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Was the Uffington Horse really a unicorn?

By T.K. Randall
December 23, 2011 · Comment icon

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Campaigners have proposed adding a 75ft horn to the famous 3000-year-old chalk horse in Uffington.

A growing number of historians and campaigners believe the hillside drawing is actually that of a mythical unicorn rather than a horse. "The Uffington White Horse has been a great British landmark for centuries, however its true form has always been shrouded in mystery," said author Paula Broderick. "We believe that the Uffington carving is actually one of a unicorn, a mythical creature known to have fascinated our ancient cultures and folklore."

The plan by the 'Save the Unicorn at Uffington' has more than 1,000 members and is being lead by Bronze Age enthusiasts. They claim the 3,000-year-old horse made from crushed white chalk in Uffington, Oxfordshire, was originally meant to be a depiction of the mythical horned beast.

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#50 Posted by Wearer of Hats 12 years ago

these people were my ancestors . and i will not have people bending truth for fiction, fantasy,fun . Given the demographics of this place, those people were probably the ancestors of most posters. Mine were native Britons.

#51 Posted by Harsh86_Patel 12 years ago

Call in the evolutionists.They cab probably attest this possibility the best.

#52 Posted by Batfastard 12 years ago

these people were my ancestors . and i will not have people bending truth for fiction, fantasy,fun . Hmm interesting - they are also my ancestors, but I will draw your attention to: it is also the place where king alfred who was one of the last true kings of england in the 800,s fought off saxon invaders . after summoning an army with the blowing stone AKA the rock of england (research that it will blow your minds ) The blowing stone is nothing more than a legend, so not sure where you get your 'truth' from, what is the likelyhood of a king who's lung capacity was so massive that he could blow... [More]

#53 Posted by Abramelin 12 years ago

Call in the evolutionists.They can probably attest this possibility the best. You seem bent on twisting any discussion into a discussion about evolution. You must have nightmares about Darwin and evolution, lol. == I still haven't seen an explanation why this 'horse' resembles a running (wild)cat in many ways. It has a long slender body, it has whiskers (or fangs if you like), very UNlike a horse. Well, I had an explanation... just turn back a page.

#54 Posted by Harsh86_Patel 12 years ago

Lol, then those things would be really huge lips.Man, the Uffington horse looks nothing like a horse. Either the socalled 'repairs' throughout the ages destroyed the original horse-image beyond recognition, or it was never meant to depict a horse. I didn't want to post it in the "Oera Linda" thread, but it could be one of Freya's cats (she drove a carriage pulled by cats). In that thread I tried to explain that one of the alternative names for the 'Heel Stone' (in Stonehenge), 'Freya's He-ol' is nothing but 'Freya's Hall' or Sessrumnir, an alternative name some Nordic gave to Stonehenge. . The... [More]

#55 Posted by Abramelin 12 years ago

The above is a illustration of a Prime Hindu Goddess called Durga riding on her favoured vehicle which can be a tiger or a lion (two cats). Whats your take on the Freya,Durga and Celtic-Vedic connections? Man, you're fast, lol. Well, I'd say it was one of Freya's cats, and knowing how the Nordics called Stonehenge, it seems plausible. But I don't think it is very plausible people from India travelled all the way to England to carve out that cat. If you mean the shared imagery has some meaning, I'd say no; Freya drove a carriage pulled by cats, Durga sat on one (or two). But sure, it could be t... [More]

#56 Posted by Harsh86_Patel 12 years ago

Man, you're fast, lol. Well, I'd say it was one of Freya's cats, and knowing how the Nordics called Stonehenge, it seems plausible. But I don't think it is very plausible people from India travelled all the way to England to carve out that cat. If you mean the shared imagery has some meaning, I'd say no; Freya drove a carriage pulled by cats, Durga sat on one (or two). But sure, it could be true they were connected somehow. Would that change what we know about the "Uffington Horse"? Ofcourse Indians didn't go out all the way and carved the horse and returned to India.Was talking about cultural... [More]

#57 Posted by whiteRider 12 years ago

I also wanted to point out that it was actually VIKING invaders that Alfred fought of correct . also .the legend of the blowing stone exists . but so does the blowing stone itself the word dragon was more recently replaced by the word dinosaur . dragons lingered on strained ever tapering branches until there was no more dra-un. for one man to kill a single dragon on his own was a great feat

#58 Posted by Abramelin 12 years ago

Ofcourse Indians didn't go out all the way and carved the horse and returned to India.Was talking about cultural migrations and transfers. "Uffigton Cat" you mean by your own suggestion,yes it would as the Celtic Druid culture and the Vedic culture share quite a lot so if this horse/unicorn is actually a cat it can help to draw more similes in a way that is suggested by my previous post. And i think you are too quick to dismiss the shared imagery,both were using cats as a mode of transport (the illustration of Durga riding a tiger is not absolute,ures only suggest that the tiger/lion was her v... [More]

#59 Posted by Harsh86_Patel 12 years ago

Not only Freya used a carriage pulled by cats, so did Cybele and Rhea: Rhea only appears in Greek art from the 4th century BC, when her iconography draws on that of Cybele; the two are therefore often indistinguishable;[10] both can be shown on a throne flanked by lions or on a chariot drawn by two lions. In Roman religion, her counterpart Cybele was Magna Mater deorum Idaea, who was brought to Rome and was identified in Roman mythology as an ancestral Trojan deity. On a functional level, Rhea was thought equivalent to Roman Ops or Opis. Most often Rhea's symbol is a pair of lions, the ones th... [More]

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