I will just asume everyone here knows everything about the Cerne Abbas.
But just in case, here is one web site among many:
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/dorset/featured-sites/the-cerne-abbas-giant.html
Reading into the meaning of this card should be a "no brainer"...
But, let me tell you a story, you may not know:
In Siberia we have a legend:
A very poor oooold woman lives all alone in the Taiga. All her relatives died in the famine. She alone lived, chewing acorns. One acorn a day.
Now it is just before spring will arrive and she has only one acorn left. She decides to burry it in the center of her chum and then lays down to die.
A mighty Oak grows out of that last acorn, nurtured by the body of that woman - Mother Rus - (Mother Russia)
the oak lives for a loooooong time and is revered as a sacred Tree, receiving maaaaany prayer ribbons and offerings from the people over maaaaany generations.
But as all things go, the Oak gets older and oooooolder and in a lightning Storm it splits apart, releasing a mighty Firebird out of the bottom of the Earth into the Sky above. the Oak smolders away, but its roots remain deeeeeep in the belly of Mother Rus.
Then slooooowly the weather changes. It gets colder and colder and coooooolder and the winters get longer and longer and looooonger, until there is only winter and everything is covered in ice for maaaaaany generations.
Then the Firebird returns and blows his breath onto the ice and melts it away. He has to blow a looooooong time, until all the ice is gone.
He blows until he can see the stump and the huge oooooold roots of the ooooooold Oak Tree.
Then he leaves to give a dream to a mountain of white clay that is exposed nearby. He blowwwwws his breath and gives shape to this mountain.
He bloooooows and gives it shape. The shape of a man.
A HUUUUUUUUGE man!!!!
A GIANT!!!!
He blows the breath of life into the man and feed him a piece of the root of the ooooold Oak Tree. The Giant - the russians call him
Dubnyia or Dubnji (No idea how to write this)
Dubnyia goes out to find the stump of the ooooooold Tree from where he got his Life Strength and, finding it, he digs up its biggest root.
He creates a formidable huuuuuuge club out of it. With this he hits the Earth. This re- awakens Mother Rus - or Mat’ Sira Zemlyna, as she is also called in russian (Umai E'ene in my language) and she sends forth the animals and flowers and grasses to sprout again.
Dubnyia now walks the Earth, coming back to our land regularly - when the Firebird has blown across Mat’Sira Zemlyna(the land) melting the snow and the Swan Maiden (pleiades stars) align with Börü - Cögys, the Spring Star, he awakens the Old Mother and the cycle of the year starts.
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To me the man on the card is the Giant, Dubnyia with his Oak club, that men touch to get strength in battle and upon who’s penis woman pray to conceive a child.
The Fire around him is the Power of our Firebird, Zharptitsa, and he is white, because he is made of the white clay from the mountain....
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Also:
When there is danger for the village, the shaman (my Great-grandmother) selected 9 maidens ( - the Star maidens) and 3 widows (the Keening Woman) to take knifes or shards of metal and scrape a furrow around the village. They were only dressed in light blue or white undergowns and had their hair all long and raking the ground. They would sing specific songs and recite specific prayers. This would ward of famine and sicknesses.
If the the village was under thread of attack by enemies, they would also carve the Dubnyia into the highest point above the village with his club and other weapons. This geoglyph would be decorated with white Goose feathers, so the Guardians Above can see him and, in turn watch over him, while he protects the village......
Sooooo....
How did Dubnyia get to England?
