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Post by anansi on Jan 4, 2013 13:12:57 GMT -5
 A 2,000-year-old relief carved with an image of what appears to be a, stylishly overweight, princess has been discovered in an "extremely fragile" palace in the ancient city of Meroë, in Sudan, archaeologists say. At the time the relief was made, Meroë was the center of a kingdom named Kush, its borders stretching as far north as the southern edge of Egypt. It wasn't unusual for queens (sometimes referred to as "Candaces") to rule, facing down the armies of an expanding Rome. The sandstone relief shows a woman smiling, her hair carefully dressed and an earring on her left ear. She appears to have a second chin and a bit of fat on her neck, something considered stylish, at the time, among royal women from Kush. www.livescience.com/25944-ancient-carving-african-princess.html |
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Jan 6, 2013 16:34:23 GMT -5
Maybe not royalty and though some 1700 years older than the Meroe relief this downriver (Aniba C-group) figurine is nonetheless a plump African princess, no?  |
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Post by anansi on Jan 10, 2013 9:04:11 GMT -5
Maybe not royalty and though some 1700 years older than the Meroe relief this downriver (Aniba C-group) figurine is nonetheless a plump African princess, no? In wide locals all across Africa to this day they have fatting houses for females about to get married,we always like our women folk thick. |
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Post by anansi on Jan 10, 2013 13:10:30 GMT -5
Maybe not royalty and though some 1700 years older than the Meroe relief this downriver (Aniba C-group) figurine is nonetheless a plump African princess, no? All across Africa to this day they have fatting houses for females about to get married,we always like our women folk thick. |
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Post by zarahan on Mar 28, 2014 14:13:25 GMT -5
fatty houses?
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Post by truthteacher2007 on Mar 28, 2014 23:21:46 GMT -5
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Post by zarahan on Mar 31, 2014 11:54:43 GMT -5
How did these houses work? Basically you go inside and stuff yourself?
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Post by anansi on Mar 31, 2014 21:56:28 GMT -5
How did these houses work? Basically you go inside and stuff yourself? Well there is more to it,although that's definitely part of it,think of it like a finishing school for young ladies,etiquette is thought traditional dancing,home economics tips on how to take care of her husband and family and off-course their standard of beauty which maybe heavy set women,remember in centuries past the full figured females ruled this was surely a sign that the family is wealthy this view was not limited to traditional African societies but was almost universal,it was not uncommon to be praised in Jamaica not too long ago by elders especially the matriarchs as being nice and fat! as a matter of fact one can view most paintings of any era and the standard beauty is a full figured female going all the way back to the Venus Willendorf stattues   Venus Wellendorf statuettes and Malta mother goddess.   Kemetian pre-unification Nile goddess. The Victorian age developed an entire industry for females to look more full figured. So yes the skinny females have their revenge today on the runways and dominate the standard of beauty especially in the west but it was not always thus and is by no means universal,and if I am reading certain pop cultural trends right the full figures are making a come back although modified with the focus on the booty,thing Kim Kardashian,J-Lo,Beyonce,and a whole host of video girls matter of facts butt injections are very popular so popular that desperate females turned to non surgeons pumping them full of silicone which in some cases causes death. |
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Post by truthteacher2007 on Apr 1, 2014 0:06:44 GMT -5
How did these houses work? Basically you go inside and stuff yourself? Something like this..... |
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Post by anansi on Apr 1, 2014 0:16:39 GMT -5
Yup there is a negative aspect to this as in all "beauty" industries starvation diet over here..forced fed over there,but notice this as in both regions are enforced by fellow females.
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Post by zarahan on Apr 2, 2014 0:54:21 GMT -5
Females are the enforcers- that is true. Who the sharpest critics
and arbiters of what looks good?
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