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Rains arrive when local vultures start their mating flying routines (October)...Which from the ground look like "double headed eagle". They mate until March...Right through the wet season.

Which is why our Goat guy is wearing vulture skin and wings. To be sure to be sure...

Thread: (shortish) Geneticists from Trinity college in Dublin, sequenced 67 ancient genomes from both wild and domestic cattle sampled from across eight millennia...

Three faced glass beads, though to be of North African origin, found in late Iron Age Iapodes grave in Kompolje, Prozor, Croatia https://t.co/ABcVzVaX5m

In the perpetual conflict between Devas and Asuras, in the battle between the gods and the demons, the Devas led by Indra (riding on an elephant) were defeated by Mahisha, the Buffalo demon...

#FolkloreThursday It seems that reoccurring animal symbols found in mythologies across Eurasia and North Africa are based on animal agricultural year calendar markers developed from the significant lifecycle events of the animals in question. Examples: https://t.co/pZF1A0e6Ft

Plaque with two male figures supporting a roller
ca. 2000–1600 B.C...The exact use of the object is unknown...Toilet roll holder? (🙂 joke) The two male figures have shaved heads except for a forelock...Where have I seen this type of tonsure before??? https://t.co/FwaMxFaFzq

This symbol was derived from annual vulture mating "synchronised flying" ritual, where two birds fly next to or on top of each other...Which from the ground looks like this...

One thing characteristic for slavic mythology is that because snakes are solar animals which "suck sun's heat", and "dragons are just old snakes", Slavic dragons are of a fire breathing variety...Just like snakes represent sun's heat, dragons represent sun's destructive heat...

Then, in 1899, Johann Ulrich Duerst discovered that the word "re'em" it was based on the Akkadian cognate "rimu", meaning "Auroch", the Eurasian wild cattle...This has been "generally" 🙂accepted today as the correct translation, "even among religious scholars" 🙂....

This is why biology should be a mandatory subject for archaeologists and historians...On Wiki page about Unicorn https://t.co/S75ceg2NYb these two images on the right are given as "ancient depictions of unicorns".

I mean seriously?

Left: Auroch (Wild Eurasian cattle) bull