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25 Mar, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Thread: Sumerian Seal, Ur III period (22nd to 21st century BC)...Check every source related to this seal and all you find is: Gilgamesh...Weeeell...

Again we see bull (summer, May/Jun/Jul) and lion (autumn, Aug/Sep/Oct)

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The star between them is Ishtar (The Lady of heaven, Sirius) Because Sirius rises with the sun during Jul/Aug, at the end of summer (bull) and at the beginning of autumn (Lion)...
This period is marked by Leo, the beginning of the main mating season of the Eurasian lions. And this is why Ishtar, Inanna, is depicted riding on a lion

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But this "star" is also the sun...The sun at the hottest, driest part of the year. Middle of the old Sumerian summer, dry, hot half of the year which starts in May and lasts until Oct.... Image
This is the time of the Dragon...

This is the half of the year without precipitation...But something super important happens in Apr/May, beginning of summer marked by Taurus, bull...
Tigris and Euphrates flood. This is the meaning of the two flows of water pouring out of the bull's snout, beginning of summer marked by the bull

What's with the guy fighting the Lion? I believe that he is not fighting the real lion. He is fighting the drought that starts in Leo, when the waters produced by the Taurus flood recede...Under the cloudless sky, and blazing Sun and Sirius...

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28 Mar
Thread: Today I will talk about willow in Slavic spring fertility rituals, gardening and Cricket the cat 🙂

Here we go: Saturday before Palm Sunday is in Serbia known as Vrbica (Willow day). On that day kids and young women make and wear wreaths made of willow twigs and flowers ImageImage
On that day, willow twigs with young leaves and flowers, like these, known in English as Pussy Willow (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_wil…) are brought to the church where they are blessed the next day, Palm Sunday, which is in Serbia known as Cveti (Flowers day)... Image
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25 Mar
Thread: First I doubt this ring was made on the Mainland...It was most likely made on Minoan Crete, based on what is depicted on it...Was bull leaping a popular activity in Mycenae? Or is this just another looted treasure?

But this is not what makes this ring interesting...
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Now if we look at the scene depicted on the ring, the bull is walking away from a green branch and towards a dog...Why?
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20 Mar
Thread: Tărtăria tablets are three clay tablets discovered in a Vinča-Turdaș culture (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8D…) settlement near the village of Tărtăria in Romania...
The tablets were discovered in a sacrificial pit with many other clay objects and human bones. The radio carbon dating of the bones produced the dates 6310 ± 65 yr BP (calibrated 5370-5140 BC) academia.edu/2365429/SETTLI…
The reason why these tablets are so important is that they contain the Vinča (Old European) symbols.

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19 Mar
Thread: This is a wall painting from the 3rd century BC tomb of Si-Amun at Gebel al-Mawta in the Siwa Oasis in Egypt...It depicts seated Si-Amun, and his son, standing before him and touching his father's knee... touregypt.net/featurestories…
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19 Mar
Thread: "Bactrian silver cylindrical cup, late 3rd to early 2nd Millennium BC. The hammered vessel...has four goats in relief in profile with projecting heads framed by great curving horns"...From: thecityreview.com/f00cant.html
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Left: Ibex goat. See the bumps on the horns?
Right: Moufloon sheep. See the lines on the horns?

Compare the curves...
The same animal (Mouflon sheep) is depicted on this Bactrian gold stamp seal being held by an eagle dude...

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19 Mar
Thread: This is a seal from the Sumerian city of Adab, dated to "after 2350 BCE". Official interpretation is: "Gilgamesh, fighting a lion and a buffalo. Dragon, unrelated to the other figures in the scene, is depicted under the inscription: "Urdumu, Governor of Adab"...
Of course, the dragon is very much central to the scene 🙂which is why it is in the center...And very much related to the other figures...But to understand how and why, you need to first forget about Gilgamesh (this has nothing to do with him)...
And you need to know about the existence of animal calendar markers, animal symbols of the seasons, like summer=bull and autumn=lion, and that dragon is the symbol of destructive sun's heat at the end of summer and beginning of autumn...
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