RE: The Archaeology Thread
June 23, 2021 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2021 at 11:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That probably wasn't it's primary purpose...but it's hard to believe that no one gave it their best effort. Same with the matron figurines, or the internet.
There were objects like that with a primary purpose to fit, entire statues and temple complexes (or so we've been told by the narrators of history that this was their purpose)....but that comes a fair bit later. One of the things that's always struck me as great about the confluence of sex and the sacred, ny worldview in which the notion of sexual magic by any description is effective, is that praying for rain in those cultures must have been fun - a gratifying experience even if it didn't end up raining. That's just a reason to wake up and do it harder longer the next day. You can see how human beings might lose themselves down a spiral of wanton fucking for effect for thousands of years. At some point in the not too distant past, it's almost as if people started poking their heads up and say..hey, the endless orgy has been great, but at some point we're going to have to fix the roof, it's been leaking this entire time..because, in pretty swift order, overt sexual cults are entirely swept off the cultural map. The people who'd been doing it, for tens of thousands of years (most likely)...even they decided it was time to try something else.
-and humanity has suffered for it ever since, ask the bonobos.
There were objects like that with a primary purpose to fit, entire statues and temple complexes (or so we've been told by the narrators of history that this was their purpose)....but that comes a fair bit later. One of the things that's always struck me as great about the confluence of sex and the sacred, ny worldview in which the notion of sexual magic by any description is effective, is that praying for rain in those cultures must have been fun - a gratifying experience even if it didn't end up raining. That's just a reason to wake up and do it harder longer the next day. You can see how human beings might lose themselves down a spiral of wanton fucking for effect for thousands of years. At some point in the not too distant past, it's almost as if people started poking their heads up and say..hey, the endless orgy has been great, but at some point we're going to have to fix the roof, it's been leaking this entire time..because, in pretty swift order, overt sexual cults are entirely swept off the cultural map. The people who'd been doing it, for tens of thousands of years (most likely)...even they decided it was time to try something else.
-and humanity has suffered for it ever since, ask the bonobos.
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