meph

Stonehenge Depicts Female Genitalia, Researchers Say -
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=3&u=/nm/20030708/sc_nm/life_stonehenge_dc

So gee, it's Stone Age **** instead of an astronomical calendar. How
depressing.

Did they run out of steam before they could build the corresponding male
genitalia in the next county over, mayhaps?

Meph

vortogon

Not much new to this idea.

The Stonehenge/Megalith connect to symbolic female genitalia connection theory.
Was first preposed by the late famed anthropologicist/archeologist Marija
Gimbutas as early as the mid 1970s. Of course most archeologists at the time
laughed at the notion of a Goddess based pre-Indo-European culture in europe.

You can find more on her theory in Language of the Goddess.

danspam

w
And still do. She proved her case about the existence of what could
reasonably (unless one insists that word derivation must control
meaning) of a pre-Indo-European civilisation), and there are many female
figurines to be found. But the "Goddess based" notion, and some of her
other notions, are mostly rejected by archaeologists, for both good and bad reasons.

Stonehenge was not an area of her expertise, I don't know if she ever
went there, certainly she did no work there. On some matters outside her
own area of work, she got things badly wrong.
--
Send e-mail to the Reply-To address;
mail to the From address is never read

dale

Except that Stonehenge was built by men - and it can't be anatomically
correct as they have no idea where the clitoris is!
--
Dale - Liverpool, England ICQ#: 840783

Spam Trap: Please don't mail me with abuse - use my name instead

francis freespirit

In message <ysIk4zBTm$C$EwgC@blueyonder.co.uk>, Dale
<abuse@webeye.freeserve.co.uk> writes

Eheu .. lackaday ..
--
Francis

root

--
Sod the bridge, just jump over


A forgotten art of the ancients?

golwg

Matthew

nanny

LOL! I think the assumption that the altar stone represents the clitoris is
perhaps a little off, but the rest seems a valid idea. IIRC there have been
lots of markings on stone etc that are believed to represent the female
reproductive system - basing the circles on the same patterns would seem to
be logical.

Hugs

Nanny
--
"#Ooh, yeah, life goes on! Long after the thrill of living has gone!"

Jack and Diane - John Mellancamp

trin

Dale articulated:

Speak for yerself sweetie - I know a man that does. :>

--
Trin....... is both and neither. Leave the spam in.
Take note of all that is said by those wiser than yourself.
That's personal integrity, not a pagan thing.
http://www.mercianeclectics.dsl.pipex.com
http://www.livejournal.com/users/tequilatrinity

nanny

Actually, now I think about it, I've known several that do! <wanders off in
a daze>

Hugs

Nanny
--
"#Ooh, yeah, life goes on! Long after the thrill of living has gone!"

Jack and Diane - John Mellancamp

dale

I know where it is - I just don't want to go there! ;P
--
Dale - Liverpool, England ICQ#: 840783

Spam Trap: Please don't mail me with abuse - use my name instead