Episode 219 - The Ridgeway: a walk through time along England's oldest road
The English Heritage Podcast
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The Myth of the Horse
Around 3000 years ago maybe a little bit 4 or 3500 years ago in northern Europe we actually start to get horses, domesticated horses. It's almost that connection to the power the sun gets re-inscribed through a new symbol which is the horse and it's really spectacular here because we see a sort of physical manifestation of this mythology. If you stand on dragon hill around that period of time but also if you stand even lower in the valley down in the valley at the bottom of the mainjur it looks like the horse is rising out of dragon hills with the sun coming out its back.
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