Littlestone
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Re: Saint Geneviève Guarding Her Sheep
Oct 21, 2009, 17:20
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Do you just like pigs better than sheep?
Yes, in fact some of us are convinced they hold the key to the meaning of some stone circles (porkies that is not sheep).
Then again we may be wrong :-)
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dodge one
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Re: Saint Geneviève Guarding Her Sheep
Oct 21, 2009, 17:25
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Littlestone wrote: Do you just like pigs better than sheep?
Yes, in fact some of us are convinced they hold the key to the meaning of some stone circles (porkies that is not sheep).
Then again we may be wrong :-)
Is there already a thread about that, that you could point me to? If not, please go on about that a little bit when your time permits.
Regards
D1
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Littlestone
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Re: Saint Geneviève Guarding Her Sheep
Oct 21, 2009, 20:02
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Hi D1.
Not wanting to subvert Branwen's thread, the question of pigs and the use of some henges as corrals was (as far as I know) first mooted on the Stones Mailing List and then here on TMA - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=24266&offset=2650 some four or five years ago. Things have moved on a bit since then with the discovery of large deposits of pig remains (and what seems to be a carving of a pig) from Neolithic sites in Wessex.
What started off as an idea along the lines of 'some stone circles might equal corrals' now seems to be gaining more credence - certainly the role/importance of pigs and feasting on them in prehistory now seems fairly well accepted.
As I said, I don't want to subvert Branwen's thread so maybe, if we want to talk about this further, we could perhaps do it on the thread above.
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dodge one
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Edited Oct 21, 2009, 21:29
Re: Saint Geneviève Guarding Her Sheep
Oct 21, 2009, 20:48
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Thanks very much for this,LittleStone.
I think it's enough to slake my interests for now.
Regards
D1
*Edited out a presumption.
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tjj
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Edited Oct 21, 2009, 21:35
Silbury on a starry night - David Inshaw
Oct 21, 2009, 21:29
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More David Inshaw; he captures something mystical about Wiltshire (go down to third image and click).
http://tabretts.co.uk/V2site/artists/DavidInshaw/AncientLandscapesIndex.html
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nix
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Re: Paul Nash
Oct 22, 2009, 00:03
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http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=10552
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nix
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Re: Paul Nash
Oct 22, 2009, 00:04
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http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artist/5/18421/object/43547
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Branwen
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Edited Oct 22, 2009, 01:33
Standing Stones in Winter - Denise Ryan
Oct 22, 2009, 01:15
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dodge one wrote: Here's a spooky one..... Oooh liking that one. Similar to the dolmen in the snow one I posted, but way better.
TMA Ed wrote: Perhaps contributors can name the art / artist in the title of their post? I have edited the thread so far to do this. The idea seems to work well in the Megalithic Poetry thread.
thanks
TMA Ed. Will do.
moss wrote: - made me remember John Piper, and there is a whole list of his pictures on the web...
... here he manages to capture the stones in a rather striking manner.... Will definately check out others by this artist, this is great.
StoneGloves wrote: LMAO. Yeah, at lambing I used to dress just like that lass........ not.
The pose of Genevieve reminds me of Nehalenia with her dog.
I'll definately have a look over that other thread and read up about the pigs, too. I guess the processional ways were just drove roads used for moving the pigs around in this "bacon buttie" theory then? If this is taken up I'm gonna need wellies at future pagan festivals, I'm thinking.
Denise Ryan's painting "Standing Stones in Winter" is also abstract Nix, you might like it too. She is a full time artist and lives and works in Co. Clare. She studied painting at the Limerick School of Art, has had four one-person shows and has exhibited regularly in group and invited shows and selected exhibitions, including the RHA.
http://www.thekennygallery.ie/artists/ryandenise/
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tiompan
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Re: Paul Nash
Oct 22, 2009, 09:47
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nix wrote:
Thanks Nix .
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tjj
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Avebury - John Piper
Oct 22, 2009, 14:21
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I don't think this one has appeared yet ...
http://www.johnpiper.org.uk/avebury-1936.htm
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