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Morti

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Registered: 2018-04-06

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WOT: A Thought on the Venus Figurines

This doesn't necessarily have to do with One Hour One Life, but it's a semi related, off topic thought, regarding our prehistoric ancestors. That I brought attention to the Venus figurines, this can be the case for the figurines that have dated back ten of thousands of years, but it came to me when I was watching a video titled 6000 BCE: Life in Greece & The Balkans - Neolithic Europe Documentary you can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pnv3jelAO4 The whole video is 16 minutes long, but the part that got me thinking about these figurines of women that are commonly found in the Middle East and Southern Europe around the Mediterranean, can be found at 8:00 into the video. The figurines shown here look remarkably like the Venus figurines of the Gravettian Period, 21,000 to 26,000 years ago. So obviously this is something that has stood the test of time, to be going on for at least 20,000 years, from 26,000 to 6,000 years ago.

Now, one of the things you will often hear about these figurines is that people do not understand what they were used for. But, I think I have a pretty good idea of what they represented: they were memento's of hunter's girl's back home. Like a photo of your girlfriend, or wife, in your wallet, on your dashboard, or in a frame on your desk at the office. They served to remind men of the women they wanted to get back home to, either, after a long hunt, or, after a fight with another tribe.

I have thought on and off about these little statuettes, since I first came upon them in encyclopedia articles on archaeology and the history of human beings. Hundreds of books and web pages over the years, that I have dug through, searching for information, to bridge the gap, between the earliest written history, the earliest homo sapiens and the earliest hominids, have all included them as a marker; a milestone, in history. They are found so widespread across the region, yet every article, every presenter of every documentary, every archaeologist, puts them out there like they are a mystery. Maybe, it's just because all those types of people, the scholarly types, don't really understand the minds of soldiers and hunters, people out there risking their lives for their families, for their homes and their, ways of life. These statuettes, these figurines, they were simply those era's versions of photographs, or, a picture of your wife on your phone. When times were bad, they would bring the men's spirits up, and when times were good; a hunt successful, a battle won, they could share that moment with the reminder of their girl back home.

There may be a whole lot more to them then that, they may have been made and sold as kids toys, dolls, to get young girls into the mindset of being mothers early. They may have even been used by women, as guides; inspirations, for better figures that would bear healthier children, in much the same way women look through pictures of other women online, on television and in magazines. I have no doubt, given all the time and places that they were used, they must have served a plethora of purposes. I'm just so tired of hearing people say their use was a mystery... Right, so I paused that video at 8:45 and was going to make a similar comment in it's comment section, but, I've been thinking a lot about this game the last few days, and when the idea that these figurines must have been like pinup girls, came to mind, I wanted to share it with someone special. So I came here. Even though it has almost nothing to do with the game. But I bet it's an idea a lot of you will understand, and relate to. So, thanks for reading my thoughts on this matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines

Bonus thought: What a perfect name "Clactonian" 'Clack' - 'Tone' for the people most renowned for their early endeavors with flint. Even though it's named after a city, and not the sound of the rocks banging together.

Enjoy your day.

They were probably porn.

Grim_Arbiter

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Re: WOT: A Thought on the Venus Figurines

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Laskara

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Registered: 2019-07-21

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Re: WOT: A Thought on the Venus Figurines

I like the way you think

imagining some ancient soldier whipping out his figurine of his ultrathicc chonky GF and shedding homesick tears rn