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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I love the ancient "venus" goddess statues which are found in almost all cultures.
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Yes, and mind-staggering to me is that these figures were produced over a period of tens of thousands of years-- several times longer than all of written history put together. Made and used by people no different from us in mental capacity or any other meaningful way (and that condition possibly ranging across several species of humans over at least a couple of hundred years) and all of their many cultures and languages and religions and folklores and oral histories and crafts and artworks and knowledge of those countless millions of lives are all utterly unknown except for a few scraps of bone and stone and pigments scratched on to cave walls.