An alternative explanation of Neolithic Stone Phalluses
Statues like this were made and distributed all over the Zagros plain all of a sudden at the beginning of agriculture. This one is at Karahan Tepe.
Why are they associated with grain harvesting sites? What were they trying to say?
You boys sure have a lot of unsurprising ideas about that.
I’m going to speculate it was in response to a real crisis. That they started eating less meat and drank way more alcohol. The transfer over to grain based diet not only shifted their carb balance, it also introduced gluten and candida (yeast). P. gingivalis stuck to their teeth and ate into their faces and hearts and brains and private parts.
We know a predictable complication of this infection is diabetes. And erectile dysfunction is a complication of diabetes. So is wasting. This is a monument to an epidemic.
Maybe all those glorious stone images were used to pray for an erection. Or for relief from phimosis. It seems obvious that was a problem too. We all had to learn the biblical myth. The town of Haran first appears in the Book of Genesis as Abraham's temporary home. Haran is currently identified with Harran, now a village of Sanlıurfa, Turkey. Cha-ching.
Those are the Temples of Diabetes. I'll just assume that they made offerings of bread and beer...
I suggest that during the ensuing perpetual violent conflicts in that area, this less-than-heroic backstory for ritual circumcision has been obscured. And it looks like that was deliberate. All of the sites were buried.
Prehistoric penile plague plausible deniability? Now that's believable.
I wouldn't be surprised if the evidence disappears again.
