Posted on 04/15/2005 8:42:19 PM PDT by tbird5
New pornographic figurines from the Stone Age have been discovered in Germany. But researchers can't agree on what the 7,000-year-old sculptures mean. Were our ancestors uninhibited sex fiends, or was reproduction strictly controlled to improve mobility? An increasing number of finds seem to indicate the Stone Age was an orgy of sexual imagination.
The project itself was far from extraordinary. Workers near the Eastern German city of Leipzig were digging a ditch for a new gas line. Hum drum. But what they discovered was far from routine. A backhoe unearthed a 7,200-year-old, Stone Age garbage pit -- and it was filled with refuse from some of the first farmers on the European continent. Moreover, upon rushing to the site, archeologists discovered an 8.2 centimeter (3.2 inches) clay torso buried underground. The legs, abdomen and head were missing, but, according to the lucky archeologists, the figure still had its most important features intact: a "well-shaped behind" and a "short, but impressive" penis.
Since its discovery on August 19, 2003, the partially intact "Adonis from Chernitz" -- as it has been dubbed -- has been creating quite a stir at the state office of archeology in Dresden. Sculptors have carefully recreated the curve of the figure's buttocks and other anatomical minutiae are also clearly visible. Archeologist Harald Staeuble is amazed at the detail.
He's not the only one. The find is clearly a remarkable one -- and is the oldest clay figure ever found anywhere in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
Whats the spooky little shrunken head n'hair thang she has on her shirt ?
Sort of...Eostera (sp?) was a horse goddess,not exactly a goddess of fertility.
Huh-huh, you said 'erect', huh-huh.
Pagan Origins of Easter
http://www.bethhamashiach.com/pagan_origins_of_easter.htm
"'Easter' derived from Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring." [Wiccans claim a Wiccan origin for Easter, which is turning cause and effect on its head, as Wicca is a modern invention]
perhaps you meant Epona, the horse goddess?
http://www.epona.net/
Etruscan Art & Architecture
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/class/489-502/lecture%208.htm
"Tomb of the Lionesses: One recumbent figure holds out an egg, thought to symbolize life (or life after death?)" [I've seen a photo of a nice terracotta tomb sculpture in which the husband is handing the egg to the wife; it was a common and longstanding theme in Etruscan religious art]
Applying the word 'pornography' to stone age man, isn't that a stretch? The Judeo-Christian era was not until about 2k years ago, right? There was no Moral Majority back then.
Nothing gets past you.
I've often wondered the same. How did we get from the "many wives" era of Soloman and David to the Puritanism age (one man/one woman etc.) we are in now. The transition is not well defined in the bible, at least as far as I can tell.
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