{"id":10195,"date":"2019-10-02T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2019-11-03T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:29:48","slug":"girthy-rock-hard-300-year-old-penis-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/02\/girthy-rock-hard-300-year-old-penis-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Girthy, Rock-hard 300 year-old Penis Found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/archaeologists-stunned-after-unearthing-3000-20375086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Daily Star (opens in a new tab)\">from The Daily Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archaeologists stunned after unearthing 3,000-year-old penis statue used by cult<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The girthy penis rock is 21 inches tall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article20375101.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Penis-statue.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><strong>The artwork was initially thought to have been a bizarre headstone<\/strong>\u00a0(Image: The Archaeologist NHM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A giant penis statue \u2014 measuring an impressive 21 inches \u2014 has been unearthed by archaeologists in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girthy phallus might even have been used in blood sacrifices to a pagan fertility god, researchers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dated to be from the Bronze Age, between 1800 and 500 BC, the penis rock was discovered during an excavation near Gothenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been linked to a fertility cult, having been found alongside a lot of animal bones which hints that the area was used for sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of any human bones ruled out the theory that the phallus was a unique headstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/archaeologists-stunned-after-unearthing-3000-20375086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Daily Star (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star Archaeologists stunned after unearthing 3,000-year-old penis statue used by cult The girthy penis rock is 21 inches tall A giant penis statue \u2014 measuring an impressive 21 inches \u2014 has been unearthed by archaeologists in Sweden. The girthy phallus might even have been used in blood sacrifices to a pagan fertility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}