Peter's chat was a out-of-the-way one, greatly illustrated with photographs of the Giant and rotund leaflet. In his chat he situates the Cerne Giant in the ritual commotion and posits a specialism concerning the baffling chalk characteristic and Horizontal Age cosmology.
The Cerne Abbas Giant is an invent in white chalk on Giant Grow. Fifty-five metres prominent, he makes an pronounced characteristic but is conceivably best personal for his 7 metre orderly phallus. The Giant carries a 37 metre long insinuation in one hand, to the same degree the other arm extends out on both sides of the hillside. The feet turn to the figure's modest, elastic the sagacity that he's about to rate off somewhere - to do be at war with, perhaps?
Whilst the innovative historical bring up to the Giant is found in the seventeenth century, Peter believes that the characteristic was innovative etched onto the hummock from end to end the Horizontal Age. As you would expect, he has evolved and changed done time. The Giants outlandish independence was, at some summit, lengthened; he recycled to be reasonably less well endowed. Sure scholars dare that the figure of an opponent once dangled from the hand not round with the insinuation, or that a track was once slung inattentively on both sides of the extended arm.
Peter became quick in identifying who the characteristic weight be. As the Giant is clearly a prosperity symbol, he compared the image with depictions of prosperity gods intercontinental and inactive up with three front-runners, whose myths most closely harmonized the Giant.: the Greek Orion, the Egyptian Osiris and the Celtic Gwyn ap Nud. Orion is a club-wielding, instead randy considerately of god! Osiris is sometimes depicted as ithyphallic (orderly) with one arm prolonged in the elegance of the Giant. Gwyn ap Nud leads the Deserted Rummage on both sides of the sky and in Celtic mythology is represented by the constellation of Orion.
By way of a corporation PC programme, Peter plotted the night sky as it would lay claim to appeared to our Horizontal Age lineage and found that at that time the logo of the insinuation in the constellation of Orion's insinuation would lay claim to risen without stopping finished the characteristic on the hillside. He suggests that from end to end the Horizontal Age a "stargate", a starless gap in the sky, would lay claim to also been united with Orion's insinuation. The ancient Egyptians and other ancient civilizations said that this stargate was the path fine hair which souls would dash on their way to the Otherworld.
This was a spellbinding chat which went modish far arrogant choose than can be fitted modish this deficient review. His book The Cerne Giant - Landscape, Gods and the Stargate is published by Brickwork Hunter Publishing (http://www.stoneseeker.net/).
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http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/pagan-eye-westbury-white-horse.html
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