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| That's very very useful. Thanks Branwen. I was reading an article about Manx monuments the other night (Vicki Cummings & Chris Fowler) and came across a line that seems to fit your 'mind wandering' trove. I'd considered that quartz would have meant different things in different places, but what if it represented a range of things in every place? "Quartz was an anchor for a host of metaphorical connections that drew on its physical properties. The colour, translucence, texture and reflectivity of quartz meant that it could connote properties of the human body, the landscape and perhaps the wider cosmos. Quartz was therefore a key symbol in Neolithic cosmology, an ambiguous symbol that could be interpreted in many ways." Thanks again, Gordon Reply | with quote |  6th September 2009ce 16:49 In reply to: Re: Is it a white cow when you're not looking? (Branwen) |
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