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andygreyweather Feb 1, 2007 23:07:06
Replying to Pete G

I was told years ago by a curator at the AK Museum that the bones were either resin or plaster and a couple of medical chums also put this thought forward. It may be, that with the passing of the years, the current staff aren't aware and/or haven't looked! Curious!

I do however find it utterly offensive that many Druids and Pagans wear antlers and furs ... as offensive as a fur coat and almost as debauched as displaying a dead child in a museum! That said the 'skeleton' at the AK Museum has always been treated with deep affection and indeed respect too ... I can't apply this logic to the cruel and senseless slaughter of animals.

S slumpystones
slumpystones Feb 2, 2007 00:34:31
Replying to andygreyweather

andygreyweather wrote:
I do however find it utterly offensive that many Druids and Pagans wear antlers and furs
In Chippendale's Stonehenge, he comments on the flash trainers some of the 'Druids' wore on the summer solstice, which always makes me smile. You can just imagine what an American 'Druid' wears beneath his robes...Nike jogging bottoms ?

C Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker Feb 6, 2007 17:47:46
Replying to andygreyweather

andygreyweather wrote:
I do however find it utterly offensive that many Druids and Pagans wear antlers and furs ... as offensive as a fur coat and almost as debauched as displaying a dead child in a museum! That said the 'skeleton' at the AK Museum has always been treated with deep affection and indeed respect too ... I can't apply this logic to the cruel and senseless slaughter of animals.
Because, of course, all Pagan types are "supposed" to be vegetarian animal-rights hippies?

The most vociferous arguments about hunting I have ever seen have been between Pagans. Some do take the don't-even-eat-anything-that's-been-near-a-hamburger attitude, while others see hunting as a way of honouring the ancestors.

Many of the furs used by Pagans are only sourced from road-kill, though by no means all.

Incidentally, Can I ask what this "degenerate dead religion" is of which you speak? Not Christianity surely? That still has some life in it.