They weren’t “fertility idols” they were toys. But thousands of years from now barbie will get the same treatment after they find some collector’s shine in an old basement.
Nah. It’s important to understand a lot of fertility gods were also harvest gods and such, the fat is a sign of plenty of bounty and success in a world where starving to death could happen through no fault of yours.
It’s like the people saying hUrR dUrR itS JuSt PoRn.
Yeah, probably that too, but the idea of sexless, boring gods is a very new Caananite perversion.
Our toys are “sexy” too. They are still toys. Why wouldn’t our ancestors have given their kids dolls to play with? Why is every thing from ancient cultures a ceremonial artifact? How many ceremonial items do any of us have in our homes? Why do we like to treat people of the past like an entirely different species? They were humans just like us and behaved very much like we do because they are us. And we give our kids toys. When people dig up landfills a thousand years from now to learn about us they are going to find heaps of discarded plastic toys we made for our kids and then declare they are part of fertility rituals too. As is tradition.
Is the same as this:
They weren’t “fertility idols” they were toys. But thousands of years from now barbie will get the same treatment after they find some collector’s shine in an old basement.
Nah. It’s important to understand a lot of fertility gods were also harvest gods and such, the fat is a sign of plenty of bounty and success in a world where starving to death could happen through no fault of yours.
It’s like the people saying hUrR dUrR itS JuSt PoRn.
Yeah, probably that too, but the idea of sexless, boring gods is a very new Caananite perversion.
Our toys are “sexy” too. They are still toys. Why wouldn’t our ancestors have given their kids dolls to play with? Why is every thing from ancient cultures a ceremonial artifact? How many ceremonial items do any of us have in our homes? Why do we like to treat people of the past like an entirely different species? They were humans just like us and behaved very much like we do because they are us. And we give our kids toys. When people dig up landfills a thousand years from now to learn about us they are going to find heaps of discarded plastic toys we made for our kids and then declare they are part of fertility rituals too. As is tradition.