#ancient monolith

[pokemonbattletournament]

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Round 1 matchup 61

Propaganda for Ancient Monolith:

"The Ancient Monolith is the second type of monolith encountered, and probably the weakest compared to the other two. When captured, it provides the Defend buff to the team, halving all damage recieved! Its enemy counterpart is a monstrous tank that has low attack, but high healing prowess. Appears in desert and temple levels."

Propaganda for Muscle Doll:

"In Rhythm Heaven Megamix you can use StreetPass to fight other people's Muscle Dolls. This is, technically, using a creature to fight for you against other creatures (since Muscle Doll appears to be sentient). It will punch everything down thru the power of rhythm!"

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[sspacegodd]

Today I found myself thinking of inexplicable boulders.

[drathanasius]

[cosmicportal]

Ancient Egyptian statue of Pa-Maj. The basalt torso is entirely covered in ‘magical’ hieroglyphic texts and images of gods. 350-300 BC.

The engraved texts are incantations to be recited out loud for healing and protection against harmful creatures such as snakes and scorpions. Similar protective spells are written on ‘Horus stelae’.

[sarafangirlart]

as northen african the black medusa trend in retelling has always botherd me and i couldn't exactly explain why

this article has put all my thoughts in words

Oh interesting what article is that?

[thesilicontribesman]

Aber Falls Iron Age Roundhouse and Bronze Age Standing Stone, Aber Falls, nr. Abergwyngregyn, Wales

[fallbabylon]

Duloe Stone Circle- Kernow

[optiwashere]

It feels like it's been a pretty thin year so far for metal releases, but the handful of really good albums so far have been fucking killer. New Havukruunu would be enough for me, honestly.

Actually, now that I think about it, it's been mostly a decent black metal year. Few new death metal albums gripped me so far. Hopefully it ends up like the last few years that have been like this and the back half of the year is incredible.

[cyclonopedia]

Monolith of Tlaltecuhtli discovered in Mexico City in 2006 (1502 CE)

Tlaltecuhtli (Classical Nahuatl Tlāltēuctli, Nahuatl pronunciation: [t͡ɬaːl.teːkʷ.t͡ɬi]) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica (Aztec) people. Sometimes referred to as the "earth monster," Tlaltecuhtli's dismembered body was the basis for the world in the Aztec creation story of the fifth and final cosmos.

In carvings, Tlaltecuhtli is often depicted as an anthropomorphic being with splayed arms and legs. Considered the source of all living things, she had to be kept sated by human sacrifices which would ensure the continued order of the world.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Echoes of Stone: Moai and Karajía

The Moai of Easter Island and the Sarcophagi of Karajía in Peru are remarkable cultural landmarks that offer deep insights into the civilizations that created them.

These statues, each displaying distinctive artistic styles, stand as lasting symbols of the spiritual beliefs, social structures, and customs of their respective peoples.

Studying these mysterious figures prompts important questions about the societies behind them — why they were built, what roles they played, and how they were crafted with the tools and knowledge available at the time.

Ongoing research into these monuments continues to reveal new layers of meaning, shedding light on the complexities of ancient cultures and the enduring mysteries that surround their heritage.

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The Sarcophagi of Carajía are unusually large pre-Inca Chachapoyas culture sarcophagi at the archaeological site of Carajía in the Utcubamba Valley, located 18 km northwest of the city of Chachapoyas, Peru (Luya Province, Amazonas Region).

The site contains eight Chachapoyan mummies located on a cliffside, referred to by local residents as the “ancient wise men."

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Moai or moʻai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.

[s38s73r]

Tregeseal, Mên an Dons, Carn Kenidjack. St Just in Penwith, Cornwall /Kernow

[alpaca-clouds]

We kinda look at history wrong

(And school is to blame.)

Building a bit on the historical apocalypse post I wrote. I think, we really make a big mistake in the way we look at history. And that big mistake is looking at the history in defined epoches. Like: 500-1500 in Europe was the middle ages. Ancient Rome lasted from 600BC till 500AD. And Ancient Egypt lasted from 4000 BC till around 300 BC. Stuff like that.

Why do I think this is a mistake? Well, basically because it groups things into "one thing" that are not "one thing".

Do you remember when Assassin's Creed Origin came out? All the Egyptologists would keep telling the people that in fact the pyramids have been build longer ago from the main character's perspective, then the fictional story in the game lay before our current perspective. The Egypt of the game very much is not the Egypt those pyramids were build in. Because literal thousands of years of time had passed in between. The culture developed and changed in between. Ancient Egypt is not one monolith, but like... I honestly do not have the words for it.

Certainly. Technology had not shifted as massively, as it did in those last 100 years from our perspective. But it had shifted a lot. It is to assume that language, too, has shifted a ton in between, even though it is hard for us to know how much. Because we have obviously no audio recordings. We know that the writing system changed a lot. But until someone invents a time machine...

This is as bad with the "middle ages". For several reasons. For one: Those were 1000 years. A lot of stuff happened and changed during those 1000 years. But also: When people say "middle ages" they tend to mean "Europe in the 1000 years between 500 and 1500 AD". At least that is what they think they mean. But what they tend to actually talk about it "England, France and Germany in that time", mostly because a lot of the mainstream research focuses on those areas, but also because we just happen to have more written records from those areas surviving till this day.

But I guarantee you: While technology wise the peasant in 11th century England might not have lived so very different from the peasant in 11th century Wallachia... Culturally they had a very different experience. And that is something that gets lost a lot.

And it really gets us in a ton of problems, when we speak about history. Especially when it comes to certain nerds, that are awfully obsessed with masculinity and whiteness, discussing those eras. Because they tend to often pick and choose something that fits their narrative and that happened somewhere in the 15th century and then just project it out onto the entire medieval period, ignoring any and all sources that actually show things were different at other places and times during the period.

One of my favorite less political things that are brought up again and again is the misconception of "medieval people did not bathe". Which is just plain wrong. Medieval Europe had in fact a very elaborate bathing culture with bath houses, that kept the water heated - at times still using technologies that had survived from Roman times. But... when the plague came again and again, people realized that those, who frequented the bath houses were more likely to catch the plague. And because they did not understand bacteria and such, they assumed that it had something to do with the bathing. So bit by bit in the late medieval period bath houses fell out of fashion and people instead washed at home - often with a cloth. Which did not make them unclean. Just not bathed.

And all of that is without going into the entire idea of history somehow being linear... Which I think I will save for another time.

What I want to say, though, is... A lot happens within 1000 years. And while there are certain reasons that history is grouped into those epoches for study, teaching it just straight like that kinda does the whole topic no justice. Folks need to understand that those epoches are just convenient ways to group history together - but that within those epoches a lot happened and changed.

[nickysfacts]

The Great Sphinx of Giza, one of the oldest and largest monolithic statues in the world!

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[trans-phone-eater]

Mmm kinda don't like how people in the rw fandom just simplify pebbles and moon into "evil and mean and hates people" and "pure innocent could never do anything wrong loves everyone"

It just doesn't sit right with me. And also it's just boring. I like that there's no "villain" in rw. Making one into "this one is the reason everything bad ever happened" just makes it lack any complexity.

[sspacegodd]

Today I found myself thinking of inexplicable boulders.

[thesilicontribesman]

The Rudston Monolith, Rudston, East Yorkshire