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Blaidd B
Blaidd Oct 24, 2002 13:06:50

OK here's one for you..................
Is it a bloke, or could it be a bird??

No, now let me explain before you start.

It's been documented that, due to the good country loving folks of a few hundred years ago finding large chalk appendages rather offensive, similar markings which were once on the wilminton giant were covered or just not scoured. But, & here's the interesting bit.. Apparently in the winter, sections of the figure - namely the chest & groin - show areas or patterns or depressions in the ground. Now before you get unneccessary, the groin area is just that, a small bit, no extensions, up or down.

Add to that the fact the thing has seemingly got a rather nice set of hips, could it be that the thing is in fact a bird. And instead of holding out rods, either for measurement or whatever, couldn't they be a door way??

" I am the singer at the dawn of the age & I stand in the door of the west" & all that.

OK so I was on the catnip last night, but as theories go, it's not totally shit!!.

Blaidd

{;-)

P Pete G
Pete G Oct 24, 2002 13:17:57
Replying to Blaidd

I don't go for it being a woman.
The bumps that are visilble during the winter are slippage of the turf.
As to the hips well your looking at concrete blocks put in place by the victorians. The original shape is not defined accurately.
It could be a person 'walking away' hence a view from behind.
PeteG

W Woodpidgeon
Woodpidgeon Mar 25, 2003 10:40:46
Replying to Blaidd

Yes it was a lady. Now a ladyboy!

J Joanna
Joanna Mar 25, 2003 15:57:18
Replying to Blaidd

BTW Blaidd when I first read this post I took bird literally, I was thinking that you were trying to say he had wings etc :)

F FourWinds
FourWinds Mar 25, 2003 21:01:37
Replying to Blaidd

It is highly unlikely that there was ever a matriarchal society extant in the British Isles. There may have been one where men/women could attain equal levels of status (see Boudica for an example), but the myth of the all encompassing matriarch/mother goddess is simply that - a myth.

Many societies have chosen, what is in my mind, the better route, i.e. that of a matriarch or at least inheritance down the female line, but there is absolutely no proof whatsoever of there being a matriarchal society in Britain.

The Long Man, in my opinion, could never have represented the Goddess because it is simply too young (and the Goddess probably never came anywhere near the UK [if she ever existed as an all encompassing deity])

I am not dismissing individual, localised goddesses, but to even contemplate the global Mother proposed by so many is a farce.

Cor! Didn't I stretch my two penneth worth of soap box time!?

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