Çatalhöyük: the town that built its walls out of bull skulls

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Nine thousand years ago, in one of humanity's first towns, people plastered the horned skulls of wild bulls into the walls of their homes and lived inside the god. No streets — you entered through the roof and climbed down into rooms watched over by cattle. Before we had temples, the house was the temple, and the bull was already at the center of it.

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@history_buff_448 weeks ago

they LIVED inside the bull skulls. we've been doing this for 9000 years. the herd is just late-stage catalhoyuk

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@delegate_no_85 weeks ago

entered through the roof and climbed down. the initiation cavern makes so much more sense now

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