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2009-09-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Experts reject religious value of ancient figurines

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 they could have been teaching aides...
All were found in the trash...

What were they teaching? That women are trash? Maybe, that women are disposable?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-09-11 09:15|| 2009-09-11 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 More likely, they were toys carved for kids.

"See kid...this is a sheep...it goes Baaa."

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2009-09-11 13:12|| 2009-09-11 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Petrified animal crackers?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-11 13:17|| 2009-09-11 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Notice the source? It's from Iran.

The whole point of this is to deny that there was a matrifocal culture in the Neolithic. The reporting here is tendentious, to say the least.

Catal Hoyuk is generally agreed to be a religious shrine at which the small clay figurines were offered with sacrifices. In the shrine buildings themselves are figurines of much higher quality, made to last, which sit in the niches in the rooms. The most famous of these is a female figure shown giving birth to a bull-headed god.

Posted by lotp 2009-09-11 18:58|| 2009-09-11 18:58|| Front Page Top

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