05-28-2009, 08:30 PM
If this isn't mickey mouse, what in the world is it?
![[Image: Uppakr3.jpg]](http://donaldisme.dk/Uppakr3.jpg)
Excavated at Uppåkra, Sweden. Layers dated to 10th century.
![[Image: Uppakr5.jpg]](http://donaldisme.dk/Uppakr5.jpg)
Malta, Austria, church painting, 14th century
(Scroll over to see why it probably isn't)
(lifted from http://donaldisme.dk/Uppakra.htm )
The attempt at humour here is that sometimes, we humans are a bit too eager to link a known image or idea to something that resembles our preconception of the idea. There is a neolithic Mickey somewhere as well, but I couldn't find it.
Your guess is as good as mine about the figure. Votive figure? A guy with a bucket on his head? Weird god statue? Failed casting?
Excavated at Uppåkra, Sweden. Layers dated to 10th century.
Malta, Austria, church painting, 14th century
(Scroll over to see why it probably isn't)
(lifted from http://donaldisme.dk/Uppakra.htm )
The attempt at humour here is that sometimes, we humans are a bit too eager to link a known image or idea to something that resembles our preconception of the idea. There is a neolithic Mickey somewhere as well, but I couldn't find it.
Your guess is as good as mine about the figure. Votive figure? A guy with a bucket on his head? Weird god statue? Failed casting?
