Re: A theory on the origin of the UWH | Forum

Hugh Whiting Aug 4, 2007 23:29:18

Replying to FourWinds

the 1990s surveys suggest it might have been fatter in places, but not with a different alignment of limb.
they also suggest a longer "beak" feature, which would only give more weight to my vision of synchrony between them and the salisbury river fork.
There is no reason at all to compare it with the earliest known paper maps of britain, since it was made 2000 years before them, and, as you have observed, they are not all that good.

imagine the sense of awe when the people realised, after decades of integrated fieldwork, the island they lived on kind of looked like a horse. the birth of a national myth. perhaps THE birth of national myth.

tomwatts Aug 4, 2007 23:55:33

Replying to Hugh Whiting

Musings....................

Britain the shape of a horse.......................

White Horse.....................Albino.............................Albion....................

Sssssstupid boy.

FourWinds Aug 5, 2007 06:01:57

Replying to Hugh Whiting

Hugh Whiting wrote:

There is no reason at all to compare it with the earliest known paper maps of britain, since it was made 2000 years before them, and, as you have observed, they are not all that good.

So you're saying that the people who made the horse knew the shape of the British Isles better than the people that drew the first maps of it 2000 years later?

The likelyhood that the earlier people circumnavigated the British Isles and knew it better than the Romans did later is quite remote. Ignoring the middle phase of knowledge kinda makes your theory worthless. From the outside one has to ask why you're ignoring it. Does it invalidate your theory? The people who made the white horse would have only had a vague idea about the dimensional proportions of the British Isles, if any.

Also, why isn't Ireland included? If you'd gone around mainland Britain you would definitely know that Ireland existed. Perhaps it is there! Stretch mainland Britain out a bit in this image and sKew things and the front hind leg could be the Antrim coast.