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1 posted on 08/22/2011 2:54:23 PM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

Mamma Mia


2 posted on 08/22/2011 2:55:06 PM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

Somebody hacked my tree!

3 posted on 08/22/2011 2:56:58 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: woofie

whatsa matta fa you!!!


4 posted on 08/22/2011 2:58:39 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: woofie

Is that a pic with or without the symbols? [Sorry if it’s a dumb question, but I can’t tell.]


5 posted on 08/22/2011 2:58:50 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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9 posted on 08/22/2011 3:01:30 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: woofie

I’ve seen this before. That looks like the original.


14 posted on 08/22/2011 3:06:37 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: woofie

Imagine what that thing would be like when the winds pick up.


19 posted on 08/22/2011 3:19:15 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: woofie

Rudy Giuliani had to do the same ting in New York City. The liberals were mocking Christianity.


24 posted on 08/22/2011 3:31:12 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: woofie

Rudy Giuliani had to do the same thing in New York City. The liberals were mocking Christianity.


25 posted on 08/22/2011 3:31:22 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: woofie
This is nothing new.

Of the thousands of documentaries that have been done on Ancient Egypt, I have seen only one that correctly and accurately depicted the daily rituals the temple priests would go through and the statuary they used. These rituals included a numvber of statues with very large phallic appendages. The rituals were lengthy and...let's say graphic.

But all that has to be kept out of a Nat Geo show or any other for that matter.
Peepees are dirty. Can't have phallic images on the old TeeVee.

33 posted on 08/22/2011 3:56:20 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Deploy. Dominate. Disappear.)
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To: woofie

What a couple of dickweeds.


36 posted on 08/22/2011 4:03:20 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: woofie

Dangling phallus ping......


44 posted on 08/22/2011 4:49:04 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
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To: woofie

Is that a woman, uh, poking a stick at one of the phallic symbols in the tree? A forerunner of NAG, perhaps.

All jokes aside, I had an art history prof in college who devoted almost an entire class to Italian phallic art. The good professor seemed to get his jollies showing college students pictures that would normally be verboten.


54 posted on 08/22/2011 5:15:32 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: woofie

Some women think it’s only money that grows on trees.


56 posted on 08/22/2011 5:20:10 PM PDT by Gator113 (Palin 2012, period.....)
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To: woofie

Are they nuts?


60 posted on 08/22/2011 5:30:41 PM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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61 posted on 08/22/2011 5:34:14 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: woofie; SunkenCiv
This seems to be a variation on the Tree of Life, the ancient fertility symbol. It's a very unusual piece, however, for Medieval Western Europe.

I'd hate to think any modern Western art scholar would deface a painting in restoration by altering its appearance.

68 posted on 08/22/2011 5:57:11 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: woofie; SunkenCiv
Go here for a close-up showing the images. http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/zxMassa.htm

This site also has an alternative explanation for the mural as having nothing to do with fertility, but complex imagery warning that if the Ghibelline party were to take over they city would be, well, screwed. The menacing eagles support that interpretation as they were a symbol of the Ghibelline or Imperial Party. Massa was a wealthy Guelph, or Papal city.

Maybe the mural survived because others thought it was a fertility piece and not political art.

71 posted on 08/22/2011 6:14:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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