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All our mythologies are the result of the fact that people are very good at noticing patterns in nature while simultaneously being very bad at distinguishing between correlation and causation π Zodiac killer http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.ie/
Related: 43 figurines with 11 miniature weapon models discovered by Adam Crnobrnja in Stubline, a Late #Neolithic VinΔa-culture settlement built around 4700 BC on an elevated slope near Serbianβs capital Belgrade. Neolithic army...From: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/07/vinc...
This is a good starting point for learning more about the site.
vrbjanska.cip-cpr.org/about.html
This is a nice virtual tour of the excavation site
my.matterport.com/show/?m=FgfK...
So the ditch that surrounded the settlement could have had multiple purposes. It kept people and wild animals out and domestic animals in. It also drained the site and kept it dry...
But during early Neolithic, this valley was patchwork of fertile crop fields and swamps fed by rivers, with lush vegetation full of birds and animals. Basically a paradise...No wonder huge number of Neolithic settlements is found in the area close together pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f7ba/4d96b37...
The area where the settlement is located, Pelagonia, is today a vast fertile plain surrounded by high mountains...
This Neolithic community was engaged in agriculture, stockbreeding, fishing, hunting and different crafts such as pottery, manufacture of stone tools and ritual items...Like this altar-table...
The people lived in solid houses made from wattle and daub. Some of the houses were massive with the surface area over 130 square meters. Each house had built in clay ovens, granaries, bins and food processing platforms as well as grinding stones used for grinding grain...
Thread: Reconstruction of the Vrbjanska Δuka early Neolithic (6th mill BC.) site from Pelagonia, Macedonia. The settlement, which consisted of 25 houses surrounded by a ditch, housed between 100 and 150 people...
Are the wings on the hat worn by Hermes/Mercury actually cockerel wings? Article about the link between Hermes/Mercury, cockerels and (god of rain) thunder storms:
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2026/02/cock...
L: Skull with amber discs on clay in eye-sockets. Dated to the 4th mill BC. Latvia.
R: One of many amber "sun" disc (obverse (sun cross), reverse (sun rays) and cross-section) made by the same culture...
About Sun = Eyes + To See symbolism
From:
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/11/sun-...
Larks, larks, fly away
Take the winter cold away
Bring us spring on your way
We are tired of winter
All our bread she has eaten
Eastern Slavic ritual song sang by young unmarried women as part of "calling the spring" rituals. Spring lark buns...From: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/12/invi...
Traditional seven legs bread doll known as "Pippia a setti cambas". Baked at the beginning of Lent. Every week a leg is removed to measure the time remaining to Easter. Settimo San Pietro. Cagliari, Italy...
From oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/06/old-...
In the past, in some parts of Russia, people baked 40 round breads (buns) from rye and oat flour on Spring Equinox for Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) the personification of frost and cold...From: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/12/feed...
Link between ibex goats and rain Neolithic from Eastern Mediterranean. An engraved stone, which if I am not mistaken, depicts an Ibex goat, surrounded by dots representing rain...4500-3300 BC, Andros, Cyclades, Greece... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/07/goat...
Two objects from the 10,000BC Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site KΓΆrtik Tepe, Turkey...
Interestingly, the mating season of Goats marks the start of the wet season and the mating season of Snakes marks the start of dry season in the KΓΆrtik Tepe area...
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/05/goat...
So....Maybe this Minoan jewel was never taken off "a dead Minoan hand"...
And if so, is it possible that at some point, Minoan elite took over Mycenae? Wow π
That would explain huge Minoan cultural influence on Mycenaean culture. And I mean HUGE...
But now we know that The Griffin Warrior was not genetically Mycenaean (The 2022 Science study and UC research confirm no steppe ancestry. Actually, they confirm the exact opposite(science.org/doi/10.1126/... DNA shows local origins, rooted in Neolithic Aegean populations, not Yamnaya)...
Only to be taken off his dead wrist by an avenging Mycenaean warrior, buried in this warrior grave found near Pylos, Greece?
Thread: Ahhhh...You might find this interesting.
In this 2020 article, oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/03/lege..., I proposed this:
Is it possible that the "Combat agate" was worn by a Minoan warrior to commemorate a once famous Minoan victory over Mycenaeans?
The Fiddle Stone - graveyard at Ballinascreen (Baile na Scrine), Tyrone, Ireland
HERE LIETH THE BODY OF JOHN O DONELLY WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE...
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
A lyre player from "The Standard of Ur", a Sumerian artefact dated to c. 2550 BC. These bull headed lyres were ceremonial instruments. This is obvious from the fact that the Sumerian sign for lyre also means "to praise." But praise who? And why?
From:
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/09/lyre...
You're welcome. It adds new dept to this amazing fresco...I think π
You might like this article which analysis this 17th c. BC Syrian cylinder seal and modern impression depicting a scene of bull leaping. It also puts forward an explanation for the bull leaping ritual and the time of the year when it was performed
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/07/bull...
You might like this article which analysis this 17th c. BC Syrian cylinder seal and modern impression depicting a scene of bull leaping. It also puts forward an explanation for the bull leaping ritual and the time of the year when it was performed
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/07/bull...
You might find this article interesting. It talks about the importance of identifying the type of dolphin depicted on the fresco from the animal calendar markers point of view oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/08/mino...
It is. And that is not the only thing that can be explained using animal calendar markers. Another example:
Chimera, mythical beast or complex animal calendar marker for "old summer" (Apr/May-Oct/Nov)? oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/pega...
I contacted the authors of the paper and let them know about my work, and got no reply form any of them...
These animals are not the only animals whose annual mating, birthing, migrating behaviour caused them to be used as animal calendar markers across the world. I wrote many articles about this oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/search?q=ani...
I proposed that ibex/gazelle are linked with rain because of the fact that both animal mating seasons overlap with rain season in Eastern Mediterranean, Levant, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Iran years before that. Some articles about this
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/search?q=ibe...
The animal depicted on this object is gazelle not ibex. I analysed the object which illustrates this paper and have published a paper about it with the same conclusion, this animal is linked to rain, in 2022.
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/01/birt...