@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com
Post #1576389
2025-02-11 12:28 UTC
We have 200+ known figurines exhibiting the thematic emphasised breasts, hips, sometimes vulva, with a fair majority seeming obese, pregnant or post-pregnancy, made from ivory, antler, bone, stone and clay, found across a huge area from the Pyrenees to South Siberia (around 7,500km), and dated from roughly 14,000 to 38,000 BP, that's a staggering 24,000 year period of anatomically modern human history across various Eurasian cultural eras. (2/12)
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@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com 2025-02-11 12:28
The first Venus figurine was found in 1864 in the Dordogne, France, and named Venus Impudica (immodest Venus) in contrast to Venus Pudica; depictions of Aphrodite/Venus (or other women) in a pose of covering their pudenda with their hands. And somehow that name, and the most common interpretation as a female fertility goddess stuck, even when it turned out these figurines dated much further back than antiquity. (3/12)