pearlo:thedailywhat:Ancient Roman Artifacts of the Day: These carved bone phalluses with finely deta
pearlo:thedailywhat:Ancient Roman Artifacts of the Day: These carved bone phalluses with finely detailed wings — dating back 1,600 to 2,000 years — were dug up in Britain and recently published in the journal Britannia. Splendid![animalny]Winged Phalluses is the name of my second album.I’m a bit wary about the interpretation of that article on some things, but Roman Britain is one of the most..unexpected…history you’ll learn if your background is Western civ because Roman Britain despite having “Roman” and “British” in its name, thus seeming to imply something familiar, is not. Human skull altars! Head hunting! Mithras! Healing fountains! It’s a frontiers of the known(Roman) and the unknown(Britain) (doubtless because most of the sources are Roman), but even the Romans were employing a system of assimilation that’s been mostly lost in modern times. Anyways, ancient history is very interesting in ways than just costumes and weapons and customs. Ancient Historical Peoples= they are complicated and they’re not you. And this is why I love HBO!Rome… -- source link
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