<bron192.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
Three versions of a favorite Bronze Age
riddle, involving
a
man, his pregnant wife, and a wedding ring.
The top pictograph
is
carved into rock at Namforsen, Sweden.
The middle example
is
from Engelstrup, Denmark, while the lower one
is from
Peterborough,
Ontario, Canada (Fell 1982).
Here again the similarities exist. At the Swedish site, the
engraver
has added a second ship with a man and pregnant woman
beside
it. Over their heads he has placed a
ring-shaped design.
At the Danish site, the engraver has
added a second ship to
his
boulder. beside it he placed two
figures, a man and a woman,
and
between them a very conspicuous ring-shaped object.
The Peterborough artist walks across
the site to a point that
lies
ca 12 ft. SW of the central sun figure, where other engravers
have
begun to lay out the figures of a zodiac.
He cuts a 4-oared ship.
Beside
it he engraves a man by the bow and a very pregnant worm
next
to the stern. Above them he engraves a
large ring-shaped motif.