Long Meg & Her Daughters 20
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Long Meg & Her Daughters

White Meg?

Do you know very much about traditional British dyes, moss, as I'd like to learn more..

Used to spin years ago, and also dyeing wool with plants. A lot depends on what soil plants are grown in, and at what time of year they are picked.. Best book is Jill Goodwin, A Dyers Manual, lots of native dye plants, lichens and a whole chapter on woad.
Colour whether in beads, or clothes, or on stones, would have been there. Today we just see gray stones but decoration of body/home/totems whatever would have gone back to the earliest time.
On the chalklands of Wiltshire, I supposes white represented death, you would become aware of it as the long cursuses were dug and also the longbarrows, it would become a symbolic colour on the later barrows - just as black represents death today...... which, if Silbury was indeed covered in chalk would make it a very large barrow..

"On the chalklands of Wiltshire, I supposes white represented death"

Interesting thought! Certainly worth an argument, though I don't have time just now.

It would be a much cheerier choice than black. I wonder who first painted death as black? If it was the Christians it was a particularly inappropriate choice, given their belief in what it meant.

I reckon death should always be painted as green. No contest.