Thursday, June 25, 2015

Kernosovsky Stela

Sandstone statue from Kernosovsky in Ukraine, dating to around 2500 to 3000 BCE. A product of the Yamnaya Culture, that is, the probable proto-Indo-Europeans.

This was discovered by schoolchildren in 1973. It is 4 feet (1.2 m) tall and weighs 1700 pounds (950 kg).

Ukrainian archaeologists identify this as a god, but in western Europe they think Bronze Age stelae are more likely to represent semi-divine heroes, which we know were very important in the slightly later religion of the early Iron Age.
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6 comments:

  1. leifJune 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM

    hi. try this.

    http://uafacts.com/ukraine/kamennye-izvayaniya-dnepropetrovskogo-istoricheskogo-muzeya/

    searching Керносовский идол yielded more results than the translated version.

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  2. KpgoogJune 26, 2015 at 2:29 AM

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  3. KpgoogJune 26, 2015 at 2:32 AM

    Axes. Very Bronze Age looking, like stelae I have seen in Europe, near the Alps.

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  4. KpgoogJune 26, 2015 at 2:34 AM

    http://www.lebtahor.com/StumblingBlocks/worthlessdeities_files/kernosovkastele4500.jpg

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  5. KpgoogJune 26, 2015 at 2:36 AM

    Or Menhirs.

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  6. JohnJune 26, 2015 at 7:17 AM

    Thanks very much, folks.

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