Walk down the oldest road in England, then climb Dragon’s Hill (where, legend has it, George battled his infamous Dragon)…there you will see it – the prehistoric Uffington white horse – a wonder of the world!
Modern technology tells us that it has been galloping this same Oxfordshire hill for 3000 years. But why was it made? And why was it kept, re-scoured with chalk by generation after generation of hands?
If the horse could talk – what would it tell us?
Perhaps it is already speaking to some higher authority; for it is only with the advent of planes and drones that we can see the beauty of the horse clearly. We need a birds-eye view, or perhaps a God’s eye view…
This exquisite little Bronze Age horse may hold the key. It is a ‘solar-horse’, a horse as bringer of the sun – a centuries old belief.
As a child, like many children, I used to draw with white chalk on the pavement; simple symbols, like the sun. Do we have a worship of the sun to thank for this treasure caught forever mid-stride on an English hillside?
