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Ishmael
In: Toronto
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| Hatty wrote: | | Shingle: a thin sliver of building material with one end thicker (a wedge?). |
A wedge -- or an angle.
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| Hatty wrote: | | It's all about shaping and protecting? |
I would say its all about submission and resistance.
Shin...gle...
Sin...gle...
Maybe Sin...Girl?
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Living in sin.
Living as single.
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Hatty
Site Admin
In: Berkshire
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| I would say it's all about submission and resistance. |
Submission/resistance to authority = tax-evasion for everyman? Once upon a time big stones were a badge of authority.
Sin was a Sumerian moon god.
Moon, whiteness, shin-bones are all thoroughly Megalithic associations and have disreputable-sounding tags. cf. hoar and whore. Hoarstone is a common popular name for a megalith and allegedly barren women would conceive, with the appropriate offerings, at such places.
[There may be a connection between pute, French whore, and puits, a well, an essential commodity and Megalithic pay-point.]
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Lets try it. Experimental.
The concept is submission/resistance.
Shingle.
The waves come in (shhh, the sound of water over pebbles) they overcome the smaller stones at first. The tide rolls in. Eventually the larger stones stand firm, the waves retreat (gll) the tide pulls back.
Sumission/resistance.
The larger the stones the more dominant.
Its not very PC is it?
We cut away from the frolicking in the dunes....etc
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Still it would explain a few things not least Chesil......and.....
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Hatty
Site Admin
In: Berkshire
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Beaches are one of those in-between zones. In Spain traditional i.e. non-urban poetry has the seashore as a place of licence, where a girl meets her lover for example.
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Of course countries like rivers are not named.
Ancient countries did not have a single unique name.
Even a modern nation like Canada evetually had to choose from a list of possibilities and then created a national "home" land myth.
Still it's all been very interesting.
It looks like Frank's "Roman" Chesters are now in the firing line.
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| Hatty wrote: |
Sin was a Sumerian moon god.
Moon, whiteness, shin-bones are all thoroughly Megalithic associations |
Sin.... Shin....so we get ....... Heelstone......
| Hatty wrote: |
and have disreputable-sounding tags. cf. hoar and whore. Hoarstone is a common popular name for a megalith and allegedly barren women would conceive, with the appropriate offerings, at such places.
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A whore is simply a pre christian compliment. So the tag is the opposite.... (mirror)
I would wager many of the saints you discovered were originally whores.....(fertile)......
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| Ishmael wrote: | On the other hand, the iconography of the Shepherd's crook might be an interesting angle to pursue.
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Maybe an Ankh...?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh
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Hatty
Site Admin
In: Berkshire
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A whore is simply a pre christian compliment. So the tag is the opposite.... (mirror)
I would wager many of the saints you discovered were originally whores.....(fertile).... |
It's an appealing thought but I didn't come across any sainted whores. Their wages of sin were gotten through controlling water access, mining rights and generally exacting tolls.
We had a discussion about sin and Sinai/Sion and signs. Menhirs are generally interpreted as phallic symbols (Avebury seems to be a particularly exciting arena). The most fertile finding was (Christian) imagination.
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| Hatty wrote: |
Their wages of sin were gotten through controlling water access, mining rights and generally exacting tolls. . |
Exactement. A fertility goddess will often have more than one attribute.
Viva la Whores.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Here is the cover to our new book. Drawn by Hatty, designed by my nephew. You have to a) say how fantastic it is and b) say which version you prefer.
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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| Mick Harper wrote: | Here is the cover to our new book. Drawn by Hatty, designed by my nephew. You have to a) say how fantastic it is and b) say which version you prefer.
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My wife who has a background in marketing said that number 1 suggests a mystery to be revealed.... number 2 suggests a drier factual book..... that spells it out.
I guess what she is trying to say.. is that it should complement what's on the back, and in the middle...both are great... it's down to you.
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Chad
In: Ramsbottom
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The first one looks like a sandcastle on the beach. The second gives a much better impression of depth... I like it very much.
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