[Stones] Cerne Abbas Giant

[Thelma Wilcox]

Something not mentioned about his name though, is the fact that he has also been attributed to Cernunnos, though of course that could be purely coincidental....For a start he does'nt have antlers, the similarity is compared because Cernunnos is the British celtic equivalent of The Dagda. who was also well endowed.  Reading Peter Ellis (The Celts)on the subject he says that the Giant is "almost a replica of a carving found at Costopitum (Corbridge, Northumberland)"  there's an illustration in Ann Ross - Pagan Celtic Britain.....
  The club of course can destroy at one end and restore life at the other, in true celtic tradition..
  Just a thought.
  Thelma 

       
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