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Mar 3 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Thread: Sirens were formerly handmaidens of the goddess Persephone, and they were with her when she was abducted by Hades and was taken to the Underworld... Image
Demeter then gave them bird bodies to help find her. Why? Based on all the animal and plant calendar markers contained in the legend about the Abduction of Persephone, she was abducted at the beginning of winter, Oct/Nov... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/04/abduct… Image
Ever heard of the belief that migratory birds depart with the sun to the Underworld in autumn and come back with the sun from the Underworld in spring? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/01/leto.h… ImageImage
Which is why Apollo rides on the chariots pulled by migratory "singing" swans...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/11/singer… Image
Ever heard of "Soul birds", Ancient Greek depictions of human souls as birds with human heads? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/soul-b… Image
Or about the belief that souls travel between the land of the living and the land of the dead as birds...

Is this why Demeter turned her daughter's handmaidens into birds with human heads, when she sent them to look for her daughter, who was taken by Hades to the underworld? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/sirens…

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Mar 6
Thread: When Apollo was born, "swans circled Delos seven times"...Young Sun God is born on winter solstice...And during second millennium BC, the formative period of the Greek mythology, Cygnus (Swan) constellation rose with the sun around winter solstice. Source: Stellarium app Image
The Swans of Apollo were "Singing swans" which "when the singers would sing hymns to Apollo, would join the chant in unison"...The only swans that "sing" are whooper swans... Image
These are migratory birds, which spend warm, sunny half of the year (Mar/Apr/May-Oct/Nov) in the northern regions of Eurasia, and cold, dark half of the year (Oct/Nov-Mar/Apr/May) in the southern (Greece) and western (Ireland) regions of Eurasia... Image
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Mar 5
Thread (Long but hopefully interesting): The most famous of the Lake Onega petroglyphs, Russia, made c. 4000BC, is a large anthropomorph known locally as "The Devil" (Rus. Bes), which was intentionally positioned around a large crevice so that it divides the figure in two... ImageImage
Now ethnographers think that this was done to explicitly associate "The Devil" with the underworld, the gap in the rock being "the opening" to this other world...

BTW, as you can see, "The Devil" was later Christianised by the addition of a large cross carved next to it...
The local legend says that "...long time ago the Devil and his Wife lived on Lake Onega, and made their presence known through the strange pictures on the rock. But then came the Incarnate Christ and the True Faith, and crosses were carved over the evil pictures..."
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Feb 23
Thread: 3rd millennium BC cylinder seal imprint found in Tell Brak, Syria? From jstor.org/stable/4200533…. I think that this could be the oldest depiction of a sun god riding in a quadriga (a car or chariot drawn by four equids abreast)...And here is why: Image
Here is the drawing of the scene from the seal. You can see that the seal depicts a quadriga, pulled by 4 equids. Image
Apparently, these are not horses, but "kungas" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunga_(eq…).

These luxury equids, mentioned often in 3rd millennium BC texts, turned out to be specially bred hybrids between female domesticated donkey and a wild male Syrian wild ass.
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Feb 4
Thread: This is an Elk-head staffs found in a grave in the Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery, one of the largest Early Holocene cemeteries in northern Eurasia, located in Karelia, northwest Russia...
A new radiocarbon dating, taking into account a correction for freshwater reservoir effects, suggests that the cemetery was even older than previously thought, and was used for some 100–300 years, centring on ca. 8250 to 8000 cal BP...
Around 30 elk head shaped staffs have been found from burials and settlement layers across a widespread area, extending from the Baltic region to the Urals...The map of sites where these artefacts were found...
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Feb 4
Thread: It's cold out there...It's cold out there every day... 🙂 Which is why I am posting pictures of old Slavic storage heater/cooking oven/sleeping quarter thingies...Perfect for snuggling up and enjoying yourself during cold days...From: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/06/caille…
This is an improvement on old Slavic stone stoves/ovens/heaters...Stone absorbs the heat, and then slowly radiates it out...Like a storage heater...All Early Medieval Central and Eastern European Slavic houses had stone oven in their corner...From: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/01/banya.…
But these ovens/stoves/heaters had no chimneys. Hence Slavic proverb: Who doesn't get choked by smoke, doesn't get warm...Having a smoky house has it's advantages though...

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Feb 3
Thread: Hindu god Varuna, riding Makara, "a mythical being" which was sometimes (like on this 17th century illustration) depicted as a crocodile...
So why would Varuna ride on a crocodile? To answer this question, we first have to look into who Varuna is. Actually who he was, at the time when his mythology and symbolism was developed...
During the Vedic period, Varuna was "The Man", the Sky God who controlled "The Waters": sea, rivers, rain...As one would expect from a Sky god in India, where rivers are filled with the rain that arrives with the monsoon winds from the sea...
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