Medijski sadržaj

  1. Strathmartine stone and the reverse and obverse of the Balluderon stone from James Skene sketch album, page 15. c. 1832. A very interesting legend linked to these stones and the stones imagery can both be decoded using Slavic mythology...

  2. In the Balkans shepherds used to pray to Baba (Mother Earth) stones (rocky crags, exposed bedrock) for good weather. Rocks were seen as body of Baba (Mother Earth, Yin) who was also seen as the source of cold, wet (bad) weather. More:

  3. Stone rosette from the time of the emperor Ustinian, found in Nemanjin Grad (Nemanja's Town), the ruined fortress above Podgorica, Montenegro, legendary birthplace of Stefan Nemanja, who founded the Serbian Nemanjić dynasty in the 12th c.

  4. 1. velj

    This stone from Latvia is called "Lielais Daviņu Akmens" which means great stone of giving, offering, great altar. It seems that the stone was linked to harvest rituals. For the farmers, anything to do with sowing, harvesting, grinding, eating grain had religious significance...

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    Well, maybe not a confusion. In Ireland these kind of stones are called Bullaun stones. And there they are "definitely not mortars"...They are holy stones used for blessing and cursing. And when they get filled with rain water, the water acquires miraculous healing properties...

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  6. 1. velj

    Thread: Knocking stones, or Clach chnotainn in Scottish Gaelic were exposed bedrock stone or boulders with a pot-shaped concavity cut into them used for husking and pounding barley and other cereals before the introduction of other methods of milling grain...

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  7. 1. velj

    O yeah and Slavs like eating these sun shaped cakes while burning the effigies of Winter...

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  8. 1. velj

    And in Scotland they are made not on Imbolc, the firs day of Spring according to the Gaelic calendar, but on Pancake Tuesday....At the same time when Slavs celebrate their ancient pan cake (pan bread) festival Maslenitsa...When they bake and eat pancakes. Which symbolise sun...

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  9. 1. velj

    Irish and Scottish bannocks are made by virgin unmarried girls. At the beginning of Spring...To mark the arrival of Bride (Biddy), virgin Spring Earth...And these round pan breads, pan cakes when cut into slices look like a shining sun...Interesting...

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  10. 1. velj

    Bannock or pan bread (pan cake) is the oldest type of bread. The first bread was probably a result of a lucky accident in which a thick porridge dripped on hot hearth stone and was transformed into tasty crispy crust...

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  11. 1. velj

    Thread: In the past, at Imbolc, the first day of Spring according to Gaelic calendar, St Bride's "bannock" or "bonnach" was baked and given to the young girls as a blessing. One was also left outside as a gift for st Bride when she passed in the night to bless all the homes...

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  12. 31. sij

    And those who saw him fled away, startled and shaken by fear. Olympia recognizing her bridegroom was stunned and raised her right hand from her lap and extended it. And he circled the room, and then came to Olympias' knees, and flicked out his double-forked tongue and kissed her.

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  13. 31. sij

    Anyway, he makes a Serpent (Dragon) from clay, magically breaths life into it, and the Serpent slithers into Olimpia's room, and it all happens as "prophesied": Olympia reclines covers her eyes, Serpent changes into Amun, and "mates" with Olympia...

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  14. 31. sij

    Nectanebo tells Olympia about great sex she will have with Amun. She is all excited. So is he... (London, British Library, Royal MS 19 D I, f. 3r)

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  15. 31. sij

    Thread: Alexander Romance is a fictional account of the life of Alexander the Great, originally written in Greek, in the early 4th c. It was widely copied and translated. Pic: Armenian illuminated manuscript of 14th century of 5th century translation.

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  16. 31. sij

    Slovenian Landscape

  17. 28. sij

    Many years ago, when I lived in Greece, one of my favourite Greek words was the word for house "σπίτι" (spiti). It always sounded funny to me. Because of spit, spitting. Yes I am that juvenile 🙂This word could actually have even better etymology

  18. 28. sij

    Treasure of prehistoric nobility - gold pectorals, aplicas and pendants, Iron age period, 6th-5th century BC, found in so called Illyrian "princely graves" in Novi Pazar, south-western Serbia.

  19. 27. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima
  20. 27. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima

    One of the oldest depictions of a thunder god wielding pitchfork is Ningirsu from Sumerian mythology. Oh and he arrives riding on a winged lion dragon...In Leo, at the hottest time of the year...

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