The vagina cave, 480 BC
The vagina cave, 480 BC
The Utroba cave, or the womb cave, is a cave located in Bulgaria. The cave is a physically accurate depiction of the female vagina.
Historians believe that the Thracians, an ancient Indo-European people, used this cave as a place of worship. It may have also been a place of worship for a spiritual cult.
Historians believe that there was an altar at the end of the cave, which acted as the main component of worship.... Read story
It is thought that the cave itself is meant to represent fertility. It is assumed that this cave is a natural occurrence as there is water flowing there.
Every day, at around noon, light enters the cave, but only once a year does the light reach the back where the altar would have been, around February to March. It is thought that the light is meant to represent a penis entering the vagina. It's thought that these ancient peoples worshipped this occurrence to increase the chances to have children or a good sex life.
Today, couples who struggle to have children still visit the cave, in hopes to help their fertility issues.
The reason why it might have been a place of a cult is that suspected Thracian cults seem to have been located in hills or mountains and had flowing water, both of which are present at the location of the cave.
This cave gives an insight into how people appreciated, viewed, and interpreted sex, as well as possibly used beliefs, and superstitions as a form of social control.
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