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31 Jul, 19 tweets, 6 min read
Thread: Yesterday was Ognjena Marija (Fiery, Burning Mary)...She announces the beginning of "kresovi" (fires), the hottest part of the year in the norhtern hemisphere, the time of droughts, death... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.ie/2014/07/ognjen… Image
We are in the midlle of Leo, which originally had nothing to do with constellations...It is an ancient animal calendar marker, which marks the beginning of the mating season of the Eurasian lions... ImageImage
So who is Ognjena Marija?
You know the dog star...Who presides over the dog days...Why are they called dog days?
Which is why we find all theses goddesses all over Eurasia and North Africa, who stands, sits, rides on lions, rides on chariots pulled by lions, stands, sits between lions, is lion headed... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/11/assump…
In Serbian folk tradition, Ognjena Marija is married to St Elijah the thunderer...Basically thinly disguised sky god...He is both Helios and Zeus, Veles and Perun, Shamash and Adad...

According to the Serbian folk tradition, Elijah (in his Helios, Veles, Dragon) gets very angry with the world around his pattern day, 2nd of August, the hottest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, and decides to burn the world to cinder...
Sounds very much like Nergal, the Destructive sun, who arrives in Leo...The fire breathing dragon...

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/05/winged… Image
But thankfully, Ognjena Marija calms Elijah down and the world survives. For another year. Well actually it's her other husband, Perun, The Thunder God, who arrives on the same day and kills Veles, The Great Snake...You know the dragon killer saving the princess...
Just like it is depicted on this Mesopotamian seal...7 headed dragon gets his 4th head killed (four months of summer, Apr/May, May/Jun, Jun/Jul, Jul/Aug are over) while goddes standing under the star (Ishtar, Ognjena Marija), watches...

If you want to read more about dragons and princesses...
Anyway, back to Ognjena Marija. In Serbian folk mythology she was transformed into two female Christian Saints:
30th of Jul. St Marina, St Margaret, Ognjena Marija
2nd of Aug. St Elijay the Thunderer
4th of Aug. St Marija Magdalena, Blaga (kind, benign, mild, gentle) Marija
There is a Serbian proverb which says: Od Svetog Ilije, Sunce sve milije (From St Elijah, the sun gets dearer and dearer)...
Which basically describes the fact that St Elijah, middle of Leo, is the hottest day of the year, after which the earth starts to cool...And people begin again to look forward to the sun, and sunny days... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/07/two-cr… Image
Oh yeah....Serbs organise bull fights on the day of Elijah...Probably cause this is when Aurochs started their mating season fights in the past...
Got to go...Sorry about throwing all this in like this...Just wanted to show you how all these "unrelated" legends, religions, are all just one old story, retold with renamed characters all over Eurasia and North Africa...
Originally a very very boring story about a solar year in the Fertile Crescent, and the correstponding climate, told through the animal calendar markers. The story which was very important for the early farmers who had no other calendar...
The story which later got spread throughout Eurasia and Nourth Africa by the same early farmers, and which later got pimped up "a bit"...
More about animal (and plant) calendar markers found in ancient cultures, start here oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/p/animal-solar… then check the rest of the blog posts I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 6 months behind now

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Thread: Conoid stamp seal, Late Cypriot III. Cyprus (?), ca. 13th–12th c. BC. Currently in the Met metmuseum.org/art/collection…. Official description: lions (?) attacking a cow suckling a calf...Actually, this is a complex animal calendar marker, marking the beginning of August... Image
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31 Jul
Thread: In the Sumerian text "Enki and Ninhursanga" (etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr111…) Enki [the god of fresh water and the annual flood] says: "When Utu [the sun god] steps up into heaven, fresh waters shall run out of the ground for you"...

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9 Jul
Thread: Flint animals, Ibex, (probably Auroch) bull and (probably migratory) birds...Naqada II, 3650-3450 BC, Egypt, currently in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. From metmuseum.org/art/metpublica… page 48.

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I already talked about Ibex as calendar marker in Naqada culture here: Mating of Nubian ibex coincides with the arrival of rain in the Naqada area
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7 Jul
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...
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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...
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4 Jul
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...
Actually I would even argue that we would most likely explain the same observed phenomena today in the same way, if we weren't taught all that "science stuff" at school that some "smart scientists" figured out already, so we don't have to...
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4 Jul
Thread:

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

Both Slavs and Norse wore axe (hammer) protective amulets...

Left: Thor's hammer amulet
Right: Perun's axe amulet
I always thought that Thor's hammer looked like a stylized axe...
That Thor's "hammer" probably was originally an axe, can be seen from this next artifact. A museum in Utrecht has a relic called "the hammer of St. Martin of Tours".

The "hammer" was made in the 13th or 14th c. from a Bronze Age stone axe dated to 1,000 - 700 BC...
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