Talk:Dolmen deity

Original research ?
Pretty old article, but seems very dubious to me.
 * No references
 * There is (obviously) no records of that period, so at best it is a conjecture
 * As a conjecture, I can find no indication it has much if any recognition, or the term wide spread use.
 * From the article, it is associated to "statue menhirs", but menhirs and dolmens are different beasts.
 * The site of Courjeonnet is also mentioned, however, the site is listed as a grotto by the french state, again, no dolmen. Equendil Talk 06:23, 2 October 2008 (UTC)


 * An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Art (1915) By Ernest A. Parkyn. p.158, also calls it a grotto. Dougweller (talk) 05:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Two very old sources, Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders By T. Eric Peet (1912) and The Early Cultures of North-West Europe, ed. Sir Cyril Fox and Bruce Dickens (Cambridge, 1950) mention dolmen deities briefly, plus one definition found in a few archaeological dictionaries. Nothing in the journals that I can find. It is certainly not a commonly used phrase, and the folklorist referenced in the article does not use it and shouldn't be used as a reference because of that. Dougweller (talk) 18:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

this could probably be merged to Neolithic religion and/or Megalith. I don't think we need a separate stub article on every term ever coined. --dab (𒁳) 21:18, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Le Gardien du Tombeau is on a capstone of a passage grave, not a dolmen. . Dougweller (talk) 05:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * It's not at all clear why the term "dolmen" is singled out for the title, unless it's just for alliteration. The relevant objects may be menhirs, passage graves or other megalithic structures. Paul B (talk) 10:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * So I have just realised. It is still a very rarely used term. Dougweller (talk) 17:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

removal
Removed "They are interpreted as being images of an Mother Goddess, underworld goddess and/or fertility symbol ."

Jackie seems to have simply typed "mother goddess" and "dolmen" into Google books and then cited a page which contains both terms. In fact the page refers to two completely separate topics. One is a dolmen in Brittany appropriated to Christian use (very common there), and the other is about an Australian Aborigine creation myth. Unless we think that Breton menhirs were erected by Aborigines, the cite does not support the claim. Paul B (talk) 10:51, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll work on an entry for Dolmen (probably on this page), add it to the Dolmen article and turn this into a redirect. Dougweller (talk) 12:43, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, maybe not Dolmen after all. Passage graves? Prehistoric art? Dougweller (talk) 17:23, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

"dolmen deity" isn't a real term. For pity's sake, let's merge this somewhere. "Dolmen deity" gets 20 google book hits, apparently from works of pop-archaeology, glossed as A mysterious personage or divinity who peers at us from megalithic and rock-cut tombs. This is about megalithic iconography, to be added either to a "art" section at Neolithic Europe or to the "Europe" section at prehistoric art. --dab (𒁳) 09:01, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

redirect to Megalithic art
I've done a redirect, added some cited material to Megalithic art which could use some expansion. Dougweller (talk) 14:42, 30 June 2010 (UTC)