Neolithic-themed films and literature?

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tuesday T
tuesday Oct 27, 2007 15:33:05
Replying to Sifaka

Part of Alan Garner's psycho-novel 'Red Shift' deals with the collision between the Romans and the 'pre-historic' british mother goddess cults. it's a bit late for you but a very wonderful evocation of ritual landscape inspired by the axe head the author found at Mow Cop a hillfort / scared mound in Staffordshire.

His other stuff - allegedly children's books - reference prehistoric features and sacred hills a lot - Elidor (standing stones), The Moon of Gomrath (barrows), Weirdtone of Brisengamen (more stones and hills), The Owl Service (goddess culture, menhirs)

Then there is that 'Stonehenge' book by Bernard somebody or other - cheesy but if you're stuck on Lewis in a storm an interesting specualtion of how England's most famous monument came to be

And let's not forget '5 million years BC' with Racquel Welsh in a fur bra..

T tuesday
tuesday Oct 27, 2007 18:58:43
Replying to tuesday

And also, of course Garner's latest: 'Thursbitch' inspired by a stone (and the carving on it). See:

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~xenophon/times3.html

He probably writes more and better than anyone of the sentient landscape and the meaning of stone itself in a way which I imagine is near to neolithic way of perception.

J juamei
juamei Oct 30, 2007 13:30:37
Replying to tuesday

Stonehenge is by Bernard Cornwell. Its ok for a bit of pup fiction.

I also have a book called Callanish, which is about an eagle in London Zoo but does mention the stones on Lewis a couple of times.

T tuesday
tuesday Nov 2, 2007 17:23:16
Replying to tuesday

Also John Gordon's wonderful 'The Giant Under the Snow' tells of a recumbant landscape figure (cf the callanish goddess) getting up and walking.

And of course there's the spooky 'fog on the barrow downs' section from 'the fellowship of the ring' coplete with standing stones, barrows and a wriggling rubbery thing