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7 Jul, 10 tweets, 3 min read
A very curious object, made from a wild boar bone. Usage and meaning unknown...But very cool 🙂

It was found in the Neolithic layer in the "Gaban cave shelter" located in Trentino-Alto Ádige, Italy. The shelter was used from Mesolithic to Bronze Age...
laboratoriobagolini.it/ricerca/archeo… ImageImage
One possible interpretation...From top to bottom:

Pray to the sky (human with hands raised up)
For water (zigzag line = flowing water)
And fertility (omega = symbol of the womb and fertility associated with Hathor and Ninhursag)...
But that would be stretching it, right? Cause this object predates the oldest depictions of omega in either Mesopotamia and Egypt...
Oh, and you see how the omega is turned upwards, to receive water...And it is depicted on top of what looks like a mountain...And did I mention that Ninhursag was "The Mountain Mother, goddess of fertility"....
Eeee this gets better and better...Nin-hursag means "lady of the sacred mountain", possibly a reference to the site of her temple, the E-Kur (House of mountain) at Eridu...This temple was a pyramid...That hill on the bone looks so much like a pyramid, right?
These pyramid temples in Mesopotamia were of course just imitation of sacred mountain of the gods...The real mountain(s) from which Tigris and Euphrates flow...I talked about it here
But maybe the idea of the Sacred mountain was also known in Europe, in Neolithic...Well, the idea of a sacred mountain was definitely already present in the late Mesolithic, in the Balkans, in Serbia
But this sacred pyramid mountain from Serbia was the sun mountain, like the Egyptian ones...While the one depicted on the bone from Italy was associated with water, rain, like the Mesopotamian ones...
As I said really cool object... 🙂 I should have started this as a thread, or stopped thinking about this whole thing after I posted the first tweet 🙂 Now we have a mess...
PS: 🙂 Sun rolling down the sacred sun mountain, Cruachan Aille, Ireland. It was already worshiped during Bronze age, according to the dating of the carved stone from which you can observe this spectacle twice a year...oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/11/sun-mo…

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Thread: In which I will propose that some of our myths about sky gods are in fact very very old scientific theories which tried to explain the available observed phenomena in the best possible way with the knowledge of the universe people possessed at that time...
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Thread:

Perun, Slavic thunder god wielded an axe...
Thor, Norse thunder god, wielded a hammer...

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Tread: Very interesting: A drawing of a relief from the great staircase from the Luwian city of Carchemish. It depicts the storm god Tarhunt, holding an axe and vajra (lightning trident), leading the earth goddess Kubaba, holding grain and poppies...🙂 Sounds familiar? Image
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So why is this drawing interesting?
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Thread: Goddess Demeter riding a panther. Terracotta figurine from Thebes, 375-325 BCE. Currently in Louvre collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/…

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