On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:24:17 -0500 rick and/or linda strong
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
 being an anthropologist wannabe,  I am very intrigued by
the venus figurines and the wild debate as to what they meant to the
creators

Ardeith writes:
At a time when our ancestors had no way to know how
women became pregnant, it must have seemed a miracle
to them. In the primitive cultures our modern anthropologists
have studied, how the baby got in there was a mystery....
some thought intercourse simply opened the way for the
sun or moon or even the wind to impregnate the female.
Babies were vital to the survival of the family/clan/tribe
.....and pregnant women, obviously carrying around a
miracle, might well have been honored or revered in
some way.........
Also, consider this.....if a clan was doing so well that
some of its people could get fatter than the norm.....
that was obviously a successful clan.....

Are any of you familiar with the African tribe in which
the men hold "fat" contests?  They decide to get as
fat as possible.....do no work, drink milk by the
gallon....and eat almost continously....then after a
set time, they weigh themselves....the fattest man
is the winner......but I don't know what he wins....
or how they weigh themselves......perhaps on
a balanced board or something.......maybe the
point of the whole thing is that a man must have
enough cows to supply the milk, and enough
people dedicated to him to supply the food....
and this marks him as a successful man........
I dunno........

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