Gouk stones and other cuckoo place-names: prehistoric cult sites.
The common cuckoo was a pre-Christian symbol of male fertility across Eurasia, associated with several European fertility goddesses. Some standing-stones are named after it as cuckoo (coucou is Old-French) or gowk (Anglo-Saxon). Gouk and cuckoo stones can only have been so named from the fifth and e...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 135; no. 1/2; pp. 98 - 123 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar-Jun2019
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