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they told me not to get lost in the weeds, but these are lush, beautiful, and ecologically necessary native plants so it's probably fine

shisasan

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, All The Precious Words The Love Poems of Rumi, First published 1273

#ellwood tag

deanwinchesterapologist

finding a new doctor. applying for jobs. searching for apartments. messaging used car dealers. getting your health insurance to do their job. getting a pharmacy to do their job. getting the dmv to accept the documents they told you to bring. just listing things they probably make you do in hell

aropride

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

vamptits

practicing radical acceptance about the fact that I'm always gonna be weird and awkward and a little difficult to be around. it's okayyyy to be weird as hell

en-theos

also really really funny that actaeon has sort of gone down as the accidental victim of the god's rules- saw something he wasn't supposed to, didn't seek it out at all, got ripped to shreds anyway- when the fragments of the aeschylean tragedy suggest uh. literally the opposite.

actaeon's hunter reputation is equated to a reputation as ladies' man who considers every maiden in the vicinity as easy prey and boasts that he can distinguish an untrained filly from a mare (yuck) (foreshadowing is a narrative tool etc etc). he is also betrothed to semele whom zeus already has his eye on so (we think) zeus sends artemis to 'deal with him'. what ensues is either actaeon boasting that he is a better hunter than artemis (something agamemnon does too in some myths), or actaeon actively and explicitly hitting on artemis and facing the consequences. we're not even sure if any nudity is included!

which leaves the delicious delicious implications that 1) although the underlying cause (betrothal to zeus' lover) IS unrelated either the tragic structure or the myth itself still warrants a form of hubris that makes actaeon actually a very classical (hah) dick to women! and thus the preying upon maidens theme becomes far less innocuous or accidental, leaving no room for casting actaeon as purely a victim. and 2) it makes artemis not just a hunter but a hunter's trap. she deliberately lures actaeon, a maiden-hunter, by appearing in her maiden form and provoking him into blasphemous behaviour. after which the divine trap closes and he himself becomes the prey. literally. and this reversal of roles (pun intended) is just soso delicious

on the other hand, this very much implies that the (early) greeks could not conceive of divine punishment without a human cause or act of hubris. nuance? don't know her. surely actaeon had done something that warranted him getting ripped to shreds. what was he wearing saying

Tattoo that says "invasive species"

#left cheek invasive species right cheek please don't swat

aropride

i think that i deal with a lot of [remembers this isn't my diary] Nothing. i've never had a problem

moneyissues

speedlimit15

Holy shit wtf how are people just ignoring this?! This is a REAL PICTURE of an EXTRA TERRESTRIAL

teaboot

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

sheilikhal

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

fresne999

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

cymbie8

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

catgirlthecrazy

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

mikkeneko

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

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Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.