A cuke named Duke
As we well know all women and men in history that lived together with someone of the same gender were just friends. There are many historical records in which esteemed historians depicted the factual truth of deep friendships. Luckily for the rest of us, those noble seers always knew all context required and bore no prejudices towards anything whatsoever. That is a model cucumber. It even tastes like one.
The Egyptians weren’t always shy, but there do appear to be traces of green paint.
That’s just Min.
you know, after reading and viewing the depictions in the wikipedia article I am going to just keep my mouth shut.
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There are some people in here who are weirdly obsessed with risking a yeast infection.
But bro
You could get yourself a yeast infection with 3000 year old yeast
Was talking more about how many people are insisting cucumbers and eggplants should actually be used like that
sourdough infection
No you see they know it’s a cucumber because ancient Egyptian dildos had a compartment for bees so that users could experience a vibration effect.
This is the economy model. Made for the common folk, not Cleopatra. (That is just an urban legend btw.)
I was not aware of this urban legend, but I will repeat it anyways because it’s funny.
I’m the model of a cucumber Egyptian
“Model cucumber? Hell, nah, son. That there’s a petrified hunk ‘a’ dooky.”
“Ah man, I ate off that thing!”
See also “ancient stone tool.”
Remember that the idiots in the 19th & 20th centuries uncovering all kinds of Egyptian stuff purposefully damaged inscriptions and art because they prominently showed gasp penises!
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“I found this strange fucking object” vs “I found this strange fucking object”
I hope this is your highest voted comment on Lemmy.
“It’s a ritual!” is a classic archaeology meme.
Motel of the Mysteries is basically this joke explored over 95 pages, lovingly illustrated by David Macaulay, the guy who did those black and white books Cathedral, Pyramid, Castle, and The Way Things Work, as well as others. It’s hilarious.
It was probably used for religious purposes of some sort
indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.
Usage was frequently accompanied by callings to a deity from a trance like state.
A very popular ritual that has survived for millennia
Same energy as “Sappho and her friend”
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
“sustain”
Wakes up in the afterlife only to bite into fake food, that’s gotta suck.
You ever tried eating a mouldy cucumber?
How long does it take you to die?
Not something I’m in a hurry to find out!
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.
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?”
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?
Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.
No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s
Let me guess. A model carrot, squash was there also. And a drawing of a farmer with his shirt off.
Butt plugs and corn ribbed for her pleasure
Porous material and no flared bases, not approved.
<thats why she died>
Yeah picture didnt help their cause, thats a whole bunch of ancient sex toys.
How thoughtful of them to ensure that the deceased would have something to put up their butt in the underworld.
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IM sure that’s what they wrote down and I’m sure that’s what the person who had it commissioned said it was but the one thing I am more sure of is that this is not a cucumber and nobody who ever saw it has ever thought it is a cucumber.
From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…
So, a bunch of dildos and buttplugs. Even a ribbed one!
they chose to hide it in plain sight
Why does that sound like the voice of experience?
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Theoretically even a buttplug could be assembled using 2 of the veggies
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