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27 Dec, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Thread: Double-sided stamp seal, late 3rd - early 2nd millennium BC. Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
Official interpretation of the images: "nude winged hero dominating snakes" on one side and "winged dragon" on the other.
metmuseum.org/art/collection…

Hmmm... ImageImage
About the "nude winged hero dominating snakes"...This is not a "master of the animals"...This is Mesopotamian Shamash (or his BMAC equivalent), the sun god, with sun heat rays coming out of his shoulders...
And he is not dominating the snakes, he is holding the snakes because they are symbol of sun's heat. They are out only during hot part of the year...Here is the same dude with snake hands...I talked about the snake symbolism on BMAC artefacts in this post oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/06/bactri… Image
About the "winged dragon"...In Bronze Age Mesopotamia the dragons did indeed have lion's bodies...But had no wings...They had the heat rays radiating from their backs...They also had snake heads (heat)...oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/seven-… Image
However the Mesopotamians had a winded lion...Which no one really understands very much...Yesterday I talked about this cute guy, why he has wings and why he likes chewing bull's butts
Now something else occurred to me...Maybe the wings are late development. Stylization of heat rays...And maybe we can see how it happened no BMAC seals...Starting with this cute kitty with heat wave radiating from his back oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/12/lion-r… Image
Evolving into this lion dude with heat rays radiating out his back in "wing like" fashion, on our original BMAC seal... Image
Until we get to this guy, Lion Headed Eagle of Lagash...oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/09/enteme…

But maybe these are two related but not the same deified animal calendar markers. Lion with radiating heat rays = Start of August, hottest part of the year. Lion with eagle wings = Autumn... Image

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