Stone circle is exciting gynaecologists

[Drifterman]

Will we ever run out of "explanations " for stonehenge?

Observer Article (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,992215,00.html)

Unfortunately, the site archaeologist's comments seemed a little weak to me.

"If Stonehenge was built so that it looked like a female sexual organ when viewed from above, how were people supposed to see that? As far as we have been able to tell, they didn't have hot-air balloons in prehistoric times." - David Miles, chief archaeologist for English Heritage.

[Checkmite]

Take the inner circle, which consists of pairs of massive capped rock pillars, one of which is rough and the other carefully smoothed. 'To a biologist, the smooth and rougher stones arranged in pairs, united by heavy lintels, suggest that male and female, father and mother, joined together,' he states.

He must be right, because I'm not a biologist and I don't see it. :D

But really....to which biologist(s) did this relationship occur? Or did he invent it himself?

[American]

Wow. And I thought today's porn was boring.

[ceo_esq]

Uh oh! Ancient astronauts!

I agree that the particular comment quoted is stupid. For centuries, churches have been built with floor plans representing a cross, but no one ever marvels at how ancient people were supposed to understand the symbology merely because they didn't have an aerial viewpoint.

[Skeptic]

I agree that the particular comment quoted is stupid. For centuries, churches have been built with floor plans representing a cross, but no one ever marvels at how ancient people were supposed to understand the symbology merely because they didn't have an aerial viewpoint.

(Sarcasm)

Of course not; those churches were built by Euroepans. But, c'mon, do you REALLY think those darkies from, say, ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia could plan those magnificent pyramids without help from superior, more intelligent beings?

(/Sarcasm).

[Nikk]

Originally posted by Joshua Korosi


He must be right, because I'm not a biologist and I don't see it. :D

But really....to which biologist(s) did this relationship occur? Or did he invent it himself?

Well I know a bit about Stonehenge, I've met the occasional woman and I've a detailed plan of Stonehenge ( and a woman ) in front of me.

What this biologist is talking about is the most obvious and later part of the structure (Stonehenge 3 ). A notable feature of Stonehenge 3 is two U shaped stone structures right in the very centre, the bluestone horsehoe and the trilithons. The former were brought from 250 miles away and must have had some special significance to be worth the trouble. The latter are the biggest stones on the site. There is an outer ring of slightly smaller trilithons. Plus quite a lot of other stuff.

As I don't see any notable U shaped features on the female I don't know where our biologist gets the idea that Stonehenge ever looked much like a female sexual organ. My money is still on the sky temple idea.

I suppose you could suggest that a horsehoe shape symbolises giving birth but I think our biologists hypothesis has more to do with a preconception rather than birth.

[American]

As a kid, me and my buddies would find an un-touched field of snow and kick our names in gigantic words for small planes to see. We even drew some shocking images that would surely make a pilot either chuckle or wince in disgust.

[Dancing David]

Why Stonehenge, there are already pictures of naked people that are very ancient, a stone circle looks like what part of a woman's anatomy, her nipples?

[RSLancastr]

I've found that gentle, circular motions on a woman's heel stone will drive her wild!

[Checkmite]

Originally posted by RSLancastr
I've found that gentle, circular motions on a woman's heel stone will drive her wild!

I prefer practicing letters. If you're proficient enough, she won't make it past N or O.

[RSLancastr]

Originally posted by Joshua Korosi
I prefer practicing letters. If you're proficient enough, she won't make it past N or O. One of the few remaining reasons for knowing cursive writing.

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Although this sounds a little, uh, far fetched to me, it's not entirely impossible. It's generally assumed that Stonehenge was some sort of astronomical device / religious temple device. The solstice and equinox are represented as far as light coming through certain holes at certain times. Anyway.

It should be noted that other cultures did construct various things in ways that are not easily seen from the ground, even though they obviously had no flight of their own. The Nazca lines, and some pyramids in Egypt, for example. Many ancient cultures were rather ingenius.

[Drifterman]

Fade originally posted:
It should be noted that other cultures did construct various things in ways that are not easily seen from the ground, even though they obviously had no flight of their own. The Nazca lines, and some pyramids in Egypt, for example. Many ancient cultures were rather ingenius.

Thus the site archaeologist's comments appear to be rather uninformed. Of course, as anyone who has had any dealings with journalists knows, a comment like this often comes as a response to a leading question from the journalist.

Many ancient cultures were rather ingenius.

Especially if they had help from space aliens! :D