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Apr 7 17 tweets 8 min read
Thread: A lyre player from "The Standard of Ur" (), a Sumerian artefact found in one of the largest royal tombs in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, associated with Ur-Pabilsag, a king who died around 2550 BC. Now in the British Museum... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_…
Image 4 lyres of this type () were actually found in royal graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur (). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyres_of_…
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Mar 24 46 tweets 12 min read
Thread: Marble Throne of Apollo, Roman, late 1st c. AD. Currently in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Whoever made this, knew who Apollo really was and wanted to show Apollo in his true shape (serpent, dragon), sitting on his throne. Let me explain: collections.lacma.org/node/230211
Image Official description of the throne: "Despite its elaborate decoration, the artfully decorated legs terminating in lion's paw feet...[this throne] could hardly have been sat upon..."

Of course. Apollo is already depicted sitting on it. In a shape of a serpent/dragon...
Mar 1 30 tweets 10 min read
Thread: Etruscan gold disc fibula, from the Necropolis of Ponte Sodo, Vulci, Etruria, Italy. 650 BC, from the "Orientalizing period". Currently in the Antikensammlungen, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

WTH is all this stuff depicted on it? Here is the official description: Image "Around a central cross, above, are several birds in flight and, at the sides, two lions with a pendent tongue and serpentine tail; in the centre, two helmeted warriors, with short sword and shield, fight surrounded by a bird respectively." That's it?

vulcinelmondo.com/reperti/fibula…
Feb 20 60 tweets 20 min read
Thread (looongish): Woman of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer, 1511.

The Woman of the Apocalypse, described in Chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation, is a figure "often considered by Catholics to be Virgin Mary".

If so, who was Virgin Mary then really? Check this out: Image So here is the gist (from ). I will then go and try to explain what all this means: bible.com/bible/114/REV.…
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Jan 31 21 tweets 7 min read
Thread: "Motanka", elaborately decorated but always faceless cloth doll was once a common feature in every Ukrainian peasant home. These dolls weren't just toys. They were magic talismans... Image The name "motanka" comes from the word "motaty" (to wind) ie to make a knotted doll out of fabric, without using a needle and scissors. The winding of the doll was to be carried out only clockwise...
Jan 29 27 tweets 7 min read
Thread: "Care of the dead"

Two Assyrian soldiers forcing Elamite captive to grind bones of his family, 7th - 6th c. BC. This wasn't like most people think an act of random cruelty...Making someone destroy the bones of their ancestors was a deliberate forced act of sacrilege... Image Assyrian culture, like all the other Mesopotamian cultures, was built around the cult of the dead. Assyrians, often buried their dead under house floors. They also practiced "kispu", regular, ritual feeding and watering of the deceased after their burial...
Jan 1 46 tweets 14 min read
Thread: This 2,800 year old ivory was recently discovered in the old Hittite capital Hattusa, Turkey. According to excavation director Prof. Dr. Andreas Schachner, the engraving depicts "a Sphinx, a Lion, and two Trees of Life" and is a unique find.

That's it. That's it? Image We don't know:

1. Where was this piece made?
2. What is the meaning of the depicted scene?

So...Let me try to propose the answers to these questions...
Dec 22, 2023 22 tweets 10 min read
Thread: This is the 860BC-850BC Middle Babylonian limestone "Sun God Tablet", currently in the British Museum.

In this thread, I would like to add few bits of information that will help us understand some of the symbols depicted on this tablet. britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…
Image From the museum description:

"The tablet depicts the king being led by a priest and a goddess into the presence of the Sun-god Shamash, who is seated in his shrine. Before the god is the Solar Disc, resting upon an altar which is supported by ropes held by attendant deities..." Image
Dec 17, 2023 10 tweets 5 min read
Example:

Bottom, 1930 photo from Yugoslav archives, Serbian kids playing the game called gudža, Šar Planina, Kosovo.
Top, photoshopped photo with added white Albanian caps to make the kids look Albanian, which has recently appeared online.

If the original didn't exist... Image BTW, I wrote about these ancient shepherd games, the predecessors of hurling, hockey in




part of the series of posts about stick and ball games...



Kids from Montenegro playing gudža oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/01/pagan-…
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Dec 9, 2023 17 tweets 5 min read
Thread: Figurine of a bearded man by the Naqada I culture, 3800–3500 BC, from Upper Egypt. Pic by Rama.

Today I came across this article

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amratian_…
researchgate.net/publication/32…
Image In it I read about the "Souls of Heliopolis" , "Souls of Hierakonpolis" and Pharaohs as great prophets, great seers, who received their sacred knowledge and legitimacy from their ancestors...all the way to the procreator god..."en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliopoli…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekhen
Dec 6, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was killed in a concentration camp because of his anti nazi teaching, wrote that stupidity, which is deliberately created by the powerful elite (my comment: through media), is the biggest enemy of freedom.

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Image Stupid person is often stubborn, but he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him.
Oct 28, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Thread: This is what early domesticated corn (maize) looked like. It was domesticated from the plant "teocintle" (meaning "grass of the gods" in Náhuatl), most likely by the native people of Guerrero, Mexico, around 8000 years ago... Image On this picture you can see two small cobs of teocintle on the left, and two cobs with mixed genetics that are developing towards corn on the right... Image
Oct 27, 2023 14 tweets 4 min read
#ClassicsTober23 Hephaestus, Thread:

How old are "Ancient Greek" myths? And are they "Greek" in origin? Like the myth about Hephaestus, the lame/limping Smith God and his wife, the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite?

Why do I ask?

This is the so called "Vučedol dove"... Image This figurine, is one of the most well-known objects from Vučedol culture, (), a Chalcolithic/Bronze Age culture which flourished in the Balkans between 3000 and 2200 BC, and was contemporary with Sumerian Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic Egypt and Troy I/II. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu%C4%8De…
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Oct 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Me trying to go to sleep after reading the news just before going to bed...

"The top part of the 11000 years old realistic human statue which was unearthed during the archaeological excavations in Karahantepe" Turkish Ministry of Culture... Image Here is the whole statue assembled...

Sep 25, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
Thread: In Bulgaria, a special loaf of bread was made immediately after a person died, during the washing of the body. It was a simple round loaf, sometimes with a cross. In northeastern Bulgaria it was baked from dough which was made with the water used to bathe the deceased... Image The dough for the bread was kneaded in a wooden throw. Before the kneading of the bread started, a candle was lit and put next to the through. And the dough was kneaded until the candle burned out...
Sep 11, 2023 13 tweets 5 min read
Thread: In the late 1980's, I often ate out in old fashioned traditional restaurants in Belgrade, which served cheap, big portions of delicious food prepared by grannies who looked and cooked just like your granny...
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And at that time, in those establishments, you could tell what month of the year it was by the salads they had on the menu. Cause salads were made either from vegetables which were in season in Serbia, or from pickled vegetables picked when they were in season in Serbia...
Aug 14, 2023 71 tweets 23 min read
Thread (longish): Etruscan bronze protome of Achelous from Tarquinia, 500-475 BCE, currently in the Etruscan Museum in the Villa Giulia in Rome...

Who the hell is Achelous?

Well, just an ancient deified animal calendar marker for Apr/May...Taurus...And I mean really ancient... Image So...Apparently, he was "the god associated with the Achelous River, the largest river in Greece"...


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achelous
theoi.com/Potamos/Potamo…
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Jul 15, 2023 19 tweets 7 min read
Thread: This is one of the most interesting seals I have ever seen. It was found in the scribal quarters of Nippur, and was documented in the excavation report published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago . https://t.co/QQl1VtFFboisac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/…
Image I am not sure exactly what the dating of this seal is, but the scribal quarter has layers from Akkadian (), Gutian (https://t.co/rDYgvhp5G9) and the Third Dynasty of Ur (https://t.co/F6hw4sIlcz) periods...So the late 3rd mil BC...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutian_ru…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Dyn…
May 18, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Thread: Vase, terracotta, mid-4th mill. BC, from Tepe Sialk, Iran. Currently in the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.

It depicts a water bird (duck, geese) standing on the back of a male ibex goat. Why?

Cause they are both animal calendar markers with the same meaning... Image The beginning of the Ibex mating season in Iran (Oct/Nov), overlaps with the beginning of the rain season...Hence "goat of rain", an ibex goat as an animal calendar marker for the (beginning) of the rain season...

May 17, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
Thread: Great video about Taoist mythology...My favourite part: Every spring, on the second day of the second month, the gates of the dragon temples, which once stood on top of mountains all over China, were opened to let the rain dragons out🙂

ImageImage Dragon, the symbol of summer heat, is in Western Asia and Europe is "the bringer of drought". Why? Cause in Western Asia and Europe the hottest part of the year is also the driest part of the year...

May 12, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
Thread: All my life I suffered from hay fever. I pretty much chocked to death every summer. Then, few years ago, an old man (crazy old man according to my wife) told me to try nettles... Image Basically, as soon as the spring starts, he told me, and the first nettles sprout out, pick a bunch and sting yourself with them. A bit. Do that once a week until the end of autumn. Apparently, this would make my immune system concentrate on nettles and forget about the pollen...