German Archaeologists Labor to Solve Mystery of the Nok[Nigeria]

Spiegel ^ | 21 Aug 2009 | Matthias Schulz

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Grimmy]

Wrong threat, sir.

The Nok were beset by, what at the time was known as the “neo sharers”. The “What yours is mine, what’s mine is mine too, gimme gimme, let me kill you for having what I don’t” mindset.

And, of course, with the “all opinions are equal” rule, the poor Nok were defenseless against their own folk who fell into that program of indoctrination, since the program and its indoctrination had no reliance on actual true fact, had no relationship to functional reality and was advanced, advocated and preached by those who had no integrity, honor or ability to relate cause to effect over time.

The neo sharers were immune to reason, argument and protected from debate by a complete lack of critical thinking skills.

The neo sharers then, as now, were a greater threat to the existence of the Nok than the religious murder/death cult a few tribe lands away that was also causing them grief at the time.

[Old Student]

You saw the resemblence, too. I was thinking Homer, but there is that family look...

;)

[coconutt2000]

The government at the time (2,500 years ago) instituted a “teracotta trade”, artificial market with the expectation that people engaged in making teracotta statues and trading in those statues would not be engaged in “climate changing” activities like farming and herding.

[wildbill]

The NOK culture is famous as the originator of the NOK NOK jokes which swept around the world.

One theory about the disappearance of the NOKs occurred when neighboring tribes, tired of the inanities raided NOK villages and said:

Nok, NOK
Who’s there?
Destroyer
Destroyer who?
Destroyer whole tribe, bozos.

[theFIRMbss]

>The variety, inventiveness, and beauty of their design is a beguiling record of cultivated devotion to body ornamentation. But as captivating as these embellishments are, the range of expression in Nok terracottas is far from limited to depictions of idealized health and beauty

Your pic's captioned a
"Seated Dignitary" but
his naughty bits show.

Has any culture
had a ruling that showed,
routinely, their junk?

That pic looks to me
like a statue of a guy
doing number two.

[litehaus]

Some 2,500 years ago, a mysterious culture emerged in Nigeria. The Nok people left behind bizarre terracotta statues -- and little else......

What ? No wheel ? No multi story buildings? No indoor plumbing ?..

Oh Sorry---that was the folks to the Nok's North...sumtim called the Club Med...Minoans and their like....

[null and void]

“Nok Nok!”

Who’s there?

Kenya.

Kenya who?

Kenya show us your birth certificate?

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[marsh2]

In spite of the “junk,” from an aesthetic perspective, I think there is a certain elegance and modernity about the lines of that statute.

[theFIRMbss]

>
>>Has any culture had a ruling class that showed, routinely, their junk?
>>>In spite of the “junk,” from an aesthetic perspective, I think there is a certain elegance and modernity

No, it's beautiful!
First, I left out the word class.
Second, in context,

I meant the word "junk"
in Urban Dictionary's
third way: Naughty bits

I meant the statue's
beautiful, but can it be
a "Dignitary?"

Would any culture's
ruling elite let artists
show their ... private parts?

[Fred Nerks]

Would any culture's ruling elite let artists show their ... private parts?

different cultures consider different body-parts to be 'private'.

[Redcitizen]

The 3 stooges? ( nyuk nyuk )