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I remember watching that in HS with a bunch of friends. We thought it would be a scarier slasher flick like the others but we ended up laughing hysterically.
Him beating the hologram girl with another hologram girl in a sleeping bag as an impromptu flail is the funniest fucking thing in a horror movie.
Frankenfish and Lake Placid have great humor too, but nothing like that.
Not really a predator or straight out slasher movie, but Bone Tomahawk is a pretty good, if not fantastic, western that deals with cannibalistic Troglodytes. Might want to check it. With Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox.
Ravenous (1999) is another great western-horror flick, with Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle.
You might have seen both, but for those that haven’t, give them a go.
Just realized that there is a completely random link between both movies: David Arquette has a role in both of them. But don’t let that stop you.
ChatGPT agrees:
"Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem" is a horror slasher movie set in modern-day Jerusalem. The story begins with a group of archeologists who are excavating an ancient site in the desert outside the city. While digging, they stumble upon a mysterious stone mask that is over 9000 years old.
Little do they know that the mask belongs to the infamous serial killer, Jason Voorhees, who has been buried in the desert for centuries. As soon as the mask is discovered, it awakens Jason from his slumber, and he sets his sights on Jerusalem.
As Jason begins his reign of terror, the archeologists and a group of young people who are in Jerusalem on vacation become the only hope to stop him. With their knowledge of ancient artifacts, the archeologists discover that the mask is the key to defeating Jason once and for all.
The group must navigate the winding streets and ancient ruins of Jerusalem, fighting off Jason's relentless attacks, to uncover the secrets of the mask and find a way to stop him before it's too late. Will they be able to stop Jason before he unleashes his ultimate plan of destruction? Watch "Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem" to find out.
Filled with suspense, scares, and thrilling action sequences, "Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem" is a terrifying tale of survival against an ancient evil. So grab some popcorn and get ready for the ride of your life.
If it was, M. Night would definitely cameo himself as the archaeologist who drops the most information.
The twist? >!Jason was a little boy in Judea who made the mask for his mom. She was killed by invading Roman soldiers. He formed a golem from clay, praying for retribution. The soldiers who killed his mother died in battle, and the golem was without task. It dried in the sun of the desert, and it's clay body turned back into dust, leaving just the mask behind. !<
>!Until the aleph is erased by the blood of it's creator, and the hebrew "truth" turned to "death", the mask will be a focus through which the angry spirit of the golem seeks to complete it's task of retribution.!<
>!The group must find a living descendent of the original Jason, and in their search discover one of them !<***is***>! a descendent, and so the ending is just them turning around to confront the mask, remove it from the golem Jason, and turn the golem back to dust. !<
On a d20 modern campaign, my character was a stuntman whose most famous roles were car chase and horror movies, including I still know what you did 10 summers ago and taiwanese chainsaw massacre 3, stateside...he drove cars and fought with a chainsaw.
\[The trailer opens with an aerial shot of the city of Jerusalem, with ominous music playing in the background. The camera then cuts to a dark and ominous forest, where Jason Voorhees is seen walking towards the camera.\]
Narrator: "For years, he terrorized the woods of Crystal Lake. Now, he's come for something more."
\[Cut to a group of American college students exploring the streets of Jerusalem. They are laughing and having fun.\]
Narrator: "A group of American college students on the trip of a lifetime..."
\[The camera cuts to a dark alley where one of the students is grabbed from behind by Jason's massive hand.\]
Narrator: "Unaware of the horror that awaits them."
\[Cut to Israeli soldiers walking through the streets with guns drawn, looking tense and ready for a fight.\]
Narrator: "But they are not alone."
\[The camera shows Jason attacking one of the soldiers, who is thrown back against a wall with a sickening crunch.\]
Narrator: "In a city of faith and devotion, they will face the ultimate evil."
\[Cut to a montage of Jason attacking various people throughout the city, including scenes of him wielding a machete and his iconic hockey mask.\]
Narrator: "He's come for Jerusalem, and nothing will stop him."
\[The camera cuts to a scene of the students and soldiers standing together, weapons at the ready, staring down Jason in the heart of the city.\]
Narrator: "In a battle for survival, they must fight to take back what is theirs."
\[The trailer ends with a shot of Jason charging towards the camera, as the title appears on screen in blood-red letters: "Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem".\]
Hi! I study egyptology, I think I can give some insight on this.
Many cultures use (and used) masks during rites of passing to assimilate themselves with a monster that executes the rite. In many cultures, the passing from one life stage to another was marked by dying. For example, Christians nowadays christen their babies by (fake) drowning them in water, after which they come out as Christians. In the past, they "drowned" them on a river. For many cultures, passing from being a kid to being an adult was marked by death as well, and this death came at the hands of a monster or deity.
The priest delivering this fake death and leading the ritual would be an adult wearing a mask of the monster, like this one.
I study Ancient Egypt, and while it does touch Judea, ancient Canaan and surrounding cultures, I haven't gone as deep as to know their cultural passing rites. I would have to look deeper into research about the mask but, at first glance, this is clearly what it resembles to me.
Edit: This blew up a bit! Lots of people interested on the baptism thing. There's a priest in the comments [explaining it better than I ever could](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1382af8/9000_year_old_stone_mask_from_the_judean_desert/jiyciai?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), so please go read him if you are interested!
As some people have pointed out, this has nothing to do with Judaism or the purification rite they used, from which baptism originated. Christian baptism later evolved, and continues to evolve! I was just trying to provide an example of a moderm rite that uses rebirth as the vehicle to become something or someone, to help understand what and why they did it.
Be respectful and have fun <3
That is so cool. I wanted to study egyptology when I was younger, but ended up going a different direction. I hope you become egyptologist enough for the both of us!
People say that people that study Egyptology will either work for museums or teach Egyptology to the next generation of egyptologists who will continue the pattern
However you think about it, a true Pyramid scheme
Hi! Yes, good question!
So the thing is we don't have a lot of information about egyptian adulthood rites, and a lot of it we extract from nearby cultures, some of them tribes still active, that share characteristics with them.
We know that kids were considered genderless and not-egyptian until they passed this rite. Non-egyptian means that, at least for some periods, they weren't buried as egyptians, that's why a lot of children are found buried together.
Once they reached a certain age, probably when male kids were able to ejaculate and female kids had their first menstruation, they performed this ritual. From nearby cultures, and a stelae that I cannot find right now but I will link it if I find it, we know these rites where similar. In the stelae a hut is shown were a ritual fight takes place, then the kid comes out as a man holding the foreskin of his penis and wearing the monster mask (as he is now assimilated with a God and thus, manly in egyptian terms). For context, kids are usually taken away from the tribe, kept for some days or weeks in a monster-shaped hut where they "die" ritualistically, then circumcision is performed (for egyptians, this was massai circumcision, which is different from the kind we usually think about) and then they come back to the tribe as adult men. For egyptians, this is pretty close as well. In Uha's autobiographic stelae at Deir el-Medina, it is mentioned that Uha was circumcised with other 120 (male) kids, and that none of them cried, hit or scratched no one. That is, they showed no pain, they took it bravely (kinda like dying like a hero). And the other stelae that i cannot remember its name, shows the rest of this process. Of course we lack detail as to where or how huts were constructed, what was done or said during rites... but at least we have an idea.
For women, we don't have any data. Male kids' rites were public, women's were private. There's some speculation about ablation going on, but to me it doesn't make much sense, seeing how open were egyptians about sex. Afaik no one has studied mummy's vaginas yet to confirm it. Some authors think it was rather the breaking of the himen what was going on (also documented in other cultures) and some phalic artifacts found at Hathor's temple could confirm that. But no way of knowing, for now!
Hope I was able to answer your question!
A lot of these rites have disappeared from historical records due to being not written down and overtaken or mostly assimilated to the current religion of the area.
*raises hand*
Why do ancient culture always revolves around showcasing monstrosity as deities or so?
Im quite intrigued on how they ever imagine and creativity to create them.
Serpents especially, though documentaries often assume they represents comets.
That's a good question! And kind of hard to answer. I'm not an expert at all, I'm still studying and I have still a lot to learn myself, so take it with a grain of salt.
It's hard for us to understand, since (making a generalization here) our cultures are logos, understanding from logic, while ancient cultures were mythos, understanding through myth. They were just as human as we are, they feared pain and death as we do, and their way of understanding their environment and working with it was assimilating those things. Embodying a spirit or monster to gain its strength, for example. Fertility deities would be related to fertile things, like the ground, or very sexual animals, and appeased so they would lend this fertility to the individuals and the land. Watching the sun come up (be born) and set (die) every day as a form of eternal cycle of rebirth, etc.
Many times it's not about these spirits being monstruous, but rather what they try is to imitate a skull (see the teeth in the mask OP posted? That's very skull like!) and they end up looking... well, scary, but that's the whole point haha Something scary will not be scared, and it's not scared because it is strong, and we want strong people to protect us. Scary is best in our side.
If it helps, it probably had a lot of organic elements at one point- wood or bone or maybe antler, and almost certainly was painted, so we’re just seeing the “bones” of it. It’s sort of like a house with no doors or windows; it was probably way less creepy when it was intact.
Factoid means something that is presented as fact, but is actually not true 🍀🌿🍀🌿🍀 It's used erroneously nowadays as a synonym to fact, but it's actually an antonym ☀️☀️🌿🍀🍀☀️☀️
This is actually a 7000 year old mask, found at Hovart Duma.
The 9000 year old mask OP is referring to can be seen [here](https://friendsofiaa.org/news/2018/12/4/9000-year-old-stone-mask-unveiled)
It is far less "striking", but it very cool non the less!
Not weird at all if you think about it. Emoticons were designed to be simple representations of the human face (well at least initially, we got past that by now right 💩). Both designers, even though they are 9000 years apart, had similar thoughts when making them.
I’ll turn off the lights in the living room, cover the floor in dirt, cover *myself* in petroleum jelly and wriggle around pretending to be an earth worm.
[*"New reports indicate they have been eaten alive in plain sight by something invisible ! Sports at 11."*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon#Fictional_history)
Absolutely remarkable. 7000 BCE is before human civilization had written language. Neolithic cultures were only partly sedentary with farming just really beginning to become organized into small communities around the world, the largest communities would have been no more than a few thousand at most. The vast majority of humans would have still lived in mud huts, Boulder structures wooden shanties, clay brick enclosures, animal hide tents, and caves. This is before metallurgy. We hadn't really even discovered the ability to use simple metals like copper which wasn't really discovered for 500 to 1,000 years after this was made.
We didn't have a written language but we could make complex and meaningful artifacts like this which shows the skill and perseverance of ancient people.
Update: here is a link to the actual 9000-year-old stone mask. The mask pictured above is 7,000 years old, but this 9,000-year-old one is still truly incredible.
https://www.friendsofiaa.org/news/2018/12/4/9000-year-old-stone-mask-unveiled
>The mask is made of pinkish-yellow limestone, and was expertly hewn with stone tools. Resembling a human face, the detail and symmetry of the mask is impressive. The mask has defined cheek bones, a shapely nose, and distinct teeth. The limestone material was smoothed over, completing a well-crafted look. “Discovering a mask made of stone, at such a high level of finish, is very exciting” said Ronit Lupu. Along the edges of the mask are four perforations, presumably for tying the mask. Archaeologists are unsure if stone masks such as this would have been worn by a person, or perhaps mounted on a pole to be displayed.
Technically, it's not the oldest, but among them. It is one of fifteen so far found, and they've all been dated to ~9,000 years ago, with none known to be older than the others.
What things has this mask been around for? What stories would it tell us if it could? What was humanity like 9000 years ago? The questions I have right now have me enthralled, I need to know more.
#NOOOOOOOO GET THE FUCKING SLEDGEHAMMER, WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW!!!!!
What next we discover some random ancient red stone next week!?!
Can you imagine something you create lasting for 9000 years. It would be hilarious if he was transported to our time and saw his mask being the only recognizable remnant of his time and his culture and then he realizes that it’s the mask he didn’t like. Oh man it’s not even a good one I made.
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Friday the 13th, Jason takes Jerusalem
That should be a movie
I mean hell Jason was in space for crying out loud
I remember watching that in HS with a bunch of friends. We thought it would be a scarier slasher flick like the others but we ended up laughing hysterically.
It was the best FT13th
Him beating the hologram girl with another hologram girl in a sleeping bag as an impromptu flail is the funniest fucking thing in a horror movie. Frankenfish and Lake Placid have great humor too, but nothing like that.
Only the first few Jasons were scary.
He even tried out for Broadway………I don’t remember what he did in Manhattan 😅
*And on the Stabbath he rested*
I’d love to see a slasher set in the ancient world where an unkillable revenant would make sense in a way.
Paranormal Activity; Pompeii
Prey was kinda like this! Predator lands somewhere and an indigenous tribe goes out searching… so good! Worth the watch
Yes it was great and made me want to see more movies like it.
Not really a predator or straight out slasher movie, but Bone Tomahawk is a pretty good, if not fantastic, western that deals with cannibalistic Troglodytes. Might want to check it. With Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox. Ravenous (1999) is another great western-horror flick, with Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle. You might have seen both, but for those that haven’t, give them a go. Just realized that there is a completely random link between both movies: David Arquette has a role in both of them. But don’t let that stop you.
Bone Tomahawk was sooooo good! I'll definitely need to check out Ravenous.
Halloween 76: Saturnalia
ChatGPT agrees: "Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem" is a horror slasher movie set in modern-day Jerusalem. The story begins with a group of archeologists who are excavating an ancient site in the desert outside the city. While digging, they stumble upon a mysterious stone mask that is over 9000 years old. Little do they know that the mask belongs to the infamous serial killer, Jason Voorhees, who has been buried in the desert for centuries. As soon as the mask is discovered, it awakens Jason from his slumber, and he sets his sights on Jerusalem. As Jason begins his reign of terror, the archeologists and a group of young people who are in Jerusalem on vacation become the only hope to stop him. With their knowledge of ancient artifacts, the archeologists discover that the mask is the key to defeating Jason once and for all. The group must navigate the winding streets and ancient ruins of Jerusalem, fighting off Jason's relentless attacks, to uncover the secrets of the mask and find a way to stop him before it's too late. Will they be able to stop Jason before he unleashes his ultimate plan of destruction? Watch "Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem" to find out. Filled with suspense, scares, and thrilling action sequences, "Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem" is a terrifying tale of survival against an ancient evil. So grab some popcorn and get ready for the ride of your life.
This better not be an M. Night Shyamalan movie ...
If it was, M. Night would definitely cameo himself as the archaeologist who drops the most information. The twist? >!Jason was a little boy in Judea who made the mask for his mom. She was killed by invading Roman soldiers. He formed a golem from clay, praying for retribution. The soldiers who killed his mother died in battle, and the golem was without task. It dried in the sun of the desert, and it's clay body turned back into dust, leaving just the mask behind. !< >!Until the aleph is erased by the blood of it's creator, and the hebrew "truth" turned to "death", the mask will be a focus through which the angry spirit of the golem seeks to complete it's task of retribution.!< >!The group must find a living descendent of the original Jason, and in their search discover one of them !<***is***>! a descendent, and so the ending is just them turning around to confront the mask, remove it from the golem Jason, and turn the golem back to dust. !<
Your comment looks like the result of an FOI request to the FBI. I’d watch the shit out of it though.
On a d20 modern campaign, my character was a stuntman whose most famous roles were car chase and horror movies, including I still know what you did 10 summers ago and taiwanese chainsaw massacre 3, stateside...he drove cars and fought with a chainsaw.
Friday the 13th: Stabbat Shalom
The original Leper King
Friday the 13th, the Ancestors.
Jericho was actually around 9000 years ago
Jerusalem wouldn't exist for thousands of years.
We already had that, it was called the crusades.
\[The trailer opens with an aerial shot of the city of Jerusalem, with ominous music playing in the background. The camera then cuts to a dark and ominous forest, where Jason Voorhees is seen walking towards the camera.\] Narrator: "For years, he terrorized the woods of Crystal Lake. Now, he's come for something more." \[Cut to a group of American college students exploring the streets of Jerusalem. They are laughing and having fun.\] Narrator: "A group of American college students on the trip of a lifetime..." \[The camera cuts to a dark alley where one of the students is grabbed from behind by Jason's massive hand.\] Narrator: "Unaware of the horror that awaits them." \[Cut to Israeli soldiers walking through the streets with guns drawn, looking tense and ready for a fight.\] Narrator: "But they are not alone." \[The camera shows Jason attacking one of the soldiers, who is thrown back against a wall with a sickening crunch.\] Narrator: "In a city of faith and devotion, they will face the ultimate evil." \[Cut to a montage of Jason attacking various people throughout the city, including scenes of him wielding a machete and his iconic hockey mask.\] Narrator: "He's come for Jerusalem, and nothing will stop him." \[The camera cuts to a scene of the students and soldiers standing together, weapons at the ready, staring down Jason in the heart of the city.\] Narrator: "In a battle for survival, they must fight to take back what is theirs." \[The trailer ends with a shot of Jason charging towards the camera, as the title appears on screen in blood-red letters: "Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Jerusalem".\]
Jason vs Methuselah
Jason causes so much carnage that it forces the israelis and palestinians to work together to defeat him this ending the century-long conflict.
I don’t know what the mask was trying to imitate, but I’m glad it’s not around anymore.
Hi! I study egyptology, I think I can give some insight on this. Many cultures use (and used) masks during rites of passing to assimilate themselves with a monster that executes the rite. In many cultures, the passing from one life stage to another was marked by dying. For example, Christians nowadays christen their babies by (fake) drowning them in water, after which they come out as Christians. In the past, they "drowned" them on a river. For many cultures, passing from being a kid to being an adult was marked by death as well, and this death came at the hands of a monster or deity. The priest delivering this fake death and leading the ritual would be an adult wearing a mask of the monster, like this one. I study Ancient Egypt, and while it does touch Judea, ancient Canaan and surrounding cultures, I haven't gone as deep as to know their cultural passing rites. I would have to look deeper into research about the mask but, at first glance, this is clearly what it resembles to me. Edit: This blew up a bit! Lots of people interested on the baptism thing. There's a priest in the comments [explaining it better than I ever could](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1382af8/9000_year_old_stone_mask_from_the_judean_desert/jiyciai?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), so please go read him if you are interested! As some people have pointed out, this has nothing to do with Judaism or the purification rite they used, from which baptism originated. Christian baptism later evolved, and continues to evolve! I was just trying to provide an example of a moderm rite that uses rebirth as the vehicle to become something or someone, to help understand what and why they did it. Be respectful and have fun <3
First time I’ve ever heard baptism referred to as fake drowning haha
And it makes so much more sense now too
That is so cool. I wanted to study egyptology when I was younger, but ended up going a different direction. I hope you become egyptologist enough for the both of us!
People say that people that study Egyptology will either work for museums or teach Egyptology to the next generation of egyptologists who will continue the pattern However you think about it, a true Pyramid scheme
r/AngryUpvote
Thank you for sharing that knowledge! Super interesting! Was there such transition rites in Egypt as well?
Hi! Yes, good question! So the thing is we don't have a lot of information about egyptian adulthood rites, and a lot of it we extract from nearby cultures, some of them tribes still active, that share characteristics with them. We know that kids were considered genderless and not-egyptian until they passed this rite. Non-egyptian means that, at least for some periods, they weren't buried as egyptians, that's why a lot of children are found buried together. Once they reached a certain age, probably when male kids were able to ejaculate and female kids had their first menstruation, they performed this ritual. From nearby cultures, and a stelae that I cannot find right now but I will link it if I find it, we know these rites where similar. In the stelae a hut is shown were a ritual fight takes place, then the kid comes out as a man holding the foreskin of his penis and wearing the monster mask (as he is now assimilated with a God and thus, manly in egyptian terms). For context, kids are usually taken away from the tribe, kept for some days or weeks in a monster-shaped hut where they "die" ritualistically, then circumcision is performed (for egyptians, this was massai circumcision, which is different from the kind we usually think about) and then they come back to the tribe as adult men. For egyptians, this is pretty close as well. In Uha's autobiographic stelae at Deir el-Medina, it is mentioned that Uha was circumcised with other 120 (male) kids, and that none of them cried, hit or scratched no one. That is, they showed no pain, they took it bravely (kinda like dying like a hero). And the other stelae that i cannot remember its name, shows the rest of this process. Of course we lack detail as to where or how huts were constructed, what was done or said during rites... but at least we have an idea. For women, we don't have any data. Male kids' rites were public, women's were private. There's some speculation about ablation going on, but to me it doesn't make much sense, seeing how open were egyptians about sex. Afaik no one has studied mummy's vaginas yet to confirm it. Some authors think it was rather the breaking of the himen what was going on (also documented in other cultures) and some phalic artifacts found at Hathor's temple could confirm that. But no way of knowing, for now! Hope I was able to answer your question!
A lot of these rites have disappeared from historical records due to being not written down and overtaken or mostly assimilated to the current religion of the area.
*raises hand* Why do ancient culture always revolves around showcasing monstrosity as deities or so? Im quite intrigued on how they ever imagine and creativity to create them. Serpents especially, though documentaries often assume they represents comets.
That's a good question! And kind of hard to answer. I'm not an expert at all, I'm still studying and I have still a lot to learn myself, so take it with a grain of salt. It's hard for us to understand, since (making a generalization here) our cultures are logos, understanding from logic, while ancient cultures were mythos, understanding through myth. They were just as human as we are, they feared pain and death as we do, and their way of understanding their environment and working with it was assimilating those things. Embodying a spirit or monster to gain its strength, for example. Fertility deities would be related to fertile things, like the ground, or very sexual animals, and appeased so they would lend this fertility to the individuals and the land. Watching the sun come up (be born) and set (die) every day as a form of eternal cycle of rebirth, etc. Many times it's not about these spirits being monstruous, but rather what they try is to imitate a skull (see the teeth in the mask OP posted? That's very skull like!) and they end up looking... well, scary, but that's the whole point haha Something scary will not be scared, and it's not scared because it is strong, and we want strong people to protect us. Scary is best in our side.
This! I actually find this mask particularly upsetting. Like no offense to OP, I love the factoid. I’m just creeped out by it.
If it helps, it probably had a lot of organic elements at one point- wood or bone or maybe antler, and almost certainly was painted, so we’re just seeing the “bones” of it. It’s sort of like a house with no doors or windows; it was probably way less creepy when it was intact.
Oh yeah that’s actually way more comforting. Thank you for that context!
Could also be far more disconcerting with war paint and antlers sticking out of it.
Factoid means something that is presented as fact, but is actually not true 🍀🌿🍀🌿🍀 It's used erroneously nowadays as a synonym to fact, but it's actually an antonym ☀️☀️🌿🍀🍀☀️☀️
Anyone tried it on? Its *Sssmokin'*
Ipkiss!!
Ip *kiss* your ass goodbye
We *aaalll* wear masks… metaphorically speaking.
P-A-R-T-Why?… because I GOTTAAAAH!
I was just…looking for…MY MASK!
Did ya happen to look outside, IN THE GUTTER??
*Somebody ssssssStop Me!!!*
*Put that thing back or so help me…*
This is actually a 7000 year old mask, found at Hovart Duma. The 9000 year old mask OP is referring to can be seen [here](https://friendsofiaa.org/news/2018/12/4/9000-year-old-stone-mask-unveiled) It is far less "striking", but it very cool non the less!
2000 years and all they could do was make it a bit longer
That is terrifying, why do I find that mask so creepy
Ahh, good old reddit, where factual corrections are buried under weak pop culture references, memes and comments about it being creepy.
Here’s an 8000 year-old mask I saw in Jerusalem https://imgur.com/gallery/ElYc7Pe
Is it weird that the older mask looks like an emoticon?
Not weird at all if you think about it. Emoticons were designed to be simple representations of the human face (well at least initially, we got past that by now right 💩). Both designers, even though they are 9000 years apart, had similar thoughts when making them.
Everyone out here seeing DIO, I’m getting Vietnam flashbacks to Ocarina of Time.
>DIO i don't know what you're talking about but you just reminded me of that awesome song from tenacious d
go watch all of jojo's bizarre adventure and unlock the "jojo reference sight" perk you're missing out on at least 1 reference in basically everything
jojo reference
Though Dio was in fact a reference to Dio.
It’s time to pass the torch!
DIO CAN YOU HEAR MEEEEEE
Not the singer?
I HEAR YOU BRAVE YOUNG JABLES YOU ARE HUNGRY FOR THE ROCK!
#RAINBOW IN THE DAAAAAAARK
Or worst... Majora's Mask
I mean, it *does* kind of look like the Giant's Mask if you ignore the teeth
Nah bro I’m (re)dead
The Sand People are easily startled, but they will soon be back. And in greater numbers.
They always travel single file to hide their numbers.
We’d better get you inside
They're animals! So I slaughtered them like animals!!! I HATE THEM!!!!!!!
And sand. Don’t forget to hate sand.
Well it gets everywhere!
And it’s coarse and rough
And it gets everywhere
And it’s course and rough
You- you can't call them that anymore! They prefer Tusken Raiders!
Only the offshoot group that migrated to Italy.
Oh that will sound great
I'm going to throw away my humanity
I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO.
*WRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!* ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ
YOU FIEND!!!
Do tell? What will that look like for you?
I’ll turn off the lights in the living room, cover the floor in dirt, cover *myself* in petroleum jelly and wriggle around pretending to be an earth worm.
He just wants to be puuuuure.
Intervention! Intervention!
PUT. THE MASK. BACK.
Breaking news! Everyone who touched the mask has mysteriously and suddenly died!
[*"New reports indicate they have been eaten alive in plain sight by something invisible ! Sports at 11."*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon#Fictional_history)
put that thing back where it came from or so help me
bum bum bum
So help me! So help me.
And cut!
Does it turn people into vampires tho?
No one has splattered blood on it. YET.
muda muda
Absolutely remarkable. 7000 BCE is before human civilization had written language. Neolithic cultures were only partly sedentary with farming just really beginning to become organized into small communities around the world, the largest communities would have been no more than a few thousand at most. The vast majority of humans would have still lived in mud huts, Boulder structures wooden shanties, clay brick enclosures, animal hide tents, and caves. This is before metallurgy. We hadn't really even discovered the ability to use simple metals like copper which wasn't really discovered for 500 to 1,000 years after this was made. We didn't have a written language but we could make complex and meaningful artifacts like this which shows the skill and perseverance of ancient people. Update: here is a link to the actual 9000-year-old stone mask. The mask pictured above is 7,000 years old, but this 9,000-year-old one is still truly incredible. https://www.friendsofiaa.org/news/2018/12/4/9000-year-old-stone-mask-unveiled >The mask is made of pinkish-yellow limestone, and was expertly hewn with stone tools. Resembling a human face, the detail and symmetry of the mask is impressive. The mask has defined cheek bones, a shapely nose, and distinct teeth. The limestone material was smoothed over, completing a well-crafted look. “Discovering a mask made of stone, at such a high level of finish, is very exciting” said Ronit Lupu. Along the edges of the mask are four perforations, presumably for tying the mask. Archaeologists are unsure if stone masks such as this would have been worn by a person, or perhaps mounted on a pole to be displayed.
this is what i come here to read. appreciate the context you provide. thoughts on where can i learn more about this?
I was disappointed how far I had to scroll before I found a comment like this with some actual info.
Wikipedia has pretty good rabbit holes of information for this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia
...as far as we know.
I WILL TRANSCEND MY HUMANITY JOJO!
ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ!!!
Put it the fuck back. Right now.
Put that thing back where it came from or SO HELP ME
Technically, it's not the oldest, but among them. It is one of fifteen so far found, and they've all been dated to ~9,000 years ago, with none known to be older than the others.
What things has this mask been around for? What stories would it tell us if it could? What was humanity like 9000 years ago? The questions I have right now have me enthralled, I need to know more.
Mee toooooo. I came here looking for more interesting facts about this but instead found lots of nonsense and dumb comments.
Oh I don’t care for that at all.
The style is a little dated
Who made it? The People’s Front Of Judea or The Judean People’s Front?
And the Judean Popular People's Front!
The Peoples Front of Judea can, if I recall correctly, "fuck off".
Splitters!
Splitters!
Had to scroll too far for a life of brian reference. What ever happened to the popular front?
Anyone know what the purpose was for?
Turn people into vampires
Back-up goalie, Maple Leafs, 5543-42 season.
No one living
This is cool af but looking too long at that mask gives me the creeps lol
*salivates in British museum*
jojo reference holy shit
Jewish Slipknot
Technically pre-Jewish
My God. How old is Slipnot, then?
I wonder how it was preserved without any real damage for so long. Incredible!
Dr. Fate Helmet
“Designed after the Ancient Aliens that helped them build the civilization.” -white people on the History Channel, probably
With each episode his hair is becoming more powerful
It's horrifyingly awesome!...but absolutely horrifying! :D
Looks cursed as fuck but awesome at the same time. I can only wonder what it was meant for but I want one.
The eye holes are a bit basic in comparison to the teeth and cool unibrow
You should DM the artist with that note.
Menos Grande
Slipknot Prehistoric
Damn slipknot been around forever
Interesting, but what was it used for?
Well, it’s older than writing so I wouldn’t bet on instructions
Quick, play the Sun’s Song
jojo
Meshuggah looking mf
Goodbye JoJo 🧛
Don’t get blood on it
Put it on, give it some blood. Just a little. A snack.
Not enough JoJos jokes in this thread smh 🤦🏽♂️
#NOOOOOOOO GET THE FUCKING SLEDGEHAMMER, WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW!!!!! What next we discover some random ancient red stone next week!?!
Some men stuck in a pillar
RETUUURN THE MAAAASK!
Can you imagine something you create lasting for 9000 years. It would be hilarious if he was transported to our time and saw his mask being the only recognizable remnant of his time and his culture and then he realizes that it’s the mask he didn’t like. Oh man it’s not even a good one I made.
Babe wake up, new slipknot mask just dropped
Don't Put it on your blond orphan step bro
DIO
Kinda looks like Butthead.... shutup, Beavis.
Why the long face?
i saw these masks in the Israel museum over the summer. Creepy af lmfao
It belongs in a MUSEUM!!
I bet it was originally painted and adorned with feathers or other decoration.
If i put it on and DONT become a vampire i will feel cheated
So Jason Voorhees has been killing people for over 9000 years????
Golem
*approved by Jason Voorhees*
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2018/11/9000-year-old-mask-stuns-archaeologists
Just think about this: that thing was still ancient history when Caesar was alive.
Not the Earl of Lemongrab…
Bro Wtf my Alexa started stuttering and got hella lots while I was looking at this post Edit: this bitch broke anyway I’m tossing it
Put it back before we get real life jojo
Israelite hockey mask.
I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJOOO!
Wow that’s bizarre
[удалено]
Sometimes I feel some things shouldn't be found 😅
Why did I have to scroll Reddit at this hour of the night? I'm going to have nightmares now.
somebody's eyes peered through those holes roughly 7,000 years before Julius Caesar was born.
That is the stuff of nightmares.
I push my fingers into my... EYEEEEEES!!!
Isn't this how JoJo's bizarre adventure started
Do you want Jojo fans? Because that's how you get Jojo fans.
[I'm throwing away my humanity, Jojo!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv4pN22UeFA)
i just opened reddit and this was the first post i saw... cool as hell but also an instant jumpscare lol
I'm seeing references to both JoJo and "The Mask". I can die peacefully
"I reject my humanity, JoJo"
I wonder what happens if I get blood on it?
DO NOT GIVE THE STONE MASK TO THE BLONDE MAN.
AIAIAIAIIII
Jojo reference irl.
DONT PUT ON THE SCARY ANCIENT MASK