Landscape Simulacra

[curly]

Cheers mate,I've always been meaning to read the bible one day,just to see what it's all about,and to sort the wheat from the chaff as it were.I still hav'nt read it, but john of patmos and the book of revelations sounds quite interesting.I wonder how he did it like you say,the flintstones springs to mind.Your first image is'nt showing up for me for [ram]-no link,but i see the head of the earth as clear as day.It looks like a dragon on top of his head as well,both one and the same.
I'll have to have a closer look at easter island,i've done so before and never equated it with a lamb to be honest,but that does'nt mean much.Maybe that's not my specialist area,not having much if any knowledge of the bible or astronomy.I saw a planetarium at maplins for 29.99 just before xmas,and got it with the intention of learning all the starry stuff.You just turn it on and it projects the cosmos onto the ceiling while your in bed and turns off on a timer after you fall asleep,i'll have a bash with it tonight.
I'll have to read the book of revelations before i comment on it i think.
Me an angel,now that does appeal to my vanity.My wings and face need a bit of a scrub though so i doubt it.I've had one or two unearthly but nice experiences here and there,that ultimately i'm sure led me to seeing all this stuff.
Your in lincs then eh,when are you going smurf hunting.I've read mysterious lincolnshire by daniel codd,i must dig it out and see if he says anything about that area.The rapture,sounds like a roller coaster ride,i'll give it a look on wiki.
Thanks for showing an interest btw,i'll rush off to the archives and dig some more up.

[curly]

Just waiting to be discovered again.

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Looking across holyhead bay towards holyhead island,a happy chappie if ever i saw one.

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These first two images are'nt showing on g.earth earth anymore.They're from a couple of years or so ago,and show the image of a dragons head in the lake,where i once thought blessington was.But the last image shows it's now burgage more,the name makes the first two a bit more special,but it still looks like a dragon wherever it is.

[curly]

If you've ever roamed around the old country lanes of cornwall,you'll know how deeply sunken they are into the landscape.The ancient banks and hedgerows give you a feeling of being in a little tunnel sometimes.I'm sure a lot of the legends of giants and various tales are just stories of shapes in the landscape,or those stories are recorded in the landscape through various features.With a lot of the simulacra in this county,it's the seemingly ancient field boundaries that tell the tales i think.
Jan tregeagle is the story that i've got an idea which these images are related to,but i'll hold fire until i'm sure.There seems to be a few stories overlapping with the written legend,some ancient some more modern.But the more mythical type stuff is what the images relate too maybe.I may be wrong and it needs a bit of sorting out that's for sure.

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/e...tregeagle.html

This first image shows a rather exotic looking birds head,with what looks like a piece of rope or something similar in its beak.





As always,if you turn it upside down you normally find something else.In this case the face of a happy little cornishman with a hat + earflaps on.

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This is a cornish giant maybe,he's looking left,the bird is marked also.Notice the woods wrapping around his face and ending at and making his mouth.





This is the wood that makes his mouth,but turned upside down,i think it looks like a seahorse.

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Another giant head shape looking right,the bird is marked in the bottom right,think of the red dots as the eye area.





Upside down and the woods in the bottom left start to look a little scary

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The same head,but tilted slightly and looking left this time shows a more abstract face marked in yellow,with the same eye area marked in red.

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The woods that are wrapped around that face also resemble a face,this time looking right



What i think is the eye area is marked in yellow

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I think this might be bedfordshires answer to the paps of annu,the baps of barton.I've always thought these sheila na giggish looking hills resembled some sort of ritual landscape.





You can see the hills in the bottom right,the county border runs down the back of a large head facing left,and made of the woods.The splendidly named hexton and spring head complete the picture.

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The baps are in the top left hand corner this time,i've marked a face looking right,mostly woodland and a few other bits.It's eye is the red dot,as you can now see it's a perfectly natural thing to have baps on the brain all day,no worries boys.

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The green edge of the hills facing left seem to make a face shape,with the contours of the hills adding the features.

Whispering Grass - YouTube

Whispering Grass - YouTube

I was walking through my local shopping centre once and thought i heard this wafting on the breeze,i went a bit further and saw lofty was standing on a box singing this,what a superstar.I think he must have been on hard times along with chitty chitty bang bang,he was there a couple of weeks earlier.

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This is a bit of a vague one but the story just about chugs along under it's own steam.I saved an image from around orlingbury in northamptonshire some time ago,i thought it looked quite a bit like a dogs head.I remembered it but did'nt bother with it after,that's until i was reading an old readers digest which mentioned some old folklore from orlingbury.The tale involved the story of "Jock or Jack of Badsaddle", i've come across badsaddle spelt as batsaddle in one or two writings.The link with the dog being that "Jack" was supposed to be the man who killed the last wild wolf in england.
In the church of the blessed virgin mary in orlingbury is a freestone tomb and effigy bearing the date 1375.The effigy is of an armoured man said to be jack of badsaddle.



Jacks Tomb



John de withmayle is supposed to be the real name of the person in the tomb,with jock or jack said to be his nickname.We'll stick with jack,he was supposed to have lived at badsaddle lodge,an old manor house with a moat just to the west of orlingbury,the wolf being slayed in a meadow adjoining the manor.Other versions of the tale mention a wild boar and a wolf being killed,also that jack saved the life of the then king edward III who was also out hunting in the area.Edward the III incidentally being the grandson of edward I who gave the job of exterminating wolves and other vermin from several counties including northamptonshire to lord blatherwic.

This is the dogs head shape,marked in red looking left,a bit vague i know,but i think it's a goer.

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Some say the wolf population died out in the north some 100 years after this incident,so it may not in fact be true as regards the last wolf.But i can just about cobble a story together with what's left.
The image below shows pytchley lodge,that's what i think marks the wolfs eye.The head is marked in red and you can see badsaddle farm and wood as well as a curious little wedge of land called promise land,which has an ancient mound behind it.



As with the duck at cranford st john,streams mark the outline of part of the dogs head,you can see them here marked in blue,the odd pond as well.



Wythmayle park farm/moat and woods,where jack lived are marked.

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I might be letting my imagination get away with me but the {assumed dead} wolf appears to have it's tongue hanging out.I found it quite symbolic that the lifeless tongue should be made of badsaddle farm and wood.



Badsaddle wood



There does'nt seem to be any evidence of a wolf on jacks effigy,but i'm sure that's a boars head with a broken tusk

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Some poor quality images from just the other side of orlingbury threw up a shape which caught my eye,i think i only used this poor quality map once or twice.
This to me looks like the head of jacks effigy [looking left] in the church,one leap of faith too many maybe,but it does look similar.Jack was supposed to have died of shock soon after the battle,the shock caused by drinking from an ice cold spring,still remembered as jacks spring in the 18th cen.I'm quite confident i've got an image of jack having that last drink but i'd best wait to see if anyone can see the wolf first before i get carried away.I must find out where that spring is as well,it might tie in nicely.







Heres some of the locals in nearby isham,useless fact-the olympic torch is going through isham.

Witchmen - YouTube

Witchmen - YouTube

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The Ribblehead viaduct,and what i'm assuming is ribblehead himself gazing over it.I think there may be an older head set back further,with the river marking ribbles old face.





I love this limestone paving they have in the area.

How To Spoil A Beautiful View - The Trip, Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two - YouTube

How To Spoil A Beautiful View - The Trip, Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two - YouTube

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Originally Posted by curly

Just waiting to be discovered again.

Originally Posted by curly

These first two images are'nt showing on g.earth earth anymore.They're from a couple of years or so ago,and show the image of a dragons head in the lake,where i once thought blessington was.But the last image shows it's now burgage more,the name makes the first two a bit more special,but it still looks like a dragon wherever it is.

Amazing and curious.