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Chris Collyer

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Re: Dem Streams

Mar 18, 2003, 20:01

The de-fleshing, then being placed in a tomb, then removed for important festivals or whatever seems to be a fairly accepted theory and your placed in the water theory sounds pretty feasible to me too, and would help to explain were most of the bodies ended up.

Anne Woodward makes a point about the relationship between barrows and streams and springs and several of the Lincolnshire long barrows are sited either above streams or at the heads of dry valleys. BlueGloves is right about the value of clean water though, so whether the position of the barrows close to sources was somehow ritual or purely practical (or both), I dunno.

-Chris

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Dem Streams (FourWinds)

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Re: Dem Streams (FourWinds)
Re: Dem Streams (BlueGloves)

Topic Outline:

Yggdrasil & the Bull, Mithraic survival – Annexus Quam, Mar 17, 2003, 11:53
- Re: Yggdrasil & the Bull, Mithraic survival – Annexus Quam, Mar 17, 2003, 11:54
  - load of old bull – RiotGibbon, Mar 17, 2003, 13:46
  - Dem Streams – FourWinds, Mar 18, 2003, 09:47
    - Re: Dem Streams – BlueGloves, Mar 18, 2003, 11:42
    - always grateful for compared archaeologies – Annexus Quam, Mar 18, 2003, 14:05
    - Re: Dem Streams – Chris Collyer, Mar 18, 2003, 20:01
      - Re: Dem Streams – FourWinds, Mar 19, 2003, 07:13
      - Re: Dem Streams – BlueGloves, Mar 19, 2003, 07:14
- A wee summary of the cult of Mithras – fitzcoraldo, Mar 22, 2003, 11:15


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