A wooden mask dating to the early 3rd century CE, discovered in 2023 at the Nishi-Iwata Ruins in Osaka, Japan. Archaeologists believe that the object was used in harvest festivals to petition the gods [2124×2195]
A wooden mask dating to the early 3rd century CE, discovered in 2023 at the Nishi-Iwata Ruins in Osaka, Japan. Archaeologists believe that the object was used in harvest festivals to petition the gods [2124×2195]
Surely such a lazy and uninspired mask would only serve to anger the gods and incur their terrible wrath?
They must have got such a smiting for this.
koei19 on
I kind of hate the default “religious rituals,” assumption. Like prehistoric humans did nothing but survive and worship. If there’s other evidence in context to support the assumption that’s one thing, but in the absence of evidence what’s to say that this wasn’t a mask for plays or storytelling, or even just something someone carved for fun over the course of a long, boring winter?
RoookSkywokkah on
Some 8-year old kid made this out of a piece of scrap. Not a cool enough story though!
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>used in harvest festivals to petition the gods
Sounds like some kind of religious ritual to me.
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Somebody stop me!!!
Surely such a lazy and uninspired mask would only serve to anger the gods and incur their terrible wrath?
They must have got such a smiting for this.
I kind of hate the default “religious rituals,” assumption. Like prehistoric humans did nothing but survive and worship. If there’s other evidence in context to support the assumption that’s one thing, but in the absence of evidence what’s to say that this wasn’t a mask for plays or storytelling, or even just something someone carved for fun over the course of a long, boring winter?
Some 8-year old kid made this out of a piece of scrap. Not a cool enough story though!
Aku Aku has seen better days.
Quick, somebody play the Sun’s Song!
Call Jim Carrey