Sheela Na Gigs

[Frideswide]

This is a good sketch:

Wow! does it give an artist? and the date? Currently consumed with cupidity!

 

[Frideswide]

That's fine for the vulva part. But why is the 'female' depicted in such a simplistic way? No breasts or proper facial features.

The ones that have visible breasts - they seem to be pendulous and flaccid. Another common feature is visible ribs.

 

[Yithian]

Wow! does it give an artist? and the date? Currently consumed with cupidity!

From Reg Boulton's The Sculptures of Kilpeck.

PM me for the whole text (copyright).

 

[catseye]

The ones that have visible breasts - they seem to be pendulous and flaccid. Another common feature is visible ribs.

Me to a tee.

 

[Steven]

This is going to be yet another phenomenon that, frustratingly, was the result of several and varying motivations and not simply one 'comprehensible' motivation, isn't it?

 

[brownmane]

We went back to Bray today, and managed to get into the church this time. Eventually found it by the west door (it took us a while, as it was dark in the church and we didn't know which side was west ). It's in a poor state so it's not much to look at, and my photos were rubbish. There are decent pictures on this site I've found, along with info on loads more.

I'm adding a link that takes people to the website's Home. The link in the above post is 404.
https://sheelanagig.org/

 

[Frideswide]

This is going to be yet another phenomenon that, frustratingly, was the result of several and varying motivations and not simply one 'comprehensible' motivation, isn't it?

I see that my cunning plan to infect you with the archaeologist virus is going well

 

[Frideswide]

From Reg Boulton's The Sculptures of Kilpeck.

PM me for the whole text (copyright).

and now I've gone and bought it! This place (and it's people I'm-looking-at-you-@Yithian ) are positively ruinous, rouinous I tell you to one's book budget!

Fortunately one recognises that most of one's elective spending is on these things and sets the budget so that the pleasure of going beyond it can be enjoyed many times