Thread: This amazing object is officially described like this: "Gold parade helmet with the image of warriors. Scythian culture. Found in the mound of Peredereyev Grave (Передереева Могила), Zrubnoe. Donetsk region, Eastern Ukraine. 4st century BC"...But...
Is it possible that this is not a "ceremonial helmet" but instead a "ceremonial cup" used in human sacrifices? Well the scene depicted on the vessel surely shows a man about to be slaughtered...
Herodotus says that: "Of all their enemies that they take alive, they sacrifice one man in every hundred...to their god Aries...which they represent by a scimitar placed on a pile of sticks..."
"They pour wine on the men's heads and cut their throats over a vessel; then they carry the blood up on to the pile of sticks and pour it on the scimitar"...Is this the vessel used for collection of the sacrificial blood??
Oh, and Herodotus also says that "Scythians drank the blood of the first person they have overthrown"...You need cups for that too...Like this one? More from Herodotus on Scythians here: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman…
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Thread: In 1997, a group of hunters was chasing a fox up the slopes of the Veliki Vetren peak on Mount Juhor, Central Serbia...
Finally the fox reached the area which surrounds the peak and which is littered with giant bedrock outcrops. There, it disappeared in a hole under one of the rocks...
The hunters sent the hound in, and when it emerged back out with the dead fox in its mouth, the hunters noticed that the fox had "a piece of ceramic in its jaws" and that it was entangled "in some rusted irons"...
Thread: While we are talking about Göbekli Tepe, I would like to just ask few questions about the "famous" pillar 43, Otherwise known as "scorpion and vultures pillar". I would add "and bags, don't forget the bags"...
Is this a random collection of images or???
Scorpio is the only Zodiac sign which has its double: eagle (actually a vulture and you will see soon why).
That they are actually all solar calendar markers, marking the part of the solar year when the animal in question has its mating or birthing season. An obvious annual event which you can't miss...
From the documentary that was filmed in Belgrade, capital of Serbia (and at that time, in 1922, capital of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). Film can be found here:
The film is full of wonderful characters. Like this grapes seller.
I just love these old fellows. Their faces are amazing...
Thread: In 1936, two brothers were ploughing a vineyard on the Vinik hill near Niš in South Eastern Serbia. Then suddenly their plough hit a stone. When the brothers started digging around the stone they realised that the stone was a part of a stone wall...
It turned out that they had stumbled upon a Roman building, which judging by the thinness of the wall was of a temporary character. Which is quite interesting because what was in the building...
A row of pithoi lined the walls. And these were full of leather bags, which were full of Roman coins. According to the witnesses, almost 10 tons of Roman coins. The single biggest hoard of Roman coins ever found...
Thread: This Çatalhöyük mural is thought to depict a nearby volcanic eruption. New scientific evidence confirms a contemporaneous eruption at nearby Hasan Dağ volcano which actually looks very similar. Cool right?
But what I find really interesting about this mural is the depictions of the Çatalhöyük itself underneath the volcano.
Çatalhöyük was a very large settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çatalhöyük
Now Çatalhöyük houses were built in a very unusual way. They had no doors. So people entered houses through roof hatches which also served as chimneys.
Thread: Does anyone else think that this picture, allegedly showing King John on a stag hunt, looks strange, and may be hiding something in plain sight? No? Well I do 🙂 Here is why: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/01/king-j…
As I mentioned in the article about the King John's hunt, the holy animal of the Slavic sun god Svetovid was a white horse, which was kept in Svetovid's temples and was used for divination.
But why was a white horse considered to be a solar animal? Well maybe because mating season of wild horses is driven by the sunlight. Mares fertility is tuned to day length, which means they are most fertile around summer solstice... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/06/trojan…