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 Körtik 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 Körtik Tepe area... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/05/goat...

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 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...

A gold plaque in a bird and snake pattern excavated from the Majiayuan cemetery in Zhangjiachuan, Gansu Province, China and dated to 5th-3rd century BC. Analysis in oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/11/snak...

This fresco depicting the Crucifixion of Christ from the 14th c. Serbian monastery Visoki Dečani, Kosovo, has some strange details, in top corners, enlarged below

Thread: Steatite bowl with bulls and grain...3100–2900 BC, Mesopotamia...No one knows what this means, cause "we have no written records to tell us that"...Hint: Mesopotamian grain harvest began in Apr/May, Taurus... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/10/bull...

#WorldBeeDay "A Beekeeper", a beautiful 1875 painting by the Russian painter Nikolai Bogatov. I love the beehives made from hollowed logs and covered with bark. I also love the old beekeeper engrossed in his book. Article about Slavic bee folklore: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/07/bee....

Analysis of the bull sacrifice scene from the 1400 BC Minoan Hagia Triada Sarcophagus, excavated from a chamber tomb at Hagia Triada, Crete and now on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece. oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/08/mino...

One of two golden men with lapis lazuli eyes and large erect penises found in the settlement of Tell el-Farcha, located in the Nile Delta, Egypt, and dated to c. 3000 BC oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2025/05/gold...

Balkan legends about builders who had to sacrifice their wives, so that the city, church, bridge...they were building could be finished...1906 relief, by Ivan Meštrović, depicts the sacrifice from the epic poem about the building of Skadar fortress... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/bloo...

In Serbia people believed that the Feast of Transfiguration is the day when "the water changes"...The latest scientific data shows that something very strange happens to both sunlight and rain water at the beginning of August...More in: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/04/tran...

This is one of many "Baubo" figurines which were found in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Priene and dated to the 2nd c. BC. Who was Baubo? She is one of the most misunderstood figures from Ancient Greek mythology. You can read why in: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2025/05/baub...

This beautiful vase is not a Modern Art Masterpiece...It was made almost 6000 years ago in Susa, Iran, and is currently kept in Louvre, Paris...Analysis of the symbols + lots about sad state of Flamingos in Iraq can be found in this article: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/12/flam...

According to the Zoroastrians, when the first people Mashya and Mashyana had grown out of a rhubarb plant, ibex protected them and suckled them...Why rhubarb and ibex? I explain this in this post about this 3rd mill BC cup made in Western Iran... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2025/05/rhub...

A blacksmith has to strike his anvil with his hammer on every Christmas morning before sunrise. If he doesn't do it, his hammer and anvil should be broken and he and his family should be expelled from the tribe (medieval Vasojevići tribe law cannon, Montenegro)

Gold and Lapis lazuli (water stone) necklace, Ur, 2600 BC. The leaves of Euphrates poplar turn golden yellow in Oct/Nov. Beginning of the rain season... I talked about this in these two articles: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/02/inan... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2023/01/euph...

Article about Donderbezem (thunder broom), a protective symbol used in Holland and northern Germany as a protection from lightning strikes and evil spirits. oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2025/04/dond...

Odin's name was originally Wōdanaz, meaning "lord of rage" from *wōdaz (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconst...) meaning rage. So Odin is basically the same as Slavic Jarilo whose name comes from jar meaning rage, brightly burning fire/heat, but also spring/green/youth (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jara#Se...)

Senators! Who is going to explain to the Emperor that it was us, the rich Romans, who replaced Roman free workers with foreign slaves, because we wanted to become even richer by lowering the cost of labour?

Night (ΝΥΞ) and Day (ΗΜΕΡΑ). Constantinople, 11th century AD. It is interesting that it is day that is holding a torch. You do know why this is interesting, right? Who is the torch bearer who announces the arrival of the sun (god) and who is being blessed by the (sun) god?

Yesterday, kids in my neighborhood made a miniature prehistoric village...

In the past, during spring droughts, Serbs used to go to mountain lakes to pray for rain to "a dragon living in the lake who swallowed rain"...They also sacrificed a lamb to the dragon...The same sacrifice they made to St George, the dragon killer... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/01/drag...

It's that day again... Symbols of the rebirth (of nature)...If Christ is life, living nature...Talked about it here: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2022/02/livi...

Cup of Nestor from Mycenae. Similar cup was mentioned in Iliad, book 11, as being made of gold and having golden doves on its handles... Was this cup dedicated to Demeter/Asherah/Ishtar/Inanna, The Mother of Grain? I think so. I explain why in: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2025/04/cup-...

A very useful Serbian expression. It depicts the situation when you are being screwed, but you are too stupid/confused to realise that it is actually you being screwed, so you are cheering on the mad man who is screwing you with "Faster! Harder! Deeper!"...

Thread: Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle all the way...Bronze stag pendant with bell feet, early 1st mill BC, Transcaucasia or Iran. metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Article about calendaric symbolism of the animals depicted on the so called "dragon stones" from Armenian highlands. These stones, which once stood upright in centres of stone circles, could be up to 7000 years old. oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2025/04/vish...

A horseman, wearing a flowing chlamys and tunic, attacks a lion with a spear. Thracian, 300 BC, part of Lukovit treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukovit... Interesting to see that the horseman is depicted wearing a luxurious clothes but no shoes or sandals...

If you are from an island in the middle of a salty ocean, like Ireland, you would think that getting hold of salt would be easy. Well think again. Article about salt extraction in ancient Ireland with overview of primitive salt extraction techniques oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/fula...

Do you want to know how to make Neolithic Vinča culture style bread oven? And Bake bread in it? For all experimental archaeology fans out there: academia.edu/23604602/Lat...

Rain clothes consisting of carapucho (cap, hood), coroza (coat) and polainas (leggings) made from rush from Galicia. Pic and info from rubillon.es/articulos/ar... Film showing how these are made youtube.com/watch?v=bCaY...

Sumerian: MUNUS (𒊩) : "woman" TUG₂ (𒌆) : "garment" NIN (𒊩𒌆) : "lady"

Thread: Among Slavs, the last sheaf of wheat was commonly called Baba. This word means grandmother, mother, midwife, birth giver...In some places the woman binding the last sheaf the last sheaf of wheat is also called Baba...

"The constellation Corvus which rose in the month of Abu, Jul/Aug, at 3000 BC was identified with Nergal, god of the burning sun of Jul/Aug, the hottest itme of the year"...Nergal. The Original Dragon/Devil... I talked about this in oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/09/whit...

Pat Ingoldsby, who wrote this poem about the Book of Kells, a stunningly beautiful illuminated Gospel book made in 800AD, which is kept in the Trinity College Dublin in a locked glass cabinet, while 1000s of people queue every day to see whatever page it is open on...died today...

Relief featuring the symbols of Herakles, the bow and the lion skin. 1st c. BC, Aedepsus, Euboea. Museum of Chalkis Arethousa, Greece. The true identity of the Heracles the Archer was discussed in: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/10/cetu... oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/11/mith...

Restored frescos of the Queen's Megaron room (1700-1450 BC) at the Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece. Article 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...

Vipera Pythia, c. 1651, by Marco Aurelio Severino. Snake is a pure solar animal. It is in our world when sun is here (day, hot half of the year) and it is in the underworld when sun is there (night, cold half of the year). I talked about this in: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/search?q=%22...

Oi! Cyclops! Long time "no see"!

A silver "diobol", a tiny Ancient Greek coin, minted between 521 and 478 BC in the city of Phokaia, Ionia, today in Turkey. Found in Ukraine...

It's not the tyrants that are scary. It's the the fact that majority of people will obey the tyrants...And will enthusiastically enforce the tyranny...

You'll like this: For the lovers of the ancient music, an article that asks questions like: Did people "discover" flute while sucking marrow out of a bone??? And few other questions about the origin of flutes and music in general...Link to article: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/07/flut...

Mixing wine and water in a chalice during a resurrection ritual. Hm? Roman mosaic from Sulcis, Sardinia depicts leopards drinking from a krater for mixing wine and water with a grapevine growing from the krater. All symbols of Jan/Feb, start of spring. oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/09/mosa...