BSC2024 - Tarnegol - Shamans' Sacred Space

[Tarnegol]

I couldn't face another Biblical build, so I'm going to have a go at something to reawaken my 'resting' Paleo Diet project. I'm not not entirely sure of the final form, but I intend that it should include a shelter (perhaps a hollow tree trunk), water (either a pond or a stream), medicinal plants, skulls and at least one standing stone. As always I shall include a bird, in this case a rather nice 3d printed hoopoe, which I shall ruin with paint!

[has.been]

Ah! Going for an Oldie but a goodie!

[Daeothar]

Sounds really intriguing

Don't forget the bones and a rock for them to paint hands and sacred animals on

Best of luck!

[Tarnegol]

Here we go:
The first few bits; a plywood hexagon base, a piece of polycarbonate for the water, a 3d printed mammoth skull, some interesting stones and some laser cut herbal medicine...

[Vanvlak]

This already looks cool as a pile of components! 

[snitcythedog]

What a good horde of materials to start with. 

[Tarnegol]

So, the first bit of making. A 3mm thick, 300mm diameter plywood hexagon with a layer of 3mm mdf to allow the formation of a 'pond'.
A bit of glue and filler, and most obviously and importantly a stone circle. All Presceli Bluestone with the exception of the single white stone on the right of the picture which is ulexite, 'coz I wanted a white stone and was unable to find a suitable bit of quartzite!

And the answer, in this case, to the 'What music...' thread elsewhere is Wishbone Ash, Argus.

Bonus points for identifying the original of the 'pond' shape...

[Daeothar]

Absolutely clueless on the origin of the pond shape I'm afraid, but it's looking very promising already!

Any particular reason for the white stone? Some intrigueing piece of fluff perhaps?

[Tarnegol]

Any particular reason for the white stone? Some intrigueing piece of fluff perhaps?

There is a stone circle in Cornwall, Boscawen un, which has 20 odd granite stones and a single one of quartzite. It has prodded my curiosity for years, but have yet to invent the fluff!

As for the pond shape a fellow Wiltshireman or reader of Michael Dames may get it...

[Thargor]

Is it the Summoning Dark?

[Tarnegol]

Herewith the next stage - the base has been thickened, due to warping, and the pond deepened. (Incidently, the pond shape is nicked from the one that forms around Silbury Hill during the winter.) Eventually the skulls of the Honoured Dead will hang from the mammoth's tusks and the clear cylinder at rear left will be replaced by a hut/shelter, probably a bender in the finest tradition of the Stonehenge Free Festival. I have some squatters waiting to move into the hollow tree.

My apologies for the abominable colour of the background!

[Lost Egg]

It's just a glorious sunrise/sunset

Looking good.

[Daeothar]

Nice progress; I like the mammoth skull!

[tomrommel1]

nice start

[Burgundavia]

Nice progress; I like the mammoth skull!

Seconded. I used to have that same skull, fear I might have thrown it away at some point, was a wonderful sculpt.