And they loved dragon rings...So much they became obsessed with them and made pile and pile and pile of them...
Looks familiar? This is the earliest example of Ouroboros: Serpent biting its tail. Remember Dragon (Destructive sun's heat of the late summer) = Old Serpent (Sun's heat). oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/03/jormun…
Before I saw these Neolithic Chinese Ouroboroses I thought that they appeared for the first time in Ancient Egypt. Did you know that the 4th century AD Latin commentator Servius says the Egyptian use of the Ouroboros symbol to represent the cyclical nature of the year...
So if dragon is the symbol of the destructive heat of the late summer, why is the Chinese dragon "a rain deity that fosters harmony"?
Because this is what the climatic year looks like in North Eastern China: The maximum heat corresponds to maximum precipitation...
The dragon (the hottest sun of the late summer early autumn) really does bring rain...Shit loads of it actually...
By the way, did I mention that the dragon mad Hongshan culture guys belonged to the paternal haplogroup N-M231??? It is estimated that this was the predominant haplogroup in the region in the Neolithic period at 89%, its share gradually declining over time!!!
Today this haplogroup is most common in Finland, the Baltic states and among northern Siberian ethnicities, such as the Yakuts.
Any Fins here today? What the fuck were you guys doing in China 7000 years ago and what's the story with the "dragon thingy"? 🙂
Well the story is all about the beginning of agriculture and the domestication of millet...But more about it in another thread soon....
Distribution of the N haplogroup today
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Thread: This is one of the most amazing things I have seen...Neolithic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangshao_… burial, discovered in Puyang, Henan Province, Northwestern China and dated to 4000BC...
A person was buried between a dragon (on the east side) and tiger (on the west side) of the body made of clam shells...His body was surrounded by three other smaller bodies, probably sacrificial victims...
Dragon and Tiger are two most important symbols in Chinese culture.
The Tiger is the ruler of the earth, in contrast to the Dragon who is the ruler of the sky...
The Dragon, a symbol of Spring, stands for the East while the Tiger, a symbol of Autumn, rules the West...
Thread: Rock carvings, dated to the 2nd mill. BC from Parco di Seradina-Bedolina (parcoseradinabedolina.it/indexe.html), located near Capo di Ponte is an Italian comune in Val Camonica, province of Brescia, in Lombardy.
To me the most interesting bit is on the back: fire-steel in the center of a cross made of four branches radiating fire which looks like burning sun...The fire-steel positioned to look like a crown...What could this mean? How is this related to the same fire behind Mary?
Thread: A magnificent animal (Siberian Ibex) killed for fun 😠 in Kazakstan...I am posting this picture so people can get the idea of how huge and imposing these animals are. And how difficult it is "not to notice" their behavior if they live near you...
Ibex mating, marked by mad male goat fights, happens every year at the same time, at the beginning of winter (Oct/Nov). Which is why Ibex became a calendar marker for Oct/Nov with the meaning: When Ibex goats mate...
Hence they are found as the symbol of winter in Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Arabia, Central Asia, Mesopotamia, Indian Subcontinent, possibly even Northern China (looking into this at the moment)...
Thread: One of the side panels of the Standard of Ur (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_…) "depicting mythological scenes"...Of unknown meaning...Found at the Royal Cemetery of Ur, dated to the Early Dynastic (ED) Period (c. 2900–2350 BCE) cnx.org/contents/uLBVv…
Of course these are not mythological scenes. These are animal calendar markers for the major climate periods in Mesopotamia:
Thread: Scene from the trojan war: Cassandra clings to the Xoanon, the wooden cult image of Athene, while Ajax the Lesser is about to drag her away in front of her father Priam (standing on the left) and rape her. Roman fresco from the atrium of the Casa del Menandro, Pompeii.
Cassandra was a Trojan priestess of Apollo. According to the legend, Apollo fell in love with her, and sought to win her by giving Cassandra the gift of prophecy...
Some sources say that she promised Apollo her favors, some say that she promised nothing. Regardless, after receiving the gift, she refused the god, which as you can imagine pissed him off...A lot...