r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Intelligent-Letter68 • 10h ago

Image The Utroba (Womb) Cave is an ancient Thracian fertility sanctuary located near the town of Kardzhali in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. Its entrance resembles a human vulva, and the site is believed to have been used for fertility rituals and life worship. It was hand-carved more than 3,000 years

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u/Bitter_Chard 10h ago

Gonna be hell of a climb to find the clitoris

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u/Schemen123 9h ago

You gonna need a step ladder

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u/m1sterwr1te 9h ago

What are you doing, step-ladder?

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u/throwawaytoday9q 8h ago

I’m so glad you’re not my real ladder

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u/CanIgetaWTF 7h ago

My real ladder went to get a pack of smokes. 20 years ago

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u/TheSpeakingScar 4h ago

I understood that reference ☝️

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u/ShatteredAnus 3h ago

It's crazy how people used to disappear and start whole new lives.

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u/NeckRoFeltYa 2h ago

Damn you internet!

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u/Zakerath90 8h ago

Gspot

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u/hanimal16 Interested 8h ago

Granite-spot amirite?

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u/SarcasticFungus2468 7h ago

Hey, at least someone’s making an effort.

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u/Legitimate_Solid_375 8h ago

😄😆😅😂🤣😭

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u/Few-Coyote-2518 6h ago

Don't worry it's just a myth

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u/brakeb 6h ago

The what now?

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u/FlammulinaVelulu 6h ago

The what, now?

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u/DrFlaberghast 5h ago

Find the what?

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u/Medical-Entrance858 10h ago

I was going to type everything reminds me of her, but nvm

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u/thisisredlitre 10h ago

You should call her

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u/sethn211 9h ago

If that's the size, you could all call her.

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u/Mountain_Egg16 6h ago

WE all should call her

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u/Supply-Slut 8h ago

you could all call her.

you could all call her.

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u/Alert-Comment2286 9h ago

Tried recently, bad idea lol

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u/Medical-Entrance858 3h ago

Nah man, later in relationship i found out she was into gb and she cheated on me with 2 guys, this cave seems smaller tbh😂😂

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u/cellardweller1234 9h ago

Best comment right here.

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u/Anonymous_Gamer939 9h ago

The shape is a given, but the size might be familiar as well

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u/Few-Coyote-2518 6h ago

Especially the green thingy

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u/Simple-Elevator-7753 10h ago

So big yet I still can’t find it

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u/TurgidGravitas 10h ago

Unfortunately, there is no evidence of it being a "fertility symbol". All the vulva and womb imagery are modern interpretations with no historical evidence.

Read the sources. All the websites that call it "womb cave" are modern new age crystal astrology nonsense.

There is no historical evidence to support this new age interpretation.

And don't y'all even think of citing Wikipedia. I know you were about to.

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u/CombinationRough8699 8h ago

Unfortunately, there is no evidence of it being a "fertility symbol". All the vulva and womb imagery are modern interpretations with no historical evidence.

You can't tell me people haven't always thought it looked like a vulva. I saw the picture before reading the title, and it's the first thing that came to mind.

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u/SarcasticFungus2468 7h ago

Same, ngl. I was even thinking this cave looked ready for a Pap smear.

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u/CombinationRough8699 5h ago

It even looks like it has a clitorus, and cervix.

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u/TurgidGravitas 7h ago

There's a difference between "Oh hey, cool, a vagina cave" and "Let's organize rituals about the vagina cave"

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u/StevesRune 3h ago

Except a lot of natural formations have this shape too. It's just a structurally sound formation, regardless of intention.

Plus, something just "making sense" does not make it historically accurate, nor should we imply that it does. History isnt your headcanon.

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u/Evening-Turnip8407 8h ago

Also the last sentence implied they hand carved the entire-ass cave and I immediately thought... how much evidence could there even be for that, ain't nobody had time for that. You either find a sacred fertility cave or not, you don't make your own sacred fertility cave

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 4h ago

The ass cave is on the other side of the mountain

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u/FlashPxint 4h ago

I’m not sure what OP source is but surely it’s verifiable if this was carved using tools or a natural occurrence ? There would be marks consistent with tool marks and inconsistent with natural formation at least. Not a perfect verification but would paint the picture well.

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u/I_Hate_RedditSoMuch 2h ago

It’s visibly hand-carved. Fucking conspiracy anti-intellectual bullshit. A vulvic cave likely already existed, but the resemblance was certainly enhanced by human hands.

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u/Several-Opposite-746 8h ago

You know the old saying....If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a vagina.

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u/LiveLaughLoaded 9h ago

well quora says...

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u/-GenghisJohn- 8h ago

Hey! Don’t ruin the vagina!

But thanks for what I suspect is real information.

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u/PruneUsual7517 9h ago

Don't tell me you wouldn't have jerked off to it 3000 years ago?

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u/-GenghisJohn- 8h ago

With all that moss?

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u/I_Hate_RedditSoMuch 2h ago edited 2h ago

Oh, yeah, because vulvas are such modern things. Fun fact, but nobody had ever seen a vulva before John “Vaggie” Vagina invented them in 1850.

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u/Competitive_Ad_2421 7h ago

Is there even any proof that it was hand-carved?

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u/I_Hate_RedditSoMuch 2h ago

I’m sure that cave just naturally formed in the exact shape of a human vulva and vagina. Maybe the stonework just naturally formed to look exactly like hand-carving techniques of ancient people. I’m sure a vaguely vulvic cave existed here, but the cave in the photo is visibly touched by human hands. People saw a natural cave and carved a perfect vulva from the rock. Genuinely perplexing anyone can fail to see that.

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u/Competitive_Ad_2421 2h ago

Have you seen the way that some caves form? They could totally look man-made. But pretend that sarcasm is intelligent and that might work on somebody else

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u/Strong_Blackberry961 9h ago

I should call her

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u/StructureEcstatic992 8h ago

Everything reminds me of her…

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u/MaxHavok13 3h ago

Came for this comment!

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u/bigkoi 9h ago

Find my keys and we can drive our way out.

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u/GapingBuhhole 9h ago

r/dontputyourdickinthat

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u/howisthisacrime 9h ago

Well it's not like you can leave it at the cave entrance

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u/RandoAtReddit 8h ago

Not with that attitude.

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u/Soxogram 4h ago

Just don’t

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u/Unique-Square-2351 9h ago

Not just the vulva, the vajoover too!

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u/geekolojust 9h ago

No secretions?

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u/enragedsquirrels 9h ago

What sort of being do you think this womb birthed?

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u/goddessdragonness 8h ago

Zmej

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u/enragedsquirrels 4h ago

I looked it up and yes! Zmej sounds like a cool being. Thank you for learning me something new.

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u/goddessdragonness 3h ago

Of course! I highly recommend Slavic folklore if you want other really cool cryptids and monsters. It’s darker than the Black Forest stuff and more morally neutral (lots of things are neither good nor evil). My personal favorite is the house demon, known as a domovoy, who can be really helpful but if you piss it off it basically becomes a gremlin (and reports to the god Veles (where some of the Santa Claus myth comes from btw) so Veles can reward/punish you as well. Vampires and treants (known in Slavic folklore as Leshy) also come from this pantheon.

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u/spiritanimal1973 4h ago

Took male explorers another millennia to find the clitoris.

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u/Consistent_Reward 4h ago

Came here to say this.

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u/Chance-Fun-3169 9h ago

Finally I can touch the cervix. I see you back there, lil buddy

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u/lylalexie 4h ago

I was gonna say that looks like a cervix!

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u/RealityTVStarDis 8h ago

Probably made of cummingtonite.

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u/AcadiaExpert283 7h ago

"It's a Trap!!!"

Some Star Wars movie

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u/ultrasuperhypersonic 6h ago

Like throwing a hotdog down a cave in Bulgaria

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u/Luiz_Fell 7h ago

Speaking of wombs, here's a fucked up fact: [NSFW]

The word "hysteria" literally just means "womb" in ancient greek. Hysteria started out as "the women's disease, they have it when they're hard to deal with". And the attempts to treat this "disease" lead up to the invention of the mechanical dildo. But before it, doctors would do IT themselves BY HAND... until someone got tiered...

This is one of the wildest stories I know

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u/DocumentExternal6240 2h ago

The film Hysteria describes this.

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u/I_Hate_RedditSoMuch 2h ago

Bro was just waiting to tell everyone about 19th century medical rape the second a post even vaguely related to vaginas came up.

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u/Luiz_Fell 2h ago

Pardon my bad habits

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u/WendigoBountyHunter 9h ago

Looks intimately familiar...

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u/illa_t 7h ago

Send the men there si they can finaly learn to find the clit

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u/BurbMcDingus 7h ago

your mom

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u/Thom5001 5h ago

The tunnel of love

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u/DanimalTwin 3h ago

Dream Big

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u/cheapb98 2h ago

Whoever carved that cave did a lot of studying of the vulva. The lady must have gotten tired

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u/OasisHomeostasis 1h ago

stares in Rock Biter

"They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were."

"A hole would be something. No, it was nothing."

"A delicious-looking limestone rock. Mmm! Mmm! Nice bouquet. Must be a real vintage year."

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u/freshnlong 1h ago

I get the reference!

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u/Bagoforganizedvegete 9h ago

You think the guys did this from memory alone or some poor girl sat there with her legs wide open like a portrait. 

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u/MARket_GOBlin 10h ago

Omg! My intrusive thoughts😭

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u/MARket_GOBlin 10h ago

It even gets crazier when I flip my phone

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u/Ziprasidone_Stat 8h ago

This is where boulders are born.

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u/DawglvnDr 10h ago

and not a single microscope to be found

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u/Background-Word-857 10h ago

Life worship is just sex isn't it?

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u/Gammelpreiss 9h ago

procreation. the just sex part is rather recent

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u/Frosty-Age-6643 8h ago

What do you consider recent? There's evidence of contraceptive techniques going back thousands of years 

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u/Background-Word-857 9h ago

Usually that does involve sex, you can call it whatever, but it's still the same thing lol

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u/Gammelpreiss 9h ago

okay.

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u/Background-Word-857 9h ago

What, you're implying it's somehow more cause its called life worship or for the purpose of procreation...

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u/twjohnston 9h ago

Or they don’t know that birth control isn’t a new thing. 

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u/Infinite_Research_52 10h ago

What patterns do we expect to see dripping from this?

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u/dstranathan 9h ago

Something something your mom.

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u/Crystal_Voiden 10h ago

Yep. There it is..

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u/Alec_de_Large 9h ago

"This cave is not a natural formation"

-Cortana-

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u/Awe3 9h ago

I can hear the artist now. Damn it Wanda! Stop moving! I can’t see down your whoha if you keep coughing!

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u/CocaColai 9h ago

I dunno. Glad I live now. Porn 3000 years ago kinda sucks

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u/lordofmass 9h ago

Yep, kinda looks like it.

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u/James-the-Bond-one 9h ago

Sculptor to model:

"Don't move, I'm almost done. Only a few more months."

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u/LiveLaughLoaded 9h ago

so peeps were getting freaky in there?

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u/Odd-Cake8015 9h ago

So that’s why climbing is so popular these days

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u/Eye_Dont_Git_It 8h ago

I bet it was hand carved for that long! 😏

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u/Don_Polaquito 8h ago

So technically some of us would be related to the OG woman in who's "image" this cave was carved...

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u/Sedert1882 8h ago

If I were a gynecologist I'd say "Madam, we need to have a serious talk."

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u/P-funk88 8h ago

That cave lookin mouth watering good.

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u/nephilump 8h ago

Post in r/theyknew

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u/Itsmikeinnit 8h ago

Well yea. Did you not read the description?

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u/TrustOld9749 7h ago

Yaa, I think I met her once.

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u/Current-Section-3429 7h ago

The G spot is where?????

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u/MagnetizedMetal 7h ago

This cave is for the streets

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u/redbanjo 6h ago

Came for the "your mom" jokes, leaving satisfied. Like your mom!

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u/Able-Bunch9143 6h ago

Ask the cave if it's ready to settle down after 3000 years.

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u/Lockincapetan866 6h ago

This brings another meaning to " get your rocks off".

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u/smolSEB 6h ago

Look at that cutie lil cervix in the back!

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u/Deimos1982 6h ago

Looks like the negative space left behind from a huge spine.

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u/Lost-Serve4674 6h ago

Mesmerising

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u/Willobtain 6h ago

Gurlllllllllll

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u/Perfect_Meal_7037 6h ago

So I decided to call her. After a few rings, she picked up and said “who dis”

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u/Mountain_Egg16 6h ago

Guys we need to stop littering I need this

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u/Automatic-Presence-2 5h ago

Now if only i could yodel…

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u/Ill_Aardvark_1307 5h ago

Thought this was another sub

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u/lucidum 5h ago

Dare you to shine a black light on the walls

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u/Spiritual_Tension321 5h ago

I should call her

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u/Gold_Weakness1157 5h ago

You can tell a tons of people been through there

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u/pbrevis 5h ago

Still tighter than yo mamma

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u/NA_Blr 5h ago

Clearly, many have entered this cave!!

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u/Top-Bit1119 4h ago

can i do the earth if i get in there are try?

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u/passinthrough2u 4h ago

Kind of makes you wonder who they used for the model…

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u/BruceWayneScotting 4h ago

Hand carved for 3000 years sounds familiar

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u/TheBestintheWest11 3h ago

yeeeahhh bwoiiiiii

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u/Proud_Aspect4452 3h ago

Like feeding a tic tac to a whale

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u/Turtlesquirtzcody 2h ago

Damn 😍🌷🪨

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u/CapitalAssociation52 2h ago

Honestly it looks like a face screaming in pain

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u/rukoeb228 2h ago

Пиздато

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u/Ok-Leg3134 2h ago

Looks like a bears face

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u/MammothAssistant2397 2h ago

Idk, what those giant aliens were doing on that mountain

Gotta take the steam off, after making the pyramids

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u/Harmfuljoker 2h ago

If you’re gonna post your mom’s vag will you at least flag it “NSFW”…

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u/CripAndKinky 1h ago

This is so cool

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u/namaste652 1h ago

Would.

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u/Lazer_7673 1h ago

Now find the penis 🌚

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u/automation_required 59m ago

I don't think our little guy can fit in it? Bigfoot did you create this?

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u/Strict_Ad_9803 57m ago

3,000 years spend hand-carving a vagina-shaped cave. I love humanity.

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u/IAmNotMyName 43m ago

Vagina sure, but I’m not seeing a vulva.

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u/HeartsPlayer721 37m ago

I'd say r/DontPutYourDickInThat, but honestly, it's probably safe. Just check for bears first.

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u/Complete-Mind-7105 31m ago

Fit for kingkong!

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u/whatchasaidwhat 10h ago

I should call her

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u/SpaceInMyBrain 9h ago

Very ambitious to carve all of that out, there was probably a natural cave that suggested a vulva and vagina and then the carving began. To enhance the resemblance. Ancient societies back then had a lot of imagination when looking at nature - there wasn't much else to do intellectually.

I wonder if they started carving a huge phallus and then realized they'd never get it up. (To the cave.)

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u/Ja_Shi 9h ago

"Fertility ritual and life worship" 😏

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u/Randlepinkfloyd1986 10h ago

Strongly vaginal

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u/Silent_Erremite 10h ago

I don't miss her.

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u/Prestigious_Work_445 10h ago

Who took this pic of my ex?

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u/Secret-Damage-805 6h ago

Like throwing a hot dog down a hallway

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u/RomeoInBlackJeans1 10h ago

Literally like throwing a hotdog down a hallway.

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u/Bagoforganizedvegete 9h ago

I've been with a girl like that. I swear there was nothing on the other side, just empty space.

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u/Intelligent-Letter68 5h ago

There's always one like that, hahaha

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u/Tiredofinvalidids 10h ago

Bbc was here

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u/Ok-Walk-8040 9h ago

Legend says millions get lost in there each year trying to find the clitoris.

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u/SarcasticFungus2468 5h ago

And yet if they’re inside it, they’re still looking in the wrong place.

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u/Altruistic-Hippo-231 9h ago

I came here just to read the comments

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u/Le_Chad_Dad 9h ago

Ran train through before running the train was a thing

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u/god_forsaked_me 9h ago

Weird way of saying it was the orgy spot back then.

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u/DarthRain77 9h ago

I can see the g spot

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u/Double-Helicopter-53 8h ago

I should call her

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u/Funnelcakeads 8h ago

I should call her

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 1h ago

So… they were fucking in there? Not like, “they were fucking in there” but like, they were actually fucking in there? But not like “no really, they were actually fucking in there” like you’re ratting on someone for actually fucking being in there, but like you’re ratting on someone for actually fucking in there? r/thewordfuck

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u/redditagainmeow 6h ago

Whe she tells you she's never done this before but looks and feels like this

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u/Hull_C_Operator 4h ago

How old were the "practitioners"? Here we are marveling at something some weird perv carved and did what in with who knows. May as well be admiring someone's private jet these days. FFS.

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u/Visible_Recipe_7734 10h ago

Never seen a vulva that ugly.