Megalithic Poems

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moss M
moss Oct 25, 2007 17:50:00
Replying to Littlestone

There is supposedly a child sacrifice at the centre of Woodhenge, a young child its skull clefted/cleft with an axe. Burl was and is the expert on this one, though sometimes I suspect he relished the gloomy tale...
Poets though like to dwell on death and wicked deeds and blood to bring forth the fertility of land.. ;)

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/7287/images/woodhenge.html

T tjj
tjj Oct 25, 2007 18:31:10
Replying to moss

Thanks Moss,
Your information about Woodhenge and the link is the best clue yet. I'm going way off the topic of megalthic-poems here, so don't really expect any further replies but I'm off on trail who find out who were the people who possibly sacrificed children - the concept is almost biblical.

I'd better stop now before I get into trouble for subverting this thread (sorry LS). I've stopped.

tjj

L Littlestone
Littlestone Oct 25, 2007 18:57:23
Replying to moss

There is supposedly a child sacrifice at the centre of Woodhenge, a young child...
Thanks for that info moss - didn't know that, and it puts Tony's poem into more context.

Don't worry too much about possibly subverting this thread tjj - it's gone off at various tangents before but manages to get back on track - usually with the help of Nigel (just wait, he'll throw in something else from some wandering 19th century vicar in a minute ;-)