Share this page!

oldeuropeanculture Profile picture
Twitter logo
29 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#folklorethursday Thread: Zeleni Jura (Green Yura) walking the earth. Part of Jurjevanje, celebration of the return of Jarilo, Jura, The Young Sun God who brings spring...Today performed on St George's day...Tells you a lot about the true Identity of St George...
This ritual is performed Bela Krajina, area inhabited by descendants of Serbians who migrated here during Turkish invasions of the Balkans. Today split between Croatia/Slovenia...This is the original Green Man...
The Sun God's name Jarilo (pronounced Yareelo) comes from the root "jar" (yar) meaning: young, green (Life giving warm sun of green spring), but also brightly burning and raging, furious (Life destroying burning sun of yellow summer)...
Interestingly, in Sanskrit, har (cognate of jar, yar) can also mean green and yellow sanskritdictionary.com/?iencoding=ias…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with oldeuropeanculture

oldeuropeanculture Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @serbiaireland

oldeuropeanculture Profile picture
29 Apr
#FolkloreThursday Thread: Looongish, but hopefully interesting...In it I will talk about ferns, feathers, thunder gods and thunder god names...

Ferns are a very ancient family of plants: early fern fossils predate the beginning of the Mesozoic era, 360 million years ago... Image
They are older than the dinosaurs. They were thriving on Earth for two hundred million years before the flowering plants evolved.

The English word fern comes from the old Anglo-Saxon "fearn" meaning feather. Image
Like feathers, the leaves of most ferns are delicate and divided. So fern literally means plant that looks like a feather...
Read 82 tweets
oldeuropeanculture Profile picture
29 Apr
Thread: #FolkloreThursday In South Slavic languages, the phrase used to describe sunrise is "the sun is being born"...

This seems to be a very rare phrase..

It is also found in Albanian, Turkish, Kazakh, Catalan, Portuguese...Any other language??? Why am I interested in this?
I am researching the remnants of the belief in the sun dying in the evening and being born in the morning. We know that it existed in ancient Egypt...
In Serbia the sun was also considered to be a living being which dies and gets reborn. But the life cycle of the sun in the Serbian belief system was one year. The sun dies and gets reborn on winter solstice...
Read 6 tweets
oldeuropeanculture Profile picture
23 Apr
#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
Read 7 tweets
oldeuropeanculture Profile picture
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?
Read 9 tweets
oldeuropeanculture Profile picture
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?

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/12/bullau…
Read 4 tweets
oldeuropeanculture Profile picture
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…
Read 11 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @serbiaireland has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @serbiaireland!

Read all threads by @serbiaireland