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This quote from the book god: An anatomy

“In a seventh-century BCE Assyrian text, for example, the scribe god Nabu praises the goddess Tashmetu with enraptured delight as the divine woman ‘whose thighs are a gazelle in the plain; whose ankle bones are an apple of Simian; whose heels are obsidian: whose whole being is a tablet of lapis lazuli’”
Foot fetish aside, men no longer describe women like this 😔

@mariamaria

Mar 3, 2025

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