To: GSP.FAN; bert
10 posted on
04/06/2010 5:02:04 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: SunkenCiv
Will read and comment later..
And now for something completly different....
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict....
From the Ummaguumma album by Pink Floyd....
The track consists of several minutes of noises resembling rodents and birds simulated by Waters’ voice and other techniques, such as tapping the microphone played at different speeds, followed by Waters providing a few stanzas of quasi-lyrics in an exaggerated Scottish burr.
The Picts were the indigenous people of what is now Scotland who merged with the Scots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Several_Species_of_Small_Furry_Animals_Gathered_Together_in_a_Cave_and_Grooving_with_a_Pict
13 posted on
04/06/2010 5:10:45 PM PDT by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: SunkenCiv
Ask him:
To: SunkenCiv
OK the markings done with simple slashes i can understand being a language.The Romans would not understand it....
The enigma of the symbol stones If there is one item that has come to typify the Picts in Scotland, it must surely be the numerous ornately carved symbol stones they left. No-one really knows with any degree of certainty why these enigmatic stones were erected or the significance of the symbols carved on them. But as with all things Pictish there are theories aplenty. Some scholars exclaim they were territorial markers, others that the stones commemorated great people or events. It has also been suggested that symbols may denote the rank of an individual within the community, perhaps recorded marriage treaties or were a means of representing personal Pictish names.
19 posted on
04/06/2010 5:54:21 PM PDT by
GSP.FAN
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