Wow, nice pics. The shark is straight out of Jaws, if slightly smaller. :)
I think all of us who've seen that movie as kids retain an almost instinctive fear of that unmistakeable fin silhouette. erkyn sent me a series of emails from his Antipodean adventures; one of them mentioned how he and his girlfriend were going on a high-end scuba course, and the subsequent one explained how he'd decided that water was an unnatural environment for humans as he'd just seen his first shark.
Mine Howe looks fascinating. My first thought as to the "ritual purpose" would be some kind of initiatory experience -- it's got the classic sensory deprivation stuff going on, is a dramatic & claustrophobic location, and would work well for any kind of liminal initiation ritual.
Knap of Hower -- 5.5 thousand years old eh? What builder today would give you that kind of guarantee for any work they did?
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I think all of us who've seen that movie as kids retain an almost instinctive fear of that unmistakeable fin silhouette.
Mine Howe looks fascinating. My first thought as to the "ritual purpose" would be some kind of initiatory experience -- it's got the classic sensory deprivation stuff going on, is a dramatic & claustrophobic location, and would work well for any kind of liminal initiation ritual.
Knap of Hower -- 5.5 thousand years old eh? What builder today would give you that kind of guarantee for any work they did?