oldeuropeancultureさんのイラストまとめ

Congratulations to the Farmers Party for winning the local elections in Netherlands.

You see...People can change things...

Thread: #FairyTaleTuesday In Belarus, when storytellers want to emphasise that something happened long time ago, they would say "in the old days, when people kept snakes in their houses"...

Indian elephants mate during Indian monsoon season...Which is why Indra, the thunder and rain god, rides on a white elephant...

If double headed eagle (vulture) had the same meaning in different, completely unrelated cultures on different continents and different ages, I wondered if any double headed bird symbol would have the same meaning. Like this one from Easter Island. It does https://t.co/u8oDMRSYob

Hellenistic Greek cast glass pomegranate vase, 2nd century B.C. - 1st century AD. From (https://t.co/6vIxRjaOnx)

Articles explaining why pomegranate is the fruit Hades gave Persephone to eat in the underworld...

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Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Alison Bradley

It is really interesting that during the Little Ice Age witch-hunt, witches, whose (apparently) main sin was causing bad, cold, wet, destructive weather, just like The Old Hag, The Witch of Winter...is burned and drowned by Slavs...Coincidence probably...🙂

So are both fighting birds depicted on the Scythian flask of the same species? Hmmm...The bottom bird has some lumpy thing on its neck...None of the eagles have anything like that...But the vulture has tufts of feathers on its neck that look just like that lump...

Good morning. Sheep in the snow. Shepherd with his flock by Alexis de Leeuw

Good morning. Sheep in the snow by Jane Ward