Sheela Na Gig - Goddess of Fertility
Saturday, September 19, 2009
What are Sheela Na Gigs?Flaunting females and masturbating males adorn our medieval churches. Why?
I confess that I'd love to see some of our current pop artists put their own spin on a painting of the Sheela-Na-Gigs.
Sheela Na Gigs are quasi-erotic stone carvings of a female figure usually found on Norman or to be more precise Romanesque churches. They consist of an old woman squatting and pulling apart her vulva, a fairly strange thing to find on a church wouldn't you say? The carvings are old and often do not seem to be part of the church but have been taken from a previous older, usually romanesque, building.
MORE» PJ Harvey had a song called Sheela Na Gig and Flickr has a group of Exhibitionist church carvings.
1 comments:
there is a great academic study of them called witch on the wall, i found a copy of it in ireland...it is long out of print...but a link on the sheilanagig.org site says it will be republished in 2010 from
http://www.ausubopress.com/comingtitles.html...
luvnbloomin
jessifer der bom
aka dubthach
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