Just FYI
That's a statue of Nataraja (Shiva) gifted to CERN by the Indian government. So the statue itself is probably there for a benign reason.
Shiva goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization, displayed on Pashupatinath seals (based on new evidence, the civilization is now considered 8000 years old: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621622/Indus-Valley-civilisation-pre-date-Egypt-s-pharoahs-Ancient-society-2-500-years-older-thought.html), far before the timeline of the bible and even the Egyptian civilization, and in a geographically distant part of the world.
We need to be careful about applying interpretations and superimposing concepts, across thousands of years, from one civilization onto iconography of another civilization that we don't understand
Just FYI
That's a statue of Nataraja (Shiva) gifted to CERN by the Indian government. So the statue itself is probably there for a benign reason.
Shiva goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization, displayed on Pashupatinath seals (based on new evidence, the civilization is now considered 8000 years old: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621622/Indus-Valley-civilisation-pre-date-Egypt-s-pharoahs-Ancient-society-2-500-years-older-thought.html), far before the timeline of the bible and even the Egyptian civilization, and in a geographically distant part of the world.
We need to be careful of applying interpretations and superimposing concepts, across thousands of years, from one culture/civilization onto iconography of another culture/civilization we don't understand
Just FYI
That's a statue of Nataraja (Shiva) gifted to CERN by the Indian government. So the statue itself is probably there for a benign reason.
Shiva goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization, displayed on Pashupatinath seals (based on new evidence, the civilization is now considered 8000 years old: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621622/Indus-Valley-civilisation-pre-date-Egypt-s-pharoahs-Ancient-society-2-500-years-older-thought.html), far before the timeline of the bible and even the Egyptian civilization, and in a geographically distant part of the world.
We need to be careful of applying interpretations, across thousands of years, from one culture/civilization onto iconography of another culture/civilization we don't understand
Just FYI
That's a statue of Nataraja (Shiva) gifted to CERN by the Indian government. So the statue itself is probably benign.
Shiva goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization, displayed on Pashupatinath seals (based on new evidence, the civilization is now considered 8000 years old: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621622/Indus-Valley-civilisation-pre-date-Egypt-s-pharoahs-Ancient-society-2-500-years-older-thought.html), far before the timeline of the bible and even the Egyptian civilization, and in a geographically distant part of the world.
We need to be careful of applying interpretations, across thousands of years, from one culture/civilization onto iconography of another culture/civilization we don't understand
Just FYI
That's a statue of Nataraja (Shiva) gifted to CERN by the Indian government. So the statue itself is probably benign.
Shiva goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization, displayed on Pashupatinath seals (based on new evidence, the civilization is now considered 8000 years old: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621622/Indus-Valley-civilisation-pre-date-Egypt-s-pharoahs-Ancient-society-2-500-years-older-thought.html), far before the timeline of the bible and even predates the Egyptian civilization.
We need to be careful of applying interpretations from one culture onto iconography of another culture we don't understand.