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23 Apr, 7 tweets, 4 min read
#StGeorgesDay Thread: Every year in Serbia, a male lamb is sacrificed to St George on his day. Why? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/07/aries-…
Because (summer) St George's day is just Christianized old marker for the end of spring and the beginning of summer...Spring needs to end so summer can begin...

The end of spring is marked by Aries and the beginning of summer is marked by Taurus...I am not here talking about constellations...I am talking about animal calendar markers, which mark either mating or birthing of the animal used as symbols... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/p/zodiac.html
Aries marks the end of the lambing season of the wild Eurasian sheep. And Taurus marks the beginning of the calving season of the wild Eurasian cattle...

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/05/ram-an…
These important natural events are not affected by precession and always happen at the same time during the solar year...They are so important that Ram and Bull are also symbols of the seasons: Ram (spring) and bull (summer) oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/10/symbol…
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/04/four-l…
So why is lamb sacrificed to St George? Because Aries must die (spring must end), so Taurus can live (summer can begin)...But isn't summer the time of dragons? So who is the lamb really sacrificed to? Dragon of course...
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." (G.K. Chesterton) What they don't tell you is that "Dragon killer is the dragon in disguise"...

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22 Apr
#FolkloreThursday Thread: Here is, at first sight, a very strange Serbian superstition about dogs:

A place where a dog has scratched the ground is in Serbian called "sugreb". It is believed that stepping on this place can cause person to get sick "and even to go mad"!
This is why when you see that the dog has scratched the soil, you should spit on that spot, and that would "cure it"...

This is very interesting. Why would people believe this?
Well Serbs also believed that "dogs are unclean" and that "god's breath can reach 100 cubits into the earth"...What does this mean? Why did people believe this?
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21 Apr
Thread: A farmer discovers an "untouched" and "highly unusual" ancient tomb, thought to be from the Early Bronze Age, while working on his land on the Dingle Peninsula in Co Kerry, Ireland. rte.ie/news/2021/0416… The tomb contained "an unusual smooth oval-shaped stone"...
Ever seen these before? Cup and saddle mortars and "unusual smooth oval-shaped stones" also known as pestles...

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/12/bullau…
Left: One of many Native American communal grinding stones, used for grinding of acorns, USA
Right: One of many so called "bullaun" stones from Ireland, use and purpose unknown...

See all the "unusual smooth oval-shaped stones" in the holes?

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21 Apr
Thread: The hand...Relief from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dur-Sharr… (the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria), "detail of a throne???", ca 721 -705 BC...
The only throne depiction from Dur Sharrukin I found is this one. The "figure" holding a goat and poppies (???) is the same, but there is no giant hand behind...So where is the original image from?
What Assyrian god is holding the goat of rain? And poppies? Remember this guy, a Urartian contemporary of this Assyrian dude, also holding poppies, but standing on a bull??? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/05/poppie…
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20 Apr
Thread: This is an impression of an Akkadian cylinder seal, c. 2217-2193 BC, currently in Louvre Museum. This also is one of the best examples of animal calendar markers I have seen... Image
It shows the same scene, a water buffalo licking a jar, held by a kneeling "man", from which water flows in two streams. The scene is depicted twice symmetrically around the inscription that reads "The Divine Sharkalisharri Prince of Akkad"...
So first, what's the meaning of the jar with two streams flowing out of it? The two flowing streams are two great Mesopotamian rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. And the jar is symbolic depiction of their source...
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6 Apr
Thread: This is a drawing of a relief from Persepolis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis), depicting "The King killing Angra Mainyu", the main adversary of Ahura Mazda, the highest deity of Zoroastrianism...
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Eventually Angra (Destructive) Mainyu became Aka (Evil) Mainyu...Because of course everything destructive caused disorder and disorder is evil...And so Zoroastrian devil, Ahriman, was born...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahriman
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4 Apr
Thread: Years ago, I saw a documentary about Anatolia. In it the crew went to eat in a restaurant which only served one dish: a sort of a thick spicy lamb (mutton) stew, slow cooked for hours, and served in a copper bowl in which it was quickly fried over a blowtorch 🙂 Image
So I decided to make it today...Here is the recipe if anyone wants to try it at home. Warning, definitely not for faint hearted (it can induce a heart attack) 🙂
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2 lamb shanks
1 large onion
1 head of garlic
2 red chillies
2 sticks of celery
2 medium carrots
1 medium parsnip
4 large cherry tomatoes
1 glass of red vine
1/2 glass of warm water
olive oil
salt, pepper, paprika, bayleaf, rosemary, thyme, vegetable stock cube
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