http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/12/29/blonde-virgins/ anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:31:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/12/29/blonde-virgins/#comment-138449 Trevor ap Simon Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:45:39 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/12/29/blonde-virgins/#comment-138449 Some wild speculation: Maybe pigmentation attributed to Virgin has something to do with what's in the water. At various springs around Barcelona (eg Mare de Déu del Coll, Font Groga), sudden changes in water colour due to deposits in the soil were accounted for in quasi-religious folklore in terms of appearances of the Mother of God or other supernatural figures. So if you get high concentrations of iron appearing in the water, and iron is useful to you, you invent a red-headed goddess; if on the other hand hydrocarbons are coming thru and you know how to burn coal, you invent a black goddess. Apparent immediate problem: presence of black virgins in places where no geological reason for water to flow black, and no record of it having done so. Some wild speculation: Maybe pigmentation attributed to Virgin has something to do with what’s in the water. At various springs around Barcelona (eg Mare de Déu del Coll, Font Groga), sudden changes in water colour due to deposits in the soil were accounted for in quasi-religious folklore in terms of appearances of the Mother of God or other supernatural figures. So if you get high concentrations of iron appearing in the water, and iron is useful to you, you invent a red-headed goddess; if on the other hand hydrocarbons are coming thru and you know how to burn coal, you invent a black goddess. Apparent immediate problem: presence of black virgins in places where no geological reason for water to flow black, and no record of it having done so.

]]> http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/12/29/blonde-virgins/#comment-90383 kalebeul » Interrogation of a French freemason by the Spanish Inquisition Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:48:13 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/12/29/blonde-virgins/#comment-90383 [...] The office’s worries about celestial imagery are amusing given its own penchant for sun goddesses–check the wonderful Úbeda virgin in Barcelona’s church of Santa Anna sometime; I’ve also got various related posts. I don’t know if this paranoia helps explain the slow development of astronomy in Spain. [...] [...] The office’s worries about celestial imagery are amusing given its own penchant for sun goddesses–check the wonderful Úbeda virgin in Barcelona’s church of Santa Anna sometime; I’ve also got various related posts. I don’t know if this paranoia helps explain the slow development of astronomy in Spain. [...]

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