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18 Mar, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Thread: Ok how cool is this? Bronze top for a standard. ca. 8th–7th century BC. Luristan, Iran...A female and male (judging by the sticky-outy bits 🙂 but I am not sure, more later) human figures with Ibex goat ears and horns holding hands...Met Museum. metmuseum.org/art/collection… Image
Ibex is the most depicted thing on ancient artifacts in Iran from Neolithic until the arrival of Islam.

And the 1st millennium BC Luristan is no exception. Ibex is everywhere...As a matter of fact some of the most amazing bronze Ibexes I have seen were made in Luristan at that time.

Like this staff top depicting two male ibex goats holding "hands"... collections.lacma.org/node/225863 Image
Why? Because the beginning of the rain season (Oct/Nov) in Western Iran coincides with the beginning of the mating season of the Ibex goats...Which starts with vicious male goat fights for females... ImageImage
See how only male Ibex goats have big horns...I wonder if both human figures with male Ibex horns on the original staff top are actually male. And if the the one on the left once also had "a sticky-outy bit, well, sticking out" but it got broken off... Image
Rain, heavenly semen, is what impregnates Mother Earth who then gives birth to life...And that heavenly semen starts flowing when Ibex semen starts flowing. Which is why in Iran we find a direct symbolic link between Ibex semen, rain and flowing water

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-vess… Image
More ejaculating goats from Iran:

Ibex goat eventually became "The goat of rain" and even eventualier (🙂) became "The god of rain" with goat horns...We see depictions of these goat men in Iran from Neolithic

So finally what does this staff top depict? A ritual performed by men with Ibex goat headgear? A rain invocation ritual? Pretending to be "fighting" or "dancing" virile goats of rain? Or depiction of deified virile gods of rain?

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