So have you ever come across a standing stone (natural or not natural - it is hard to say) where dudes - still today! - supposedly 'rub their arses'? I just saw a bunch of young locals walking up the hill towards the stone.
Not being of naive conviction, I know that many of these pagan sites had their characters softened; we all know that penises and vulvas vanished with christianity and were relegated to satanic worship and other devious forms of disney-fied church blurb. So I presume that what the old dude meant by 'rub their arse' most possibly meant 'rub their sex' (for fertility reasons).
It is great to still see the pre-christian so evident (although so faded in the collective memory) in post-technological Europe.
I am sure if we collected many examples we would come up with a common denominator.
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