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 Sheela-na-gigs: The naked women adorning Britain's churches - BBC News

 

You could think of her as the female equivalent of the Green Man.

If, as some contend, Sheela na Gig originally meant “Sheila of the Breasts,” she's a pretty classic example of, shall we say, upward displacement. Really, one has to admire such bald (!) candor.

To pagans, the body is hero: it's no surprise, then, that this minor motif of late medieval sculpture should have become something of a mascot to the new paganisms, with our signature revaluing, and re-spiritualization, of the body.

Gaze deeply into her mysteries, our Sheela.

There, suns are born, and constellations wheel.

 

Sheela na Gig

(To the tune of: “Felix the Cat”)

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