http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030708/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_stonehenge&e=2
Ah-ahah, those wacky sex starved Canadian researchers…:rolleyes:
I mean, if your profession involved looking at female genitalia all day long, wouldn’t you start to see them everywhere too?
Here’s just what Stonehenge needs, then.
I wish one of the original builders could read this. They’d probably laugh their asses off at our theories.
Ever read the book * Motel of the Mysteries* ? In the story, three thousand years from now, a hotel is unearthed, and the archaeologists explain the significance of the artifacts found inside. The toilet seat is a ceremonial fertility necklace; the TV is the high altar of the gods, and the snack tray nearby is an offering to it. The toilet brush was used to sprinkle water on the worshippers, and the “Do Not Disturb” sign is a warning of a magical curse on the room.
I work in a museum, and we have many pre-historic artifacts which seem to have no earthly purpose. Stone and wood were carefully worked into beautiful, apparently useless, objects. Our only explanation is that they were “ceremonial.”
I just imagine one of the owners of these objects stepping forth from the mists of time, and laughing heartily at our explanation of each item. Perhaps the little stone pole that we are thinking was a “ceremonial digging tool” was actually just a back-scratcher that he made one evening while he was bored. Maybe some of the odder items were made as prank gifts which survived by a fluke of time.
And perhaps Stonehenge was just a really nice boxing arena. We’ll never know.
Nope this is just wrong. I just came back from seeing the Roosevelt national park in North Dakota and saw some formations that looked just like the capped stones of Stonehenge. It is my theory that the people who built stonehenge were on vacation at the site, though not called Roosevelt at the time, saw these formations and wanted to take them back with them.
At this time they were picked up by aliens going to Devil’s tower. When they finally got back to England they decided to build a monument to remember their trip especially since no one believed they were probed buy aliens. I have the pictues to prove it too.
When I first saw the title I coule pictue someone thinking Stonehenge looked like a vagina, but that’s one crackpot theory.
The article doesn’t really give a convincing description of how Stonehenge could be said to resemble a vulva. So it has two concentric circles and a rock at the end, representing the labia minora and majora and the clitoris? Wow. It might as well be a mouth, an eye (with tear?), an asshole with a turd hanging from it, a fingernail, a target for giant tiddlywinks. At least some of the things I just listed are actually circular.
Thanks, refusal. The OP said vagina, so the only resemblance I could see was the circle, but of course that would be the vagina in cross-section, which to me was way, way too much of a stretch. Then I read the article and even though it may not have been quite the stretch as the vagina comparison, it still kinda had me confused. I mean, vulvas aren’t round. Everyone knows they’re shaped like tacos!
maybe it used to be a dance club that was very ‘in’ those days…
Some time back, there was a project to create a working Neolithic village, complete with residents living and working pretty much as the Neos did. It was written up in (I think) Smithsonian Magazine.
A researcher noted the presence of a small pit just inside the door, and asked the villagers what it was, because he had seen similar pits in excavated villages. Because it was in nearly every home, these pits were assumed to have some ceremonial function. The villagers laughed, and told him that that was where the chickens took their dust baths…
Obviously it was used to predict the Queen’s cycle.
A motel called “Toot 'n Come On Inn” IIRC.