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An aerial view of Stonehenge.

In 1994, Dr. Anthony M. Perks, a retired professor of obstetrics from the University of British Columbia, and coauthor Darlene Marie Bailey published an article entitled "Stonehenge: a view from medicine," in the Journal of the Royal British Society of Medicine. They theorized that Stonehenge was a giant replica of the human vulva, created for worship of a matriarchal deity's role in fertility. “The birth-canal analogy would account for the absence of any monolith at the geometric centre of the henge, despite the way in which one’s attention is drawn there,” they wrote. “The central area is empty because it represents the opening to the world, the birth canal.” Perks and Bailey argued that their Earth Mother theory didn’t necessarily conflict with the earlier notion that Stonehenge was an astronomical temple, because “it was the sun which gave the light and warmth by which Earth Mother brought forth the plants and animals of the world.”

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