I want to say “I’m not even mad, that’s just amazing a dude malded so hard his first instinct was to go to a museum and smash irreplaceable and priceless pieces of history” but pieces of priceless and irreplaceable history were broken by a dipshit who could’ve just gone to a kohl’s and had an even better time rampaging through their ceramic dishes section.
APHRODITE was portrayed with ALL KINDS of GENITALS, including a penis: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/h5zzQ1jgFC.jpg
this 108 FOOT tall statue was OUTSIDE HER TEMPLE and a sign of GOOD FORTUNE and POWER: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/Qk6ApPfSfI.jpg
That’s interesting, I’ll have to try to read up on that. Like I knew a bit about her epithets and origins from random youtube videos but I never heard of statues like that. That’s really cool though, like you hear about the native american two spirit thing as like “Wow, these people were so attuned and accepting and shit”, like it’s a unique thing. But it just turns out that it was just crushed under Rome or the church or whatever deep sickness that you can ascribe the Europe.
I mean, even in China one of the euphuisms for male homosexuality, being a cutsleeve, comes from a kinda cute story of an emperor that sliced off part of his sleeve because he had to get up to do emperor shit but his favored male concubine was sleeping on his voluminous emperor robe sleeve
