CAMPAIGN TO REVERT CHILTERNS CHALK CROSS TO FERTILITY SYMBOL
A campaigner has asked Buckinghamshire County Council to alter a chalk cross on a hill in the Chilterns because it was originally in the shape of a phallus, he claims.
The campaigner, who has posted his call to arms on the Modern Antiquarian website, points out that the area around Princes Risborough was known locally as Waylands Stock before monks arrived in the area in the 1400s.
Wayland is the Saxons’ ancient god of smithing, and stock, says the campaigner, means phallus.
The hillside carving could have been, therefore, a pagan symbol later adapted by monks bringing the Christian religion to the area. The Whiteleaf is first recorded in 1742, so its origins are shrouded in mystery. There are also prehistoric burial mounds on the hill, which the campaigner says adds weight to the likelihood that it was a sacred site in ancient times.
“It would be most fitting then for us now to rename the carving back to Waylands Stock,” says his letter to the county council, “and return it to its intended form as a massive Phallus standing most boldly erect upon the hillside.”
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART50352.html
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road