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Carved cave turtle may have been worshipped 35,000 years before Christianity
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Glaciers these days don't have the inevitability they used to, what with all the melting. Although that's here on Roundworld.
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It really is turtles all the way down!
Isn't "it was probably a part of their religion" what archeologists always say when they don't know what it was used for?
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure your statement is probably religious or ritualistic.
I’m not sure
I’m pretty sure
Jokes are funnier when we explain them.
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Lots of things were worshiped before Abrahamic religions came around.
Yeah why is this article framing things as if Anu wasn't being crafty in sumerian mythology before Yahweh even showed up.
The Turtle moves
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When will archeologists just admit that sometimes we don't know the purpose of things, and say so. Maybe somebody just liked carving turtles, surely not every fucking thing ever crafted in antiquity was religious.
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