The Shigur Idol was found in a Russian peat bog in the 1890s and is the world's oldest wooden statue, dated to around 9000 BC, making it roughly contemporary with Gobekli Tepe. The idol or totem originally stood over 17 feet high but is now shorter, 9.2 feet, thanks to pieces lost during the Red Terror.
What a remarkable relic of prehistory and as with Gobekli Tepe, proof that 9000 BC humans were rather more than bark scraping nut gatherers. Were they the successors of of a previous civilization, one that had been destroyed by cataclysm and flood? Possibly, and all you Younger Dryas experts can chime in.
In the meanwhile, behold the face of the idol and ask, what were they thinking? We don't know but I tell you this, it wasn't Christian.
Your Ante-Deluvian Pal,
LSP
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That's as ugly as homemade sin.
Right in the X Ring, Wild.
“Ugly”
Maybe they had “modern art” too. Their own versions of Chagall and Rothko and other purveyors of that kind of … stuff. Maybe they even had their Egon Schiele (that twisted freak and monstrosity).
How did we get to this state anyway? Is it just chance that the freak artists and the “critics” tend to all spring (or slither as the case may be) from the same few pools?
X2 WWW
Me, looks like an alien, one from a UFO/Outer Space, not south of the border. Too bad I took down that one tree, coulda recreated the 17ft version right there on the homestead...for posterity in case the place turned into a future peat bog (Archeologists would be confused finding "another one" on the other side of the planet).
As for "bark scraping nut gatherers", now we have "gatherings of bark eating nuts", who, by all accounts, are worse than what we thought of our early Hunter/Gatherer inhabitants.
The face is one of a confused Pedo Joe...prescient? You be the judge.
I teach Bible and World History to junior high students... I often ask: "are people who lived 2000 or 3000 years ago different than us?"
The response is always about half shaking their heads "no" (wise) and the other half claiming we are superior in every way. They will claim our "mastery" of the veneer of tech - I respond with: "perhaps they had hours to spend on higher thoughts than TikTok and we should be grateful for their contributions".
Working on it...
Ah, MC, the great Rothko.
Try standing side by side with a Rothko enthusiast in a gallery and not break out in violence. Sayn. I've been there.
How did we get here? I call mid/late 19th C radical nihilists as the proximate cause along with Gen Pop indifference to the value they took for granted. And here we are.
Bombarded on every side with ugliness, insanity and, let's be honest, death. Per Williams' satanic Mannasseh, "They build, we destroy."
Quite.
Paul!
I for one applaud your endeavor to erect a 17 ft tribal totem.
And yes, they're nuts.
Now that, LL, is a very good call.
Seamus, I applaud your vocation.
And I recall my first day in an English school around 1972. OK, it was the Dragon in Oxford, which is pretty top level but still, "No," said the teacher, "You cannot speak or behave like this." The youthful impudence, and it was, of my Milwaukee Athenaeum was forbidden.
Basic discipline, to be honest, but now? Have to pay a HUGE PRICE to get that, as a rule. Anyway, I won't bang on. Suffice to say, everything the Left enacts produces the exact opposite of its intended result.
Good luck.
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