Al-Wakrah
stadium. Photograph: Aecom
The
design for Qatar's new Al-Wakrah sports stadium
has quickly gone viral: with its shiny, pinkish tinge, its labia-like
side appendages and its large opening in the middle, the supposedly
innocent building ("based upon the design of a traditional Qatari dhow
boat") was just asking for trouble.A while back I wrote about Yoni stones, the documentary "Half the Sky", and the strange "Black Stone of Mecca", once apparently dedicated to an ancient, pre-Islamic Arabian Moon Goddess, and its amazing silver "yoni" container. Hmm. In the context of such a phallic, patriarchal world, one wonders what Jung might have to say about it all..................or Marija Gimbutas.
