My dear colleague, the bowl doesn't go on your head. There was a period local rite of keg standing* and the Stanley Cup, judging from the materials (evidence for an expanded elite trade network), is obviously an apparatus for the temple version of this ritual.

* In Great White North, head goes on bowl.

ObCanada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCcWzLAcv4o

> religious rituals

Far to generous...in this instance it’s a “sun cult”

It’s kind of funny the worship of the sun, which a) actually exists; and b) is responsible for life on earth (not to mention stars generally are responsible for the elements that make up life) is cult status...but if you worship a “God” that is entirely faith based and more akin to a invisible friend, that is a sacred religion.

“And as further proof this was a religious artifact they also describe an event in 1980 as the Miracle on Ice to which there was much celebration most likely as this was the start of rising temperatures that rid the land of frozen water”

To be fair, most hard core sports fans bear many resemblances to religious zealots.

I don't understand. Is stuff like this supposed to be serious? Even if there was a disaster that completely destroys the communicative link between us and a future people (say, because humans have to return to subsistence hunting/gathering), there is an outrageous amount of written language everywhere as durable artifacts. Any future industrialized (or hell, even agrarian) society will be able to learn to read our language and understand huge amounts. These sorts of widespread written artifacts just didn't exist before the printing press, so pretending that looking at our current era by future people will be like us looking at 1000 BC makes no sense.

The only way to change this is to go to the far future when tectonic activity plausibly erases most artifacts. But once you've looking millions of years in the future, you're talking about a different species and everything about interpretability goes out the window.