- geekwithsoul ( @geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ) English160•12 days ago
Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? http://artisticlicenseorwhyitrustnoone.blogspot.com/2022/11/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian.html?m=1
tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife
- Hello_there ( @Hello_there@fedia.io ) 67•12 days ago
Let me guess. A model carrot, squash was there also. And a drawing of a farmer with his shirt off.
- mst ( @mst@discuss.tchncs.de ) English34•12 days ago
- Hello_there ( @Hello_there@fedia.io ) 22•12 days ago
Butt plugs and corn ribbed for her pleasure
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English9•12 days ago
Yeah picture didnt help their cause, thats a whole bunch of ancient sex toys.
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ) English5•11 days ago
How thoughtful of them to ensure that the deceased would have something to put up their butt in the underworld.
- Tja ( @Tja@programming.dev ) English20•12 days ago
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- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) English33•12 days ago
People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn’t a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.
I remember seeing a ton of “archeologists: tHeY’rE jUsT fRiEnDs” comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.
- lennivelkant ( @lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ) English6•12 days ago
Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.
It’s like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the “vaccine bad” part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.
Does anyone still know where the original “just friends” claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•10 days ago
also like, is it really that hard to imagine that archeologists went “well this is a gay couple but uh, we can’t really say that, so let’s just informally agree that ‘close friends’ is euphemism for ‘gay couple’, okay?”
- Tiltinyall ( @Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ) English5•12 days ago
“sustain”
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) English43•12 days ago
It was probably used for religious purposes of some sort
- qprimed ( @qprimed@lemmy.ml ) English18•12 days ago
indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.
- Hupf ( @Hupf@feddit.org ) English15•12 days ago
Usage was frequently accompanied by callings to a deity from a trance like state.
- Soleil (she/her ♀) ( @ethd@beehaw.org ) English23•12 days ago
Same energy as “Sappho and her friend”
- stoy ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) English18•12 days ago
Perhaps it was located next to a pair of model tomatoes
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) English14•12 days ago
The Egyptlogists might have some additional context and knowledge that some rando on Twitter might now.
- FiskFisk33 ( @FiskFisk33@startrek.website ) English9•11 days ago
sure, but experts have been making bad assumptions before.
Like archaeologists up until relatively recently have been calling viking graves with swords in male, without really looking at the actual skeleton.
that said, yeah, I still definitely trust the experts more
- cheesymoonshadow ( @cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ) English4•11 days ago
I’m thinking they found other fruit/veggie/food models with the dildo.
- FiskFisk33 ( @FiskFisk33@startrek.website ) English3•11 days ago
yeah, I still definitely trust the experts more
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) English3•11 days ago
Yeah, I’m also guessing the Tweeter is just a masterbator, not a real doctorbator with a PhD in D.
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ) English1•11 days ago
And there is some green coloration on it, indicating the dildo was once painted to look like a cucumber. Derek Smalls gets it.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) English1•11 days ago
Shouldn’t have just assumed but in that case it was the correct assumption vast majority of the time. Still bad to assume.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) English3•11 days ago
And out of Viking graves with swords, how many of them have turned out to be women?
- 10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) English12•11 days ago
Do a scientific test were you put it in front of a cat and see what happens
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) English2•11 days ago
Then do the same test but you put it in front of Catharina, and see what happens.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English5•12 days ago
“Model cucumber? Hell, nah, son. That there’s a petrified hunk ‘a’ dooky.”
“Ah man, I ate off that thing!”
- PhlubbaDubba ( @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ) English4•12 days ago
There are some people in here who are weirdly obsessed with risking a yeast infection.
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) English4•12 days ago
I’m the model of a cucumber Egyptian
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) English1•12 days ago
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- 10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 days ago
If they found green dye on it sure, if not then it might be for the fertility festival