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The windy and rainy world... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1575786509902680066/video/1

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After a lot of soul searching, Cricket the cat decided that he didn't want to go out into the windy world and ran back home....Cricket's friend Puka doesn't seem to mind wind or rain which has now started to lash... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1575784170714193920/video/1

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Cricket the cat doesn't like wind...and today there is a lot of it... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1575775297060110337/video/1

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Winter evening in the West Highlands by Charles Jones

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The last swan article for today...Analysis of this Boeotian (5th-4th c BC) red-figure bell-krater, currently kept in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/woman-with-torches-and-swans.html

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When Apollo arrived back to Greece from Hyperborea in a chariot pulled by the singing swans, the river Kifisos "rose in flood" to welcome him... Interestingly Kifisos floods at the beginning of winter, when migrating whooper swans arrive to Greece... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/11/singers-of-apollo.html

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The Irish god Aengus, stole Newgrange from his father Dagda, after tricking him into allowing him to stay in it "for a night and a day"..."Swans always hovered round Aengus's head"...Very important detail if you want to understand the Newgrange legend... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-young-one.html

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Analysis of the scene depicted on this gold signet ring from Thessaly, dated to the 2nd c. BC and currently in the Benaki Museum, Athens. https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/03/leda-and-swan.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Early lamb by Peter Brook

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It is very interesting that this sacred tortoise of Vishnu is associated "with the sun" (https://t.co/VXSLP0nMiv)...Vishnu has tendencies to be associated with solar animals...I talked about this in my post about Solar Horse Hayagriva, also Vishnu avatar https://t.co/81bXXFiPmJ https://t.co/AlKXHgcVFl
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: But equally tortoise was believed to be "The lord of waters" and "The sap of life" (https://www.jstor.org/stable/42931056)... Why is this important? Cause the monsoon season in India is the sunniest, hottest time of the year in India...

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And Indian Star Tortoises mate during monsoon season... https://t.co/bQwJb0bs8I https://t.co/rF8zW95dRS
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: It is very interesting that this sacred tortoise of Vishnu is associated "with the sun" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurma)...Vishnu has tendencies to be associated with solar animals...I talked about this in my post about Solar Horse Hayagriva, also Vishnu avatar https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/06/hayagriva.html

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There are many turtle and tortoise species in India. So which one is "The World Turtle"? Apparently, The World Turtle is the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu...And Hindus believe that the animal in question is Indian Star Tortoise... https://t.co/3pqRlG27KC https://t.co/ZczEn4E22R
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: And Indian Star Tortoises mate during monsoon season... https://aszk.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reptiles.-Indian-Star-Tortoise-2010CD.pdf

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@serbiaireland: There are many turtle and tortoise species in India. So which one is "The World Turtle"? Apparently, The World Turtle is the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu...And Hindus believe that the animal in question is Indian Star Tortoise... https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5625

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Thread: In Hindu mythology, the earth is supported by four elephants standing on the back of a turtle. Bonkers, right? Complete nonsense, right? Not if you look at turtle and elephants as animal calendar markers: It's all a complex calendar marker for the monsoon season... https://t.co/xkxUPZcIxQ
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: Indian elephants mate during Indian monsoon season...Which is why Indra, the thunder and rain god, rides on a white elephant...

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Thread: In Hindu mythology, the earth is supported by four elephants standing on the back of a turtle. Bonkers, right? Complete nonsense, right? Not if you look at turtle and elephants as animal calendar markers: It's all a complex calendar marker for the monsoon season...

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Once I realised that the double headed eagle (vulture) marks Old World Vultures mating season, I checked if the double headed eagles (vultures) symbols from Central America had the same meaning (Vulture mating season). They do... https://t.co/AdWXcNimb6 https://t.co/tXgm22fYOa
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: If double headed eagle (vulture) had the same meaning in different, completely unrelated cultures on different continents and different ages, I wondered if any double headed bird symbol would have the same meaning. Like this one from Easter Island. It does https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/05/birdman-from-easter-island.html

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Thread: Archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians...studying ancient artefacts depicting animals, are still not sure what these animal symbols mean. And non of them thought to look at the depicted animal's lifecycle for clues...Bactria, 2500-1500BC https://t.co/Huxi3rkP1k https://t.co/e7wmKsqdRQ
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: Once I realised that the double headed eagle (vulture) marks Old World Vultures mating season, I checked if the double headed eagles (vultures) symbols from Central America had the same meaning (Vulture mating season). They do... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/golden-eagles-from-costa-rica.html

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Thread: Archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians...studying ancient artefacts depicting animals, are still not sure what these animal symbols mean. And non of them thought to look at the depicted animal's lifecycle for clues...Bactria, 2500-1500BC https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/03/double-headed-eagle.html

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Here is a question to go with the news: What did migratory birds, that nest in Europe do during the last ice age? Discussion: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/02/year-without-summer.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Ernest Albert Waterlow

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Votive plaques depicting a cow suckling its calf, from Cyprus, 4th century BC, currently in Louvre https://collections.louvre.fr/en/recherche?q=Chypre+D%C3%A9partement+des+Antiquit%C3%A9s+orientales+relief+vache+allaitant+son+veau&limit=100 Speaking about the cow and calf motif (and its symbolic meaning), you might like this article about some Neo Assyrian examples: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/04/cow-and-calf-ivory.html

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Article about grain, birds and ancestors... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/08/julenek.html

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To understand what this Akkadian period cylinder seal, currently in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, depicts, we need to turn to animal calendar markers...Full analysis can be found in this article: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/09/lions-vs-buffalos.html

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This is a Third Dynasty or Ur plaque depicting goddess Nanshe with geese. In Sumerian mythology, Nanshe was the daughter of Enki (god water) and Ninhursag (earth and mother goddess). Why was she depicted with geese? Ever heard of animal calendar markers? https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/07/nanshe.html

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Why is this Pictish stone, discovered in Easterton of Roseisle, Scotland, decorated with a depiction of a goose and a salmon? Ever heard of animal calendar markers? Well, this is one, marking Oct/Nov... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/08/goose-salmon-stone.html

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@YouBastard12 Not lazy apple pie requires you to roll out your own filo pastry 🙂

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@serbiaireland: @dagne567 This is "not lazy apple pie" 🙂

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by William Bright Morris

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For good night...Lenja pita sa jabukama (Lazy apple pie) Recipe in the thread below:

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Alabaster vase in a shape of a bird, discovered in Susa, Iran and dated to 3500-3100 BC (Uruk period). Currently in the Louvre https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010177078

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#mythologymonday There is a Serbian legend that says that once there were three suns, but dragon ate two. It would have eaten all three, if it wasn't for a swallow who hid the last, third sun, under her wing. What is the meaning of this legend? Analysis: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/03/three-suns.html

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#mythologymonday In Bosnia, swallows and snakes are Lazarus's sisters. Lazarus is the symbol of rebirth. Both snake and swallow are solar animals and their appearance in the spring announces the "rebirth of nature"...Article about Slavic swallows folklore: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/06/swallows.html

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#mythologymonday Did you know that Ancient Greeks had a constellation swallow (Ancient Greek: χελιδών). "...The sun entered into this constellation, when the swallow appeared in Greece as the herald of Spring..." Article about swallows in Ancient Greece: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/01/herald-of-spring.html

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#mythologymonday Analysis of the scene depicting "The return of Apollo to Delos from the land of the Hyperboreans", from the body of a large Cycladic krater dated to 640 BC, currently kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-return-of-apollo-to-delos.html

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#mythologymonday Article about a special kind of bird shaped buns baked by Eastern Slavs as part of the "inviting spring" rituals which were traditionally performed in March every year...And other related Slavic bird folklore... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/12/inviting-spring.html

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#MythologyMonday Article explaining why this Minoan fresco from the Akrotiri Site at Thera (Santorini), dated to 1550 – 1500 BC, should be called "Beginning of summer" fresco and not "Spring Fresco" 🙂 https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/09/minoans-spring-fresco.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Clive Madgwick

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In the region where this cup was found, the climatic year is divided into hot, dry summer and cool, wet winter. https://t.co/pqX1hSHURV
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: The rain season starts in Oct/Nov, which coincides with the beginning of the mating season of Ibex, wild goats...Mating season which is marked by vicious male goat fights...

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@serbiaireland: In the region where this cup was found, the climatic year is divided into hot, dry summer and cool, wet winter.

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Thread: Cup with zoomorphic handle in a shape of an Ibex, wild goat. Discovered in Susa, Iran and dated to 2100-1550 BC. Currently in Louvre https://t.co/06S4sHPmEt https://t.co/nyhcEKZYye
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: On the back of the cup are two Ibex, wild goats, carved in bas-relief, kneeling on either side of a (palm) tree, and forming the palm tree branches with their horns...

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Thread: Cup with zoomorphic handle in a shape of an Ibex, wild goat. Discovered in Susa, Iran and dated to 2100-1550 BC. Currently in Louvre https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010128073

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Thread: Two Caucasoid figurines found in 8th century BC Zhou palace, China...One was marked with the graph "+" which is in old Chinese actually pronounced as "*m(y)ag" and is interpreted as shaman, but probably meant magus... I mentioned that here: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/bogatyr.html

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"The keel of Enki's little boat was trembling as if it were being butted by turtles"... (https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/06/enkis-little-boat.html)...That must have been some scary turtle, cause "Against Ninurta [Thunder god], Enki fashions a turtle"... (https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/05/ninurta-and-turtle.html)...Enter animal calendar markers 🙂

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Virgo holding Libra...Book of Hours, made in Italy, probably Milan c. 1470-1480 and attributed to Venturino Mercati. Currently in Pierpont Morgan Library, New York You might find this article about Virgo holding Libra from 2018 interesting... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/09/equilibrium.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Irina Rumyantseva

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For good night: 2014 post about acorns found among human food material during the excavations of the various Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic archaeological sites...Lots of links to various papers... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/11/acorns-in-archaeology.html

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This side up! Achaemenid "decorations", dated to 539 - 330 BC...Currently in Louvre https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010127383

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Etymology of the Ancient Greek "καλύβα" (kalýva) meaning "hut, shack, hovel, cover". Apperently: "This word has no known etymology in Greek...it is accepted that it comes from the Balkans and that it has pre Greek (Pelasgian) origin"...Hmmm...Check this: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/08/koliba.html

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I hope it makes a difference...Not sure it will though...Not until people are actually forced to start making the choice between heating and eating (warning message from the handwritten board held by some pensioner in the crowd today). Which, I am afraid, will happen this winter. https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1573759881399730188/video/1

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@another_barbara Mid making them this evening...

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Thread: Clay vessel, found in Sanahin, Armenia, and dated to the period XII-XI c. BC. The vessel is "decorated" with predators (lions?) standing between snakes crawling towards the rim...From the exhibition "Armenia. Legend of Genesis"... https://t.co/6ugKJLbk3Z
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: Leo (Jul/Aug), which marks the time of the year when Eurasian lions (which once lived in Armenia) began to mate, is in the middle of the warm half of the year in Armenia, when snakes are crawling around...Climate chart for Armenia's Lori province, where Sanahin is located...

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Thread: Clay vessel, found in Sanahin, Armenia, and dated to the period XII-XI c. BC. The vessel is "decorated" with predators (lions?) standing between snakes crawling towards the rim...From the exhibition "Armenia. Legend of Genesis"...

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Good mid morning 🙂 Have you ever tried "jabuke u šlafroku" (apples in a dressing gown)? These are basically apple slices fried in batter and then served warm with sprinkling of vanilla icing sugar... Recipe https://recepti-index-hr.translate.goog/recept/1096-jabuke-u-slafroku?_x_tr_sl=hr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. A Flock in a Winter Landscape by Wright Barker

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Autumn...Really cool pic by Anna Axel...Good night

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Sword (in the centre). Artik (Артик, Արթիկ). Dated to the period 13th-12th century BC. Bronze, copper, wood...From the exhibition "Armenia. Legend of Genesis"...

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Well, snakes are cold blooded, so they are out only during the part of the year when the temperatures are above zero...So Mar/Apr/May - Sep/Oct/Nov...depending where you are, Northern China, Inner Mongolia, or Mongolia proper... https://t.co/F0XkIrABYI
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: Which is exactly when migratory Short-toed Snake Eagles arrive to this part of Northern China, Inner Mongolia, Southern Mongolia to breed... http://www.birdingmongolia.mn/Bird_Details.aspx?ItemID=81 https://birdingbeijing.com/tag/short-toed-eagle/

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@serbiaireland: Well, snakes are cold blooded, so they are out only during the part of the year when the temperatures are above zero...So Mar/Apr/May - Sep/Oct/Nov...depending where you are, Northern China, Inner Mongolia, or Mongolia proper...

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@serbiaireland: Guess what...This is annual distribution of thunderstorms in Mongolia...From https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19475705.2015.1020888

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The climate (hottest time of the year is the rainiest, most thundery, time of the year) is the same in Inner Mongolia...I talked about it here in my article about the "Mythical Beast" from Xian: https://t.co/k6UsK1AcGM https://t.co/zXVWtxrGfz
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: And its the same (hottest time of the year is the rainiest, most thundery, time of the year) in Mongolia proper...

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Well...This is the climate in the Gansu region... https://t.co/PNOpfGFybk
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: The climate (hottest time of the year is the rainiest, most thundery, time of the year) is the same in Inner Mongolia...I talked about it here in my article about the "Mythical Beast" from Xian: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/12/mythical-beast-from-xian.html

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@serbiaireland: Well...This is the climate in the Gansu region...

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In the article about the mosaic from Istanbul, I postulate that this is the depiction of the fact that the hottest season in the Balkans (snake = sun's heat) is also the season of the thunderstorms (eagle = thunder) https://t.co/WdVyhzOjqh
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: This is depicted through the struggle between a Short-toed Snake Eagle (who is summer breeding visitor to Europe) and a snake (which is out during the summer)...

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@serbiaireland: In the article about the mosaic from Istanbul, I postulate that this is the depiction of the fact that the hottest season in the Balkans (snake = sun's heat) is also the season of the thunderstorms (eagle = thunder)

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Thread: A gold plaque in a bird and snake pattern excavated from the Majiayuan cemetery in Zhangjiachuan, Gansu Province, China. Pic from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272846438_Archaeometallurgical_Studies_in_China_Some_Recent_Developments_and_Challenging_Issues

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Why were (most) European Palaeolithic female figurines made faceless and fat with super exaggerated sexual characteristics? Cause (maybe) they don't depict real women. Cause (maybe) they depict an idea of fertility...Goddess of Fertility... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/12/palaeolithic-venus-figurines.html

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Time for lunch... Ćevapi https://www.chasingthedonkey.com/balkan-food-best-cevapi-recipe-bosnian-cevapi/ Ajvar https://www.chasingthedonkey.com/how-to-make-ajvar-recipe-roasted-red-pepper-sauce-recipe/ Somun https://www.chasingthedonkey.com/balkan-bread-how-to-make-somun-bread-for-cevapi/ Fries... Beer...

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Wooden quiver with arrows, found in Lchashen (Лчашен, Լճաշեն), Armenia, dated to 15th century BC. Pic by Zara Maloyan...

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Papyrus post 4: About this interesting "menat", a musical instrument/amulet sacred to Hathor/Mehet-Weret. And why does it depict a strange looking fish with a huge dorsal fin, swimming at the bottom of the river or lake, near a flowering papyrus marsh... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/03/menat.html

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Papyrus post 3: Egyptian Cow Goddess, Hathor, was often depicted emerging from the thickets of flowering papyrus, her sacred plant...To understand why, we need to look Hathor's alter ego, Mehet-Weret, another "Cow goddess" whose name means "Great Flood"... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/04/cow-and-calf-ivory.html

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Papyrus post 2: A great depiction of the papyrus harvesting, currently kept in the Met museum which dates to 1479–1458BC showing that papyrus plants were pulled hole during harvest. But when was papyrus harvested is apparently "unknown"...Well... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/04/papyrus-harvest-time.html

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Papyrus post 1: Hellenistic stela dated to the 4th-3rd c. BC, found in Umm al-Amad, Lebanon. The important bit of the description is circled in red...Discussion in: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/05/watering-papyrus.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. An orphan by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck

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Bronze warrior figurine, Armenia, 11th century BC. From the exhibition "Armenia. Legend of Genesis"...

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When I was 9 years old, I got in trouble at school for drawing this "rude" picture on a piece of paper and passing it around the classroom. It turns out this drawing has a very deep religious meaning 🙂 ... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/05/square-and-compasses.html

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This is the so called "Lod Mosaic", a 180 m² mosaic floor dated to ca. 300 AD, discovered in 1996 in the Israeli town of Lod... And the article about why it is very interesting (to me at least🙂) https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/12/lod-mosaic.html

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While we are talking about Libra...Very interesting Akkadian seal, 2350-2100 BC depicting bribing of the Sun god Shamash, who was also the god of justice...From this article: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/bribing-shamash.html

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The origin of the Libra constellation...And some linguistic weirdnesses related to its Mesopotamian name: ZIB-BA AN-NA = Balance of Heaven... In our zodiac, Libra, the only inanimate zodiac symbol marks the time of the year when day = night... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/10/zib-ba-na.html

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Neighbours helping each other to make sarmale for a wedding, somewhere in Romania. Pic by Osanu Ro...Sarmale are sauerkraut (pickled cabbage) leaves stuffed with a mixture of minced pork and beef, onions, garlic, spices...and then slow cooked to perfection https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/sarmale/

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But that's just my opinion...BTW...lapis lazuli used for the eyes of the golden figurines was was imported from the area of today’s Afghanistan!!! How cool is this? 3000 BC... https://t.co/BT6ssu8130
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: Mesopotamian god Utu/Shamash was depicted as a golden bull (Sun in Taurus) with flowing lapis lazuli beard (flowing water)...Cause flood arrives there in Taurus... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/05/utu-or-enki.html This object was found in Ur and dates to 2450 BC. Pen Museum https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/9347

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The reason why I believe this is because figurines were made of gold (sun), had huge penis (fertility), and had eyes made of lapis-lazuli (water)...And in Egypt, the flood which makes the land fertile arrives during the sunniest and hottest time of the year (Jul/Aug)... https://t.co/rxmREM2iTZ
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: But that's just my opinion...BTW...lapis lazuli used for the eyes of the golden figurines was was imported from the area of today’s Afghanistan!!! How cool is this? 3000 BC...

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@serbiaireland: The reason why I believe this is because figurines were made of gold (sun), had huge penis (fertility), and had eyes made of lapis-lazuli (water)...And in Egypt, the flood which makes the land fertile arrives during the sunniest and hottest time of the year (Jul/Aug)...

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Thread: One of two golden men with large erect penises found in the settlement of Tell el-Farcha (https://t.co/sAuPQzDnYB), located in the Nile Delta, Egypt, and dated to c. 3000 BC...Pic from: https://t.co/BpUZlikaec https://t.co/lsa3mYOhsf
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: This is the second, smaller figurine... The figurines had a core made of probably wood, which was then covered with thin gold foil, which was fastened by golden rivets, 4 mm long and 1 mm in diameter. Whoever made these figurines was a seriously good goldsmith...

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Thread: One of two golden men with large erect penises found in the settlement of Tell el-Farcha (http://farkha.org/english/stanowisko.html?fbclid=IwAR2P03n7lJ3o-G5YL86ELqZUDpx3D3rS_bucK3qzQoRsgz3CiYbOMaSlKdc), located in the Nile Delta, Egypt, and dated to c. 3000 BC...Pic from: https://academia.edu/6994981/Tell_el-Farkha_I._Excavations_1998-2011_edited_by_M._Ch%C5%82odnicki_K.M._Cia%C5%82owicz_A._M%C4%85czy%C5%84ska_Poznan-Krak%C3%B3w_2012?fbclid=IwAR3YST5YmFW6zlPvv1kzWODUDtiZ1KrcfwiPwcz3sLROJoH-9TBRvK1pRx4

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Models of three types of boats, made from hippopotamus tusk. These were found in the Western shrine of the Pre Dynastic (3600-2950 BC) settlement of Tell el-Farcha (http://www.farkha.org/english/stanowisko.html?fbclid=IwAR2P03n7lJ3o-G5YL86ELqZUDpx3D3rS_bucK3qzQoRsgz3CiYbOMaSlKdc), located in the Nile Delta, Egypt...Pic from: https://www.academia.edu/6994981/Tell_el-Farkha_I._Excavations_1998-2011_edited_by_M._Ch%C5%82odnicki_K.M._Cia%C5%82owicz_A._M%C4%85czy%C5%84ska_Poznan-Krak%C3%B3w_2012?fbclid=IwAR3YST5YmFW6zlPvv1kzWODUDtiZ1KrcfwiPwcz3sLROJoH-9TBRvK1pRx4

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Remember this: When was Hermes born? The answer to this question is "hidden in plain sight" in the "Homeric hymn 4 to Hermes". Full analysis can be found in this article: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/09/when-grapes-flower.html Pic: 5th c. BC Etruscan terracotta head of young Turms/Mercury/Hermes

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Shooting stars...The Codex of Christoro de Predis, 15th century...

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@serbiaireland: In pre-Christian times, Slavs believed that souls of their dead entered birds and through birds entered heaven, Iriy. So feeding birds with grain during winter was basically a form of feeding the ancestors, sacrificing to the ancestors... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/08/julenek.html

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@GrecianGirly Have you ever thought how would you make a helmet like this? Well first you would have to kill at least 10 wild boars...Have you ever seen what a fully grown wild boar looks like? This is the beast you had to kill WITH A SPEAR...10 OF THEM!!! From https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/03/legendary-battle.html

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Remember this? https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/09/problems-of-abzu.html I completely forgot about it 🙂 This post tries to answer the question: Why was Enki, Sumerian god of fresh water and annual flood, called both "Goat of Abzu" and "Bull of Abzu"? Abzu being source of fresh water in Mesopotamia...In short 🙂

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@another_barbara @FodorGabor4 There is a cafe in Belgrade which only serves these...Well about 30 different flavours and fillings...https://www.ferdinandknedle.com/ ...My regular stop every time I go there...My mother is too old to make them any more...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Shepherding, late winter by Alison Bradley

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One of my favourite songs about Paris... "Paris la nuit" by Mano Negra Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlQ4AxeRIo8 Lyrics https://www.google.com/search?q=Mano+Negra+-+Paris+la+nuit&oq=Mano+Negra+-+Paris+la+nuit&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l4j69i61j69i60.719j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#wptab=si:AC1wQDCnZtfNUI2fl7K6t9yeOkKftycXbaAPkjjFcOiXQzcxEpVqSoS5a3NClkEeImCVa-4wq3pQ0I9-BYDfZfJSULeM--jD4eXaIrW_o1PitENWCOSKMeYyvJdJv8JMn1HDbVX6EpcfoU0AiX1EVeI9j4BToCzGIWPvBBTxiUNnj6TlB-3TChY%3D

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@SPTomos Ahhh I thought this was the other arm. Cool...Thanks

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@SPTomos Eeee who's depicted here? The reason why I am asking...This is one of the most common motifs from Medieval standing stones from the Western Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia)...See the hand and the skirt?

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When was the last time you saw this in organic apples? 🙂

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Feeding sheep at sunset by Rachel McNaughton

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This amazing rock formation covered in snow is known as Babele. The name means "Grandmothers" and it's derived from Slavic (Serbian) "Baba" meaning grandmother. About "Baba", The Old Hag, The Winter Earth from Balkan folklore: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/11/baba-cold-winter.html

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Why did so many Mesopotamian "Supreme" gods have an attribute "The Great Mountain"? Cause they all wanted to be Enki...But there is only one Enki, who is (in) Abzu, "place that is a big mountain"...All the others are just imposters... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-great-imposter.html

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Why did Neolithic Central Europeans often burn their settlements down to the ground only to rebuild them again? Well, apparently "it could be a ritual" (read: no one knows)...But until recently people did exactly that to get rid of black plague. More: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/08/burned-house-horizon.html

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Went for a walk to Dalkey today...

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Mušḫuššu 🙂 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%C5%A1%E1%B8%ABu%C5%A1%C5%A1u

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One for good night. 5th century BC. polychrome statue of Kore (Persephone) with golden hair...Syracuse, Italy. Currently in the Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Paolo Orsi'...

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In 1557 "Ta Slovenski Kolendar" (Slavic Calendar), Primož Trubar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo%C5%BE_Trubar), writes that "Sveti Vid has the longest day and shortest night...Sveti Vid here Summer Solstice, the day of Svetovid (Sventevith), Slavic Sun God... From: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2015/05/svetovid.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Winter Sheep by Teresa Tanner

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"When Kore was carried off by Plouton, a swineherd was pasturing pigs on that spot, and they were swallowed in the pit with Kore. This is why piglets are thrown into the pits for Kore...and why Kore was called Pherrephata, killer of suckling pigs". From: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/04/abduction-of-persephone.html

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Some linguistic "curiosities" related to words for acorns, abundant acorn harvest, and pigs fattened during acorn harvest...https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/01/mast.html

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Red deer stag with fully grown antlers can be seen in Continental Europe from Sep. This is when deer rut (mating season) starts. Deer rut spans Sep/Oct/Nov... https://t.co/RTXKKFaSc6
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: Sep/Oct/Nov is also the time when acorns ripen and start falling off oak trees in Continental Europe...

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Here is the full curtain. Unfortunately I couldn't find a better image... Now, the stag with acorns, is a great example of animal and plant calendar markers used together to point to the same time of the year... https://t.co/QnqMmuwKIv
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: Red deer stag with fully grown antlers can be seen in Continental Europe from Sep. This is when deer rut (mating season) starts. Deer rut spans Sep/Oct/Nov...

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Thread: This is a details form the 14th century curtain currently kept in the Braunschweig Museum, Germany. It depicts a stag with fully grown antlers, holding in its mouth an oak branch with ripe acorns... https://t.co/3DlYb0k5RX
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: Here is the full curtain. Unfortunately I couldn't find a better image... Now, the stag with acorns, is a great example of animal and plant calendar markers used together to point to the same time of the year...

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Thread: This is a details form the 14th century curtain currently kept in the Braunschweig Museum, Germany. It depicts a stag with fully grown antlers, holding in its mouth an oak branch with ripe acorns...

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Remember this guy? Longma is a fabled winged horse with dragon scales in Chinese mythology. The Chinese word longma combines long 龍 "dragon" and ma 馬 "horse"... Analysis of this "mythical creature" (complex animal calendar marker) can be found in: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/09/longma.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Flock of sheep with shepherd in the snow by Anton Mauve

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Serbian female folk dress, Pčinja, South Eastern Serbia, 19th century. From the book "Narodne nošnje Srba u 19. i 20. veku" by Jasna Bjeladinović. I want to thank Tamara Komazec for posting these pictures online...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Julia Ogden

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Thracian gold plaque depicting a warrior with spear and shield...Are these wings coming out of his shoulders? The reason why I am asking:
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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. "Sheep in Winter Grass," by Arthur Koopmans

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@Meghann_Pie The fruit on the mosaic doesn't have a characteristic pomegranate shape

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@koreshmedown Possibly. Apricots harvest in Turkey, May-August

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@serbiaireland: Could it be a peach?

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Serbian female folk dress, Timok, Eastern Serbia, 19th century. From the book "Narodne nošnje Srba u 19. i 20. veku" by Jasna Bjeladinović. I want to thank Tamara Komazec for posting these pictures online...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. A Shepherd with his Flock in a Winter Landscape by Wright Barker

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Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1352-1336 BC. Ceramic vessel in the form of a Nile carp...Article about Oziris and the fish that ate his penis... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/06/holy-carp.html

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Serbian female folk dress, Rogozna, Raška, 19th century. From the book "Narodne nošnje Srba u 19. i 20. veku" by Jasna Bjeladinović. I want to thank Tamara Komazec posting these pictures online...

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Dragon post 7: Depiction of snakes and dragons in Bactrian art closely corresponds to the Slavic snake and dragon mythology...For instance, Slavs believed that snakes turned to dragons, and all snakes once had wings and flew in the sky... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/06/bactrian-snakes-and-dragons.html

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Dragon post 6: This was written before I discovered animal calendar markers...I was struggling to make sense of what I was looking at...But I was getting closer to finally seeing "the light" 🙂... Article about the baptismal fond from St Austell, Cornwall https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/04/st-austell-font.html

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Thread: Stone cross near St Buryan (Cornish: Pluwveryan). a village of St Buryan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom...Pic by Sam Davey... Interesting cross indeed. Apparently one of many identical ones from the area...

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Ever tried this? Loukoumades are little bite-sized fluffy sweet honey balls, which are deep fried to golden and crispy perfection, then served soaked in hot honey syrup, sprinkled with cinnamon and garnished with chopped walnuts or toasted sesame seeds... https://www.mygreekdish.com/recipe/loukoumades/

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Dragon post 5: This metal plaque from the so called "Letnitsa Treasure", a 4th c. BC Thracian hoard found near Letnitsa, Bulgaria, depicts a common theme from Balkan fairytales: a princess being kidnapped by a dragon...And she seems to like it...🙂 https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/letnitsa-treasure.html

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Dragon post 4: What does the legend about Pegasus and Chimera have to do with dragons? https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/pegasus-and-chimera.html

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Dragon post 3: The legend about the pozoj (dragon in local dialect) from Čičanjska Jama near Donji Vidovec, Međimurje, Croatia. And about the difference between male and female dragons... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/05/pozoj.html

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Dragon post 2: Christian and Muslim Serbs also sacrificed young girls at the lake under Trojan fortress on Pešter highland, to a three headed dragon, or in another version of the legend, to a water bull... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/03/water-bull.html

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Dragon post 1: In the past, during spring droughts, Serbs used to go to mountain lakes and pray for rain on their shores "to a dragon living in the lake who swallowed the rain"... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/01/dragon-who-stole-rain.html

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Thread: Two terracotta figurines named "Moravka 1 and 2". Neolithic period, Vinča culture, around 4500BC, found among the remains of a large Neolithic settlement at Drenovac, near Paraćin, central Serbia. Collection of Museum in Jagodina. Dimensions height 30 cm and 28.5 cm...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Blanketed by Jane Penfield

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The Sun-God's return is celebrated at the Powamu festival (Jan/Feb, beginning of spring), when the Sun-God is addressed as Ahula, the returning one...During this festival, a dancer dressed as the Sun-God performs "coming back down to Earth" ritual... https://t.co/aI6uJNGSzh
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: "The dancer wears a mask which has a circular or disk form, with periphery bounded by a plaited corn-husk into which are inserted bald eagle feathers (representing sun rays)"... Seriously cool...

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@serbiaireland: The Sun-God's return is celebrated at the Powamu festival (Jan/Feb, beginning of spring), when the Sun-God is addressed as Ahula, the returning one...During this festival, a dancer dressed as the Sun-God performs "coming back down to Earth" ritual...

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@serbiaireland: These are Bald Eagles. They are sacred to the Hopi Indians. And in the Hopi territory, their mating season spans Dec/Jan, basically period around Winter Solstice. And during their mating season, Bald Eagles literally dance in the sky... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1568671449954795520/video/1

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Thread: This is a historical black and white footage of Hopi Indians doing the Eagle Dance...Two dancers, dancing together performing identical synchronised movements... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1568665512418091009/video/1

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Cricket (the cat) impersonator 🙂 This cat appeared at our back door a few days ago, and is now a daily visitor... Cricket also comes every day, but is yet to meet his (female) alter ego 🙂...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck

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@dalaygiz @JuraPijandura Seriously? This is a ribcage...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Winter sun by Alison Bradley

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"King killing Angra Mainyu"...Persian. Angra (destructive, chaotic, inhibitive, malign) Mainyu (energy, force, sprit, mind)...Depiction of Angra Mainyu makes no sense, until you realise that it is a complex animal calendar marker for hot dry season... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-king-killing-angra-mainyu.html

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Hellenistic Greek cast glass pomegranate vase, 2nd century B.C. - 1st century AD. From (https://phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/hellenistic-greek-cast-glass-pomegranate-vase/) Articles explaining why pomegranate is the fruit Hades gave Persephone to eat in the underworld... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/07/poppies-and-pomegranates.html https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/04/abduction-of-persephone.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Thomas Sidney Cooper

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In the village Postenje, in Azbukovica, highland area in western Serbia, women used to wear a ring for every son they had. Each son had his own finger with a single ring on it... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/11/rings.html

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Article about two gold rings, found in Mycenaean graves, but most likely Minoan in origin...One depicting summer (left) and the other winter (right)... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/theseus-ring.html

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Article about these bronze rings, which could be the 1st century AD Christian rings...They are decorated with fish, good shepherd and palm branch, and were found in Židovar, an archeological site near Vršac, Northern Serbia...https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/10/church-on-threshing-floor.html

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Article about this ring, found on the hand of the buried person, in an intact early Christian grave from the start of the 3rd c. AD, found in graveyard of the Roman city of Viminacium, Serbia. https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/02/ring-with-anchor-and-fishes.html

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Ancient Greek golden wreath made of ivy leaves and berries, funerary, 4th–3rd century BC. Currently in the Met Museum. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255180 Dionysus, the god of rebirth (of nature), also wears a wreath made of ivy leaves and fruit...Here is why: https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/08/woman-and-pitcher.html

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Peter Brook

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Seren Bell

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: In 1849 Notes and Queries (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51835#page/5/mode/1up) George Bell says: "The place of the Yule log in Devonshire is taken by the ashen faggot (sticks of ash fastened together by ashen bands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashen_faggot), still burnt in many a farm on Christmas Eve... https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1474442341855510529/photo/1

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One for good night. Ancient medieval (???) graveyard from Durmitor, Montenegro...Amazing pics of an amazing place from an amazing hiking blog https://nestvarna.blog/2020/04/03/durmitor-vrazje-i-riblje-jezero-stecci/

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: The scene depicted on the relief is one of utter carnage...Among the chaos, it is easy to miss "the interesting bits". So I have tilted the image slightly and have added some notes to it (based on the translation from http://bosporwarfare.spbu.ru/library/warhistory/chapt0202/chapt0202.html)

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Thread: Carnage...A fragment of a stone relief depicting a scene of a battle, Discovered in 1983 during excavations of the Yubileinoye I settlement on the Taman Peninsula southern Russia. This relief was made in the 4th century. BC. in the Bosporan Greek workshop...

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: This is truly an amazing story. Here's why: Did you know that in nature, white swans are only found in temperate northern hemisphere, while black swans are only found in Australia and New Zealand? This is the map that shows the natural distribution of swans in the world:

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Thread: About how old are our oral histories...And swans... So...Here we go... https://t.co/nagWGaT6am
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: The Australian Aboriginal people have a story about the creation of Black Swans...It says that once two brothers were turned into white swans so they could help an attack party during a raid for weapons...

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Thread: About how old are our oral histories...And swans... So...Here we go...

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A very strange object, found in 1898 in Kurghip tumulus, Krasnodar, Maykop district, Russia. Gold. Height 5,4 cm. Dated to 4th century. BC...Two warriors, one holding a sword and the other holding a severed head of an enemy, holding onto a spear together...Is this some ritual?

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: The time when fallow deer mate is, for the farmers, the time of death...The time when markhor goat mate is, for the farmers, the time of life...Knowing this, I personally think that the seal was most likely viewed like this: markhor up, life, fallow deer down, death...

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On the left we see a goat, a markhor goat, common to Iran... https://t.co/Ww8mrgJJf1
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: So why do we have a fallow deer and markhor goat side by side upside down? Climate and animal behavior again... The climatic year in Elam is divided into dry season (May-Oct) and wet season (Nov-Apr)...

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On the right we see a deer, a fallow deer, common to Iran... https://t.co/wKsp16y8mV
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: On the left we see a goat, a markhor goat, common to Iran...

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Thread: Another Elamite seal. Iran. From "The Elamite Cylinder Seal Corpus, c. 3500–1000 BC" by Karen Jane Gardon (https://t.co/igu29LDO3R) This one even more amazing... https://t.co/Hdqy1TzScC
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Thread: Another Elamite seal. Iran. From "The Elamite Cylinder Seal Corpus, c. 3500–1000 BC" by Karen Jane Gardon (https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5352?fbclid=IwAR2PmLP1wvwBZX4COibKsCYYJN24iKWZTxnEP0PTcZNLfvDMSE72mWi-W9s) This one even more amazing...

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Why Thundering Sun? I talked about the "weird" link between the sun and thunder god in my post about Croesus and Apollo, The thundering Sun... https://t.co/VHBphCSNj9 The reason why we have Thundering Sun God is easy to see from this chart of thunderstorm frequency in Europe... https://t.co/3IrqehA3zS
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: Interestingly, in Bosnia, on the day of Thundering Sun, the day that marks the end of summer beginning of autumn, the day when aurochs used to fight, people sacrifice bulls and hold bull fights... http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/08/alidjun.html

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This is the hottest part of the year in the northern hemisphere, which is why this is the day of Helios...In the Balkans this is the day of St Elijah the Thunderer, the Thundering Sun... https://t.co/wLU9ymABLa https://t.co/nsWIuDSmGl
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: Why Thundering Sun? I talked about the "weird" link between the sun and thunder god in my post about Croesus and Apollo, The thundering Sun... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/croesus.html The reason why we have Thundering Sun God is easy to see from this chart of thunderstorm frequency in Europe...

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: This is the hottest part of the year in the northern hemisphere, which is why this is the day of Helios...In the Balkans this is the day of St Elijah the Thunderer, the Thundering Sun... http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-thundering-sun-god.html

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Soooo What's this all about? Autumn (symbolised by a lion) follows summer (symbolised by a bull)...This is the moment in time that this seal marks. This is why we have a lion chasing bull and the cross in the upper panel... https://t.co/yELaHR8tLV https://t.co/CT0LXCogDe
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: So what about the bottom panel with two bulls facing eachoter? Based on the horn shape and no hump, these are bulls of the Eurasian wild cattle, aurochs...

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Thread: Elamite seal. Iran. From "The Elamite Cylinder Seal Corpus, c. 3500–1000 BC" by Karen Jane Gardon (https://t.co/igu29LDO3R) https://t.co/7hkk2FnHOc
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: Soooo What's this all about? Autumn (symbolised by a lion) follows summer (symbolised by a bull)...This is the moment in time that this seal marks. This is why we have a lion chasing bull and the cross in the upper panel... http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/10/symbols-of-seasons.html

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Thread: Elamite seal. Iran. From "The Elamite Cylinder Seal Corpus, c. 3500–1000 BC" by Karen Jane Gardon (https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5352?fbclid=IwAR2PmLP1wvwBZX4COibKsCYYJN24iKWZTxnEP0PTcZNLfvDMSE72mWi-W9s)

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Gornje Bare, Zelengora, Bosnia...Incredible pic of an incredible place from an incredible mountaineering site "Nestvarna mesta" (Unreal places) which takes you to, well, unreal places like this one... https://nestvarna.blog/2018/10/24/zelengora-ugljesin-vrh-gornje-bare/

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Morning coffee, Łansk hotel resort, Poland...Pic by Aneta Kawczynska. Apparently the fox comes all the time to be fed and is named Anetka...

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Krampus, Proto-Elamite style, with Ibex goat horns cap, Vulture wings cape...and very schmancy shoes...3000 BC. Iran...To understand the real meaning of this piece, we need to look at the Iranian climate, and at the lifecycles of Ibex goats and Vultures. https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/12/strider.html

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: This is Sumerian agricultural calendar. Guess what happens during the first of the seven months of summer which is what the seven headed dragon represents? Grain harvest...Which is why the "god-hero" holds a sickle, has grain on his hat...And why only one dragon head is cut...

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: Today I came across this artefact. The description that came with it says: Hero-God (identify as Ninurta) fighting a seven-headed flaming monster, shell plate, 2500 - 2400 BC, Proto-Dynastic III, Bible Lands Museum (BLMJ), Jerusalem, Israel, no. 2051

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Thread: Few months ago I wrote an article about this seal from Tell Asmar, dated to 2200 BC. It depicts a dragon with 7 snake heads and sun's rays radiating out of its back, being speared by two gods (heroes)...Under a star... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/seven-headed-dragon.html

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White stallion is the symbol of the bright, warm, summer sun, which shines during the summer. Is the dead, skeletal, grey mare, then a symbol for dim, cold, winter sun, which shines during the winter? "Gray Mare", Christmas, Wales... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/12/gray-mare.html #FolkloreThursday

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Early christian relief from Naxos depicting the nativity (birth) of Jesus scene which takes place in a grove made of oak and pine, two main Christmas trees...Why are all Christmas trees edible trees? https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-trees-from-garden-of-eden.html #FolkloreThursday

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"Bablji mlin", meaning "Granny's mill" scene, Slovenia. An old hag is being milled, and thus transformed, into a young maiden. Winter being transformed into Spring...Interestingly, in this version, it's Krampus that does the milling... http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/babji-mlin-grandmothers-mill.html #FolkloreThursday

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Why would anyone want to kill a wren, the tinies bird you can find in Europe? https://t.co/MHwMsVEQL9
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: The story goes that once birds decided that whichever bird flies the closest to the sun, will be "The king of all birds". Wren hid in eagle's feathers, and when eagle flu as high as he could, wren jumped out of his hiding place and flew a bit higher, thus winning the competition.

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Thread: Out to kill the wren. Kerry, Ireland, St Stephen's day... https://t.co/1xj6DvQgKJ #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/fqocZPYTtV
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: Why would anyone want to kill a wren, the tinies bird you can find in Europe?

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Thread: Out to kill the wren. Kerry, Ireland, St Stephen's day... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/12/wren-or-wran.html #FolkloreThursday

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On Christmas morning in Scandinavia every gable, gateway, or barn-door, is decorated with a sheaf of grain fixed on the top of a tall pole, wherefrom it is intended that the birds should make their Christmas dinner... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/12/nav.html #FolkloreThursday

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Serbian Votive bread (kovrtanj, kolač). On Xmas morning the bread was brought to the threshing floor, pulled on the central stake, and then the father and the children would walk on hay, around the stake, holding onto the bread... #FolkloreThursday http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/08/bogovo-gumno-gods-threshing-floor.html

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In England, the first person to visit the house on New Year's day is called "first footer" but also "lucky bird". He is believed to bring good luck to the household. In Serbia people sometimes use an actual rooster to be the first footer. http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/first-footer.html #FolkloreThursday

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First footer arriving to a house on Christmas morning in Serbia, bringing kolač (circular solar bread) on his hat. He brings good luck to the family and most likely is a personification of the ancestral deity, Dabog, Giving God https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/12/first-footer.html #FolkloreThursday

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Irish and Scottish bannocks are made by virgin unmarried girls. At the beginning of Spring...To mark the arrival of Bride (Biddy), virgin Spring Earth...And these round pan breads, pan cakes, when cut into slices look like a shining sun...https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/bannock.html #FolkloreThursday

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In Serbian ritual tradition there is a rule which specifies which animal is sacrificed for which religious holiday. This rule follows ancient Indoeuropean sequence of sacrificial animals also found in archaic Roman tradition http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/09/sacrificial-animals.html #FolkloreThursday

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In Serbia, when a young oak tree is about to be cut for a Yule log, it is addressed in the way you would address a living god: "Good morning and happy Christmas Eve to you o Holy Badnjak. I have come to take you to my home..." http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/01/badnjak.html #FolkloreThursday

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In France, Yule log charcoals were kept until next year. Then they were placed in the fireplace before new Yule log was brought in and lit, symbolically connecting the old and the new solar year, the old and the new fire of the sun https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/12/la-buche-de-noel.html #FolkloreThursday

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The second one was found in Marne valley, France https://t.co/gpGo1HGa2w
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: The third was found in Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland. And according to the author, the Irish legends about the stone point to the possibility that it could depict the Celtic god Lugus, who was "one of three brothers" all called the same, basically Triglav (tricephalos)...

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The first one was found in Netherton, North Lanarkshire, Scotland https://t.co/7kO7daI5u4
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: The second one was found in Marne valley, France

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: The first one was found in Netherton, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

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The Serpent Stone, Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport, Lake District, England. "Likely a Roman dedication stone". Discovered in 1880, the face also had two serpents over the forehead which broke off.

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“Do not pollute (desecrate) nature!” Russian poster from the 1960’s. 😊😄🌳🌲 A birch administering "birching" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birching

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@TheAbstracteer @Albertotufaile Utu-Shamash, Sun god, with sun disc above...Not a star...Well yes, technically a star :) Anyway, compare with two "stars" on Naram-Sin Stele...

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But one child, instead of crossing himself, makes long nose at the procession (basically telling St Nick to stuff it). He is then proclaimed to be a bad boy and is grabbed and taken away by one of the (devils, demons, dead), while everyone laughs... https://t.co/gZfsP4UUg1
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: He is then stuffed into the grape picking basket, bucket and taken away...

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This is what the "good children" are looking at... https://t.co/23h5qwyiHC
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: But one child, instead of crossing himself, makes long nose at the procession (basically telling St Nick to stuff it). He is then proclaimed to be a bad boy and is grabbed and taken away by one of the (devils, demons, dead), while everyone laughs...

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Once they cross themselves, the children are proclaimed to be "good children" and are given presents, apples, nuts, holy pictures... https://t.co/wGycq1BEsx
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: This is what the "good children" are looking at...

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St Nick then tells all the children to cross themselves, which they attempt to do as best as they can, while still staring at the grinning (devils, demons, dead) standing behind St Nick... https://t.co/eo1pWH45wM
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: Once they cross themselves, the children are proclaimed to be "good children" and are given presents, apples, nuts, holy pictures...

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The mother takes the children out in front of the house where St Nick tells them that they should be good Christians (while wagging his finger at them)...The thing is, all the kids hear is "blah blah blah" as they are too busy being terrified by the (devils, demons, dead).... https://t.co/jT4g6UDZ82
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: St Nick then tells all the children to cross themselves, which they attempt to do as best as they can, while still staring at the grinning (devils, demons, dead) standing behind St Nick...

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The procession stops in front of every house. St Nick knocks on the door, while the "devils, demons, dead" stay behind him... https://t.co/tHr36pGaUq
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: The mother takes the children out in front of the house where St Nick tells them that they should be good Christians (while wagging his finger at them)...The thing is, all the kids hear is "blah blah blah" as they are too busy being terrified by the (devils, demons, dead)....

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They form a procession which follows St Nick from the church and through the village...All along they shout, bang their bells and shake their chains...One of them is carrying a "wooden grape picking basket" on his back... https://t.co/vInMTgaFJ1
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: The procession stops in front of every house. St Nick knocks on the door, while the "devils, demons, dead" stay behind him...

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St Nick comes out of the church accompanied by two women dressed in white...He is awaited by "the devils" or "the demons"...Or, considering that most have sculls instead of faces, they could also be "the ancestors", "the dead"... https://t.co/uGvsU9Lbmi
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: They form a procession which follows St Nick from the church and through the village...All along they shout, bang their bells and shake their chains...One of them is carrying a "wooden grape picking basket" on his back...

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: St Nick comes out of the church accompanied by two women dressed in white...He is awaited by "the devils" or "the demons"...Or, considering that most have sculls instead of faces, they could also be "the ancestors", "the dead"...

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: Finally finally, here is a Maenad carrying a thyrsus and a flaming torch...

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The discovery of The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Stele_of_Naram-Sin). Made c. 2254-2218 BC, it depicts the King Naram-Sin of Akkad defeating the Lullubi, a mountain people from the Zagros Mountains. Why are there two suns above the mountain? Maybe: http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/01/supernova.html

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Winter as the ghost of summer...

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Maenad's snake diadem. Snake is the animal which symbolises sun's heat, fire. Snakes are in our world when sun is in our world, spring, summer, autumn...And in underworld when sun is there, in winter. I talked about this here https://t.co/IUNbywqfYm https://t.co/0OMFUIZLYI https://t.co/4JN1Oyvmrc
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: Maenad's thyrsus. The stick used by Prometheus to steal fire from the gods and smuggle it into human hearths. Probably also symbolic torch as well as penis...I talked about this here https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/12/thyrsus.html

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: Maenad's snake diadem. Snake is the animal which symbolises sun's heat, fire. Snakes are in our world when sun is in our world, spring, summer, autumn...And in underworld when sun is there, in winter. I talked about this here http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/01/enemy-of-sun.html http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/06/bactrian-snakes-and-dragons.html

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: I think that this is why Dionysus, the god who dies and gets resurrected, rides on a leopard (arrives during leopard mating season), wears leopard skin (is identified with the end of the leopard mating season)...

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Leopard hunts (follows) ibex...Spring, which starts with leopard mating season, follows winter which starts with ibex mating season...And this "hunt" revives nature and brings fertility to the land... https://t.co/N5H923W3sS https://t.co/ea71txqNcf
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: Rain, which is brought by mating ibexes and leopards, brings fertility...Ibex and leopard semen turns to rain which turns to flowing water... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-vessel-from-tepe-hissar.html

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: Leopard hunts (follows) ibex...Spring, which starts with leopard mating season, follows winter which starts with ibex mating season...And this "hunt" revives nature and brings fertility to the land... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/08/ibex-and-leopard.html

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I love this depiction of reveling dancers (satyrs???) lead by the piper dressed in leopard skin (Dionysus???)...Why leopard? Well, I talked about this in this blog post: https://t.co/QaLw2KEwdT https://t.co/JxUzroe3KL
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: Asian leopards are very secretive creatures. Very little is known about their lives. The general belief of the local population in the areas where Leopards are still found today, is that Leopards mate during "midwinter", right at the time of Rural Dionysia...

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Thread: Furious Maenad holding a thyrsus in her right hand and a leopard in her left hand. She wears a leopard skin as a cloak and a snake around her head like a diadem. Tondo of an Attic white-ground kylix, 490–480 BC. From Vulci, Italy...Very beautiful and very interesting...

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Embedding a human shadow into house foundation is probably a replacement for embedding people alive into the walls or foundations "when fairies wouldn't allow a town, bridge, church...to be built". References to this ritual are found in Serbian epic poetry http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-house.html

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The Goat of Rain. Ibex, limestone and lapis lazuli, late 3rd - early 2nd mil. BC. Bactria (BMAC). Pic from "Battriana una antica civiltà delle oasi dalle sabbie dell'Afghanistan" by Giancarlo Ligabue and Sandro Salvatori...Ibex mating announces rain season http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/fluffy.html

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Through the looking glass...

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"Thetis Immersing her Infant son Achilles in the River Styx to make him Invulnerable". It's the complete lack of emotions on all the faces, particularly on the face of Thetis, that gives me the creeps...Relief by Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertel_Thorvaldsen)

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The climatic year in the area (https://t.co/d2ofEx5M4t) is divided into hot and dry part (May-Oct) and wet and cool part (Nov-Apr) https://t.co/FQBO70SXzx
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: The sheep depicted on the picture are Anatolian Mouflon wild sheep. Male and female herds of Anatolian wild sheep stay separate from each except during the mating season, which starts in November, with rams fighting each other over the right to mate with the females...

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: The climatic year in the area (https://en.climate-data.org/asia/turkey/hatay/antakya-243/) is divided into hot and dry part (May-Oct) and wet and cool part (Nov-Apr)

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A Nuragic warrior. The Nuragic civilization (culture) existed in Sardinia (Italy) from the 18th century BCE up to the Roman colonization in 238 BCE... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuragic_civilization

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: These communal stakes were usually stuck on crossroads, near wells, in the centre of the future village and that stake would become the cult centre of the whole village. These village stakes would later be the places where high crosses, churches and or graveyards were located...

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Thread: In some parts of Serbia, like on mountain Rudnik, there was a custom to first stick a stake in the place where a new house was going to be built to purify the land, to clean it of bad spirits, and only then the house was built on "clean land"...

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A winter scene with ancient medieval (???) "stećak" tombstones, Risovac-Blidinje, Herzegovina. Pic by Muamer Klinčević...

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Sailing into the fog...

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Fresco from Our Lady of Ljeviš (Serbian: Bogorodica Ljeviška), a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox Church in Prizren, Kosovo... Why is Mary holding a basket (bag)? And why is Christ (dipping his hand into it)?

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"God's mother laboured From St Ignatius to Christmas To give birth to Young God" Why do Serbs and Bulgarians believe that Mary was in labour for 5 days? Maybe it has something to do with the way Luni-Solar calendars work... Fresco from Visoki Dečani http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-end-of-time.html

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Stunning Roman relief showing a Maenad holding a thyrsus a magic wand of Dionysus (Bacchus), 120-140 AD (Prado Museum, Madrid)...Thread about thyrsus and why was it made out of fennel...
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Thread: A thyrsus was a wand or staff made out of a stalk of a giant fennel (Ferula communis) and topped with a pine cone. Sometimes it was covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with a ribbon... https://t.co/y7hifVTq5h

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: Oh by the way, if you want to see what thirsus made of giant fennel stalk and a pinecone, someone's done it...He used a green stalk instead of dry one, but hey, close enough... https://www.rootsimple.com/2009/08/thyrsus-the-new-hipster-accessory/

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Is this just me reading too much into all this? Weeeell...Well guess who arrived to the Dionysia party and is greeted by the satyrs, the fateful followers of Dionysus...Well, Prometheus of course... Prometheus and Satyrs. 5th century BC. Campana krater. Lipari, Museo Eoliano... https://t.co/2llq85k3wk
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: Here is another one: Satyrs dance amazed around the fire that Prometheus carries in the stem of a giant fennel...

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: Is this just me reading too much into all this? Weeeell...Well guess who arrived to the Dionysia party and is greeted by the satyrs, the fateful followers of Dionysus...Well, Prometheus of course... Prometheus and Satyrs. 5th century BC. Campana krater. Lipari, Museo Eoliano...

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People believed that there was only one fire...The fire of the sun and the fire in in human hearths was one and the same...Remember, Prometheus hid a bit of heavenly fire he stole from Zeus in wood, so people can summon it out whenever they need it... https://t.co/YdQ1fjYosr
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: The same fire, above and below...Agni...So when during the darkest part of the year the fire above, the fire of the sun, gets almost extinguished, it is up to people to make sure it keeps burning in their hearths...

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: People believed that there was only one fire...The fire of the sun and the fire in in human hearths was one and the same...Remember, Prometheus hid a bit of heavenly fire he stole from Zeus in wood, so people can summon it out whenever they need it...

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Some people wanted to see if there is any truth in these old legends...https://t.co/02gZNSBVpm Get a piece of dry giant fennel stem, hard on the outside, full of soft pith on the inside. This pith can be ignited and it then smoulders...The stem can also be used as firedrill... https://t.co/lQkhBgstOI
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: Well that's interesting... We have: 1. a giant fennel which is full of sun like golden flowers around summer solstice 2. summer solstice is sunniest but also the most thundery part of the year in the Balkans, which means a lot of chances for lightning (Zeus) started fires...

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Soooo? Well...In Ancient Greek mythology, when Prometheus stole fire from Zeus, he brought it to people by hiding it in the hollow stalk of the giant fennel... https://t.co/Fg12Mar1rV
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: Some people wanted to see if there is any truth in these old legends...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNme5s_Sm-w Get a piece of dry giant fennel stem, hard on the outside, full of soft pith on the inside. This pith can be ignited and it then smoulders...The stem can also be used as firedrill...

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It flowers in June and July (around summer solstice) and produces huge number of large bright yellow globular "sun like" flowers... https://t.co/Ahw40P4Cfo
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: Soooo? Well...In Ancient Greek mythology, when Prometheus stole fire from Zeus, he brought it to people by hiding it in the hollow stalk of the giant fennel...

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But what about the material used for the shaft? This is giant fennel, a wild flowering plant found in Mediterranean and East African woodlands and shrublands. It can grow up to 2.5 meters tall... https://t.co/VfB5PIqYt9
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: It flowers in June and July (around summer solstice) and produces huge number of large bright yellow globular "sun like" flowers...

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: But what about the material used for the shaft? This is giant fennel, a wild flowering plant found in Mediterranean and East African woodlands and shrublands. It can grow up to 2.5 meters tall...

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Thread: A thyrsus was a wand or staff made out of a stalk of a giant fennel (Ferula communis) and topped with a pine cone. Sometimes it was covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with a ribbon... https://t.co/y7hifVTq5h
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: Thyrsus was associated with Dionysus and was a symbol of fertility (kind of obvious) and prosperity (well in agrarian societies fertility, of land, animals, people = prosperity)...Here is The Man on a leopard holding his magic wand...From Pela, capital of Makedon...

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Thread: A thyrsus was a wand or staff made out of a stalk of a giant fennel (Ferula communis) and topped with a pine cone. Sometimes it was covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with a ribbon...

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Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) battles an Indian warrior during his campaign against the Indians. He is accompanied by a Maenad and the elderly satyr Silenus. The god is crowned with a wreath and clothed in a leopard-skin and armed with a knobstick. Rome, Palazzo Massimo 4th c. AD...

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Elves...Stunning winged bronze 4th century BC Phrygian-Chalcidian helmet adorned with Nike & Artemis, goddesses of victory & the hunt...

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Aran Island women coming from mass, c. 1930s. What are they wearing? Original black and white photo http://images.galwaylibrary.ie/greenstone/collect/t3/index/assoc/HASHaf40.dir/Aran%20women%20coming%20from%20mass.jpg Colourised by https://oldirelandincolour.com/

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@vgan15 scorpion has a single sting on its tail

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Hemp fibre, used in plumbing for packing out and sealing pipe threads, has apparently been banned in Serbia "because it advertises and promotes cannabis"...Making hemp fibre, in the "bad old days" when people didn't know how bad hemp fibre actually was...

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: @JackDobbyn Look at this...Are earwigs antenae usually in or out?

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Wow...Ancient Roman chalcedony gem with a magical and allegorical scene (???). A hybrid creature consisting of a bird (crow?) with horse's head, held by an insect (what insect is this?), holds a caduceus in its talons. 1st c. BC - 1st c. AD...Trying to find more about this piece.

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Acorns, one of the most abundant natural foods. The problem is they contain tannins (some more some less depending on oak type) which make them bitter and poisonous...Article about acorn processing techniques asking: how did people invent these techniques? http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/12/eating-acorns.html

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@peterclyon I think the shoes they are rocking are more of this type...Lighter, tighter and more comfortable in battle...I think...

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A relief of a Hittite warrior or god with a shield, a spear and a sword. In the collection at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The shield is very interesting. The same kind appears on some Minoan seals I saw few years ago, carried by a "warrior in the sky". http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/shields1.htm

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Russian family making lapti shoes...

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Russian birch bark shoes called "lapti" also found in Baltic countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast_shoe

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Cup marked bedrock near Bordighera, a town in the Province of Imperia, Liguria (Italy). Pics by Giorgio Gambino

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The oldest "theatrical" mask were found in Neolithic Vinca culture sites in the Balkans, dated to 6th-5th millennium BC. More in http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/12/mask-from-belo-brdo.html

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@Coene_Arts 😂 yup. this one

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Bronze axe head, Akkadian, c. 2340-2200 BC, inscribed with owner's name. Akkadian 𒅆𒆕 "šukurru" (metal wedge, spear, axe)...Officially "not related" to Slavic sekira (axe), Latin secūris (axe) and Ancient Greek σάγαρις "ságaris", Scythian axe. Definitely is related...

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One of the Akkadian words for "destiny" is "isqu" meaning "lot" which derives from "esēqu" (to make a drawing, to incise a relief) and specifically "to apportion lots"...Slavic: "sek" (to cut), "isek" (to cut out, to apportion). From PIE (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sek-) meaning to cut..

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: So Gibil was written bil-gi, where "bil" means fire and "gi" means reed, stick...So Gibil is not a name. It means fire stick, fire drill...Gibil, the fire god is actually a deified fire stick, the tool used for making fire...

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: Well no surprises here. Originally fire from sun descended to earth through lightning...So fire was the child of heaven... http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/06/sun-thunder-fire.html

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Thread: The Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I with a torch, worshipping the fire god Nusku. About 1200 BC. The artifact is in Berlin. Pic by petrus.agricola.

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Thread: I would like to here tell you a story about Aleksandar Lekso Saičić...A character that could have walked straight out of Corto Maltese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corto_Maltese) graphic novels...

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@peterclyon @HNTurtledove @dutpekmezi3 Traditional Serbian and Celtic footwear...Maybe the similarities in customs are not pure coincidence? People move, mix...and stuff...