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9 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Thread: This is very interesting indeed. The top symbol consists of two birds facing yellow flowers growing on a tree. This is a common tree of life symbol and usually the animals facing the tree of life are animal calendar markers for the fertile period of the year....

Soooo:
The word "pavoncella" means Lapwing (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_…). One of these cute fellows
On the page "Checklist of the birds of Sardinia" (gruppoornitologicosardo.blogspot.com/2008/11/checkl…) we find this:

Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus M reg, W reg

Basically it is a migratory bird which spends winters in Sardinia...
And it is the rain that falls in Sardinia, between the arrival and the departure of the Northern Lapwings (Autumn, Winter, Spring) that creates and supports (the tree of) life in Sardinia... Image
And so pavoncella... Image
The guys at the bottom are probably just celebrating the arrival of rains...

I guess...🙂

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11 Sep
Thread: Middle Assyrian Cylinder Seal with a "Lion-Dragon", 1300-1200 BC.

I found this seal on this great site archaicwonder.tumblr.com/post/145026318… Unfortunately I am unable to get more info (where the seal was found, where it is now) cause the link provided is dead. But the seal is AMAZING
The seal depicts a tiny flying dude facing an advancing giant winged monster with lion body, bull horns and scorpion tail...Above the monster are some "heavenly objects", namely 7 stars, most likely Pleiades, a large star, most likely Sirius, and a crescent moon...
Why is this seal so special?

Cause this seal is an amazing example of a complex animal calendar marker.
It is also an amazing example of the mapping of these ancient animal calendar markers to "heavenly objects".
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8 Sep
Thread: About bio diversity, sustainability, and goats...Of course...

This is a stunning pic of the Dublin bay, with the Howth Head, the tip of the Howth peninsula in the foreground... Image
Now here is another stunning pic of the Howth head, with some wild flowers in the foreground... Image
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7 Sep
Thread: This Achaemenid cylinder seal, found in Iran and dated to the 6th–4th century BC is currently kept in the Met Museum. metmuseum.org/art/collection… Image
Now the scene depicted on this seal could be just an "ordinary king hunting a lion" scene 🙂 Although I already asked a question whether there is anything ordinary about the Persian king's obsession with lion hunting in this thread

And in this thread I explained why I think that this was most likely a ritual in which the king imitated the rain (and war) god Ninurta/Ningirsu killing Nergal...Or "winter rain storms" ending "summer drought"...Which ever you like best...

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3 Sep
Thread: How old is the Irish (Gaelic) language? Why am I asking this? Because there is something very interesting in the Irish language, which can possibly help us determine when and where this language had originally developed...This:
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2 Sep
#FolkloreThursday Thread:

Q: "Which way to turn myself I know not?"
A: "If you worship the gods, right-hand wise, I apprehend."

Ever wondered why "clockwise" means "circle to the right" and "anti clockwise" means "circle to the left"?

Cause the original clocks were sundials
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31 Aug
Thread: The other day Gavin Lee @realgavinlee posted this in a tweet: "...bronze figurine of wild water buffalo... Hunan, middle reaches of Yangtze River...13-11 Cent. BC...

I only today saw what's on buffalo's back: a tiger!

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In Mesopotamia, the climatic year is divided into hot/dry summer and cool/wet winter. Oct/Nov is when the winter starts... Image
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