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Illustration
No.3
“Men-an-Tol” |
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It
would take a lot of doing for the next (or any) site to
top what happened at Chûn Quoit, so perhaps I didn’t
approach Men-an-Tol with enough openmindedness. Located
a few minutes’ drive from where we parked to visit
Chûn, Men-an-Tol is an arrangement of three stones—two
uprights on either side of an amazing holed stone. The
holed stone has a seam near the top that makes me think
of the alchemical tail-devouring dragon Ouroboros. The
stones are all about three feet tall.
What do they mean? The formation said something to me
about transitions and changes, about moving from one state
to the next through an experience. That and sex. Men-an-Tol
is like a stony threesome, and playing with the etymology
I called it “Men and the Hole” while we were
there. Jeff took a photo of he and me shaking hands through
the center stone and then we left to let a pair of lovers
enjoy the site with their blanket and bottle of wine.
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