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12,000-year-old artifact depicts goose having sex with woman
https://gizmodo.com/12000-year-old-artif...2000687668
EXCERPTS: Ancient Greek mythology is full of bestiality, including Zeus turning into a swan to seduce Leda, and Poseidon cursing Pasiphaë into falling in love with a bull. A new discovery in Israel, however, has revealed an artifact representing human-animal canoodling that dates back to thousands of years before the Odyssey.
Archaeologists in northern Israel have uncovered a 12,000-year-old clay figurine of a woman with a goose on her back and identified it as the earliest known figurine of human-animal interactions, shedding light on the development of prehistoric artistic and spiritual expression.
“This discovery is extraordinary on multiple levels,” Laurent Davin, lead author of a paper published yesterday in PNAS and archeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said in a university statement. “Not only is this the world’s earliest figurine depicting human-animal interaction, but it’s also the earliest naturalistic representation of a woman found in Southwest Asia.”
[...] The team theorizes that the scene represents an imagined or mythological dynamic that aligns with animist beliefs, which consider humans and animals to be spiritually connected. In fact, animal remains from the archaeological site indicate that villagers used goose feathers as decorations and turned some goose bones into ornaments, strengthening the creature’s ritual significance... (MORE - missing details)
https://youtu.be/2bIuFcoOXVw
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12,000-year-old artifact depicts goose having sex with woman
https://gizmodo.com/12000-year-old-artif...2000687668
EXCERPTS: Ancient Greek mythology is full of bestiality, including Zeus turning into a swan to seduce Leda, and Poseidon cursing Pasiphaë into falling in love with a bull. A new discovery in Israel, however, has revealed an artifact representing human-animal canoodling that dates back to thousands of years before the Odyssey.
Archaeologists in northern Israel have uncovered a 12,000-year-old clay figurine of a woman with a goose on her back and identified it as the earliest known figurine of human-animal interactions, shedding light on the development of prehistoric artistic and spiritual expression.
“This discovery is extraordinary on multiple levels,” Laurent Davin, lead author of a paper published yesterday in PNAS and archeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said in a university statement. “Not only is this the world’s earliest figurine depicting human-animal interaction, but it’s also the earliest naturalistic representation of a woman found in Southwest Asia.”
[...] The team theorizes that the scene represents an imagined or mythological dynamic that aligns with animist beliefs, which consider humans and animals to be spiritually connected. In fact, animal remains from the archaeological site indicate that villagers used goose feathers as decorations and turned some goose bones into ornaments, strengthening the creature’s ritual significance... (MORE - missing details)
https://youtu.be/2bIuFcoOXVw
