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Stonehenge: Big ol'...

Bluegill

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...female genitalia?

CNN story on Stonehenge

In the arrangement of the stones, the researchers say they have spotted the original design: female genitalia.
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OK,
maybe it is. But it doesn't strike me as likely--not more likely than any other theory, anyway.

And I admit that I haven't , uh, been around as much as some guys, but I think I could come up with a more accurate depiction.

Gives a whole new meaning to the idea of ley lines. "Lay" lines?

And what would the male counterpart be? Should we start searching for Bonehenge?
 
Bluegill said:
...female genitalia?
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So that's why GP is coming to the UK.

Mind you, I would have thought 5000 years old would be definitely too old for him.
 
I read that story on Yahoo a few days ago, and I was specifically looking for what evidence they used to make the determination. I didn't see any. It left me with the impression that these guys just thought it up.

I think they need girlfriends.
 
Bluegill said:
And I admit that I haven't , uh, been around as much as some guys, but I think I could come up with a more accurate depiction.
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Maybe that is what alien female genitalia looks like!
 
There was a short blurb in Discover on this this month. I was going to post on it, but it sounded like such crap I decided not to :D Here's the blurb from Discover, July 2003, by Josie Glausiusz:

Anthony Perks, an endocrinologist and professor of gynecology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, sees a symbolic meaning in Stonehenge that other researchers have overlooked: The 50-ton stones trace the shape of a human vulva, he says. Archaeologists have long puzzled over the inner arches of Stonehenge, which consist of paired, capped stones, one of which is rough and the other rubbed smooth. Perks's theory could explain this formation. "In the female, estrogens make the skin softer and smoother than in the male. It struck me that here's the reason the two are united by a lintel over the top: They're the mothers and fathers of the past," Perks says. He also found that the inner and outer circles of stones match the locations of the labia minora and labia majora, and an altar stone sits where the clitoris would be. Other authorities have thought Stonehenge was a temple for the worship of the sun or the moon. Perks sees no contradiction: "There was a concept in Neolithic times of a great goddess or earth mother. Stonehenge could represent the opening by which the earth mother gave birth to the plants and animals on which ancient people so depended."
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Ok, first of all, this guy's an endocrinologist, why is he teaching gynecology? Secondly, he's definitely no archaeologist. What does he know about Neolithic religion? Lastly, that last bit, about Stonehenge representing a birth opening of the earth mother is stretching the evidence just a teeeensy bit, IMO. It's a nice sentiment, and I'm sure all the Wiccans and Druids and whoever else will jump all over it, but I still think it's garbage. And what about all the other standing stones?
 
Maybe it's all tied up with the Second Coming.

If they find any enormous condoms I'm heading for the hills.
 
Yahweh said:
Female genitalia... they were way off!
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I dunno, I can see what that Perks fellow is getting at. The outer ring is the labia majora, the inner ring is the labia minora, and the altar (at the right side there on the picture) where the clitoris would be. I just think that the explanation invoking some Neolitich "mother goddess" and Stonehenge as representing the birth opening, and the polished/unpolished stones is just silly. Occam's razor? And besides, I thought it was pretty conclusively shown to be a fairly reliable observatory of sorts?
 
Yahweh said:
Female genitalia... they were way off!
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Hey, get that pornography off here! Do you want this thread banned?

Incidentally, I'd hate to be a lone voice in the wilderness, but I don't think the theory is as ludicrous as first appears. While I can't see any real reason to validate it, a large number of ancient societies were obsessed with genitals.

I was shocked the first time I learned that the Norse goddess of fertility was symbolically denoted as a vulva. Imagine wearing that on a chain around your neck!

Athon
 
Bluegill said:
Gives a whole new meaning to the idea of ley lines. "Lay" lines?

And what would the male counterpart be? Should we start searching for Bonehenge?
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:D Lay lines, bonehenge, comic genius.

But really they haven't given sufficient evidence to support the "I don't have a girlfriend theory"..... er I mean the female genitalia theory, not for my mind anyway.

I also heard it lined up nicely with the summer soltice or winter soltice, or is this misinformation?
 
Terence Meaden, he of crop-circle plasma vortex fame, made a very similar case back in 1996, which was written up in the book "Stonehenge: The Secret of the Solstice", although I think he suggested it represented a womb.
 
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SquishyDave said:

:D Lay lines, bonehenge, comic genius.
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Aw, shucks. Thank you. I practice--but these jokes were obvious, when one starts to wonder how these stones came to be erect.
But really they haven't given sufficient evidence to support the "I don't have a girlfriend theory"..... er I mean the female genitalia theory, not for my mind anyway.
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Yes--that's how it seems to me, just from the short news story I read. It's certainly possible, but I don't see anything that makes it more probable than anything else.

Of course, to my mind, there is no reason that the folks who built this couldn't have intentionally made it BOTH a celestial calendar AND a representation of genitalia. I'm sure they were smart enough to have worked with a dual purpose, if they wanted.
 
utter crap theory. Canadians don't need people to make them look silly. they do it enough themselves! :D

Seriously, I agree that an endocrinologist is about as qualified as me to talk about:

A: Gynocology

and

B: Archeology

and hell, throw in

C: Anthropology/Culture/Religion
 
Of course, now they're going to have to rename the whole structure. Stoneminge?
 
JamesM said:
Terence Meaden, he of crop-circle plasma vortex fame, made a very similar case back in 1996, which was written up in the book "Stonehenge: The Secret of the Solstice", although I think he suggested it represented a womb.
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There's womb enough for all of us.
 
Isn't this kind of like an inkblot? A person who teaches gynecology sees female genitalia in Stonehenge...is that unlike a devout Catholic seeing the face of Jesus in a tortilla? I could probably see a graph of hypercharge vs. isospin for spin-half particles in the arrangement of stones, but what's the point?

The kind of graph I'm talking about can be seen in a slightly non-standard form at
http://musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/p200/hep/node15.html
 
Look at that picture again......if its female genitalia, then it's female genitalia caught in the act of being used for its intended purpose......

QuarkChild said:
A person who teaches gynecology sees female genitalia in Stonehenge...is that unlike a devout Catholic seeing the face of Jesus in a tortilla?
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How about seeing the face of Jesus in female genitalia?
Could solve the overpopulation problem. On the other hand.......:cool:
 
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