And what about that thing @ 4:27? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!!!! Idols give me the creeps.
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Originally Posted by Isabella White
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Well I found out what it was. A madonna-and-child-type image from the Ubaid period. From the Met Museum in New York a little more information is available.
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In the period 5500–4000 B.C., much of Mesopotamia shared a common culture, called Ubaid after the site where evidence for it was first found. Characterized by a distinctive type of pottery, this culture originated on the flat alluvial plains of southern Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) around 6200 B.C. Indeed, it was during this period that the first identifiable villages developed in the region, where people farmed the land using irrigation and fished the rivers and sea (Persian Gulf). Thick layers of alluvial silt deposited every spring by the flooding rivers cover many of these sites. Some villages began to develop into towns and became focused on monumental buildings, such as at Eridu and Uruk. The Ubaid culture spread north across Mesopotamia, gradually replacing the Halaf culture ... There was much continuity between the Ubaid culture and the succeeding Uruk period, when many of the earlier traditions were elaborated, particularly in architecture.
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Get that last sentence.
There was much continuity between the Ubaid culture and the succeeding Uruk period, when many of the earlier traditions were elaborated, particularly in architecture. And not only archirecture. THIS. IS. EXACTLY. WHAT. ABRAHAM. WAS. GETTING. AWAY. FROM. And there's line of continuity in idols from that atrocious thing to Ur and Babylon, then via assorted barbaric creeds to Rome. What precise mutterings went along with that, who knows? The mumblings of liars are rarely recorded but the idols stay the same, apart from adjustments for dress styles or hats which is convenient because it's one way to date them for example a "Mary" idol with a grass skirt or a bone through the nose would be a dead giveaway. Here's a little quiz.
A Mary idol in a grass skirt most likely comes from
a Pacific island
Greenland
Tierra del Fuego
A Mary idol with a bone through its nose most likely comes from
England
darkest Africa and she's probably a cannibal
Maine
A Mary idol with 15 arms holding a blue elephant most likely comes from
Japan
Tasmania
India
Abraham was just as revolted as I was. Sometimes I wonder if idolators are ever revolted by anything.