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2025-02-11 12:28 UTC
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)
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@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com 2025-02-11 12:28
And sure, that interpretation may not be entirely wrong, but calling them Venus figurines is a misnomer. It's not even close to a "Goldilocks" comparison, or rather, we can try to make it one, but we have nothing but interpretation, sometimes cleverly based on correlation, like the more curvier figurines seem linked to colder periods. The researchers posited that the figurines could've served as ideological reminders about what increases a woman's survival chances in such climates. (4/12)