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Article: Stonehenge: The vagina monolith Professor says it may be a monument to birth and life
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 8, 2003
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Researchers may have unraveled the mystery of Stonehenge, saying
it bears a striking resemblance to a woman's genitals.
Anthony Perks, a professor emeritus of zoology at the University
of British Columbia, says the famous English prehistoric monument
could have been built as a giant symbol of birth and regeneration.
"In ancient societies, ideas of a dominant creator, a Mother or
Earth Goddess, were widespread," he and a colleague wrote in a recent
edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
"If ideas of Earth Mother originated with or were shared by the
people of the henge, Stonehenge could represent, symbolically, the
opening by which Earth Mother gave birth to the plants and ...