Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/08/12th-century-optical-illusion-of-elephant-or-bull.html
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This is called a Rishabha Kunjaram - literally “bull-elephant”. We actually find it in a lot of old temples but Darasuram is one of the more prominent ones.
A traditional sculptor once explained it as a kind of practice sculpture that’s done to explore the medium. There are many similar patterns that get repeated…
Wonder if it has ties to this creature, that has been known since ancient Greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime_horse
The greatest Carole Burnett skit of all time.
Men ‘getting by’ on the backs on women; same as it ever was…
Oh, and also, I didn’t see at first that this was Praveen Mohan!
Just FYI, this guy is a complete ancient aliens type crank. He spends half his videos marveling about “how the ancients could have known this”, pointing to things like a carving of a bicycle that was put in there by an early 20th century renovation (which anyone serious in Indian heritage circles already knows, for example).
At one point, I wanted to do a debunk of him, but I could never sit through a full video to do that…
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