You mean Stonehenge is just a...a...

[aliensex]

Those crazy Canadians!

Ahhh, leave it to a fellow Canadian!

Funny, being from Canada, I thought the would have tried to compare it to the shape of a Beaver in some way...

...oops, never mind

 

[billd91]

Also, the rather blanket use of "ancient cultures" and their reverence of "mother goddesses" is also ludicrous. That is true of the "Old European" cultures of the Balkans and southern Europe, but there's no indication that it has anything whatsoever to do with the cultures of northern Europe or the British Isles, and if those cultures were specifically Indo-European (a hotly debated if, at that) then they were very patriarchal in mythology revering a sky-father figure, not an earth-mother figure, unlike the "mother goddess" worshipping cultures of the south.

That's also painting with a mighty wide brush there considering the groups that dominated northwestern Europe including the British archepelago stemmed from a culture whose oldest remains seem to be from a stone's throw away from the Balkans. Old Irish myth, for example, incorporates a fair amount of female fertility, though usually symbolized by rivers or milk (and by extension, breasts like the geological formation known as the Paps of Anu in western Ireland) more so than enormous vulvas erected out of stone.
Nonetheless, it's an interesting theory about something we know little about. Sometimes you need the 'crackpot' views of someone outside the main field of study to give you the perspective needed to crack the riddle.

 

[Savage Wombat]

You're all forgetting the important fact:

Every fertility cult ever has really been secretly worshipping Shub-Niggurath.

This means that every tourist that ever visited Stonehenge has paid homage to the maw of the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.

This may also explain soccer.

 

[The Lemon Merchant]

This theory gives an entirely new perspective to US - British relations, what with our great big tonker (Washington Monument) and Britian's great big, well... you know.

 

[Kerrwyn]

*Bangs head against computer desk until article makes sense. Will be there a while.*

 

[Qlippoth]

Live anywhwere near the Washington Monument?

Standing stones, indeed!

 

[The_Gneech]

Ever notice that experts always seem to say that every single ancient society was totally and fully obsessed with Fertility. Every culture - oh, they were obviously very focused on fertility. Oh, fertility must have been central to their culture.

Not all of them ... some were obsessed with death, instead.

-The Gneech

 

[Krug]

Well there are menhirs all over UK aren't there? There's also Cleopatra's needle near the Thames.

 

[Angcuru]

This theory gives an entirely new perspective to US - British relations, what with our great big tonker (Washington Monument) and Britian's great big, well... you know.

This explains why we always back up them Brits. We want our dang poon.

 

[Mark]

Hard not to be obsessed with fertility when infant mortality rates were so high, death during birthing was not as rare as now, additional hands to hunt and gather could mean the survival of yourself, especially when Grok just got killed by a boar and he was our main provider, the mystery of birth was considered miraculous, even moreso when your offspring bore an uncanny resemblance to yourself, children just don't understand anything unless you teach them and they're totally dependent on you as you are (in the big picture) on them, etc., ad infintum....

I really gotta get me a woman...