Posted on 12/12/2011 4:11:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Archeologists have discovered previously unknown fragments of a figurine known as the "Lion Man," and are piecing it back together. Could the 35,000-year-old statue actually represent a female shaman?
...Using a hand hoe and working in dim light, geologist Otto Völzing burrowed into the earth deep inside the Stadel cave in the Schwäbische Alb mountains of southwestern Germany. His finds were interesting to be sure, but nothing world-shaking: flints and the remnants of food eaten by prehistoric human beings.
Suddenly he struck a hard object -- and splintered a small statuette.
It was 1939 and Völzing didn't have much time. He had just been called up to serve in the military and World War II was about to begin. He quickly packed the pieces into a box and the excavation, which was being financed by the SS, was terminated on the same day.
For the next 30 years, little heed was paid to the pieces. But then, they were reassembled to create one of the most impressive sculptures of the Paleolithic Age.
Called the Lion Man, it is fashioned from the tusk of a mammoth and stands about 30 centimeters (12 inches) tall. Its creator polished it with saliva and leather -- and an experiment showed that it likely took the sculptor about 320 hours to carve the figure...
German archeologist and Upper Paleolithic expert Joachim Hahn has interpreted the small plate on the abdomen as a "penis in a hanging position." Elisabeth Schmid, a paleontologist, classified it as a pubic triangle...
The statue has been made into an "icon of the women's movement," says Kurt Wehrberger of the Ulm Museum...
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
The Lion Man found in the Stadel cave. The Paleolithic figurine, carved out of mammoth ivory, was found on the eve of World War I. Archeologists have been puzzling over its meaning ever since. Indeed, they haven't even decided on its gender. But new pieces found recently may help researchers solve the mystery. [thomas-stephan.com]
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It could be an bleepin' lion -- just an idea. |
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lol.
They can’t say if its male or female....
But yet they will conjecture as much as they can to get more funding.
Either way, ‘it’ would have the legal right to go into either Connecticut public bathroom.
And they still can’t say if it’s male or female...
It is gender confused!
chaching!
More funding!
So we have lion men in Europe, dog men in Egypt and of course the sphinx. Interesting. Those ancients had quite the imagination, I guess.
Male? Female? So what? Why must people be so judgemental? Isn’t it up to the statue to determine its own sexuality?
Maybe Leo/nette had two mommies? Two daddies?
Gunner
LOL!
It is gender confused!
chaching!
More funding!
Lion Man - Mumford and Sons
LOL!
...or an Episcopal seminary
Sure looks like something is hanging “down there.”
Lion Man, Lion Man,
Does whatever a lion can!
Ancients with a sense of humor would have made a Potato Man.
Do they have their own pagan ritual for worshiping this idol?
I think I know this guy
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