"Everyone knows what a horse is"
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Cross post to history memes and rough Roman memes
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No, no you don't. Everything that isn't fully functional and necessary for life is a ritual object! And also some of the the other things to! It's all ritual! It's ritual all the way down, baby!
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Underrated joke
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No, no you don't. Everything that isn't fully functional and necessary for life is a ritual object! And also some of the the other things to! It's all ritual! It's ritual all the way down, baby!
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Did it went up or got filled?
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A fertility ceremonial, got it!
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Maybe oversized sweaters were a thing back then
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It’s obviously a dick-measuring tool
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Maybe oversized sweaters were a thing back then
Gotta keep the giants and dragons warm
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Gotta keep the giants and dragons warm
God-sized sweaters and socks to offer at the sermons in temples
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I can't remember if it's an official Asimov book or not, but one of the Foundation books set far beyond even the main series has an archaeological mission finding thousands of ceremonial hard white ceramic bowl-funnels and speculating on their significance to these incomprehensibly ancient peoples.
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People back then loved their religious calendars. That's all they ever talked about. Whole books could be written about them.
But instead of books to write about them, they documented their love of religious calendar artifacts, with more calendar artifacts.