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6 Nov, 12 tweets, 5 min read

Thread: In Indian mythology we find these 3 sisters:
Saranyu "Wet Monsoon Wind", peaks Jul/Aug
Sarasvati, "Monsoon Flood", also peaks Jul/Aug
Sarama, "The Bitch Of The Gods"?

Monsoon peaks Jul/Aug, during "Dog days" when "Dog star" rises with the sun... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/10/tishtr…

Interesting right? "The Bitch Of The Gods" helps Indra (the rain god) to recover his stolen cows (euphemism for rain clouds)...

BTW, Indra rides on a white elephant. Indian elephants mating season peaks in Jul/Aug, Dog Days, peak of the monsoon season...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/02/musth.…

Also interesting is that "The Bitch Of The Gods" is the mother of the two dogs that belong to Yama (the god of death). The dogs which guard the entrance into the underworld...

This is super interesting...Pariah dogs, the old dog breeds, mate during autumn (Aug,Sep,Oct) starting from Jul/Aug, Dog Days. Gestation lasts 60+ days, so pups are born (Oct,Nov,Dec)...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/05/dog-da…

Guess what happens in Oct/Nov? Mating season of water buffalos begins...Which is why water buffalo was used as an animal calendar marker for Oct/Nov...

Now water buffalo is a very interesting animal calendar marker, because it is found in both Mesopotamia and India, where because of the opposite climates, it has opposite meaning...

In Mesopotamia, Oct/Nov is the beginning of the rain season, so there, water buffalo is a positive symbol associated with water oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/11/buffal…

In India, Oct/Nov is the beginning of the dry season, so there, water buffalo is a negative symbol associated with drought oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/07/mahish…

So "The Bitch Of The Gods" which marks Jul/Aug, the beginning of the mating season of the old breed Pariah dogs, gives birth to the dogs of Yama, the god of death, who rides on a water buffalo, right at the beginning of the mating season of water buffalos...

And these dogs guard the entrance into the land of the dead...Which is in the places where we have wet (fertile) and dry (infertile) season, associated with the dry season, which in India begins in Oct/Nov...

Interesting...

BTW, one of the two Yama's dogs was called "Sharvara" which means spotty 🙂

The original image: Figurine of spotted dog, Pakistan, Indus Valley, Chanhu-Daro, about 2600–1900 BC. currently in the Museum of Fine Art Boston collections.mfa.org/objects/125131…

More about animal 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 7 months behind now 🙂🙁

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Thread: This is Manjushri, a bodhisattva associated with prajñā (wisdom)...He is the oldest and most significant bodhisattva in Mahāyāna literature, first mentioned in the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras, which were composed somewhere on the Indian subcontinent between 100 BC and AD 600...

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Thread: In which I would like to talk about animal calendar markers depicted on this Bronze mirror found in the Volga River region, Russia, and dated to the 8th-7th century BC. Published: Sotheby's, New York, sale cat. December 8, 2ooo.

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Thread: In which I would like to talk about a beautiful manuscript entitled "The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems" written by Jajarmi around 1341AD in Isfahan, Iran. Its illustrations hide some ancient animal calendar markers. And ancient gods...

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Thread: This is one of the most amazing objects I have seen in a long while...Roman sarcophagus depicting the legend of Ariadne, Theseus and Minotaur. Found at Capranica, near Rome, dated 130-150AD. Currently in Met Museum (metmuseum.org/art/collection…)

Why is this object so amazing?

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But to see this, we first have to correct one error that the carvers of the sarcophagus have made...

Here is the beginning of the description from the Met page and the error:

"On the lid...winged erotes drive chariots drawn by animals associated with the four seasons: bears with spring, lions with summer, bulls with fall, and boars with winter"

Hmmmmmmm...

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Thread: Yesterday, while I was writing my thread about animal calendar markers in Chinese legends about the Dragon-Horse, I came across this legend, also featuring a horse as an animal calendar marker: The legend about the Silkworm Goddess with horse's head...

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