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19 Feb, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Thread: Very very interesting. Read the original thread from @dalaygiz. Then have a look this:

What this shows is that this belief arose in a place where rain season coincides with the morning rising of Sirius. Which is in Indian subcontinent...Indus valley for instance...
Maximum monsoon there is in Leo (Dog days).

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/02/musth.…

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/05/kharif…
This is also depicted by two horses: white - sunny part of the year, summer, but rain season and black - dark part of the year, but drought season...

In Mesopotamia rains come when Sirius rises in the evening, with the moon, not the sun

This is one of the important bits about animal calendar markers. It allows us to determine origins of religions into which they were incorporated. Another good example:

More about animal calendar markers in various ancient cultures

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/p/animal-solar…

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20 Feb
Thread: This statue was found under the floor of the Square Temple in Tell Asmar and is dated to ED II period (2750/2700–2600BC)...The images are from this amazing paper "Sculpture of the Third Millennium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafajah" oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchic… ImageImage
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20 Feb
Thread: Engraving on an Ostrich Egg from Mycenae, Greece. From great text: "Ostrich egg-shell cups of Mesopotamia and the ostrich in ancient and modern times" archive.org/details/ostric…

Is this just a random scene or were the animals deliberately arranged like this? Image
In my article "Symbols of the seasons" I talked about animal markers for 4 seasons:

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/10/symbol…

Ram: Spring (Feb-Apr)
Bull: Summer (May-Jul)
Lion: Autumn (Aug-Oct)
Goat: Winter (Nov-Jan) Image
This has to do with mating and birthing seasons of these animals...Lambing of wild Eurasian sheep (Spring), Calving of wild Eurasian cattle (Summer), Mating of Eurasian lions (Autumn), Mating of wild Eurasian goats (Winter)...

These are most common symbols of the seasons though
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19 Feb
Thread: Left vessel, Neolithic Lengyel culture (5000-3400 BC). Right vessel, Chalcholitic Baden culture (3600–2800 BC) which developed from Lengyel culture... ImageImage
Lengyel culture guys, were neolithic farmers who, just like their neighbors, Stroke-ornamented ware culture guys, liked building giant henges, enclosures oriented to the sunrises at solstices and stuff... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/03/henges… Image
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7 Feb
Thread: For those wondering why is "oldeuropeanculture" account writing about Neolithic-Bronze Age goat worship in Iran
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7 Feb
Thread: I want to thank Gabriella Brusa-Zappellini, Great Italian Archaeologist, for posting excerpts from this book. The most prominent place on the cover was of course given to the virile "Goat of rain" standing between two zig zag lines symbolizing flowing water...
This goat was of course interpreted by archaeologists as "decorative design'...But in fact it is a calendar marker. Mating of the Ibex goats announces the beginning of winter and the beginning of the rain season.
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6 Feb
Thread: #Caturday you say. The two kitties are identified correctly as lions. But I don't think this is an ordinary bull...This looks like a buffalo to me...Do you see the ribbed horns? And that makes all the difference...And makes this seal truly amazing...
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