#prehistoric rituals

[sohannabarberaesque]

Poetry Corner

Talk about your bonding exercise: Picture no less than The Slag Brothers and Captain Caveman, as unlikely a relative as relatives could get from prehistory, camping out in prehistoric manner essentially beside some essentially pristine sort of lake ...

and deciding to take up the evening, with sunset somewhat imminent, in the lake, diving in as prehistoric a manner as it could get (as in wearing just themselves by and large) in the summery mildness of the lake waters just basically holding their breath,

diving to the lake bottom, finding the rays of the otherwise dying sun streaming in what basically is a rather mystical manner on the sands of said lake bottom, all three prehistorics kneeling in what is essentially underwater prayer (and most silent, obviously) unto their deities from the prehistoric time--

followed by what essentially could be considered prehistoric sacramental arousal between the legs, itself found to be at once mystical and delightful, leading to some bonding-type thigh sex most sacred during the ascent back to shore--and such a feel the ejaculatory show of release can bring about, just like in prehistoric time essentially!

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[thesilicontribesman]

Neolithic Petrosphere, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland

[siliconpoems]

'The Hushed' Poetry and Art Pamphlet is out now on Etsy @silicontribesman

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

[neanderthalfunerary]

Term Paper: Mortuary Practices in the Symbolic Culture of Neanderthals

Abstract: The significance of burial rituals for Homo neanderthalensis throughout their time on Earth attests to a rich symbolic culture and a cognitive capacity for social organization and connectedness, yet a sparse fossil record restricts comprehensive understanding of behavioral processes driving both unique and widespread interment techniques.

From pinpointing the advent of intentional burials, to finding distinct patterns within chronological and population groupings, there are no easy answers to the questions posed by available literature. Examining funerary site features alongside constructs such as symbolic culture, sociality, and modernity requires a reinterpretation of models rooted in our own species’ characteristics.

Nevertheless, it is clear that Neanderthals shared a complexity akin to that of early Homo sapiens, and future findings will only enhance our understanding of their advanced connection to the environment and peoples around them.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Now imagine the sort of bonfires as form part of such orgies that the Hair Bear Bunch can put on during their mating season road trips.

Especially considering that such could harken back to prehistoric times (or is that "prehysteric"?) and the ritual fires as would be lit for ritual orgies in offering to primitive deities of fertility ... as well as introducing the young to sexual wonder.

@railguner34 @groovybribri @funtasticworld

[sewergirls]

every time I see someone talking about "tiny tight young pussy" my immediate knee-jerk reaction is to think about how cavernous, gigantic, and ancient my pussy is. it's bigger and far more powerful than any small, uselessly tight pussy. you wouldn't understand.

[autism-corner]

wait names are so cute. you mean theres a word that sprecifically refers to me? everyone has a word that mostly unique to them?? thats so cute.

[princefluph]

Dinovember day 13! Carnotaurus! A Theropod from the late Cretaceous! I cant unsee this little mating ritual Im so sorry I just love its little arms. For those who havent seen it look up Prehistoric Planet Carnotaurus mating dance.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Picture, if you will ...

... Captain Caveman undergoing a "rebirthing" ritual, if you will, not unlike such he may have known back in prehistoric times, as set up by his cousins Rock and Gravel (The Slag Brothers) involving a womb-like chamber set underwater, the whole being rather mystical in its own way....

[whencyclopedia]

Etowah Mounds

Etowah Mounds (also known as Etowah Indian Mounds) is a National Historic Landmark and archaeological site near Cartersville, Georgia, USA, enclosing the ruins of a prehistoric Native American city whose original name is unknown. The present designation of Etowah means "town" in the language of the Muscogee-Creek Native Americans.

The city was built in three phases between c. 1000 - c. 1550 and the present site encloses three large and three smaller mounds surrounding a central plaza. The three large mounds were the chief’s residence (Mound A), the ceremonial site for religious rituals (Mound B), and the burial site for the nobility (Mound C); the smaller mounds are each attached or nearby the larger. Between the three was a plaza, which served for ceremonies, commerce, and as a ball field.

The city was built and flourished during the period known as the Mississippian culture (c. 1100-1540 CE) when many of the best-known mound sites in North America – such as Cahokia and Moundville – were also constructed. The city seems to have developed from a small village community of the Woodland Period (c. 500 BCE - 1100 CE) whose inhabitants were related to those who built Etowah and the later Creek and Muskogee Native American tribes of the region who lived in and near the site.

The Cherokee Nation arrived in the region from the north in the 15th century CE and settled at Etowah, but they, like many others in the area, had their numbers depleted by European diseases they had no immunity to. The Creek and Cherokee remained on the land, however, until gold was discovered in the region and they were forcibly removed to Oklahoma by order of President Andrew Jackson (served 1829-1837) in the 1830s, a tragic loss of land and heritage to the First Nations through the forced migration that has come to be known as the Trail of Tears.

The mounds were first noted by Americans in 1817 and test-sited in 1883 but no major excavations were begun until 1925 when the famous (or infamous) archaeologist Warren K. Moorehead (l. 1866-1939) arrived at the site. Moorehead’s work on Mound C – the most completely excavated area of the site to date – unearthed a number of significant artifacts which enabled the dating of the site to the Mississippian culture period. Excavations since Moorehead’s have been sporadic, but it is believed, based on what has been found and the general preservation of the site, that Etowah is the most intact of the Mississippian culture mound sites of the southeast built by the ancestors of the Muscogee-Creek Nation.

The Mound Builders & Mississippian Culture

The Mississippian culture is often cited as though it were the beginning of monumental mound-building, but mounds were built thousands of years before in North America. Watson Brake Mounds dates to c. 3500 BCE and Poverty Point to c. 1700-1100 BCE, with the Mississippian culture’s mounds following. The Mississippian culture has become the best known and most closely associated with mound-building, however, owing to the proliferation of mounds prior to that period and the skill of the people of the Adena culture (c. 800 BCE - 1 CE) and the Hopewell culture (c. 100 BCE-500 CE) who perfected mound-building and provided the model for later works such as the famous Mississippian Cahokia Mounds and Moundville.

Many mounds were constructed during the Archaic Period (c. 8000-1000 BCE) and the Woodland Period (c. 500 BCE - 1100 CE), but these differed from the later Mississippian culture sites, such as Etowah, in that those of the Adena were conical while those of the Hopewell were either effigy or flat-topped mounds. The Mississippian culture borrowed from both traditions in the creation of their mounds which were influenced, at least in part, by the religious beliefs spread throughout the region by the Hopewell culture.

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[cellulosaurus]

Dinovember day 13: Carnotaurus (and maybe mating ritual)

The wrestling bulls! I kind of just "updated" Prehistoric Planet's design, but also added my own touch by giving them blue on the bottom of the horns (PP's blue arms are cute but not the most likely in my opinion)

Hope you like 'em, @1dinodaily

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

 Rituals could include rituals with masks and various vessels. A woman (eventually a man) who had been performing a ritual ceremony was another being. Ritual practices apparently related to the role of shamans (...) illustrate totally unique findings of masks in the late Neolithic (and Eneolithic). The unmistakable mask had the female statuette „Vidovdanka” from the settlement Vinča - Belo Brdo (Serbia). On the face are to see mainly eyes and nose. The mask is clearly visible from the profile.

There is also a head of the figure with a mask or another head of a statuette with a mask. There is a hole on each side. These holes were used apparently to fasten.

Very famous is the female statue again Vinča culture from the settlement Liubcova on the left bank of the Danube (Banat, Judeţul Caraş-Severin, Romania).

The statuette holds a mask in the left hand and a jug in the right hand. The head of this statuette is broken.

The half of the ceramic mask of the Vinča culture in the size of face comes from a tell-settlement enclosed with two ditches in Uivar in western Romania.

“A probe into the spiritual life of prehistoric people,a reflection of shamanism in archaeology” by Jaromír Kovárník

[dat-lil-shark]

Transformers and Cavemen:

Imagine if Transformers arrived on Earth during the prehistoric era instead.

And let’s say the Autobots tamed a group of cavemen so they can help them navigate the complicated landscape to track down Decepticons, but they are also growing close with each other.

Optimus is sitting at a desk of the spaceship, calculating plans, while about five to six cavemen were cuddling up in on his legs (and more are trying to climb up) and he’s gently petting all of them.

Ratchet trying to get onto his computer to work but there is a random caveman up there, trying to get his attention.

The cavemen carve little stone shape of the bots they like and the bots put it on their desks as little treasures.

Whenever an Autobot is sick or wounded, all the cavemen came in together, with little drums and flowers, and they do some singing and dancing rituals because they think this can bring their bots back to health. Ratchet find it annoying and always try to shoo them out, but most bots loved it and wanted them to stay.

The cavemen see the Autobots as deities, essentially, and even sometimes bring dead deers and pigs to try to sacrifice it to them (same way cats bring home dead mouse and birds). Optimus try to explain to them they are making a mess but they don’t always understand. So he just throw the offerings out when they are not looking.

The Decepticons also always find cavemen getting into their spaceship cause they thought it is a giant cave (mostly not the ones kept by the Autobots), so the cons tried to keep them out by putting human-sized rat traps all over the place, but the cavemen learn them quick, and Starscream stepped into more of them then any cavemen ever did.

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[deathlessathanasia]

What was exactly Hera's symbolism and relevance in Ancient Greek society? We know that she was very important, but motherhood seems to be more closely associated with Leto, Rhea, or even Demeter, childbirth with Eileithyia and Artemis, marital love with Aphrodite, and royalty, the climate and the sky with Zeus. You have explained in the past that she wasn’t widely believed to punish unfaithful or abusive husbands as well. What would the average Greek man or woman ask Hera for?

In "The Significance of Votive Offerings in Selected Hera Sanctuaries in the Peloponnese, Ionia and Western Greece", Jens David Baumbach analyses votive offerings from six major Hera sanctuaries (the Argive Heraion, her sanctuaries from Tiryns, Samos, Perachora, Poseidonia/Paestum and Foce del Sele). He classifies the votives dedicated to the goddess in the following main categories: childbirth, pregnancy and growing up (includes female fertility, protection for infants, initiation rites, etc); marriage; home and family (includes various domestic activities like the preparation of food, manufacture of textiles, etc); agriculture and vegetation; military concerns. The author finds almost all of these aspects in all the examined Hera cults, though not all are equally prominent throughout time and from one sanctuary to another. This isn't an exhaustive list of things Hera could have been sought for; she also had, for instance, an oracular function at Perachora. It's also possible that some dedications may be interpreted in different ways, but these seem plausible enough.

When discussing the roles of the gods there are two important things to keep in mind:

The functions of the Greek gods can and do overlap frequently. Hera, Artemis, Demeter, Leto and many other deities are all kourotrophoi, concerned with the care of children, to give just one example

A god's functions, significance and importance can vary from place to place. Hera herself was a strongly regional goddess: extremely important in her main centres of worship, much less so elsewhere. Here is an excerpt from Jennifer Larson's "Understanding Greek Religion" explaining Hera's relevance for some of the communities that honoured her the most:

Homer’s portrait of Hera as a fierce patroness, even a foremother, of Achaian warriors has its origins in her most important regional cult. In the Argolid, Hera seems to have been associated from very early times with the concept of the hero, etymologically, in myth and in worship. Afamous and puzzling example is her intimate yet antagonistic relationship with Herakles, the demigod of Tiryns who undertook his labors as a result of her machinations. Hera and Herakles entertained a mutual hostility, yet the name of this native son of Argolis seems to mean “Glory of Hera.” On the Tiryns akropolis, where a Bronze Age megaron and altar had fallen to ruins, Hera began to receive archaeologically visible offerings in the eighth century. The Argive Heraion itself was deliberately juxtaposed to prehistoric ruins, in this case the cemetery of Prosymna, where numerous Geometric offerings were left in Mycenaean tombs. … Many of the same gifts were deposited in both the tombs and the Heraion. ... Next we turn to Hera’s annual festival at the Argive Heraion. The Heraion was a regional cult center, in Classical times under the control of Argos (its earlier status is debated). Although most literary sources on the festival are late, they mention a procession led by shield-bearing youths, girls in white dresses, women’s dances, a ritual involving the presentation of a robe to the goddess, and a footrace, again by young men in arms. A shield was the prize in Hera’s games. …

Hera governed the welfare of cattle herds, the most important index of wealth, as well as the maturation of adolescent boys into warriors, and girls into wives and mothers. Terracotta figurines from the Heraion show the goddess in her maternal role as nurturer of youths (kourotrophos), holding a child in her lap. … In the Argive peninsula, then, Hera gave prosperity, progeny and military victory, each equally crucial to the welfare of the community. This picture of a goddess who oversaw the most fundamental needs of her people contrasts with that in most other parts of the Greek world, where Hera received far less attention. … Again, if our data were confined strictly to evidence from Athens, we would conclude that Hera was a minor goddess, significant mainly for her role as Zeus’ bride … Hera appeared as Zeus’ consort in many minor cults around the Greek world, but she was worshiped as a preeminent deity in only a few places other than Argolis. …

Second to the Argive Heraion in fame was the goddess’s sanctuary on the Ionian island of Samos, founded in the early Geometric period (but not mentioned in the Iliad). … As in Argolis, Hera was dominant here, a “great goddess.” Situated on a well-traveled maritime route, the Heraion at Samos attracted an international clientele of travelers and traders who dedicated rich gifts: Egyptian ivories and scarabs, Phoenicianand Babylonian bronzes, and gold jewelry. … As in Argolis and Lesbos, Hera’s Samian cult helped to shape her people’s ethnic and civic identity. Colonists in sixth-century Naukratis, a trading emporiumin Egypt, established a sanctuary of Hera, because worship of this goddess was a distinctive sign of their Samian origins …

Hera’s major Aegean sanctuaries (Argos, Samos, Perachora) are notable for Geometric dedications of miniature houses, which have been variously interpreted as models of her earliest temples, or of domestic dwellings. More recently, de Polignac contrasted the house models with a similar series of ship models and actual ships dedicated in Hera sanctuaries (Samos as well as Kroton and Gravisca in Italy), proposing that the houses could have been dedicated by women, and the ships by men. Several other distinctive votive types recur in Hera’s Archaic sanctuaries, suggesting consistent themes in her worship. These include metal and terracotta shields, which refer to her ancient role in nurturing warriors. The ship models in Samos and Italy were probably connected with Hera’s sponsorship of maritime trade ventures and colonization, a theme with affinities to her Iliadic role as a patroness of the Greek expedition to Troy.

During the eighth and seventh centuries, Greeks emigrated to Italy and Sicily in large numbers. Many were from the northern coast of the Peloponnese, an area which would later be known as Achaia. … There were no major temples or sanctuaries of Hera on the northcoast of the Peloponnese to compare with the Argive Heraion. Yet the colonists established important Hera cults at Sybaris, Poseidonia, Kroton and Metapontum and defined themselves as “Achaians.” The people of Poseidonia especially seem to have regarded Hera as preeminent, given that two of the city’s major sanctuaries were devoted to her, one in the city and one at the extraurban site of Foce del Sele. … Why did the colonists choose Hera as their patron goddess? Homer’s catalogue of ships (Il. 2.569–80) states that the towns of the northeastern coast (Pellene, Hyperesia, Helike and Aigion) belonged in the holdings of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Colonists from this area drew on the epic tradition and expressed a claim to be descendants of Homer’s “Achaians” when they installed Hera, protectress of Greek warriors abroad, in the new sanctuaries of the West.