wayengenandaba, kodwa awuzange uzwe ukuthi kwamthinta. Kunezinto ezenzeka kuwe ebhola futhi kukhona izinto ezenzeka kuwe ezingeni lomuntu siqu. " According to Professor G. Wainwright OBE, FSA, and Professor Timothy Darvill OBE, Stonehenge was in all probability a place of healing  a prehistoric version of Lourdes. This explains the large number of burials in the area, as well as the unusually high incidence of limblessness and physical deformity in the graves. Even so, they agree with other experts that the complex was almost certainly multifunctional: being also used as a necropolis and a ceremonial place of ancestor worship. In comparison, Professor Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University is of the opinion that Stonehenge was an important ritualistic centre. He believes that Stonehenge (a domain of the dead) was linked to the circle at Durrington Walls (a place of the living). One should also note that the architects of Stonehenge incorporated a celestial alignment. The site is aligned northeast-southwest, linking up with the solstice and equinox points: thus, on midsummer's morning for instance, the sun's first rays go directly into the centre of the monument through the arms of the sarsen horseshoe. Conversely, at the moment of the winter solstice, the sun sets exactly between the largest sarsen stones. Whether this spectacular coincidence had a purely ceremonial or quasi-religious function, or whether - like the alignments at Newgrange Megalithic passage tomb and the larger Knowth megalithic tomb - it might have helped to regulate farming activities like planting and harvesting, will probably never be known. (See also, Archeological Monuments in Ireland.)