The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
Six sacrificed animals, each in full harness, each killed for this specific purpose.
The investment required — in terms of the animals’ economic value, the harnesses’ material cost, the labor of the burial preparation — was substantial.
Whatever else the Ice Maiden was, she was someone for whom this investment was considered appropriate.
The Animal Style As A Spiritual Language
The animal-style art that saturates the Ice Maiden’s burial — on her skin, on her coffin, on the horses’ harnesses, on the portable objects placed with her — is not decoration in the sense of ornament applied to neutral surfaces.
It is a language.
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