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"Giant penis man needs re-chalking"
Well, that should be self-explanatory, so we'll move on to the next story.
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OK, OK. It's a huge, centuries-old carved-green-growth plot in Dorset (England), on a hillside and featuring a very large man with a very large endowment (the "Cerne Abbas giant"), and the summer rains have caused vegetation to grow over some of the chalk lines so that ya can't make out everything from a distance (which is the whole point). So, this weekend and next, volunteers will clear away the brush and re-chalk the carving. Metro.co.uk // Cerne Abbas giant
Well, that should be self-explanatory, so we'll move on to the next story.
. . .
OK, OK. It's a huge, centuries-old carved-green-growth plot in Dorset (England), on a hillside and featuring a very large man with a very large endowment (the "Cerne Abbas giant"), and the summer rains have caused vegetation to grow over some of the chalk lines so that ya can't make out everything from a distance (which is the whole point). So, this weekend and next, volunteers will clear away the brush and re-chalk the carving. Metro.co.uk // Cerne Abbas giant
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Pablo, great research. Here's what I found at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40139:
The Benedictine abbey of Cerne was, traditionally, founded by the first apostle of the English, St. Augustine, who, according to William of Malmesbury, having converted Kent to the faith of Christ proceeded to penetrate into the rest of the English provinces over which the rule of King Ethelbert extended, that is to say over the whole of England with the exception of Northumbria, and coming to these parts met with great rudeness from the inhabitants of the country who fastening derisively the tails of cows to the garments of the evangelist and his companions drove them away. Whereupon the holy man perceiving the change that should rapidly take place in the minds of the people and 'patiently and modestly rejoicing to bear reproach for the name of Christ' cried to his companions 'Cerno Deum qui et nobis retribuet gratiam et furentibus illis emendationem infundet animam' (I see God who shall give us grace and impart to these deluded people a change of heart). The prophecy was not long of fulfilment, the people repenting of what they had done approached St. Augustine desiring to be reconciled, and he, attributing this change to God, gave to the place the name of Cernel, compounded from the Hebrew word Hel or El God and the Latin Cerno. Soon after the inhabitants became converted to the new faith and water being required to baptize them a fountain sprang out of the ground at the word of Augustine.
The Benedictine abbey of Cerne was, traditionally, founded by the first apostle of the English, St. Augustine, who, according to William of Malmesbury, having converted Kent to the faith of Christ proceeded to penetrate into the rest of the English provinces over which the rule of King Ethelbert extended, that is to say over the whole of England with the exception of Northumbria, and coming to these parts met with great rudeness from the inhabitants of the country who fastening derisively the tails of cows to the garments of the evangelist and his companions drove them away. Whereupon the holy man perceiving the change that should rapidly take place in the minds of the people and 'patiently and modestly rejoicing to bear reproach for the name of Christ' cried to his companions 'Cerno Deum qui et nobis retribuet gratiam et furentibus illis emendationem infundet animam' (I see God who shall give us grace and impart to these deluded people a change of heart). The prophecy was not long of fulfilment, the people repenting of what they had done approached St. Augustine desiring to be reconciled, and he, attributing this change to God, gave to the place the name of Cernel, compounded from the Hebrew word Hel or El God and the Latin Cerno. Soon after the inhabitants became converted to the new faith and water being required to baptize them a fountain sprang out of the ground at the word of Augustine.
Posted by BikerPuppy on 09/11/08 at 03:31 PM
Pablo, there's an abbey in the town, so I think you're right on with the Abbas part. Love your legs, BTW.
Posted by BikerPuppy on 09/11/08 at 04:42 PM
I just assumed that was from your lion-skin cape.
Posted by BikerPuppy on 09/11/08 at 05:19 PM
I recommend viewing the Giant in Google Earth -- you get a better image than the photos on Wikipedia. Which makes me wonder if anybody has set up a Google Earth tour of sites like this.
Posted by BenS on 09/11/08 at 07:45 PM
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