Vision is key to understanding Watkins' ley theory; when he first conceived of it he saw it in terms of lines of ancient interconnecting energies, something he famously omitted from The Old Straight Track - famous to us old woolly hatted ley hunters anyway. I have seen glowing leylines emanating from Glastonbury Tor - I saw one flash in a blaze of colour & pure shimmering drone across the distances to Wells Cathedral, and watched it rise into the skies to touch at the stars. Granted I was tripping out of my box at the time but the magic of psilocybin is a visionary potion that opens our Third Ear to sounds & visions we are otherwise deaf to on a conscious level because more mundane concerns. Watkins was a visionary, as was the late, great, John Michell. Thanks to them, LeyLore & Earth Mysteries are a crucial part of our cultural dreaming and provide a catalyst for the experience of something very ancient indeed - something which lay dormant for many hundreds of years.         

Otherwise, yes, by all means, but it's all there in all its diverse richness and no ritual was ever simply made up without close reference to what had gone before. Even the concept of ritual - like that of music and language - is an ancient one, defining of the ancientness of our humanity & the core concerns thereof. That we seek comforts from transience in The Ancient is part of how we operate collectively & as individuals, each according to their inner (mostly unconscious) visionary core.

All things have their time, and for very good reason : the Zeitgeist is that which grants us the wonder so we might better experience our primal urges in terms of absolute renewal but these things are older than history.