By Anthony M. Perks
Stonehenge, with its stone circles and awe-inspiring arches, the trilithons, has stood over Salisbury Plain, in the centre of southern England, for over 4000 years. . .it is said to be the largest and most complete megalithic monument in Europe, and is probably older than the Great Pyramid of Egypt. For most of the past thousand years it has been a centre of mystery, and at least three kings and two notable physicians have taken serious interest in it and the lost people who built it. Here we offer a theory based on the resemblance of the henge to the human vulva, with the birth canal at its centre.
[Snip] Observations on the Stones
The magnificent innermost arches, the trilithons, dominate the henge. In many cases, their clefts are too narrow to suggest processional arches, nor is this suggested by their arrangement in the henge. They do demarcate the innermost sanctum, but they are not a continuous wall. To a biologist, the smooth and rougher stones arranged in pairs, united by their heavy lintels, suggest the male and female, father and mother joined together. They would make excellent symbols of the ancestors, but whether this is purely commemorative, a sign of continuity, or a question of veneration is impossible to say. Although no such interpretations of the trilithons have been made before, there are some precedents. A similar division of male and female has been suggested for the columnar or diamond-shaped stones at nearby Avebury, and for the tall or flatter bluestones at Stonehenge, particularly the pair which flank the entrance.
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(H/T History of the Ancient World)
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