UK’s Stonehenge may appear to be a bunch of randomly placed stones but archeologists believe there’s more to this great ancient architectural mystery and it’s a little naughty.
Straight up, they think Stonehenge was erected and arranged to cast shadows of penises.
Yep, tourists from around the world travelled hours (days) to see penis silhouettes.
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Strangely feeling proud of everyone with travel pics alongside the large, er, knobs.
The meaty conclusion was made by archaeologist Professor Terence Meaden, who believes Stonehenge builders created a “play without words” where the shadow of one ‘special’ stone would seemingly penetrate an egg-shaped monument, The Sun reported.
‘Why?’, you ask?
Well, one could assume the builders were in a playful mood OR a better explanation by the Professor Meaden is that they were part of a fertility ritual.
After filming nearly 20 stone circles across the UK and watching their silhouette changes at sunrise on ritually important days, he found that they’d recreate intercourse.
“My basic discovery is that many stone circles were built at a time of a fertility religion.”
Professor Terence Meaden
“And that stones were positioned such that at sunrise on auspicious dates of the year phallic shadows would be cast from a male-symbolic stone to a waiting female-symbolic stone.”
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Penises and testicles, that’s all we can see now!
Another suggestion by Professor Michael Parker Pearson of the University College London, is that it was used as a place for locals to honour their ancestors.
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