Sun Cross

Twenty years ago I found this stone in an ancient forrest.

Laying on the side of an eroded path in the east of France.

I picked it up and it just felt good too hold it in my hand.
When I saw the engraving I expected it to be something special.

The cross within a circle is probably the oldest symbol of the world.
Could this be a (bit wobbly) solar cross or sun cross?

● The wheel on my pebble isn't complete.
Only two opposite quaters have a rim......
But the wheel cross with four spokes in time lost its rim and became a 'real' cross.

● There seem to be traces of black paint........

On the internet I found this article "Canna Rocks".

Altough the stone is much bigger (25 cm diameter) than my stone (5,5-6,5 cm)

I thought there were similarities like stone colouring and black traces of paint.

But the bigger stone has a much clearly engraved early Christian cross.

In this article I found the word bullaun.

Now I'm convinced I found a water-smoothed pebble

that might have been used as a curse-stone or cure-stone.
And all this time I had my own cure-stone :)

If you have some information for me......... please leave a comment!

Sculptures

I love this sculpture!

 This sculpture has wings and a tail like a dragon.
Due to some serious damage the head has been recently replaced.

This one is much more plain.
No spines on his tail and his wings look more like beetle wings. 

Sowing

The kenderman has been sowing some grass.

Afterwards it has been raining cats and dogs so I'm wondering

if this is going to work........ I'll keep you posted.

If you are wondering about the grave stone you can check out here and here.

Artifact

Last monday we bought a new artifact for our livingroom.

Things like these balance the new and sleek design in our home :-)

I think the mix of all sorts of things creates your personal interior.

This artifact is a so called 'threshing-sledge' (in Dutch 'dorsslede') and it was used to thresh the grain.

The wholes in the wood are filled with lots of firestones. Flint was used for the manufacture of flint tools during the Stone Age as it splits into thin, sharp spinters called flakes or blades.
This sledge was pulled by an ox or mule while someone sat on top of it.

Now our hunt for the missing stones starts ;-)

IHS

We were never able to read what was on this stone until today.

This morning the sun was still standing very low when I took this photo.

Importing the photo's into my laptop, I suddenly discovered "IHS"!

Searching the internet I found it's a Christogram.

A medieval-style IHS monogram meaning Iesus Hominum Salvator ("Jesus, Savior of men" in Latin).

Funny joke because we are both atheists.

But then again according to the internet IHS might also stand for the International Headache Society :-)