At a 2018 caroling practice, someone mentioned that the Girt Dog of Langport is supposed to be a feature in the English landscape, much like the famous Uffington White Horse and other hill figures.
An artist, Katharine Maltwood, put forward the theory that the so-called Glastonbury Zodiac is an ancient example of a landscape zodiac -- i.e., a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape, such as roads, streams and field boundaries. Her work combined visionary experience with research into local history, legend and place-names to support the idea. Situated outside the circle of the Zodiac, Maltwood saw the shape of a giant dog with its nose situated at Burrow Mump, its ear is at Earlake Moor, near Othery, and its tail at Wagg, with the course of the River Parrett forming the line of its belly. This is the Girt Dog of Langport.
At a 2018 caroling practice, someone mentioned that the Girt Dog of Langport is supposed to be a feature in the English landscape, much like the famous Uffington White Horse and other hill figures.
An artist, Katharine Maltwood, put forward the theory that the so-called Glastonbury Zodiac is an ancient example of a landscape zodiac -- i.e., a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape, such as roads, streams and field boundaries. Her work combined visionary experience with research into local history, legend and place-names to support the idea. Situated outside the circle of the Zodiac, Maltwood saw the shape of a giant dog with its nose situated at Burrow Mump, its ear is at Earlake Moor, near Othery, and its tail at Wagg, with the course of the River Parrett forming the line of its belly. This is the Girt Dog of Langport.
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