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20 Jun, 10 tweets, 5 min read
Thread: Fragment of a vessel with wheat stalks and a procession of bulls in relief, Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr, 3300–2900 BC, Southern Mesopotamia. Why bulls and grain? metmuseum.org/art/collection…
Sumerian limestone bull cup with wheat stalks. Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr, 3100–2900 BC, Southern Mesopotamia. Why bulls and grain? christies.com/lot/lot-a-sume…
Steatite bowl with bulls in relief (5 cm. high). Found in a house of much later (Persian) times; dated stylistically to the Jemdet-Nasr period, 3100–2900 BC, Southern Mesopotamia. Why bulls and grain? classics.unc.edu
Why bulls and grain? For the same reason sun god Shamash/Utu was depicted as a bull with a tail made of wheat...
Because it is in Taurus (Apr/May), that the grain harvest begins in Mesopotamia...
But this is the old Taurus, which has nothing to do with stars...It is an ancient animal calendar marker which marks the beginning of the calving of the wild Eurasian cattle. I talked about it in this thread:

If you look at the Mesopotamian agricultural calendar, you will notice that that in Mesopotamia summer (Apr/May-Jul/Aug) started with grain harvest and ended with grain threshing and storage...

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The grain collecting season, summer, which starts in Taurus, is symbolised by a bull, because both calving (begins in Apr/May) and mating (begins in Jul/Aug) of Wild Eurasian cattle takes place during the summer, May to August...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/05/ram-an…
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/10/symbol…
Which is why on the Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr vessels we see bulls depicted with ripe grain...

Now check Hesiod and what his agricultural calendar has to say about grain...

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/06/hesiod…
A thread about threshing floors that you might find interesting if you have actually read this thread to the end 🙂

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Thread: "In the beginning, Agni burned all things, but at the insistence of Shiva, Brahma withdrew Agni, and instead created Yama, the god of death" from: "Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World, Volume 1" By Gaṅgā Rām Garg...
Very interesting...Because of this: Nergal, the Mesopotamian god of death, who "represented the high summer sun which scorched the earth...which hindered crop production"...

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In Mesopotamia, Nergal is associated with lions (is actually depicted as a lion). Why? Because in Mesopotamia, Jul/Aug, Leo, is the hottest and driest part of the year. The time of drought. The time of death...
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20 Jun
Thread: I just came across this amazing object. I will give first the official description and interpretation...Then I will give my own...You can decide yourself which is better...

A Sumerian or Elamite Copper Bowl. Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E., H. 9.2 cm., D. 16.2 cm.
Official description:

"The cup was made from arsenic bronze and was cast in a mold. The relief animals could have been made separately and soldered onto the surface of the cup"
"The decoration is organized in two stacked friezes of animals going [in opposite directions]: the upper register is composed of three bulls separated by lions, while the lower register contains two ibexes alternating with spotted panthers [leopards]"
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19 Jun
Thread: Something quick between two football games 🙂 "Hestia, you who tend the holy house of the lord Apollo...come now into this house...having one mind with Zeus the all-wise..." Homeric Hymn To Hestia (perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?do…)

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Maybe the same thing as this: In Hindu mythology, Agni (fire) was believed to have three manifestations: Sun, Lightning, Fire...Which is why he had three heads... Image
Just like Slavic Triglav (Three headed)..."Because it is a great secret how Svarog (heavenly and earthly fire) is at the same time Perun (thunder) and Svetovid (Sun)"...
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19 Jun
Thread: Good morning. Old Assyrian (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Assyr…) cylinder seal. British museum (britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… )

Official description: Man in a chariot driving four horses; before him seven human heads and two birds; one other bird is above the two horses

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Quadriga in 2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia... Interesting...A man? Or a God? Like Sun god? They love horse drawn chariots...Why 7 human heads? Maybe 7 months of Mesopotamia summer? Why birds? Maybe cause migratory birds announce the arrival and departure of summer and Sun god?
Check this thread for lots more details about dudes riding in chariots pulled by pile of horses...And the link between horses and sun (god)
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18 Jun
Thread: One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest found wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia... Image
The wheeled carts were most likely invented in Europe. This is the oldest wheel in the world was found in a marsh Slovenia and is thought to be 5,150 years old... Image
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16 Jun
Thread: A Phrygian type, late Byzantine helmet, found 3 years ago in Northern Serbia...
This is what the helmet most likely looked like when it was in use...
And here is a depiction of Byzantine soldiers wearing this type of helmet, from the 12 century incensory, most likely made in Constantinople and currently in St Mark’s Cathedral, Venice, Italy...
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