Any comments?

Uffington White Horse 29

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nigelswift Oct 27, 2003 09:09:29

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/20768

Jane Oct 27, 2003 09:50:45

Replying to nigelswift

Nah! Not convinced. Its a hoss facing to the right for sure but for me that's where the similarity ends.

Stylistically its impossible to make comparisons too, because the shape of the Uffy Hoss is know to have changed over the last few thousand years....

Pete G Oct 27, 2003 12:23:43

Replying to nigelswift

Check your email, I've sent you a postcard that Brian found where the horse looks more like a panther.
post it on TMA if you want,
Cheers,
PeteG

FourWinds Oct 27, 2003 16:08:49

Replying to nigelswift

Michael Dames (bless his little cotton socks) pointed out the similarity between the Uffington WH and the 'Mare And Foal' souterrains at Uisneach (home of the Fire Druids, centre of Ireland and big Beltaine site).

The two souterrains were said to be the Dagdas stables and when the two bits are put together they do resemble the UWH remarkably.

fitzcoraldo Oct 28, 2003 11:09:08

Replying to nigelswift

It's worth checking out Paul Newman's Lost Gods of Albion for his take on Uffington.
If horse cults is your bag, there's a couple of interesting bits in Lethbridge's Gogmagog.
I was thinking about the whole horsey thing yesterday and was wondering if our common distaste of the eating of horse flesh that exists in these islands is the last remnant of the horse cults, although Lethbridge quotes an interesting account from Giraldus Cambrensis' Topography of Ireland which describes the inuageration of a king at Kenel Culin in Ulster (Tirconnell in Donegal). The ceremony involves the sacrifice and butchering of a white mare. The king is bathed in the broth prepared from the mare and fed the meat