01-06-2014, 06:14 PM
Many pre-modern people considered that lightning marked the path of a physical object, the "thunderbolt." This is why both the bolt and the zig-zag arrow of lightning were shown on Roman shield motifs. In England folk tradition regarded polished stone axe heads from the Neolithic as being thunderbolts; when they were dug up from the ground they thought that it was where lightning had struck.
Martin
Fac me cocleario vomere!
Fac me cocleario vomere!